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Devin Foley 075951f6bd Fix import completion UX: inbox flood, false-failure message, stale company list (#10538)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Company Import/Export (#10507, hardened in #10523 and #10531) now
imports a large company end to end via an async job
> - A real 1,418-issue import succeeded, but three rough edges showed up
in that success
> - Imported issues flooded the inbox, a completed import surfaced a
false "failed" message after its in-memory result expired, and the new
company didn't appear in the switcher until a manual refresh
> - This pull request keeps imported issues out of the inbox, treats an
expired-but-completed import as success, and refreshes the company list
on completion
> - The benefit is that a successful import looks and feels successful,
and doesn't bury the user's inbox in historical tasks

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

- Refs #10507 / #10523 / #10531 (Import/Export and its hardening). No
open issue; three post-import bugs described above.

## What Changed

- **Imported issues no longer flood the inbox.** The inbox "mine" tab is
a query: an issue is "touched" if the user authored a comment on it, and
import re-attributes bundled user comments to the importing user — so
every imported issue appeared. Import now seeds a per-user
`issue_inbox_archives` row for each imported issue (via a batched
`issues.archiveImportedInbox`), the exact table the inbox visibility
query excludes. Gated on an actor user id, so agent/system imports and
normal issue creation are untouched; genuine new activity still
resurfaces the issue.
- **A completed import no longer shows a false failure.** The in-memory
job's terminal retention was 5 minutes, so a poll after that 404'd and
the UI showed "failed." Retention is extended to 60 minutes — the real
mitigation for a user who steps away during a long import.
`watchImportJob` additionally treats a *server-confirmed* success whose
full result is no longer retained (a `succeeded` status carrying only
the compact summary — a cloud tenant job, or a board job whose full
in-memory result aged out) as a soft success ("import completed — open
the company"), navigating by the summary's company id. A 404 while the
job is still being watched is *not* treated as success: a running job is
never dropped by the retention sweep, so its disappearance means a
restart mid-import that may not have finished, and it surfaces the
honest "may have restarted while the import ran" error. A first-poll 404
(the id never existed) is likewise a real error.
- **The imported company appears without a refresh.** `onSuccess` now
invalidates the companies/switcher query unconditionally (covering both
the full-result and expired-but-completed paths) and navigates by the
job's company id.

## Verification

- shared/server/ui typechecks clean; 15 UI tests in the touched spec
green, plus the embedded-Postgres import batching and portability-routes
suites.
- New tests: embedded-Postgres test that imported touched issues are
archived for the actor and excluded from the inbox query while a
normally-created issue still appears; job resolvable at the old window+1
and only 404s past 60 min; UI soft success on a server-confirmed
`succeeded` job without a retained full result (no error, list
invalidated, navigates by company id), a running-then-gone job → honest
error (restart mid-import), and a first-poll 404 → error.

## Risks

- Low and import-scoped: the inbox archive only affects imported issues
for the importing user; normal issue creation and non-user
(agent/system) imports are unchanged. Retention extension is a constant;
the async job store remains in-memory by design. A restart mid-import
still 404s and is surfaced honestly as a possible failure (never masked
as success); only a server-confirmed success whose full result has
expired is reported as a soft success.

## Model Used

- Implementation: Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`, Anthropic). Review
hardening (the confirmed-success narrowing): Claude Opus 4.8
(`claude-opus-4-8`, Anthropic). Both via the Claude Code CLI with
extended thinking + tool use; root-caused against the live import.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
ticket id
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
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