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DottaandPaperclip 0a08d37aa0 feat(runner): recover controller authority without interrupting execution (#17097)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agents and owns their business authority.
> - Runner owns execution transport, acknowledgements and replay.
> - A replacement controller must recover that transport without
starting another provider turn.
> - An external store can retain the required control records without
copying streamed text.
> - A duplicate local journal adds synchronous disk work without
providing the replacement server's authority.
> - This PR adds the optional recovery contract and its standalone
proof. Server adoption and browser delivery have separate owners.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

A surviving runner can reconnect to a replacement controller with its
admitted process, session and active turn.

**Current behavior**

Local controller files do not provide recovery on empty replacement
storage. Rewriting those files after an external checkpoint is installed
also blocks normal controller work.

**Proposed behavior**

An optional callback stores opaque checkpoints. The replacement restores
that checkpoint before it constructs the controller. Installing the
callback makes the external store authoritative. Local storage holds a
marker that requires restoration. Consumers without the callback retain
their file journal.

PR 1 of four: #17097 → #17439 → #17455 → #17456. Related work: #17390
and #17361. The pre-split reference remains
`codex/hot-upgrades-reference-2026-10-24`.

## What Changed

- Add opaque checkpoint encoding, restoration, incremental persistence
and authenticated sparse recovery cursors.
- Keep authentication, commands, semantic inputs and lifecycle events
behind their commit barriers. Share semantic-call ownership between live
dispatch and recovery.
- Keep streamed text out of recovery checkpoints. Preserve bounded
retention, original deadlines and admitted process identity.
- Stop normal local journal writes after external persistence is
installed. Fail closed on a local marker until external restoration
occurs. Preserve current master's staged file writes for standalone
consumers.
- Keep provider-native admission and authorization behind adapters.
Preserve historical Copilot attestations and bind the merged launch and
transport sources in v68; preserve published v66 and prior development
identities.
- Add the one-process scripted executor fixture and deterministic
outage, replay, failure and backpressure tests. Add no production test
endpoint or auxiliary process.

## Verification

The completion-recovery correction passes three restart regressions that
fail before its respective transport/driver fixes. All 230
controller/attestation cases, all 302 Codex transport cases in the full
repeat, and all three one-process fixture cases pass. The broader
Codex/Dot/Muse run passes 326 cases and times out one existing mid-goal
case; its isolated retry and complete Codex repeat pass on unchanged
source and binaries. The initial timeout remains recorded. Conformance
and replay parity pass.

Historical v65/v66 attestation bytes remain frozen; v67 binds the
changed transport. The local runner-only API-authority lane passes 2,027
cases but its 47 HTTP cases cannot initialize embedded Postgres on this
Mac. The integrated owned-database HTTP path is verified in PR 2. At
preceding head `0d8d1b8250`, the Actions workflow passes after one retry
of runner-service shutdowns. Greptile is 5/5 with no unresolved threads.
The interrupted attempt is retained. All checks on that preceding head
are terminal and green/neutral/skipped.

Run `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/control-plane/durable-prp-control-plane.test.ts
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.test.ts --maxWorkers=1` and `node
packages/paperclip-runner/scripts/copilot-profile-identity.mjs --check`.

The [qualification
record](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/codex/hot-upgrades-qualification/doc/plans/2026-10-22-hot-upgrade-qualification.md)
retains exact revisions, failed attempts and qualification limits. The
local cost campaign observes zero hot-path local journal fsync calls. It
does not qualify a native harness or hosted deployment.

Master reconciliation `d5fc443626` preserves the published v66 and prior
development identity bytes and binds the combined transport in v68. All
290 focused runner/profile cases and runner typecheck pass. The first
sandboxed invocation cannot open loopback listeners; the permitted
repeat passes. Fresh CI and Greptile are pending for this updated head.

Current merge candidate `4fb3d1835b` also fixes public-reader
publication before external commit. New held/rejected-write cases fail
before correction and pass afterward. The full controller repeat passes
168 cases. The combined lane passes 390 other
recovery/transport/profile/fixture cases; its first two overlap fixture
failures are retained and corrected to observe callback entry instead of
provisional state. Runner TypeScript build and typecheck pass.
Current-head GitHub Actions is green and Greptile is 5/5 with all
threads resolved. The superseded master-reconciliation CI shutdown
remains recorded.

## Risks

The persistence callback is an acknowledgement barrier. Failure must
stop delivery. A consumer that installs external persistence must
restore its committed checkpoint before restarting; the marker is not a
recovery snapshot. Sparse display recovery does not reconstruct
acknowledged text or repeat execution. This slice has no Postgres
schema, application authorization or browser behavior.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The runtime does not expose a more specific model ID or
context-window size.

## 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 (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [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
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] 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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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 17:10:32 -05:00
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