## Thinking Path > - Paperclip helps people manage AI agents at work. > - Cursor Cloud hosts execution behind its API. > - Product setup still expected a Paperclip Computer. > - Managed-only tenants therefore rejected valid setup. > - This admits the validated API-owned controller. > - Authority, Stop proof, budgets and cleanup remain enforced. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #18068 and #18069; both dependencies have merged. **What happened?** Managed-only setup still requested a Computer. Live tests exposed missing Cursor Stop proof and duplicate replay. **Expected behavior** Use Cursor’s API controller. Verify provider/controller termination and replay each log identity once. **Steps to reproduce** Enable native Runner/managed-only. Configure Cursor model/repository/key without a Computer, then Test, finish setup, run and Stop. ## What Changed - Derive API-only placement from validated native Cursor configuration; reject placement/command/workspace/home overrides and keep Kubernetes-only execution closed. - Skip Computers/checkout/workspace realization. Keep scoped tools, completion, private staging, budgets, leases and recovery. Persist placement; reject contradictions. - Align Cloud cards, Test, Save and Finish setup; hold unready drafts. Legacy keeps its Computer, credential and policy checks. - Verify Stop from exact API ownership, audited intent, provider-terminal proof, no Computer/process ownership and controller retirement. Recheck immediate/deferred retirement; wake existing recovery on durable evidence. - Clear warnings when the actual stopped target later has authoritative confirmation. Keep missing/other-run negatives and the existing predicate. - Publish safe status refresh after full-proof ACK. Retain bounded native/physical cancellation history; add no poller or weaker proof path. ## Verification Core merged as `3910352c923a`; Product merged as `27d35314be8e`. Public branch `5f86eb66b081` has tree `67344151d303`. Its exact-head Greptile summary is 5/5; the fresh audit found zero unresolved threads and complete pagination. The controlled workspace retry and required summary passed. All 59 current-head contexts are terminal and clean. Prior green-36 evidence keeps its identity. [Current CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41680511731) first failed workspaces-a 1/2: the CLI company-import/export beforeAll 30-second runtime-info/child-PID/HTTP readiness wait expired. All 431 UI files/4,714 tests and 285 other CLI tests passed (one skip). The cause remains UNKNOWN. Child output records startup recovery complete, but buffered CI prefixes do not establish its relation to the waiter deadline; runtime-file/PID/last-health state was not captured. Both unchanged local probes were RED. The second observed dependency preflight still pending at the deadline; observer overhead was not quantified. Neither proves the CI cause. After all functional jobs finished, only the queued metadata summary was cancelled; the other 48 records stayed unchanged. Attempt 1 retains 46 successes, the original failure, one skip and the cancelled summary. One same-head debug retry was admitted at 18:42 UTC on November 3. Its workspace job passed at 19:23 UTC on the same checkout: UI 431 files/4,714 tests and CLI 33 files/286 tests, including company import/export. Test caching was disabled. The new `ci / verify` summary passed; workflow attempt 2 completed SUCCESS. Required `ci / e2e` also passed. The final check at 19:53 UTC on November 3 found all 59 current-head contexts terminal and clean: zero pending and zero failing. The 47 inherited completed/skipped rows are not new executions. No code, assertion or timeout changed; success does not explain the original failure or erase the local REDs. CI checkout is `1ea9d8608ced`/tree `78cb1ec13d59` (parents `2e37c73c05fe`, 5f86); both workflows use 2e37. Its 20 extra paths add low-memory build/Rust task-memory. Scripts cohere; later matrix changes only labels, with no newer debug-cache steps. Static audit found no blocker. Supported API arguments omit the memory flag: no default monitor/instruction changes. Flagged external launchers can change Cursor instructions/digests and remain unqualified. The merge added 41 master-identical paths, retained the green-36 inbox hunk and found UI fixtures matching upstream. Startup/backup, recovery projection, sleep diagnostics and binary backup change production. Static audit found eight Stop/ACK owner blobs and 37 sleep-work SQL templates unchanged, with sleep fences/single-flight accounting intact. Exact precommit tree: 416/416 across eight server files, binary backup 1/1, server types PASS; repeated scopes are not summed. The deferred-retirement P1 reproduced three real-DB/owned-process failures; missing proof stayed unverified. Recovery passed 47 process cases/33 proof negatives. Warning repair binds actual targets to same-run proof. Validation passed 729 scoped UI cases, a separate 359-case thread run, 111 backend cases (84 CAS, 6 assembled, 21 activity/privacy), types/tokens. Proof validators/predicate are unchanged; no new poller or increased timeout. The d8d3 attempt stays FAILED: 45 passes, two workspaces-a failures, derived verify failure and one skip. Both shards shared three failures: two successful mocks omitted the account guard’s required userId. The two-line fixture repair changed no guard, assertion or timeout. Three failures reproduced; 54 access/auth tests then passed, including account-change/denial negatives, plus UI types/tokens. The 69285 attempt stays FAILED: 49 jobs, 46 passed, serialized shard 9 failed, its verify aggregate failed and one selection job skipped. The shard passed 575/576 cases. Its aborted-snapshot case expected nine computes but saw eight: a final HTTP 200 coalesced while seven ordinary reads had not proved the aborted compute settled. Earlier CI and the unmodified local baseline passed with a miss; no local RED is claimed. The repair awaits the snapshot, allows exactly one extra GET if coalesced, then requires a miss and retains nine computes/all HTTP429 assertions. No production code, hook, loop, sleep or timeout changed. Six inbox and seven cache/admission cases passed locally, plus server types; 30 unrelated cases were filtered. Green 36 passed 576/576 without taking the extra-GET branch; local runs also missed that schedule. Current CI event merge 1ea9 now passed 576/576 and naturally exercised the former failure: coalesced (count 2, 1ms), then exactly one fresh miss (count 1, 16ms), with strict nine-compute/HTTP429 assertions intact. No instrumentation or retry was added. Earlier compatibility passed scoped remote/inbox, routine, API-placement and UI tests, plus types/migrations/snapshots/maps/tokens. The 89-path adoption restored fleet routing without workflow overrides or added skips. Each result retains its source identity. Live qualification remains actual `9af1a5de42a2`: unchanged Artifact grader PASSED 17/17 and active-Stop grader PASSED 21/21. All three provider test resources were deleted canonically with GET404; post-delete download returned the exact 27 bytes. Histories stayed stable (Artifact 121 and Stop 67 canonical identities), with 21 company runs, zero active work and no accounting/cancellation/reservation debt or integrity findings. Saved settings reopened; no-prompt Test/Linux admission passed with `claude-sonnet-4-5`. No new Save is claimed. The first Stop sampling case stays FAILED on a 10.373-second gap. Unchanged retry kept all 24 samples: 35.076 seconds quiet, maximum gap 4.584 seconds, plus a separate CANCELLED/artifact-absent read after 180 seconds. Initial grading rejected locator spelling before functional checks; metadata changed only after same-file/inode/byte proof, with raw evidence/oracles unchanged. Original Question/Plan/reconnect and historical deleted-artifact results keep their identities. Git trees verified 11 history-only conflicts and six earlier mainline paths. Hosted 9af to the public BRANCH differs in 222 paths; 13,500 other mode/blob leaves match. Runner runtime implementations and six observer/driver pins match 9af on that branch only; inherited `drivers/acpx/runtime-host.test.ts` differs. No all-Runner/src, CI/latest-master runtime or image equality is claimed. Later static audits through `8ab89f41e499` found no concrete API-only blocker. That base adds completed-history sleep proofs and an MCP cleanup migration; protected Stop/ACK owners are unchanged. These later changes are outside this CI and have no live qualification here. Host duplicate-card and later recovery/UI repairs retain separate proof, not deployed 9af identity. Direct-key coverage requires absent aiConnection; API-only placement skips inherited remote-workspace disk-full paths, and config-read gates match their parent. Other retained failures: stale fixture 132/133; E8 48/135 with 87 reset-hook failures; Mac 17 SQL failures/skips; title/startup/custody/Stop/deletion unknown causes and bounded recoveries; superseded warning/50 duplicate identities; pre-repair ACK/Core CI failures. Fixture RED/GREEN passed 7/7 browser and 121/121 shutdown tests with a failing broken-unsubscribe control; stable WSP wrapper passed 128 after physical teardown failure. No full local-suite pass is inferred. All paid attempts remain recorded; vendor dollar cost is UNKNOWN. ## Risks Experimental: Cursor independently acknowledges neither the effective model nor instruction digest before the first prompt. Explicit values are submitted and behavior checked live; unpriced provider dollar cost stays UNKNOWN. The placement exception applies only to validated native Cursor API execution. Other local work remains denied under managed-only policy. Missing/stale Stop or cleanup proof stays pending; damaged archives remain failed. Explicit Legacy keeps its existing policy owners. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex/GPT-6 family: tools, execution, browser checks, delegated review. API ID/context window unavailable. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used and the limits of available model metadata - [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 linked public issues or described the issue in this PR - [x] I have not referenced internal or instance-local Paperclip issues or links - [x] My branch describes the change and contains no internal ticket ID - [x] I have run the scoped local tests reported above; retained failures are stated separately - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation - [x] I have considered and documented the risks - [x] All required CI gates pass on the current head - [x] Fresh Greptile is 5/5 with no unresolved findings on the current head - [x] I will address all reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Paperclip agent access map
This map accompanies the feature map. It records APIs, agent entry points, permission boundaries and verification for the same capability IDs. The shared contract defines the format and maintenance rules.
The chat scenario catalog uses these same IDs for human requests and expected outcomes. Its scenarios retain the access boundaries here; neither a CEO role nor a planned scenario grants board authority or establishes a working production tool binding.
Use full capability IDs when referring to access contracts outside their file:
onboarding/company means the company capability in onboarding.md in both maps.
The feature index lists feature and
capability IDs; IDs and references
explains entry-point references and stable naming.
Browse access contracts
The same-named feature recipes define navigation and capability IDs. Run
node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs for the generated
maps/generated/agent-access-map.md index, or browse the
published feature guide.
Add or update the affected companion; there is no central registration or count.
Existing baseline source references describe the original inspection, not current verification. Record new executed evidence in the PR, issue, or CI artifact with its revision and scope. Do not refresh unrelated headers as bookkeeping.
Using an entry
Read its Policy and Gaps before selecting an agent path. Native fallback, legacy
REST/CLI, stdio MCP and a personal assistant connection can have different
authority and availability. Use a real admitted production binding; a scenario
declaration is not an installed tool. A restricted entry records current
enforcement and leaves any unresolved delegation decision visible.
For API catalog disagreements, follow the route/service authorization and record
discovery drift. For not-applicable, retain the concrete exception and local
path. Split shared business operations from client-only presentation.
Use maintain-verification-skill to reconcile changed source and both maps.
Use verify-paperclip and existing API/runner/MCP fixtures to collect the
permitted-agent and denial evidence; report blocked/not-run coverage honestly.
Run node scripts/check-maps.mjs after editing. The structural check does not
certify permissions, API catalog coverage, tool admission or live behavior.
Native REST transport
The call_api parity change reconciles affected baselines against
58e16dbddfc9c8d0cf60867f9d9847f0feda055b and the changes in this PR. Ordinary
REST operations use the same route authorization as legacy agent REST. Dedicated
tools remain optional for those operations; protocol endpoints still need their
existing clients. Board-only routes remain restricted for agent identity.
Native search_api / call_api is enabled by default, but explicit server,
company-allowlist and binding settings can narrow admission. It requires a running
authorized native run, current task assignment and execution-run binding, company
and budget authority, task privacy, and a permitted work mode. Ask and Plan retain
mutation restrictions, and runs retain their admitted JWT scope during restart
recovery even when task mode changes. A waiting
agent does not gain independent native control just because a REST route exists.
Connection-management reads support Standard, Ask and Plan; mutations require
Standard. Skill-test runs and nonstandard task-bridge keys cannot administer
connections. These gates supplement each operation's grants, resolved resource
and target scope, and responsible-user authority. See the
rollout policy
and connection authorization.
Credential-bearing replies, including company exports and their legacy alias, stay inline under a 10 MiB limit and use encrypted mutation receipts. Other saved API snapshots are limited to the issuing actor and responsible user, plus authorized administrators. Artifact uploads enforce the same access checks as downloads; private snapshots are excluded from company exports and public company logos. Explicit deliverables use the existing sharing path. Native event history, checkpoints and completion records omit API bodies while preserving receipt metadata and replay digests. Restored webhook secrets use the same encrypted receipt and inline response policy as newly created webhook secrets. Task image access requires the company boundary and the task permission; skill-test and low-trust agents do not need company-wide browsing authority. Completion replay applies the same idempotent projection to stored and expected payloads; the run-log guide describes its fields.
Sources: API client,
catalog,
native authority,
credential storage classification,
snapshot access,
and history redaction. The affected entries remain
baseline and source-only; this reconciliation does not certify every operation.
Targeted real-route proof lives in the
API integration suite,
including owned routines, skill tests, scoped secrets, proposals and private export replay.