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DottaandPaperclip 0d22e27dc4 fix(runner): preserve closed native startup diagnostics (#17962)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip runs agents through a controlled execution boundary.
> - Native Runner starts ACPX providers through a TypeScript sidecar and
a Rust transport.
> - That transport hides arbitrary provider messages because they can
contain credentials.
> - Grok admission failures currently have no stable code. Other startup
failures can also lose their owning stage.
> - A real native startup failure therefore reports only
`classification=unclassified`, even when the ordinary subscription hello
test succeeds.
> - This pull request preserves fixed failure categories without
forwarding provider text or changing admission policy.
> - The benefit is a useful next diagnostic result before another
functional repair or retry.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #17922 and #17942.

**What happened?**

A native Grok session failed before its first tool. Runner assets passed
verification. The Rust rejection discarded the cause because only closed
error codes may cross that boundary. The existing admission guard used
plain errors. Startup errors outside that guard could also lose their
stage.

**Expected behavior**

Report a fixed Grok admission reason, or a fixed startup stage when no
known error code exists. Keep credentials, provider messages, session
IDs, and paths out of the classification. Keep the failure and cleanup
effective.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Have a Grok ACP fixture return a session without its native effort
acknowledgement.
2. Start it through the real ACPX client and pass the failure through
the sidecar classifier.
3. Before this change, the result is `acpx_sidecar_command_failed`. Rust
reduces that to `unclassified`.
4. The same loss occurs for injected sandbox, credential, and runtime
admission failures.

## What Changed

- Give Grok effort admission errors fixed codes for missing
acknowledgement, model or effort mismatch, session mismatch, conflicting
configuration, drift, and invalid protocol use.
- Record closed host startup stages in a private weak map. Preserve the
original error object, cancellation, and resource cleanup.
- Prefer existing known error codes over a fallback stage. Ignore
arbitrary provider-supplied stage properties and messages.
- Map only exact new codes to Rust diagnostic categories. Add real
ACPX-client and sidecar-pipe regressions with secret canaries and
unknown-code controls.
- Bind the changed shared source and new diagnostic modules in Copilot
profile 70. Preserve profile 69 and earlier history.
- Document the diagnostic contract. There are no dependency, lockfile,
workflow, auth, model, permission, or retry-policy changes.

## Verification

- Red before the production change: four TypeScript cases lost the
native reason or host stage. A Rust case returned `unclassified` for the
new closed categories.
- Final focused checks: 320 tests passed: 241 across sidecar
classification, Grok admission, the real ACPX client, recovery, runtime
adapter, and Copilot installation; all 79 host integration tests also
passed in isolation. These include nine startup-stage cases, translated
errors, actual missing Pi skill materialization, missing Copilot/Cursor
credentials, and a missing workspace binding.
- Review follow-up: a translated Copilot rejection lost its stage, and a
real Pi skill-loading failure reported configuration. Both regressions
failed before the two-line repair and pass afterward. Stage recording
now follows provider translation and starts before Pi skill acquisition.
The current unpublished Copilot 70 identity was regenerated.
- Formal review follow-up: missing Copilot and Cursor credentials
reported configuration. Both cases failed before the two-line stage
repair and pass afterward. A missing-workspace case also verifies the
separate binding catch.
- Seven Rust unit checks and 17 sidecar transport integration checks
passed. The pipe checks preserve known categories and reject unknown
suffixes without disclosing the provider message.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed. Rust formatting and the
generated profile/source identity checks passed.
- Host integration history is retained: one complete 73-case host run
passed. Other batches hit credential-port ownership errors in different
existing cases; the four new stage regressions passed. The final 79-case
host run passed after the last review fix. The prior intermittent lease
failures remain recorded and are not claimed fixed here.
- `pnpm test:run` was attempted and stopped after repeated embedded
Postgres bootstrap failures. The same local database failure predates
this change. Full CI must pass before merge.
- A metadata-only probe with pinned Grok 1.0.13, private HOME, synthetic
credentials, a local catalog, and no inference passed fresh Grok
4.7/High admission and cold restore. This is supporting ABI evidence. It
does not prove live subscription execution.
- Initial CI history is retained: server shard 1 failed its unchanged
final rate-limit slot test (two requests allowed instead of one). No
server policy code changed here. The review follow-up requires fresh
full CI; this is not claimed fixed.
- Second CI history is retained: chat shard 2 failed the unchanged Slack
session-sync quiet-queue test (three selects during the quiet window).
The first rate-limit failure did not recur there. No chat or server
policy code changed in this PR. Final head
654bc5aa21 passed all 61 contexts (56
success, four intentional skips, one informational neutral review). Both
final-head reviews are 5/5 with no new findings; the Paperclip app
publishes its completed review as an informational neutral check.
- Live native acceptance is still pending. After deployment, retry the
original bounded task and inspect its actual shell output, exit status,
run result, and saved task state. This PR fixes the evidence gap; it
does not claim the startup incident is resolved.

## Risks

- Shared startup failures can now receive a stage category. The private
weak map cannot import provider-defined fields. Known error codes keep
priority.
- A category could point at the wrong stage. Tests inject failures at
the installation, sandbox, credential, and runtime boundaries. Existing
cancellation and cleanup tests remain in place.
- The Copilot profile identity changes because shared source changes.
Historical identities remain decodable and cannot authorize a current
launch.
- The next live failure may require another functional repair. Admission
remains closed until the requested configuration is verified.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, tool use, and code
execution. The exact deployment model ID and context-window size are not
exposed in this session.

## 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 (focused checks; full-suite
environment failures are recorded above)
- [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 20:53:02 -05:00
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