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DottaandPaperclip 15176963b1 fix: stop idle skill-source polling (#17008)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agent work and the skills that agents use.
> - Project repositories create durable import jobs, and installed
sources can refresh automatically.
> - The server queried these records every five seconds, even when no
work existed.
> - Idle tenant databases need to stop receiving those discovery
queries.
> - This change uses the existing transaction notifications and delivery
coordinator.
> - Saved refresh, retry, and lease deadlines determine when the worker
runs next.
> - Cloud does not yet wake these deadlines, so outstanding skill work
retains the instance.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Skill-source background synchronization. This continues the idle-work
migrations in #15625 and #17000. A search found no overlapping open
polling-removal PR.

**Current behavior**
On master `b11010b0d4`, startup installs a five-second skill-source
interval and also calls it from the external-object scheduler. Each
sweep queries active companies, import capacity, pending imports, and
automatic refreshes.

**Proposed behavior**
Run at startup, after a relevant transaction settles, or at a saved
deadline. Stay SQL-quiet when no eligible work remains. Preserve import
admission, authorization, atomic claims, retry backoff, and the existing
five-minute upstream check.

**Reason and benefit**
Remove recurring database activity from inactive tenant instances
without requiring new tables or a new scheduler.

## What Changed

- Replace both recurring skill-sync calls with one delivery-coordinator
registration.
- Notify from attachment/detachment, source creation/settings/manual
refresh/disconnection, project/company deletion, and company status
changes, including budget resume.
- Restore the earliest eligible `nextSyncAt` or lease-expiry deadline.
Due backlogs and conflicts retry after five seconds; no idle recovery
cadence remains.
- Admit deferred imports again after a batch frees capacity. Preserve
requests through drain, standby, restart, and commits during a sweep.
- Add sleep-safety predicates for imports and eligible automatic sources
until Cloud supports these deadlines.
- Document the lifecycle and process-local writer contract. No schema or
API changes.
- Guard external test database URLs before migrations or cleanup:
require a `_test` database name and reject database/options overrides.

## Verification

- 147 targeted tests pass: 39 server-startup tests, 14 new
real-PostgreSQL lifecycle tests, 20 shared coordinator/scheduler tests,
63 existing import/refresh/retry regression tests, and 11 test-database
guard cases.
- CI exposed a stale startup mock without the new `start` method. The
fixture is updated and all 39 startup tests pass locally.
- Tests exercise real enqueue/settings/company-reactivation producers,
nested commit, rollback, saved retry/lease restart, manual refresh
failure, capacity admission, concurrent commit, shutdown cancellation,
and SQL quiet after startup or pause.
- Sleep-safety tests reject sleep for future imports and automatic
refreshes, and accept inactive retained state.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` pass.
- `pnpm test:run` was attempted and stopped after repeated
embedded-PostgreSQL startup failures in unrelated suites. The two
existing import/refresh suites initially skipped for the same host
limitation; after adding explicit disposable-database options, all 63
regression tests passed against PostgreSQL 17. Full CI passed on
`ddb3ee51369baa8c7153bae9fd88efb8b903f2bc`: 55 successful checks, one
neutral review check, and two intentional skips.

## Risks

- Notifications are process-local. Independent SQL writers and separate
live replicas do not wake this worker; startup reconstructs persisted
work.
- Enabled automatic sources still contact GitHub every five minutes.
Their upstream changes have no event ingress here.
- Cloud scheduled wakes currently cover routines and issue monitors, not
skill sync. This change retains instances with outstanding skill
obligations. It does not claim measured host/database suspension or
fleet savings.
- No change to source authorization, installed content on failure, or
existing claim semantics.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools, and code
execution. The host does not expose an exact model revision or
context-window size to 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
- [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>
2026-10-20 16:21:42 -05:00
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