DottaandPaperclip
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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Tasks need a clear way to resume after a setup failure. > - A shared repository can contain another task that the assigned agent cannot read. > - Paperclip correctly stops before the agent starts, but the user must then understand workspace settings to recover. > - This pull request gives that failure a single Retry button and selects a clean copy of the configured repository through normal admission. > - The task keeps its assigned agent and execution settings, while access checks and existing work remain protected. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Related: #16895 classifies the restricted source failure. This change adds the user recovery action. #16906 handles retained files after execution; this change handles a setup failure before execution starts. **What existing behavior does this improve?** Recovery of a task whose shared repository includes a task workspace the assigned agent cannot read. **Current behavior** The task stops before provider work and asks the user to understand workspace choices or access grants. **Proposed behavior** Show Retry above the task message box, independent of loaded conversation history. One click requests one attempt using a clean checkout of the configured remote. Show Retrying while the request is pending. Show an error only if the request fails. **Reason and benefit** The user can resume work without understanding repository isolation or changing access to another task. **Breaking changes** None. The recovery source value is server-owned. The public workspace selection request does not accept it. No migration is required. ## What Changed - Add one Retry control above the composer in both task conversation views. It stays available when an older notice is outside the loaded comment pages. - Bind recovery to the latest failed run, current assignee, and recorded proof that provider work did not start. - Use the existing atomic recovery route and pending workspace selection. Normal admission clears the old session and creates the isolated checkout. - Choose a fresh task-owned branch for recovery, including fixed project branches, existing task branches, and adapter branch overrides. Preserve the model, environment, setup commands, pending user workspace choices, previous files, and all execution gates. - Update execution documentation and both workspace maps. ## Verification - Passed all 461 tests in the eight affected database, Git, HTTP, workspace binding, and conversation suites after the review fixes. An additional 292 tests passed after the final compatibility fixes, including IssueDetail and recovery action routing. - Concurrent HTTP retries produce one wakeup. Paused projects and runs that started provider work reject recovery without changing the workspace. - Real Git tests exclude private files, private commits, and unpublished original files from the clean checkout, preserve the original, and exercise reuse, cleanup, and reopen. - Verified in a running local app: a task failed twice, displayed only Retry, and reached Done after one click. A second browser test put the failure notice behind 501 newer comments and used a fixed project branch. Retry stayed visible and the task reached Done. The credential-free process worker used the selected checkout and wrote its result there. This does not claim a live model-provider run. - The first manual fixture lacked a responsible-user membership and failed after successful workspace recovery. Corrected the fixture, retained that failure evidence, and verified the full flow with ordinary authorization. - Full typecheck, build, token gates, and map checks passed. The full local suite was stopped after review changed its source during execution; current-head CI provides the complete suite result. - An earlier unrelated peer-comment read test hit a socket hangup. The next complete affected-suite run passed; the first failure is retained in local evidence. - Current-head CI hit an unchanged runner credential-concurrency test failure. That lane passed on the preceding commit, and all 42 credential tests passed locally. The original failed job is retained; the one-time rerun passed. All latest-head CI checks are green (55 success, 2 skipped, 1 neutral), and Greptile is 5/5 with both review threads resolved. ## Risks - A remote repository outage can still prevent the next attempt. Retry does not grant access or copy unpublished files from the old checkout. - Recovery accepts only the latest recorded pre-provider failure and preserves normal execution gates. This limits duplicate work and stale recovery requests. - No database migration, dependency, or lockfile change. - The first review found fixed-branch retry loops and dependence on paginated notice history. Both had failing regressions before the fixes and now pass targeted tests and the combined browser journey. - Full CI then caught assumptions about missing run evidence and unrelated recovery actions. The final changes tolerate absent evidence and scope the new lookup to board-owned actions with valid run IDs. The previously failing suites now pass locally. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools, code execution, and browser verification. The exact serving model ID and context window 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 - [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 --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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Workspaces, services, and files
A project or task can use a managed workspace with inspectable files, Git state, services, and runtime controls. Operators can follow its lifecycle through provisioning, use, and closure.
Implementation: workspace list, execution workspace, project workspace.
Agent access: companion.
Sub-features
binding: identify the workspace actually bound to a task/run.provisioning: observe readiness and failures instead of inferring readiness from a created record.services: start/stop supported services and inspect logs and exposed endpoints.files-git: inspect workspace files and repository state used for the deliverable.closure: close/reopen or reconcile through permitted controls without losing work.
For a historical failed export whose exact sandbox was destroyed, the task recovery notice offers Continue from saved sources to an authorized board operator. Select surviving task attachments, record lost work and external action outcomes, then rebuild through fresh-session admission. The old failed run remains failed. Bounded bootstrap retries retain this decision and recheck their system wake, predecessors, saved files and current execution gates before provider startup. Later cancelled runs require their own confirmed stop and board file repair. Their evidence is preserved with the reconstruction and rechecked before dispatch. Stop retains unfinished native files; startup also repairs missing historical retention without replaying the cancelled turn. Daytona stop-only cleanup confirms retention and accepts an already archived source. Cancelled native file recovery can record a verified no-action outcome. Its confirmation stays optional and resets when the source changes. Retained sandboxes keep their existing export recovery path. Automated coverage: reconstruction. Live staging acceptance remains separate from these regression tests.
How to get to it (user POV)
task-workspace
Use the task’s workspace card or Files panel and follow its workspace link.
workspace-management
Open /workspaces, a project workspace, or /execution-workspaces/:workspaceId and its Services/Configuration/Runtime logs views.
Driving it with Playwright and the Paperclip CLI
Preconditions: follow the baseline. Enable isolated-workspace UI where needed. Use an owned disposable repository and environment; record workspace ID and branch.
task-workspace
Automated: workspace card and task binding cover host/binding contracts.
Manual: Run a task that writes a small file, follow the bound workspace, and inspect the file and revision. Reload and verify links still refer to the same workspace, not another checkout or a stale run.
For fresh standard-trust tasks using an implicit repository default, create a disposable project checkout whose shared Git storage overlaps a private task workspace. Verify that source admission creates a separate checkout from the configured remote, with no private local branches, commits or shared Git storage. Reusing, closing and reopening that task must retain the company/task-bound source; a failed workspace save must clean up only its owned checkout. Explicit workspace, parent/channel selections, literal or task-independent branch templates, low-trust tasks, and local or credential-bearing remote URLs must not use this fallback. A selected checkout requires recorded default provenance. Create tasks through the task service with an explicit checkout ID or an inherited parent source but no typed selection; verify denial, no clone or environment acquisition, and preservation of unpublished branch commits. Older ambiguous bindings and source choices changed during preparation must retain the denial. The remote-source tests and preparation tests exercise the real Git isolation and lifecycle guards. They do not qualify live remote credentials or a provider deployment.
For a task reusing the shared project checkout, add a private task worktree that the assigned agent cannot read. Continue the shared task and verify the task offers Retry, without a workspace picker or repair checklist. Before the click, no agent turn or automatic failure retry may start. Click Retry and verify that normal admission selects an isolated checkout from the configured remote, preserves the agent and environment, and leaves both tasks' old files intact. Private local branches and commits must not enter the new checkout. Repeated clicks request one retry; a paused project or pending approval must still block it. Repeat with fixed project branches, an existing task branch, and adapter branch overrides; Retry must choose a fresh branch while preserving setup and model settings. Add enough later comments to page the original notice out of view, reload, and verify Retry remains above the composer. This control does not depend on the workspace picker's visibility setting.
For reconstructable Git expiration, finish a disposable task tree, run the internal lifecycle sweep after its 24-hour grace, and inspect candidate/reclaimed bytes. Advance its upstream first; use the ordinary task/workspace reopen control and verify the original commit, file contents, and subsequent persisted work. Current runs, previews, recovery, unique files and shared base clones must stay. The expiration tests exercise real local Git and database paths, interruption and concurrent reopening; cloud credentials and the deployed user journey require separate live evidence.
For task workspace selection, use the authorized task workspace API to choose a task directory, project source, or existing workspace. Verify that a change made during a run stays pending until the next normal admission. Submit another choice using the returned revision, then retry the superseded request; it must fail without replacing the newer pending choice. A projectless task must retain its files across resume and reassignment. Use the repository preparation API to add an authorized repository beneath that workspace; repeat the request and verify that it reuses the checkout and pinned revision. See task binding tests and repository access tests. An existing projectless folder alias of a sandbox-restricted project must be rejected for a standard local task before its adapter executes. Repeat after relocating the configured source; retained ownership must still enforce the boundary. This is separate from ordinary authorized file preview/download. For a registered worktree selected for a sandbox or SSH environment, configured and built-in provision scripts must not run on the controller during fresh creation, reuse, or rebuild, including host runtime provisioning. Repeat with standard trust and a protected read-only source, then with source write grants; permissions must not change execution placement. Verify isolated source copying and selected-environment dispatch still work. Repeat an explicit local isolated source choice: copying remains available but controller scripts must stay absent, including after binding or metadata changes and closed-worktree reopening. An implicit trusted local project default remains a positive provisioning control. Repeat with a newer configured default overriding an older primary source, then with a newer primary overriding an older nonprimary source. Both configured and built-in hooks must run for the implicit local default. Task creation and controller classification share configured-default, primary, creation-time and ID precedence. Explicit choices and saved copy-only markers still suppress hooks; changing the default must not rotate an existing binding or clear its marker. SSH keeps its explicit remote provision-command path; these checks do not claim a new sandbox provision transport. Low-trust closed-worktree reopening, including a board-comment reopen of a projectless task, must also suppress both kinds of host provision script. Returned checkpoints must reject file, symlink or missing parents before host writes, even if a nested file is marked unchanged. The retained host file and recovery evidence must survive rejection. These are automated safety contracts, not new live runtime acceptance.
An unchanged returned snapshot skips the host scan after acquiring the writer lock and checking authority. Concurrent host edits remain untouched; changed files, modes, symlinks and deletions still take the conflict path. The unchanged restore regression checks both hooks under the lock. This is source-level coverage, not a cloud latency result.
For a child created by an admitted agent with an explicit existing workspace, verify that a matching sandbox boundary permits creation before the child has an ID. A changed child policy, unrelated parent, or forged creator run must fail. See the child workspace trust regression. This automated contract does not add live acceptance evidence.
workspace-management
Automated: workspace detail and runtime service cover UI and runtime contracts separately.
Manual: Provision a disposable workspace, wait for readiness, start an available service, open its endpoint, and inspect a real response and logs. Stop it and verify it actually stops. Exercise close/reopen only after inspecting pending changes and active runs.
Gotchas
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UI visibility, default isolation policy, the local environment row, a workspace record, and a running service are distinct prerequisites. A fresh instance still needs an owned cwd/repository and runtime commands;
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A link or running badge does not prove the service is reachable from the user’s browser.
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Workspace IDs, runtime leases, and repository paths are not interchangeable.
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Terminal workspace cleanup wakes after committed task/workspace/PR changes and restores cooldown deadlines at startup. Empty lanes stop scanning. Display Git results can lag by thirty seconds. Compatible records share one advisory Git inspection per bounded page, while each record keeps its own delivery check. Destructive cleanup starts a separate Git scan even if an older scan is running. The worker tests cover quiet lanes and deadlines. The service tests cover real PostgreSQL signals and retained worktrees. These tests do not qualify an external wake alarm or a live provider deployment.
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Organizational project, source project, task files, personal
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Use recovery for divergence/export repair and CLI operations for local worktree tooling.
Storybook verification
closure
Scope: ui Storybook: Close-readiness checks, pending changes/active runs, blocked/pending/error close, retry close and eligible reopening. Production: Confirm owned workspace shutdown, preserved files/Git state and permitted lifecycle transition/reopening; Browser Use session closure is unrelated. Sources: Source: ExecutionWorkspaceDetail.tsx, ExecutionWorkspaceCloseDialog.tsx, execution-workspaces.ts. Tests: execution-workspaces-routes.test.ts, execution-workspaces-service.test.ts, execution-workspace-reopen.test.ts