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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip helps people manage AI agents and their work. > - The Mine inbox combines task rows with approval and failure items. > - It waits for parent captions before it reveals the initial list. > - It fetched rich diagnostics for every parent, including parents already in the task index. > - Parent captions only use fields that the index already provides. > - This change reuses loaded parents and fetches missing parent metadata through the index view. > - Failure items keep their rich interruption data and the initial reveal boundary stays in place. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What existing behavior does this improve?** The initial load of Mine and other inbox views that need parent task captions. **Subsystem affected** `ui/` collection reads. The API contract and database schema stay the same. **Current behavior** The inbox fetches all parent and failed-run task IDs with `view=rows` after the primary task request. This adds active-run, blocker, review, interruption and recovery work to the reveal path. The observed hosted case fetched four parents. One was already in the 31-row task index. The other three were completed parents. The serial context response took 1.0–2.9 seconds during the diagnostic reloads. **Proposed behavior** Reuse parents from the selected source index. Fetch missing parents with `view=index`. Keep `view=rows` for every failed-run task, including overlaps with parents or source rows. Keep both role-specific ID lists in the query key. Drop old placeholder rows when the new index supplies a parent. **Reason and benefit** This removes unnecessary diagnostic work from a required serial request. Five alternating same-four-parent requests on the hosted app had index times of 189, 162, 156, 128 and 169 ms, versus rich-row times of 282, 211, 329, 219 and 284 ms. All requests missed the response cache. All consumed parent fields matched. This isolates the projection cost; it is not a deployed UI speedup claim. **Breaking changes** None. Membership, ordering, nesting, archive state, authorization and failure presentation retain their owners and contracts. Refs: #18323 and #18492 for the prior collection and startup work. This change addresses the remaining parent-context read. ## What Changed - Partition missing parent metadata from failed-run context. Load the two batches concurrently, with at most two batch requests in flight. - Keep richer failure rows last in the context result. Filter placeholders by company and current requested IDs. Track completed failure reads, including missing tasks, so a parent placeholder cannot reveal an unverified failure card. Keep existing verified cards mounted through refresh. - Cover delayed captions, reuse of indexed parents, refreshed parent captions, failure overlaps, resolved failures and parent-to-failure cache transitions. - Add a real browser check for delayed parent metadata and stable geometry through deferred diagnostics. Give the test its own disposable company. - Add a reusable local timing harness and update the collection verification recipe. ## Verification - Baseline source: `0710c5684243a663c09ff907011ab88838173a02`. Final measured candidate: `c8c69b5af11966b4144707a3da21e840c73c6cca`. Production UI assets were built from the same checkout and dependencies, with only the Inbox module changed between variants. - Targeted regression failed on the old implementation and passed after the change. All 58 Inbox component tests pass, including existing archive/undo and order checks. - Full workspace typecheck passes. The final UI typecheck passes. Full build passes. Token gates, map checks and diff whitespace checks pass. - All 12 collection browser checks pass, including pagination and reading-position restoration. - The full CI workflow passes on `c8c69b5af11966b4144707a3da21e840c73c6cca`, including all server, chat, workspace, serialized, runner and E2E shards. [CI run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41502803275). Greptile reports 5/5 on this commit with no unresolved threads. The separate Paperclip Review check is still queued. Its first attempt saved a text result but did not complete the GitHub assessment. Normal retry was rejected because that attempt already recorded a result. The current-head review request is queued. The review service is now unavailable, so this external gate remains open. - The duplicate local `pnpm test:run` was interrupted after the equivalent CI run passed. Its six chat shards passed 1,828 tests. The general-server phase was stopped. This local full-suite run is incomplete, not a passing result. - Local synthetic fixture: four parents and 30 children, with three completed parents archived. The fixture also has 30 archived child records. No agent or provider calls ran. Mac arm64, Node 24.22.2, Chromium, production assets, 1440×900, native CPU, loopback network, fresh HTTP/query caches for each cold sample. - Five alternating local pairs produced identical 31-row membership and order and no browser errors: | Journey | Baseline median (range), ms | Candidate median (range), ms | Median paired saving, ms | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cold first usable Mine rows | 310 (252–435) | 258 (250–261) | 50 | | Warm Recent → Mine | 60 (56–64) | 67 (61–71) | -7 | | Task → Back to Mine | 42 (40–47) | 43 (40–45) | 0 | The final cold result has a material control limitation. The median primary-request start was 259 ms for baseline and 210 ms for candidate. Much of the cold difference occurs before the changed request. The parent response medians were 19.3 and 13.5 ms, with fewer parent IDs requested. Do not attribute the full 52 ms difference between cold medians to this fix. Four cold pairs were faster and one was 6 ms slower. Warm Recent → Mine was about 7 ms slower at the median; Back was unchanged. These runs establish no warm-navigation gain. The earlier five-pair experiment showed the same startup confound and mixed warm/Back results. All samples remain in the local evidence. A hosted final-shape comparison timed out and was cancelled by closing its owned browser tab; it supplies no result. The candidate has not been deployed. Reproduce the contract and geometry check against an isolated production UI with `pnpm exec playwright test --config tests/perf/collections/playwright.config.ts parent-context.spec.ts`. Run `tests/perf/collections/measure-mine-context.ts` against baseline and candidate loopback production origins that share one disposable API, as documented in `tests/perf/collections/README.md`. Preserve upstream startup timings as controls. Required parent responses remain inside the reveal boundary. ## Risks - Explicit-ID `index` and `rows` requests use the same company, visibility and actor filters. They do not use the inbox archive filter. An archived parent is still returned by either projection. A deleted or unreadable parent is absent in both. A second index request for a failure-parent overlap would not restore missing caption data. - A failed-run task must never reuse parent-only metadata. The query key includes each projection role. Completed reads carry explicit failure-ID coverage. The tests cover overlaps, pending role changes, late heartbeat data, known absence, and transitions to empty views. - Old parent context must not override a fresh indexed parent. The current-ID placeholder filter and caption-refresh regression cover this case. - The hosted app still has unrelated server contention. This PR reduces parent request work. It does not claim to fix all hosted loading delay. Deployment acceptance should confirm the serving revision, compare matched Mine reloads and inspect errors and row stability. Revert this change if failure items or captions regress. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, tool use, browser diagnostics and code execution. The exact runtime model identifier and context-window size are not exposed by 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>
Paperclip feature map
Start here when reproducing a user-facing bug, verifying a change, or deciding which surfaces a fix must cover. Each recipe describes what a person can do, where they can do it, the expected result, and the evidence needed to verify it. Product behavior is still governed by the implementation spec.
The sibling agent access map records APIs, agent entry points and permission boundaries for the same capability IDs. Follow the shared map contract when maintaining either map.
The chat scenario catalog describes how people might request these capabilities in conversation, including setup and permission branches. These are planned Product E2E journeys, not live coverage results.
IDs and references
Use the existing IDs in issues, PRs, Storybook annotations, tests, and verification evidence:
| Reference | Example | Defined by |
|---|---|---|
| Feature ID | onboarding |
The recipe filename without .md. |
| Capability ID | onboarding/company |
The feature ID plus a key from its Sub-features list, separated by /. |
| Entry-point reference | onboarding.md#web-wizard | The recipe filename plus its entry-point heading. The local entry-point ID is web-wizard. |
For example, report verifying onboarding/company through web-wizard.
Capabilities describe behavior; entry points identify the surface used to exercise
it. Entry-point IDs are separate from generated capability IDs. Both maps and
Storybook use the same full capability IDs. Each child page states its feature
ID; recipe bullets show the full capability ID beside the local key, and access
companions show it beneath the local heading. Local keys remain unchanged for
parsing and existing anchors.
Keep recipe filenames, sub-feature keys, and entry-point keys stable when changing display titles or navigation. Renaming a filename or key changes its references. The section headings below are navigation labels, not additional IDs.
Browse features
Use this index to open a recipe or copy its feature and full capability IDs.
Getting started and access
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
onboarding |
Onboarding and first work | onboarding/instance, onboarding/company, onboarding/adapter, onboarding/first-task, onboarding/resume |
access |
Login, invitations, and access | access/login, access/invitations, access/membership, access/resources, access/cli-auth |
companies |
Companies and portability | companies/selection, companies/identity, companies/decision-models, companies/prompt-injection-prevention, companies/fast-responses, companies/agent-observability, companies/archive, companies/portability |
Tasks and conversations
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
tasks |
Task creation and lifecycle | tasks/create, tasks/organize, tasks/properties, tasks/discussion, tasks/completion, tasks/privacy |
task-coordination |
Delegation, dependencies, and signoff | task-coordination/delegation, task-coordination/dependencies, task-coordination/signoff, task-coordination/tree-control |
inbox-search |
Inbox, decisions, and search | inbox-search/views, inbox-search/triage, inbox-search/decisions, inbox-search/search, inbox-search/toasts |
agent-chat |
Agent conversations and project handoff | agent-chat/discovery, agent-chat/history, agent-chat/handoff, agent-chat/conference-room |
questions-and-approvals |
Questions and approvals | questions-and-approvals/questions, questions-and-approvals/dismiss-and-reopen, questions-and-approvals/confirmations, questions-and-approvals/plan-review, questions-and-approvals/audience, questions-and-approvals/governance, questions-and-approvals/tool-review, questions-and-approvals/continuation |
steering |
Steering and queued messages | steering/queue, steering/edit-order-discard, steering/steer, steering/interrupt, steering/stop-and-pause, steering/drafts, steering/approval-queue |
documents-artifacts |
Documents, attachments, and work products | documents-artifacts/documents, documents-artifacts/annotations, documents-artifacts/attachments, documents-artifacts/work-products, documents-artifacts/library |
Agents and reusable capabilities
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
agents |
Hiring, configuration, and organization | agents/hire, agents/grok-bot, agents/instructions, agents/organization, agents/primary-agent, agents/lifecycle, agents/built-in, agents/api-keys, agents/managed-agent-setup |
runs-adapters |
Runs, harnesses, and model accounts | runs-adapters/availability, runs-adapters/validation, runs-adapters/runs, runs-adapters/session |
skills |
Skills and Skill Studio | skills/discovery, skills/authoring, skills/versions, skills/policy, skills/testing |
teams |
Team packages and installation | teams/discovery, teams/preview, teams/install, teams/configuration |
Projects and execution
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
projects |
Projects and repositories | projects/lifecycle, projects/task-context, projects/repositories, projects/defaults, projects/privacy |
goals |
Goals and work alignment | goals/hierarchy, goals/alignment, goals/navigation |
workspaces |
Workspaces, services, and files | workspaces/binding, workspaces/provisioning, workspaces/services, workspaces/files-git, workspaces/closure |
execution-environments |
Execution environments | execution-environments/configuration, execution-environments/capabilities, execution-environments/probe, execution-environments/assignment, execution-environments/images |
recovery |
Recovery | recovery/diagnosis, recovery/bounded-continuation, recovery/source-action, recovery/exhaustion, recovery/workspace, recovery/unknown-outcome, recovery/user-continuation, recovery/reconnect |
Apps, channels, and extensions
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
connection-setup |
Connection setup | connection-setup/catalog, connection-setup/identity-and-access, connection-setup/credentials, connection-setup/handoff, connection-setup/draft-recovery, connection-setup/task-request, connection-setup/channel-setup, connection-setup/failure |
assistant-connections |
Assistant connections (MCP) | assistant-connections/setup, assistant-connections/consent, assistant-connections/device-login, assistant-connections/client-use, assistant-connections/revocation |
app-permissions |
App access and action permissions | app-permissions/agent-access, app-permissions/action-policy, app-permissions/catalog-change, app-permissions/test-action, app-permissions/account-maintenance |
chat-channels |
External chat and email | chat-channels/providers, chat-channels/identity, chat-channels/conversation, chat-channels/attachments, chat-channels/lifecycle, chat-channels/outbound-email |
gateways-profiles |
Tool gateways and access profiles | gateways-profiles/gateway, gateways-profiles/profiles, gateways-profiles/client-connect, gateways-profiles/tokens, gateways-profiles/activity |
secrets |
Secrets and proposals | secrets/company-secrets, secrets/user-secrets, secrets/proposals, secrets/vault-import, secrets/runtime-delivery |
plugins |
Plugins | plugins/installation, plugins/configuration, plugins/contributions, plugins/lifecycle |
Automation and structured work
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
routines |
Routines, schedules, and triggers | routines/definition, routines/triggers, routines/run-now, routines/history, routines/management |
cases |
Cases | cases/browse, cases/structure, cases/history, cases/task-links, cases/handoffs |
status-cards |
Status cards | status-cards/authoring, status-cards/generation, status-cards/inspection, status-cards/archive |
Oversight and operation
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
budgets-costs |
Costs and budgets | budgets-costs/cost-reporting, budgets-costs/budgets, budgets-costs/incidents, budgets-costs/resolution, budgets-costs/subscriptions, budgets-costs/accounting-recovery |
activity |
Dashboards and audit trails | activity/overview, activity/activity, activity/runs, activity/routine-audit, activity/timeline, activity/agent-commentary |
navigation-preferences |
Navigation, profile, and announcements | navigation-preferences/navigation, navigation-preferences/preferences, navigation-preferences/profile, navigation-preferences/announcements, navigation-preferences/fallbacks, navigation-preferences/command-palette |
instance-operations |
Instance operations | instance-operations/install-update, instance-operations/server-service, instance-operations/configuration, instance-operations/diagnostics, instance-operations/backup, instance-operations/runtime-setup |
cli-operations |
CLI/API and local worktrees | cli-operations/context, cli-operations/domain-commands, cli-operations/outputs, cli-operations/run-controls, cli-operations/worktree-instances, cli-operations/feedback-export |
Contributor surfaces
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
developer-labs |
Developer previews and diagnostic labs | developer-labs/design, developer-labs/interaction-labs, developer-labs/performance, developer-labs/route-gates |
Open the published Storybook guide for the assembled feature and capability index. The Markdown recipes in this directory are the authored source. Each has a same-named agent-access companion.
Run node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs to generate local navigation in
maps/generated/feature-map.md, maps/generated/agent-access-map.md, and the
Storybook guide. Recipes are discovered automatically from their navigation
metadata; generation does not depend on this high-level index.
Before driving a journey
- Use this checkout's isolated test drive for manual product checks. It creates a temporary instance and prints its URL and data directory. Do not guess that a server on port 3100 belongs to you.
- Record the commit, URL, company, login role, relevant experimental settings, adapter, runtime mode, and live versus simulated dependencies. Use disposable tasks and provider resources. A fresh test drive creates a company and CEO, but no task or first run.
- Use the current navigation and company prefix. Paths in recipes omit that prefix. Record whether the streamlined or production shell is selected; Agent Chat, chat connectors, and the combined Inbox/Tasks view have separate gates. A hidden surface is an unmet prerequisite, not a successful test.
- Run the smallest relevant test first. Vitest commands below run from the repository root after installing dependencies. Playwright recipes use their named configuration and its isolated environment, not an unrelated running instance. Reserve expensive runner/provider tests for the behavior at issue.
- Exercise the actual user action, inspect its result, reload, and verify the persisted state or continuation. Use read-only API checks to corroborate UI evidence; creating state through the API does not prove the creation UI.
For agent-driven acceptance work, start with the Paperclip verification skill for an isolated launch, ownership/readiness checks, browser driving, evidence, and cleanup. It uses this directory as its feature map. The existing dev-workspace run/verify skill and evaluation skill describe runtime ownership and evidence handling. Reuse them; this map introduces no environment launcher, credentials, scheduled job, or second test framework.
Evidence contract
Report each entry point as passed, failed, blocked (with its missing
prerequisite), or not run. Include the feature ID, full capability IDs and
entry-point ID (for example, onboarding/company through web-wizard), plus the
recipe link, commit/environment, user action, expected and observed result,
command/exit code, and evidence links. Screenshots or traces should show both the
action and the discriminating result. Include task/run/request IDs when relevant,
without secrets.
A fix is verified across its affected surfaces only when each has evidence or an explicit reason it does not apply. Shared code alone does not prove parity. Keep product regressions visible; do not change the recipe to bless a failure. For Paperclip-assigned work, attach evidence through the artifact workflow.
Inventory and remaining depth
The generated maps/generated/coverage.json lists the current non-test TSX page
modules and the recipes that directly reference each one. An unreferenced module
is a documentation candidate, not proof that its feature is absent or untested.
Remaining workflow limits live in each recipe. Inventory and example associations
describe documentation scope, not runtime health.
Maintaining the reference
The map documents user journeys. It does not execute them automatically; generated inventories record documentation scope rather than live test health. Product E2E reports reuse these capability IDs through the journey associations. Their coverage view shows which scenarios in a campaign are linked to each capability and the associated test results. An association or passing scenario does not certify the whole capability; unselected and unmapped journeys remain distinct.
When maintaining a recipe, compare its entry points and expected results with
the current source. Check that linked tests still exercise the stated behavior
and that local references still exist. Keep the same-named agent access companion
and stable sub-feature IDs aligned when behavior or access changes. Source-only
access inventory remains distinct from live verification. Run
node scripts/check-maps.mjs after map edits for structural/reference checks;
follow the shared contract for the source and behavioral checks it cannot perform.
Each recipe starts with a small frontmatter navigation record, then an H1:
---
navigation: {"section":"Tasks and conversations","sectionOrder":20,"order":10}
---
The H1 supplies the feature title, and the first paragraph supplies its summary. Orders are local to the section; leave gaps for additions. Equal orders use the stable filename as a tie-breaker. Keep a section's name/order consistent across its recipes. Discovery uses the recipe and companion; keep the readable ID index above aligned when features or capability IDs change.
Optional ### Storybook verification guidance lives inside the recipe's Gotchas
section. Each level-four heading contains a backtick-quoted capability key and
has Scope (ui, cli, or browser),
Storybook, Production, and Sources fields. These are verification instructions
and intentional scope limits, not run results or a required story for every API.
The generated gap report combines this guidance with current story associations.
After frontmatter, each recipe starts with an H1 and a user-visible description, then exactly:
- Sub-features — stable backticked local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states,
such as
- `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company. - How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
- Driving it with — starts with
Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, withAutomated:andManual:paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly. - Gotchas — misleading look-alikes, feature gates, and invalid evidence.
New or updated entries follow
Poteto's feature-map examples.
Existing entries with a Driving it heading can adopt the named harness when
their recipes are updated. The original format was inspired by
Omnigent's feature map.
Paperclip's recipes and checks follow its own task model and test infrastructure.