Nicky LeachandPaperclip
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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages agent work and the lifetime of its execution resources. > - A warm native task can keep one Runner alive between successful turns. > - Foreground completion selects whether that resource stays running or stops. > - Background recovery must use the same selected policy. > - Recovery currently reads that policy only from workspace copy-back records. > - A task without such a record can be stopped immediately after foreground retention. > - This pull request saves the resource policy with the native runtime and permits the retained task to refresh its control connection. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** Background native finalization can stop a successful warm Runner when its run has no Core workspace-sync record. Foreground completion retains that same task. The stopped Runner cannot receive the later drain and suspend commands. Cold resume then correctly rejects its unproven checkpoint. Hosted diagnostics confirmed the recovery reconciler attempted environment release immediately after foreground retention. The provider connection returned HTTP 404 within the same second. A database-backed regression reproduced the stop without a workspace-sync record. A separate authorization gap also prevents the current retained task from refreshing its connection endpoint after the run succeeds. **Expected behavior** Foreground completion and recovery must use the selected resource policy. A successful warm task stays running until its idle shutdown can suspend it. Failed or cancelled work still stops. The current retained task can refresh its existing control route, but cannot prepare or submit new execution. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Select a warm native runtime on a reusable remote execution environment. 2. Complete a turn without a Core workspace-sync record. 3. Let native finalization recovery settle the still-active run lease before foreground retention finishes. 4. Before this change, recovery defaults to `stop_and_retain` and invokes the provider stop path. 5. Separately, request the retained task's connection endpoint after successful completion. Before this change, Core rejects that request. **Paperclip version/commit** The hosted failure used Core31b927e301. Regressions also reproduced on master at6d59f5ef7. **Deployment mode** A remote native execution environment with reusable warm tasks. The resource policy is generic and applies across harnesses and providers. Related recovery coverage: Refs #18161. This change preserves the suspended-checkpoint admission guard. Existing tasks without the newly saved policy retain the previous conservative fallback; deployments must drain or recover them explicitly. ## What Changed - Save the selected native resource disposition in the existing runtime-selection transaction. Add no startup database round trip or network request. - Read this small policy in background settlement and recovery when no workspace-sync record exists. Preserve valid workspace-sync policies and export-retry behavior. - Keep failed and cancelled runs out of warm retention. - Permit connection refresh for a successful, dispatched warm task on its current retained reusable lease. Keep retirement, termination, expiry, saved-run identity, and plugin capability checks. - Add database-backed retention and selection regressions, failure/cancellation coverage, and bounded projection checks. Document the lifecycle and access contracts. ## Verification - Before the source edits, the no-workspace-sync regression invoked the driver with `stop_and_retain` instead of retaining the lease. Both runtime-selection cases failed because the resource policy was absent. - After the source edits, those regressions and both run-state/runtime-selection files passed. The three-file run had 77 passes and two new fixture expectation failures. Those fixtures were corrected. Final-head GitHub CI passed, including the server suites, Runner checks, typecheck, build, and E2E gates. The local rerun was deferred at the user's request. - Commands: `node_modules/.bin/vitest run server/src/__tests__/native-environment-settlement-work.test.ts server/src/services/heartbeat/runtime-selection.test.ts server/src/services/heartbeat/run-state.test.ts`. - The connection authorization regression failed before its edit. All 34 tests in `server/src/__tests__/environment-task-runtime.test.ts` then passed. - `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` and `git diff --check` passed. - No comprehensive local suite was run. Further local tests and VM reproductions were stopped at the user's request to conserve battery and mobile data. GitHub CI verifies the final head. - Hosted verification of this patch requires deployment after merge. Passing pre-patch retries did not establish repair of the original failure. - Standard Greptile and the subsequent requested Apex review both returned **5/5** on `360bcd7e789d65950c27484af237faec02553666`, with no inline findings. ## Risks - This adds one server-owned field to the existing run profile JSON; no migration is required. Invalid or absent policy keeps the previous conservative fallback. - Valid workspace-sync disposition remains authoritative. Pending export and failed finalization still use stop-and-retain safety behavior. - Retained connection access requires a successful run, matching saved run identity, dispatched warm task, unexpired reusable lease, and no retirement or termination. Superseded leases and new execution remain denied. - The cold-resume checkpoint proof is unchanged. This patch does not make the already-stopped task's unsuspended checkpoint resumable. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, tool use, and code execution. The host does not expose a more specific serving model ID or context-window size. ## 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 targeted local checks; final verification passed in GitHub CI (local rerun deferred at the user's request) - [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 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.