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TonioandClaude Opus 5 327f59cac2 refactor(ui): key the company list by account (#11488)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Which companies a person belongs to is an authorization fact the
server owns, and the UI caches the answer for speed
> - It cached that answer under one `["companies"]` key with no account
attached, while `main.tsx` sets `staleTime: 30_000` for every query
> - So for thirty seconds after an account change, one person's list
answered questions asked about another, arriving with no loading state
and no error
> - Three separate consumers each grew their own defense against this,
and each was a place to forget one
> - This pull request keys the entry by account, so a list belonging to
someone else is not distrusted but unreachable
> - The benefit is that the protection stops depending on every future
consumer remembering to defend itself

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. Refs #11380, #11382, #11417, #11430. The problem
follows.

**What happened?**

The company list lived in a single cache entry, `["companies"]`,
carrying no record of which account it was fetched for. Combined with
the app-wide 30s `staleTime`, any read within that window after an
account change returned the previous account's list — from cache, with
no request, no loading state and no error.

Every consumer that treats the list as an authorization fact had to know
this and defend itself:

- `InviteLanding` reads it to decide whether you already belong to the
inviting company (#11417).
- `OnboardingWizard` reads it to decide whether a saved draft belongs to
you (#11382, merged).
- `CompanyProvider` reads it to pick and persist your active company
(#11430).

All three defenses are correct. The problem is structural: the fourth
consumer has to invent a fourth one.

**Expected behavior**

A cached company list can only answer questions about the account it was
fetched for.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. On a self-hosted instance in `authenticated` mode, sign in as account
A, which belongs to company X.
2. Within thirty seconds, have account B become the session in that tab
— a second tab signing in, or A's session lapsing server-side.
3. Any consumer reading the company list receives A's list, and nothing
in the query result indicates it is not B's.

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` at `ac91b7f3b`, which includes #11430.

## What Changed

- `ui/src/lib/queryKeys.ts` — `companies.list(userId)` replaces
`companies.all` as the list's entry. `companies.all` remains the prefix,
so it still matches for invalidation.
- `ui/src/api/companies-query.ts` — `companyListQueryOptions(userId)`
builds the keyed options; `useCompanyListQuery()` is the only observer
entry point and holds until the session settles, because the key cannot
be built before then; `fetchCompanyListForCurrentAccount(queryClient)`
covers imperative paths; `useAccountIdentity()` exposes the session
identity the key is built from.
- `ui/src/api/companies-query.ts` — the `/companies` detach moved into
the query function.
- `ui/src/context/CompanyContext.tsx` — drops the session-watching
refetch machinery the key now makes unnecessary (`removeQueries`, the
explicit replacement fetch, the awaiting gate). It still clears the live
selection on an account change, because that is component state and does
not change key with the query.
- `ui/src/pages/InviteLanding.tsx`,
`ui/src/components/OnboardingWizard.tsx` — read through the
account-aware API.
- Tests — the account-keyed guarantee, prefix invalidation still
reaching the list, the detach inside the query function, and updates
where suites seeded the old shared key.

### The existing defenses are deliberately left in place

The per-consumer gates in #11382, #11417 and #11430 are now belt and
braces. They are also what will catch this refactor if it is wrong
somewhere, so removing them in the same change that moves the foundation
would be the wrong order. Simplifying them is a follow-up, once this has
proven itself.

### Why `retry: 1` appears in CompanyProvider

An earlier measurement on #11430 found a retry on the replacement fetch
changed no outcome, because `removeQueries` made the observer rebind and
issue a second request for free. Keying by account removes that
mechanism and the free attempt with it. The retry now carries the
property the incidental refetch used to — a single blip during an
account change should not leave the customer with no companies until
they find "Try again". #11430's test for that property is unchanged and
still passes, which is how the gap was caught.

### A regression this went through, kept for the record

Gating the query on the session settling meant that while the account
was unknown the query was *disabled*, and a disabled query reports
`isLoading: false` with no data — which the provider defaults to an
empty list and reads as "asked, and owns nothing". That is the
destructive branch #11477 had just fixed, reached through a different
door: it would have cleared the customer's stored company on every cold
boot. #11477's test caught it during the rebase. `useCompanyListQuery`
now reports the wait for the account as part of the wait for the list.

### What this does not do

It does not scope the rest of the per-account cache. `["companies",
id]`, stats, and every other account-scoped entry still survive an
account change; that is the cache-lifetime work in #11380.

## Verification

- `pnpm vitest run` in `ui`: **4018 passed, 1 failed**.
- `pnpm tsc -b` in `ui`: clean.
- `companies-query.test.ts`: 6 passed. `CompanyContext.test.tsx`: 17
passed. `OnboardingWizard.test.tsx`: 13 passed.
`InviteLanding.test.tsx`: 13 passed.

The failure is the pre-existing timezone-dependent
`IssueProperties.test.tsx`, fixed by #11478.

Two behaviours are asserted rather than assumed, because the refactor is
only safe if they hold: that invalidating the `companies` prefix still
marks the account-keyed list stale (19 call sites depend on it), and
that the query function detaches the in-flight `/companies` request
before fetching.

**Not done:** no manual two-account run in a browser. The path needs two
accounts on an `authenticated` instance, which a local dev instance
cannot exercise.

## Risks

Moderate, and worth reading before approving.

**It touches `InviteLanding.tsx`, which #11417 also modifies**, so one
of the two will need a rebase — the conflict is mechanical (both change
how the same query is read).

This was #11481, which GitHub closed automatically when its base branch
(#11430's) was deleted on merge; reopening a pull request whose base
branch is gone is not permitted, so it continues here against `master`
with the same head and the same review already recorded on #11481.

**The list now waits for the session query.** The key cannot be built
before the account is known. In the app the session is already fetched
at boot by many components, so this is a dependency rather than an extra
request, but it does serialize: on a cold boot the list waits for the
session to land. Every test that renders a company-list consumer now
needs a session in the cache, which is why several suites gained a seed.

**A missing mock surfaces as a passing gate rather than an error.** The
detach inside the query function meant suites whose `companiesApi` mock
lacked `detachInflightList` had their query function throw, which read
as "decided" in the onboarding gate and mounted the wizard early. Fixed
in the affected suites; worth knowing as a failure mode.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`), through Claude Code. Extended thinking
enabled. Tool use enabled: file read and edit, shell for typecheck and
test runs.

## 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 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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] 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: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:23:56 -07:00
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