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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - A native Runner agent keeps a warm provider session per task. A follow-up run on the same task can reuse that session and its managed instruction directory. > - When a follow-up run cannot resume the saved session (for example, the effective run configuration changed), it first reserves the prior owner's instruction directory. Then it starts a new session identity and must retire the prior owner. > - Retirement treated the run's own directory reservation as another executor's busy turn. The run failed at startup with `native_session_supervisor_busy`. > - That failure happened after the remote workspace was prepared, so failure handling retained the sandbox and blocked the task. A board follow-up comment left the task `blocked` with no agent progress. > - This pull request lets a run retire the prior owner that it reserved itself, and keeps the directory that it adopted. Any other reservation or turn is still busy. > - The benefit is that a follow-up on a task with a rotated session runs once, and the task does not become blocked. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A board follow-up comment with reopen woke an agent on a task that had just finished a successful run. The new run reused the task's own sandbox. The saved session could not resume because the effective run configuration changed, so the run started a new session identity. At startup (right after the native execution claim) the run failed with `native_session_supervisor_busy`. The run got the error code `native_continuation_requires_reconciliation`, the sandbox was retained for workspace repair, and the task became `blocked`. The agent had another live run on a different task at the same time. That run used a different sandbox and a different workspace, so it was not the cause. The busy owner was the task's own prior warm session. The new run had reserved that session's instruction directory itself (`reserveWarmNativeInstructionDirectory` sets `preparingRunId` to the new run). `retireSupersededWarmNativeSessions` then saw `preparingRunId` and rejected the run. **Expected behavior** The follow-up run retires the prior warm owner of its own task, keeps the instruction directory it adopted, starts the new session, and runs once. The task does not become blocked. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Run a native Runner (Codex app-server) task to completion with a warm session and a managed instruction directory. 2. Change the agent's effective run configuration, so the saved session cannot resume. 3. Wake the same task again (for example, a board comment with reopen). 4. Before this change, the run fails at startup with `native_session_supervisor_busy` and the task becomes blocked. **Paperclip version or commit** Observed on staging at `7fd05e13`. The code is unchanged on `master`. ## What Changed - `retireSupersededWarmNativeSessions` now receives the current run id. When the prior owner of the same task (same logical owner scope) is reserved by this run (`preparingRunId === runId`), retirement continues instead of throwing `native_session_supervisor_busy`. - That retirement closes the prior owner with `preserveInstructionsForRunId`, so the directory that this run adopted is not collected. This matches the existing configuration-change branch in warm reuse. - After a successful close, the reservation is cleared. A failed close keeps the reservation, so its `release()` retries retirement as before. - A reservation by any other run, a busy owner, and an executing scope still throw `native_session_supervisor_busy`. ## Verification - Red before the fix, green after (`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.test.ts`, "managed directory warm checkpoints"): - "retires its own reserved directory owner when the session identity rotates": before, the run rejected with `native_session_supervisor_busy`. After, the prior owner closes once, the new session runs once, the adopted directory is not collected during retirement, and it is collected once when the new owner retires. - "retires its own reserved directory owner after the Runner claim when the session identity rotates" (the production `useRunnerd` path, where retirement happens after the claim): before, admission rejected with `native_session_supervisor_busy`. After, admission retires the prior owner and keeps the adopted directory. - Safety case (green before and after): "still rejects a session identity rotation over another run's directory reservation". The provider does not start and the other run's owner is not closed. - Existing safety case (green): "does not retire an active turn when a new session identity arrives". - `npx vitest run src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.test.ts src/services/heartbeat/instruction-working-copy`: 1163 passed. - Staging evidence was read only. This change is not deployed. ## Risks - Low risk. The change applies only when the prior owner has the same logical owner scope (company, agent, task, workspace, environment) and its reservation names the current run. That reservation exists only after this run validated reuse of the prior directory. - The claim-path instruction copy (`claimWarmNativeInstructionCopy`, which sets `busy`) is unchanged. That path is not used by Codex app-server agents. - Two related points are unchanged and are out of scope here: a startup failure after the workspace is prepared still retains the sandbox and blocks the task, and the "Instruction edits could not be recovered" warning on that failure is advisory only. With this fix, this flow no longer reaches that failure. ## Model Used - Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, with tool use (shell, file edits, browser read of staging run records) in Claude Code. ## 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 Refs #18893 (shared-sandbox ingress retirement). Refs #19143 (workspace-busy wait). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>