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Nicky LeachandPaperclip 3f8149066c Fix connection controls for inherited hiring environments (#17944)
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## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people hire agents and select execution environments.
> - The name and adapter dialog saves an inactive draft before model
connection.
> - That draft can inherit its environment through a null
defaultEnvironmentId.
> - Managed-only and forced Kubernetes policy resolve that inheritance
to an environment ID.
> - The readiness gate compared the stored null with that ID and treated
the selection as unsaved.
> - This change accepts unchanged inheritance and keeps preparation and
save-failure gates.
> - People can select auth, open Advanced, and test a saved account
before finishing setup.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The Connect a model screen disabled all auth controls for a draft from
the name and adapter dialog under managed-only or forced Kubernetes
policy. Reloading did not recover it. The draft had no explicit
environment, which is a valid inherited selection.

**Expected behavior**

Keep connection controls usable once the draft and environment are
ready. Test the saved agent against its resolved environment before
hiring finishes. Continue to block tests during preparation or an
unsaved environment change.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Enable managed-only execution with a valid instance default, or force
Kubernetes.
2. Open New agent, enter a name, and choose Claude or Codex.
3. Reach Connect a model with the saved draft's defaultEnvironmentId
still null.
4. Try the saved subscription, API-key tile, or Advanced gateway.

This follows #17761. The roadmap and related PR search found no existing
fix for this readiness regression.

## What Changed

- Accept the inherited selection when neither the draft nor the user
specifies an environment.
- Retain the existing preparation, loading, selection-save, and
connection-test gates.
- Cover Claude and Codex under managed plugin, managed sandbox, and
forced Kubernetes policy.
- Extend preparation coverage to both explicit and inherited
environments.
- Add the inherited-draft journey to the feature map.

## Verification

- Hosted reproduction on Core e71a23c01 from a macOS browser: one owned
draft was created through the real name/adapter UI. Its persisted
environment was null. Auth controls were disabled before and after
reload. The instance required managed execution.
- Cleanup used the normal Terminate action. Readback confirmed
lifecycleState=terminated with no lifecycle error. The roster returned
to its original two active agents. No existing agent, task, account, or
instance setting was changed.
- Before the fix, four inherited-connection cases and the inherited
preparation case failed. The explicit-environment preparation control
passed.
- After the fix, 140 tests passed across NewAgent.test.tsx,
test-agent-setup.test.ts, and qualify-claude-setup.test.ts. Coverage
includes same-agent probes before Finish, preparation waits, account
preservation, failed-save retry, stale reads, and runner qualification.
- npm --prefix ui run typecheck passed, including Storybook catalog
generation and tsc -b. Direct UI TypeScript, token gates, map checks,
and git diff --check also passed.
- The pnpm entry point stalled while resolving its pinned version on
this host; both owned attempts were stopped. Running the same UI
typecheck script through npm passed. Full local workspace
typecheck/build were not repeated because Cargo is absent. The
exact-head CI run supplies the full workspace validation.
- Automated CI on f2a5a2df7 passed all checks. Standard review found
only the explanatory source comment, which contributor policy forbids.
The comment was removed in 8f43a6d80, and its thread was resolved. The
runtime expression and tests are unchanged. Fresh CI passes on
8f43a6d80: 55 successful checks and two intentional skips. The full
workflow includes build, typecheck, all test shards, Rust, and
end-to-end checks:
https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40591187819.
Standard Greptile returned 5/5, then Apex returned 5/5 with zero new
comments on the same head:
https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/17944#issuecomment-6454535506.
No review threads remain unresolved; the PR is conflict-free.
- The diff was reviewed for secrets, PII, and run artifacts. Evidence
stays outside git.
- No deployment, live post-fix provider test, or VM provisioning was
performed. Component tests simulate API responses; the hosted check
proves the original failure.

## Risks

This changes only how the wizard recognizes an inherited environment. It
does not change the environment resolver, lifecycle, approval policy, or
lease admission. The existing preparation and failed-save guards remain
active. No migration is required. Hosted acceptance of the fix requires
a later authorized deployment.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, tool use, browser
inspection, and code execution. The exact serving model ID and context
window size are not exposed.

## 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 described the issue in-PR following the bug report fields
- [x] I have not referenced internal or instance-local Paperclip issues
or links
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
ticket id
- [x] I have run the targeted tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation
- [x] I have considered and documented the risks
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Standard Greptile and Apex are 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: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 15:24:29 -07:00
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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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:

  1. Sub-features — stable backticked local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states, such as - `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company.
  2. How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
  3. Driving it with — starts with Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, with Automated: and Manual: paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly.
  4. 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.