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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages AI agents and measures their behavior with Runner evaluations. > - The cost controller, native tracing, private receipts and portable runtime are on master. > - The maintained live workflow still launches the provider CLI directly. > - Independent workers need one shared selection and disjoint budget allocations. > - Reports must keep unresolved allocations when a worker produces no evidence. > - This PR connects the maintained workflow to the existing controller and private archive. > - Operators can inspect known costs, conservative holds and trace evidence before qualifying paid recurrence. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #17452, #17469, #17493, #17506, #17523. **Current behavior** The live Runner workflow does not use the merged cost/tracing controller. Attempt-only aggregation cannot reconstruct a campaign when every worker archive is absent. Ordinary Actions artifacts in this public repository are readable by authenticated public GitHub users. **Proposed behavior** Controlled runs prepare one manifest, bind every selected request, enforce disjoint allocations and retain evidence in private storage. The report starts from the full retained manifest. Missing workers keep their allocations. The workflow rejects retries, unsupported providers, changed requests and absent or stale operating bounds before provider work. **Reason and benefit** The maintained workflow needs auditable costs and traces, including failures and missing receipts, before paid recurrence can be qualified. ## What Changed - Add controlled mode as the manual default and the only scheduled mode. Legacy mode remains explicit for other manual provider qualifications. - Prepare the full request selection and one shared manifest. Bind current run, first attempt, code, definitions, executable hashes and exact profile allocations. - Verify the copied controller and manifest before provider credentials. Require the controlled target to equal the trusted workflow revision before private archive access. - Reuse private archive retention for the controller policy, cell attempts and canonical report. AWS credentials remain transfer-step outputs. Controlled raw evidence is never uploaded as an Actions artifact. - Replay a retained manifest with partial or empty worker evidence. Count operating holds once and preserve known partial charges. - Pin the controller to an explicitly reviewed compatible lockfile digest. Reject resolver or byte drift before a frozen, script-free install into a job-local store. Record the lock digest in the runtime receipt and verify it again in private preparation. - Build the portable controller without secrets, private environment access or OIDC. Private preparation verifies that artifact and performs no dependency install. OIDC jobs use no mutable dependency resolution or shared cache. - Add synthetic source/copied-runtime tests, executable workflow admission tests, private archive tests and an operator runbook. ## Verification - Controller, campaign, portable runtime and workflow tests: 104 passed. This includes real aggregation from an isolated reporter without source dependencies, safe diagnostics, driver drift, distinct evidence binding and reviewed-lock drift. Real private Codex/Claude requests also pass through an independently verified copied runtime with fake transports. - Private transport and workflow contracts: 35 passed. Executable/static workflow guards: 13 passed. - Paired private report tests: 166 passed; Evalbook discovery: 7 passed. - `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`: passed. - `pnpm test:e2e:runner:typecheck`, `actionlint .github/workflows/runner-protocol-live-evals.yml` and `git diff --check`: passed. - `pnpm test:run` hit repeated local embedded PostgreSQL initialization failures in unrelated DB-dependent server tests. Its owned process tree was stopped after preserving the log. This is a local verification limitation; current-head CI remains required. - An earlier head hit one unchanged Rust cleanup assertion. The exact test passed locally and the final head passed the full Rust lane; the initial failure log is retained. - On the final head, one unchanged chat idle-queue assertion failed once in CI. Its single scoped retry passed. All test jobs and the final aggregate gate passed on commit `2e328fa53dd296174d59d19f14f068aeeb0b82d8` (CI run 40535692048, attempt 2). - No paid model, Braintrust or cloud calls. No live variables, secrets, schedules or resources changed. ## Risks - Controlled mode fails closed until a reviewed `RUNNER_PROTOCOL_EVAL_CONTROLLER_POLICY_JSON` and a compatible private eval SHA exist. `all` does not silently become a supported subset. - The reviewed policy must cover setup, model requests, trace/gateway processing, archive transfer and retained storage. Hash binding does not establish vendor billing bounds. This PR does not enable recurrence or release historical holds. - The controlled policy must pin `controllerLockSha256`; it never accepts a resolver-generated digest automatically. No lockfile is committed. A changed compatible lock needs review. - Legacy browser verification now requires the committed frozen lockfile. A stale lockfile fails closed; controlled preparation has no dependency install. - Workflow cancellation can prevent the final report. The full manifest is retained before provider work and remains the starting point for reconciliation. - The workflow exceeds 1,000 lines because the shared shard anchor, dependencies, environment expressions and credential boundaries belong to one declarative job graph. Request preparation, accounting, archive safety and runtime verification stay in separately tested modules. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6-based coding agent with tool use and code execution. The host does not expose an exact deployment 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 the relevant tests locally and they pass; the broad local suite limitation is documented above - [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 on the final head - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups; the secondary reviewer is also 5/5 - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>