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DottaandPaperclip 4970d5ed3d fix(skills): unblock agent attachment and preserve Latest selections (#16899)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Operators attach company skills to agents from the skill library.
> - Attachment first reads the agent's skill snapshot to preserve other
assignments.
> - That read materialized and validated repository files for the entire
library, even in read-only mode.
> - The response also treated resolved runtime versions as stored pins.
Saving could then fail with beta pins disabled.
> - This pull request makes version-cache inspection lightweight and
returns the stored assignment choices.
> - The benefit is a responsive attachment flow that preserves Latest
and explicit pins.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Adding a repository skill to an agent could stall before the save
request. The prerequisite snapshot read projected or checked every file
in every installed repository skill. Once it returned, an existing
Latest assignment could become a version pin in the save payload. The
server then rejected that save when beta skill pins were disabled.

**Expected behavior**

Reading assignments must not prepare all repository snapshots for
execution. Adding a skill must preserve the other assignments and their
Latest or pinned choices.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Install repository-backed skills with stored immutable versions and
cold disk caches.
2. Assign one repository skill to a Claude agent with Latest selected.
Leave beta skill pins disabled.
3. Open another skill, select Add to agent, choose the same agent, and
save.
4. Observe the expensive prerequisite read and the beta-pin rejection
after that read completes.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced from master at `ac9459bae3329395f10bc81c638a374eef152baa`.

**Deployment mode**

Observed in hosted staging. Reproduced with a disposable local instance,
embedded PostgreSQL, and the Claude local adapter on macOS arm64 with
Node 26.4.0.

Related: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/9995 adds a
separate read-only assignment endpoint for peer-agent access. This fix
keeps the existing configuration-gated snapshot and its permissions.

## What Changed

- Respect read-only listing for current and pinned version caches. Check
directory and entrypoint safety without projecting repository contents,
reading all support files, or updating cache access records.
- Keep complete snapshot restoration and byte validation at run
preparation. Missing caches are restored from stored data. Corrupted
files are repaired there.
- Return stored assignment version choices in both list and sync
responses. Keep runtime version details in the snapshot entries.
- Add database-backed regressions for cold and warm reads, pinned
versions, execution repair, and unsafe entrypoints. Add HTTP regressions
for save round trips and explicit pins.
- Update developer documentation and verification recipes.

## Verification

- Red: both latest and pinned read-only cache regressions failed on the
original code. The original code created caches during listing.
- Red: the HTTP save-roundtrip regression returned 400 with the beta-pin
error. The explicit-pin regression also failed.
- Green: the updated API and cache suites passed all 145 tests. The
three related company-skill service suites also passed.
- Real browser: attached a repository skill to a paused test agent with
another repository skill already set to Latest and beta pins disabled.
The success toast appeared. The skill's Agents tab retained the
assignment after reload. API reads confirmed both assignments remained
unpinned and no repository version caches were created.
- Local synthetic fixture: six skills share a 606-file repository
snapshot. A cold HTTP skill-list request completed in 241 ms. This is
local evidence, not a staging latency measurement.
- Real service comparison on that fixture: the baseline cold list wrote
3,648 version/cache files. A warm baseline list read 3,642 version files
and wrote six access records (457 ms). The fixed warm list read and
wrote zero version/cache files (61 ms). Both services returned the same
16 library entries.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` passed. The final API edit also passed the server
typecheck.
- `pnpm build` passed.
- `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` and `git diff --check` passed.
- The broad `pnpm test:run` invocation reported six failures in the
untouched `tool-gateway-service.test.ts` suite. An isolated rerun passed
all 59 tests. The broad run was stopped after recording those failures,
so it is not a green full-local result. The PR CI matrix separately
passed those suites. Greptile completed on the current commit with 5/5,
zero comments, and no open threads.
- One CI shard was interrupted by runner shutdown, with no failed
assertion in its log. A single failed-job retry passed on the same
commit. The aggregate CI gate passed. All current-head PR checks are
complete with no failing or pending checks.
- This PR does not claim that the fix has been deployed to staging.

## Risks

- Settings reads check cache locations and entrypoints. They defer full
support-file validation to execution. Regression tests verify that
execution still repairs corrupt bytes and restores missing versions.
- The response now distinguishes stored pins from resolved runtime
versions. Explicit historical pins remain intact. Company,
configuration, connector, and beta-pin authorization gates keep their
existing behavior.
- No schema migration or dependency change.

## Model Used

- OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, code execution, and
browser tools. The exact runtime build ID and context-window size are
not exposed in this session.

## 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

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