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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - The restart-chaos harness (`tests/restart-chaos/`) tests that agent work survives control-plane faults > - In one 8-hour staging window, 20 of 25 failed runs happened with no restart at all, so the harness did not see them > - The harness had blind spots: one short task per agent, no wake right after a successful run, no fault in a later recovery step, short turns, and a redeploy that always keeps its instance home > - This pull request adds cells for those shapes, so the harness reproduces these failure classes on master > - The benefit is that fixes for these classes can be proven red and green with the harness, without staging ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** On staging, an agent ran 10–13 tasks at once on reused sandboxes. 30–60 s after a long run succeeded, an ordinary wake (a comment or an issue monitor) started the next run of the same task. That run or its recovery failed before any provider work, with errors such as `runner_remote_process_identity_unavailable`, `Controller journal drain timed out` and `journal_tool_input_unanswered`. Other failures happened in a later recovery step (a held agent-directory lock, a missing runtime asset after a deploy without a volume). **Expected behavior** The chaos harness can reproduce each of these shapes on demand, and grades them: no failed attempt, every task `done`, and no task left blocked without a working Retry. **Steps to reproduce** See the commands in the README sections "Re-wake after success", "Fail the Nth recovery step", "Long turn" and "Redeploy without a volume, with overlap". Related: #20844 (session fault SR1). W2C is the configuration change after a successful run; SR1 is the same change while a question is parked. This PR does not add or change `session-faults.ts`. ## What Changed - New workloads W2, W2Q, W2C (`rewake.ts`): phase 1 ends with the task left open; the harness, as the board, wakes the same task the seeded 0–60 s after its run settled. W2 uses a comment or a board-scheduled issue monitor (by nonce). W2Q parks on an unanswered `request_human_input` question and is woken by a comment before the answer. W2C changes the agent's `adapterConfig.idleTimeoutMs` before the wake. Oracle: phase 1 succeeded, the wake was served by a run that succeeded, `no_failed_attempt`, `done`, markers. - `--faults K0`: cells with no fault, for workloads whose shape is the fault. - `--fail-recovery-step <step>[:<nth>]` (`recovery-step-faults.ts`): when the wave's first restart fault starts its replacement, the harness arms one crash point in a new fail mode; the nth hit throws the error of the real step, once. Steps: `runnerd-start` (`spawn paperclip-runnerd EAGAIN`), `teardown` (provider destroy did not finish), `directory-lock` (`Agent directory operation is already active`). Crossed tasks get `recovery_step_failed_once` and `no_failed_attempt`. - Crash points (`packages/shared/src/crash-points.ts`): fail mode in the control file (`<token> <name>:<nth> fail [pid=<n>]`), with an optional call-site error; `pid=` binds the line to one server process. The harness arms the step for the replacement only and disarms it once its receipt lands. New point `agent_directory.operation_lock.before_acquire`. The teardown point moved into its `try`, so fail mode behaves like a failed provider destroy; kill mode is unchanged. All points stay disarmed under `NODE_ENV=production`. The runner package's own crash-point copy is not changed (runner image content ID unchanged). - `--long-turn-minutes <n>` (`long-turn.ts`, 15–60, opt-in): every task's first turn runs rounds of real tool work for n minutes before its workload. Checks `long_turn_rounds` and `long_turn_run_observed`. - K15 `--k15-fresh-home` (Daytona) and `--k15-overlap-seconds <min>-<max>` (`redeploy.ts`, `supervisor.ts`, `edge-proxy.ts`): each deploy generation gets a new, empty instance home and no volume variables; the next generation boots beside the old one behind an edge proxy on the wave's port, takes traffic once ready, and the old one gets SIGTERM after the overlap. - `tests/runner-e2e/source-sdk-public-inputs.json`: refreshed pins for the changed shared crash-point files. - README: one section per new cell, with what it covers. ## Verification - `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts` (48 files, 581 tests after rebasing on master, includes the new `shape-cells.test.ts`). - `pnpm exec vitest run packages/shared/src/crash-points.test.ts server/src/__tests__/crash-point-call-sites.test.ts` (fail mode, call sites). - `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos`. - Chaos waves on master `1d67e309e0` server code (Daytona image `ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:99fc2671fc320816407f63cffd3acbd27471621febcd26494fe25bb5d7c5dd77`, content ID `1836c515…`), all RED unless noted: | Cell | Wave | Result on master | Staging class | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | W2/W2Q/W2C, 10 tasks on one Codex agent, `--daytona-warm`, K0 | `w-20261111T163206-s5201` | 9/10 fail. 3 tasks (W2 t02, W2C t03, t06): first fault `native_runner_process_exited`, same-run reattach, `native.remote_runner_recovery_failed` with `stage: process_verification`, `reason: process_not_running`, `runnerLifecycle: ready`, `runnerSettled: false`, terminal `runner_remote_process_identity_unavailable`, "Workspace repair required". 3 tasks (t04, t08, t10): `native_restart_recovery_blocked` (`native_retry_source_superseded`) while its successor ran (R4 `concurrent_runs`). 3 W2Q tasks: the answer's continuation was cancelled `issue_not_in_progress` (status `blocked`), and the task needed Retry. 2 W2C tasks then looped: 60+ succeeded runs in 20 minutes on an `in_progress` task. | D′/T terminal step reproduced with no restart, no governed wait and no PRP timeout (same error code and refusal fields). C+ retry outcome (ownership ambiguous) reproduced as `native_restart_recovery_blocked`. Not reproduced: `Controller journal drain timed out`, `did not durably suspend`, `journal_tool_input_unanswered`. | | Same, local `--lifecycle warm` | `w-20261111T160103-s5101` | 4/10 fail. 3/3 W2Q: continuation cancelled `issue_not_in_progress`, Retry needed. 1 W2C: the same `in_progress` run loop (39+ runs). | The remote-runner classes need a remote runner; locally they do not show. | | `--fail-recovery-step runnerd-start:1`, K1 at 10 s, local A1 | `w-20261111T162432-s5303` | Fail. After K1 the first runnerd start of recovery failed (`spawn paperclip-runnerd EAGAIN`); the run ended `native_provider_terminal_failed` ("previous turn is no longer active", "Automatic recovery stopped") and needed Retry. Control, same seed and K1 without the step fault (`w-20261111T171114-s5303`): pass. | A later recovery step that fails once ends the run instead of trying again (the A-chain shape). | | `runnerd-start:2`, local | `w-20261111T170909-s5304` | Step never reached: recovery started the runner once and succeeded. Grade fails `recovery_step_failed_once` (tested nothing). | — | | `teardown:1`, K1, Daytona A1 | `w-20261111T172048-s5312` | Pass. The teardown failed once and the sweep settled it. | Not reproduced. | | `directory-lock:1`, K2, Daytona A1 | `w-20261111T171247-s5311` | Step never reached by A1 after K2. | Not reproduced; A1 recovery does not collect remote agent files. | | K15 `--k15-fresh-home --k15-overlap-seconds 30-150`, `--storage s3`, Codex and OpenCode, T1/C1 | `w-20261111T173618-s5322` | 1/4 fail (OpenCode T1): `native_continuation_requires_reconciliation` with "Agent directory belongs to a different execution environment"; the Retry runs failed `adapter_failed` "Configured instruction entry is missing"; the task rests `blocked` on a board recovery action, and two sandboxes were left (R6). One Codex T1 task finished before its fault (`fault_crossed_tool`). | A-deploy: a controller-local file missing after a deploy without a volume. Here the missing file is the agent's instruction bundle, not a runtime-context asset; whether staging keeps instruction bundles outside the instance home is not verified. | | `--long-turn-minutes 15`, K1 at 600 s, local A1 | `w-20261111T175505-s5401` | Task pass (10/10 rounds, 992 s span, run 1019 s, K1 crossed mid-turn). The wave exited 2 only because I switched branches in the worktree during the wave. | Shape check only. | ## Risks - Product code changes are test instrumentation only: three `crashPoint` call sites take a fail-mode error, and one new call site was added. Disarmed (always in production) each call is one comparison. Moving the teardown point into its `try` does not change kill mode: the process dies at the same instant. - The new cells are opt-in. Default waves plan the same tasks as before for the same seed. - The W2 cells depend on model behaviour (phase 1 leaves the task open). The oracle records the task status at the wake. - `--k15-fresh-home` drops everything under the instance home. Whether staging keeps agent instruction bundles outside the instance home is not verified (see the K15 result). ## Model Used - Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, agentic coding with tool use (shell, file edits, test and chaos runs) 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 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>