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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip coordinates agents and preserves their work between turns. > - Remote native sessions save controller checkpoints in the database. > - External persistence leaves a small identity marker on local disk. > - A later `per_turn` continuation must restore that checkpoint before it reads the controller identity. > - The restore path handled warm sessions only, so valid per-turn continuations failed before provider execution. > - This PR restores the referenced checkpoint and retains the existing ownership and lifecycle checks. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Related: #17439 added external controller persistence and the warm restore path. #18011 repairs warm preparation and fresh bootstrap checks; it does not cover ordinary per-turn continuation. **What happened?** A remote OpenCode run completed with `per_turn` lifecycle and saved its controller checkpoint in the database. Its next turn reused the normalized session. Admission read the remaining external-persistence marker as a full controller file and failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch: durable_identity_unreadable`. The prior run's complete checkpoint and harness backup still existed. The failure occurred before provider work started. **Expected behavior** Restore the exact prior controller checkpoint before identity inspection. Then apply the existing company, task, session, prior-owner and suspended-state checks before a provider can start. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Complete a remote native OpenCode task with `per_turn` lifecycle and external controller persistence. 2. Send a follow-up that resumes the same saved session without a session reset. 3. Observe admission reject the valid external controller marker before provider execution. **Paperclip version or commit** Observed at `40c1ab36cdac70c85dc8fe5e912431834fdb691b`. The same warm-only restore remains on current master. **Deployment mode** Hosted Linux with Daytona and native OpenCode. The original model was `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`. ## What Changed - Restore external controller state for ordinary remote per-turn continuations through the existing checkpoint loader. - Bind that read to the current company and task, the marker's run, and the expected normalized session. - Keep local, warm and restart-recovery paths, prior-owner checks and harness backup checks intact. - Refresh a prior-run projection from the latest checkpoint after a rejected active-owner attempt. Keep current-run full state and the existing legacy file-backed fallback intact. - Add restoration and denial regressions, execution documentation and session verification recipes. ## Verification - Red: the real controller generated an external marker; a valid per-turn OpenCode continuation failed with the exact `durable_identity_unreadable` error before tool-authority construction. The repair passed the same case and its ownership guards. - Review regression red/green: a real controller advanced its checkpoint after an active-owner rejection. Before the follow-up fix, a later valid continuation retained a null attach seed. After the fix, it restored the newer attach template and prepare command. Legacy full-file roots with no database checkpoint retain their existing behavior. - At current head `1f6589233e6121d082a0c0c4444ea895b6e8cd7c`, 86 focused executor cases and all 14 execution-driver cases pass. Coverage includes checkpoint restoration, direct/backup suspension, Codex, legacy files, warm admission and canonical bootstrap, missing or malformed evidence, wrong bindings, active/foreign owners and unsuspended runners. Tests stop before provider launch. - The real PostgreSQL encrypted-checkpoint integration passes, including normalized-session refusal before write and stale-writer fencing. Independent source review found no actionable safety defect. - `node scripts/check-maps.mjs`, `git diff --check`, full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` pass on current head. - The local full suite did not complete: native PostgreSQL startup failed under the host sandbox, an initial Docker rerun lacked migrations, and the migrated retry crossed the review-fix revision change. Logs are retained; that mixed-revision run was stopped and its owned database removed. Full test evidence comes from current-head CI. - Current-head CI passes: 53 successful checks, two intended Storybook skips, none pending or failing. Greptile is 5/5 on that exact head with no open review threads. The only manual merge conflict with #18011 was in the verification recipes; both recipes and the unchanged per-turn restore helper are preserved. **Live continuation acceptance remains unverified, so this PR stays draft.** Two disposable OpenCode/Daytona attempts never reached turns two and three: - At `72b49208b1`, the first turn executed tools and produced the exact 33-byte workspace note, but exceeded its four-minute settlement deadline. The first completion lacked a registered attachment; the second decorated a typed attachment reference with filename/size/hash text. The strict UUID parser rejected that reference before checking a valid criterion reference. The scoped attachment, asset and publication receipt exist. Replaying the actual guard rejects the original input before a database lookup; correcting only that reference passes against the recovered row and receipt. This did not show a publication-persistence or controller defect. The task remained unsettled. - At `1f6589233e`, a separately approved replacement used a temporary prompt-only fixture change requiring exact `deliverable:<attachmentId>` references, with metadata in `verification.detail`. Production code, grading and deadlines were unchanged; the fixture patch was removed afterward. This attempt had no recorded provider authentication, harness-ready, model, tool or result event. Ingress acquisition took 84.072 seconds; transport connection took 205.835 seconds within the 239.832-second failed native execution. A local settlement GET also timed out after 30 seconds. The underlying startup stall is unresolved; these observations do not establish a remote provider outage. Final recovery was blocked with `ambiguous_remote_recovery_evidence`; no successful settlement or continuation is claimed. Both attempts used a Darwin arm64 source host with Node 26.4.0, isolated PostgreSQL 18, a Linux x64 runner and OpenCode 1.18.34. The representative qualified model was `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731`; the original incident used `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`. The controller defect occurs before provider work. Runtime artifacts came from immutable build `e7ea2e2961`, whose Runner package source is identical to the candidate. The current-source manifest, artifact, distribution, asset and all 110 archive-hash checks passed. Each attempt had $10 company/agent model budgets and zero automatic workflow/task retries. Accounting was incomplete; zero recorded spend is not proof of zero cost. Earlier setup failures are also retained: host PostgreSQL bootstrap denial, cached-pack compatibility admission before provider work, and an [official artifact build](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40696838122) that stopped during an unrelated Pi npm install at its 300-second bound. No manifest or integrity guard was weakened. Owned local processes and databases are stopped, and the temporary fixture patch is removed. Standard fixture cleanup had left one replacement sandbox started; it was stopped and deleted through the SDK. Every owned sandbox was then verified absent with a final 404 readback. Resource cleanup does not establish successful task finalization. An earlier head retained one [voice-recovery timing failure](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40695892339/job/122843005098): a deadline test observed two failed-provider inspections instead of one. A single isolated shard rerun passed all 1,579 tests without a source change. Its timing explanation remains an inference. The current reconciled head passed without a retry. ## Risks Restoration writes a local projection before the existing admission checks. The encrypted checkpoint loader validates company/task/run and normalized session before writing. A later ordinary continuation refreshes a prior-run projection so rejected admission cannot freeze an active owner's older checkpoint. Active, foreign or unsuspended prior owners still cannot start a successor. Missing or malformed evidence remains blocked. The change adds no retry, credential, provider binary or lifecycle-policy change; it preserves the existing legacy fallback. This PR does not deploy the repair or recover the original hosted tasks. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, tool use, code execution and collaborating agents. The session exposes GPT-6 as its model version; a more specific model ID and context-window size are unavailable. ## 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Sub-features — stable backticked local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states,
such as
- `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company. - How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
- Driving it with — starts with
Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, withAutomated:andManual:paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly. - 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.