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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 686893636d fix(recovery): release a lapsed owner of a finished coordinator so stop-proof holds re-arm (#20661)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Workspace recovery saves the files of a run whose copy-back failed,
and it holds the shared workspace until the save is done
> - #20295 re-arms a save that was exhausted with
`agent_stop_unconfirmed`, so the run's stop is proven again and the
files are saved without a person
> - On staging, four holds of this shape were never re-armed. Their runs
ended six days ago, their sandbox leases are released with a provider
stop receipt, and the servers that ran them were replaced many times.
Their tasks stay blocked, and so do the parent tasks that wait for them
> - The finished coordinator of each run still names a lease owner whose
lease lapsed. Discovery treats that owner as "waiting for the
abandoned-owner settlement", but that settlement handles only observed
(unfinished) coordinators. Nothing ever releases the owner, so the
worker never selects the hold, the re-arm refuses it, and the attempt's
stop check refuses it too
> - This pull request makes a lapsed owner of a finished coordinator
count as stopped. The re-arm releases it in the same transaction, and
then the new attempt proves the sandbox stop and saves the files as
#20295 designed
> - The benefit is that these holds settle on the worker's next pass
after deploy, without a migration and without an administrator

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20295

**What happened?**
An exhausted workspace save
(`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`, last failure
`agent_stop_unconfirmed`) stayed blocked for six days. The task showed
"Paperclip tries again automatically", but no re-arm was ever recorded
(no `stopProofRecovery` marker, no `issue.workspace_recovery_rearmed`
activity), and the shared workspace stayed held by the failed run.

**What did you expect to happen?**
The recovery worker re-arms the save once the run is provably over,
saves the dirty files, and frees the workspace so the task and its
parent can continue.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Exhaust a workspace save with `agent_stop_unconfirmed` (one attempt,
window spent).
2. Leave a lease owner on the run's `terminal_failure` coordinator with
an expired lease (or no expiry), as a finalizer pass of a replaced
server does.
3. Run the workspace recovery worker. `nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` returns
null, discovery does not select the hold, and `rearmExhaustedStopProof`
refuses it.

## What Changed

- `workspace-recovery-stop-proof.ts`: add
`lapsedFinishedCoordinatorOwner` and `releaseLapsedCoordinatorOwner`. A
lease owner on a finished coordinator (committed, terminal failure,
applied) whose lease lapsed, or that has no expiry, does not block
`sourceRunProvablyOver`. The stop-proof re-arm clears that owner with a
compare-and-swap in its locked transaction, and records
`releasedLapsedOwner` in the marker and the activity.
- `workspace-recovery-capture-policy.ts`: the capture-policy re-arm uses
the same rule, because it shares the same check and discovery clause.
- `workspace-recovery-fallback-discovery.ts`: the discovery clause still
waits for the abandoned-owner settlement for a stale owner of an
unfinished coordinator, but it no longer excludes a hold whose finished
coordinator has a lapsed owner. A live lease still defers the re-arm to
its expiry.
- `system-recovery-state.ts`: add `FINISHED_COORDINATOR_PHASES`.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document the rule.
- Tests: two red-then-green regressions in the staging shape (an expired
finalizer lease, and an owner without an expiry saved by an older
release), one strictness case (a live lease on a finished coordinator
keeps the hold and is not released), and the existing stale-owner case
now uses an observed coordinator, which still waits for the
abandoned-owner settlement.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/services/workspace-recovery-stop-proof.test.ts` failed the two new
staging-shape cases (`nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` returned null: the worker
was never woken for the hold).
- Green after the fix: `workspace-recovery-stop-proof.test.ts` and
`workspace-recovery-capture-policy.test.ts` pass (15 tests). The
staging-shape cases assert that the hold is re-armed, the save
completes, the dirty files are saved, the workspace hold is free, and
the lapsed owner is released.
- `pnpm verify`: exit 2 (broader verification required, because
`doc/execution-semantics.md` is a global CI input). Focused suites pass:
`workspace-recovery-stop-proof`, `workspace-recovery-capture-policy`,
`workspace-recovery-fallback`, `workspace-recovery-retry-copyback` (113
tests). Required CI supplies the broad coverage.
- Staging evidence (read-only GET requests): the run is `failed`,
finished six days ago, `controllerLeaseExpiresAt` is null, its only
lease is `released` with `cleanupStatus: success`, a `stopped`
termination receipt and a stop-and-retain receipt. The action's evidence
has no re-arm marker, and four holds of the same shape were not touched
after #20295 was deployed.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: rows saved by earlier releases carry the
lapsed owner and no marker. They are selected and re-armed on the
worker's first pass after deploy. No migration.
- Strictness stays where an owner could be live: a live lease on any
coordinator defers the re-arm to its expiry, and a stale owner of an
unfinished (observed) coordinator still waits for the abandoned-owner
settlement, which proves its controller stopped. The new attempt still
requires a provider stop receipt for the allocation before it reads
files.
- Clearing a lapsed owner matches the existing token-lease contract: an
expired finalizer or cleanup lease is free for the next claim, and a
holder's later write fails its token compare-and-swap.
- Low risk otherwise: the change is limited to the two exhausted-hold
re-arms and their discovery clause.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, with tool use (shell,
code editing, browser GET reads) 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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-10 17:00:46 -06:00
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