## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work. > - A remote runner can survive a controller restart. > - Recovery renews its execution lease during slow preparation. > - The native executor then shares that renewal timer. > - Preparation kept its reference until all finalization finished. A tick after lease release treated completion as ownership loss and detached the retained runner. > - A Linux continuity test also found that buffered wire events could arrive before their connection was registered. Cleanup then kept a completed promise under an undefined key and never finished. > - This pull request transfers renewal ownership after execution acquires its reference. It also registers each connection before wire callbacks can run. > - Recovered turns can complete, retain the warm runner, and settle connection cleanup. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A recovered remote run could complete, release its coordinator lease, then detach during instruction collection. The next turn could find the old runner still using the ingress port. Recovery then stopped because it could not prove process ownership. **Expected behavior** Preparation keeps the lease alive until execution owns renewal. Execution stops renewal before releasing the lease. Actual ownership loss still detaches the runner. Buffered wire callbacks must use the registered connection, and cleanup must finish. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Recover an in-flight remote runner after a controller restart. 2. Let the recovered turn complete. 3. Hold instruction collection open through the next lease renewal tick. 4. Send a follow-up that needs the retained runner. Related: #17439 introduced remote controller recovery. #18011 preserves checkpoint authority through warm preparation. This change fixes the lifetime of preparation's renewal reference. ## What Changed - Pass an internal lease-acquired callback from recovery through heartbeat dispatch. - Release preparation's renewal reference after the executor registers its own. Keep final cleanup for exits before dispatch. - Add a PostgreSQL regression for completion while finalization is still pending. Cover callback forwarding, acquire-before-release ordering, and failure before dispatch. - Register the authority connection before subscribing to wire events. Handle an immediate close before accepting buffered data. - Add regressions for a message or close delivered during subscription. - Extend Linux continuity coverage with preparation renewal and delayed instruction collection after recovery. - Update the continuity guide and session verification recipes. ## Verification - The new recovery regression failed before the fix because renewal detached the runner after lease release. The 76 recovery, renewal, and dispatch tests then passed. The final ordering and early-exit checks passed again after replacing fixed sleeps with controlled interval ticks. - Both buffered-wire regressions failed before the connection fix. All 170 control-plane tests passed afterward. Existing tests cover stale authority, ownership loss, pending operations, and closed ingress. - Linux ARM64 acceptance passed at `a7daefacceb8bd994d0b79d284cdf54f3e3829d1`, with Node 24.19.0, PostgreSQL, the real Rust runner, TLS ingress, and a deterministic Codex protocol fixture. The test interrupted the first turn, recovered it, held finalization open for a renewal interval, and completed two follow-ups. It retained one provider process, three turns in one history, and the same runner identity. Final suspension and connection cleanup completed. The ordinary warm-reuse case also passed three turns with one provider process. - Earlier Linux attempts completed the turns but hung during cleanup. A debugger found a fulfilled promise keyed by an undefined connection. The regression reproduces that defect. One later setup attempt timed out while staging an unstripped 373 MB debug binary. The passing run used the same binary with debug symbols removed. - Reproduce Linux acceptance with the `same-server` case in `doc/testing-native-remote-continuity.md`. - `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, map validation, and `git diff --check` passed at the final revision. The full local `pnpm test:run` command was attempted, but the serial run had not finished after 13 minutes. It was stopped after the equivalent CI lanes passed. It is not counted as a full local pass. - Greptile and the Paperclip review both scored the final revision 5/5 with no findings. All Runner verification lanes passed. The first CI attempt hit timing failures in voice recovery, agent YAML configuration, and the task-title outage browser test. The full YAML and voice-recovery files passed locally (88 and 19 tests). These paths were unchanged and passed on the prior revision. All three passed on the single retry. Final current-head status: 55 successful checks, one neutral check, and two skipped Storybook checks. No pending or failed checks remain. - Live Daytona/model acceptance and recovery of the hosted task remain unverified. This PR does not deploy the change. ## Risks - Releasing preparation before execution starts renewal could leave a gap in authority. The callback runs after the executor registers its reference. - Preparation errors must not leak renewal. The recovery promise retains idempotent final cleanup. - Wire callbacks can run during subscription. Message and close regressions check that registration is complete before either callback runs. - No schema, API, model, permission, lease duration, or retry policy changes. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository tools, code execution, and browser diagnostics. The exact serving model identifier and context window 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Paperclip agent access map
This map accompanies the feature map. It records APIs, agent entry points, permission boundaries and verification for the same capability IDs. The shared contract defines the format and maintenance rules.
The chat scenario catalog uses these same IDs for human requests and expected outcomes. Its scenarios retain the access boundaries here; neither a CEO role nor a planned scenario grants board authority or establishes a working production tool binding.
Use full capability IDs when referring to access contracts outside their file:
onboarding/company means the company capability in onboarding.md in both maps.
The feature index lists feature and
capability IDs; IDs and references
explains entry-point references and stable naming.
Browse access contracts
The same-named feature recipes define navigation and capability IDs. Run
node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs for the generated
maps/generated/agent-access-map.md index, or browse the
published feature guide.
Add or update the affected companion; there is no central registration or count.
Existing baseline source references describe the original inspection, not current verification. Record new executed evidence in the PR, issue, or CI artifact with its revision and scope. Do not refresh unrelated headers as bookkeeping.
Using an entry
Read its Policy and Gaps before selecting an agent path. Native fallback, legacy
REST/CLI, stdio MCP and a personal assistant connection can have different
authority and availability. Use a real admitted production binding; a scenario
declaration is not an installed tool. A restricted entry records current
enforcement and leaves any unresolved delegation decision visible.
For API catalog disagreements, follow the route/service authorization and record
discovery drift. For not-applicable, retain the concrete exception and local
path. Split shared business operations from client-only presentation.
Use maintain-verification-skill to reconcile changed source and both maps.
Use verify-paperclip and existing API/runner/MCP fixtures to collect the
permitted-agent and denial evidence; report blocked/not-run coverage honestly.
Run node scripts/check-maps.mjs after editing. The structural check does not
certify permissions, API catalog coverage, tool admission or live behavior.
Native REST transport
The call_api parity change reconciles affected baselines against
58e16dbddfc9c8d0cf60867f9d9847f0feda055b and the changes in this PR. Ordinary
REST operations use the same route authorization as legacy agent REST. Dedicated
tools remain optional for those operations; protocol endpoints still need their
existing clients. Board-only routes remain restricted for agent identity.
Native search_api / call_api is enabled by default, but explicit server,
company-allowlist and binding settings can narrow admission. It requires a running
authorized native run, current task assignment and execution-run binding, company
and budget authority, task privacy, and a permitted work mode. Ask and Plan retain
mutation restrictions, and runs retain their admitted JWT scope during restart
recovery even when task mode changes. A waiting
agent does not gain independent native control just because a REST route exists.
Connection-management reads support Standard, Ask and Plan; mutations require
Standard. Skill-test runs and nonstandard task-bridge keys cannot administer
connections. These gates supplement each operation's grants, resolved resource
and target scope, and responsible-user authority. See the
rollout policy
and connection authorization.
Credential-bearing replies, including company exports and their legacy alias, stay inline under a 10 MiB limit and use encrypted mutation receipts. Other saved API snapshots are limited to the issuing actor and responsible user, plus authorized administrators. Artifact uploads enforce the same access checks as downloads; private snapshots are excluded from company exports and public company logos. Explicit deliverables use the existing sharing path. Native event history, checkpoints and completion records omit API bodies while preserving receipt metadata and replay digests. Restored webhook secrets use the same encrypted receipt and inline response policy as newly created webhook secrets. Task image access requires the company boundary and the task permission; skill-test and low-trust agents do not need company-wide browsing authority. Completion replay applies the same idempotent projection to stored and expected payloads; the run-log guide describes its fields.
Sources: API client,
catalog,
native authority,
credential storage classification,
snapshot access,
and history redaction. The affected entries remain
baseline and source-only; this reconciliation does not certify every operation.
Targeted real-route proof lives in the
API integration suite,
including owned routines, skill tests, scoped secrets, proposals and private export replay.