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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 76994c5027 fix(native): bound failover backup restores by inactivity, not total time (#19906)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A native per-turn session that continues an earlier conversation
first restores its failover backup from durable storage. This happens
before the coordinator claim, so no provider has started.
> - That restore ran under a fixed 300 s total deadline
(`AbortSignal.timeout(300_000)`). The deadline covers the download and
the local decrypt, digest, extraction and provider-artifact steps.
> - On staging, restore time for resumed sessions grew during the day.
It reached 300 s, and then every resumed run of one review agent failed
with the generic "The operation was aborted". Fresh sessions were not
affected.
> - A failure at this point also enters the saved-work reconciliation
path, so the user request stopped.
> - This pull request bounds each durable read by inactivity instead of
total time. A slow transfer continues while bytes arrive. A read that
stops sending bytes fails with a named code.
> - The benefit is that resumed sessions no longer fail only because
their backup is large or the store is slow.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19894 (adds the same idle-deadline rule for workspace snapshot
reads; this PR covers the separate native failover-backup reads).

**What happened?**

On staging, a PR-review agent had 17 runs fail in about 80 minutes. Each
failure had the message "The operation was aborted" and the code
`native_continuation_requires_reconciliation`. Every failing run resumed
an existing session (`sessionIdBefore` set, per-turn lifecycle). Every
fresh-session run in the same window succeeded. In each failing run, the
error came 304–309 s after the `environment.startup` span, and no
`native.coordinator.claim` span was recorded. The run result had
`executionRecovery: { kind: "bootstrap", providerWorkStarted: false }`.
Earlier resumed runs of the same agent show the time from
`environment.startup` to `native.coordinator.claim` growing from about
30 s to about 200 s before the failures started. The only fixed 300 s
deadline on that path is the failover-backup restore in
`restoreDurableHarnessForExecution`.

**Expected behavior**

A resumed session restores its backup when the store keeps sending
bytes, even when the total time is more than five minutes. A read that
stalls fails with a named, diagnosable code. A failed restore publishes
no partial backup and keeps the saved backup.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Persist a native failover backup with provider artifacts.
2. Restore it through a storage reader that sends bytes slowly, so the
full restore takes longer than the deadline.
3. Before this change, the restore fails with "The operation was
aborted". A reader that stops sending bytes, with no caller deadline,
waits indefinitely.

## What Changed

- `native-harness-backup-storage.ts`: add `downloadIdleTimeoutMs` to
`restoreDurableNativeHarnessBackup` and
`verifyDurableNativeHarnessBackup`. When set, each durable `getObject`
(the backup object and the provider artifacts) runs under an idle timer.
Each received chunk renews the timer. The timer is active only while a
read is in flight, so local decrypt, digest, extraction and copy are
never timed. On expiry the whole restore aborts and throws
`native_harness_storage_download_stalled`. Caller cancellation keeps its
own error.
- `verifyRecoverableNativeHarnessBackup` and the executor's
`restoreDurableHarnessForExecution` use the five-minute idle limit
(`NATIVE_HARNESS_DOWNLOAD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS`) instead of
`AbortSignal.timeout(300_000)`.
- The whole restore or verification keeps a 30-minute outer limit. It
fails with `native_harness_storage_restore_deadline_exceeded`, so a hung
local step stays bounded and named.
- The executor passes the startup Stop signal
(`providerPackSourceAbort`) into the restore, so Stop (also a Stop that
came before the restore began) ends it. Only a startup that already
completed does not reuse its signal. The restore checks the signal after
the local copy and before it publishes `current`.
- The wrapped storage is a `Proxy` that replaces only `getObject` and
forwards every other member to the real service.
- `doc/DEVELOPING.md`: document the idle limit and the named code.

Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted shape changes. Backups, artifact rows, receipts and
checkpoints saved by the previous release restore unchanged. A deploy
that lands during a restore stops the process. The new process starts
the restore again from the saved durable backup under the new limit. The
existing hash, size, encryption and atomic publication checks are
unchanged.

## Verification

Run from `server/`:

- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-harness-backup-download-deadline.integration.test.ts`
— 4 tests passed (embedded PostgreSQL, local-disk storage, an OpenCode
backup with provider artifacts). The tests are in a focused suite, so
the existing 990-line storage suite does not grow.
- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-harness-backup-storage.integration.test.ts`
— 68 existing tests passed.
- New: "keeps restoring a backup whose download outlasts the idle window
while bytes keep arriving". With the former total-deadline policy, the
same slow transfer fails with "The operation was aborted" and publishes
nothing (the staging message). With the idle limit, the restore
completes after more than twice the window, restores the session and the
OpenCode launch artifacts, and verification also completes.
- New: "names a download that stops sending bytes and publishes no
partial backup". It checks restore and verify, checks that no `current`
backup is published, and then restores the same saved backup
successfully.
- New: "stops at the outer bound during local copy and publishes
nothing".
- New: "lets Stop end a progressing download with its own reason,
including a Stop before it starts".
- RED: with the production files reverted to `origin/master`, the stall
test does not finish and times out after 10 s, because no stall is
detected. The other two tests pass on the old code, because the total
deadline was the executor's caller policy. The first test reproduces
that policy directly.
- `pnpm exec vitest run` on `native-harness-online-preservation`,
`native-harness-filesystem-independence` and
`native-controller-migration` integration suites passed.
`native-warm-checkpoint-ownership.integration.test.ts` fails locally on
master as well, because the local Rust `paperclip-runnerd` binary is not
built.
- `node scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs` passed for all layers.

Not verified: a live resumed run on staging with this build. The staging
evidence shows where the time goes (before the coordinator claim, on
resumed sessions only) but does not show which restore step was slowest.
The fix removes the total deadline for every step on that path.

## Risks

- A restore that progresses very slowly can now take longer than five
minutes. Before, it failed. The run still stops on caller cancellation.
- A local step that hangs (for example a stalled disk) is now cut off by
the 30-minute outer limit instead of 5 minutes. A stalled local writer
also pauses the read through backpressure, so it can be reported as
`native_harness_storage_download_stalled`.
- A failure before the coordinator claim still enters the existing
saved-work reconciliation path. This PR does not change that
classification. It removes the cause of these failures.

## Model Used

- Provider: Anthropic. Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with
tool use (shell, file edits, read-only browser for API inspection) 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
- [ ] 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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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-07 14:34:57 -06:00
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