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DottaandPaperclip 4f8104dec6 fix(runner): keep human input tool visible to Claude (#18046)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Native task agents must create durable human questions and
approvals.
> - The request_human_input schema has an object root with a conditional
wrapped in allOf.
> - The pinned Claude client omits that tool from the API request in an
isolated gateway environment.
> - An equivalent direct conditional keeps the tool available and
preserves validation.
> - This pull request fixes the schema and tests discovery through the
real pinned client.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A retained native Claude Plan attempt could save its Plan but received
`No such tool available: mcp__paperclip__request_human_input`. A local
comparison with Claude Code 2.1.286 reproduces the discovery failure
without a provider: the client offers the control tool but omits the
human-input tool. It offers both tools after this schema change.

**Expected behavior**

The client must offer the authorized human-input tool. Invalid question
forms must still fail validation.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Serve the current request_human_input definition through Runner's
local MCP bridge.
2. Start the pinned Claude client with a local mock Messages API and
tool search disabled.
3. Inspect the API request's offered tools. Before the fix,
request_human_input is absent. After the fix, it is present.

Refs #18034 for the separate saved-Plan readback repair. This PR
addresses tool discovery. It does not reclassify or rerun the original
failed live attempts.

## What Changed

- Put the existing question-payload condition directly on the live and
scenario object schemas. A one-branch allOf wrapper is unnecessary.
- Add a regression through the pinned native Claude executable, real
Runner MCP bridge and loopback mock API. The test uses fake credentials
and executes no tools.
- Keep validation tests for mixed forms and malformed payloads. Add an
explicit missing-payload rejection.
- Refresh generated schema identity and the explicitly seeded catalog
fixture with the maintained generator. Historical live evidence is
unchanged.

## Verification

- Native discovery regression red: the control tool is present and
request_human_input is absent.
- Green: 92 tests pass across native discovery, Runner tool bridge, core
contracts and semantic tools. The final argument-visibility regression
and core contracts also pass together (21 tests).
- Runner package typecheck passes.
- Runner package build passes. Its first run found stale generated
contract identities; regeneration resolved that check. Both logs are
retained.
- No real provider request, paid eval, sandbox allocation or automatic
retry.
- Local verification is scoped to the Runner package. Full repository CI
must pass on this PR's exact head before merge. New live Plan acceptance
is still required.

## Risks

- The conditional has the same JSON Schema validation meaning. The
provider-facing object shape changes, so the generated catalog identity
changes.
- The native regression uses the optional platform CLI already required
by the pinned ACP profile. It does not establish provider billing, model
behavior, or full Plan acceptance.
- Optional case/workflow tool discovery is a separate confirmed gap
tracked in #18051. This human-input fix does not qualify those tools.
- No database migration, permission, budget, workflow, lockfile or UI
change.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, GPT-6, with reasoning and code execution tools. The
exact serving variant 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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-28 11:30:15 -05:00
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PRP v1/v2 Contract

The JSON Schema files in schemas/ are the language-neutral source of truth for Paperclip Runner Protocol versions 1 and 2. The fixtures in fixtures/ define accepted and rejected compatibility cases.

Compatibility

  • protocolVersion, fixtureVersion, and event.schemaVersion are required.
  • A consumer fails closed when a required version or schema discriminator is not supported.
  • A v1 envelope can contain an unknown optional property when its schema marks that object as extensible.
  • A consumer ignores an unknown optional property until a later contract gives it meaning.
  • A required field, enum value, or typed structured-input field is not optional.
  • Question and answer identifiers are stable across the provider boundary.
  • Peers negotiate the highest mutually supported protocol version. Existing v1 runners remain compatible but cannot receive v2-only session-goal commands.

The unknown-optional-fields.json fixture must be accepted. The unsupported-required-version.json fixture must be rejected.

Session goals (v2)

PRP v2 adds a provider-neutral durable session-goal lifecycle. Every v2 capability snapshot includes sessionGoals, even when its availability is unsupported or policy_disabled. Paperclip sends controls only when the negotiated capability advertises the corresponding action.

Commands:

  • session.goal.get
  • session.goal.set for objective, status, and optional token budget changes
  • session.goal.clear

Events:

  • session.capabilities.updated
  • session.goal.snapshot
  • session.goal.updated
  • session.goal.cleared

Goal state is separate from Paperclip's company/business goal hierarchy. The snapshot distinguishes the durable status from workingNow, because an active goal can be idle between autonomous turns. A runner emits the full capability and authoritative snapshot after every session open or resume. Missing v1 capability is unsupported; clients do not infer support from an adapter name.

Harness credential updates

auth.credentials.updated is a P0 runner event available in the v1, v2, and v3 event schemas. Its payload uses paperclip.auth.credentials.updated.v1 and contains only provider, bindingId, revision, and detection. No tokens, account identifiers, credential paths, or credential fingerprints are permitted.

An updated consumer opts in with observeCredentials: true in run.prepare, before session.open. The bundled runner transport opts in for fresh sessions; set its observeCredentials option to false to disable observation for a fresh session. Older hosts that omit the field receive no new event. Consumers must update their schemas before opting in: an event-enum addition is not an unknown optional property. Existing runner binaries ignore the optional flag and do not provide observation; absence of an event does not establish support.

The current Unix runner observes native Codex's managed CODEX_HOME/auth.json and the Codex/Grok ACPX session homes. It uses a non-recursive directory watch plus a one-second polling fallback, so atomic file replacement is handled. Grok's initial inline subscription credential is the baseline, allowing a refresh during launcher startup to be detected. A first valid credential file without a prior baseline establishes the baseline without claiming a refresh. Account identity changes also emit updates, even when token values stay the same, and establish the baseline for later refreshes on the new account. Hosts must evaluate the current credential through their private credential channel and account checks; the event does not authorize an account switch. Metadata-only changes, partial writes, and deletion do not emit updates. Unsupported harnesses and refreshes retained only in memory need their own observer or native-hook integration; adding this event does not make them observable.

bindingId: "harness-auth" identifies the selected harness authentication within the envelope's normalized session. Revisions increase for that binding and survive runner restarts and warm run attachments. The baseline fingerprint and pending event are persisted together in a private runner state file. Source retries retain the same event identity until the durable PRP outbox accepts it. Hosts should commit an idempotent reaction or durable work item through onCommittedEvent before returning and advancing the cumulative ACK. The bundled transport exposes onCredentialsUpdated(event) for this commit. It awaits the callback before ACK, including during warm idle, attachment, and provider cleanup. Callback failures leave delivery unacknowledged for retry; callbacks must therefore deduplicate by the original source event identity. When configured, credential updates bypass the turn notification queue. Paperclip commits them directly to the run log in a separate credential source namespace, preserving the original PRP envelope and avoiding collisions with the driver's normalized event sequence. A turn-only notification consumer cannot reliably handle idle or cleanup updates; use this callback instead.

detection: "credential_store" reports an observed credential change, not proof that an OAuth refresh succeeded. Multiple changes between observations can be coalesced; this is not an audit of every refresh exchange. The schema also allows native_hook for integrations with an explicit signal. Observation continues during warm idle and checks at turn terminal and close boundaries, including Grok's private refresh handoff after live-store cleanup. Retained runner observations enter the durable outbox before a suspend or shutdown command completes, without draining the provider backlog. A final check after provider cleanup also enters the outbox and waits for the host ACK. The runner retains its terminal recovery fence if that delivery fails.

The event authorizes no credential access or write on its own. A host that needs rotated token values must use a separately authorized handoff with its existing account-identity and freshness safeguards. The default Paperclip credential copy-back behavior remains in place.

Scope

The first provider descriptor and adapter fixture cover Codex only. The schemas for provider-neutral events and semantic receipts do not enable those actions. Discovery and authorization are separate contracts.

The conformance manifest records every source file and its SHA-256 digest. Run pnpm generate:protocol-manifest from this package after a source change. CI runs the same generator with --check to reject drift. This check also compiles the JSON Schemas and validates every replay, question, and cross-language conformance fixture against its declared schema.

The files in fixtures/replay/golden/ are deterministic reducer oracles. Each accepted replay fixture has a complete session snapshot and a compact parity summary. pnpm generate:replay-goldens updates them after an intentional reducer change; package build and CI fail when they drift.

The files in fixtures/local-runner/scripts/ drive the package-local fake harness. They cover successful, failed, interrupted, interactive, duplicate terminal, process-cleanup, and oversized-frame behavior without starting a production adapter.