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DottaandPaperclip e5927e1db9 fix: give commentary its own default read permission (#16903)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people manage AI agents and inspect their work.
> - Commentary collects agent suggestions and complaints for company
members.
> - Commentary used the permission for detailed agent-action audits.
> - Owners, admins and viewers could therefore receive a permission
error when they opened Commentary.
> - This pull request gives commentary its own permission and enables it
for all human company roles.
> - Members can read feedback while task privacy and detailed audit
access keep their own checks.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #16884, which added the Commentary browser. A search found no open
PR for this permission fix.

**What happened?**

Commentary returned `Missing permission: audit:view_agent_actions` for
company members without the detailed audit grant. Default owners, admins
and viewers did not receive that grant.

**Expected behavior**

All human company roles can read commentary by default. A separate
`commentary:view` permission controls this access. Private source tasks
remain private. Commentary access does not grant detailed agent-action
audits or CSV exports.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Sign in as an active company owner, admin or viewer without
`audit:view_agent_actions`.
2. Open Audit, then Commentary.
3. Observe the permission error before this change.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Base commit: `7c58ea07b2`.

**Deployment mode**

Authenticated server or Cloud tenant.

## What Changed

- Add `commentary:view` to the shared permission contract and all human
role defaults.
- Require that permission for commentary list and detail reads.
- Add an idempotent upgrade migration for existing active human members.
Preserve existing grants and scopes.
- Add the commentary default when approving saved human invitation
grants that omit it, including pre-upgrade invitations. Preserve
explicit commentary scopes.
- Add regression coverage for role defaults, permission removal, audit
separation, private tasks and migration replay.
- Update the API description, specifications, database notes and access
maps.

## Verification

- Passed 68 tests across commentary reads, role grants, old-invitation
HTTP acceptance, migration replay, agent audit routes, access services
and migration snapshot drift under the repository's locked dependencies.
- Confirmed the new role and read tests failed before the
implementation.
- `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` passed.
- Migration numbering and safety checks passed during the build.
- Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed locally after the
invitation fix.
- The final-commit CI matrix passed, including all test shards,
typecheck, build, public-install checks and canary smoke. The redundant
local `pnpm test:run` was stopped after the full CI matrix completed;
the 68 focused local regressions passed separately.
- The first install bypassed the stale lockfile and selected a newer
diff-viewer API. The initial typecheck and build failed in that
unrelated plugin. Installing the locked versions cleared both failures;
the tracked lockfile is unchanged.
- The first locked-dependency regression run hit the 15-second limit
while importing the audit route graph in its first test. Moving that
import into suite setup fixed the timeout; all 58 regressions then
passed.
- Greptile found that pre-upgrade invitations retain old grant lists.
New helper and HTTP regressions reproduced this gap before the fix, then
passed after approval added the missing commentary default.
- Greptile reviewed the final commit at 5/5 with no remaining actionable
findings. Its earlier thread is resolved.
- No UI code changed. The permission tests use real disposable
PostgreSQL databases and HTTP routes.

## Risks

- The upgrade deliberately enables commentary for every existing active
human company member, including viewers. Existing commentary grants
retain their saved scopes.
- Source-task privacy still filters previews, counts, searches and full
messages. Agent-authenticated browsing remains denied.
- Agent-action audit grants, detailed filters and CSV export permissions
keep their current behavior.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository editing and
command execution. The exact runtime model ID and context window are not
exposed to 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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