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Devin FoleyandPaperclip 7bd449dbb6 fix(recovery): project context evidence for latest-run checks (#17463)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their tasks.
> - Recovery sweeps decide whether tasks have a valid next step.
> - Those decisions inspect saved run metadata.
> - Latest-run queries also return full prompts and execution setup
data.
> - This repeats large responses when a sweep leaves a task unchanged.
> - This change projects the context evidence recovery actually reads.
> - A row-version check keeps stale evidence from changing a task.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The latest-run recovery queries retrieve large stored contexts for each
candidate.
The decision usually consumes small recovery, message, or workspace-mode
fields.

**Expected behavior**

Keep all decision evidence while selecting a small response. Preserve
complete
stored contexts and full execution reads. Detect concurrent source
changes.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Store a terminal run with large task Markdown, wake, workspace, and
continuation bodies.
2. Call `reconcileStrandedAssignedIssues` for its assigned task.
3. Observe the full context returned by the latest-run query on each
sweep.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Baseline: `410e5c6eedba98588a87e4104153898fb0437532`.
Related read optimization: Refs #17405. Complementary fix: Refs #17460.
These PRs have no code dependency. Searched existing PRs and issues for
run
projections, recovery reads, and database transfer. No duplicate was
found.

**Deployment mode**

External PostgreSQL. Verification uses disposable real PostgreSQL and
synthetic data.

## What Changed

- Project typed context evidence in all three latest-run recovery
queries.
- Keep only the used workspace mode and external-interaction flag from
nested setup objects.
- Preserve original JSON types, message references, retry evidence, and
existing query scopes and order.
- Read PostgreSQL `xmin` with the run. Require the same row version
during native blocked-wait repair.
- Retain the original full-context comparison for callers that supply a
full run without a row version.
- Test large payloads, malformed JSON shapes, review-message recovery,
and concurrent source edits.

## Verification

- Final-source integration checks: **450 passed** across context
projections, native finalization recovery, and the assembled heartbeat
recovery service.
- Focused issue-lock race check: **9 passed** (401 outside the filter),
including omitted-context and late-output edits and successful repair on
a fresh sweep.
- Final-source recursive typecheck and full build pass. The full local
stable suite is still running; current-head CI must also pass before
merge.
- Real-service SQL capture against the baseline: one returned row falls
from 699,724 to 573 serialized JSON bytes (99.918% smaller).
- The fixture uses four 174,764-byte incompressible execution fields.
All unaffected returned columns compare equal. Regression tests check
the retained decision evidence and unchanged stored records.
- Five alternating warm samples after two warmups: baseline median 1.479
ms, treatment 1.084 ms. Ranges overlap; no request-latency speedup is
claimed. Plans were captured outside the timing interval.
- An initial full-context hash projection cut bytes but raised the local
median to 7.457 ms. The final row-version check removes that cost.
- One integration run overlapped the hash-export rename and failed seven
tests on the removed export. A fresh final-source run passed all 450
tests. The earlier mixed-source failure remains recorded and is not
counted as a pass.
- All current-head CI checks pass on
`17add20e391c30ed0496f4b39eb9c59779efa6b4`. Greptile: **5/5, medium
impact**, no findings or unresolved threads on that head.
- Hosted transfer and product behavior remain to be verified on staging
after merge.

## Risks

The context selection must track its recovery consumers. Tests preserve
typed
flags, retry budgets, external-chat references, and malformed-input
behavior.
The row-version guard is conservative: any intervening run update defers
native
blocker repair to a fresh sweep. Concurrent omitted-context and output
edits are
covered through the real service and issue-lock wait; a fresh sweep must
still repair.
There is no migration, prompt truncation, history deletion, or
authorization cache.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with source inspection, code execution, and
GitHub tools.
The exact served model ID and context-window size 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>
2026-10-24 12:14:41 -07:00
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