DottaandPaperclip
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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Agents use execution workspaces to retain their files and Git branches. > - A reaper closes eligible workspaces after their task tree is terminal. > - The reaper scanned every heartbeat tick and read Git before cheap eligibility checks. > - Permanent scans also query idle databases when no cleanup work exists. > - This pull request wakes cleanup after transaction settlement and restores bounded work at startup. > - The benefit is fewer scans while fresh cleanup guards continue to protect retained work. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Related work: Refs #13619, Refs #11753. Those PRs bound scans or back off unchanged candidates. This PR uses the transaction work coordinator to remove the permanent reaper tick. It overlaps their early terminal-state filtering but does not change their runtime restart behavior or introduce a second Git scheduler cache. **What existing behavior does this improve?** Terminal workspace cleanup and Git inspection for workspace detail reads. **Subsystem affected** Server orchestration, execution workspaces, and idle sleep admission. **Current behavior** The heartbeat tick scans workspace candidates every thirty seconds. It runs Git before rejecting nonterminal trees, cooldowns, and active runs. Display inspections expire after five seconds. **Proposed behavior** Recover workspace rows in bounded startup pages. Wake after relevant issue, workspace, and pull-request work-product transactions settle. Schedule the terminal tree cooldown or a five-minute eligibility retry. Back off unchanged candidates across unrelated wakes, and invalidate their backoff after relevant committed changes. Park empty and nonterminal-only lanes. Reuse display inspections for thirty seconds. Read fresh Git before destructive cleanup. **Reason and benefit** Avoid recurring database and Git work when no cleanup is possible. Retain transaction admission holds, restart recovery, and fresh deletion checks. Retention eligibility can wait for the next host wake; active and failed recovery work still blocks sleep. **Breaking changes** No schema or API shape changes. Display Git state can lag by thirty seconds. Cleanup eligibility retries can take five minutes. ## What Changed - Add a terminal-workspace worker to the existing transaction work coordinator and scheduler. - Signal relevant writes before mutation on the owning transaction. Outer transaction settlement wakes cleanup. - Derive cooldown deadlines from the full company-scoped terminal task tree. Continue bounded recovery pages without a permanent sweep. - Bound unchanged candidate inspections to five minutes, retain at most 256 entries, and invalidate affected entries with scoped transaction hints. Repeated wakes preserve the earliest inspection deadline. - Collect deadlines from task trees already read by bounded pages. Restore the cursor after a failed page and rescan commits received during a rotation. - Check terminal state, cooldown, and active runs before Git. Preserve lifecycle locks, generation fences, and fresh final checks. - Keep failed or incomplete recovery visible to idle admission. Preserve the passive retention exception. - Extend the bounded display cache to thirty seconds and document the scheduling and wake limits. ## Verification - Focused workspace, coordinator, cache, and local sleep suites: 111 tests passed with real local PostgreSQL and Git worktrees where applicable. - Final worker, display cache, and local sleep suites: 28 tests passed. - The regressions prove three ineligible workspaces invoke zero Git scans, cached clean display state cannot remove new untracked files, and real producer notifications wait for outer transaction settlement. - `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed locally. Map and module-boundary checks passed. - Work-product and sleep-safety suites: 221 tests passed. Reopen and issue-tree control suites: 46 tests passed. Final backoff, workspace, worker, and work-product suites: 87 tests passed. - Final workspace and worker suites: 81 tests passed. Deadline selection performs zero database reads. A failed full page retries its unread terminal workspace before recovery can park. - Full CI coverage passed on head `2c397970f7`: general tests, serialized server suites, runner verification, E2E shards, typecheck, build, and the final verification gate. The duplicate serial local `pnpm test:run` was stopped after full CI coverage passed; it is not reported as a completed local pass. - Greptile: 5/5 with both findings resolved. The security scan also passed. No failing or pending PR checks remain. ## Risks - Display state can be stale for thirty seconds. Destructive guards bypass the display cache. - Undelivered or otherwise ineligible terminal work retries after five minutes instead of each heartbeat tick. - Transaction signals cover the owning `createDb` scope. Direct SQL and independent server processes require startup recovery. - Local cooldown timers are maintenance hints. They do not establish an external wake alarm or whole-instance sleep safety. Existing blockers remain in force; failed bounded recovery keeps the host awake. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6, model ID `gpt-6`, through Codex. Reasoning, repository inspection, shell execution, and browser tools assisted the change. The runtime does not expose the context-window size. ## 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 feature map
Start here when reproducing a user-facing bug, verifying a change, or deciding which surfaces a fix must cover. Each recipe describes what a person can do, where they can do it, the expected result, and the evidence needed to verify it. Product behavior is still governed by the implementation spec.
The sibling agent access map records APIs, agent entry points and permission boundaries for the same capability IDs. Follow the shared map contract when maintaining either map.
Browse features
Open the published Storybook guide for the assembled feature and capability index. The Markdown recipes in this directory are the authored source. Each has a same-named agent-access companion.
Run node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs to generate local navigation in
maps/generated/feature-map.md, maps/generated/agent-access-map.md, and the
Storybook guide. A new recipe is discovered automatically; do not register it in
this README or maintain counts here.
Before driving a journey
- Use this checkout's isolated test drive for manual product checks. It creates a temporary instance and prints its URL and data directory. Do not guess that a server on port 3100 belongs to you.
- Record the commit, URL, company, login role, relevant experimental settings, adapter, runtime mode, and live versus simulated dependencies. Use disposable tasks and provider resources. A fresh test drive creates a company and CEO, but no task or first run.
- Use the current navigation and company prefix. Paths in recipes omit that prefix. Record whether the streamlined or production shell is selected; Agent Chat, chat connectors, and the combined Inbox/Tasks view have separate gates. A hidden surface is an unmet prerequisite, not a successful test.
- Run the smallest relevant test first. Vitest commands below run from the repository root after installing dependencies. Playwright recipes use their named configuration and its isolated environment, not an unrelated running instance. Reserve expensive runner/provider tests for the behavior at issue.
- Exercise the actual user action, inspect its result, reload, and verify the persisted state or continuation. Use read-only API checks to corroborate UI evidence; creating state through the API does not prove the creation UI.
For agent-driven acceptance work, start with the Paperclip verification skill for an isolated launch, ownership/readiness checks, browser driving, evidence, and cleanup. It uses this directory as its feature map. The existing dev-workspace run/verify skill and evaluation skill describe runtime ownership and evidence handling. Reuse them; this map introduces no environment launcher, credentials, scheduled job, or second test framework.
Evidence contract
Report each entry point as passed, failed, blocked (with its missing prerequisite), or not run. Include the feature filename and entry-point ID, commit/environment, user action, expected and observed result, command/exit code, and evidence links. Screenshots or traces should show both the action and the discriminating result. Include task/run/request IDs when relevant, without secrets.
A fix is verified across its affected surfaces only when each has evidence or an explicit reason it does not apply. Shared code alone does not prove parity. Keep product regressions visible; do not change the recipe to bless a failure. For Paperclip-assigned work, attach evidence through the artifact workflow.
Inventory and remaining depth
The generated maps/generated/coverage.json lists the current non-test TSX page
modules and the recipes that directly reference each one. An unreferenced module
is a documentation candidate, not proof that its feature is absent or untested.
Remaining workflow limits live in each recipe. Inventory and example associations
describe documentation scope, not runtime health.
Maintaining the reference
The map documents user journeys. It does not execute them automatically; generated inventories record documentation scope rather than live test health.
When maintaining a recipe, compare its entry points and expected results with
the current source. Check that linked tests still exercise the stated behavior
and that local references still exist. Keep the same-named agent access companion
and stable sub-feature IDs aligned when behavior or access changes. Source-only
access inventory remains distinct from live verification. Run
node scripts/check-maps.mjs after map edits for structural/reference checks;
follow the shared contract for the source and behavioral checks it cannot perform.
Each recipe starts with a small frontmatter navigation record, then an H1:
---
navigation: {"section":"Tasks and conversations","sectionOrder":20,"order":10}
---
The H1 supplies the feature title, and the first paragraph supplies its summary. Orders are local to the section; leave gaps for additions. Equal orders use the stable filename as a tie-breaker. Keep a section's name/order consistent across its recipes. A new feature or capability needs only its recipe and companion.
Optional ### Storybook verification guidance lives inside the recipe's Gotchas
section. Each level-four heading contains a backtick-quoted capability key and
has Scope (ui, cli, or browser),
Storybook, Production, and Sources fields. These are verification instructions
and intentional scope limits, not run results or a required story for every API.
The generated gap report combines this guidance with current story associations.
After frontmatter, each recipe starts with an H1 and a user-visible description, then exactly:
- Sub-features — stable backticked IDs and observable behavior/states.
- How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
- Driving it with — starts with
Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, withAutomated:andManual:paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly. - Gotchas — misleading look-alikes, feature gates, and invalid evidence.
New or updated entries follow
Poteto's feature-map examples.
Existing entries with a Driving it heading can adopt the named harness when
their recipes are updated. The original format was inspired by
Omnigent's feature map.
Paperclip's recipes and checks follow its own task model and test infrastructure.