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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages agents and their work. > - Recovery must preserve execution ownership and accepted results. > - A saved PID proves nothing outside its recorded process namespace. > - Uncertain unfinished work must stay held until its original owners stop. > - Operators need a source-bound containment action and a separate ordinary Retry. > - Accepted results must use the existing finalizer without another provider turn. > - This PR keeps those paths safe, recoverable, and quiet between real obligations. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs: #19713 Refs: #19591 Recovery could use a local PID to release or replace a controller from another process namespace. Connected-chat Retry also rejected successful containment on a task in `todo`. The new containment action used a broader permission than the existing owner-stop action. A later review found that result-less guards also rejected the existing accepted-result confirmation action. ## What Changed - Record and verify the controller's kernel/PID namespace. Keep unknown and foreign unfinished ownership held. Preserve independent durable stop evidence and the existing remote lease fences. - Use the shared accepted-result ownership reconciler. Bind settlement to the observed lease token, generation, boot, PID, namespace and process birth. Retain finalizer, cleanup, current-controller, live-owner and remote exclusions. - Share the remote-owner reader across recovery consumers. Scope runner leases to the same company, task and run. Do not make local PID probes for remote accepted-result ownership. - Gate original-host containment on `runtime:confirm_owner_stop`. Bind it to the current task, source, assignee, original expiry, lease and Stop state. Audit separate controller/provider containment and reviewed action outcomes. - Keep containment separate from ordinary Retry. Use one canonical committed receipt and the normal admission, budget, workspace and lineage checks. Preserve the recorded external-action outcomes. - Keep the controller-only confirmation actionable for both result-less work and accepted results. Result-less work gets its next source-bound attention in the same transaction. Accepted results keep their original result and use normal shared settlement/finalization. - Keep identity inspection quiet. Preserve the original foreign-owner expiry and use the existing scoped finalizer in accepted-result recovery controls. - Update the recovery card, validators, execution projection, docs and access maps. Reuse existing canonical columns; add no migration or ownership backfill. ## Verification Current publication head: `71ea76b568de09d6313d8992e803131d9d5c54f3`. **The current fix has a causal red/green check.** On the test-only revision, both foreign-local stopped/fenced controller cases failed because recovery probed saved runner, process-group and provider PIDs in this host's namespace. This measured the wrong probes; it did not run duplicate providers. After the fix, the same two cases passed every no-probe, no-claim, no-controller-stamp, no-stop-receipt and unchanged-authority assertion. Three existing remote preparation, grace and fenced-controller progress cases also passed. Total: **5 passed, 0 failed;170 filtered rows excluded**. All three normal affected App TypeScript programs passed on this head (660,681 and428 roots). The fix separates a controller wait from execution stop proof. Independent live/grace evidence still schedules recovery. A stopped/fenced foreign controller can pass this namespace guard only for remote execution, which keeps its later checkpoint and never-launched checks. Foreign local execution stays held before runner or provider PID inspection. Earlier source-scoped results remain evidence, not fresh executions on the current head: - On `c86dd741`, the complete failed-owner file passed **25/25**, with no skips or filters. Empty scans wrote no controller stamps. Foreign ownership kept its original expiry. Normal returned-claim settlement and attention at the exact deadline passed. - On `c86dd741`, **15 selected accepted-result/restart controls passed**. The81 filtered rows are excluded. Both completion cases used the existing scoped finalizer and kept their accepted result without another provider turn. - Trusted CI at synthetic merge `50d072a5` (actual master `1b7fe334` plus `c86dd741`) passed the complete **17-case maintenance-server file**. This includes the original90-real-second quiet observation and two qualified hourly windows. The quiet case took118,918ms. The four jobs that failed on the earlier publication all passed on that synthetic merge. - On `6243b32c`, the complete ownership-report file passed **29/29**. Native NULL namespace stayed unprovable and generic compatibility remained. Three selected recovery controls passed;170 filtered rows are excluded. - On `f81f2c3c`,356 business cases passed: whole ownership-route221, recoveryUI70, owner-proof38 and controller-confirmation8; selected accepted-result authority18; and one real connected-chat containment, separate authorized Retry, useful Native result and downstream reply case. The2,024 filtered rows are excluded. A separate earlier accepted-result causal case kept the original result and completed after restart without replay. Normal Shared exports, App programs, UI typecheck, token gates and map checks passed on their recorded revisions. Unchanged DB, adapter, Eval and Runner inputs/outputs have explicit carry proofs. The clean normal merge with fetched master `8fe524f7` preserves all31 exclusive owned paths and14,827 unrelated master entries. The nine overlapping paths were reviewed, including the upstream unidentified-run stop action. Fresh CI must validate that actual merge composition. PG cases used existing external PG17, fresh owned databases, pools at most4, one worker and no SQL observer during cases. Registered clients and recorded process groups closed. Independent final SQL audits found zero campaign sessions before normal database cleanup. Original failing fixtures remain retained. Original failures are preserved. One new test first failed compilation due to a missing getter import; an import-only correction passed its full owning programs before the causal red/green check. A local quiet attempt stopped in the normal prerequisite hook before any business case and its collector rejected two normal build markers. The later17-case CI pass establishes quiet recovery; it does not turn that failed local collector into a pass. An earlier useful case passed before its private cleanup collector failed on an owned read-only directory; normal cleanup completed after all owners closed. Earlier runner-shutdown cancellation and a separate private whole-suite failure remain unexplained. Current-head checks are complete:57 success,1 neutral and3 skipped, including the successful aggregate CI gate. The legacy status passed. Greptile is5/5 and Ponytail gives an explicit5/5 Ship verdict for this head. All seven review threads are resolved. Full recursive typecheck, the full test suite and release build were not repeated locally. No result here proves deployed suspension, a live provider or termination on another host. ## Risks - Unknown physical ownership can require an owner/admin action. A false containment statement can be unsafe. - New work, reassignment, Stop, renewed authority, accepted results or pending cleanup can invalidate an action. The operator must refresh. - Controller confirmation does not prove provider/tool containment. Completed external actions must not be replayed. - Generic legacy and child-process compatibility remains separate from the strict Native controller policy. - Existing saved state and canonical schema are preserved. Permanent safety refusals remain held with their normal named recovery path. ## Model Used OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` agents implemented and tested the changes with reasoning, repository tools and code execution. A GPT-6-based Codex managing agent reviewed and integrated them. The host does not expose the manager's exact build or the context-window sizes. ## 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 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
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.
The chat scenario catalog describes how people might request these capabilities in conversation, including setup and permission branches. These are planned Product E2E journeys, not live coverage results.
IDs and references
Use the existing IDs in issues, PRs, Storybook annotations, tests, and verification evidence:
| Reference | Example | Defined by |
|---|---|---|
| Feature ID | onboarding |
The recipe filename without .md. |
| Capability ID | onboarding/company |
The feature ID plus a key from its Sub-features list, separated by /. |
| Entry-point reference | onboarding.md#web-wizard | The recipe filename plus its entry-point heading. The local entry-point ID is web-wizard. |
For example, report verifying onboarding/company through web-wizard.
Capabilities describe behavior; entry points identify the surface used to exercise
it. Entry-point IDs are separate from generated capability IDs. Both maps and
Storybook use the same full capability IDs. Each child page states its feature
ID; recipe bullets show the full capability ID beside the local key, and access
companions show it beneath the local heading. Local keys remain unchanged for
parsing and existing anchors.
Keep recipe filenames, sub-feature keys, and entry-point keys stable when changing display titles or navigation. Renaming a filename or key changes its references. The section headings below are navigation labels, not additional IDs.
Browse features
Use this index to open a recipe or copy its feature and full capability IDs.
Getting started and access
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
onboarding |
Onboarding and first work | onboarding/instance, onboarding/company, onboarding/adapter, onboarding/first-task, onboarding/resume |
access |
Login, invitations, and access | access/login, access/invitations, access/membership, access/resources, access/cli-auth |
companies |
Companies and portability | companies/selection, companies/identity, companies/decision-models, companies/prompt-injection-prevention, companies/fast-responses, companies/agent-observability, companies/archive, companies/portability |
Tasks and conversations
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
tasks |
Task creation and lifecycle | tasks/create, tasks/organize, tasks/properties, tasks/discussion, tasks/completion, tasks/privacy |
task-coordination |
Delegation, dependencies, and signoff | task-coordination/delegation, task-coordination/dependencies, task-coordination/signoff, task-coordination/tree-control |
inbox-search |
Inbox, decisions, and search | inbox-search/views, inbox-search/triage, inbox-search/decisions, inbox-search/search, inbox-search/toasts |
agent-chat |
Agent conversations and project handoff | agent-chat/discovery, agent-chat/history, agent-chat/handoff, agent-chat/conference-room |
questions-and-approvals |
Questions and approvals | questions-and-approvals/questions, questions-and-approvals/dismiss-and-reopen, questions-and-approvals/confirmations, questions-and-approvals/plan-review, questions-and-approvals/audience, questions-and-approvals/governance, questions-and-approvals/tool-review, questions-and-approvals/continuation |
steering |
Steering and queued messages | steering/queue, steering/edit-order-discard, steering/steer, steering/interrupt, steering/stop-and-pause, steering/drafts, steering/approval-queue |
documents-artifacts |
Documents, attachments, and work products | documents-artifacts/documents, documents-artifacts/annotations, documents-artifacts/attachments, documents-artifacts/work-products, documents-artifacts/library |
Agents and reusable capabilities
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
agents |
Hiring, configuration, and organization | agents/hire, agents/grok-bot, agents/instructions, agents/organization, agents/primary-agent, agents/lifecycle, agents/built-in, agents/api-keys, agents/managed-agent-setup |
runs-adapters |
Runs, harnesses, and model accounts | runs-adapters/availability, runs-adapters/validation, runs-adapters/runs, runs-adapters/session |
skills |
Skills and Skill Studio | skills/discovery, skills/authoring, skills/versions, skills/policy, skills/testing |
teams |
Team packages and installation | teams/discovery, teams/preview, teams/install, teams/configuration |
Projects and execution
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
projects |
Projects and repositories | projects/lifecycle, projects/task-context, projects/repositories, projects/defaults, projects/privacy |
goals |
Goals and work alignment | goals/hierarchy, goals/alignment, goals/navigation |
workspaces |
Workspaces, services, and files | workspaces/binding, workspaces/provisioning, workspaces/services, workspaces/files-git, workspaces/closure |
execution-environments |
Execution environments | execution-environments/configuration, execution-environments/capabilities, execution-environments/probe, execution-environments/assignment, execution-environments/images |
recovery |
Recovery | recovery/diagnosis, recovery/bounded-continuation, recovery/source-action, recovery/exhaustion, recovery/workspace, recovery/unknown-outcome, recovery/user-continuation, recovery/reconnect |
Apps, channels, and extensions
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
connection-setup |
Connection setup | connection-setup/catalog, connection-setup/identity-and-access, connection-setup/credentials, connection-setup/handoff, connection-setup/draft-recovery, connection-setup/task-request, connection-setup/channel-setup, connection-setup/failure |
assistant-connections |
Assistant connections (MCP) | assistant-connections/setup, assistant-connections/consent, assistant-connections/device-login, assistant-connections/client-use, assistant-connections/revocation |
app-permissions |
App access and action permissions | app-permissions/agent-access, app-permissions/action-policy, app-permissions/catalog-change, app-permissions/test-action, app-permissions/account-maintenance |
chat-channels |
External chat and email | chat-channels/providers, chat-channels/identity, chat-channels/conversation, chat-channels/attachments, chat-channels/lifecycle, chat-channels/outbound-email |
gateways-profiles |
Tool gateways and access profiles | gateways-profiles/gateway, gateways-profiles/profiles, gateways-profiles/client-connect, gateways-profiles/tokens, gateways-profiles/activity |
secrets |
Secrets and proposals | secrets/company-secrets, secrets/user-secrets, secrets/proposals, secrets/vault-import, secrets/runtime-delivery |
plugins |
Plugins | plugins/installation, plugins/configuration, plugins/contributions, plugins/lifecycle |
Automation and structured work
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
routines |
Routines, schedules, and triggers | routines/definition, routines/triggers, routines/run-now, routines/history, routines/management |
cases |
Cases | cases/browse, cases/structure, cases/history, cases/task-links, cases/handoffs |
status-cards |
Status cards | status-cards/authoring, status-cards/generation, status-cards/inspection, status-cards/archive |
Oversight and operation
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
budgets-costs |
Costs and budgets | budgets-costs/cost-reporting, budgets-costs/budgets, budgets-costs/incidents, budgets-costs/resolution, budgets-costs/subscriptions, budgets-costs/accounting-recovery |
activity |
Dashboards and audit trails | activity/overview, activity/activity, activity/runs, activity/routine-audit, activity/timeline, activity/agent-commentary |
navigation-preferences |
Navigation, profile, and announcements | navigation-preferences/navigation, navigation-preferences/preferences, navigation-preferences/profile, navigation-preferences/announcements, navigation-preferences/fallbacks, navigation-preferences/command-palette |
instance-operations |
Instance operations | instance-operations/install-update, instance-operations/server-service, instance-operations/configuration, instance-operations/diagnostics, instance-operations/backup, instance-operations/runtime-setup |
cli-operations |
CLI/API and local worktrees | cli-operations/context, cli-operations/domain-commands, cli-operations/outputs, cli-operations/run-controls, cli-operations/worktree-instances, cli-operations/feedback-export |
Contributor surfaces
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
developer-labs |
Developer previews and diagnostic labs | developer-labs/design, developer-labs/interaction-labs, developer-labs/performance, developer-labs/route-gates |
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. Recipes are discovered automatically from their navigation
metadata; generation does not depend on this high-level index.
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 ID, full capability IDs and
entry-point ID (for example, onboarding/company through web-wizard), plus the
recipe link, 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. Product E2E reports reuse these capability IDs through the journey associations. Their coverage view shows which scenarios in a campaign are linked to each capability and the associated test results. An association or passing scenario does not certify the whole capability; unselected and unmapped journeys remain distinct.
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. Discovery uses the recipe and companion; keep the readable ID index above aligned when features or capability IDs change.
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 local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states,
such as
- `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company. - 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.