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DottaandPaperclip d40f9ac377 fix: enforce first-task completion decisions and retain E2E evidence (#17940)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people delegate work to agents and approve proposed
work.
> - The onboarding first task asks for scope, proposes a task, and waits
for a human decision.
> - An answer to its opening question supplies scope. It does not
approve a proposal.
> - Task creation already checks the saved proposal decision.
> - Native completion used the general completion policy and could mark
the onboarding parent Done without that decision.
> - This PR checks the trusted decision before completion feedback and
again when the native status is committed.
> - The first task stays in review until a saved human decision permits
closure. Ordinary completion and acknowledged refusal keep their current
behavior.
> - The Product E2E guard also retains closed scalar evidence so future
failures show which boundary condition was observed.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #17914. Profile compatibility follow-up to #17922.

**What happened?**

A native onboarding run can submit a valid low-risk Done result after
only the opening answer. The native finalizer then marks the first task
Done even though no human has accepted or rejected a proposal.

**Expected behavior**

The opening answer must not permit completion. A trusted saved proposal
decision must permit it. A saved rejection permits acknowledgment and
closure, but does not authorize new work. A later pending proposal must
keep the task in review.

**Steps to reproduce**

Create a server-owned onboarding first task with an answered opening
question, no proposal decision, and a valid low-risk completion
contract. Pass a Done result through native completion feedback, the
control-plane port, and the finalizer. Before this fix, the persisted
status is Done. The regression expects In review. Ordinary completion
and acknowledged rejection pass as controls.

## What Changed

- Share the trusted latest-proposal and human-response checks with
completion admission. Keep task creation acceptance-only.
- Refuse premature native completion feedback. Keep an already saved
premature result in review during finalization.
- Check the decision again under the existing task and run locks before
committing Done.
- Cover accepted decisions, saved refusals, forged context, pending or
changed proposals, and a real database race.
- Retain a closed scalar receipt when the existing E2E pre-acceptance
guard fails. Validate and display it without task content, IDs,
filenames, or raw rows. Preserve the original failure, blocked
dependents, and historical reports.
- Include the evidence module in the journey definition hash. Bind the
receipt to its exact failure code and check its closed keys against the
full type.
- Repair base-branch profile drift found by the full harness check:
include the active Copilot v66 fixture in image hashing and update stale
Pi version/hash expectations from #17922. Keep all older image inputs
and strict hash checks.
- Update the onboarding feature and agent access maps and E2E evidence
documentation.

## Verification

- Semantic regression before implementation: one failure and two passing
controls on PostgreSQL 18. The failed assertion observed Done instead of
In review.
- The local database uses an owned disposable container with an
immutable image digest. Actual migrations, feedback, control-plane port,
finalizer, and status commit run against PostgreSQL. A temporary test
adapter replaces only the embedded database transport because this host
has exhausted its PostgreSQL semaphores.
- Native control-plane suite: 55 tests passed, including 17 new
controls. Existing task-creation admission: 25 passed. Existing
completion feedback: 19 passed.
- Credential-free E2E support: 206 Vitest suites passed, 4,407 tests
passed, and two skipped. All 137 Node support checks passed. Harness
typecheck passed.
- The failure-receipt regression had 11 failed assertions before capture
was implemented. Two failure-code binding assertions fail without their
gate. Eight placement/binding cases first validate the receipt-free
control, then reject the misplaced receipt.
- The untouched base reproduced the three profile compatibility
failures. The narrow repair passed all 83 affected tests before the full
harness run.
- Private workflow preparation and credential-free onboarding preview:
nine compatibility checks passed. Ownership, recovery, evidence,
shared-contract and workflow compatibility: 77 passed. The actual
provider preview also confirms immediate success deletion, earlier
declared failure eligibility, limits, and zero retries without
credential access. Map checks and git diff checks passed.
- Required repository typecheck passed for the product fix. The combined
branch build passed. The local full repository suite was stopped after
repeated PostgreSQL startup failures; a separate initdb probe confirmed
host SysV semaphore exhaustion. No shared IPC resources were changed.
[Hosted
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40591020873)
passed the full database suites, typecheck, build, runner checks,
serialized suites, and browser shards on final head
`1ac4c23605a03bfd1f1f8a017b14ce29fda85f6b` (55 success, two expected
skips, one advisory neutral).
- Independent source review approved the product guard, atomic race
regression, evidence contract, and maps with no actionable findings.
Both automated reviews are 5/5 on final head
`1ac4c23605a03bfd1f1f8a017b14ce29fda85f6b`; prior findings are fixed and
resolved. Final CI is green and the PR is conflict-free.
- No Cloud workspace, provider call, release publication, or deployment
is part of this verification. These tests do not identify a historical
Cloud failure or qualify live onboarding.
- Local dependency installation uses the existing CI-generated lockfile
from #17811. No lockfile change is included.

## Risks

- Existing onboarding runs without a trusted saved proposal decision
remain in review even when the agent reports success. This is the
intended approval boundary.
- Decision changes can race completion. The status commit checks the
decision under its existing locks and uses the existing status-race
recovery path.
- A saved refusal permits closure only. Creation admission still rejects
it.
- Evidence readers reject malformed receipts and unrelated failure
codes. The version-1 key registry is checked against every receipt field
at compile time. Existing attempts do not gain evidence after the fact.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), ultra reasoning, through Codex. Used
repository inspection, code execution, and collaborating coding agents.
The runtime did not report a 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 references)
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
ticket 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>
2026-10-27 17:07:50 -05:00
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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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:

  1. Sub-features — stable backticked local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states, such as - `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company.
  2. How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
  3. Driving it with — starts with Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, with Automated: and Manual: paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly.
  4. 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.