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Devin FoleyandPaperclip 832c44f26a fix: resume user follow-ups that reassign a task (#17821)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The execution control plane saves user messages while an earlier run
needs recovery.
> - A user comment can also assign a task back to its agent.
> - That update creates an assignment wake, but continuation accepted
only comment wake reasons.
> - The saved question could stay blocked after workspace recovery and
confirmed process cleanup.
> - This pull request admits assignment wakes that carry a valid,
undelivered user comment through the existing continuation checks.
> - The same rule applies to new messages and saved requests already
waiting for recovery.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A human follow-up that also assigns a task back to its agent produces
`issue_assigned`. After a native run stops during handoff, the
continuation policy rejects that wake reason. The question remains saved
behind the execution recovery hold even after the workspace is recovered
and the old sandbox is destroyed.

**Expected behavior**

Deliver the saved human question once after the existing stop,
ownership, authority, and execution gates pass. Assignment alone must
not grant permission to continue.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Finish task work by assigning it to a human for review. Let the
native run stop with `issue_reassigned` and retain its recovery hold.
2. Recover the workspace and confirm destruction of the old sandbox.
3. Post a new human question while assigning the task back to the agent.
4. Observe that the assignment wake stays deferred instead of delivering
the question.

Refs: #17288, #14156. These related changes cover legacy reassignment
and assignments without comments. This change covers a human comment
carried by an assignment wake behind a native or legacy continuation
hold.

## What Changed

- Share the comment-bearing wake classification between continuation
admission and saved-request recovery.
- Accept `issue_assigned` only through the existing persisted
user-comment validation and execution gates.
- Add database regressions for new and saved assignment wakes,
concurrent recovery, single delivery, and unchanged prior run results.
- Check that bare assignments, invalid authors and comments, changed
ownership, active execution, and pending approvals or questions retain
their holds. Cover native and legacy cleanup paths.
- Update execution semantics and both recovery maps.

## Verification

- Red: both new and saved assignment-with-comment cases stayed deferred
without a successor on the original code.
- Green: the final continuation suite passes all 284 tests. The four
companion recovery, retry, and queue suites pass another 208 tests.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` pass.
- `git diff --check`, `node scripts/check-maps.mjs`, and `node
scripts/check-module-boundaries.mjs` pass.
- Apex review is 5/5 on `56c9c2d90dcda55b3f760946c9aba6aee448c361`, with
no unresolved review threads. The only earlier finding concerned the
contribution rule against new source comments; those comments were
removed.
- Full `pnpm test:run` is still running locally. CI is waiting for the
`paperclip-public-pr-x64` runner fleet; the superseded workflow was
cancelled so the current head could proceed. No passing CI claim is made
yet.
- Live recovery: corrected one existing saved wake to the supported
comment reason. The normal server admitted one successor with the exact
saved question and prior-run context, then started real tool calls. This
verifies admission on the existing deployment; the new source change is
not deployed yet. The resumed turn later failed with a separate provider
terminal event whose error was null, followed by a workspace restore
failure. The task is blocked again on that failure. Its useful answer
has not been delivered, so end-to-end completion remains unverified.

## Risks

- Assignment wakes now reach continuation validation when they carry a
comment. The persisted comment must still belong to the task and
requesting human, follow the stopped run, and remain undelivered.
- The existing stop proof, cleanup, current assignment, approval, pause,
budget, and competing-execution checks remain effective. Regression
cases cover both native and legacy paths.
- No schema migration or data rewrite is required for saved requests.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, source inspection, tool use,
and code execution. The runtime does not expose the exact model ID or
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
- [ ] 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>
2026-10-26 20:19:16 -07:00
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