DottaandPaperclip
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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Agent Chat turns discussion into plans, tasks, reviews, and hires. > - These workflows need reliable tool results and task context on the native runner. > - Live Claude and Codex tests exposed lost retry requests, invalid project inputs, and a child startup crash. > - Recovery also exposed a misleading retry action and missing child task context. > - This pull request fixes those paths and adds regression coverage. > - Agents can continue the original request and operators can inspect a stopped run. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A failed Agent Chat retry could lose the user's question. Project creation accepted unsupported icons in its tool schema. Codex could stop when a helper's MCP startup event arrived before its thread lineage. A stopped task offered Retry even when the server required execution reconciliation. Resumed agents could miss existing delegated tasks. Hiring and review instructions did not describe the native runner's available tools and source requirements. **Expected behavior** Retries retain the selected request. Tool schemas match the API. Child startup information does not gain authority over the parent or stop it. Recovery actions match the server's requirements. Task context exposes existing child work. Handoffs contain the material the assignee needs. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Enable experimental Agent Chat in an isolated development instance. 2. Configure native Codex and ACPX Claude agents on Paperclip Runner. 3. Ask for a plan, revise it, approve task creation, and request a hire and status report. 4. Retry a failed chat turn and check that it answers the original request. 5. Start a Codex helper before its thread lineage arrives. 6. Resume a delegated task and inspect its existing children and saved output. **Paperclip version or commit** The live failures were found at `f2c5e54dc`. This branch is rebased onto `86b7ee992`. **Deployment mode** Isolated local development instance with native Codex and ACPX Claude. No database migration or default permission change. Related work: Refs #13284 for Agent Chat. Refs #13438 for the server-side API receipt fix, which this branch preserves. The transport also accepts the earlier HTTP receipt format. Refs #13655 for the current Codex continuation and helper lineage handling, which this branch also preserves. ## What Changed - Preserve failed Agent Chat wake-comment IDs and session generation from the authorized source run. Reject pre-reset retries. - Wrap API receipts with the correct semantic call identity. Test current and earlier receipt formats through real HTTP and runnerd. - Classify early child MCP startup notifications as information. Keep foreign completion and result events rejected. - Constrain project icons on both tool surfaces and regenerate the protocol contracts. - Include bounded, company-scoped visible direct child tasks in task context. Filter hidden tasks before applying the limit. - Replace the rejected Retry action with Inspect run for native continuation reconciliation. - Update hiring, review handoff, status reporting, and development guidance. ## Verification - Live tests covered Claude and Codex questions, plan revisions, approval, task creation, hiring, status, chat reset, failures, and recovery. - The recovered task produced its saved checklist and example. A later follow-up read the existing child tasks and document without creating more work. - Full build, repository type checks, token gates, 142 focused tests, 188 runner TypeScript tests, and the Rust notification/descendant regressions passed after rebase. The separate local full-suite run was stopped after the complete CI suite passed. - Review fixes passed the updated route, tool-authority, and icon regression tests plus server type checking. - Required commands: `pnpm build`, `pnpm -r typecheck`, `PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=false pnpm test:run`, and `pnpm check:token-gates`. - At `4ce8047b0`, all 55 applicable GitHub checks pass (two Storybook checks are intentionally skipped), including the complete general/serialized test matrix, runner tests, browser tests, build, type checks, Docker checks, and canary dry run. - Fresh Greptile review is 5/5 on `4ce8047b0`; all three findings were fixed with regressions and there are no unresolved review threads. - Two initial CI service-startup timeouts passed unchanged in local reproductions and in the latest CI run. ## Risks - The new event classification is limited to MCP startup information. It does not authorize foreign task completion, results, or tool requests. - Task context returns at most 100 direct child tasks and reports truncation. It excludes hidden tasks and other companies. This improves delegation context but does not enforce semantic duplicate detection. - Native reconciliation still requires an operator to inspect and record prior outcomes. The new link does not replace the recovery API. - API tools remain opt-in. Claude permission choices remain explicit. No default permission, schema, or workflow changes. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 in Codex, with reasoning, repository editing, code execution, API tools, and browser testing. The exact deployment identifier and context-window size are not exposed in this session. Live acceptance agents used OpenAI `gpt-5.6-sol` and Anthropic `claude-sonnet-4-6`. ## 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>
PRP v1/v2 Contract
The JSON Schema files in schemas/ are the language-neutral source of truth for
Paperclip Runner Protocol versions 1 and 2. The fixtures in fixtures/ define
accepted and rejected compatibility cases.
Compatibility
protocolVersion,fixtureVersion, andevent.schemaVersionare required.- A consumer fails closed when a required version or schema discriminator is not supported.
- A v1 envelope can contain an unknown optional property when its schema marks that object as extensible.
- A consumer ignores an unknown optional property until a later contract gives it meaning.
- A required field, enum value, or typed structured-input field is not optional.
- Question and answer identifiers are stable across the provider boundary.
- Peers negotiate the highest mutually supported protocol version. Existing v1 runners remain compatible but cannot receive v2-only session-goal commands.
The unknown-optional-fields.json fixture must be accepted. The
unsupported-required-version.json fixture must be rejected.
Session goals (v2)
PRP v2 adds a provider-neutral durable session-goal lifecycle. Every v2
capability snapshot includes sessionGoals, even when its availability is
unsupported or policy_disabled. Paperclip sends controls only when the
negotiated capability advertises the corresponding action.
Commands:
session.goal.getsession.goal.setfor objective, status, and optional token budget changessession.goal.clear
Events:
session.capabilities.updatedsession.goal.snapshotsession.goal.updatedsession.goal.cleared
Goal state is separate from Paperclip's company/business goal hierarchy. The
snapshot distinguishes the durable status from workingNow, because an active
goal can be idle between autonomous turns. A runner emits the full capability
and authoritative snapshot after every session open or resume. Missing v1
capability is unsupported; clients do not infer support from an adapter name.
Scope
The first provider descriptor and adapter fixture cover Codex only. The schemas for provider-neutral events and semantic receipts do not enable those actions. Discovery and authorization are separate contracts.
The conformance manifest records every source file and its SHA-256 digest. Run
pnpm generate:protocol-manifest from this package after a source change. CI
runs the same generator with --check to reject drift. This check also compiles
the JSON Schemas and validates every replay, question, and cross-language
conformance fixture against its declared schema.
The files in fixtures/replay/golden/ are deterministic reducer oracles. Each
accepted replay fixture has a complete session snapshot and a compact parity
summary. pnpm generate:replay-goldens updates them after an intentional
reducer change; package build and CI fail when they drift.
The files in fixtures/local-runner/scripts/ drive the package-local fake
harness. They cover successful, failed, interrupted, interactive, duplicate
terminal, process-cleanup, and oversized-frame behavior without starting a
production adapter.