PaperClipAI/maps/feature-map/runs-adapters.md

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Runs, harnesses, and model accounts

Operators choose an agent harness and model account, inspect execution history and transcripts, and distinguish a working configuration from a successful task result.

Implementation: adapter manager, run host, configuration.

Agent access: companion.

Sub-features

• availability: discover installed adapters and available models/accounts.
• validation: test an adapter in the selected execution environment and surface authentication failures.
• runs: inspect run status, events, output, costs, and the source task.
• session: preserve or reset execution context through supported lifecycle actions.

How to get to it (user POV)

adapter-setup

Open an agent’s model/adapter configuration or the instance adapter settings page when permitted.

run-history

Open an agent run at /agents/:agentId/runs/:runId from the agent or task activity.

Driving it with Playwright and the Paperclip CLI

Preconditions: follow the baseline. Record adapter, model, account, native/legacy runtime, and environment. Capabilities vary; one harness result is not a matrix-wide qualification.

adapter-setup

Automated: adapter validation routes and model refresh cover server behavior.

Claude native setup uses the existing Anthropic API-key or subscription connection flow. Record the selected account separately from successful execution; unavailable models/authentication and unsupported Legacy-only options must fail visibly.

Manual: Select the intended adapter and account, refresh model choices, and run its environment test. Save, reload, then execute a small task. Repeat with a deliberately unavailable account and verify the failure remains visible.

Choose Codex as the harness; the UI displays its name/icon for both runners. Advanced identifies the automatic default and offers Paperclip Runner or Legacy. New Codex agents default to the native runner on supported macOS or GNU/Linux targets; the shared selection contract and runtime prerequisites define the platform/libc boundary. Windows and Alpine/musl remain Legacy. Claude follows its qualified rollout described above. Disabled adapters, external overrides, and selected-target qualification also affect availability. On a fresh forced-Kubernetes instance without an environment row, inspect discovery and create with automatic selection. Both must retain Legacy without provisioning; an explicit Paperclip request must give target-qualification guidance. Begin the ordinary task to exercise the existing lazy environment path. This live journey remains separate from the resolver's source controls.

For sandbox defaults, follow the environment probe recipe first. Discovery/creation read company-bound immutable-image evidence without allocating a target. A mutable image or snapshot name does not establish native compatibility. Then test the actual selected runtime with its selected account/model: a legacy CLI or authentication probe alone cannot establish native readiness. Missing dependencies, failed authentication, invalid models and incompatible custom settings must remain actionable errors without silent runner switching. Saved unchanged execution can still be tested without applying new selection policy, but runtime/account validation must still run.

Verify an automatic Codex hire and an explicit Legacy control through a useful file artifact, follow-up and reload. Preserve Codex reasoning effort and account isolation; retain explicit Legacy permission choices, including false. Reopen an existing agent, make an unrelated edit, and confirm both its persisted runner and next run stay unchanged. Use hiring/import preservation for approval and portability controls.

Test native Codex with a saved subscription whose setup auth file is a managed link, as well as a regular file and an API-key account. Setup must seed the isolated probe from the checked account without exposing credentials or changing its saved runner. With subscription authentication, an unbound configured CODEX_HOME with linked credentials must fail setup with managed-account or explicit Legacy guidance; it must not claim readiness when task isolation would omit the file. Dangling or incorrectly owned credentials must also fail clearly. A selected CODEX_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY takes precedence over an unrelated subscription file. Test valid, dangling and invalid subscription links with that selected key; setup must test the key without reading or refreshing the unrelated account. The private probe copy must be removed after confirmed retirement following success, failure or cancellation. Unconfirmed shutdown remains a cleanup failure. Exercise an unavailable local daemon and a preparation failure before probe handoff. No owned temporary credential copy may remain, and original account files must be unchanged. A probe whose shutdown is unconfirmed must retain its recovery state; do not treat it as a preparation-only failure. Existing setup controls use fake credentials; real account execution remains a separate acceptance requirement.

run-history

Automated: live run routes and run event sequencing cover run data contracts.

Manual: Start a disposable task, open its running transcript, and follow it to a terminal outcome. Reload and compare task/run IDs, status, output, and cost. Verify a failed run remains distinguishable from a completed run with useful output.

An explicit runner change starts a configuration revision and invalidates the eligible session. Active runs, restart recovery and historical transcript parsing retain their recorded execution configuration; do not infer their runner from a later edit to the agent. Account/harness branding and execution identity are different observations, both required in the evidence.

For an onboarding child-completion callback, verify actual session/turn events and the source-correlated reply. A succeeded row alone is insufficient: the literal ea6c8eb5e16d61111968f633a66748b397b64a3e managed attempt was marked successful during startup without a provider turn. The recovery correction preserves the existing validated Done-parent handoff; process-death and ownership checks remain active. Its PostgreSQL controls are separate from the required revised-source live onboarding and follow-up proof.

Gotchas

• Model accounts are managed in Apps and inline agent account controls. /company/settings/connections configures decision/fast-response models, not the general model-account library.

• The run log is instance database data; it is not the opt-out first-party Telemetry system or operator-configured OpenTelemetry tracing.

• Authentication/model discovery does not establish tool, image, steering, or resumption capability parity.

• Use recovery for interrupted runs and execution environments for local/SSH/sandbox differences.

Native setup retirement joins owned startup before cleanup can be confirmed. Transport ownership controls hold preparation or registration without launching a provider, then check bounded close, rejected duplicate requests, no later launch and retention of unconfirmed state. Readiness observes shutdown; resumed startup cannot reactivate ingress after close. These are lifecycle controls, separate from installed provider proof. The real daemon readiness and recovery controls require their existing native fixtures in hosted CI; passing credential-free controls does not qualify them. A primary setup timeout remains a failure even when teardown also fails.

For remote setup shutdown, verify that each durable-state read respects the remaining suspension deadline. A late result cannot establish suspension or queue a replacement command after that deadline. An intentional ingress close must observe physical socket closure before retiring its connection owner and releasing the endpoint; an unresponsive peer must not extend the setup budget. The existing transport and ingress suites exercise these conditions without a provider. Repeat the actual managed setup and useful task journey separately; the literal 651a3de64fc943216cc414b64b1443809f9499da Test attempt failed cleanup before hire and retains its unconfirmed recovery state.