DottaandClaude Fable 5.2
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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - A task has one assignee. An agent often finishes its work by handing its own task to a person for review. > - The task update route stops the outgoing run before it saves a reassignment. > - Since #16082, a legacy run that hands its own task to a person is exempt, so it finishes its turn. Native runs were not exempt. > - On staging, a native run (ACPX Claude, 11.5 minutes of work) sent `PATCH /api/issues/{id}` to hand its task to a person. The route cancelled that run with `issue_reassigned`. The agent saw `api_transport_failure`. The task moved to the person, but it kept a stale execution blocker ("Saved work recovered. Send a message to continue."). > - The native runtime assumes a running run still owns its task. So widening the exemption alone is not enough: the run then fails after its result is accepted, and its finalizer can act on the person's task. > - This pull request applies the exemption to native runs and makes the native terminal fence, restart recovery and finalizer handle a run that gave its task away. > - The benefit is that an agent can hand its task to a person and finish normally, with no blocker on the person's task. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #16082 (legacy exemption). Related: #20541 (agent-to-agent self handoff) and #18293 (agent key handoff). Those PRs cover other actors and targets. This PR covers native runs that hand their task to a person. **What happened?** A native agent run handed its own task to a person (`assigneeAgentId: null`, `assigneeUserId`, status `in_review`) through its signed run token. The route cancelled the run that sent the request (`issue_reassigned`, "Cancelled before issue reassignment"). The cancelled native run then went through workspace recovery. The person's task kept an execution blocker with `restore_failed`. **Expected behavior** The run that hands its own task to a person keeps running and finishes its turn. The task rests `in_review` with the person. No execution blocker or recovery action stays on the task. The outgoing run cannot change the task after the hand-off. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Run a native agent on its assigned task. 2. From that run, send `PATCH /api/issues/{id}` with `assigneeAgentId: null`, a person's `assigneeUserId`, and status `in_review`. 3. Before this fix, the route cancels the run with `issue_reassigned`. **Why the exemption was legacy-only** #16082 limited the exemption to the run shape of its incident and kept a verified stop for every other case. The new H2 chaos workload showed why native needed more than the route change. With only the route widened: 1. The run's terminal fence `assertCurrentWakeCommentsRead` requires the run to still own the task. It threw `native_current_wake_comments_binding_changed` after the result was accepted. The run then failed with `native_session_lease_lost`, and its finalizer recorded `workspace_finalization_failed` as an agent-owned recovery on the person's task. 2. A restart after the hand-off left the run `running`, because restart recovery refused it with `issue_execution_lock_changed`. 3. The native finalizer only superseded a `done` decision. A `needs_review` report moved the person's task back to `in_progress` and queued a continuation for the outgoing agent. 4. The REST guard against the outgoing run's later mutations (`issue_handed_off`) applied to legacy runs only. ## What Changed - `server/src/routes/issues.ts`: the signed current-run human self-handoff exemption now applies to native runs. All other checks stay: exact run, agent, company and task, `agent_jwt` source, human recipient. For a native run the route first records the hand-off on the run (`resultJson.humanSelfHandoff`, new `native-human-self-handoff.ts`). Board reassignment, agent keys, and handoffs to an agent or to nobody still stop the outgoing run. - `current-wake-comments.ts`: the terminal fence accepts a run whose recorded hand-off matches the person who now owns the task. Without the record (for example a board reassignment), or after a later reassignment, it still refuses. - `native-restart-recovery.ts`: after a restart, a handed-off run is not resumed. It passes the execution-lock check and is then settled by the existing ownership gate (`task_ownership_or_status_changed`) without changing the person's task, instead of staying `running`. - `status-arbiter.ts` and `native-run-finalizer.ts`: `supersedeHandedOffDecision` keeps the person's task status and strips retries, continuations, owner wakes, recoveries, blockers and reviewer bindings, also from decisions that already preserve the status. Two effects stay: a governed request's interaction, and the workspace-finalization repair, so saved work is not lost. Review runs are not affected. - `server/src/run-task-ownership.ts` (renamed from `legacy-run-task-ownership.ts`): `assertHandedOffRunTaskOwnership` rejects later task mutations from the outgoing legacy or native run, in the route and under the update transaction's locks. - `tests/restart-chaos/`: new opt-in workload `H2`. The agent saves a brief, then hands the task to its creator in review as its last step. The oracle requires the task to rest `in_review` with the creator, every run to settle without `issue_reassigned`, readable non-empty run history, and no execution blocker or active recovery action. - Docs: `doc/execution-semantics.md`, task feature map and agent access map, chaos README. ## Verification - Red on `origin/master` (same tests, master source): the route cancels the native run (500, and 409 `runner_goal_reassignment_stop_unconfirmed`); the finalizer moves the person's task to `in_progress` with a continuation for the outgoing agent; a late `done` from the outgoing native run closes the person's task. - Red chaos wave on master's server (`--server-from` a master checkout, `--adapters claude --workloads H2 --faults K1 --matrix`): 0/2 pass. Both runs ended `cancelled` / `issue_reassigned` (`T:handoff_did_not_cancel_run`). - Green focused tests on this branch: - `native-human-self-handoff.test.ts` (embedded Postgres): hand-off through the real issue service; the run stays `running`; `done`, `needs_review` and failed-turn reports leave the task `in_review` with the person, with `getExecutionBlocker` null and no recovery action; the terminal fence accepts only the recorded hand-off; a late change from the outgoing run fails with `issue_handed_off`; pure policy cases. - `issue-agent-mutation-ownership-routes.test.ts`: native and legacy self-handoffs persist without `cancelRun`, and native records the hand-off before the update. Board, agent key, other run, task, agent and company still stop the run. - Native runtime suite (restart recovery, wake comments, arbiter, stale-owner completion), `issues-service`, `low-trust-red-team-routes`: pass. Server and restart-chaos typecheck pass. `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` passes. - Green chaos waves on this branch (local, `--adapters claude --workloads H2`): - `--matrix --faults K1 --seed 4459`: 2/2 pass (K0 baseline and a K1 crossing). - `--tasks 3 --faults K1 --fault-after-seconds 60` and `--fault-after-seconds 100`: 3/3 pass each. In the first, all three restarts landed after the hand-off while the runs were live; the runs settled and the tasks stayed with the person. - The final waves ran on the pre-rebase head `8a2a3b6a74`. The rebase onto master only merged the chaos workload lists (`types.ts`, `config.ts`, `journeys.ts`). No Daytona wave was run. ## Risks - The outgoing native turn keeps running after the person owns the task. Its native task tools already require the run to own the task, so they refuse (`paperclip_runner_tool_binding_not_authorized`). Its REST mutations are rejected with `issue_handed_off`. - A restart after the hand-off settles the run as failed (`native_restart_recovery_blocked`) instead of resuming it. The person's task is not changed and needs no Retry. - The finalizer rule covers any native run whose task belongs to a person at finalization, not only a self-handoff. Before this change such a run could still move the person's task and queue its own continuation. - Saved state: `resultJson.humanSelfHandoff` is a new optional run key. An older server ignores it, so a run handed off on the new server and finished on an old one fails its fence as today. No schema change. - No API shape change. > For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`. ## Model Used - Claude (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, through Claude Code with tool use and code execution. The session does not expose the context window or reasoning mode. ## 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 - [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 code and its tests.
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.