## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Task pages must make the current instruction and recent conversation readable quickly. > - Compact startup avoids reading all earlier messages and run activity. > - Every URL fragment previously selected the full-history path, even for documents. > - Saved document cards also arrived after the conversation was visible. PR statistics could add another row later. > - This pull request keeps anchors compact and reveals the saved conversation structure together. > - The benefit is stable reading position without loading unrelated history. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Related: #17593 introduced compact startup. #14667 covers earlier reveal and scroll work. This fix retains the bounded history contract. **What happened?** Opening a task document link loaded all task history. Ordinary cold opens could reveal messages before saved document cards and plans arrived. Later PR metadata added a statistics row and changed card height. **Expected behavior** Every URL fragment keeps compact startup. Document links open their pane. Older-comment links fetch only the target comment. Saved cards keep their geometry after first reveal. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Create a task with many comments, a saved plan, documents and saved PR work products. 2. Delay the enriched task response and open the task. Observe cards inserted after messages appear. 3. Open a document fragment. Observe full comment, activity and run reads. 4. Delay PR metadata refresh. Observe each card grow when diff counts arrive. ## What Changed - Remove fragment and tab checks from automatic history expansion. Resolve validated comment UUIDs through the authorized single-comment endpoint, encode their path components, retain fetched targets across document navigation, and preserve cancellation/deletion cache updates. - Include the saved plan, document metadata and local work-product projection in the core task read. Skip recovery, workspace and related-task enrichment. Do not refresh providers. Summary queries no longer select other document bodies. - Seed saved work-product and plan queries from core, including already pending or errored reads, without replacing known lists or an authoritative empty result. Coordinate the bounded recent reads, saved cards, latest transcript and settled initial pane width before first reveal. Keep the thread and composer mounted during refresh and explicit expansion. - Open continuation summaries in the document pane. Reserve PR statistics geometry while provider metadata loads. - Add a reusable synthetic local task, nine browser checks, frame measurements and video. Extend the PostgreSQL core-route fixture with a saved PR row and assert its identity, URL, state and stored metadata survive the response. Update design guidance and capability maps. ## Verification - Red: visible document/plan cards changed from 0 to 1 to 4; thread height grew from 690 to 1,432 pixels. Green: all seven saved cards appear before reveal, with constant thread height and zero per-card movement in the final reviewed browser run. The final 1,492-pixel layout includes the reserved PR statistics lines. - Red: delayed PR diff counts changed all three cards from 62 to 82 pixels. Green: their heights stay at 82 pixels before and after metadata refresh. - Nine browser journeys pass: delayed enrichment, document/comment/unknown/continuation anchors, document clicks and explicit history expansion with a retained draft, missing-comment retry, delayed PR statistics, and retained older-comment position after document navigation. - 583 focused UI tests passed on `c91fa107ba`. After the plan-cache follow-up, all 212 affected page/cache/plan-hook tests and UI typecheck pass, including 14 plan-hook cases. The original 16 focused PostgreSQL tests passed for the server changes. - Merge-review red: holding the duplicate stored work-products read blocked the first reveal past 10 seconds despite core already containing the saved cards. Both empty and populated core projections now reveal while that request remains pending. Malformed-comment tests prove no target request is made; API tests prove path encoding and abort-signal forwarding. - The populated core-route test now inserts a real saved PR work product alongside the plan and documents, then checks the complete saved projection through HTTP. All ten task cold-open PostgreSQL tests pass. - Plan-cache review red: an existing pending or errored plan query prevented the saved core plan from reaching the consumer. Four real-hook cases failed before the data-presence fix and pass afterward, for both present and absent plans. A separately fetched newer plan or known absent plan remains authoritative. - Further layout red: the initial properties pane reduced visible thread width from 775 to 742 pixels after reveal. The reveal now waits for two stable width frames; the browser check includes width, height, card counts and per-card geometry. - `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed for the original change; UI typecheck and build pass after review fixes. Token, module-boundary and map checks pass. `pnpm test:run` was stopped after about 15 minutes in the serialized server lane. No full local test-suite pass is claimed. On the earlier head, hosted build/typecheck and all Vitest lanes passed; one E2E shard failed because the agent-configuration clipboard helper copied page text into its YAML parser. On `c91fa107ba`, Greptile was 5/5 and every E2E shard passed, including the earlier clipboard case. One unchanged Discord chat-binding test in server shard 8 returned false after 185 ms; its 16-test integration file passes locally without changes. The CI cause remains unestablished. On `be436ce492`, both server shard 8 and E2E shard 7 passed without changing those tests or their product code. On final head `e357b3bced`, all CI jobs pass, including full general and serialized tests, all eight E2E shards, typecheck, build and the aggregate verification gate. Exact-head Greptile is 5/5 with no findings. The overall status rollup contains 55 successes, two intentionally skipped Storybook checks and a neutral Paperclip Review. That advisory review ended without a complete assessment; all previously posted findings are resolved and it added no current findings. - Test startup exceeded an initial 5-second deadline once while development assets and other checks were active. The final browser checks allow 10 seconds. These runs establish geometry and bounded requests; they do not establish a reliable latency improvement. An initial 503 error fixture exercised global reconnect/backoff. The target-comment failure test uses a terminal 404. - Browser data is synthetic. Provider metadata is simulated for the delayed-response check. No staging deployment or live provider execution is claimed. ## Risks - Core task reads now include local saved-card queries and the saved plan body. Other document bodies and all historical run activity remain outside that path. - First reveal waits for the bounded current structure. The existing 15-second incomplete-history fallback and inline retry remain available. - Continuation-summary links open in the document pane in the current task interface. Classic tasks keep their existing surface. - No migration or mutation permission change. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, code editing, shell tools and browser testing. The exact serving model ID and context-window size are not exposed in this session. ## 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>
Paperclip agent access map
This map accompanies the feature map. It records APIs, agent entry points, permission boundaries and verification for the same capability IDs. The shared contract defines the format and maintenance rules.
The chat scenario catalog uses these same IDs for human requests and expected outcomes. Its scenarios retain the access boundaries here; neither a CEO role nor a planned scenario grants board authority or establishes a working production tool binding.
Use full capability IDs when referring to access contracts outside their file:
onboarding/company means the company capability in onboarding.md in both maps.
The feature index lists feature and
capability IDs; IDs and references
explains entry-point references and stable naming.
Browse access contracts
The same-named feature recipes define navigation and capability IDs. Run
node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs for the generated
maps/generated/agent-access-map.md index, or browse the
published feature guide.
Add or update the affected companion; there is no central registration or count.
Existing baseline source references describe the original inspection, not current verification. Record new executed evidence in the PR, issue, or CI artifact with its revision and scope. Do not refresh unrelated headers as bookkeeping.
Using an entry
Read its Policy and Gaps before selecting an agent path. Native fallback, legacy
REST/CLI, stdio MCP and a personal assistant connection can have different
authority and availability. Use a real admitted production binding; a scenario
declaration is not an installed tool. A restricted entry records current
enforcement and leaves any unresolved delegation decision visible.
For API catalog disagreements, follow the route/service authorization and record
discovery drift. For not-applicable, retain the concrete exception and local
path. Split shared business operations from client-only presentation.
Use maintain-verification-skill to reconcile changed source and both maps.
Use verify-paperclip and existing API/runner/MCP fixtures to collect the
permitted-agent and denial evidence; report blocked/not-run coverage honestly.
Run node scripts/check-maps.mjs after editing. The structural check does not
certify permissions, API catalog coverage, tool admission or live behavior.
Native REST transport
The call_api parity change reconciles affected baselines against
58e16dbddfc9c8d0cf60867f9d9847f0feda055b and the changes in this PR. Ordinary
REST operations use the same route authorization as legacy agent REST. Dedicated
tools remain optional for those operations; protocol endpoints still need their
existing clients. Board-only routes remain restricted for agent identity.
Native search_api / call_api is enabled by default, but explicit server,
company-allowlist and binding settings can narrow admission. It requires a running
authorized native run, current task assignment and execution-run binding, company
and budget authority, task privacy, and a permitted work mode. Ask and Plan retain
mutation restrictions, and runs retain their admitted JWT scope during restart
recovery even when task mode changes. A waiting
agent does not gain independent native control just because a REST route exists.
Connection-management reads support Standard, Ask and Plan; mutations require
Standard. Skill-test runs and nonstandard task-bridge keys cannot administer
connections. These gates supplement each operation's grants, resolved resource
and target scope, and responsible-user authority. See the
rollout policy
and connection authorization.
Credential-bearing replies, including company exports and their legacy alias, stay inline under a 10 MiB limit and use encrypted mutation receipts. Other saved API snapshots are limited to the issuing actor and responsible user, plus authorized administrators. Artifact uploads enforce the same access checks as downloads; private snapshots are excluded from company exports and public company logos. Explicit deliverables use the existing sharing path. Native event history, checkpoints and completion records omit API bodies while preserving receipt metadata and replay digests. Restored webhook secrets use the same encrypted receipt and inline response policy as newly created webhook secrets. Task image access requires the company boundary and the task permission; skill-test and low-trust agents do not need company-wide browsing authority. Completion replay applies the same idempotent projection to stored and expected payloads; the run-log guide describes its fields.
Sources: API client,
catalog,
native authority,
credential storage classification,
snapshot access,
and history redaction. The affected entries remain
baseline and source-only; this reconciliation does not certify every operation.
Targeted real-route proof lives in the
API integration suite,
including owned routines, skill tests, scoped secrets, proposals and private export replay.