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Devin FoleyandPaperclip 49b3804830 fix(connections): load permissions and show AI account identity (#18653)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their access to saved connections.
> - The Permissions page loads account details and permitted agent
choices.
> - Company-wide AI accounts repeat retained installation checks for
every candidate agent.
> - This makes target checks grow with the square of the roster size.
> - The browser waits without a deadline, and connection names do not
identify the provider login.
> - This pull request batches direct AI checks and bounds loading with
recovery controls.
> - Account details load separately and show a provider email or an
explicit profile-permission limit.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Opening a saved AI account can leave Permissions on “Loading AI
account…” for minutes. The account itself can be connected. The existing
capability batch excludes AI connections, so a company-wide install
repeats checks for every installed agent for every candidate. Saved
names and Paperclip ownership also do not establish which provider login
a credential uses.

**Expected behavior**

Direct AI accounts reuse retained-target checks within one descriptive
request. The page shows loaded account controls or a bounded failure
with Retry. Permissions shows the provider email and organization when
the selected credential permits profile access. An unavailable profile
must not block maintenance or disconnect a working inference credential.
Writes still authorize current permissions.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Save an AI account in a company with several agents.
2. Install the account company-wide.
3. Open its Permissions page.
4. Delay the account-list or grants response to exercise the loading
failure.

The maintained benchmark reproduces database work with synthetic local
data. Refs #17945, which added batching for non-AI connections. Searches
found no open PR for this AI-account loading fix.

## What Changed

- Include direct AI accounts in the existing board capability batch.
Referenced pool members, delegated actors, complex selectors, and
mutation authorization keep their existing evaluator.
- Add opt-in per-caller GET deadlines to the API client. A timed-out
caller detaches the stuck coalesced request so Retry starts a fresh
fetch. Other callers retain their own cancellation and results.
- Apply a 15-second deadline to AI account lists and grants reads. The
permissions view retries transient failures once and reports other
failures immediately.
- Share the parent Permissions grants query with AI account details.
Keep loaded controls visible after a background error and offer Retry.
- Add a grant-scoped identity GET and OpenAPI contract. The service
checks current membership and credential audience before it reads the
selected credential. It projects only the provider email and
organization; provider IDs, tokens, and raw errors stay private.
- Show account details independently of maintenance controls. Anthropic
profile denial has an explicit message and preserves connected status.
Transient profile failures have a separate Retry action. Observations
are cached for five minutes under the company, connection, grant, and
grant revision.
- Extend real PostgreSQL and authenticated HTTP coverage,
client/component regressions, map guidance, and the existing benchmark's
AI mode.
- Address the Apex file-size finding by moving gallery identity lookup
into the existing app display helper module. `AppDetail.tsx` is 984
lines; lookup behavior is unchanged.

## Verification

Local source checkout on macOS, Node 25.6.1, pnpm 9.15.4, and disposable
PostgreSQL 18.1. Provider calls use fixtures. No hosted deployment or
provider qualification is claimed.

- Passed `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`.
- Passed all 87 tests in `connection-management.integration.test.ts` and
all 33 tests in `connection-install-capabilities.test.ts`.
- Passed 196 AI connection, identity-provider, and OpenAPI tests:
`ai-connections.test.ts`, `ai-account-identity.test.ts`, and
`openapi-routes.test.ts`.
- Passed 107 focused UI/client tests: `client.test.ts`,
`ManagedAiConnectionDetails.test.tsx`,
`AiConnectionAccountDetails.test.tsx`, and `AppDetail.test.tsx`.
- After the Apex extraction, passed UI typecheck/build and 106 component
tests across `AppDetail.test.tsx`, `AppNotConnected.test.tsx`,
`ManagedAiConnectionDetails.test.tsx`, and
`AiConnectionAccountDetails.test.tsx`.
- The authenticated HTTP tests compare complete grants responses across
human roles, for tool and AI connections. They verify a real install
mutation succeeds before revocation and fails afterward.
- A company-wide personal AI fixture checks 20 targets instead of 400.
Pool-member permission loss still denies the complete pool description.
- UI states covered: shared cached grants, stuck account/grants fetches,
one automatic retry, terminal failure, manual recovery, authorization
failure, background failure with retained controls, and unmount
cancellation. Client tests also cover stalled response bodies and
independent coalesced callers.
- Identity coverage includes actual bearer-key/JWT reads, private-user
and cross-company denial before provider access, revoked credentials,
provider 401/403/429/500, and grant-change isolation. A real local HTTP
fixture stalls the response body, verifies the shared 15-second
deadline, and keeps unrelated HTTP requests responsive. The test
shortens the native deadline to 100 ms. Profile permission denial leaves
the saved account connected.
- Passed `pnpm check:token-gates`, `node scripts/check-maps.mjs`, `node
scripts/check-module-boundaries.mjs`, and `git diff --check`.
- The full local `pnpm test:run` started with the loading-only change.
All six chat shards passed. It recorded one failure in the unchanged
`heartbeat-retry-scheduling.test.ts` quota-rejection case. That exact
case passed a focused rerun on the final head. The initial failure cause
remains unconfirmed and its local log is retained; this is not a full
local-suite pass. The redundant local run was stopped with SIGINT after
final-head CI completed successfully.
- [Final-head
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41515556725)
passed on `ead8d276d4a2023614fff54b3e9a858f28c3178b`: typecheck, build,
all 12 server shards, all 3 chat shards, workspace suites, all 9
serialized suites, all 8 end-to-end shards, Runner checks, and the
aggregate verify gate. Security checks passed. Optional Storybook checks
were skipped by workflow policy. GitHub reports the branch mergeable
without conflicts.
- Apex reviewed head `ead8d276d4a2023614fff54b3e9a858f28c3178b` at 5/5,
confirmed the extraction resolves its earlier file-size finding, and has
no unresolved review threads.

The existing benchmark ran for the loading-only change now recorded in
commit `5f725b36fa52002545241a5a8b7a10602f0cc0ce`, with `--purpose=ai
--baseline-ref=026fd9e3452`. The identity follow-up leaves that batch
source unchanged. Two warmups and five alternating samples exercise each
of eight fixture shapes. Complete positional capabilities, reasons, and
operations match the baseline in every sample.

| AI fixture | SQL calls before → after | Target reads before → after |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| 1 agent, company install | 9 → 9 | 1 → 1 |
| 32 agents, company install | 5,248 → 164 | 1,024 → 32 |
| 100 agents, company install | 50,400 → 504 | 10,000 → 100 |
| 100 agents, partial install | 13,175 → 503 | 2,575 → 100 |

These counts measure the real service over local PostgreSQL. They do not
predict hosted page latency. To reproduce the standalone benchmark, use
a checkout of commit `5f725b36fa52002545241a5a8b7a10602f0cc0ce` and run
the command below. Its isolation check intentionally rejects the later
identity follow-up's additional runtime changes.

```sh
node --import ./server/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs scripts/benchmark-connection-install-capabilities.ts --purpose=ai --baseline-ref=026fd9e3452
```

Run the final-head regression suites from the repository root:

```sh
cd server
pnpm exec vitest run src/__tests__/connection-management.integration.test.ts src/__tests__/connection-install-capabilities.test.ts src/__tests__/ai-connections.test.ts src/services/ai-account-identity.test.ts src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts
cd ../ui
pnpm exec vitest run src/api/client.test.ts src/components/ai-connections/ManagedAiConnectionDetails.test.tsx src/components/ai-connections/AiConnectionAccountDetails.test.tsx src/pages/apps/AppDetail.test.tsx
```

## Risks

Descriptive permissions reuse retained facts within one request. A
concurrent change can leave a displayed choice stale; the next request
and every write still authorize fresh. Pools with referenced members
retain their existing cost.

The account and grants clients now bound each caller's wait. A browser
abort does not cancel an authorization read already admitted by the
server. The independent profile request uses a fixed Anthropic origin, a
bounded body, no redirects, and a 15-second deadline. Inference-only
credentials can return no email; that is reported without guessing from
a Paperclip owner or changing connection health. Profiles are fetched
only for the caller's authorized selected grant. No ambient CLI
identity, persistent identity cache, background polling, or
billing-identity change is added. Other API reads keep their existing
behavior. No migration is required. Staging has not been redeployed.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` through the Codex harness in T3 Code, with xhigh
reasoning, code editing, execution, and test tools. The host does not
expose the 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 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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-02 12:29:03 -08:00
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