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DottaandPaperclip ab15aff390 feat: add experimental persistent agent chat (#13284)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Conversations must use the same tasks, controls, and execution
history.
> - Users need an ongoing chat with an agent without managing task
properties.
> - Agents should clarify and plan work, then hand execution to assigned
project tasks.
> - This pull request combines the reviewed Agent Chat stack for one
squash merge.
> - The benefit is persistent conversation with normal task governance
and shared UI.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Task lifecycle, agent runtime tools, shared task UI, and browser/paid
runner tests.

**Problem or motivation**

Users need one persistent conversation with each agent. A separate chat
store or renderer would duplicate task behavior and bypass existing
controls.

**Proposed solution**

Use a task-backed chat per company, user, and agent. Reuse the task
composer and transcript. Clarify and plan in chat, then create assigned
project tasks with the relevant plan. Keep Agent Chat behind its own
disabled-by-default experimental setting.

**Roadmap alignment**

This implements the task-backed direction in [CEO
Chat](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/master/ROADMAP.md#-ceo-chat).
Related proposals: #2504 and #9693. Related request: #7981. The
maintainer requested one squash merge of the complete stack.

Consolidates the reviewed runtime
[#13281](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/13281), backend
[#13282](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/13282), and UI
[#13283](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/13283) layers
with this PR's E2E coverage. All four layers passed CI and received
Greptile 5/5 before consolidation. This PR targets master and includes
the complete feature.

## What Changed

- Add personal canonical chat tasks with ordinary company visibility,
immutable identity, idempotent first sends, and an idle waiting state.
- Process `/new` in queue order. Preserve history, release a chat pause,
and fence old provider context and delayed writes.
- Keep chat lifecycle rules across recovery, finalization, assignment,
task lists, and rollups.
- Support research and plan revision in chat. Hand plans to ordinary
assigned project tasks before execution starts. Reject new chat
subtasks.
- Add repository-aware project creation and discovery tools, including
multiple repository IDs and GitHub URLs, authorization, idempotency, and
durable project-created cards.
- Reuse task UI components for chat, with starred/recent agent
navigation and a separate `enableAgentChat` experimental flag.
- Add deterministic browser tests and 24 paid chat cells across four
Codex/Claude profiles, with validated reports and screenshots.
- Integrate current master recovery, controller lease, queued-message,
and task UI changes. Gate chat interruption and deferred promotion on
ownership/feature policy. Guarantee lease renewal and active controls
are stopped even if teardown fails.
- Preserve master's migration 0273 and generate chat migration 0274 with
idempotent replay for development databases.

## Verification

- Prior exact heads of all four PRs passed Linux CI, including build,
typecheck, general/serialized tests, and browser E2E. Each had Greptile
5/5 and no unresolved findings.
- Integrated local verification passed: full repository typecheck and
production build, Storybook build, token gates, 340 focused UI tests,
all 20 deterministic chat browser tests, two migration replay tests, 88
focused chat/queue/native/controller tests, and provider/session
regressions including real lease expiry. These include the three
lifecycle regressions for the final admission/teardown fixes; server
typecheck also passes. Current head
`1268eda16cc2af892055917e7292f068820be135` has Greptile 5/5 with no
unresolved findings and passing security scans. All final-head CI gates
passed: build, full Runner verification, typecheck/release registry,
canary, all general/serialized test shards, and all browser E2E shards
([CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/34696739927)).
Local PostgreSQL startup contention required serialized retries; skipped
fixtures do not count as passing coverage.
- The earlier paid campaign passed all 24 chat cells and retained 32
screenshots:
[report](https://d1p6rlowie26tp.cloudfront.net/runner-e2e/campaigns/gha-34648511170-1/index.html?report=agent-chat#suite-agent-chat).
It tested `abacbdfd2f660709ec37312cdb758284c8399d04`; it is prior
evidence, not a paid run of this integrated head.
- Manual check: enable Agent Chat in Experimental settings, open an
agent, clarify and revise a plan, then hand off to an assigned project
task. Stop a reply, send `/new`, and verify fresh context with retained
history. Disable the setting and verify agent shortcuts/new chat turns
are blocked.

## Risks

- Queue/session integration can affect retries and delayed writes. Tests
cover ownership, cancellation, reset boundaries, idle recovery, and
ordinary task behavior.
- Migration 0274 adds conversation fields and constraints. Replay is
idempotent and preserves existing development chat history.
- This combines the previously reviewed stack at the maintainer's
request. Agent Chat remains off by default and is separate from
Conference Room.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 Astra (`gpt-6-astra`), with reasoning, code
execution, browser tools, and parallel review. The exact context-window
size is not exposed in this session. Codex and Claude also ran as test
subjects in the linked paid campaign.

## 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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-12 08:56:04 -05:00

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import { callProjectTool } from "../services/project-tools.js";
import { createLocalAgentJwt } from "../agent-auth-jwt.js";
import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
import { eq } from "drizzle-orm";
import { issues, heartbeatRuns } from "@paperclipai/db";
import { startRunnerApiTestServer } from "./helpers/runner-api-server.js";
import { issueService } from "../services/issues.js";
import { documentService } from "../services/documents.js";
import { activityService } from "../services/activity.js";
import { getEmbeddedPostgresTestSupport } from "./helpers/embedded-postgres.js";
const support = await getEmbeddedPostgresTestSupport();
(support.supported ? describe : describe.skip)("chat project tool handoff", () => {
let server: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof startRunnerApiTestServer>>;
const originalSecret = process.env.PAPERCLIP_AGENT_JWT_SECRET;
beforeAll(async () => { process.env.PAPERCLIP_AGENT_JWT_SECRET = randomUUID(); server = await startRunnerApiTestServer(); }, 60_000);
afterAll(async () => { await server?.close(); if (originalSecret === undefined) delete process.env.PAPERCLIP_AGENT_JWT_SECRET; else process.env.PAPERCLIP_AGENT_JWT_SECRET = originalSecret; });
const call = (fixture: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof server.fixture>>, tool: string, args: Record<string, unknown>) => fixture.authority.execute({ tool, arguments: args, callId: randomUUID() });
it("allows a conversation reply to enter review without manufacturing a review interaction", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const token = createLocalAgentJwt(f.agentId, f.companyId, "paperclip_runner", f.runId, f.responsibleUserId)!;
const response = await fetch(`${server.apiUrl}/api/issues/${f.issueId}`, {
method: "PATCH", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ status: "in_review", comment: "The plan is ready for our next discussion." }),
});
const result = await response.json();
expect(response.status, JSON.stringify(result)).toBe(200);
expect(result.status).toBe("in_review");
});
it("creates an ordinary project task and its plan atomically, retaining the conversation plan", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
await documentService(server.db).upsertIssueDocument({ issueId: f.issueId, key: "plan", format: "markdown", body: "Full discussion plan" });
const input = { title: "Implement the clarified outcome", projectId: f.projectId, initialPlan: "# Execution plan\n\nBuild and verify the outcome.", idempotencyKey: "handoff" };
const first = await call(f, "create_task", input) as any;
const again = await call(f, "create_task", input) as any;
expect(again.task.id).toBe(first.task.id);
expect(first.task.parentId).toBeNull();
const [task] = await server.db.select().from(issues).where(eq(issues.id, first.task.id));
expect(task).toMatchObject({ projectId: f.projectId, assigneeAgentId: f.agentId, status: "todo" });
expect((await documentService(server.db).getIssueDocumentByKey(task.id, "plan"))?.body).toBe(input.initialPlan);
expect((await documentService(server.db).getIssueDocumentByKey(f.issueId, "plan"))?.body).toBe("Full discussion plan");
await expect(call(f, "create_task", { ...input, title: "Different" })).rejects.toThrow(/idempotency/);
});
it("rejects creation, child helpers, and reparenting under a chat, while retaining legacy children", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const svc = issueService(server.db);
await expect(svc.create(f.companyId, { title: "Invalid", parentId: f.issueId })).rejects.toThrow(/cannot have new subtasks/);
await expect(svc.createChild(f.issueId, { title: "Invalid" })).rejects.toThrow(/cannot have new subtasks/);
await expect(svc.importIssues(f.companyId, [{
id: randomUUID(), ref: "imported", title: "Imported child", parentId: f.issueId,
projectId: null, projectWorkspaceId: null, description: null, assigneeAgentId: null,
status: "backlog", priority: "medium", billingCode: null, assigneeAdapterOverrides: null,
executionWorkspaceSettings: null, labelIds: [], monitorNotes: null, monitorScheduledBy: null,
}])).rejects.toThrow(/cannot have new subtasks/);
const ordinary = await svc.create(f.companyId, { title: "Ordinary" });
await expect(svc.update(ordinary.id, { parentId: f.issueId })).rejects.toThrow(/cannot have new subtasks/);
await server.db.update(issues).set({ parentId: f.issueId }).where(eq(issues.id, ordinary.id));
expect(await svc.update(ordinary.id, { title: "Legacy edited", parentId: f.issueId })).toMatchObject({ title: "Legacy edited" });
expect(await svc.update(ordinary.id, { parentId: null })).toMatchObject({ parentId: null });
});
it("hands off through the same API used by Claude/Codex MCP with the plan present on return", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const result = await callProjectTool({ name: "create_task", arguments: { title: "MCP handoff", projectId: f.projectId, initialPlan: "# Plan\nImplement in the execution task.", idempotencyKey: "mcp" },
apiUrl: server.apiUrl, token: createLocalAgentJwt(f.agentId, f.companyId, "paperclip_runner", f.runId, f.responsibleUserId)!,
companyId: f.companyId, issueId: f.issueId, agentId: f.agentId, conversation: true });
expect(result).toMatchObject({ parentId: null, projectId: f.projectId, assigneeAgentId: f.agentId });
expect((await documentService(server.db).getIssueDocumentByKey(result.id, "plan"))?.body).toContain("Implement in the execution task");
});
it("retains ordinary child delegation and projectless task creation", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture();
const result = await call(f, "create_task", { title: "Delegate ordinary work", idempotencyKey: "child" }) as any;
expect(result.task.parentId).toBe(f.issueId);
expect(await issueService(server.db).create(f.companyId, { title: "No project needed" })).toMatchObject({ projectId: null });
});
it("creates a project once through the production API and records it on the source feed", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const input = { name: "New non-code project", description: "A well-scoped outcome", idempotencyKey: "project" };
const results = await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: 4 }, () => call(f, "create_project", input))) as any[];
const project = results[0];
expect(new Set(results.map(result => result.id)).size).toBe(1);
expect(project.id).toBeTruthy();
expect((await call(f, "create_project", input) as any).id).toBe(project.id);
const feed = await activityService(server.db).forIssue(f.issueId);
expect(feed.filter(event => event.action === "project.created")).toHaveLength(1);
expect(feed.find(event => event.action === "project.created")).toMatchObject({ entityId: project.id, runId: f.runId, details: { sourceIssueId: f.issueId } });
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { ...input, name: "Changed" })).rejects.toThrow(/different inputs/);
});
it("includes an explicit workspace repository in the committed project card", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const project = await call(f, "create_project", { name: "Workspace repo", workspace: { repoUrl: "https://github.com/example/web" }, idempotencyKey: "workspace" }) as any;
const feed = await activityService(server.db).forIssue(f.issueId);
expect(feed.find(event => event.entityId === project.id)?.details?.repositories).toEqual([
expect.objectContaining({ url: "https://github.com/example/web" }),
]);
});
it("registers multiple previously unknown GitHub URLs and deduplicates equivalent URLs", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
const project = await call(f, "create_project", { name: "Across repos", repositoryUrls: ["https://github.com/example/web.git", "https://github.com/example/api", "https://github.com/example/web/"], idempotencyKey: "urls" }) as any;
expect(project.workspaces.map((w: any) => w.repoUrl).sort()).toEqual(["https://github.com/example/api", "https://github.com/example/web"]);
expect(project.workspaces.filter((w: any) => w.isPrimary)).toHaveLength(1);
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { name: "Invalid", repositoryUrls: ["https://github.com/example/api"], workspace: { repoUrl: "https://github.com/example/web" }, idempotencyKey: "conflict" })).rejects.toThrow(/either workspace/);
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { name: "Invalid", repositoryUrls: ["https://user:password@github.com/example/api"], idempotencyKey: "credentials" })).rejects.toThrow(/without credentials/);
});
it("allows planning documents while denying project/task creation in Plan and Ask mode", async () => {
for (const mode of ["planning", "ask"] as const) {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true, mode });
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { name: "No", idempotencyKey: "no" })).rejects.toThrow(/mode_denied/);
await expect(call(f, "create_task", { title: "No", idempotencyKey: "no" })).rejects.toThrow(/mode_denied/);
if (mode === "planning") await call(f, "write_document", { key: "plan", title: "Plan", body: "Clarify and plan here", idempotencyKey: "plan" });
}
});
it("rejects invented repository IDs and cancelled runs without creating a project", async () => {
const f = await server.fixture({ conversation: true });
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { name: "Missing repo", repositoryIds: ["999999"], idempotencyKey: "missing" })).rejects.toThrow(/repository.*available/);
await server.db.update(heartbeatRuns).set({ status: "cancelled" }).where(eq(heartbeatRuns.id, f.runId));
await expect(call(f, "create_project", { name: "Cancelled", idempotencyKey: "cancelled" })).rejects.toThrow();
});
});