## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Connection cards let users provide the access an agent needs. > - Users can complete setup in Apps while an earlier card stays pending. > - A stale card can then cancel recovery despite valid existing access. > - This change verifies existing access and expires the obsolete request. > - It records a system outcome and sends one durable continuation. > - Approval, identity, permission, and workspace recovery gates remain in place. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** An ordinary tool connection request stayed pending after the addressed user connected the service in Apps. A later conversation retry was cancelled with `issue_waiting_for_response`. **Expected behavior** A request expires when the same user and requesting agent already have usable access. The agent gets a durable tool refresh. The system records no new human approval. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Have an agent request a tool connection on an active task. 2. Connect the service through Apps with the addressed user's existing grant, agent install, and allowed tools. 3. Let a conversation run stop and retry. The pending card still blocks the retry on the base branch. Related: #12345 introduced the connection request flow. This fix uses its existing access checks and delivery queue. ## What Changed - Verify company, task ownership, user identity, membership, health, grants, installs, and task tool policy before expiring an ordinary request. - Preserve AI account, channel, additional permission, and upstream provider requests on their existing paths. - Save the system outcome, audit event, and continuation in one transaction. Notify an idle delivery worker when a request commits. - Recheck access and other questions or approvals before delivery, retry, final dispatch, and native projection. Refresh system observations for an authorized replacement account. - Rearm delivery when access changes before provider work starts. Verify the host's admission receipt against execution evidence before allowing retry without a repair incident. - Require the current delivery claim when marking an attempt complete. An old completion cannot overwrite a rearmed continuation. - Add embedded-Postgres regressions for permissions, policy, concurrency, restart, replacement accounts, both dispatch gates, and the delivery race. Keep genuine workspace repair holds blocking. ## Verification - Latest-head connection, wake-context, dispatch, and legacy recovery suites: 124 tests passed. The connection suite includes 44 real-Postgres cases. - Server typecheck passed. Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed on the latest head. - `pnpm test:run` was run locally. Its general-server group passed 18,583 tests and failed 20. That long run started before the review fixes, then loaded new test cases against modules transformed before those fixes. The affected latest-head suites pass in a fresh process. - One full-run failure also reproduces on unchanged base commitde9ab8e7e0: native-session-resume's damaged-prior-epoch replacement case. It is outside this change. Full-run groups after general-server did not run because that command stopped on failure. - Apex reviewed commit96b96297f4at 5/5. All review threads are resolved. All latest-head CI gates passed. The branch has no merge conflicts. ## Risks A false readiness result could retire a request too early. The fix reuses the runtime access selection rules, makes no new grants, and rechecks access at delivery. Ordinary expired requests do not authorize continuation. A failed workspace restore still requires repair through the existing gate. No schema migration is needed. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with repository inspection, code editing, shell execution, and test tools. The session identifies the model family as GPT-6. It does not expose a more specific runtime model ID or 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 (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass (focused suites; full local limitations are listed above) - [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>
Feature modules
A feature module under server/src/modules/<name>/ uses three layers. Each
layer has one rule: which layer below it, it may import from.
adapters → application → domain
domain/holds pure business rules. A domain file takes plain data in and returns plain data out. A domain file must not importdrizzle-orm,@paperclipai/db, a service underserver/src/services/, a route underserver/src/routes/, or a Node.js I/O module (node:child_process,node:fs,node:net). A domain function must not read the system clock; the caller passesnowas an explicitDatevalue.application/holds use cases and the ports they need. A use case takes its ports as constructor arguments and calls domain functions for policy decisions. An application file must not importdrizzle-orm, a SQL client, a concrete adapter, or the server's HTTP error helpers. The outer service or route translates application errors into transport responses.adapters/holds the concrete implementations of the ports: Postgres queries, transactions, and process control. An adapter file may importdrizzle-orm,@paperclipai/db, and Node.js I/O modules.
A module exposes its commands through index.ts, which composes the adapters
and the use cases behind a factory function. Code outside the module imports
that entry point, never a file inside domain/, application/, or
adapters/ directly.
pnpm check:module-boundaries enforces these rules for production source
files. It also checks access to the company deletion entry point below.
Company deletion
The existing company deletion service owns the database transaction and deletion
order. A module can expose a separate company-deletion.ts entry point.
Only services/company-deletion.ts can import this entry point.
The entry point exports an implementation of CompanyDeletionParticipant from
lib/company-deletion.ts. Do not export it through the normal module index.
The service must complete external cleanup before it starts the transaction. It must lock the company before it deletes dependent records or calls a module. Creation commands must use the same company lock. The service removes dependent records before it calls the module. The module checks its deletion conditions and deletes the records it owns. Use the supplied transaction. Do not start another transaction or call external systems. Throw an error if deletion cannot proceed. An error must roll back all database changes in the deletion transaction.
Call each module explicitly in dependency order. No module registry is required.
The agent lifecycle module also has a restricted configuration.ts entry point.
It saves configuration and invalidates verification in the caller's transaction.
The lifecycle guide lists its permitted callers.
Ordinary configuration updates use the root lifecycle command.
The agent lifecycle module owns agent creation, pause, resume, and termination. Use its commands for these changes.