PaperClipAI/maps/agent-access-map/inbox-search.md

Inbox, decisions, and search — agent access

Product map: Inbox, decisions, and search.

Feature ID: inbox-search.

Review date: 2026-10-12. Source commit: f981fa3cc10cb8663a87dec60345fbff46d54d0a.

This is a source-reviewed baseline of representative operations and known gaps. Each capability needs operation-level review before its entire scope can be qualified. No live agent execution is claimed. Follow the map contract for format, permission checks, evidence and maintenance.

views

Capability ID: inbox-search/views.

The issue-list API accepts optional includeAgentCreatedTasks; false restricts independent results to human creation before search/pagination. Omission retains existing agent/API behavior. includeParticipatedTasks=true requires a board user and retains only that authenticated user's existing participation as a creation visibility exception. Company/private-task access checks still apply. Collection preferences and hierarchy presentation are browser state, not additional authority. Source-reviewed behavior; live agent access verification remains separate.

Collection projections view=index and view=rows use the same issue-list company/private-task checks. Optional ids and parentIds batches accept at most 100 UUIDs and cannot be combined with blocked attention. They grant no new access. listProjection marks omitted task bodies so clients do not reuse them as detail. The sidebar count endpoint returns only readable unread Mine task IDs; failed-run counts apply the run read decision. No new agent execution or mutation path is added.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/agents/me/inbox-lite.
• GET /api/agents/me/inbox/mine.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/issues.

Agent access: partial — REST / native call_api; MCP inbox/task search.

Policy: Own agent context; responsible-user inbox policy and explicit opt-in/grants for cross-user archive; decision policy separately. Automatic read cleanup does not count as user participation, including historical reader-attributed rows. Explicit user recovery decisions still count. Automatic creator attribution, synchronized comments, and manual routine runs do not count. Direct board/API comments, human assignment, and open addressed requests qualify. These admission rules do not grant task access. Historical questions and requests on closed tasks do not qualify. Request unread state uses the person's read or reply time, independent of automatic task updates.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above. The cleanup exclusion in issue queries was reviewed at 89770ba707fb1ebd4cabd184eec2e7fee226e0c3. Issue service regressions cover membership, unread counts, timestamps, and retained audit rows.

Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution. Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability. Seed a completed issue with only automatic read cleanup under a user identity: Mine and Unread must exclude it while activity history retains the row. An explicit recovery decision must still establish participation. No live user-inbox proof is claimed.

Gaps: Agent inbox and Mine support exist; board attention/unread/dismissal aggregation is a separate user-only surface.

triage

Capability ID: inbox-search/triage.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• POST /api/issues/{id}/inbox-archive.
• DELETE /api/issues/{id}/inbox-archive.

Agent access: partial — REST / native call_api; existing garden-inbox workflow.

Policy: Own agent context; responsible-user inbox policy and explicit opt-in/grants for cross-user archive; decision policy separately.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution. Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.

Gaps: Archive has an agent-aware responsible-user policy. Personal read/unread/dismissal does not have equivalent agent semantics everywhere.

decisions

Capability ID: inbox-search/decisions.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/decision-queues.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/decision-queues/{key}/items.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/attention/summary — canonical outstanding counts without decision cards, images, plan bodies, or pagination. Board user and company access are required. Task privacy, addressee, dismissal, snooze, archive, and complete-set counting rules match the attention feed. This read grants no agent or resolution authority.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/attention/tasks — the same canonical counts and distinct accessible task IDs for Needs attention. It has the same board, company, privacy, addressee, dismissal, snooze, and archive gates as the feed.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/attention/history — read-only canonical interaction/Decisions-v1/approval projection with cursor, search, outcome, agent, project, date, and chronological sort filters. Each source and v1 target must pass task privacy checks; an approval linked to a task needs that task to be readable. Bounded to 100 records per page; no second decision write store.

The history route is operator-only: a board user with company access is required. It does not grant an agent resolver authority. Existing task interaction and decision routes remain the mutation owners. Source evidence: history service and route. Real temporary PostgreSQL regression coverage is in decision-history.test.ts; this is not a deployed user/agent credential test.

GET /api/companies/{companyId}/attention also projects existing pending interactions from persistent agent chats, including ask_user_questions, under the same board, company, task-read, and addressee rules. The execution-container exclusion does not suppress an explicit human request. Resolution still uses the owning interaction API and its resolver policy; ordinary chat prose and idle review status do not become decision records. Source and isolated PostgreSQL coverage: attention service and regressions.

Agent access: partial — REST / native call_api under decision queue authorization.

Policy: Own agent context; responsible-user inbox policy and explicit opt-in/grants for cross-user archive; decision policy separately.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution. Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.

Gaps: Queue browsing/managing may be allowed; governed approval decisions still have separate board/resolver boundaries.

search

Capability ID: inbox-search/search.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/search.
• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/issues.

Agent access: available — Native search_tasks for tasks; REST / native call_api for broader search.

Policy: Own agent context; responsible-user inbox policy and explicit opt-in/grants for cross-user archive; decision policy separately.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution. Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.

Gaps: General company search and dedicated task search are different result sets; use the appropriate one.

toasts

Capability ID: inbox-search/toasts.

Review: baseline.

API: present — GET /api/companies/{companyId}/events/ws (WebSocket upgrade); viewer-specific toastEligible metadata on authorized events. No notification mutation endpoint.

Agent access: not-applicable — toast presentation is a human browser concern. Agent-authenticated event subscriptions retain authorization but do not qualify for human toasts. Agent task mutations may notify participating humans.

Policy: Company membership and task/run read checks precede human participation checks. Creator, current human assignee, commenter, deliberate actor, or explicit user mention qualifies; agent ownership and responsible-user attribution alone do not. See toast semantics.

Evidence: source-only — socket projection and eligibility.

Verification: not-run — Connect two users and an agent; assert per-user eligibility without losing authorized cache updates. Deny revoked membership and private task access. Confirm relevance lookup failure yields a quiet authorized event.

Gaps: Browser recipes and regression sources are not deployment acceptance proof.