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DottaandPaperclip d40f9ac377 fix: enforce first-task completion decisions and retain E2E evidence (#17940)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people delegate work to agents and approve proposed
work.
> - The onboarding first task asks for scope, proposes a task, and waits
for a human decision.
> - An answer to its opening question supplies scope. It does not
approve a proposal.
> - Task creation already checks the saved proposal decision.
> - Native completion used the general completion policy and could mark
the onboarding parent Done without that decision.
> - This PR checks the trusted decision before completion feedback and
again when the native status is committed.
> - The first task stays in review until a saved human decision permits
closure. Ordinary completion and acknowledged refusal keep their current
behavior.
> - The Product E2E guard also retains closed scalar evidence so future
failures show which boundary condition was observed.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #17914. Profile compatibility follow-up to #17922.

**What happened?**

A native onboarding run can submit a valid low-risk Done result after
only the opening answer. The native finalizer then marks the first task
Done even though no human has accepted or rejected a proposal.

**Expected behavior**

The opening answer must not permit completion. A trusted saved proposal
decision must permit it. A saved rejection permits acknowledgment and
closure, but does not authorize new work. A later pending proposal must
keep the task in review.

**Steps to reproduce**

Create a server-owned onboarding first task with an answered opening
question, no proposal decision, and a valid low-risk completion
contract. Pass a Done result through native completion feedback, the
control-plane port, and the finalizer. Before this fix, the persisted
status is Done. The regression expects In review. Ordinary completion
and acknowledged rejection pass as controls.

## What Changed

- Share the trusted latest-proposal and human-response checks with
completion admission. Keep task creation acceptance-only.
- Refuse premature native completion feedback. Keep an already saved
premature result in review during finalization.
- Check the decision again under the existing task and run locks before
committing Done.
- Cover accepted decisions, saved refusals, forged context, pending or
changed proposals, and a real database race.
- Retain a closed scalar receipt when the existing E2E pre-acceptance
guard fails. Validate and display it without task content, IDs,
filenames, or raw rows. Preserve the original failure, blocked
dependents, and historical reports.
- Include the evidence module in the journey definition hash. Bind the
receipt to its exact failure code and check its closed keys against the
full type.
- Repair base-branch profile drift found by the full harness check:
include the active Copilot v66 fixture in image hashing and update stale
Pi version/hash expectations from #17922. Keep all older image inputs
and strict hash checks.
- Update the onboarding feature and agent access maps and E2E evidence
documentation.

## Verification

- Semantic regression before implementation: one failure and two passing
controls on PostgreSQL 18. The failed assertion observed Done instead of
In review.
- The local database uses an owned disposable container with an
immutable image digest. Actual migrations, feedback, control-plane port,
finalizer, and status commit run against PostgreSQL. A temporary test
adapter replaces only the embedded database transport because this host
has exhausted its PostgreSQL semaphores.
- Native control-plane suite: 55 tests passed, including 17 new
controls. Existing task-creation admission: 25 passed. Existing
completion feedback: 19 passed.
- Credential-free E2E support: 206 Vitest suites passed, 4,407 tests
passed, and two skipped. All 137 Node support checks passed. Harness
typecheck passed.
- The failure-receipt regression had 11 failed assertions before capture
was implemented. Two failure-code binding assertions fail without their
gate. Eight placement/binding cases first validate the receipt-free
control, then reject the misplaced receipt.
- The untouched base reproduced the three profile compatibility
failures. The narrow repair passed all 83 affected tests before the full
harness run.
- Private workflow preparation and credential-free onboarding preview:
nine compatibility checks passed. Ownership, recovery, evidence,
shared-contract and workflow compatibility: 77 passed. The actual
provider preview also confirms immediate success deletion, earlier
declared failure eligibility, limits, and zero retries without
credential access. Map checks and git diff checks passed.
- Required repository typecheck passed for the product fix. The combined
branch build passed. The local full repository suite was stopped after
repeated PostgreSQL startup failures; a separate initdb probe confirmed
host SysV semaphore exhaustion. No shared IPC resources were changed.
[Hosted
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40591020873)
passed the full database suites, typecheck, build, runner checks,
serialized suites, and browser shards on final head
`1ac4c23605a03bfd1f1f8a017b14ce29fda85f6b` (55 success, two expected
skips, one advisory neutral).
- Independent source review approved the product guard, atomic race
regression, evidence contract, and maps with no actionable findings.
Both automated reviews are 5/5 on final head
`1ac4c23605a03bfd1f1f8a017b14ce29fda85f6b`; prior findings are fixed and
resolved. Final CI is green and the PR is conflict-free.
- No Cloud workspace, provider call, release publication, or deployment
is part of this verification. These tests do not identify a historical
Cloud failure or qualify live onboarding.
- Local dependency installation uses the existing CI-generated lockfile
from #17811. No lockfile change is included.

## Risks

- Existing onboarding runs without a trusted saved proposal decision
remain in review even when the agent reports success. This is the
intended approval boundary.
- Decision changes can race completion. The status commit checks the
decision under its existing locks and uses the existing status-race
recovery path.
- A saved refusal permits closure only. Creation admission still rejects
it.
- Evidence readers reject malformed receipts and unrelated failure
codes. The version-1 key registry is checked against every receipt field
at compile time. Existing attempts do not gain evidence after the fact.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), ultra reasoning, through Codex. Used
repository inspection, code execution, and collaborating coding agents.
The runtime did not report a 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 references)
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
ticket 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>
2026-10-27 17:07:50 -05:00
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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.