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DottaandPaperclip 554a770c6f perf(apps): scope connection profile configuration reads (#18687)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The Apps Permissions page reads saved access profiles for one
connection.
> - The page fetched every company profile, rule, and binding.
> - It used only the app profile and eligible task-granted profiles for
that connection.
> - This pull request adds a saved configuration read owned by the
profile service.
> - The route keeps current connection and per-profile management
checks.
> - The benefit is fewer database rows, less Node work, and a smaller
response for the same displayed configuration.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Server profile configuration reads and the Apps Permissions and Review
data caller.

**Problem or motivation**

One connection page loaded and serialized unrelated company profiles. In
the local fixture, this produced a 32.35 MB response with 76,001 rule
rows.

**Proposed solution**

Select the displayed connection's app profile and exact eligible
connection-intent profiles before loading their entries and bindings.
Return an explicit configuration DTO with complete selected arrays. Keep
summary and pending-review work on the existing full API.

**Alternatives considered**

Filtering the full response in the browser retains the database and Node
cost. Truncating the full API would break other clients. Filtering
entries to the connection would lose selectors and bindings needed by
saves.

**Roadmap alignment**

This improves the existing governed Apps capability. It does not add a
new access policy. Related merged work: #18673 and #18681. Related
harness cleanup: #18683. Public PR searches found no duplicate
connection configuration projection.

## What Changed

- Add `ToolProfileConfiguration` and `GET
/api/tool-connections/{connectionId}/profile-configuration`.
- Select `app:<connectionId>` at any status and exact active, correctly
bound `connection_intent` profiles. Run the existing per-profile
visibility filter before configuration queries.
- Preserve complete ordered entries and bindings. Keep all save
behavior, empty-binding install fallback, and the existing full profile
API.
- Switch AppDetail and AgentConnectionAccess to the configuration DTO.
Use a distinct cache key below the existing profiles prefix so mutation
and reconnect invalidations still refresh it.
- Add real PostgreSQL differential and authenticated HTTP tests, UI
caller coverage, a reproducible benchmark, and access-map documentation.

## Verification

Baseline: `3f8ebfff8aa9febd0733c6f65b07485dcadfd0e2`, after both #18673
and #18681. Final head: `b40c1ed7c0833d403e20ee8a5ff9d09f1bad6d22`.
Current implementation and reproduction details are in [the performance
note](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/b40c1ed7c0833d403e20ee8a5ff9d09f1bad6d22/doc/performance/2026-11-02-connection-profile-configuration.md).

- AppDetail: 79 tests passed. Existing access/action saves, install
fallback, grant removal, errors, and refresh cases use the new caller.
- Real PostgreSQL differential: passed. Full ordered selected
configuration equals the old full-list selection. Cases cover extra
bindings, sibling selectors, wrong source/key/status/binding, null and
non-string agent metadata, fresh mutations, empty app bindings,
visibility filtering, and company scope.
- Production HTTP authentication: API key and run JWT cases passed.
Hidden personal accounts omit spanning profiles. Private connection
reads fail. Restored ownership restores visibility. Revoked management
grants deny fresh calls. Final UID canonicalization and foreign-company
404 assertions passed on the current head.
- Map structural check, token gate, and `git diff --check`: passed.
- Required local `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`: passed on the
current head. `pnpm test:run` was started once. Its first chat shard
passed (337 tests, 151.87 seconds); the second shard was intentionally
interrupted after the complete final-head CI suite passed. This partial
local attempt is not a full local test pass. The same stable-runner
general and serialized partitions and Runner lanes passed in [final-head
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41538805231),
including aggregate `ci / verify`. No local assertion failures were
observed before interruption.
- Final-head focused acceptance: four files, 85 tests passed. Full token
gates, maps, and module boundaries passed.
- Actual browser acceptance passed on the current checkout with isolated
real PostgreSQL and a local trusted board. An action saved as Off
persisted after reload. Both app agent bindings stayed intact. Removing
an agent-only task grant persisted after reload. Requests used only the
narrow profile endpoint. No browser exceptions occurred. No responses
were mocked. No provider calls or hosted changes were made. The helper
stopped the owned runtime and database after the check.
- Final exact-head checks: 54 success, one clean neutral Paperclip
Review, three skipped, zero pending or failures. Legacy Snyk status:
success. No inline review comments.
- Greptile reviewed exact head
`b40c1ed7c0833d403e20ee8a5ff9d09f1bad6d22`: 5/5, no findings, completed
successful check.

Five alternating unprofiled pairs ran with real PostgreSQL on
macOS/arm64, Node v24.22.2, and forced GC. The fixture has 210 profiles
(200 heavy profiles plus ten eligibility cases), 76,001 rules, 1,900
active tools, 695 removed tools, and 12 agents. The selected
configuration has two profiles and 1,391 rules. Each pair asserts
complete ordered selected DTO equality.

| Measurement | Full list | Configuration read |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Service wall ms, median [min, max] | 200.927 [193.319, 213.390] |
6.414 [5.508, 6.973] |
| Node CPU ms, median [min, max] | 262.751 [246.727, 271.573] | 27.525
[22.576, 29.308] |
| Select queries / returned rows | 7 / 78,139 | 3 / 1,397 |
| Actual response JSON bytes | 32,353,534 | 592,233 |
| Serialization wall ms, median [min, max] | 90.714 [88.715, 99.304] |
1.644 [1.637, 1.745] |
| Serialization CPU ms, median [min, max] | 90.644 [88.569, 96.778] |
1.654 [1.637, 1.807] |

Reproduce: `node --expose-gc --import
./server/node_modules/tsx/dist/loader.mjs
server/scripts/benchmark-connection-profile-configuration.ts 5`.

The benchmark measures the service and actual response JSON separately.
It excludes HTTP and authorization work through an identity visibility
callback. Node CPU does not include PostgreSQL CPU. No hosted or
foreground-under-load improvement is claimed.

Preserved failures: offline install lacked a locked tarball; frozen
online install passed. Sandbox localhost and tsx IPC restrictions
blocked initial DB/typecheck attempts; permitted retries use the same
checks. The first HTTP suite needed the unbuilt plugin SDK; its owning
build helper fixed setup. Shared typecheck caught a missing barrel
export, now fixed. A broad typecheck inherited the host's unpinned
nested pnpm executable; the owned stalled process was stopped and
restarted with pinned pnpm 9. The complete current-head CI suite and
aggregate verify passed. The separate Paperclip agent review published
5/5 with no findings at this head and completed with a clean neutral
conclusion. An added foreign-company assertion expected 403; the
existing guard correctly returned 404. Only the test expectation
changed. The first real browser attempt saved and reloaded the action
correctly, but grant deletion returned 422: the stress fixture had a
company binding, which makes that profile the company default. The UI
showed the existing deletion error. The second browser seed used the
production agent-only intent shape and passed removal and reload. This
does not change the stress fixture or product deletion gates. Initial
external browser script attempts also needed an ESM extension and the
correct dependency path. Logs, first-failure screenshots, traces, and
result files are retained in the local evidence directory.

## Risks

- SQL selection must stay aligned with connection-intent eligibility.
Differential fixtures cover the exact current predicate.
- A selected connection can still have many rules. This change preserves
all selected configuration.
- Per-profile authorization still reads current selected resources and
can add work. Connection visibility does not bypass that check.
- No migration, default-allow, effective-access, policy-review,
provider, or deployment behavior changes. The old endpoint remains
available. Rollback restores the old AppDetail caller and removes the
additive endpoint.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, `gpt-6.1-sol`, with code execution and repository 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 (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>
2026-11-02 16:55:56 -06:00
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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.