## Thinking Path > - Paperclip lets users choose an agent harness and account. > - The server resolves the runner for new agents. > - Claude still needs the same ordinary native-default journey as Codex. > - Existing agents must retain their runner, model and account. > - This PR defaults new Apple Silicon Claude agents to Paperclip Runner with Opus 5.5. > - Users can connect and work without a runner override. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #15683. This PR depends on #15994 and precedes #15997. Related scope: #15422, #13978 and #15224. ## What Changed - Resolve new Apple Silicon Claude agents to `paperclip_runner`, `provider: acpx`, `acpxAgent: claude`. Keep explicit Legacy, models, provider routing and saved execution. - Use `claude-opus-5-5` for ordinary Claude defaults and retain explicit overrides. - Reuse existing API-key/subscription connections, credential storage and checks. Generalize the shared Advanced runner control with Claude branding. - Carry configured effort into the shared v9 contract. Preserve compatible permissions, instructions, skills, timeouts and session behavior. Require Legacy for unsupported settings. - Qualify a new immutable managed Claude target at explicit Connect through the existing permission-gated probe. Use fresh scoped discovery for test and hire. Discard stale results and require an explicit Connect after settings change. - Retain merged Codex onboarding recovery, auth preparation, import/effort corrections and Grok Bot gates. - Check the Claude first-task wizard's saved default directly. Update configuration/runtime documentation and exact Opus 5.5 accounting. - Align hire fixtures with the merged host-environment restriction. Native agent-authenticated hires cannot inject host env settings; both creation endpoints verify that no extra agent is saved. ## Verification - Updated onto master `9179d8dcc3e908c217fde4f63c9d08ccf8132eeb` through #15994. Native input v9 carries effort while preserving v7 home modes and v8 Muse. Codex defaults remain unchanged. - Focused local verification passed 285 server tests, 323 UI tests, 124 setup/registry tests, and two v9 permission-pin transport cases. Direct server/UI TypeScript checks passed. An initial 30-second hook timeout was resolved by serial verification with a longer hook budget: all 122 credential/permission cases and 232 snapshot/environment cases pass. Direct server TypeScript checking also passes. - Ordinary web creation with the experiment disabled saved native Claude, Opus 5.5 and High effort without runner/model overrides. The actual product task and follow-up both succeeded on integrated source `b2c9fe43f9cd3bc5dd9d22552da0148845ba71a4` with the cloud-built daemon from `04e0202ca81387b17cbe7fd094a8338648356fe9`. The final master reconciliation also changes shared runtime source. Historical proof retains its source identity; a final-source cloud qualification is running before refreshing the preview daemon. - Both actual browser downloads were checked: v1 has three sections/six checkboxes (451 bytes); v2 preserves the original body and adds two Rollback checks (612 bytes). The original attachment stayed byte-identical. The follow-up records session resume and the same provider session. Total estimated API usage: $0.518432800, with no pending/unpriced usage in the successful fixture. - Fixed the live-discovered setup incompatibility: native API-key validation no longer depends on the global Legacy Claude CLI. The existing provider endpoint verifies the key without a paid prompt; subscription/custom routing probes remain intact. - Fixed security review's native-hire credential redirection: agent-supplied URLs, proxy/launch settings and other host environment controls are rejected before inheritance. Native credential references remain supported and partial edits use the saved harness. Added create/hire/update regression coverage. - Current-head cloud CI is green. All three stack PRs have fresh Greptile 5/5 reviews and zero unresolved review threads. Required typecheck, test and build gates ran in cloud CI; Docker work stayed remote. Earlier failed checks remain in their original runs. - Docker and native release builds ran in cloud infrastructure. An inadvertent local Rust prerequisite was stopped; no local Docker build was run. - The final master merge preserves task-loading, permission, skill-retention and OpenRouter changes. Pi uses a fresh combined profile 27, preserving both historical profile-24 declarations; Copilot remains profile 22. Focused protocol checks passed 155 cases (one skipped), the updated Pi attestation check passed 18 (one skipped), and 91 evaluation/catalog checks passed. - Latest-application manual continuation passed in 37.942 seconds on `695e5c005a85bddc8711d3fcddcaf6b7e1fb64d0`, with High effort, native Opus 5.5, Anthropic API attribution, the same resumed Claude session, an independently checked 635-byte file and persisted Done status. It uses the earlier verified Mac daemon; the preceding-source package qualification passed at `dca62c7aeb4b45f0dd91a8e18d386a16a2658ef8`. That package run predates the small TypeScript startup fix and is not relabeled as qualification for it. - Upgrade limitation: changed compiled sidecar identity rejected old durable launch state and recovery hit session-open bounds before eventually resuming. That attempt was operator-cancelled and retained; the successful manual continuation does not qualify seamless upgrades. - Local latency profile, Opus 5.5/High unchanged: three alternating real-ACP loopback samples per variant reduce median provider-ready time from 5.081s to 4.034s. The matched real API task startup improves from 5.533s to 4.348s, but total reply time changes from 17.933s to 20.221s because agent work varies. This establishes a startup saving of about one second, not a consistent total-reply speedup. A real candidate follow-up passed in 20.146s and resumed the same saved session. The loopback fixture makes no external model requests; failed initial probes remain retained. - The startup change passes 107 focused runtime/effort/lease tests, 53 profile checks (one skipped), TypeScript checking and the TypeScript-only runtime build. Native hire fixture checks pass 70 tests; their first local run retained a socket-hangup failure and stale OpenCode expectation, both accounted for before the passing rerun. Broader required checks run in cloud CI. ## Risks - Missing packages, authentication rejection, unsupported settings and unavailable models must fail explicitly. Existing agents retain saved execution; explicit runner changes use existing revision/session invalidation. - Subscription follow-up remains unverified; remaining live acceptance uses API keys per human steering. Historical accounting holds and the separate $50 ceiling remain intact. - The subscription acceptance limit remains explicit for review. No Claude database migration is introduced. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools, code execution and browser testing. The exact serving model ID and context-window size are not exposed in this session. ## 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 - [ ] Focused local tests and final cloud verification 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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Runs, harnesses, and model accounts — agent access
Product map: Runs, harnesses, and model accounts.
Review date: 2026-10-12. Source commit: 58e16dbddfc9c8d0cf60867f9d9847f0feda055b.
Native REST transport reconciled in this change; see the
shared transport contract.
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.
Scoped runner-default source review: 2026-10-12 at
eee0534154eaf5d0d3f2bbc97c1e24d86f34a5a5, limited to runner discovery,
selected-runtime testing and saved execution/session preservation. The original
baseline source and review depth remain unchanged for unrelated operations.
Scoped native cancellation source review: 2026-10-12 at
ce23716503a2c9158b5a7ab74ab61571ff4ee7a3, limited to owned startup and
shutdown/readiness ordering. The original baseline and review depth remain for
unrelated operations; no live provider or agent authorization is claimed.
availability
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
GET /api/adapters.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/adapters/{type}/models.
Agent access: partial — Agent company-model REST / native call_api discovery and
bound runtime context; adapter/account inventories remain board-only.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
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.
Runner discovery exposes supportedRunners and defaultRunner; it describes
qualified selection, not successful authentication or task execution. Native
Claude retains existing account grants and company/responsible-user boundaries.
Source: adapter discovery.
Gaps: Raw instance adapter listing requires board, while company model discovery exists for eligible agents.
Scoped source-only evidence: adapter discovery reports supported runners/effective default for the selected company/environment; selection policy reads server-owned immutable sandbox facts without provisioning. New Codex defaults and explicit overrides follow the shared runner contract; Claude follows its qualified rollout described above. The board inventory does not grant a native agent an equivalent discovery binding. See probe restrictions for acquiring qualification. An absent forced-Kubernetes environment is an unqualified sandbox target, never a local target. Discovery and automatic creation keep the Legacy path without provisioning it; explicit Paperclip selection returns qualification guidance. The existing execution path owns lazy environment creation. Saved runners remain unchanged. This is source/control evidence, not live Kubernetes qualification.
validation
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
POST /api/companies/{companyId}/adapters/{type}/test-environment.
Agent access: partial — Permitted agent-creation validation through REST / native
call_api / CLI; account login requires its operator.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
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: Environment test path checks creation/configuration policy; missing provider auth must use its owner setup flow.
Scoped source review: test authorization and resolution
requires same-company agents:create, saved-agent update access when supplied,
allowed environment selection, and normal secret/responsible-user checks. An
unchanged saved runner avoids new-creation policy but still receives selected
runtime validation. Native readiness
tests native Codex startup/model/account and bounded teardown; an authentication
or Legacy CLI check cannot replace that runtime evidence. Missing dependencies,
credentials, invalid models and incompatible settings fail without silently
changing runners. Account login remains board/owner-bound.
Scoped artifact-preparation source evidence: native preparation can overlap runner and default image-harness work only when the selected command runner declares concurrent sync support. Current executable hash, metadata, transport, and final-path checks still precede dispatch. The caller waits for both operations on failure. Explicit harness uploads and npm installs remain serial. This changes no API or agent grant. The real-shell controls do not qualify the whole validation capability or a live response-time target.
Scoped backend-preparation source evidence: remote native Codex can prepare its managed GitHub transport during fresh assigned-MCP discovery. The session claim, wake binding, review assignment and complete gateway launch binding checks still precede that work. Provider startup waits for both results. Failures drain both operations before the existing run cleanup releases any created GitHub access. No grant, token, authority cache or provider dispatch bypass is added. The executor controls remain separate from live latency and permitted/denied agent acceptance.
For a linked Codex subscription with server-resolved managed credential provenance,
setup checks the resolved owner and stages a private probe copy before local or
remote isolation. Without a selected API key, an unbound linked CODEX_HOME is
rejected with explicit Legacy
or managed-account guidance. Caller configuration cannot supply that provenance. Selected CODEX_API_KEY and
OPENAI_API_KEY authentication skips unrelated subscription reads and refresh
bindings, matching task materialization. The fake-credential controls verify key
precedence without changing the account source or exposing either credential.
The general native
home materializer retains its no-follow symlink guard. Refresh still targets the
checked account source, and confirmed bounded retirement removes its private
copy. Unconfirmed retirement retains the existing cleanup block and owned state.
Failures before probe handoff remove only the owned temporary preparation root;
local daemon resolution occurs before credential staging. Once a probe is handed
off, unconfirmed retirement still retains its recovery state.
Existing fake-credential setup controls
exercise linked/regular sources and failure cleanup. This adds no credential-read
API, agent login authority or cross-company account access. Its source-only
evidence does not qualify a live permitted/denied agent operation.
Verification for this scope remains not-run: use an admitted agent REST/CLI
validation path, assert missing grants and cross-company targets/accounts are
denied, then prove the useful task/follow-up separately. hire_agent inherits its
caller's runtime; do not assume its binding accepts arbitrary runner or account
settings. See creation access.
runs
Review: baseline.
Scoped source-only timing evidence: workspace preparation spans carry only the existing hashed run ID. Controller startup phase spans carry no custom attributes. Native controller setup and settlement phases use that same run hash, including assigned MCP discovery; neither tool definitions nor credentials are recorded. Both retain operator-controlled tracing; unconfigured clients stay silent. This adds no agent API, credential access, run-log write, or recovery authority. See the tracing contract. Live latency verification remains separate from the existing access baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/log.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/events.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/workspace-operations.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/issues.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/heartbeat-runs.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/live-runs.GET /api/issues/{id}/runs.GET /api/issues/{id}/recovery-actions.
Agent access: available — REST / native call_api / CLI run, plus the listed
read-only paths through the default queue and HTTP/2 sandbox callback bridge.
The sandbox uses its injected run credential. See
run diagnostics and the
activity access contract.
Policy: Same company, company-scope read authority and run/task visibility still apply. Task-bound history and recovery records require task read authority. Each run-linked task is filtered by the caller's task-read predicate; a readable company run cannot expose inaccessible private task titles. Existing content and credential redaction apply. Adapter installation, account login, session control, recovery writes and raw provider-trace administration retain their existing board/admin or dedicated-tool gates.
Evidence: source-only — diagnostic scope reviewed at
f10210990a3c9cad1a4359318388f237de3169dd in the
bridge route list,
run routes,
task-link route, and
private-run regression suite.
Verification: not-run for a live sandbox using the updated routes. Bridge and
controller fixtures cover permitted reads, denied writes, redaction and private
task-link filtering. After deployment, verify with an actual run identity and
assert foreign-company, private-task and restricted-mode denial. Source review,
board reads and skipped fixtures do not qualify that live path.
Gaps: Provider trace reveals/downloads require instance-admin and cannot be counted as ordinary run output access. The new bridge surface does not qualify retry, cancellation, workspace repair or session-control access. Deployed diagnostic usefulness remains unverified.
session
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
POST /api/agents/{id}/runtime-state/reset-session.GET /api/agents/{id}/task-sessions.
Agent access: restricted — Board session controls; native server-owned session
continuation.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
Evidence: source-only — implementation at
the reviewed commit above.
Verification: not-run — assert the documented agent denial with an owned test fixture;
verify any listed agent request/result path separately. A delegated operation needs its
own policy and access review.
Gaps: Task-session listing and execution-context reset require board agent
management at their HTTP routes. Native call_api preserves these denials; native
continuation remains server-owned.
Scoped source-only evidence: configuration changes and native execution/recovery retain existing execution on unrelated edits and use recorded run configuration for active/recovered runs. Explicit runner changes use revisions and session invalidation. Verify saved configuration, current versus historical run identity, restart and follow-up without granting session-reset authority to an agent.
Scoped source review: 2026-10-13, the recovery correction against
ea6c8eb5e16d61111968f633a66748b397b64a3e reuses
completed onboarding handoff validation
before applying the issue-terminal backstop. The company, parent origin/status,
assignee, completed child and remaining children must match. Only that backstop
is suppressed for the validated report; process-death and controller/native
ownership checks still apply. No agent gains session or recovery control.
PostgreSQL regressions cover valid native/Legacy callbacks and rejected bindings;
revised live execution and actor authorization remain not-run.
Scoped source-only evidence: configuration changes and native execution/recovery retain existing execution on unrelated edits and use recorded run configuration for active/recovered runs. Explicit runner changes use revisions and session invalidation. Verify saved configuration, current versus historical run identity, restart and follow-up without granting session-reset authority to an agent.
Scoped Evidence: source-only — the
native transport
joins owned startup before certifying cleanup. Rejected duplicates cannot replace
that owner or mutate recovery state. Unconfirmed preparation or registration
retains recovery state; late registration may release only its own route and
cannot launch after close. Shutdown interrupts readiness without granting
authority over an unauthenticated adopted process.
Scoped Verification: not-run — verify allowed/denied access using the actual
actor independently from the credential-free ownership controls. This correction
adds no account-setup, cleanup-override or session-reset authority. The real native
readiness/recovery fixtures and installed provider acceptance remain separate gates.
Scoped shutdown source review: 2026-10-14, against literal
651a3de64fc943216cc414b64b1443809f9499da. The suspension barrier bounds remote
state reads by its remaining deadline and rejects late proof. Intentional
provider ingress shutdown
joins physical socket closure and retires the connection owner before endpoint
release. Unconfirmed termination stays blocked. Existing fake-peer and delayed
read controls are source evidence; this changes no actor, company, account or
session-reset permission. Operation-level verification remains not-run and
the failed Test setup does not qualify successful live cleanup.