## Thinking Path > - Paperclip helps people manage AI agents at work. > - Cursor Cloud hosts execution behind its API. > - Product setup still expected a Paperclip Computer. > - Managed-only tenants therefore rejected valid setup. > - This admits the validated API-owned controller. > - Authority, Stop proof, budgets and cleanup remain enforced. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #18068 and #18069; both dependencies have merged. **What happened?** Managed-only setup still requested a Computer. Live tests exposed missing Cursor Stop proof and duplicate replay. **Expected behavior** Use Cursor’s API controller. Verify provider/controller termination and replay each log identity once. **Steps to reproduce** Enable native Runner/managed-only. Configure Cursor model/repository/key without a Computer, then Test, finish setup, run and Stop. ## What Changed - Derive API-only placement from validated native Cursor configuration; reject placement/command/workspace/home overrides and keep Kubernetes-only execution closed. - Skip Computers/checkout/workspace realization. Keep scoped tools, completion, private staging, budgets, leases and recovery. Persist placement; reject contradictions. - Align Cloud cards, Test, Save and Finish setup; hold unready drafts. Legacy keeps its Computer, credential and policy checks. - Verify Stop from exact API ownership, audited intent, provider-terminal proof, no Computer/process ownership and controller retirement. Recheck immediate/deferred retirement; wake existing recovery on durable evidence. - Clear warnings when the actual stopped target later has authoritative confirmation. Keep missing/other-run negatives and the existing predicate. - Publish safe status refresh after full-proof ACK. Retain bounded native/physical cancellation history; add no poller or weaker proof path. ## Verification Core merged as `3910352c923a`; Product merged as `27d35314be8e`. Public branch `5f86eb66b081` has tree `67344151d303`. Its exact-head Greptile summary is 5/5; the fresh audit found zero unresolved threads and complete pagination. The controlled workspace retry and required summary passed. All 59 current-head contexts are terminal and clean. Prior green-36 evidence keeps its identity. [Current CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41680511731) first failed workspaces-a 1/2: the CLI company-import/export beforeAll 30-second runtime-info/child-PID/HTTP readiness wait expired. All 431 UI files/4,714 tests and 285 other CLI tests passed (one skip). The cause remains UNKNOWN. Child output records startup recovery complete, but buffered CI prefixes do not establish its relation to the waiter deadline; runtime-file/PID/last-health state was not captured. Both unchanged local probes were RED. The second observed dependency preflight still pending at the deadline; observer overhead was not quantified. Neither proves the CI cause. After all functional jobs finished, only the queued metadata summary was cancelled; the other 48 records stayed unchanged. Attempt 1 retains 46 successes, the original failure, one skip and the cancelled summary. One same-head debug retry was admitted at 18:42 UTC on November 3. Its workspace job passed at 19:23 UTC on the same checkout: UI 431 files/4,714 tests and CLI 33 files/286 tests, including company import/export. Test caching was disabled. The new `ci / verify` summary passed; workflow attempt 2 completed SUCCESS. Required `ci / e2e` also passed. The final check at 19:53 UTC on November 3 found all 59 current-head contexts terminal and clean: zero pending and zero failing. The 47 inherited completed/skipped rows are not new executions. No code, assertion or timeout changed; success does not explain the original failure or erase the local REDs. CI checkout is `1ea9d8608ced`/tree `78cb1ec13d59` (parents `2e37c73c05fe`, 5f86); both workflows use 2e37. Its 20 extra paths add low-memory build/Rust task-memory. Scripts cohere; later matrix changes only labels, with no newer debug-cache steps. Static audit found no blocker. Supported API arguments omit the memory flag: no default monitor/instruction changes. Flagged external launchers can change Cursor instructions/digests and remain unqualified. The merge added 41 master-identical paths, retained the green-36 inbox hunk and found UI fixtures matching upstream. Startup/backup, recovery projection, sleep diagnostics and binary backup change production. Static audit found eight Stop/ACK owner blobs and 37 sleep-work SQL templates unchanged, with sleep fences/single-flight accounting intact. Exact precommit tree: 416/416 across eight server files, binary backup 1/1, server types PASS; repeated scopes are not summed. The deferred-retirement P1 reproduced three real-DB/owned-process failures; missing proof stayed unverified. Recovery passed 47 process cases/33 proof negatives. Warning repair binds actual targets to same-run proof. Validation passed 729 scoped UI cases, a separate 359-case thread run, 111 backend cases (84 CAS, 6 assembled, 21 activity/privacy), types/tokens. Proof validators/predicate are unchanged; no new poller or increased timeout. The d8d3 attempt stays FAILED: 45 passes, two workspaces-a failures, derived verify failure and one skip. Both shards shared three failures: two successful mocks omitted the account guard’s required userId. The two-line fixture repair changed no guard, assertion or timeout. Three failures reproduced; 54 access/auth tests then passed, including account-change/denial negatives, plus UI types/tokens. The 69285 attempt stays FAILED: 49 jobs, 46 passed, serialized shard 9 failed, its verify aggregate failed and one selection job skipped. The shard passed 575/576 cases. Its aborted-snapshot case expected nine computes but saw eight: a final HTTP 200 coalesced while seven ordinary reads had not proved the aborted compute settled. Earlier CI and the unmodified local baseline passed with a miss; no local RED is claimed. The repair awaits the snapshot, allows exactly one extra GET if coalesced, then requires a miss and retains nine computes/all HTTP429 assertions. No production code, hook, loop, sleep or timeout changed. Six inbox and seven cache/admission cases passed locally, plus server types; 30 unrelated cases were filtered. Green 36 passed 576/576 without taking the extra-GET branch; local runs also missed that schedule. Current CI event merge 1ea9 now passed 576/576 and naturally exercised the former failure: coalesced (count 2, 1ms), then exactly one fresh miss (count 1, 16ms), with strict nine-compute/HTTP429 assertions intact. No instrumentation or retry was added. Earlier compatibility passed scoped remote/inbox, routine, API-placement and UI tests, plus types/migrations/snapshots/maps/tokens. The 89-path adoption restored fleet routing without workflow overrides or added skips. Each result retains its source identity. Live qualification remains actual `9af1a5de42a2`: unchanged Artifact grader PASSED 17/17 and active-Stop grader PASSED 21/21. All three provider test resources were deleted canonically with GET404; post-delete download returned the exact 27 bytes. Histories stayed stable (Artifact 121 and Stop 67 canonical identities), with 21 company runs, zero active work and no accounting/cancellation/reservation debt or integrity findings. Saved settings reopened; no-prompt Test/Linux admission passed with `claude-sonnet-4-5`. No new Save is claimed. The first Stop sampling case stays FAILED on a 10.373-second gap. Unchanged retry kept all 24 samples: 35.076 seconds quiet, maximum gap 4.584 seconds, plus a separate CANCELLED/artifact-absent read after 180 seconds. Initial grading rejected locator spelling before functional checks; metadata changed only after same-file/inode/byte proof, with raw evidence/oracles unchanged. Original Question/Plan/reconnect and historical deleted-artifact results keep their identities. Git trees verified 11 history-only conflicts and six earlier mainline paths. Hosted 9af to the public BRANCH differs in 222 paths; 13,500 other mode/blob leaves match. Runner runtime implementations and six observer/driver pins match 9af on that branch only; inherited `drivers/acpx/runtime-host.test.ts` differs. No all-Runner/src, CI/latest-master runtime or image equality is claimed. Later static audits through `8ab89f41e499` found no concrete API-only blocker. That base adds completed-history sleep proofs and an MCP cleanup migration; protected Stop/ACK owners are unchanged. These later changes are outside this CI and have no live qualification here. Host duplicate-card and later recovery/UI repairs retain separate proof, not deployed 9af identity. Direct-key coverage requires absent aiConnection; API-only placement skips inherited remote-workspace disk-full paths, and config-read gates match their parent. Other retained failures: stale fixture 132/133; E8 48/135 with 87 reset-hook failures; Mac 17 SQL failures/skips; title/startup/custody/Stop/deletion unknown causes and bounded recoveries; superseded warning/50 duplicate identities; pre-repair ACK/Core CI failures. Fixture RED/GREEN passed 7/7 browser and 121/121 shutdown tests with a failing broken-unsubscribe control; stable WSP wrapper passed 128 after physical teardown failure. No full local-suite pass is inferred. All paid attempts remain recorded; vendor dollar cost is UNKNOWN. ## Risks Experimental: Cursor independently acknowledges neither the effective model nor instruction digest before the first prompt. Explicit values are submitted and behavior checked live; unpriced provider dollar cost stays UNKNOWN. The placement exception applies only to validated native Cursor API execution. Other local work remains denied under managed-only policy. Missing/stale Stop or cleanup proof stays pending; damaged archives remain failed. Explicit Legacy keeps its existing policy owners. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex/GPT-6 family: tools, execution, browser checks, delegated review. API ID/context window unavailable. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used and the limits of available model metadata - [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 linked public issues or described the issue in this PR - [x] I have not referenced internal or instance-local Paperclip issues or links - [x] My branch describes the change and contains no internal ticket ID - [x] I have run the scoped local tests reported above; retained failures are stated separately - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation - [x] I have considered and documented the risks - [x] All required CI gates pass on the current head - [x] Fresh Greptile is 5/5 with no unresolved findings on the current head - [x] I will address all reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Paperclip maps
The maps describe the same capabilities from two perspectives:
- Feature map: what a person can do, where to reach it, and how to verify the user journey. Preserve its Poteto format.
- Agent access map: the APIs and agent entry points for those capabilities, their permission boundaries, and access verification.
The chat scenario catalog adds natural-language requests, starting context and expected conversational outcomes for the same capability IDs. It lives with Product E2E as planning data; a scenario reference is neither a registered execution nor evidence that a journey passed.
These are sibling directories under maps/. Each feature file has a same-named
agent access companion. Reuse the product map's sub-feature IDs, so tasks/create
identifies the same capability in both maps. Product behavior remains governed by
the implementation spec; a map cannot grant
authority or redefine a permission denial as success.
Capability identifiers
The feature ID is the recipe filename without .md, such as onboarding.
The full capability ID joins that feature ID and a Sub-features key with /:
the company key in feature-map/onboarding.md is onboarding/company.
Its agent-access-map/onboarding.md companion uses the same local company key.
The feature-map index lists the existing
feature and full capability IDs.
Each child page states Feature ID: `onboarding`. after its introduction or
product-map link. In feature recipes, show the full ID beside the parsed local
key: - `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company. In access
companions and Storybook verification guidance, keep the existing local heading
and put Capability ID: `onboarding/company`. beneath it. These labels make
the existing identifiers visible without changing keys, anchors, or ID generation.
Use full capability IDs in cross-feature references, Storybook annotations, tests, issues, PRs, and verification evidence. Both segments use lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens. Keep filenames and keys stable when display titles or navigation labels change; renaming either changes the capability ID.
Entry-point IDs describe a surface, such as web-wizard, and are scoped to their
recipe. Reference them with a recipe link, such as
onboarding.md#web-wizard, and record the
capability exercised separately. Navigation section labels are not capability IDs.
See IDs and references for examples.
Access contract
Every business operation needs both an API and a usable agent entry point for an
actor authorized to perform it. A dedicated tool is optional when REST, the CLI,
an assigned MCP client, or native search_api / call_api already provides the
operation. Record which agent surfaces actually have that path; an installed CLI
or optional MCP package cannot be assumed available to every native/remote run.
Track these independently:
| Dimension | Values and meaning |
|---|---|
| API | present, missing, not-applicable, or unreviewed. Use exact methods/paths; distinguish protocols from REST. |
| Agent access | available, partial, missing, restricted, operator-only, not-applicable, or unreviewed. Name the supported surface and actual entry point. |
| Policy | Actor, action/grant, company/resource/ownership scope, responsible-user intersection, run requirements, work modes, and gates relevant to the operation. |
| Evidence | source-only, verified, failed, blocked, or not-run. Source presence and successful board calls are not agent verification. |
| Review depth | baseline records representative operations and known gaps; operation-reviewed enumerates the capability's meaningful operations and their individual access contracts. |
Broad capabilities such as task properties must be split into operations before they count as operation-reviewed: renaming, metadata edits, assignment, dependencies, and lifecycle changes can use different tools and permission rules. An available read path cannot certify a write path. List/get/create/update/delete, execution/control, credential handling, and resolution are separate where their authority or transport differs. Do not duplicate request schemas from OpenAPI.
Exceptions and restrictions
Presentation-only state, static developer fixtures, and pre-start/local operator
work may use not-applicable for a domain API, with a concrete reason and the
existing local path. When a capability combines shared data with presentation,
split the operations: browser recents do not exempt resource lookup from API
coverage. Promoting local state to a shared feature requires revisiting the entry.
A board-only endpoint is restricted for agent identity, not an automatic
exception or a missing API. Cite the enforced policy and record whether the
agent can request the authorized human's action and observe its result. An
unresolved delegation question remains in Gaps. Company access, a job title,
a personal assistant's OAuth grant, or an accepted interaction does not grant
board identity. Keep budget, approval, secret and execution authority intact.
Check actual route/service authorization and production tool admission. OpenAPI actor labels and scenario/evaluation tool declarations are supporting metadata; record disagreements rather than using them as proof of access. Native API fallback restrictions, tool field/scope limits, and rollout settings are part of the agent path, even when a legacy agent can call the REST endpoint directly.
Companion file format
Each agent-access-map/<area>.md has an H1, a relative link to its product file,
and its feature ID, followed by one H2 backticked local key per product
sub-feature. Each capability starts with its full capability ID and contains
these fields:
- Review:
baselineoroperation-reviewed. - API: presence state and exact operation IDs, or a reasoned exception.
- Agent access: availability state and concrete entry points by surface.
- Policy: relevant permission and runtime boundaries, with source references.
- Evidence: evidence state, reviewed commit and sources or executed proof.
- Verification: allowed/denied assertions and observable result; record what has actually run separately from the proposed recipe.
- Gaps: missing APIs/paths, discovery drift, unreviewed operations or policy
decisions; use
noneonly for the enumerated scope that was reviewed.
For an operation-reviewed capability, use H3 backticked operation IDs and repeat
API, Agent access, Policy, Evidence, Verification and Gaps for each operation.
Use small operation names such as create, update, read, or run-now.
The enclosing capability has Review: operation-reviewed only after its
meaningful operations have been enumerated. The following excerpt shows one
operation; include the others before using that review label:
## `definition`
Review: `operation-reviewed`.
### `create`
API: `present` — POST /api/companies/{companyId}/routines.
Agent access: `available` — agent REST, CLI routine create and native call_api
under the enabled rollout and active-run/mode gates.
Policy: same company; assigneeAgentId must be the calling agent; cite the
routine authorization and native API policy sources.
Evidence: `source-only` — reviewed commit and source links; no live proof.
Verification: `not-run` — create an owned routine; reject assignment to another
agent; inspect saved configuration, attribution and retry behavior.
Gaps: verify ownership and responsible-user resolution with a permitted agent
context; source presence alone does not qualify this operation.
Keeping the maps synchronized
Add entries only for substantial new features under the feature-map scope rule. Routine fixes, polish, refactors, performance work, and test changes do not require map updates. Correct or remove existing text only when behavior or access changes make it materially inaccurate; keep the correction local to the affected recipe or companion. Preserve IDs across renames where the capability is unchanged; update the affected cross-links together. Indexes discover recipes automatically. An API-only change may update the companion without rewriting unchanged user instructions. Update the corresponding chat scenarios when their request, assumptions or expected outcome changes; use multiple cases for meaningfully different starting conditions rather than treating an API path as conversational coverage.
maintain-verification-skill owns reconciliation of both maps. It follows changed source and authorization, checks real agent reachability, and records product gaps without implementing them during a maintenance pass. The creation skill uses this structure. verify-paperclip consumes the relevant recipes and reports evidence/drift; map editing belongs to maintenance.
Run the structural check after map changes:
node scripts/check-maps.mjs
It checks paired areas/IDs, navigation metadata, required fields, and local references. It does not certify endpoint authorization, production bindings, operation completeness, or live behavior. Source audits must check those against the existing API and tool contracts; avoid a second schema catalog or runtime.
For live access proof, use Paperclip's existing API/runner/MCP fixtures or an owned
isolated instance. Use the actual agent identity, target and work mode. Assert the
allowed result and relevant denial (another company/private resource, wrong
owner, missing grant, invalid run, restricted mode or resolver). Mutations also
need persisted state/attribution and retry behavior. Capture evidence using the
existing artifact workflow; keep executed run results
separate from generated maps/generated/coverage.json, which lists page references.
Local authorship and generated indexes
Change only the recipes, access contracts and stories whose behavior or intent
changed. Feature recipes own navigation metadata; stories own small
parameters.paperclip annotations. Keep the feature-map README's readable ID
index aligned with those sources; it does not register entries for generation.
Do not refresh counts in shared READMEs, inventories, fingerprints or review
journals.
node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs validates and generates aggregate navigation,
Storybook data, verification routes and the page inventory. All outputs live in
ignored maps/generated/, ui/storybook/generated/, and the ignored Storybook
preview.tsx wrapper. Start/build and UI typechecking generate their own inputs.
A clean merged checkout therefore assembles both branches' changes automatically.
Git provides history and diffs. PRs, issues and CI artifacts retain review/run evidence for the named revision. Capability associations do not create whole-file review dependencies. Keep durable scenario limits in the affected recipe or story.