DottaandPaperclip
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## 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 feature map
Start here when reproducing a user-facing bug, verifying a change, or deciding which surfaces a fix must cover. Each recipe describes what a person can do, where they can do it, the expected result, and the evidence needed to verify it. Product behavior is still governed by the implementation spec.
The sibling agent access map records APIs, agent entry points and permission boundaries for the same capability IDs. Follow the shared map contract when maintaining either map.
The chat scenario catalog describes how people might request these capabilities in conversation, including setup and permission branches. These are planned Product E2E journeys, not live coverage results.
IDs and references
Use the existing IDs in issues, PRs, Storybook annotations, tests, and verification evidence:
| Reference | Example | Defined by |
|---|---|---|
| Feature ID | onboarding |
The recipe filename without .md. |
| Capability ID | onboarding/company |
The feature ID plus a key from its Sub-features list, separated by /. |
| Entry-point reference | onboarding.md#web-wizard | The recipe filename plus its entry-point heading. The local entry-point ID is web-wizard. |
For example, report verifying onboarding/company through web-wizard.
Capabilities describe behavior; entry points identify the surface used to exercise
it. Entry-point IDs are separate from generated capability IDs. Both maps and
Storybook use the same full capability IDs. Each child page states its feature
ID; recipe bullets show the full capability ID beside the local key, and access
companions show it beneath the local heading. Local keys remain unchanged for
parsing and existing anchors.
Keep recipe filenames, sub-feature keys, and entry-point keys stable when changing display titles or navigation. Renaming a filename or key changes its references. The section headings below are navigation labels, not additional IDs.
Browse features
Use this index to open a recipe or copy its feature and full capability IDs.
Getting started and access
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
onboarding |
Onboarding and first work | onboarding/instance, onboarding/company, onboarding/adapter, onboarding/first-task, onboarding/resume |
access |
Login, invitations, and access | access/login, access/invitations, access/membership, access/resources, access/cli-auth |
companies |
Companies and portability | companies/selection, companies/identity, companies/decision-models, companies/prompt-injection-prevention, companies/fast-responses, companies/agent-observability, companies/archive, companies/portability |
Tasks and conversations
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
tasks |
Task creation and lifecycle | tasks/create, tasks/organize, tasks/properties, tasks/discussion, tasks/completion, tasks/privacy |
task-coordination |
Delegation, dependencies, and signoff | task-coordination/delegation, task-coordination/dependencies, task-coordination/signoff, task-coordination/tree-control |
inbox-search |
Inbox, decisions, and search | inbox-search/views, inbox-search/triage, inbox-search/decisions, inbox-search/search, inbox-search/toasts |
agent-chat |
Agent conversations and project handoff | agent-chat/discovery, agent-chat/history, agent-chat/handoff, agent-chat/conference-room |
questions-and-approvals |
Questions and approvals | questions-and-approvals/questions, questions-and-approvals/dismiss-and-reopen, questions-and-approvals/confirmations, questions-and-approvals/plan-review, questions-and-approvals/audience, questions-and-approvals/governance, questions-and-approvals/tool-review, questions-and-approvals/continuation |
steering |
Steering and queued messages | steering/queue, steering/edit-order-discard, steering/steer, steering/interrupt, steering/stop-and-pause, steering/drafts, steering/approval-queue |
documents-artifacts |
Documents, attachments, and work products | documents-artifacts/documents, documents-artifacts/annotations, documents-artifacts/attachments, documents-artifacts/work-products, documents-artifacts/library |
Agents and reusable capabilities
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
agents |
Hiring, configuration, and organization | agents/hire, agents/grok-bot, agents/instructions, agents/organization, agents/primary-agent, agents/lifecycle, agents/built-in, agents/api-keys, agents/managed-agent-setup |
runs-adapters |
Runs, harnesses, and model accounts | runs-adapters/availability, runs-adapters/validation, runs-adapters/runs, runs-adapters/session |
skills |
Skills and Skill Studio | skills/discovery, skills/authoring, skills/versions, skills/policy, skills/testing |
teams |
Team packages and installation | teams/discovery, teams/preview, teams/install, teams/configuration |
Projects and execution
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
projects |
Projects and repositories | projects/lifecycle, projects/task-context, projects/repositories, projects/defaults, projects/privacy |
goals |
Goals and work alignment | goals/hierarchy, goals/alignment, goals/navigation |
workspaces |
Workspaces, services, and files | workspaces/binding, workspaces/provisioning, workspaces/services, workspaces/files-git, workspaces/closure |
execution-environments |
Execution environments | execution-environments/configuration, execution-environments/capabilities, execution-environments/probe, execution-environments/assignment, execution-environments/images |
recovery |
Recovery | recovery/diagnosis, recovery/bounded-continuation, recovery/source-action, recovery/exhaustion, recovery/workspace, recovery/unknown-outcome, recovery/user-continuation, recovery/reconnect |
Apps, channels, and extensions
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
connection-setup |
Connection setup | connection-setup/catalog, connection-setup/identity-and-access, connection-setup/credentials, connection-setup/handoff, connection-setup/draft-recovery, connection-setup/task-request, connection-setup/channel-setup, connection-setup/failure |
assistant-connections |
Assistant connections (MCP) | assistant-connections/setup, assistant-connections/consent, assistant-connections/device-login, assistant-connections/client-use, assistant-connections/revocation |
app-permissions |
App access and action permissions | app-permissions/agent-access, app-permissions/action-policy, app-permissions/catalog-change, app-permissions/test-action, app-permissions/account-maintenance |
chat-channels |
External chat and email | chat-channels/providers, chat-channels/identity, chat-channels/conversation, chat-channels/attachments, chat-channels/lifecycle, chat-channels/outbound-email |
gateways-profiles |
Tool gateways and access profiles | gateways-profiles/gateway, gateways-profiles/profiles, gateways-profiles/client-connect, gateways-profiles/tokens, gateways-profiles/activity |
secrets |
Secrets and proposals | secrets/company-secrets, secrets/user-secrets, secrets/proposals, secrets/vault-import, secrets/runtime-delivery |
plugins |
Plugins | plugins/installation, plugins/configuration, plugins/contributions, plugins/lifecycle |
Automation and structured work
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
routines |
Routines, schedules, and triggers | routines/definition, routines/triggers, routines/run-now, routines/history, routines/management |
cases |
Cases | cases/browse, cases/structure, cases/history, cases/task-links, cases/handoffs |
status-cards |
Status cards | status-cards/authoring, status-cards/generation, status-cards/inspection, status-cards/archive |
Oversight and operation
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
budgets-costs |
Costs and budgets | budgets-costs/cost-reporting, budgets-costs/budgets, budgets-costs/incidents, budgets-costs/resolution, budgets-costs/subscriptions, budgets-costs/accounting-recovery |
activity |
Dashboards and audit trails | activity/overview, activity/activity, activity/runs, activity/routine-audit, activity/timeline, activity/agent-commentary |
navigation-preferences |
Navigation, profile, and announcements | navigation-preferences/navigation, navigation-preferences/preferences, navigation-preferences/profile, navigation-preferences/announcements, navigation-preferences/fallbacks, navigation-preferences/command-palette |
instance-operations |
Instance operations | instance-operations/install-update, instance-operations/server-service, instance-operations/configuration, instance-operations/diagnostics, instance-operations/backup, instance-operations/runtime-setup |
cli-operations |
CLI/API and local worktrees | cli-operations/context, cli-operations/domain-commands, cli-operations/outputs, cli-operations/run-controls, cli-operations/worktree-instances, cli-operations/feedback-export |
Contributor surfaces
| Feature ID | Recipe | Capability IDs |
|---|---|---|
developer-labs |
Developer previews and diagnostic labs | developer-labs/design, developer-labs/interaction-labs, developer-labs/performance, developer-labs/route-gates |
Open the published Storybook guide for the assembled feature and capability index. The Markdown recipes in this directory are the authored source. Each has a same-named agent-access companion.
Run node scripts/storybook-catalog.mjs to generate local navigation in
maps/generated/feature-map.md, maps/generated/agent-access-map.md, and the
Storybook guide. Recipes are discovered automatically from their navigation
metadata; generation does not depend on this high-level index.
Before driving a journey
- Use this checkout's isolated test drive for manual product checks. It creates a temporary instance and prints its URL and data directory. Do not guess that a server on port 3100 belongs to you.
- Record the commit, URL, company, login role, relevant experimental settings, adapter, runtime mode, and live versus simulated dependencies. Use disposable tasks and provider resources. A fresh test drive creates a company and CEO, but no task or first run.
- Use the current navigation and company prefix. Paths in recipes omit that prefix. Record whether the streamlined or production shell is selected; Agent Chat, chat connectors, and the combined Inbox/Tasks view have separate gates. A hidden surface is an unmet prerequisite, not a successful test.
- Run the smallest relevant test first. Vitest commands below run from the repository root after installing dependencies. Playwright recipes use their named configuration and its isolated environment, not an unrelated running instance. Reserve expensive runner/provider tests for the behavior at issue.
- Exercise the actual user action, inspect its result, reload, and verify the persisted state or continuation. Use read-only API checks to corroborate UI evidence; creating state through the API does not prove the creation UI.
For agent-driven acceptance work, start with the Paperclip verification skill for an isolated launch, ownership/readiness checks, browser driving, evidence, and cleanup. It uses this directory as its feature map. The existing dev-workspace run/verify skill and evaluation skill describe runtime ownership and evidence handling. Reuse them; this map introduces no environment launcher, credentials, scheduled job, or second test framework.
Evidence contract
Report each entry point as passed, failed, blocked (with its missing
prerequisite), or not run. Include the feature ID, full capability IDs and
entry-point ID (for example, onboarding/company through web-wizard), plus the
recipe link, commit/environment, user action, expected and observed result,
command/exit code, and evidence links. Screenshots or traces should show both the
action and the discriminating result. Include task/run/request IDs when relevant,
without secrets.
A fix is verified across its affected surfaces only when each has evidence or an explicit reason it does not apply. Shared code alone does not prove parity. Keep product regressions visible; do not change the recipe to bless a failure. For Paperclip-assigned work, attach evidence through the artifact workflow.
Inventory and remaining depth
The generated maps/generated/coverage.json lists the current non-test TSX page
modules and the recipes that directly reference each one. An unreferenced module
is a documentation candidate, not proof that its feature is absent or untested.
Remaining workflow limits live in each recipe. Inventory and example associations
describe documentation scope, not runtime health.
Maintaining the reference
The map documents user journeys. It does not execute them automatically; generated inventories record documentation scope rather than live test health. Product E2E reports reuse these capability IDs through the journey associations. Their coverage view shows which scenarios in a campaign are linked to each capability and the associated test results. An association or passing scenario does not certify the whole capability; unselected and unmapped journeys remain distinct.
When maintaining a recipe, compare its entry points and expected results with
the current source. Check that linked tests still exercise the stated behavior
and that local references still exist. Keep the same-named agent access companion
and stable sub-feature IDs aligned when behavior or access changes. Source-only
access inventory remains distinct from live verification. Run
node scripts/check-maps.mjs after map edits for structural/reference checks;
follow the shared contract for the source and behavioral checks it cannot perform.
Each recipe starts with a small frontmatter navigation record, then an H1:
---
navigation: {"section":"Tasks and conversations","sectionOrder":20,"order":10}
---
The H1 supplies the feature title, and the first paragraph supplies its summary. Orders are local to the section; leave gaps for additions. Equal orders use the stable filename as a tie-breaker. Keep a section's name/order consistent across its recipes. Discovery uses the recipe and companion; keep the readable ID index above aligned when features or capability IDs change.
Optional ### Storybook verification guidance lives inside the recipe's Gotchas
section. Each level-four heading contains a backtick-quoted capability key and
has Scope (ui, cli, or browser),
Storybook, Production, and Sources fields. These are verification instructions
and intentional scope limits, not run results or a required story for every API.
The generated gap report combines this guidance with current story associations.
After frontmatter, each recipe starts with an H1 and a user-visible description, then exactly:
- Sub-features — stable backticked local keys, full capability IDs, and observable behavior/states,
such as
- `company`: `onboarding/company` — create a company. - How to get to it (user POV) — one H3 backticked entry-point ID per surface.
- Driving it with — starts with
Preconditions:; repeat each entry-point H3, withAutomated:andManual:paragraphs. Name test scope and gaps honestly. - Gotchas — misleading look-alikes, feature gates, and invalid evidence.
New or updated entries follow
Poteto's feature-map examples.
Existing entries with a Driving it heading can adopt the named harness when
their recipes are updated. The original format was inspired by
Omnigent's feature map.
Paperclip's recipes and checks follow its own task model and test infrastructure.