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Devin FoleyandPaperclip e18ed02a56 Validate heartbeat run IDs before database lookups (#13657)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Operators inspect heartbeat runs, logs, and provider traces through
the API.
> - These routes use UUID database keys.
> - A malformed path value such as `undefined` reaches the database and
causes a server error.
> - This pull request validates run IDs before those lookups.
> - Valid requests keep the existing company and permission checks.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Related: Refs #8135. That proposal guards actor run headers and activity
writes; this fix covers heartbeat run path parameters.

**What happened?**

A request such as `GET /api/heartbeat-runs/undefined` passes a non-UUID
value to a UUID lookup and returns a server error. Run logs and the
other heartbeat run endpoints have the same unchecked path input.

**Expected behavior**

Reject malformed run IDs with HTTP 400 before any run lookup. Preserve
valid run reads, company isolation, and the existing board and
instance-admin checks.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Request a heartbeat run endpoint with `undefined`, `null`, another
malformed ID, or a UUID with surrounding whitespace.
2. Observe the database UUID error.
3. Run the route regressions before and after this change.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Confirmed on master at `6d0342868`.

**Deployment mode**

The defect affects API deployments backed by PostgreSQL. Regression
tests exercise the actual Express routes and authorization code with
stubbed services. The historical request does not identify the
originating client, so this change does not alter a guessed UI caller.

## What Changed

- Share strict run-ID validation across the 12 heartbeat run endpoints
in the agent router.
- Keep existing board and instance-admin gates ahead of validation. Keep
valid-run company and telemetry checks intact.
- Reject surrounding whitespace, which the shared UUID helper accepts
but PostgreSQL rejects.
- Encode the UUID constraint and document the 400 response in OpenAPI.
Test the generated parameter pattern on all 12 endpoints.
- Cover malformed IDs on every affected endpoint, uppercase UUIDs,
missing and cross-company runs, and permission precedence. Use
UUID-shaped run fixtures in existing route tests.

## Verification

- Before the fix: four malformed-ID regression cases fail; three
access-control cases pass.
- Focused agent route, permission, cross-company, and OpenAPI suites:
154 tests passed, including the final uppercase-UUID case.
- Direct server typecheck passed: `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server
exec tsc --noEmit`.
- The full local test attempt is still running; the complete Linux test
suite passed in CI. Local results will be recorded when it finishes.
- Complete Linux CI passed on the exact head: 53 checks passed, two
non-applicable checks skipped. One untouched preview-service readiness
test failed initially; its three targeted cases passed locally and the
failed-jobs-only CI rerun passed. Greptile scored the final head 5/5
with no unresolved comments.
- Full local `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` reach the native
runner step and stop because `cargo` is absent. The complete Linux CI
checks passed.

## Risks

Low risk: this changes malformed route inputs to HTTP 400. Valid UUID
requests keep their existing lookup and authorization paths. There is no
migration, dependency, provider operation, or configuration change. The
separate activity router and actor run headers are outside this change.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with code editing, shell execution, and test
tools. The exact context window size was not exposed.

## 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 and contains no internal
Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run focused tests locally and they pass; full-check limits
are recorded above
- [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>
2026-09-18 21:36:09 -07:00
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