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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work. > - Dot uses a user OAuth grant to act in one company. > - Cloud must use that original grant when it resolves a selected user's identity. > - A Cloud signature alone must not create user or board authority. > - The tenant's OAuth owner must check the token and its current restrictions. > - This pull request adds a signed private HTTP boundary for that check. > - The result contains only the checked identity fields. It grants no task or board access. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **Subsystem affected** Server external-agent identity, public MCP OAuth, Cloud control verification, and HTTP logging. **Problem or motivation** Cloud needs a private way to resolve the original Dot token for the selected user, client, company and resource. The existing generic Cloud control route creates an operator actor. That route is not the right owner for this identity check. **Proposed solution** Add `POST /mcp/runner/oauth/cloud-principal`. Require the existing Cloud signature and replay verifier. Bind the whole request to a new, closed `mcp-dot:principal` action with a maximum 60-second lifetime. Authenticate the original token once through the normal Dot OAuth owner. Check current namespace authority before and after that call. **Alternatives considered** A Cloud-created grant or a board actor would change the authority owner. Neither is used. The private route reuses the existing OAuth and Cloud identity owners. **Roadmap alignment** This is a narrow boundary for the existing MCP and Cloud areas in `ROADMAP.md`. It adds no work queue, public hosted profile, or provider enablement. Related public work: Refs #14846, #19427, #19750 and #19776. Searches for the exact private path and action found no duplicate PR. The matching private Cloud caller has merged. The current App head passed its required checks and review. ## What Changed - Add an original-token principal reader. Keep the original client, selected user, company, resource, purpose, scope, membership and feature restrictions. - Add a 16 KiB raw JSON private route. Reject compressed, invalid UTF-8, malformed and unknown-field bodies. Bind an ordered whole-body digest to the signature and existing nonce fence. - Compare the current stack, claim, instance, origin and connector identity before and after OAuth. An absent owner or namespace fails closed. - Mount the route in normal `createApp` after hostname, runtime-claim and standby checks, before session/actor work. Do not add it to generic board-control routing. - Keep private request and response logs content-free, including raw buffers, headers, query data and reflected errors. - Add controlled HTTP/privacy tests and a real normal-App OAuth/Cloud-signer integration case. Document the machine-only contract and correct the existing `assistant-connections/client-use` access entry. No new capability ID or agent API entry is added. No schema, lockfile, workflow, Runner, Muse or useful-task fixture changes belong to this PR. ## Verification - Current `70c03593`: normal module-boundary policy and all seven App compiler programs passed. The public module factory has an explicit portable Express return contract. Whole HTTP/log controls passed again: 30/30. The existing real paired OAuth/Cloud-signer/private HTTP case then passed again on a fresh PostgreSQL fixture: 1/1, zero skipped. All known child processes and five database connections closed; the final independent SQL audit was empty. - The original remote policy failure rejected an App import of a module-internal path; dependent E2E/verify gates stopped on that failure. The fix delegates through the public module API. A first local declaration run reported TS2883 for its inferred return type; the explicit public type fixed it. Original logs remain preserved. No checker, compiler option, test body or authority check was weakened. - The normal full App graph passed on the integrated source. The later fixture-only repairs each passed the complete affected owning program:405 entries, including 403 source roots. The remaining programs and own dependency outputs carried only where their source was exact. - Whole private HTTP/log files passed:30 tests, zero failures or skips. The HTTP controls use a controlled OAuth owner with real signatures. The log controls use the actual HTTP logger. - The paired Cloud source passed its normal strict build and whole 26 signer/client/namespace and credential-error controls. These are controlled caller tests, not provider tests. - One normal-App paired case passed with a dedicated PostgreSQL database. It used real DCR 201, PKCE, consent, token exchange and a persisted unpaired grant; actual signed metadata publication and a committed Cloud receipt; the real Cloud signer/client and actual App HTTP; exactly-once authentication; refresh; current namespace restrictions; and revocation. The Cloud registry/provider were the existing controlled in-memory/Fake fixtures. Recorded inbound Hosts matched, with zero metadata overflow. No grant, readiness or mirror ACK was fabricated. - The original principal helper's 21 controlled tests and two real-OAuth tests passed before the HTTP slice. Those three files remained unchanged through integration. They are separate source-scoped evidence, not an extra combined run. - Preserved failures: a helper import and test typing error were corrected before the passed checks. An earlier suite failure did not serialize its hook error and remains unexplained. Later runs captured a missing normal managed-config initialization and HTTP 404 from the loopback mapper. The fixture now calls the normal initialization owners and uses the existing Host-preserving canonical HTTP adapter. All original authority assertions and deadlines remain. - Reproduce the local files with `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run src/modules/external-agents/cloud-principal-http.test.ts src/modules/external-agents/cloud-principal-log.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism`. The real integration file is `server/src/__tests__/cloud-principal-normal-app.postgres.test.ts`; it requires its explicit dedicated test DB and an own compiled matching Cloud checkout. - The normal `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` check passed for 35 areas and 192 capability IDs. This validates map structure, not business acceptance. The later edits are documentation/map only; all executed business source and own outputs from the paired case remained exact. - Current-head remote CI passes: 59 successful checks and three intentional skips. Greptile reviewed this exact head at 5/5 with no findings or review threads. The prior Ponytail review was Ship 5/5 at the earlier head; no current-head Ponytail turn is present, which is nonblocking under the authorized review policy. The three full-repository commands were not repeated locally; the focused normal App graph and affected tests above passed, and required remote CI supplies the broad gates. No deployed, provider-capacity, cold-wake or full hosted lifecycle result is claimed. ## Risks - This is a security boundary. Signature, current namespace and original OAuth restrictions must continue to fail closed. The response gives identity only; callers still need normal operation authority. - The request carries the original token. The reserved route uses a closed log projection on both accepted and refused requests. Privacy regressions remain a material risk. - Both repositories must agree on the action and digest contract. Older code rejects the unsupported action; no fallback creates authority. - This is a prerequisite private boundary. The remaining hosted discovery, wake, capability, operation, event, retry/reactivation and revocation lifecycle work, plus Muse, remains open. No profile or capability is enabled here. - No migration is needed. Rollback removes the private boundary and paired caller; normal OAuth and Personal MCP remain with their existing owners. - The engineering documentation describes this private machine boundary and its access restriction. No operator-facing feature is enabled. Documentation for full hosted enablement remains with that later work. ## Model Used OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` (Sol6.1), through Codex, produced the source and tests with tool use and local compiler/test execution. A GPT-6-based Codex coordinator reviewed the work. Its exact model ID is unavailable. Context window sizes are unavailable. ## 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
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.