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DottaandPaperclip f912ecaacf fix: carry AI connections through hiring and unblock task execution (#13438)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents hire other agents and assign tasks to them.
> - Managed AI connections must follow those hires across legacy and
native runners.
> - Missing accounts should pause task execution and let the user
connect from the task.
> - Subscription contention must wait without asking for new
credentials.
> - This pull request fixes these paths and the native tool and Daytona
staging failures found during live tests.
> - The result is a working hire, subtask, and connection setup flow on
local and remote runners.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A managed Claude or Codex agent could hire a teammate without a usable
AI binding. Cross-provider hiring could fail before the user had a
chance to connect the new provider. First-time task setup did not show
the existing AI credential form inline. A busy subscription could
request a new connection. Native API replies could stop the parent after
a hire had already committed. Fresh Daytona sandboxes could fail to
extract read-only skill directories created on macOS.

**Expected behavior**

Compatible hires inherit the managed connection choice. A hire for
another provider uses the responsible user's default. If that account is
missing, the hire succeeds and the task asks for a connection.
Completing setup in the task resumes work automatically. Explicit child
auth settings and existing unmanaged login paths keep precedence.
Shared-account access checks remain in force.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Connect a Claude or Codex parent with a managed AI account.
2. Ask it to hire one agent of each provider and create a self-assigned
subtask.
3. Assign work to both hires without connecting the second provider
first.
4. Connect the missing provider from its task card.
5. Check that all tasks finish and same-provider work uses the original
account.
6. Repeat with native runners and fresh Daytona sandboxes. The opt-in
browser suite in `tests/hiring-ai-connections/README.md` performs these
steps.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The live failures were reproduced from `f2c5e54dc`. The branch is
rebased onto `5282cabde`.

**Deployment mode**

Isolated local development instance. Legacy CLI and native runners.
Local execution and ephemeral Daytona sandboxes.

Related work: Refs #13247 for managed AI connections. Refs #13268 for
legacy credential-reference inheritance, which this branch preserves.
Refs #13432 for a concurrent managed-inheritance fix. This PR also
covers cross-provider task setup, subscription waits, native API
replies, and Daytona extraction. It permits missing responsible-user
defaults at hire time; restricted shared selections still fail.

## What Changed

- Apply managed connection defaults to both agent creation routes.
Preserve explicit auth choices and legacy credential-reference
inheritance.
- Allow hires before their responsible user connects the provider. Keep
approval gates, company boundaries, and shared-account access checks.
- Reuse the production AI credential form inside the pending task card.
Resume the task after setup.
- Retry subscription lease contention without consuming the
provider-failure allowance or creating a connection request.
- Require task execution-lock ownership when scheduling, promoting, and
dispatching subscription retries. Recheck ownership under the issue row
lock.
- Rename the HTTP operation identity at the native tool boundary so it
cannot override the runner's operation identity.
- Delay directory permission restoration during Daytona extraction.
Preserve the final read-only modes.
- Add database-backed regressions, real browser acceptance tests, and
Storybook states. Document setup and run-log behavior.

## Verification

- Six real browser scenarios passed: both parent providers on legacy
local and legacy Daytona; native Codex locally; native Claude on
Daytona. Each scenario hires both providers, completes a self-subtask
and assigned work, and connects the missing provider inline with
automatic continuation.
- Successful runs verify the account, responsible user, runner mode, and
Daytona lease. All 18 test sandboxes were deleted.
- Live authentication used API keys. Subscription inheritance, lease
contention, and retry have integration coverage. Fresh subscription
OAuth sign-in was not automated.
- Red/green tests reproduced missing bindings, missing inline forms,
subscription contention, native API reply failure, and GNU tar
permission failure.
- Seven Storybook browser checks passed. They cover both providers,
method selection, narrow layout, completion, cancellation, and invalid
credentials.
- Full local suite coverage completed before rebase. Initial timing and
fixture startup failures passed unchanged on isolated reruns. The first
full command did not exit cleanly; the remaining workspace and
serialized groups were completed separately.
- After rebase, 107 hiring/auth/retry tests and 59 native API,
task-card, and Daytona tests passed. The full workspace typecheck,
production build, and token gates passed again. Storybook build passed
before rebase.

- Review fixes: 169 hiring/retry/dispatch tests, 37 adjacent tests, and
four explicit cancellation-race cases passed. Eight cross-provider cases
cover stale auth keys on both creation routes and both runner types.
Server typecheck and build passed.

- Final CI on `ee4890837a8a4913e07453392b9a75969580dae1`: 32 checks
passed. Two optional Storybook jobs were skipped. The full server,
workspace, browser, native runner, build, typecheck, and release checks
passed.
- Three unchanged tests initially failed on a busy port, a chat row-lock
race, and preview-server readiness. Each affected job passed after one
CI rerun. Isolated local checks also passed: 41 credential tests, the
chat-concurrency case, and 25 preview-runtime tests.
- Greptile reviewed the final commit at 5/5. Both review threads are
resolved. GitHub reports no merge conflicts.

## Risks

- A missing personal account now defers authentication to the first
task. Explicit incompatible bindings and restricted shared accounts
still fail at hire time.
- An inherited personal default uses the responsible user's existing
authorization to install access for the new agent. It never copies
credentials or another user's identity.
- Subscription contention retries after a delay and rechecks task
eligibility. It does not consume the provider-failure budget.
- Native hiring uses the existing managed API-tools opt-in. Remote
native runners require a matching Linux binary and provider pack, as
documented in the acceptance README.
- No schema changes. Live tests make paid provider calls and remain
opt-in.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 (`gpt-6-astra`) in Codex, with reasoning, repository
inspection, code execution, browser automation, and API tools. The
context-window size is 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
- [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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-14 16:15:48 -05:00
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