## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Tool and connection operations capture the current accepted requester. > - Capture locks the task and run, then reconciles pending steering. > - Most callers use identity or task fields from the returned run. > - The default query also transfers saved prompts, runner configuration, results, and logs. > - This pull request gives each production caller an explicit read scope. > - Narrow scopes keep their authority checks and return only selected columns. > - The Muse project path still reads its complete saved execution input. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What existing behavior does this improve?** Operation-time run identity capture for native tools, gateway sessions, project and workspace access, Slack, voice, connection management, and connection token admission. **Current behavior** These callers use the default full run read. Large saved execution documents cross the database connection even when the caller only needs the current accepted requester or task binding. **Proposed behavior** Use typed identity, task, broker, and project-execution scopes. Keep task-before-run locks, company and agent predicates, active status validation, and pending-steering reconciliation. Return the complete saved native input only where project admission uses it. **Reason and benefit** A synthetic PostgreSQL 17.11 fixture matches a wide run with a 142 KB context and a 77 KB runner profile. Its locked run DataRow falls from 225,101 bytes to 190–605 bytes for authority reads. The project scope returns 66,004 bytes because it must retain a complete 64 KB execution input. These are local DataRow measurements, not a forecast of production billing or latency. **Breaking changes** None to public APIs, saved data, or authority policy. Internal narrow return types omit columns that were not selected. The default full compatibility read and the existing GitHub-credential and authentication scopes keep their current contracts. **Additional context** The public issue and PR duplicate searches found no matching open change. This is one independent query optimization. It does not require other performance PRs. ## What Changed - Add typed scopes for accepted identity metadata, task authorization, token attribution, and saved project execution input. - Assign explicit scopes at all production `captureRunIdentity` call sites. - Keep the full native execution input for Muse project admission while omitting unrelated profile, context, result, and log data. - Narrow the broker's initial read and the existing Slack and connection-management historical reads to the same required fields. - Extend steering and acknowledgement regressions to all new scopes. Add real PostgreSQL projection, malformed JSON, tenant and agent, session-generation, and saved-input coverage. - Add a service-generated SQL benchmark with exact raw DataRow accounting, retained-field equality, plans, and alternating transaction timings. - Document the scope contracts and reproducible benchmark. ## Verification - Baseline: `623f1dc289a14a699ebbe3f09b94179d38fc2ae2`. - `vitest run server/src/__tests__/run-identity-projections.test.ts server/src/__tests__/run-identity.test.ts`: 54 tests passed on an owned disposable PostgreSQL 17.11 database. - The tests retain task-before-run and audit foreign-key lock behavior. Every scope rejects uncertain steering, accepts its durable acknowledgement, and preserves requester replay ordering. - A full-row mutation makes the narrow identity regression fail. The restored treatment passes. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec tsx ../scripts/benchmark-run-identity-projections.ts --baseline-ref=623f1dc289a14a699ebbe3f09b94179d38fc2ae2` captures the real locked SQL for both versions. - Every retained column and selected JSON field matches the baseline. Identity contexts match. The complete stored run remains unchanged. Capture keeps the same five queries. | Scope | Before DataRow bytes | After DataRow bytes | Reduction | | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | | Identity | 225,101 | 190 | 99.92% | | Task authorization | 225,101 | 410 | 99.82% | | Token broker | 225,101 | 605 | 99.73% | | Project execution input | 225,101 | 66,004 | 70.68% | - DataRow bytes include row framing and raw text-format column values. They exclude response metadata, TLS, and TCP. - Two warmups and seven alternating samples measure the complete capture transaction. Several timing ranges overlap. The primary claim is byte reduction; production latency is not verified. - Initial fixture runs exposed an empty external schema and an incomplete synthetic conversation binding. The test setup now applies migrations and supplies the required user/state fields. The final 54 tests passed. - `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed locally. - Four existing skill-setup tests passed. Four assembled connection-management/native-tool consumer cases passed with real JWT/API-key authentication. These include per-request identity freshness and task-scoped activity authority. - A CI-only stale mock assertion expected two capture arguments; it now verifies the explicit identity scope. A repository-wide capture mock audit found no other stale argument assertions. - Review follow-up: the projection suite uses the existing embedded-support guard while always enabling an explicitly supplied external database. The audit-lock regression merges URL query parameters and retains existing PostgreSQL options. - `vitest run server/src/__tests__/run-identity-projections.test.ts server/src/__tests__/run-identity.test.ts server/src/__tests__/company-skills-routes.test.ts server/src/__tests__/project-skill-setup-identity.test.ts`: 123 tests passed. The external PostgreSQL URL included both `application_name` and `options`; lock tests verified `lock_timeout=1s` and retained `statement_timeout=5s`. - Full local tests are not run because the host's embedded PostgreSQL setup is unavailable. Greptile reviewed `06e1dd53a3fb24df74d5fbfb2ad397f291f1e30f` at 5/5 with zero unresolved threads. The full final-head CI matrix passes. All 58 checks are terminal: 55 success, one neutral, and two optional Storybook skips. - No migration, lockfile, workflow, new polling, or cache change. ## Risks A narrow read must retain each caller's actual fields. The caller audit includes Slack's wake-request fallback, conversation generation, legacy broker attribution, and the Muse parser's complete native input. JSON selection retains value types, including malformed legacy values. The saved-input scope preserves missing-key behavior. The default full read still returns the complete stored row for compatibility. Locks and live authority checks are unchanged. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6, accessed through Codex. The exact runtime model ID and context-window size were not exposed in this session. Used repository inspection, code execution, and PostgreSQL validation. ## 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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Run identity reads
captureRunIdentity locks the task before the run. It validates company, agent,
and active status. Pending steering still requires its durable acknowledgement.
The accepted requester is read for each operation. No scope adds a cache or skips
these checks.
Callers choose a typed read scope:
| Scope | Retained run data | Consumers |
|---|---|---|
identity |
Run and accepted requester identifiers, status | Gateway, native connection tools, connection intents, project skill setup |
task_authorization |
Identity, task bindings, wake request, conversation generation, skill-test marker | Projects, workspace repositories, Slack, voice, connection management |
token_broker |
Identity, invocation source, task/project/routine and requester attribution | Connection token broker |
project_execution |
Task authorization plus runtime mode and the complete saved native execution input | Muse project admission |
Narrow return types omit unselected columns. JSON projections preserve the types of retained values. The default full read remains available for compatibility and explicit inspection. Existing GitHub-credential and request-authentication scopes keep their current contracts. Execution preparation and recovery retain their separate complete-input reads.
The synthetic real-PostgreSQL benchmark captures the actual locked query and compares every retained column, context and identity result. It keeps the same five-query reconciliation transaction, checks the unchanged stored run, records plans and alternating timings, and measures raw PostgreSQL DataRow bytes:
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec tsx ../scripts/benchmark-run-identity-projections.ts --baseline-ref=623f1dc289a14a699ebbe3f09b94179d38fc2ae2
The default uses disposable embedded PostgreSQL. PAPERCLIP_TEST_DATABASE_URL
can select a disposable local database whose name ends in _test. DataRow bytes
exclude response metadata, TLS and TCP. Byte reduction does not establish a
production latency or billing change.