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DottaandPaperclip f8484a9f8d fix(native): deliver selected skills to remote Codex homes (#18080)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip coordinates company agents and preserves their assigned
instructions and approval rules.
> - Native runs pin an immutable skill inventory for each execution.
> - Built-in remote Codex launches prepare that inventory on the
controller, but transfer only authentication, configuration, and the
separate context assets.
> - Codex needs the selected skills under its isolated home. An explicit
skill path does not load a skill outside its registered discovery roots.
> - This pull request transfers the sealed selected inventory to the
path already used by explicit skill inputs.
> - Each launch replaces stale assignments inside the authorized
workspace while preserving provider history.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18025. The corrected first-task instructions exist in the selected
bundle, but remote Codex must receive those bytes before it can follow
them. The legacy skill resolver work in #16646 and #9323 uses different
paths and does not repair native remote launch staging.

**What happened?**

A fresh remote native Codex run could not read its assigned first-task
skill. It produced an approval question instead of the required
confirmation. The Product E2E journey correctly rejected that question
before child creation.

**Expected behavior**

Codex receives the selected immutable skill at the same provider-local
discovery path used by explicit skill input. Removed or unassigned
skills do not remain available after a new launch.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Prepare an isolated Codex home with one assigned skill.
2. Run the built-in remote launch staging path against a fresh remote
filesystem.
3. Resolve an explicit invocation of that skill. Before the repair, its
provider-local file is missing.

## What Changed

- Transfer only the prepared selected skill inventory into the isolated
remote Codex home before other launch writes.
- Reject writable files, symlinks, missing entries, and extra unassigned
packages in the controller projection.
- Validate each provider-home path component below the authorized
workspace. Reject redirected retained paths before deleting stale
skills.
- Create the private discovery root before native sandbox transfers,
which omit the source-root metadata and can ignore the requested
directory mode.
- Replace stale or empty inventories without changing provider
conversation history, preconfigured homes, other providers, or
plugin-provided launch preparation.
- Exercise the real home materializer and turn resolver through the
existing test-only Runner surface. Document the remote discovery
contract.
- Synchronize an existing Telegram attachment-failure test with the
durable provider-effect commit, preserving its required final states.
This CI repair is a separate test-only commit.

## Verification

- The new production-staging regression failed before the repair because
the resolved skill file was absent.
- All 23 focused staging checks pass. They cover delivery, file modes,
empty/revoked inventories, history retention, extra packages, writable
files, source symlinks, target symlinks, redirected ancestors on
sandbox/SSH, and an authorized workspace alias. The filesystem fixture
packs and extracts actual tar bytes without applying the requested root
mode; it preserves exact projected-file digests and executable bits.
- The unchanged materializer and prepared-launch contracts passed 26
tests. Eight selected native caller checks passed; other cases in that
filtered run were not selected.
- Independent probes used official Codex 0.160.0, the real materializer,
production staging, the real resolver, and a local model endpoint. The
original staging supplied no skill message. The final staging supplied
the complete selected skill body with its exact SHA-256. A final probe
also ran production Daytona `performSyncIn`, backing only its SDK
exec/upload/chmod edge with the local filesystem under umask `022`: the
pre-review source reproduced root `0755`, and the final source retained
root `0700`, package `0555`, file `0444`, and the exact selected digest.
All model requests returned local 403; there were no upstream requests
or credentials.
- Full local `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed on verification
commit `e7d4e7a9`, based on `60b8089a`. The full local `pnpm test:run`
on that frozen tree was not completed: later embedded PostgreSQL startup
failed because the host could not allocate semaphore sets (`semget`,
SEMMNI/SEMMNS), and the owned attempt was stopped with its log
preserved. Its earlier four caller-fixture failures and one
workspace-conflict failure are recorded separately below; the later
resource error is not an explanation for them. Delivery commit
`567d838d` replayed the initial six-file patch onto `ee67d2ec`;
production was last changed in `23456f51`, followed by test-only commits
`002fa4a7` and `6e8fa595`. All 24 staging checks, all 26
materializer/prepared-launch checks, and the complete native executor
file (968 tests, zero skipped) pass locally. Server typecheck also
passed after these test edits. The complete CI matrix passed on
`002fa4a7`; current-head CI is tracked separately.
- Initial-head CI exposed four caller fixtures that manually wrote
auth/config without preparing the skills inventory. The same four
failures reproduced locally. Those fixtures now use the real home
preparer for their existing empty inventory and assert its transfer; all
34 retained/replacement scenarios and the complete 966-test caller file
pass. A sandboxed full-file attempt could not bind local PostgreSQL
(`EPERM`); it was stopped with its log preserved, then the identical
command passed with local fixture access. Initial-head CI also recorded
timeouts in workspace recovery, approval-queue backoff, and heartbeat
attribution. Their three complete files pass unchanged locally (102
tests); the next CI head also passed those cases. The original slowdown
remains unexplained. The consequent approval cleanup foreign-key failure
is a timeout teardown race already recorded in the owning worker
documentation.
- The frozen full local run also observed an existing workspace-conflict
test fail. The test and owning workspace code are unchanged between the
verification and delivery trees, and the isolated delivery case passes.
The original failure remains unresolved: stopping the later
resource-blocked run prevented the final assertion detail from being
emitted. That isolated pass does not replace the earlier result.
- CI on `23456f51` caught a Telegram test reading
`provider_effect=processing` after observing the provider mock call.
Production commits `processed` later, so the test now waits for the
unchanged complete durable-state assertion. All 18 selected Telegram
attachment/media cases pass (the other 1,670 cases were not selected).
The same CI attempt also recorded an E2E runner shutdown followed by
cancellation, without a failed Playwright assertion; the necessary new
test-only head reruns the matrix. Earlier failures remain preserved and
are not reported as passes.
- Review requested an executor-level preconfigured-home negative test.
Retained and replacement workspace cases now drive the actual launcher,
assert successful context staging, and exclude the isolated home's
skills/auth/config transfers. A counterfactual that removes only the
executor exclusion makes both tests fail; the exact production bytes
were restored before the complete 968-test pass. Flat and nested
selected package delivery is also covered. Optional arbitrary
remote-stderr expansion is deferred; the repair keeps the existing
closed error code and report surface.
- Final head `6e8fa595` passes the complete CI matrix, including
typecheck, build, Runner, browser, and aggregate gates. Two
first-attempt jobs were interrupted by runner shutdown/lost
communication; one unchanged-head rerun of those jobs and their
aggregates passed. The underlying host interruption cause remains
unknown. Both current-head automated reviews are 5/5 with the
implemented finding resolved.
- The original checked-in lockfile fails a fresh frozen install on the
baseline. The repository's maintained resolution-then-frozen sequence
passes. No lockfile change is included.
- Independent source review found and then verified the
retained-ancestor guard. This PR does not claim that the full live Cloud
onboarding campaign has passed. It changes no journey assertion or
approval gate.

## Risks

Launch preparation adds an asynchronous inventory walk, one bounded
remote cleanup command, and one transfer of the selected skill tree.
Those costs grow with selected files and bytes and occur only at
provider launch. A failed validation, cleanup, or transfer prevents
launch. Remote Node is already required by the shared SSH/sandbox
launcher. The selected packages remain read-only; the private discovery
root retains Codex's normal writable mode. No database, API,
credential-routing, or deployment change is included.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex based on GPT-6, with reasoning, source inspection, tool
use, and code execution. The host does not expose the exact serving
model ID or context-window size.

## 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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