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Dotta 74aabb7ea6 feat(runner): add Codex ACPX harness driver (#12405)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The runner package hides provider behavior behind the
`HarnessDriver` contract.
> - The admitted Codex ACPX runtime can open sessions, execute bounded
turns, and use run-scoped semantic tools.
> - The package still needs a driver that translates those turns into
canonical PRP events and semantic results.
> - The driver must preserve terminal facts under backpressure and
retain cleanup ownership after caller-facing timeouts.
> - Abort can win after the host transfers a credential-bearing
admission but before the adapter body starts, so that boundary must
publish a completed cleanup proof without changing the exact
cancellation reason.
> - An external close can join an autonomous reconciliation attempt; if
it joins the exhausted final attempt, its batched intent must create one
new bounded generation when that exact cleanup fails.
> - A late cleanup failure needs a finite reconciliation budget that
cannot renew itself without a distinct external intent.
> - This pull request adds the Codex-only ACPX harness driver and the
package-local lifecycle rules it needs.
> - The benefit is a tested provider-neutral session boundary for later
runnerd and server integration.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #12404

**Subsystem affected**

This change affects `packages/paperclip-runner`, the Codex ACPX driver,
and the provider-neutral native session runtime.

**Problem or motivation**

The package has an admitted Codex ACPX session, bounded turn control,
and authenticated semantic tools. It does not have a `HarnessDriver`
implementation that joins those parts and emits canonical PRP events. It
also needs bounded ownership for provider cleanup that settles after a
caller-facing timeout. Cancellation can win after the host schedules
runtime admission and transfers the staged credential but before the
adapter body starts; that rejected admission must still prove that
provider cleanup is complete so the credential can be scrubbed and later
admission can proceed. Separately, an external close that coalesces onto
an exhausted autonomous reconciliation must not lose its cleanup intent
if that exact protocol or provider-process cleanup fails.

**Proposed solution**

Add a Codex-only harness driver. It opens the admitted host, executes
one active turn, normalizes ACPX events, dispatches run-scoped tools,
and commits one schema-valid completion or blocked result. It provides
bounded event storage, interruption, transcripts, usage, snapshots,
diagnostics, and ordered close behavior. The native session runtime
quarantines incomplete cleanup before another session can enter the same
cleanup domain. The ACPX adapter records the immutable origin and
attempt number of each exact close attempt. Autonomous reconciliation
failures stay inside the three-attempt budget of the generation that
created them. External callers that join an attempt are represented by
one idempotent batched intent: success consumes it, failure on an
earlier attempt uses the remaining same-generation retries, and failure
on the exhausted final attempt creates exactly one new bounded
generation. Both direct and late protocol/provider cleanup outcomes use
the same rule. At the adapter entry boundary, an already-aborted
admission transfers an already-complete cleanup proof before rethrowing
the exact abort reason; the host retains credential cleanup until that
proof settles.

**Alternatives considered**

The multi-provider integration driver was not copied because it mixes
deferred providers and recovery behavior into the Codex path. Direct
server registration was also deferred because this package slice must
remain inactive and independently safe. Relabeling a coalesced
autonomous attempt as external was rejected because it would let
observers replenish retry budgets; starting another protocol close
before the exact retained attempt settles was rejected because it would
overlap cleanup ownership.

**Roadmap alignment**

This is package-local production hardening for the experimental runner.
It does not enable a new adapter or change current agent execution
selection.

## What Changed

- Add a Codex-only ACPX `HarnessDriver` and session implementation.
- Advertise only implemented capabilities. Keep resume, steering,
runtime request resolution, runtime request handoff, goals, and thread
lineage unavailable.
- Emit canonical PRP turn, transcript, tool execution, final reply,
result, failure, interruption, and usage facts.
- Dispatch authorized dynamic tools through the authenticated semantic
bridge.
- Validate and commit one completion or blocked result with disposition
and conflict checks.
- Add stable bounded event identities, one-active-turn admission,
terminal capacity reservation, and bounded interruption.
- Redact authorization credentials from emitted events and retained
transcripts.
- Add read, reconcile, transcript, usage, snapshot, status,
interruption, and ordered close surfaces.
- Retain and quarantine host cleanup that outlives a caller-facing close
bound.
- Gate new native-session admission on prior cleanup in the same cleanup
domain.
- Preserve durable success and governed waits while provider cleanup
continues under bounded ownership.
- Transfer a completed cleanup proof when cancellation wins before the
Codex adapter body, then preserve the caller's exact abort reason.
- Add a host-level regression proving staged credentials are scrubbed,
the credential lease can be reacquired, and a later runtime admission
succeeds after that pre-entry abort.
- Tag each exact ACPX close attempt with an immutable external or
reconciliation origin and immutable reconciliation attempt number.
- Keep timed-out autonomous reconciliation failures inside their
originating three-attempt budget.
- Batch concurrent external callers that join one reconciliation attempt
so they cannot mint independent generations.
- Consume a joined external intent on successful cleanup and on an
earlier failed attempt that still has same-generation retries.
- Renew exactly one bounded generation when a joined external intent
reaches a failed, exhausted final reconciliation attempt.
- Treat both protocol-close and provider-process cleanup failures as
failed intent settlement, including non-timeout and timed-out late
paths.
- Prevent a coalescing external observer from relabeling an immutable
autonomous attempt.
- Reset the finite reconciliation budget only for a distinct external
late-failure generation or one failed batched intent on an exhausted
final attempt.
- Isolate persistent-cleanup tests by cleanup domain and attach expected
rejection handlers before fake timers release them.
- Stabilize cleanup-settlement assertions exposed by GitHub Actions:
observe retained proofs without relying on callback order, wait for the
credential lease release rather than only the preceding credential-file
deletion, and use a supported scalar size assertion instead of an
unavailable Set matcher.
- Add focused tests for driver behavior, event validation, bounded
buffers, cleanup quarantine, admission gating, immutable attempt
origins, final-attempt intent batching, direct and late cleanup
failures, late success consumption, bounded reconciliation, exact
pre-entry cancellation, credential recovery, and durable native-session
outcomes.

## Verification

- Exact head: `584cc420f6ca249cdc0a831779192ca827764d96`.
- Stable patch ID for the combined exact delta:
`5329d8123baf62c339a15bdff16717b3803ebb74`.
- Stack position: #12404 is merged. This pull request targets `master`.
#12406 is stacked on this pull request.
- The exact pull request delta contains eight files:
  - `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/codex-acpx-driver.ts`
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/codex-acpx-driver.test.ts`
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/codex-runtime-adapter.ts`
-
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/codex-runtime-adapter.test.ts`
  - `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/runtime-host.ts`
  - `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/runtime-host.test.ts`
  - `packages/paperclip-runner/src/native-session-runtime.ts`
  - `packages/paperclip-runner/src/native-session-runtime.test.ts`
- `git diff --check` passed for the exact eight-file delta.
- This delta does not change dependencies, `pnpm-lock.yaml`, workflows,
migrations, server selection, UI behavior, or production runner wiring.
- GitHub previously exposed an unsupported Set matcher in the
cleanup-settlement regression; this exact delta uses the
repository-supported scalar `size` assertion without changing the tested
behavior.
- GitHub Actions: **PASS** for the exact head. The complete matrix is
green after a failed-job-only rerun cleared one unrelated
`plugin-worker-manager-duplex` flake; no patch or restack occurred.
- Security checks: **PASS** for the exact head (Superagent, Snyk,
Socket, and contributor trust).
- Greptile: **PASS, 5/5** on the exact head with no open P1/P2 findings,
recommendations, or follow-ups.
- No local test result is claimed. GitHub Actions is the authoritative
verification environment for this revision.

## Risks

This change has medium package-local risk. It adds a new driver and
changes native-session cleanup coordination. A lagging event consumer
could otherwise lose terminal state. The driver reserves terminal
capacity and rejects new work when bounded storage cannot safely accept
it. A stalled, rejected, or late provider close could otherwise overlap
a new session, retain credentials indefinitely, lose an external cleanup
request, or consume unlimited retries. Cleanup-proof transfer keeps the
staged credential owned across the pre-entry abort race, while the host
scrubs it only after the adapter proves that no provider resource
exists. Cleanup quarantine blocks conflicting admission and keeps exact
attempts owned. Immutable attempt origins and attempt numbers prevent
autonomous retries and coalesced observers from silently replenishing
the cap. One batched external intent can renew one generation only after
the exhausted final attempt fails; earlier failures remain within the
original generation, and success consumes the intent. Each renewed
generation remains capped at three autonomous attempts. The driver
reports recovery and other unimplemented capabilities as unavailable. No
server or runnerd factory selects this driver in this pull request.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex with GPT-5.6, extended reasoning, repository tool use, and
code execution.

## 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/...`) and contains
no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [ ] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [ ] 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 P1/P2 findings, recommendations, or
follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
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