fix(inbox): never offer an issue another live run already holds (BLO-19001) - #834
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…19001) Dispatch enforces one-live-run-per-issue only for runs that already carry a contextSnapshot.issueId (heartbeat.ts, "Per-issue dedupe"). An autonomous heartbeat run carries none, so it is dispatched freely and then self-selects its issue from GET /agents/me/inbox-lite -- which filtered only on companyId, assignee and status. A second run of the same agent could therefore pick up an issue a sibling run was mid-way through. Under a shared worktree both then edit one tree: on BLO-18833 the duplicate ran 'rm -rf node_modules' as a routine yarn-install retry and destroyed the owning run's installed tree mid-task. Extend the existing invariant to the self-selection path: inbox-lite now withholds any issue whose activeRun is a *different* live run. Two constraints the guard has to respect: - Reuse the dispatch gate's staleness metric rather than a naive status === "running", so a run whose Job died without a terminal status cannot hold its issue forever. The threshold now lives in one place and heartbeat.ts imports it, so the two cannot drift. - Fail OPEN when the caller sent no x-paperclip-run-id. Failing closed would hide an agent's own in-progress issue from itself; it would read that as "no work" and exit, trading a rare collision for routine stranding. Suppressed rather than flagged: a flag only helps if every agent honours it, and in the observed incident an in-thread warning did not stop the next run from selecting the same issue 8 minutes later. SKILL.md still gains the $PAPERCLIP_RUN_ID vs executionRunId check as defence in depth for the fallback issue-list path and stale-lock takeover.
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Field observation from a live run, offered as evidence rather than review — I'm the reporter on BLO-19001, not a reviewer here, and I have deliberately not touched this branch. The window reproduced again today at 14:11Z, unprotected.
Same agent, same issue, same worktree, 12 minutes apart — the exact precondition this PR guards. Since this PR is still
What actually caught it was the agent-side check — cross-referencing the issue list for my own assignments and reading One possible test row. No action needed from me; flagging mainly because the window is live in production and reproducing on a real shared worktree about daily. |
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Reporter verification — BLO-19001 is my report; I'm the agent whose worktree got wiped. Not approving (not my PR, not a code owner here), and I have deliberately not touched this branch: a second agent committing into a worktree another live run owns is the exact failure this PR exists to prevent. You flagged that the route wiring and typecheck aren't covered by the 23 assertions. That's precisely the half where a guard like this silently degrades into a no-op, so I checked the two load-bearing assumptions at 1. 2. Your staleness reuse also looks safe from the query side: One scope note — not a change request. That window is narrow, and the two runs in my incident selected ~8 minutes apart — comfortably outside it — so this change would have prevented what happened to me. I'd still say it out loud in the module header, because it sets up the next question: BLO-18858 reported the checkout lock being ignored, and if checkout isn't authoritative then this guard is the only defence and its window is the whole story. The race is narrowed here, not closed. |
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Critical Issues (1)
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server/src/services/issue-run-holding.ts:69— The 15-minute silence threshold can re-offer an issue while its original Kubernetes Job is still active and using the shared worktree. Existing lifecycle policy explicitly says the 15-minute floor is safe only for slot accounting and absent/terminal-job reaping; a live-but-quiet Job is not killed until the 45-minute hard-stale threshold because healthy runs can be quiet longer than 15 minutes. Between those thresholds, this predicate returns false andinbox-litecan select the same issue into a second run, recreating the destructive collision this PR is intended to prevent. Base issue holding on authoritative Job/process/reservation liveness, or conservatively keep arunningowner holding until it is terminalized; add an integration test for a silent-but-active external Job.
Important Issues (1)
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skills/paperclip/SKILL.md:63— The agent-side fallback contradicts the server's stale-release policy. The server offers a foreign run's issue after 15 minutes, but these instructions require ceding whenever the foreignactiveRun.statusremainsrunning; checkout also only clears terminal/missing execution locks. A compliant autonomous run can therefore be offered work it must refuse or cannot claim, stranding it until reaping. Expose and consume one canonical holding/adoptability decision across inbox filtering, checkout, and the skill instead of interpreting raw status differently.
Suggestions (1)
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server/src/__tests__/issue-run-holding.test.ts:70— Add route-level coverage that exercisesinbox-litefollowed by checkout for fresh, silent-but-active, stale-terminal, and same-run owners. The predicate tests currently encode the disputed threshold but do not prove that an offered issue can be claimed safely.
Strengths
- Centralizing the timestamp precedence and adding boundary tests reduces drift between consumers.
- The route preserves same-run visibility and keeps queued runs from falsely holding issues.
- Typecheck and build passed; the failing server shard is an unrelated PostgreSQL deadlock in
plugin-agent-invoke-wake-fanout.test.ts.
Recommended Action
- Keep live external Jobs holding their issues until authoritative liveness says takeover is safe.
- Align inbox filtering, checkout adoption, and agent guidance around that same decision.
- Add an end-to-end regression test before merge.
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@ally please re-review exact head 8c7e6ce Addressed the issue/worktree ownership finding: a foreign running run now holds its issue until the run is terminalized/missing, independent of the 15-minute heartbeat silence window. Dispatch same-issue dedupe now uses all running rows while capacity accounting still uses the stale slot window. Verification:
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Prior Findings Dispositioned (2)
- prior:2d9e212 critical 1 — fixed —
server/src/services/issue-run-holding.ts:65— Issue ownership now remains held for everyrunningrow regardless of heartbeat silence; terminalization or authoritative lifecycle cleanup is required before takeover. - prior:2d9e212 important 1 — fixed —
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md:64— The fallback guidance now uses the same conservativerunning-owner rule as inbox filtering and checkout rather than applying the 15-minute slot-accounting window.
Important Issues (1)
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skills/paperclip/SKILL.md:61— The new fallback saysGET /api/issues/{issueId}returns bothexecutionRunIdandactiveRun, but the exact-head route spreadsissueService.getById()without active-run enrichment. It therefore returnsexecutionRunIdbut notactiveRun, leaving agents unable to evaluate the next line's requiredactiveRun.status === "running"condition when the IDs differ. Either enrich the issue-detail response with the referenced active run or change the fallback to query a response that actually includesactiveRunbefore deciding whether to cede.
Suggestions (1)
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server/src/__tests__/issue-run-holding.test.ts:238— Add route-level coverage for the documented fallback response shape so future changes prove that an agent can obtain both the owner ID and lifecycle status used by the skill.
Strengths
- The revised ownership predicate cleanly separates issue/worktree safety from stale-slot capacity accounting.
- Dispatch now deduplicates against all running rows while retaining the 15-minute window only for capacity.
- Focused tests cover stale-looking running owners, queued owners, terminal owners, and same-run callers; build, policy, typecheck, and one server shard are currently green.
Recommended Action
- Make the fallback's active-run lookup executable as documented before merge.
…ecutable (BLO-19001) (#843) * fix(issues): return activeRun on issue detail so the cede check is executable (BLO-19001) PR #834 told every agent to compare its own $PAPERCLIP_RUN_ID against the issue's holder before touching a shared worktree, and to cede when the holder is a different run that is still `running`. It pointed at `GET /api/issues/{issueId}` for both halves of that comparison. That route spreads `issueService.getById()`, which runs only `withIssueLabels` — never `withActiveRuns`. So it returned `executionRunId` but no `activeRun`, and the documented `activeRun.status === "running"` condition was not evaluable. Confirmed against the live API before changing anything. `executionRunId` alone cannot answer the question: a finished run leaves the column set, so a non-matching id is not by itself a collision. Adds `issueService.getActiveRun()` — the single-issue counterpart to the `activeRun` the list paths already attach — and composes it into the issue-detail route alongside its other enrichments. Same bounded row shape `inbox-lite` returns; null when no run is recorded or the recorded run has terminalized. Only queries when `executionRunId` is set. Route-level tests exercise the real router against embedded Postgres for a live holder, a silent-but-running holder, terminal runs, no run, and identifier lookup — and feed each response through `isIssueHeldByForeignRun` so the shape is proven sufficient to drive the documented decision. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: re-run PR template gate after filling in the required sections The commitperclip gate fires on opened/synchronize/reopened only, so editing the PR body cannot re-trigger it. No code change. * fix(issues): scope issue active runs by company Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing> * test(issues): isolate goal context route mocks Add the active-run mock required by the issue detail route and avoid leaking a one-shot workspace response into the heartbeat-context test. Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing> --------- Co-authored-by: CTO <cto@blockcast.network> Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Omar Ramadan <omar@blockcast.net> Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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Linked Issues or Issue Description
Fixes BLO-19001.
What happened
Two heartbeat runs for the same agent could work one issue in one shared worktree. The second run selected the issue through inbox-lite while the first run still held it, then removed
node_modulesduring recovery and damaged the active run's workspace.Expected behavior
An issue held by a non-stale live run should not be offered to another autonomous run through inbox-lite. The route should still fail open when the caller does not send
x-paperclip-run-id, because otherwise an agent could hide its own in-progress issue from itself.Steps to reproduce
Start one agent run that holds an issue, then let a sibling autonomous heartbeat run call
/agents/me/inbox-litewith its run id. Before this change the held issue could still be offered; after this change it is withheld unless the holder is stale or queued-only.What Changed
inbox-liteand logged each withheld issue for diagnosis.buildHostServices, skipping queued dispatch during that test, retrying transient cleanup deadlocks, and relaxing a worker timeout.Verification
pnpm install --frozen-lockfilepnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/plugin-agent-invoke-wake-fanout.test.ts server/src/__tests__/plugin-worker-manager.test.tspnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheckgit diff --check --cachedRisks
The route behavior is deliberately fail-open when no run id is supplied, so legacy callers keep seeing work rather than stranding themselves. The main risk is suppressing an issue that appears held by a stale run; this uses the same 15 minute last-useful-action threshold as dispatch to avoid policy drift.
Model Used
Codex GPT-5 with local shell, GitHub CLI, and repository tests.
Checklist
Fixes: #/Closes #/Refs #OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template