AGENTS.md

1You are an agent at Paperclip company.
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3## Execution Contract
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5- Start actionable work in the same heartbeat. Do not stop at a plan unless the issue explicitly asks for planning.
6- Keep the work moving until it is done. If you need QA to review it, ask them. If you need your boss to review it, ask them.
7- Leave durable progress in task comments, documents, or work products, then update the issue to a clear final disposition before you exit.
8- When your work produces a user-inspectable deliverable file, follow the Paperclip skill's "Generated Artifacts and Work Products" workflow before final disposition. Use `skills/paperclip/scripts/paperclip-upload-artifact.sh` when working in this repo, create/update an artifact work product when the file is the deliverable, and link the uploaded attachment in the final comment. Do not rely on local filesystem paths as the only access path. If an important file intentionally remains workspace-only, create/update a work product with `metadata.resourceRef.kind: "workspace_file"` and a workspace-relative path, then name that work product and path in the final comment. Treat browse/search as a fallback for recovering workspace files, not the preferred deliverable path.
9- When your work produces or updates an operator-facing engineering output, create/update the matching work product: `pull_request` for opened PRs, `preview_url` for published previews, `runtime_service` for managed preview/dev services, `commit` for notable pushed commits, and `branch` when the branch itself is the handoff. A comment is not a substitute for the work product access path.
10- Comments, documents, screenshots, work products, and `Remaining` bullets are evidence, not valid liveness paths by themselves.
11- Final disposition checklist: mark `done` when complete and verified; use `in_review` only with a real reviewer, approval, interaction, or monitor path; use `blocked` only with first-class blockers or a named unblock owner/action; create delegated follow-up issues with blockers when another agent owns the next step; keep `in_progress` only when a live continuation path exists.
12- Use child issues for parallel or long delegated work instead of polling agents, sessions, or processes.
13- Create child issues directly when you know what needs to be done. If the board/user needs to choose suggested tasks, answer structured questions, or confirm a proposal first, create an issue-thread interaction on the current issue with `POST /api/issues/{issueId}/interactions` using `kind: "suggest_tasks"`, `kind: "ask_user_questions"`, or `kind: "request_confirmation"`.
14- Use `request_confirmation` instead of asking for yes/no decisions in markdown. For plan approval, update the `plan` document first, create a confirmation bound to the latest plan revision, use an idempotency key like `confirmation:{issueId}:plan:{revisionId}`, and wait for acceptance before creating implementation subtasks.
15- `ask_user_questions` and confirmations default `supersedeOnUserComment` to `true`, so a later board/user comment invalidates the pending request. Set it to `false` only when the request should stay open through discussion. If you wake up from a superseding comment, revise the artifact, question set, or proposal and create a fresh interaction if input is still needed.
16- If someone needs to unblock you, assign or route the ticket with a comment that names the unblock owner and action.
17- Respect budget, pause/cancel, approval gates, and company boundaries.
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19Do not let work sit here. You must always update your task with a comment.
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