paperclipai/paperclip · error

assigneeUserId=me requires board authentication

Error message

assigneeUserId=me requires board authentication

What it means

403 from the company search route: the query used assigneeUserId=me, which resolves to a specific board user, but the actor is not board-authenticated so 'me' cannot be resolved.

Source

Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:6061

  }

  /**
   * Refuse an agent creating a child issue assigned to the agent that created
   * a still-open ancestor in the same chain. That shape is a delegation cycle
   * (A delegates to B, B delegates the same work back to A): each agent lacks
   * something the other assumed it had, the chain of blocked issues grows,
   * and no one tells the human. Humans are unaffected, and closed ancestors
   * do not count — re-engaging the creator of finished work is normal.
   */
  async function assertNoAgentDelegationCycle(input: {
    actorType: string;
    parentIssueId: string | null | undefined;
    assigneeAgentId: string | null | undefined;
  }) {
    if (input.actorType !== "agent") return;
    if (!input.parentIssueId || !input.assigneeAgentId) return;
    const ancestor = await svc.findOpenAncestorCreatedByAgent(input.parentIssueId, input.assigneeAgentId);
    if (!ancestor) return;
    throw conflict(
      `Delegation cycle: ${ancestor.identifier ?? "an ancestor issue"} in this chain was created by the agent this child would be assigned to. ` +
        "Complete the remaining work in your own issue, leave the child unassigned, or escalate to a board operator — do not delegate the work back to the agent that delegated it to you.",
      {
        code: "delegation_cycle",
        ancestorIssueId: ancestor.id,
        assigneeAgentId: input.assigneeAgentId,
      },
    );
  }

  async function normalizeIssueAssigneeAgentReference(
    companyId: string,
    rawAssigneeAgentId: string | null | undefined,
    options: { actorType?: string } = {},
  ) {
    if (rawAssigneeAgentId === undefined || rawAssigneeAgentId === null) {
      return rawAssigneeAgentId;

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Solutions

1. Correct the request so it satisfies the condition stated in the error message, then retry; see the throwing line in the named file for the exact check.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:5755 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

Understand the failure class

• Authentication and authorization failures — expired tokens, bad credentials, and missing scopes.

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