paperclipai/paperclip · error

Missing permission to link approvals

Error message

Missing permission to link approvals

What it means

403 guard in assertCanManageIssueApprovalLinks: the authenticated agent exists in the company but its role (not CEO) lacks the permission required to attach or manage approval links.

Source

Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:3886

        companyId: input.issue.companyId,
        actorType: input.actor.actorType,
        actorId: input.actor.actorId,
        agentId: input.actor.agentId,
        runId: input.actor.runId,
        agentApiKeyId: input.actor.agentApiKeyId,
        action: "issue.thread_interaction_expired",
        entityType: "issue",
        entityId: input.issue.id,
        details: {
          identifier: input.issue.identifier ?? null,
          interactionId: interaction.id,
          interactionKind: interaction.kind,
          interactionStatus: interaction.status,
          source: input.source,
          result: interaction.result ?? null,
        },
      });
    }
  }

  async function queueExpiredInteractionReviewPathRecovery(input: {
    issue: IssueRouteSnapshot;
    interactions: Array<{ id: string }>;
    actor: ReturnType<typeof getActorInfo>;
    source: string;
  }) {
    if (
      input.interactions.length === 0
      || input.issue.status !== "in_review"
      || !input.issue.assigneeAgentId
    ) {
      return null;
    }

    const reviewAttention = await svc
      .listReviewAttention(input.issue.companyId, [input.issue])

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Solutions

1. Include the required field(s) in the request path, query, or body as named by the error message, then retry.
2. Check the API contract in packages/shared validators for the exact required shape of this endpoint.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:3722 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of paperclipai/paperclip@01ad858492 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/6878c425e8ad42ac. Report an issue: GitHub.