paperclipai/paperclip · error

Parent issue not found

Error message

Parent issue not found

What it means

404 from issue creation. Fires when the request supplies a parentId whose issue cannot be found (or is not accessible), so the parent lookup returns null and the handler cannot attach the new child issue.

Source

Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:8820

    const result = await ensureArtifactReviewDocumentForWorkProduct({ issue, workProduct, actor });
    res.status(result.created ? 201 : 200).json(result.document);
  });

  router.post("/issues/:id/low-trust/promotions", validate(promoteLowTrustOutputSchema), async (req, res) => {
    const id = req.params.id as string;
    const issue = await getAccessibleResource(req, res, svc.getById(id), "Issue not found");
    if (!issue) return;
    if (!(await assertIssueReadAllowed(req, res, issue))) return;
    if (!(await assertAgentIssueMutationAllowed(req, res, issue))) return;
    if (!(await assertDeliverableMutationAllowedByRunContext(req, res, issue))) return;
    const actor = getActorInfo(req);
    if (await sourceTrustForActorWrite(issue, actor)) {
      res.status(403).json({ error: "Low-trust actors cannot promote quarantined output" });
      return;
    }
    const sourceTrust = await lookupLowTrustSourceArtifact({
      issueId: issue.id,
      artifactKind: req.body.sourceArtifactKind,
      artifactId: req.body.sourceArtifactId,
    });
    if (!sourceTrust) {
      res.status(404).json({ error: "Low-trust source artifact not found" });
      return;
    }
    if (!isLowTrustQuarantined(sourceTrust)) {
      res.status(422).json({ error: "Source artifact is not quarantined low-trust output" });
      return;
    }

    const promotedAt = new Date();
    const promotionTrust = buildPromotedSourceTrust({
      sourceIssueId: issue.id,
      sourceArtifactKind: req.body.sourceArtifactKind,
      sourceArtifactId: req.body.sourceArtifactId,
      promotedByActorType: actor.actorType,
      promotedByActorId: actor.actorId,

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Solutions

1. Verify the id in the request path or body refers to an existing record in this company; re-list the parent collection to get a valid id.
2. Check that the record was not deleted or archived, and that the request is scoped to the correct companyId.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:8199 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/0233db5d945a2e1a. Report an issue: GitHub.