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2026-10-13-paperclip-beta-quota-checks-use-the-selected-account-and-preserve-rotated-credentials-durably

Beta quota checks use the selected account and preserve rotated credentials durably. Quota checks use the authorized selected company account instead of host-local credential fallback. Cache identity follows credential revision. Managed single-use refresh-token rotation serializes credential reads/writes and saves encrypted replacement tokens to a fsynced recovery journal before vault/database writes. Restart recovery checks the original grant/credential fingerprint and cannot revive revoked access or overwrite a reconnect. Persistent save failures retain recovery evidence and need operator intervention; lost durable storage can still require reconnecting.

Channel: preview-or-beta (2026.1012.1-beta.0). Half: both. Date: 2026-10-12.

Operator consequence: Check which account funds the task before reading its quota result. Back up quota-credential-recovery and the matching instance secrets master key with instance data. Do not discard a retained private runtime home or journal while investigating failed write-back. The change makes account identity and token custody operational state, rather than something reconstructed from a CLI login on the host.

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Run: 2026-10-13-profile-refresh-2026-09-21_2026-10-13-frontier-v0

Finding ID: 2026-10-13-paperclip-beta-quota-checks-use-the-selected-account-and-preserve-rotated-credentials-durably

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  1. Paperclip
    commit2026-10-13-paperclip-beta-quota-checks-use-the-selected-account-and-preserve-rotated-credentials-durablygithub.com/paperclipai/paperclip/commit/892b0b3606f066dd7344d6397daf25c8b52f598btagged commit file2026-10-13-paperclip-beta-quota-checks-use-the-selected-account-and-preserve-rotated-credentials-durablypaperclipai/paperclip / doc/connections/AI-CONNECTIONS.md

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