## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is a local-first control plane for AI-agent companies.
> - Operators need predictable local dev behavior, recoverable instance
data, and scripts that do not churn the running app.
> - Several accumulated changes improve backup streaming, dev-server
health, static UI caching/logging, diagnostic-file ignores, and instance
isolation.
> - These are operational improvements that can land independently from
product UI work.
> - This pull request groups the dev-infra and backup changes from the
split branch into one standalone branch.
> - The benefit is safer local operation, easier manual backups, less
noisy dev output, and less cross-instance auth leakage.
## What Changed
- Added a manual instance database backup endpoint and route tests.
- Streamed backup/restore handling to avoid materializing large payloads
at once.
- Reduced dev static UI log/cache churn and ignored Node diagnostic
report captures.
- Added guarded dev auto-restart health polling coverage.
- Preserved worktree config during provisioning and scoped auth cookies
by instance.
- Added a Discord daily digest helper script and environment
documentation.
- Hardened adapter-route and startup feedback export tests around the
changed infrastructure.
## Verification
- `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`
- `pnpm exec vitest run packages/db/src/backup-lib.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/instance-database-backups-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/server-startup-feedback-export.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/adapter-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/dev-runner-paths.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/health-dev-server-token.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/http-log-policy.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/vite-html-renderer.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/workspace-runtime.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/better-auth.test.ts`
- Split integration check: merged after the runtime/governance branch
and before UI branches with no merge conflicts.
- Confirmed this branch does not include `pnpm-lock.yaml`.
## Risks
- Medium risk: touches server startup, backup streaming, auth cookie
naming, dev health checks, and worktree provisioning.
- Backup endpoint behavior depends on existing board/admin access
controls and database backup helpers.
- No database migrations are included.
> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
## Model Used
- OpenAI Codex, GPT-5.4 tool-enabled coding model, agentic
code-editing/runtime with local shell and GitHub CLI access; exact
context window and reasoning mode are not exposed by the Paperclip
harness.
## Checklist
- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
---------
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the control plane for autonomous AI companies.
> - V1 needs to stay local-first while also supporting shared,
authenticated deployments.
> - Human operators need real identities, company membership, invite
flows, profile surfaces, and company-scoped access controls.
> - Agents and operators also need the existing issue, inbox, workspace,
approval, and plugin flows to keep working under those authenticated
boundaries.
> - This branch accumulated the multi-user implementation, follow-up QA
fixes, workspace/runtime refinements, invite UX improvements,
release-branch conflict resolution, and review hardening.
> - This pull request consolidates that branch onto the current `master`
branch as a single reviewable PR.
> - The benefit is a complete multi-user implementation path with tests
and docs carried forward without dropping existing branch work.
## What Changed
- Added authenticated human-user access surfaces: auth/session routes,
company user directory, profile settings, company access/member
management, join requests, and invite management.
- Added invite creation, invite landing, onboarding, logo/branding,
invite grants, deduped join requests, and authenticated multi-user E2E
coverage.
- Tightened company-scoped and instance-admin authorization across
board, plugin, adapter, access, issue, and workspace routes.
- Added profile-image URL validation hardening, avatar preservation on
name-only profile updates, and join-request uniqueness migration cleanup
for pending human requests.
- Added an atomic member role/status/grants update path so Company
Access saves no longer leave partially updated permissions.
- Improved issue chat, inbox, assignee identity rendering,
sidebar/account/company navigation, workspace routing, and execution
workspace reuse behavior for multi-user operation.
- Added and updated server/UI tests covering auth, invites, membership,
issue workspace inheritance, plugin authz, inbox/chat behavior, and
multi-user flows.
- Merged current `public-gh/master` into this branch, resolved all
conflicts, and verified no `pnpm-lock.yaml` change is included in this
PR diff.
## Verification
- `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/issues-service.test.ts
ui/src/components/IssueChatThread.test.tsx ui/src/pages/Inbox.test.tsx`
- `pnpm run preflight:workspace-links && pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/plugin-routes-authz.test.ts`
- `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/plugin-routes-authz.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/workspace-runtime-service-authz.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/access-validators.test.ts`
- `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/authz-company-access.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/routines-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/sidebar-preferences-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/approval-routes-idempotency.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/openclaw-invite-prompt-route.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/agent-cross-tenant-authz-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/routines-e2e.test.ts`
- `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/auth-routes.test.ts
ui/src/pages/CompanyAccess.test.tsx`
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/shared typecheck && pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/db typecheck && pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server
typecheck`
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/shared typecheck && pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/server typecheck`
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui typecheck`
- `pnpm db:generate`
- `npx playwright test --config tests/e2e/playwright.config.ts --list`
- Confirmed branch has no uncommitted changes and is `0` commits behind
`public-gh/master` before PR creation.
- Confirmed no `pnpm-lock.yaml` change is staged or present in the PR
diff.
## Risks
- High review surface area: this PR contains the accumulated multi-user
branch plus follow-up fixes, so reviewers should focus especially on
company-boundary enforcement and authenticated-vs-local deployment
behavior.
- UI behavior changed across invites, inbox, issue chat, access
settings, and sidebar navigation; no browser screenshots are included in
this branch-consolidation PR.
- Plugin install, upgrade, and lifecycle/config mutations now require
instance-admin access, which is intentional but may change expectations
for non-admin board users.
- A join-request dedupe migration rejects duplicate pending human
requests before creating unique indexes; deployments with unusual
historical duplicates should review the migration behavior.
- Company member role/status/grant saves now use a new combined
endpoint; older separate endpoints remain for compatibility.
- Full production build was not run locally in this heartbeat; CI should
cover the full matrix.
## Model Used
- OpenAI Codex coding agent, GPT-5-based model, CLI/tool-use
environment. Exact deployed model identifier and context window were not
exposed by the runtime.
## Checklist
- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
Note on screenshots: this is a branch-consolidation PR for an
already-developed multi-user branch, and no browser screenshots were
captured during this heartbeat.
---------
Co-authored-by: dotta <dotta@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip orchestrates AI agents for zero-human companies
> - Local development needs to work cleanly across linked git worktrees
because Paperclip itself leans on worktree-based engineering workflows
> - Dev-mode asset routing, Vite watch behavior, and workspace package
links are part of that day-to-day control-plane ergonomics
> - The current branch had a small but coherent set of
worktree/dev-tooling fixes that are independent from both the issue UI
changes and the heartbeat runtime changes
> - This pull request isolates those environment fixes into a standalone
branch that can merge without carrying unrelated product work
> - The benefit is a smoother multi-worktree developer loop with fewer
stale links and less noisy dev watching
## What Changed
- Serve dev public assets before the HTML shell and add a routing test
that locks that behavior in.
- Ignore UI test files in the Vite dev watch helper so the dev server
does less unnecessary work.
- Update `ensure-workspace-package-links.ts` to relink stale workspace
dependencies whenever a workspace `node_modules` directory exists,
instead of only inside linked-worktree detection paths.
## Verification
- `pnpm vitest run server/src/__tests__/app-vite-dev-routing.test.ts
ui/src/lib/vite-watch.test.ts`
- `node cli/node_modules/tsx/dist/cli.mjs
scripts/ensure-workspace-package-links.ts`
## Risks
- The asset routing change is low risk but sits near app shell behavior,
so a regression would show up as broken static assets in dev mode.
- The workspace-link repair now runs in more cases, so the main risk is
doing unexpected relinks when a checkout has intentionally unusual
workspace symlink state.
## Model Used
- OpenAI Codex, GPT-5-based coding agent in the Codex CLI environment.
Exact backend model deployment ID was not exposed in-session.
Tool-assisted editing and shell execution were used.
## Checklist
- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip orchestrates AI agents for zero-human companies
> - Humans interact with the system through a web UI that authenticates
a session and then issues mutations against the board
> - A CSRF-style guard (`boardMutationGuard`) protects those mutations
by requiring the request origin match a trusted set built from the
`Host` / `X-Forwarded-Host` header
> - Behind certain reverse proxies, neither header matches the public
URL — TLS terminates at the edge and the inbound `Host` carries an
internal service name (cluster-local hostname, IP, or an Ingress backend
reference)
> - Mutations from legitimate browser sessions then fail with `403 Board
mutation requires trusted browser origin`
> - `PAPERCLIP_PUBLIC_URL` is already the canonical "what operators told
us the public URL is" value — it's used by better-auth and `config.ts`
> - This pull request adds it to the trusted-origin set when set, so
browsers reaching the legit public URL aren't blocked
## What Changed
- `server/src/middleware/board-mutation-guard.ts` — parse
`PAPERCLIP_PUBLIC_URL` and add its origin to the trusted set in
`trustedOriginsForRequest`. Additive only.
## Verification
- `PAPERCLIP_PUBLIC_URL=https://example.com pnpm start` then issue a
mutation from a browser pointed at `https://example.com`: 200, as
before. From an unrecognized origin: 403, as before.
- Without `PAPERCLIP_PUBLIC_URL` set: behavior is unchanged.
## Risks
Low. Additive only. The default dev origins and the
`Host`/`X-Forwarded-Host`-derived origins continue to be trusted; this
just adds the operator-configured public URL on top.
## Model Used
Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context), extended thinking mode.
## Checklist
- [x] Thinking path traces from project context to this change
- [x] Model used specified
- [x] Tests run locally and pass
- [x] CI green
- [x] Greptile review addressed
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip orchestrates AI agents for zero-human companies
> - Reliable execution depends on heartbeat routing, issue lifecycle
semantics, telemetry, and a fast enough local verification loop to keep
regressions visible
> - The remaining commits on this branch were mostly server/runtime
correctness fixes plus test and documentation follow-ups in that area
> - Those changes are logically separate from the UI-focused
issue-detail and workspace/navigation branches even when they touch
overlapping issue APIs
> - This pull request groups the execution reliability, heartbeat,
telemetry, and tooling changes into one standalone branch
> - The benefit is a focused review of the control-plane correctness
work, including the follow-up fix that restored the implicit
comment-reopen helpers after branch splitting
## What Changed
- Hardened issue/heartbeat execution behavior, including self-review
stage skipping, deferred mention wakes during active execution, stranded
execution recovery, active-run scoping, assignee resolution, and
blocked-to-todo wake resumption
- Reduced noisy polling/logging overhead by trimming issue run payloads,
compacting persisted run logs, silencing high-volume request logs, and
capping heartbeat-run queries in dashboard/inbox surfaces
- Expanded telemetry and status semantics with adapter/model fields on
task completion plus clearer status guidance in docs/onboarding material
- Updated test infrastructure and verification defaults with faster
route-test module isolation, cheaper default `pnpm test`, e2e isolation
from local state, and repo verification follow-ups
- Included docs/release housekeeping from the branch and added a small
follow-up commit restoring the implicit comment-reopen helpers that were
dropped during branch reconstruction
## Verification
- `pnpm vitest run
server/src/__tests__/issue-comment-reopen-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/issue-telemetry-routes.test.ts`
- `pnpm vitest run server/src/__tests__/http-log-policy.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-run-log.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/health.test.ts`
- `server/src/__tests__/activity-service.test.ts`,
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-comment-wake-batching.test.ts`, and
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts` were attempted
on this host but the embedded Postgres harness reported
init-script/data-dir problems and skipped or failed to start, so they
are noted as environment-limited
## Risks
- Medium: this branch changes core issue/heartbeat routing and
reopen/wakeup behavior, so regressions would affect agent execution flow
rather than isolated UI polish
- Because it also updates verification infrastructure, reviewers should
pay attention to whether the new tests are asserting the right failure
modes and not just reshaping harness behavior
## Model Used
- OpenAI Codex coding agent (GPT-5-class runtime in Codex CLI; exact
deployed model ID is not exposed in this environment), reasoning
enabled, tool use and local code execution enabled
## Checklist
- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [ ] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [ ] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
---------
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
pino-pretty's translateTime: "HH:MM:ss" formats all timestamps in UTC,
ignoring the process TZ environment variable. Changing the prefix to
"SYS:HH:MM:ss" instructs pino-pretty to format timestamps in the local
system timezone, so operators running in non-UTC zones see correct
wall-clock times in both the console and the server.log file.
Fixes: #2879
Pino logged full Authorization headers in plaintext to server.log,
exposing JWT tokens to any process with filesystem read access.
Add redact paths so Bearer values appear as [Redacted] in log output.
Closes#2385
Restructure the TelemetryClient to send the correct backend envelope
format ({app, schemaVersion, installId, events: [{name, occurredAt, dimensions}]})
instead of the old per-event format. Update all event dimension names
to match the backend registry (agent_role, adapter_type, error_code, etc.).
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Add the shared telemetry sender, wire the CLI/server emit points,
and cover the config and completion behavior with tests.
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Behind a reverse proxy with a custom port (e.g. Caddy on :3443), the
browser sends an Origin header that includes the port, but the board
mutation guard only read the Host header which often omits the port.
This caused a 403 "Board mutation requires trusted browser origin"
for self-hosted deployments behind reverse proxies.
Read x-forwarded-host (first value, comma-split) with the same pattern
already used in private-hostname-guard.ts and routes/access.ts.
Fixes#1734
Extract attachErrorContext helper to DRY up the error handler, attach the
original Error object to res.err so pino can serialize stack traces, and
rename the log context key from err to errorContext so it doesn't clash
with pino's built-in err serializer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fix (8151331) set res.err but pino-http wasn't picking it
up (likely Express 5 response object behavior). Switch to a custom
__errorContext property on the response that customErrorMessage and
customProps read directly, bypassing pino-http's unreliable res.err
check. Remove duplicate manual logger.error calls from the error
handler since pino-http now gets the full context.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- pino-http customErrorMessage now includes the real error message
- customProps includes reqBody, reqParams, reqQuery, and routePath for 4xx/5xx
- Error handler logs full request context (body, params, query) for both
HttpError 500s and unhandled errors
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pino-http checks res.err before falling back to its generic
"failed with status code 500" error. Set res.err to the real error
in the error handler so logs include the actual message and stack trace.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pino-http was logging 500s at INFO level with a generic "failed with status
code 500" message. Now 500s log at ERROR level and include the actual error
(message, stack, name) via res.locals handoff from the error handler.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename all workspace packages from @paperclip/* to @paperclipai/* and
the CLI binary from `paperclip` to `paperclipai` in preparation for
npm publishing. Bump CLI version to 0.1.0 and add package metadata
(description, keywords, license, repository, files). Update all
imports, documentation, user-facing messages, and tests accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add /api/auth/get-session for board actors to retrieve their session
info. Wrap resolveSession in try/catch to prevent unhandled errors from
crashing requests when auth headers are missing or malformed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update dev origin allowlist and tests to use port 3100 only, matching
the unified dev server setup. Fix AGENTS.md and README accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reject requests from unrecognised Host headers when running
authenticated/private. Adds server middleware, CLI `allowed-hostname`
command, config-schema field, and prompt support for configuring
allowed hostnames during onboard/configure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire up Better Auth for session-based authentication. Add actor middleware
that resolves local_trusted mode to an implicit board actor and authenticated
mode to Better Auth sessions. Add access service with membership, permission,
invite, and join-request management. Register access routes for member/invite/
join-request CRUD. Update health endpoint to report deployment mode and
bootstrap status. Enforce tasks:assign and agents:create permissions in issue
and agent routes. Add deployment mode validation at startup with guardrails
(loopback-only for local_trusted, auth config required for authenticated).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Require trusted browser origin (Origin or Referer header) for
mutating requests from board actors, preventing cross-origin
mutation attempts against the local-trusted API.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add per-issue execution lock (executionRunId, executionAgentNameKey,
executionLockedAt) to prevent concurrent runs on the same issue.
Same-name wakes are coalesced into the active run; different-name
wakes are deferred and promoted when the lock holder finishes.
Includes checkout/release run ownership enforcement, agent run ID
propagation from JWT claims, wakeup deduplication across assignee
and mention wakes, and claimQueuedRun extraction for reuse. Adds
two DB migrations for checkoutRunId and execution lock columns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delete storage objects for each attachment when an issue is removed.
Hide responseTime from pino-pretty console output to reduce noise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent management: hire endpoint with permission gates and pending_approval status,
config revision tracking with rollback, agent duplicate route, permission CRUD.
Block pending_approval agents from auth, heartbeat, and assignments.
Approvals: revision request/resubmit flow, approval comments CRUD, issue-approval
linking, auto-wake agents on approval decisions with context snapshot.
Costs: per-agent breakdown, period filtering (month/week/day/all), cost by agent
list endpoint.
Adapters: agentConfigurationDoc on all adapters, /llms/agent-configuration.txt
reflection routes. Inject PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_ID, PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_STATUS,
PAPERCLIP_LINKED_ISSUE_IDS into adapter environments.
Sidebar badges endpoint for pending approval/inbox counts. Dashboard and company
settings extensions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace auto-migrate-if-empty with interactive migration flow that inspects
pending migrations and prompts before applying. Add pino-pretty for structured
console + file logging. Add reapOrphanedRuns to clean up stuck heartbeat runs
on startup and periodically. Track runId through auth middleware, activity logs,
and all mutation routes. Add issue-run cross-reference queries, live-run and
active-run endpoints for issues, issue identifier lookup, reopen-via-comment
flow, and done/cancelled -> todo status transitions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add HS256 JWT-based authentication for local adapters (claude_local, codex_local)
so agents authenticate automatically without manual API key configuration. The
server mints short-lived JWTs per heartbeat run and injects them as PAPERCLIP_API_KEY.
The auth middleware verifies JWTs alongside existing static API keys.
Includes: CLI onboard/doctor JWT secret management, env command for deployment,
config path resolution from ancestor directories, dotenv loading on server startup,
event payload secret redaction, multi-status issue filtering, and adapter transcript
parsing for thinking/user message kinds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New routes: companies, approvals, costs, dashboard, authz. New
services: companies, approvals, costs, dashboard, heartbeat,
activity-log. Add auth middleware and structured error handling.
Expand existing agent and issue routes with richer CRUD operations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Express server with CRUD routes for agents, goals, issues, projects,
and activity log. Includes validation middleware, structured error
handling, request logging, and health check endpoint with tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dotta