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Devin FoleyandPaperclip b70641f23f feat(plugins): support image catalogs and persistent application overlays (#13646)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Plugins extend the application without adding each integration to
Core.
> - A downstream image needs a way to supply prebuilt plugins.
> - Some plugin UI must stay mounted as users move between pages.
> - This change adds an image catalog and a persistent application slot.
> - Operators can upgrade or remove these plugins through their image
and configuration.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Plugin packaging, activation and application UI.

**Problem or motivation**

The built-in plugin catalog is fixed in Core source. Downstream images
cannot add entries through an explicit catalog. Existing page slots also
cannot preserve a small application overlay across route changes.

**Proposed solution**

Read a bounded catalog of prebuilt plugins from the image. Verify its
files before importing manifests. Use the existing managed selection and
plugin lifecycle. Add an `appShellOverlay` slot with account and company
cleanup.

**Alternatives considered**

A downstream fork adds merge work. Script injection provides no plugin
lifecycle. A separate runtime download system adds a second distribution
channel.

**Roadmap alignment**

This extends the existing plugin system. Related PR #9006 covers runtime
install replication; this change covers immutable image contents. PR
#12555 covers CLI scaffolding. Neither provides this catalog or
application slot. The maintainer requested this work directly.

## What Changed

- Validate catalog identities, confined paths, package versions and
bundle hashes before importing code.
- Apply image selection to persisted plugin installs, including removal
and rollback. Adopt the verified image path from existing npm/local
installs and bind runtime worker/UI entrypoints to verified package
declarations.
- Mount application overlays in both UI shells. Preserve route state and
clear it on account, company and onboarding changes.
- Restrict service-worker offline storage/fallback to hashed public
assets in a separate cache namespace; exclude application HTML and
extension/API data, including after worker restart.
- Document the packaging contract, trust model and rollback
requirements.

## Verification

- Passed `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, and `pnpm
check:token-gates`. Affected server/UI typechecks and builds, plus token
gates, passed again after rebasing onto current master; the 124 focused
tests also passed after rebase.
- Latest focused verification: 124 tests in nine files passed for
catalog/reconciliation/loader, overlay lifecycle, Layout and
service-worker policy. The broader UI/shared/SDK run passed 7,204 tests
in 690 files with canonical `TMPDIR`.
- Real disposable Core/PostgreSQL: catalog install, selection removal,
0.1.0→0.1.1→0.1.0, same-version npm/legacy-path adoption, and
preservation of disabled status passed. Added permissions entered
`upgrade_pending`, withheld UI across restart, and activated only after
explicit operator enable.
- Real Chromium: desktop/mobile layout, route draft retention and
Escape/focus passed with mocked extension responses. A persistent
browser restart retained public hashed-asset offline fallback while
refusing seeded legacy/current private entries and legacy HTML.
- Full `pnpm test:run`: 12,539 passed; 17 failed across six existing
files, stopping later phases. macOS read-only directory renames fail in
runtime-skill-cache and company-skills-service; email tests require an
absent local AgentMail fixture. Native runner/comment-redaction passed
in isolation after temporary Rust setup; agent-conversations also passed
in isolation. No unrelated source was changed to hide failures.
- After rebase, two unchanged chat timing tests failed in CI and passed
locally in isolation. Their CI shard passed on its single retry. All
other current-head CI jobs passed on the initial run; review is 5/5 with
no unresolved threads.
- No live deployment or external plugin service was used.

## Risks

- Plugins are trusted code. The catalog detects packaging errors; it
does not authenticate an untrusted image builder.
- Invalid catalogs fail startup. Images must contain the catalog and
bundles together, with stable directories.
- A host older than this contract lacks the activation guard. Disable
added plugins and remove their configuration keys before reverting to
it.
- Offline navigation now returns 503 instead of replaying cached
application HTML. Only public build assets have offline fallback.
- Rolling back an unapproved permission change retains the approval
gate; review the current manifest and explicitly enable it. A reduced
permission set cannot establish prior approval or prior enabled status.
- Plugin data migrations need their own rollback policy. This change
retains installed records and does not reverse migrations.

## Model Used

- OpenAI GPT-6 (Codex), model ID `gpt-6`, with repository inspection,
code execution and browser verification. The runtime does not expose an
exact context-window size.

## 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 searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass (relevant suites; broad
macOS server-run exceptions are documented above)
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green (fresh run on 488b3754ae; chat
shard passed its single retry)
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
(fresh review on 488b3754ae)
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-19 09:18:10 -07:00
DottaandPaperclip 5858ccb981 feat: make in-app features cloud-aware (#10850)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Operators use the same board application in self-hosted and
Paperclip Cloud deployments.
> - A Cloud tenant contains one company, so an in-app company switch
does not change the active Cloud stack.
> - Cloud operators need the sidebar and company surfaces to use the
signed-in user's stack portfolio.
> - The server must derive Cloud identity and links from trusted
instance context instead of client input.
> - This pull request adds canonical Cloud context, a trusted stack
portfolio proxy, and Cloud-aware navigation.
> - The benefit is consistent stack switching on Cloud while self-hosted
company behavior stays unchanged.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Cross-cutting: server REST routes and the React board UI.

**Problem or motivation**

A Cloud-managed instance contains one company. The existing company
switcher could only switch records inside that tenant. It could not move
the operator to another Cloud stack. The existing header also gave long
organization names too little width.

**Proposed solution**

Expose a canonical public Cloud context in health data. Add a trusted
server proxy for the current user's stack portfolio. Use that data in
the board UI to switch stacks with top-level navigation. Keep the
existing company behavior on self-hosted instances. Move search into the
navigation and keep long organization names inside the sidebar panel.

**Alternatives considered**

An in-app `/stacks` route was rejected because Cloud tenant hosts
reserve that path and stack selection must wake or authenticate another
tenant. Client-supplied user identity was rejected because the server
can derive the trusted Cloud actor.

**Roadmap alignment**

This change advances the Cloud deployments milestone. It keeps the
product local-first and Cloud-ready without changing the self-hosted
mental model.

## What Changed

- Added canonical Cloud instance context and public health metadata.
- Added a Cloud-only stack portfolio proxy with trusted actor forwarding
and per-user caching.
- Prevented normal company creation on Cloud-managed instances.
- Switched the sidebar and Companies page from company actions to stack
actions on Cloud.
- Added full-page stack navigation and Cloud create-stack links.
- Moved search into the sidebar navigation so the organization name
keeps more width.
- Added truncation and hover recovery for long organization and stack
names.
- Added server and UI regression coverage for Cloud and self-hosted
behavior.
- Updated the implementation specification for the Cloud contracts.

## Verification

- `node scripts/check-token-gates.mjs` passed. All three token gates are
clean.
- `pnpm --dir server exec vitest run src/__tests__/health.test.ts
src/__tests__/cloud-instance.test.ts src/__tests__/cloud-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/company-cloud-floor.test.ts
src/__tests__/company-portability-routes.test.ts` passed: 5 files and 66
tests.
- `pnpm --dir ui exec vitest run
src/components/SidebarCompanyMenu.test.tsx` passed: 1 file and 11 tests.
- Pre-PR QA report `7da87ca7` passed all 8 acceptance criteria with real
HTTP route factories and real Chromium screenshots in Cloud and
self-hosted modes.
- Security reviews passed for the canonical Cloud context and stack
portfolio proxy.

## Risks

- Cloud stack switching depends on the configured Cloud application and
tenant portfolio URLs.
- The new health `cloud` block is public by design, but it contains only
canonical public instance metadata.
- The stack proxy fails closed on self-hosted instances and derives the
user identity from the trusted actor.
- Self-hosted navigation and company creation retain their existing
paths and behavior.

> 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, model `gpt-5`. The run used reasoning, repository tools,
shell execution, and GitHub integration. The deployment did not expose
its context-window size.

## 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 searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-08-04 23:00:14 -05:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 0ef3b320c7 Harden POST /plugins/install: canonicalize localPath for all instances; bundled-only floor for managed instances (#10067)
**Builds on** #10058 — managed detection keys off the *presence* of the
`PAPERCLIP_MANAGED_CONFIG` env var that PR introduces, deliberately
never its parsed body.

**Summary.** Two layered hardenings of the plugin install route. (1) For
**all** instances: `localPath` installs previously skipped the
package-name validation entirely; the path is now null-byte-checked,
resolved absolute, `realpath`'d (collapsing `..` traversal and
symlinks), and required to be an existing directory before the loader
ever sees it. (2) For instances running under a managed hosting control
plane (detected by the *presence* of `PAPERCLIP_MANAGED_CONFIG` —
deliberately never its body, so a corrupted document cannot widen the
surface): registry/npm installs return 403, and `localPath` installs
must canonicalize to inside the bundled plugin catalog root
(`packages/plugins`) — a positive allowlist enforced in code at the
route, independent of any flag value. Self-hosted behavior is otherwise
unchanged.

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The plugin system lets instance admins install plugins from a
registry or from a local filesystem path, and plugin installation is
code execution on the host
> - The `localPath` branch of `POST /plugins/install` skips the
validation applied to registry installs; the raw path reaches the plugin
loader without canonicalization
> - Separately, instances operated by a managed hosting control plane
must constrain installs to the bundled plugin catalog, because there the
host belongs to the operator, not the tenant
> - This pull request canonicalizes and validates `localPath` for all
instances, and adds a bundled-only install floor for managed instances
> - The benefit is a smaller install-route attack surface everywhere,
and a positive code-enforced allowlist where the operator owns the
machine

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists; `bug_report` template fields for the validation
gap this PR fixes:

- **What happened:** `POST /plugins/install` with `localPath` set
bypasses the package-name validation entirely; the un-canonicalized path
(relative segments, symlinks, no existence check) is handed straight to
the plugin loader.
- **Expected behavior:** path installs are validated like registry
installs — null-byte-checked, resolved absolute, `realpath`'d, and
required to be an existing directory before the loader sees them.
- **Steps to reproduce:** as an instance admin, call `POST
/plugins/install` with a `localPath` containing `..` traversal or a
symlink pointing outside any plugin directory; observe the loader
receives the raw path. Exploitability is bounded (the route already
requires instance admin), so this is hardening of an admin-only surface
rather than an open exploit.
- **Version:** current `master`.

The managed-instance bundled-only floor layered on top is new behavior
(motivation: on managed hosting, arbitrary plugin install is arbitrary
code execution on operator infrastructure), aligned with the in-progress
"Cloud deployments" milestone in `ROADMAP.md`.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/plugin-install-guard.ts` — three pure
primitives: managed detection (presence-based), path canonicalization
(null-byte check → absolute resolve → `realpath` → must be an existing
directory), and segment-based containment in the bundled plugin catalog
root.
- Route enforcement in `server/src/routes/plugins.ts`: npm/registry
installs return 403 on managed instances; `localPath` installs are
canonicalized on every instance and, on managed instances, must land
inside the bundled catalog root.
- The plugin loader now receives the canonical path instead of the raw
request string.

## Verification

- 15 guard unit tests
(`server/src/__tests__/plugin-install-guard.test.ts`): traversal,
symlink escape, null byte, file-vs-directory, string-prefix sibling
root.
- 13 route security tests
(`server/src/__tests__/plugin-install-route-security.test.ts`): 403
matrix on managed instances + self-hosted happy paths.
- 36 existing plugin route authz tests green
(`server/src/__tests__/plugin-routes-authz.test.ts`).
- Server `tsc --noEmit` clean.

```bash
cd server
pnpm vitest run src/__tests__/plugin-install-guard.test.ts src/__tests__/plugin-install-route-security.test.ts src/__tests__/plugin-routes-authz.test.ts
pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
```

## Risks

- Managed instances: npm/registry installs and out-of-catalog
`localPath` installs now return 403 — intended new behavior, enforced in
code rather than configuration.
- All instances: `localPath` installs that previously pointed at
nonexistent paths or non-directories now fail with 400 before reaching
the loader (previously the loader failed later, less safely). Symlinked
deployment layouts are handled by canonicalizing both sides of the
containment check.
- Self-hosted npm install path is unchanged. Low residual risk.

## Model Used

Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`), extended thinking, agentic tool use;
independently peer-reviewed by a second AI agent before push.

## 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 searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-07-22 20:48:41 -07:00