PaperClipAI/maps/agent-access-map/instance-operations.md

Installation, configuration, updates, and backups — agent access

Product map: Installation, configuration, updates, and backups.

Feature ID: instance-operations.

Review date: 2026-10-12. Source commit: f981fa3cc10cb8663a87dec60345fbff46d54d0a.

This is a source-reviewed baseline of representative operations and known gaps. Each capability needs operation-level review before its entire scope can be qualified. No live agent execution is claimed. Follow the map contract for format, permission checks, evidence and maintenance.

install-update

Capability ID: instance-operations/install-update.

Review: baseline.

API: not-applicable — No uniform company REST updater API. Treat pre-start installation as an operator exception or design an explicit delegated operator API.

Agent access: operator-only — Existing CLI install/update/rollback commands.

Policy: Local machine operator and instance-administrator authority; distinct from company-scoped agent keys.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise the listed local workflow in an authorized, owned operator environment. Verify its isolation and result; do not count local machine authority as company-agent API access.

Gaps: No uniform company REST updater API. Treat pre-start installation as an operator exception or design an explicit delegated operator API.

server-service

Capability ID: instance-operations/server-service.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/health.

Agent access: operator-only — Existing CLI service/dev controls; health REST; owned workspace services have separate agent APIs.

Policy: Local machine operator and instance-administrator authority; distinct from company-scoped agent keys.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise the listed local workflow in an authorized, owned operator environment. Verify its isolation and result; do not count local machine authority as company-agent API access.

Gaps: Instance start/stop and task workspace start/stop are different capabilities. Local service control is not agent company authority.

configuration

Capability ID: instance-operations/configuration.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/instance/settings.
• PATCH /api/instance/settings.
• GET /api/instance/settings/experimental.
• PATCH /api/instance/settings/experimental.

Agent access: restricted — Board/admin instance settings; CLI configure/env; local configuration files.

Policy: Local machine operator and instance-administrator authority; distinct from company-scoped agent keys.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — assert the documented agent denial with an owned test fixture; verify any listed agent request/result path separately. A delegated operation needs its own policy and access review.

Gaps: Settings APIs cover parts of configuration; pre-start database/binding/storage configuration is local operator tooling.

Cloud stack Admins may update experimental settings through the trusted Cloud actor without receiving other instance-admin powers. This uses the current stack role on each request; company membership alone does not grant it. Members, Support users, agents, and ordinary self-hosted sessions remain denied. Cloud staging exposes experimental controls to instance admins and stack Admins. It permits saved overrides of Cloud-disabled experimental defaults. Cloud-enabled features remain true on every managed stack, including staging, and the settings service rejects attempts to disable them with 403 before saving. This exception requires a managed instance and a provisioner-supplied *.staging.paperclip.app primary hostname; request headers do not establish staging. Ordinary board members and agents still cannot mutate instance settings. Only an explicit feature allowlist is editable on staging. Cloud owner-admin elevation and managed-sandbox execution policy remain managed, and production policy and other Cloud floors remain. Local route tests cover stack Admin experiment access and auditing, denial for other instance controls and actor sources, hidden-setting restrictions, and a spoofed request hostname; the Cloud actor tests cover role changes and preserved instance-admin isolation; no live Cloud or agent-credential verification is claimed.

diagnostics

Capability ID: instance-operations/diagnostics.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• GET /api/health.
• GET /api/instance/task-drain?upgradeReadiness=1 — instance-admin or signed Cloud control only. Returns aggregate restart eligibility, never checkpoint contents, task identities or credentials. Company members and agent keys are denied. The explicit request performs bounded read-only SQL; ordinary drain status remains an in-memory read. Route coverage and PostgreSQL coverage establish this local boundary; hosted active-run continuity requires separate proof.
• GET /api/liveness and HEAD /api/liveness — public process startup status and build commit only; no database readiness or workspace identity.

Liveness is anonymous and runs before actor/session resolution. Hostname and signed-bootstrap endpoint validation still apply. It grants no instance control authority. Liveness tests cover idle drain, invalid ambient credentials, unavailable SQL, and startup recovery with local Express fixtures; no live provider or agent access is claimed.

Agent access: partial — REST health plus local CLI doctor.

Policy: Local machine operator and instance-administrator authority; distinct from company-scoped agent keys.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution. Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.

Gaps: Health is an API; full local doctor/repair inspects host configuration and is not equivalent to that response.

backup

Capability ID: instance-operations/backup.

Review: baseline.

API: present — representative operation IDs:

• POST /api/instance/database-backups.

Agent access: restricted — Board/admin backup API; local CLI db:backup; restore into an authorized separate target.

Policy: Local machine operator and instance-administrator authority; distinct from company-scoped agent keys.

Evidence: source-only — implementation at the reviewed commit above.

Verification: not-run — assert the documented agent denial with an owned test fixture; verify any listed agent request/result path separately. A delegated operation needs its own policy and access review.

Gaps: API creation exists. Restore/lifecycle are operator workflows rather than ordinary company agent capabilities.

runtime-setup

Capability ID: instance-operations/runtime-setup.

Review: baseline.

API: not-applicable — these commands provision an operator-owned published package and local filesystem cache. They have no company-domain REST equivalent and deliberately bypass instance config, environment, and credential initialization.

Agent access: operator-only — explicit host/package provisioning through the runtime CLI, with the installed release’s verified assets. A company agent grant does not authorize another host’s installation or private operator cache.

Policy: Host setup verifies public pinned assets without model calls and requires the published server package layout/identity. Import requires a trusted manifest digest, exact installed source/profile identity, Linux x64 companion inventory/pack/ELF integrity, and a private operator-owned cache. Import performs no downloads or executable probes. A Pi companion does not enable remote Cursor or qualify credentials.

Evidence: source-only — reviewed at 9ef434fe79c57d976b8b03b14c5242db270b8320. Runtime CLI, instance-config bypass, Pi provisioning, Cursor provisioning, and companion importer.

Verification: not-run — Inspect setup identity/path and repeat reuse on an owned disposable published installation. Verify a matching trusted companion import and reject altered/cross-release/linked inventory while preserving unrelated files. Check no instance credentials are loaded and no model is called. Qualify actual adapter/account task execution separately.

Gaps: Source-checkout setup, different platforms, remote Cursor, provider execution, and published-package acceptance remain separate scopes. Local fixture materialization does not establish remote model readiness.

Antigravity addition (2026-10-28): paperclipai runtime setup antigravity stages the verified official and patched two-executable closures on macOS ARM64. The operator-only authority above is unchanged. The native profile remains pending at API, driver, sidecar and Rust admission; a company grant cannot enable it. Google AI API-key binding is distinct from Workspace OAuth. Evidence remains source-only for agent access: setup, provisioner, and gate regressions. Credential-free public-layout provisioning and controlled native tests do not qualify a company agent task or authenticated connection/revocation.