Spawn the generated gateway with plain node from a temporary file, attach the real host broker to the child stdin and stdout, and forward each request to a local fake API server on a real HTTP call. The harness needs no provider credentials and adds no dependency. The harness proves the composed duplex path over real kernel pipes: - The child sends a valid liveness-only READY frame to the broker. - One HTTP request travels through the child and the broker to the API and the response body returns unchanged. - A large response spans many pipe chunks and returns complete. - A multi-byte UTF-8 sequence split across chunk borders decodes correctly. - Concurrent requests through one child each receive the matching response. - A real stdin EOF makes the gateway answer 409 outcome_indeterminate to every outstanding request and 503 bridge_unavailable to every new one. - A real process kill moves the broker to lost, stops all dispatch, and leaves no open pipe or socket handle after teardown. Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
@paperclipai/adapter-utils
Shared utilities for Paperclip adapters: process spawning, environment injection, sandbox/SSH transport, workspace sync, and the round-trip helpers that move code between the local execution-workspace cwd and wherever the agent actually runs.
For the adapter-author guide see
docs/adapters/creating-an-adapter.md
and the in-repo notes at packages/adapters/AUTHORING.md.
No-remote-git contract
The local execution-workspace cwd is the only persistence boundary across runs. No adapter may depend on a git remote for cross-run state.
Adapters that run the agent on a different host should use the SSH round-trip
helpers in src/ssh.ts:
prepareWorkspaceForSshExecution({ spec, localDir, remoteDir })— bundles the local cwd (tracked files, dirty edits, untracked additions, and the git history needed to reconstruct it) toremoteDirbefore the run starts. Runs with nogit remoteconfigured.restoreWorkspaceFromSshExecution({ spec, localDir, remoteDir, ... })— syncs the remote cwd back intolocalDirafter the run, including any new commits the agent created. Also runs with nogit remoteconfigured.
prepareRemoteManagedRuntime in
src/remote-managed-runtime.ts wraps both
calls for adapters that want a per-run remote workspace and an automatic
restoreWorkspace() finally hook.
The invariant is pinned by the no-remote-git contract case in
src/ssh-fixture.test.ts, which asserts that a
remote-only commit propagates to the local worktree through the
prepare → restore round-trip with no git remote configured at any point. Do
not regress that test.