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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - On Daytona, a follow-up task resumes the agent's retained sandbox before the agent starts > - The host stops an idle sandbox gracefully. A process that ignores SIGTERM can leave Daytona in `stopping` for many minutes > - Resume waited for that state change until its 300 s start deadline. It never escalated, so each attempt failed after five minutes, and the bounded retries did the same > - On staging, a user comment waited about 21 minutes before the agent started. Two resume attempts each used 299.7 s in the plugin dispatch > - This pull request forces a stuck stop once, then starts the sandbox within the same deadline. It also traces the wait with the observed state > - The benefit is that a stuck stop costs about 30 s instead of failing the run, and the next case is diagnosable from the trace ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A user commented on a task that used a retained Daytona sandbox. The first run and its first retry each failed after about 5 min 20 s with `reusable_sandbox_resume_failed (cause=provider_error)`. The Honeycomb trace shows `execution.plugin_dispatch` at 299.7 s in both. Inside it there is only `lease.lookup` (44 ms) and `lease.channel_cleanup`, and no `lease.start`. So the whole budget went to `waitOutSandboxTransition`, which polled a sandbox that stayed in a transition state. The later attempt, after a control-plane restart, found the sandbox `stopped`. Its `lease.start` took 1.3 s. A transition that ends in `stopped` is a stop. **Expected behavior** A sandbox that stays `stopping` for longer than the host's own graceful-stop budget is forced to stop, then starts. The run does not fail on the start deadline. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Retain a Daytona sandbox whose graceful stop does not finish (Daytona reports `stopping`). 2. Resume or realize the lease. 3. Before this change, the call polls until the 300 s deadline and fails with "is still stopping at its start deadline". ## What Changed - `packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona/src/plugin.ts`: `waitOutSandboxTransition` tracks how long the sandbox stays `stopping`. After `STUCK_STOPPING_FORCE_AFTER_MS` (30 s) it calls `sandbox.stop(seconds, true)` once, then keeps polling. A refused force stop keeps the old wait within the same deadline. - The wait is a `lease.wait_transition` span. The force stop is a `lease.force_stop` child span. - `lease-tracing.ts`: the closed `paperclip.sandbox.startup.state` label also records `starting`, `stopping`, `restoring`, `archiving` and `resizing`. Before, these were all `other`. - `server/src/services/plugin-host-services.ts`: the host admits the two new span names and the new closed state values. - `doc/observability.md`: documents the new spans and states. ## Verification - Red/green: with the plugin change stashed, the three new stuck-`stopping` tests (realize, refused force stop, resume) fail by hanging to the deadline. With the change they pass. The "settles on its own" test confirms that no force stop happens for a normal stop. - `vitest run` in `packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona`: 14 files, 618 tests passed (8 skipped). `tsc --noEmit` passed. - `server/src/__tests__/plugin-host-services-span.test.ts`: red before the allowlist change, 25/25 after. - `pnpm verify` exited 2 (the doc is a global CI input), so CI supplies the broad coverage. - Not verified on a live Daytona sandbox. Hosted acceptance needs the change deployed to staging. ## Risks - The force stop sends SIGKILL to processes in a sandbox that is already stopping and is about to start. The disk persists across a stop, so the retained workspace is kept. A graceful stop that is still running past 30 s is killed. The host's own graceful stop budget is 30 s, so the host had already given up on it. - Daytona can refuse a stop while a state change is in progress. Then the code waits as before, so the result is no worse than today. - The root cause is inferred from the trace (a transition that ends in `stopped`). The new state label confirms or refutes it the next time it happens. ## Model Used - Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use (shell, file edits, browser, test execution). ## 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 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>