## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - AI connections choose credentials and routes independently of the agent harness. > - OpenRouter assigns app credit from the final request headers. > - Harness defaults can assign Paperclip work to the underlying harness. > - This pull request applies one public Paperclip identity to managed OpenRouter requests. > - The benefit is consistent app credit across supported harnesses and internal model calls. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What existing behavior does this improve?** App attribution for existing OpenRouter connections and explicit provider configurations. **Current behavior** Requests can omit attribution or carry the harness identity. Paperclip does not receive consistent credit in OpenRouter rankings. **Proposed behavior** Use `https://paperclip.ing`, the title `Paperclip`, and the coding categories `cloud-agent,programming-app` for managed requests to OpenRouter. Keep credentials, routing, and unrelated providers intact. **Reason and benefit** The provider URL identifies the app across personal and shared API keys. A search of public issues and pull requests found no duplicate attribution work. This improves existing AI connections and does not add a separate roadmap feature. ## What Changed - Add a shared attribution policy and a parity-checked copy for the standalone Runner. - Apply it to managed Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and Hermes connections, plus native Pi and explicit legacy provider configs. - Preserve attribution across Codex config filtering, Claude environment filtering, OpenCode proxy requests, and model-level overrides. - Attribute direct fast-response and decision-model requests, including custom connections to the OpenRouter endpoint. - Add positive and negative regression tests and provider attribution requirements to the connector playbook. - Advance native Pi to profile 24, preserving historical identities and binding the attribution source in its declaration and release checks. ## Verification - Final head `6df282d2a58c2698e41127443903d6fc85b4b72f`: all CI/status checks passed or were intentionally skipped; Greptile is **5/5**, with zero unresolved review threads. [Final CI run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/39274938069). - Focused server/shared/config suites: 132 tests passed before the final edge-case additions. Expanded adapter suites pass 48 tests; the final OpenCode merge passes 15 tests; global/EU/US endpoint and policy-parity suites pass 26 tests. - Focused Runner suites: 85 tests passed, including model overrides and recovery/config boundaries. Profile installation/environment/config tests subsequently passed 72 tests (one optional distribution test skipped); historical decoding passed 11 tests and updated recovery coverage passed 27 tests. The Rust profile admission test and all five native Pi launch/recovery tests passed. - All 114 managed AI connection tests pass together. They include custom-header preservation for legacy and native Claude runs, both OpenRouter and other gateways, inherited headers, and unresolved secret references. - Actual requests from installed Codex 0.160.0, Claude Code 2.1.245, OpenCode 1.18.34, Pi 0.74.0 and 1.0.0, and the managed Hermes runtime carried all four Paperclip headers. A local endpoint used dummy credentials and returned an intentional 401 after capture. Codex and Claude retry requests retained attribution. This proves outgoing header precedence; it is not a successful model-inference test. The first Claude capture had an argument-separation error and sent no request; correcting the command produced the captured requests. - A live request through `fastResponseModel` completed with `attribution verified`. OpenRouter recorded generation `gen-1792420273-Ez1GUTCc7YuZ1FJMCGob` under app ID `3118063`, at a cost of $0.00000375. The public app record maps that ID to `https://paperclip.ing/`. - Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed, including a repeat after the review fixes. The final server build stamp records commit `6df282d2a58c2698e41127443903d6fc85b4b72f`. `pnpm check:token-gates` passed. - CI first caught the stale Pi source attestation; it is now a new immutable profile. Greptile caught custom-header loss, now fixed and covered by the complete managed-connection suite. The next CI run caught the missing Docker allowlist entry for profile 24; the allowlist and release smoke pins are now synchronized. Local Docker verification cannot run because its daemon socket is absent; The exact Docker context check passed in CI on the final head. - The initial local `pnpm test:run` did **not** pass. It ran across source/build edits, reported chat/tool-access collection failures, three workspace-runtime failures, two new managed-header failures, one Dot Runner readiness failure, and two native-session-resume failures, and was interrupted after the final-head CI server coverage passed. Its secrets suite also reported 91 cases skipped. The isolated tool-access suite passed all 428 tests, and the complete managed-connection suite passed all 114 tests. These retries establish recovery, not the cause of the original local failures; no claim of a successful full local run is made. Final acceptance uses immutable final-head CI plus the focused local and live checks above. - Final-head CI encountered one unchanged UI assertion in `FileViewerSheet.copy.test.tsx` (missing “Copied link” feedback after clipboard completion). That shard passed on the earlier head with identical UI code, and all six clipboard tests passed locally. A timing race around the asynchronous React update is suspected but not conclusively established. The single CI retry passed, with no product/test code changed for it. The earlier failure remains part of this verification record. ## Risks - Native Pi profile 24 requires a fresh provider session when encountering a profile 23 identity; recovery tests cover that boundary. - Harness upgrades can change header precedence. The playbook requires actual request capture when changing provider paths. - Externally managed agents, unmanaged harness settings, and gateways that replace headers need separate qualification. This change does not intercept arbitrary model calls made by task scripts. - The existing OpenRouter entry for the Paperclip URL still displays an old title, “PrettyFly Opus Testing,” and no categories on the final public-page recheck. The live request received credit under that URL's app ID. Public title propagation and leaderboard placement remain controlled by OpenRouter. - Global, EU, and US OpenRouter hosts are recognized explicitly; other subdomains are not treated as OpenRouter. No database migration, credential ownership change, or Paperclip telemetry event is involved. Attribution contains public product constants only. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository editing, shell execution, web research, and live API verification. The exact deployment identifier and context-window size are not exposed in this session. ## 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 — the focused suites listed above; the unsuccessful full local attempt is explicitly recorded, with full final-head coverage supplied by CI - [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>
@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.
Sandbox bridge deadlines
Command-managed bridge control operations (queue reads, input delivery, setup, and cleanup) have a host-enforced deadline of at most 30 seconds per shell command. A shorter configured timeout still applies. These operations cannot inherit the agent run's hours-long lifetime or wait forever on a provider that ignores its timeout. Long-lived agent session commands keep their own limits.
A control timeout reports a transport failure. It does not prove that the remote command stopped and does not replay an uncertain write. The process session closes failed input delivery and uses its existing shutdown path; normal execution settlement must still verify termination.
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.