## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - Agents run through the native runner. The runner turns harness activity into typed canonical events such as `research.*`, `model.route.changed`, `wait.*` and the run's own verification checks. > - The task chat flattened these events into generic tool rows. A web search showed as "Ran Research eventType: research.started, summary: …". The run's verification checks were dropped completely. > - Live tests found a second break: the Rust runner core forwarded Codex `webSearch` items without their query, action or results. The canonical `research.*` events therefore had `query: null`. > - This pull request keeps the full payload for these families (as #19252 did for plans), adds small dedicated rows, and keeps the web-search fields through the durable runner. > - The benefit is that users see what the agent searched for, which model actually ran, how long a wait lasts, and whether each check passed, without opening the run log. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #19252 (same pattern for the plan card) **Subsystem affected** Task chat activity rows (UI), the native run-event transcript mapping, and the Rust runner core Codex normalizer. **Problem or motivation** Provider activity that the runner already maps to canonical events reaches the task chat as unreadable generic rows. Verification checks never appear. For Codex, the web-search query and action are lost before they reach the canonical event. **Proposed solution** Keep `research`, `model_identity`, `artifact`, `review` and `wait` events as `provider_activity` entries with their full payload. Project the runner's `verification` items as a new `verification` family. Render dedicated rows: a web search with its quoted query and source-domain chips, a model switch as `from → to · reason`, a wait with a live countdown, and green/red check lines. Keep bounded web-search and sleep fields in the Rust normalizer. **Alternatives considered** A separate "Checks" block beside the final answer. We kept the checks in the activity group, because the group summary already leads with "Check failed" when a check fails. ## What Changed - `ui/src/components/transcript/native-run-events.ts`: keep research, model, artifact, review and wait events as `provider_activity` with the full payload. Map `item.completed` items of kind `verification` to the new `verification` family. Context, hook, safety and delegation stay on the generic path, because other work items own them. - `packages/adapter-utils/src/types.ts`, `ui/src/components/task-chat/task-chat-model.ts`, `ui/src/lib/issue-chat-messages.ts`: add the `verification` provider-activity family. - `ui/src/components/task-chat/task-chat-activity-presentation.ts`: add labels: "Searched the web “query”", "Opened a web page host/path", "Switched models a → b · reason", "Waiting 30s" / "Waited 30s", and "Check passed" / "Check failed" / "Check not run". - `ui/src/components/task-chat/TaskChatRunnerActivityGroup.tsx` and `TaskChatProtocolActivityRow.tsx`: show up to three source-domain chips under a finished search, a live countdown for a running wait, and a check line with a tinted icon and its detail. - `ui/src/components/task-chat/completed-activity-summary.ts`: the group summary leads with "Check failed" when a check fails, and says "Switched models" for a reroute. - `ui/src/components/task-chat/transcript-adapter.ts`: verification detail keys, and a `startedAt` timestamp that stays across lifecycle merges (used by the countdown). - `packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/provider_events.rs`: keep bounded `query`, `action` and http(s) `results` for Codex `webSearch` items, and `durationMs` for `sleep` items. Other item types do not change. - `ui/storybook/stories/tasks/task-chat-provider-activity.stories.tsx`: new story. Its fixtures are persisted run events that go through the production transcript path. ## Verification - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui exec vitest run src/components/transcript src/components/task-chat src/components/TaskChatThread.test.tsx src/adapters/paperclip-runner src/lib`: 275 files and 3669 tests pass. - `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core`: all tests pass, including the new `keeps_bounded_web_search_and_sleep_identity`. - UI typecheck is clean. `pnpm check:token-gates` is clean. `cargo fmt --check` is clean. - Storybook: open "Tasks and conversations / … / Task chat / Provider activity". It shows a settled run, a live search, a live wait countdown and a narrow layout. - Live test on a local worktree instance with a real Codex agent (gpt-5.6-sol, Codex app-server 0.160). The task asked for a web search, a parser with tests, a pause, and two checks. The task chat showed "Searched the web “ISO 8601 week date first week Thursday conversion calendar date”" and two green check rows ("node --test week-date.test.js · 8 tests passed; 0 failed.", "node --check week-date.js"). The group summary read "Ran checks". Before the runner fix, the same search had `query: null`. Not verified live: - The source-domain chips. Codex 0.160 sends `results: null`, because it keeps search results on the server. The chips appear only when a provider reports sources. Unit tests and the story cover them. - The wait countdown and the model-switch row. In the live run Codex paused with a shell `sleep`, not a native `sleep` item, and no reroute occurred. Unit tests and the story cover both. - Claude. Its WebSearch and WebFetch calls arrive as generic tool executions, because ACPX drops the tool metadata. They show as tool rows, as before. The ACPX `_meta` work is separate. ## Risks - Low risk. The change only affects how canonical events display. The generic path stays for the families that this PR does not change. - The Rust normalizer now persists the web-search query and the source URLs/titles in the run events. This data was already intended for the canonical `research.v1` event, and it is bounded (4,000 characters per text field, 64 results, http(s) URLs only). - A search that Codex reports with `action: other` and no query shows as "Searched the web" with no subject. > 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 - Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with tool use (shell, file edit, browser automation) and extended reasoning. ## 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>
@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.