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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Apps gives agents governed access to external tools through stored credentials. > - Routines start work when an external service sends an event. > - Fireflies provides meeting transcripts and summaries through an official hosted MCP server. > - This PR adds that connection and accepts signed meeting events through the shared app webhook flow. > - Agents can review completed meetings with the same permissions and audit records as other work. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **Problem or motivation** Operators need agents to read Fireflies meetings and start follow-up work when a summary is ready. The Apps catalog lacks Fireflies. The shared app webhook flow needs to accept its signed deliveries. **Proposed solution** Use the official Fireflies MCP endpoint with OAuth or a vaulted bearer API key. Extend the existing Another app or script flow with signed webhook support. Verify the raw-body signature and pass the JSON payload as external data. Select Meeting Summarized in Fireflies. Deduplicate identical signed deliveries, including setup deliveries. **Alternatives considered** A separate REST connector would duplicate the governed MCP path. Polling, legacy V1 payloads, and automatic provider-side webhook registration are outside this change. **Roadmap alignment** This extends the existing MCP Tool Gateway & Apps and Scheduled Routines surfaces. It adds a provider to those systems. It does not introduce a second integration framework. **Additional context** A GitHub search found no existing Fireflies issues or PRs. Provider references and verification limits are in `doc/connections/FIREFLIES.md`. ## What Changed - Add the official Fireflies catalog definition, generated registry, provider evidence, and branded artwork. - Reuse Access → Connect, dynamic discovery, Permissions, vault storage, policy, and audit behavior. - Classify Fireflies sharing, movement, and access revocation as writes. - Preserve Off and Ask first restrictions during OAuth reauthorization and API-key replacement. New actions retain normal defaults. - Add `app_webhook` authentication to the shared Another app or script flow. Accept bearer tokens or raw-body HMAC-SHA256. Preserve earlier `fireflies_hmac` triggers and revision snapshots for compatibility. Existing text columns need no migration. - Verify `X-Hub-Signature` or `X-Hub-Signature-256` against the exact request body. Preserve generic event payloads and deduplicate identical signed requests. - Keep the routine wizard generic. Show one webhook URL and secret in Another app or script. Keep all new app webhook event names provider-neutral. Keep provider setup instructions in the connector documentation. - Pass generic webhook JSON to the task in an explicit external-data block, capped at 16,384 characters. Keep strict meeting validation for existing legacy Fireflies triggers. ## Verification - Feature implementation commit `0882dc8a1`: all 54 CI checks passed; two conditional Storybook checks skipped. This includes full tests, typecheck, build, browser E2E, canary dry run, and security checks. Greptile rated this commit 5/5; all review threads are resolved. - Full local `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, and token gates passed on the final code. Targeted connector, gateway, webhook, revision, and UI suites passed during implementation. After the provider-neutral follow-up, all 84 app-webhook and routine-service tests passed; the final payload-to-task assertion also passed in the 72-test routine suite and a clean-config rerun. - The long local `pnpm test:run` invocation started before the final edits and was stopped after the final-commit CI suites passed. It reported one generic webhook test failure while those files were changing; that test and the entire routine suite passed on the final source, including a clean-config reproduction. The interrupted local run is not counted as a full-suite pass. - In the embedded browser, completed official OAuth consent and discovered 20 live actions. Real meeting listing, transcript retrieval, and summary/action-item retrieval succeeded as the selected agent. Turning a live read Off blocked its test; catalog refresh preserved the restriction. - Embedded-browser Another app or script setup, back/save/resume, narrow layout, and a signed synthetic Fireflies delivery succeeded. The UI reported authentication passed without creating a task. Fixtures cover signature tampering, malformed requests, ordinary app event names, duplicate/setup deliveries, rotation, revisions, pause/archive, and company isolation. - Existing MCP browser suite: 8 passed and 2 provider-dependent cases skipped. Branding checks passed; connector artwork and webhook setup were checked at desktop/mobile widths and in light/dark modes. - An unauthenticated POST to a correctly formatted public webhook URL reached the staging tenant verifier through the existing Cloud gateway. - A real Fireflies webhook delivery remains unverified. A staging callback is available for the operator walkthrough. Live API-key authorization, credential expiry, and a new meeting's summary completion were not tested against the provider. Fixtures cover these protocol and lifecycle paths where applicable. - Storybook follow-up `c54174faa`: 27 production-component stories cover every UI change, with a source-to-story map in the connector documentation. Static Storybook build, UI typecheck, token gates, and Playwright checks for all stories and the mobile footer pass. All PR checks passed for this Storybook follow-up; Greptile reviewed `c54174faa` at 5/5. ## Risks - Fireflies may change its hosted MCP tools or OAuth behavior. Tool discovery stays dynamic. Experimental search/fetch tools are not required. - Public webhook setup requires HTTPS and a separate signing secret. Fireflies normally emits events for meetings owned by the configuring account. - Reauthorization touches shared MCP permission code. Regression tests cover existing restrictions, new actions, connection removal, and other gateway callers. - Webhook receipt grants no tool access. The routine agent still needs an authorized Fireflies connection. - New generic triggers rely on provider event subscriptions. Without a sender-supplied idempotency key, changed request bytes count as a new event. Existing legacy Fireflies triggers retain summary-only filtering and per-meeting deduplication. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, model `gpt-6-astra`. Used reasoning, repository editing, code execution, and embedded-browser testing. The runtime did not expose a context-window size. ## 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 - [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>
Apps, Connections, and Integrations
Audience: internal engineers and product contributors working on integrations.
Start here when adding a provider: Connection authoring runbook. It is the canonical agent tutorial from provider research and protocol classification through manifest generation, branding, secrets, deterministic tests, real-account proof, and PR submission.
Runtime authentication: AI Connections.
Provider notes: Google Workspace, Gmail, PostHog, AgentMail, and iMessage Photon. Optional credential custody: Vercel Connect.
Post-read action: classify a new integration request, pick the right Paperclip layer to change, and avoid creating a parallel connection framework.
Decision Record
Board decisions from PAP-13211 make the Apps v2 substrate on the PAP-10341 branch canonical:
- D1: Apps v2 is the substrate. The active model is
tool_applications,tool_connections, catalog entries, profiles, policy rules, action requests, gateway sessions, audit events, and runtime slots. Connections v1 is retired as an implementation path. - D2: one credential authority per connection, brokered projections. The
default is the Paperclip instance vault: durable third-party credentials live
in
company_secretsas secret refs. A reviewed remote MCP method may instead opt in to Vercel Connect, in which case Vercel is the durable credential authority and Paperclip stores only the connector reference and redacted grant metadata. A connection must never mix those two sources. Adapter config, plugin config, harness credential files, and run environments may receive only brokered or projected credentials. - D3: the vocabulary and three-door IA are product law. The default product doors are Apps, Connections, and Review. Protocol and operator-depth concepts live behind Developer or Advanced surfaces.
- D4: unification lands on PAP-10341. Pages, CircleBack-style harness MCP OAuth, provider gallery work, and plugin-provided integrations converge on this branch instead of spawning new integration substrates.
- D5: inbound stays thin. External clients that call Paperclip use scoped Paperclip tokens and existing profiles/rules. They do not get a separate permission model.
Canonical Object Model
Use connection as the unifying noun. A connection is four things:
- A stored credential reference.
- A capability catalog.
- A governance layer.
- An audit trail.
Everything else is an axis on that object:
| Axis | Values | It answers |
|---|---|---|
| Direction | outbound, inbound | Who is the client? |
| Transport | MCP, native REST/OpenAPI, OAuth app install, webhook | How do bytes move? |
| Auth mode | OAuth, API key/PAT, app installation, none | What does the secret represent? |
| Credential owner | company, user, run | Whose identity acts? |
| Packaging | catalog entry, plugin, skill | How does it ship? |
MCP is a transport, not a product category. "Install the Discord app", "connect Google Drive", and "add an MCP endpoint" all produce governed connections with different transport/auth values.
Layer Stack
When you are unsure where a change belongs, place it on the narrowest layer that solves the problem:
| Layer | Owns | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | user-facing Apps, Connections, Review, Developer/Advanced screens | gallery cards, setup wizard, review queue |
| Governance | profiles, bindings, allow/ask-first/block rules, quarantine, audit | read-only profile, ask-first write policy |
| Capability | action catalogs, schemas, risk classes, changed-tool review | search_issues, create_comment, schema hash |
| Credential | company_secrets, OAuth broker, credential resolver, token broker |
Slack bot token ref, Google OAuth refresh token ref |
| Identity | actor attribution and token exchange | board user, agent run, first-party service identity |
| Transport | how the external system is reached | remote HTTP MCP, local stdio, REST/OpenAPI, webhook |
The agent should not hold a durable provider credential. It should hold a Paperclip run/session token; the server or broker resolves the connection, checks governance, invokes the provider, and writes audit.
Identity vs. connections
Signing a user in and connecting a resource are different planes with different owners, different token profiles, and different homes. Do not merge them. This section is the public, connections-side statement of the identity model so connector implementers inherit the rule without depending on private identity-service documentation or re-deriving it.
| Plane | Question | Lives where | Token profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1. Sign-in methods | Who are you? | paperclip-id (id.paperclip.ing → Account) |
Minimal-scope provider tokens (openid email profile), used once to authenticate, encrypted at rest, never exported |
| P2. Connections (Apps) | What may your agents touch? | Paperclip App instances (tool_connections), acquired via the connect broker for hosted + self-hosted |
Rich-scope, long-lived resource tokens in the instance's encrypted vault; per-agent grants; risk-tier policy defaults |
| P3. Login with Paperclip | Who may authenticate against us? | paperclip-id OIDC provider + DB-backed client registry |
Our ES256 ID/access tokens issued by us to registered RPs (instances, the broker, future third parties) |
Everything in doc/connections/ — the First-30 matrix,
the connection authoring runbook, and the connect-broker work —
lives on plane P2. It never acquires, stores, or brokers a P1 sign-in token.
The standing rule (D7)
Adopted as a standing rule (decision D7) with the identity-model plan. State it verbatim in any P2 design so the app-store work cannot drift into merging the planes:
Sign-in tokens are never reused as resource tokens; id.paperclip.ing never stores resource tokens; no connections hub on the ID service.
P2 tokens flow broker → instance vault as pass-through only; the id.paperclip.ing Account page therefore must not grow a "Connections" hub. The reasons to hold the planes apart (from the plan §3):
- Scope discipline. Sign-in wants the narrowest grant; connections want deliberately broad ones. One button that does both is how you grant repo access just to log in.
- Blast radius. id.paperclip.ing holding every customer's Vercel/Slack/GitHub resource tokens would make it the single juiciest target in the fleet; the broker is intentionally pass-through.
- Self-hosted symmetry. Instances own their vaults, so self-hosters don't depend on our uptime to use their own connections.
- Legibility. Sign-in and connections answer different user questions, and every product we benchmarked (Vercel, Railway, GitHub, Google) keeps them on separate pages with separate names.
The explicit Vercel Connect exception does not change D7 or merge P1 and P2.
The operator chooses Vercel as the P2 credential authority for an individual
connection. id.paperclip.ing is not involved, and neither sign-in tokens nor
provider tokens pass through it. The deployment's Vercel access token or
workload OIDC identity is bootstrap authority for that external vault, not a
provider resource credential.
Naming alignment
Use the surface-correct name for each plane; they intentionally differ:
| Surface | Plane | Name to use |
|---|---|---|
| Paperclip App instances | P2 | "Connections" |
| id.paperclip.ing Account | P1 | "Ways to sign in" |
| id.paperclip.ing admin | P3 | "OIDC clients" (until the app store productizes it) |
Packaging Rule
Default to a catalog entry when an integration can be described as metadata: manifest, auth config, action catalog, resource filters, and policy defaults.
Use a plugin only when the integration needs product code such as custom UI pages, its own tables, workers, migrations, routines, or specialized ingestion. A plugin may bundle catalog entries, but it must not bypass the connection, profile, policy, credential, and audit model.
Use a skill for agent instructions. Skills may use connections; they must not own durable tokens.
Canonical Docs
- Glossary defines product and internal terms.
- Identity vs. connections is the public statement of the P1/P2/P3 boundary and the D7 standing rule for connections work.
- Security threat model harvests the keeper from PAP-2359 and maps it onto Apps v2.
- First-30 matrix harvests the keeper from PAP-2432 and is the source matrix for connector playbook work.
- Connecting any remote MCP server is the baseline: how an operator connects a standards-compliant remote MCP endpoint with no Paperclip code change, and how sign-in resolves a client.
- Connection authoring runbook is the one end-to-end, agent-executable guide for adding a vendor as a catalog entry on Apps v2: research, connection-type selection, OAuth/API-key/generated-URL setup, encrypted credential handling, branding, implementation, browser and live-provider testing, verification, and PR submission.
- Vercel Connect operator guide documents the optional external credential source, deployment flags, runtime resolution, recovery, and smoke requirements.
- MCP access governance remains the operator runbook for the current gateway, profile, policy, approval, runtime, and audit APIs.
Migration Notes
Connections v1 contributed useful policy, UX, and rollout thinking, but its
implementation branch is no longer the target. When you see old tickets or code
using connections, connection_grants, or a provider-directory mental model,
translate the intent into Apps v2:
| Connections v1 intent | Apps v2 home |
|---|---|
| Provider directory | Apps gallery / tool_applications |
| Configured provider instance | Connection / tool_connections |
| Grant allowlist | Profiles, profile bindings, policies |
| Resource filters | Policy/profile conditions plus provider config |
| Tool broker | Tool gateway and runtime supervisor |
| Connection UX tail | Apps, Connections, Review, Developer/Advanced IA |
Do not add new work to the retired v1 branch. If an old ticket still describes a valid product gap, retarget it to an active Apps v2 issue or close it as superseded with a link to the replacement.