DottaandPaperclip
bfadb66556
## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Stop-only recovery must keep unfinished remote workspace files safe. > - Daytona can archive a stopped sandbox while those files remain in object storage. > - The stop handler sent another Stop request for that archived source. > - Daytona rejected that request, so recovery could not record its required receipt. > - This change accepts the freshly confirmed archived state after retention is verified. > - Recovery can proceed while the source stays cold and its files remain available. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs: #16583, #16700. **What happened?** Stop-only cleanup rejected a retained workspace after Daytona archived it. The live provider returned `DaytonaValidationError` for Stop while its state was `archived` and auto-delete was already disabled. The host correctly kept the recovery gate closed. **Expected behavior** Confirm the exact source and its retention policy. Treat an archived source as having no running process. Record the stop-only receipt without starting or deleting the source. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Keep an unfinished native workspace with stop-and-retain intent. 2. Let its stopped Daytona sandbox become archived. 3. Request stop-only cleanup. 4. Observe the rejected Stop request and missing receipt. ## What Changed - Accept `archived` after a fresh provider read confirms that auto-delete is disabled. - Stop the source if that fresh read instead shows it has resumed. - Add regression cases for confirmed retention, unconfirmed retention, and a resumed cached handle. - Update the recovery runbook and capability map. ## Verification - The new baseline fixture failed on the old handler: 1 failed, 2 passed. - Daytona provider suites: 417 passed, 6 skipped. - Full workspace `pnpm -r typecheck`: passed. - Full workspace `pnpm build`: passed on `fc8b1c1bb8`. - Maps and Git whitespace checks: passed. - The live provider rejection was reproduced on the exact retained source. No model turn, file change or delete was performed. The fixed source handler was then run against that same archived allocation with the declared SDK version. It returned the stopped-process receipt while the provider stayed archived with auto-delete disabled. No process was started. All 58 exact-head CI checks passed; independent review is 5/5. A full local run is also in progress on a separate frozen checkout of this revision; it is not reported as complete. - [Daytona lifecycle documentation](https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes/) confirms that archive follows Stop and preserves the filesystem in object storage. ## Risks - An archived source grants a generic stopped-process receipt. Its physical provider state stays archived. - Retention confirmation remains required. A stale archived handle that has resumed still requires Stop. - The host still checks the original allocation, ownership, stop receipt and file-recovery evidence before continuation. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, tool use and code execution. The session does not expose an exact backend model ID or 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>
12 KiB
navigation
| navigation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Workspaces, services, and files
A project or task can use a managed workspace with inspectable files, Git state, services, and runtime controls. Operators can follow its lifecycle through provisioning, use, and closure.
Implementation: workspace list, execution workspace, project workspace.
Agent access: companion.
Sub-features
binding: identify the workspace actually bound to a task/run.provisioning: observe readiness and failures instead of inferring readiness from a created record.services: start/stop supported services and inspect logs and exposed endpoints.files-git: inspect workspace files and repository state used for the deliverable.closure: close/reopen or reconcile through permitted controls without losing work.
For a historical failed export whose exact sandbox was destroyed, the task recovery notice offers Continue from saved sources to an authorized board operator. Select surviving task attachments, record lost work and external action outcomes, then rebuild through fresh-session admission. The old failed run remains failed. Bounded bootstrap retries retain this decision and recheck their system wake, predecessors, saved files and current execution gates before provider startup. Later cancelled runs require their own confirmed stop and board file repair. Their evidence is preserved with the reconstruction and rechecked before dispatch. Stop retains unfinished native files; startup also repairs missing historical retention without replaying the cancelled turn. Daytona stop-only cleanup confirms retention and accepts an already archived source. Cancelled native file recovery can record a verified no-action outcome. Its confirmation stays optional and resets when the source changes. Retained sandboxes keep their existing export recovery path. Automated coverage: reconstruction. Live staging acceptance remains separate from these regression tests.
How to get to it (user POV)
task-workspace
Use the task’s workspace card or Files panel and follow its workspace link.
workspace-management
Open /workspaces, a project workspace, or /execution-workspaces/:workspaceId and its Services/Configuration/Runtime logs views.
Driving it with Playwright and the Paperclip CLI
Preconditions: follow the baseline. Enable isolated-workspace UI where needed. Use an owned disposable repository and environment; record workspace ID and branch.
task-workspace
Automated: workspace card and task binding cover host/binding contracts.
Manual: Run a task that writes a small file, follow the bound workspace, and inspect the file and revision. Reload and verify links still refer to the same workspace, not another checkout or a stale run.
For fresh standard-trust tasks using an implicit repository default, create a disposable project checkout whose shared Git storage overlaps a private task workspace. Verify that source admission creates a separate checkout from the configured remote, with no private local branches, commits or shared Git storage. Reusing, closing and reopening that task must retain the company/task-bound source; a failed workspace save must clean up only its owned checkout. Explicit workspace, parent/channel selections, literal or task-independent branch templates, low-trust tasks, and local or credential-bearing remote URLs must not use this fallback. A selected checkout requires recorded default provenance. Create tasks through the task service with an explicit checkout ID or an inherited parent source but no typed selection; verify denial, no clone or environment acquisition, and preservation of unpublished branch commits. Older ambiguous bindings and source choices changed during preparation must retain the denial. The remote-source tests and preparation tests exercise the real Git isolation and lifecycle guards. They do not qualify live remote credentials or a provider deployment.
For reconstructable Git expiration, finish a disposable task tree, run the internal lifecycle sweep after its 24-hour grace, and inspect candidate/reclaimed bytes. Advance its upstream first; use the ordinary task/workspace reopen control and verify the original commit, file contents, and subsequent persisted work. Current runs, previews, recovery, unique files and shared base clones must stay. The expiration tests exercise real local Git and database paths, interruption and concurrent reopening; cloud credentials and the deployed user journey require separate live evidence.
For task workspace selection, use the authorized task workspace API to choose a task directory, project source, or existing workspace. Verify that a change made during a run stays pending until the next normal admission. Submit another choice using the returned revision, then retry the superseded request; it must fail without replacing the newer pending choice. A projectless task must retain its files across resume and reassignment. Use the repository preparation API to add an authorized repository beneath that workspace; repeat the request and verify that it reuses the checkout and pinned revision. See task binding tests and repository access tests. An existing projectless folder alias of a sandbox-restricted project must be rejected for a standard local task before its adapter executes. Repeat after relocating the configured source; retained ownership must still enforce the boundary. This is separate from ordinary authorized file preview/download. For a registered worktree selected for a sandbox or SSH environment, configured and built-in provision scripts must not run on the controller during fresh creation, reuse, or rebuild, including host runtime provisioning. Repeat with standard trust and a protected read-only source, then with source write grants; permissions must not change execution placement. Verify isolated source copying and selected-environment dispatch still work. Repeat an explicit local isolated source choice: copying remains available but controller scripts must stay absent, including after binding or metadata changes and closed-worktree reopening. An implicit trusted local project default remains a positive provisioning control. Repeat with a newer configured default overriding an older primary source, then with a newer primary overriding an older nonprimary source. Both configured and built-in hooks must run for the implicit local default. Task creation and controller classification share configured-default, primary, creation-time and ID precedence. Explicit choices and saved copy-only markers still suppress hooks; changing the default must not rotate an existing binding or clear its marker. SSH keeps its explicit remote provision-command path; these checks do not claim a new sandbox provision transport. Low-trust closed-worktree reopening, including a board-comment reopen of a projectless task, must also suppress both kinds of host provision script. Returned checkpoints must reject file, symlink or missing parents before host writes, even if a nested file is marked unchanged. The retained host file and recovery evidence must survive rejection. These are automated safety contracts, not new live runtime acceptance.
An unchanged returned snapshot skips the host scan after acquiring the writer lock and checking authority. Concurrent host edits remain untouched; changed files, modes, symlinks and deletions still take the conflict path. The unchanged restore regression checks both hooks under the lock. This is source-level coverage, not a cloud latency result.
For a child created by an admitted agent with an explicit existing workspace, verify that a matching sandbox boundary permits creation before the child has an ID. A changed child policy, unrelated parent, or forged creator run must fail. See the child workspace trust regression. This automated contract does not add live acceptance evidence.
workspace-management
Automated: workspace detail and runtime service cover UI and runtime contracts separately.
Manual: Provision a disposable workspace, wait for readiness, start an available service, open its endpoint, and inspect a real response and logs. Stop it and verify it actually stops. Exercise close/reopen only after inspecting pending changes and active runs.
Gotchas
-
UI visibility, default isolation policy, the local environment row, a workspace record, and a running service are distinct prerequisites. A fresh instance still needs an owned cwd/repository and runtime commands;
/workspaceslists existing work. Reopening depends on lifecycle, not a generic detail action. -
A link or running badge does not prove the service is reachable from the user’s browser.
-
Workspace IDs, runtime leases, and repository paths are not interchangeable.
-
Terminal workspace cleanup wakes after committed task/workspace/PR changes and restores cooldown deadlines at startup. Empty lanes stop scanning. Display Git results can lag by thirty seconds. Compatible records share one advisory Git inspection per bounded page, while each record keeps its own delivery check. Destructive cleanup starts a separate Git scan even if an older scan is running. The worker tests cover quiet lanes and deadlines. The service tests cover real PostgreSQL signals and retained worktrees. These tests do not qualify an external wake alarm or a live provider deployment.
-
Organizational project, source project, task files, personal
AGENT_HOME, and provider home have separate meanings. Private source ownership remains attached to copied files after source configuration changes or workspace closure. -
Use recovery for divergence/export repair and CLI operations for local worktree tooling.
Storybook verification
closure
Scope: ui Storybook: Close-readiness checks, pending changes/active runs, blocked/pending/error close, retry close and eligible reopening. Production: Confirm owned workspace shutdown, preserved files/Git state and permitted lifecycle transition/reopening; Browser Use session closure is unrelated. Sources: Source: ExecutionWorkspaceDetail.tsx, ExecutionWorkspaceCloseDialog.tsx, execution-workspaces.ts. Tests: execution-workspaces-routes.test.ts, execution-workspaces-service.test.ts, execution-workspace-reopen.test.ts