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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - People open a task from their issues list to see what an agent is doing and to reply > - On a busy staging instance, the composer and the latest messages take 1.1–2.0 s to appear after a click. For one task with a slow run log, they took 13.9 s > - Local fixtures do not reproduce this. They do not have real network round trips, real server contention, or real object-store latency > - This pull request adds the measurement we need: a browser harness that times a task open on a real instance, and a Server-Timing entry on every API response that separates server time from network time > - It also records the staging baseline and the improvement plan > - The benefit is that each later performance change can be measured on real data with the same tool, before and after deploy ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **Problem or motivation** Opening a task from the issues list is slow on instances with real data. The composer and the latest chat messages can take seconds to appear. We could not measure this on staging in a repeatable way. We also could not tell server time from network and queueing time for most API requests. **Proposed solution** Add a reusable browser harness for task opens, and add a `paperclip_api` Server-Timing entry to every API response. **Alternatives considered** Local Playwright fixtures only. They do not reproduce real network round trips, server contention or object-store latency, so they did not show the delays that people see. Per-endpoint Server-Timing only. It does not cover the many other requests that run during a task open. **Roadmap alignment** This is measurement for existing task-loading behaviour. It does not add product features. The staging baseline and the measured causes are in `doc/plans/2026-11-09-task-loading-performance.md`. Follow-up pull requests change the loading behaviour itself, starting with #20277. ## What Changed - Added `server/src/middleware/api-server-timing.ts`. Every `/api` response now has a `paperclip_api;dur=<ms>` Server-Timing entry. The value is the server time from request arrival until headers are written, including admission waits. The entry is appended, so the existing `paperclip_issue` phases stay first. - Registered the middleware first in `server/src/app.ts`. - Added `tests/perf/issue-detail/staging-click-harness.js`. It clicks a task row and records, frame by frame, when the composer and the latest message become visible, layout shifts, movement of the latest message, and the requests that run before the page is ready. The summary labels each sample instead of using the task reference. It replaces query values and every path segment that contains a digit. A fetch that is still running when the sample ends is listed as pending. - Documented the harness in `tests/perf/issue-detail/README.md`. - Added the dated plan `doc/plans/2026-11-09-task-loading-performance.md` with the staging baseline, the causes, and the prioritized slices. ## Verification - `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/api-server-timing.test.ts`. 3 tests pass. They cover the JSON responses, the time spent in earlier middleware, preserving route phases, and explicit `writeHead` calls. - `tests/perf/issue-detail/issue-detail.perf.spec.ts` reads the first `dur=` value. That value is still `paperclip_issue`. - The harness was used on staging to capture the baseline in the plan document. ## Risks - Low risk. The header has only a duration, with no request, user or company data. - The middleware wraps `res.writeHead` once for each request. This is the same pattern that `on-headers` uses. - Server-Timing is visible to same-origin scripts only. No `Timing-Allow-Origin` header is added. ## Model Used - Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used in Claude Code with tool use (shell, browser automation, file editing). ## 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 - [ ] 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>