The duplex readiness gate checked the pre-READY buffer cap with Buffer.byteLength, which is O(n) in the buffer length. A provider that controls the chunk size could send many small newline-less chunks, so the per-chunk byte scan made the pre-READY window quadratic in the bytes received. This was a CPU-exhaustion path on channel open. Gate on buffer.length, the UTF-16 code-unit count, which is O(1). The UTF-8 byte length is greater than or equal to the UTF-16 code-unit count for every string, so the check never fires before the byte cap is truly exceeded. It can fire late by at most a factor of 3, so peak buffer memory stays bounded near 3 MB. The failure reason and every other gate behavior stay unchanged. Add a test that feeds many small newline-less chunks past the cap and asserts the gate finishes with protocol contamination. Correct one telemetry README sentence. Counters carry no dimension labels; fallback_reason and loss_class fold into the counter metric name. The full closed dimension set rides only the spans and the transport event. Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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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.
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.