## Thinking Path > - Paperclip lets people manage AI agents for work. > - Agent setup connects a harness, model, account, and computer. > - The system already selects a qualified runner for a new agent. > - Setup still asks users to select that internal runner. > - The runner dropdown can be the only field in Advanced. > - This PR removes the dropdown and hides an empty Advanced section. > - Users keep their saved execution settings and see fewer setup controls. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What existing behavior does this improve?** Agent creation, onboarding, built-in agent setup, company import, and agent configuration. **Subsystem affected** The UI, setup error messages, tests, and Storybook fixtures. **Current behavior** Users can select a runner from a dropdown. Some setup screens place only that dropdown in Advanced. Errors can direct users to that control. **Proposed behavior** Remove runner dropdowns from setup and configuration. Use the existing automatic selection for new agents. Retain saved runner settings. Show Advanced only when other fields remain. **Reason and benefit** Users can configure agents without an extra internal execution choice. Setup also avoids an empty Advanced section. **Breaking changes** Users can no longer select a runner through these UI dropdowns. The API and CLI retain their runner options. Existing agents keep their saved execution settings. **Additional context** Related: [Default new agents to the qualified runner for their harness](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/15422). This PR changes the existing setup UI. It adds no harness or runtime default. The master merge retains the custom gateway placement from [#19510](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/19510). ## What Changed - Remove the shared runner dropdown and its setup/configuration callers. - Hide Advanced when it has no remaining fields. Keep command and argument settings where supported. Preserve custom gateway setup under Advanced on the Claude and OpenAI API key paths. - Keep setup failures visible and keep the retry action outside the removed control. - Update errors and documentation that referred to the removed dropdown. - Update component tests and Storybook fixtures for the new UI states. - Make Legacy first-task evals resume an API-configured setup record. Record that path separately from fresh automatic onboarding. ## Verification - Latest master integration (`187c0f6d6e5`): 276 onboarding/provider-connection tests passed across six files. UI typecheck and build passed. Token gates, query-error rendering checks, and the Storybook catalog check passed. The conflict resolution retains master's bounded connection tests and cancellation while removing the obsolete runner instruction. The first test command used the wrong working directory and failed before collecting tests; the corrected invocation from `ui/` passed. - Earlier branch verification passed: full workspace build and typecheck, 1,037 focused UI/service tests, 49 heartbeat provider contract tests, eval typecheck, and 30 map/catalog tests. - The full local `pnpm test:run` run passed all six chat integration shards (1,931 tests). It was stopped for the master merge before the complete suite finished. The [complete CI run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42264662642) passed on the previous head `72e1699`. - Current head `a097c8369d079c839e78661a2206cfa62c5210e0`: [full CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42273168268) passed. PR checks total 55 passed and 3 skipped, with none failed or pending. Greptile reviewed this head at 5/5 with no actionable findings or unresolved review threads. - Live browser/provider evals have not run. The Legacy eval change has no live qualification claim. ## Risks - Removing the dropdown changes the setup UI. Existing API and CLI runner choices remain available. - Conditional Advanced sections must retain valid command and argument fields. - Legacy first-task evals now prove setup resumption. They do not prove the fresh-agent automatic default. - No schema change or data migration is included. ## Model Used OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol`, through Codex in T3 Code. Reasoning effort: `xhigh`. The model used file editing, shell commands, and test tools. The harness does not expose the 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>
@paperclipai/ui
Published static assets for the Paperclip board UI.
What gets published
The npm package contains the production build under dist/. It does not ship the UI source tree or workspace-only dependencies.
Storybook
Storybook config, stories, and fixtures live under ui/storybook/.
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui storybook
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui build-storybook
Typical use
Install the package, then serve or copy the built files from node_modules/@paperclipai/ui/dist.
Editor dependency identity
Keep the root and workspace overrides for @codemirror/state,
@codemirror/view, and @lezer/common aligned. CodeMirror requires shared
extension identity, while Lezer parsers and syntax highlighters require shared
NodeProp IDs. Multiple Lezer copies can crash code-block highlighting with
tags is not iterable. src/lib/codemirror-single-instance.test.ts checks the
installed dependency graph and highlights sample code through the editor's real
language dependencies. GitHub Actions owns regeneration of pnpm-lock.yaml.