## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Projects can now attach several source repositories. > - Task preparation still treated these sources as alternative workspaces. > - Sandbox sync preserved Git history only for the selected repository. > - A task needs every attached repository to complete work across the project. > - This pull request prepares all distinct project repositories and preserves their separate Git histories through sandbox restore. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A user reported that a project with two repositories received only the first repository in Daytona. Repository-only project rows also reached the agent with null local paths. Managed checkouts with matching repository names could resolve to the same directory. **Expected behavior** Local and sandbox tasks receive every distinct repository attached to their project. Repository-only sources work without preconfigured local folders. Each repository keeps its own Git history and working files. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Create a project with two repository sources and no local folder paths. 2. Assign a task to the project and run it in Daytona. 3. Inspect the task workspace and the repository paths exposed to the agent. 4. Observe that the original implementation supplies only the selected checkout. Related change: #13010 added multiple repository selection. The open repository-catalog proposals #11234 and #11228 cover a different data model. This fix uses the existing project workspaces. ## What Changed - Materialize each additional distinct repository as an editable checkout inside the task root. Seed configured local sources with their current working files and retain task edits across runs. - Pass materialized repository paths to local agents and native sandbox task prompts. Apply existing run-scoped Git credentials to each remote clone. - Preserve each repository's Git history, dirty files, and restore baseline during sandbox staging and durable recovery. Apply each repository's ignore rules and the operator's workspace exclusions. - Keep same-name managed repositories in separate directories. Report additional clone failures before the task starts. - Add task-level, checkout, sandbox round-trip, environment-hint, and recovery-descriptor regression coverage. Document checkout and restore behavior. ## Verification - Red: the original implementation fails the sandbox test because the second repository has no Git directory. It also fails the same-name checkout test and both real-database task tests because repository hints have no local path. - Green: focused tests pass for one and two repository-only sources, local source edits, clone failures, per-repository credentials, separate Git histories, ignored files, and recovery from remote or durable seed state. - Live Daytona smoke passed with two disposable repositories through the production provider sync functions. Both repositories arrived with Git history. Commits from both restored locally. Ignored files stayed excluded. The disposable sandbox was deleted. - Passed on final commit `93ab76763`: `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`. - Final focused coverage: 254 assertions across the six changed test areas passed across the serial run and an isolated rerun of the existing process-kill timing test. The live Daytona smoke also passed. - The local `pnpm test:run` overlapped source edits and retained stale transformed code. Its first phase reported 12,240 passed assertions, nine failed assertions, three hook failures, and one worker error; later phases did not run locally. This run is not claimed as green. Fresh focused tests verify the changes, and every general/workspace and serialized-server CI shard passes on the final commit. - Final CI is green on `93ab76763`: all test shards, all three browser shards, typecheck, build, runner verification, canary dry run, and security checks. The initial unrelated chat-delivery browser timing failure passed in the final CI run. Optional Storybook visual checks were skipped. - Greptile is 5/5 on the final commit with no unresolved review threads. Its checkout-race finding was reproduced with a failing test, fixed, and rechecked. ## Risks - Additional repositories need disk space and clone time. Access failure for an attached repository stops preparation. - Additional checkouts live under `.paperclip-repositories/` and keep independent histories. Changes stay in those task copies; they do not overwrite configured source folders. - Detached or reconfigured repository copies are retained under `.paperclip-runtime/detached-repositories/`. Sandbox recovery retains per-repository merge baselines. - No database migration, UI contract change, or new credential delegation is required. Referenced projects retain their separate read-only behavior. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with repository inspection, code execution, and tool use. The runtime does not expose a more specific model deployment 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>
@paperclipai/adapter-utils
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.