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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - A hosted Paperclip server can run volume-free. Before it serves, it publishes its UI build assets to shared object storage, so an older browser tab can still load its chunks after the old container is gone > - A build has several hundred assets. The server uploads them one after another at startup > - Object storage throttles a burst with `SlowDown` (HTTP 503). The upload body is a stream, so the storage client cannot replay the request, and the error leaves `startServer` > - The process exits, the host restarts it, and the next start uploads the same assets again. A workspace stayed down while four starts in a row failed this way > - This pull request retries a throttled asset and lets the server start when storage stays unavailable > - The benefit is that a storage slowdown cannot keep a server from starting ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #20990, #20952 (other startup failures found on the same hosted workspace). **What happened?** A hosted volume-free workspace received a new release. Each start logged many `An error was encountered in a non-retryable streaming request.` lines and then `Paperclip server failed to start` with `SlowDown: Please reduce your request rate.` for a key under `ui-assets/v1/`. The four starts failed after 44, 42, 79 and 90 seconds, each on a later asset name. **Expected behavior** The server waits and repeats a throttled upload. If shared storage stays unavailable, the server starts and serves its build from local files. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Run a server with `PAPERCLIP_SHARED_UI_ASSETS=true` and S3-compatible storage. 2. Make the storage answer `SlowDown` (HTTP 503) to one `PutObject` during startup. 3. The server exits with `Paperclip server failed to start`. **Paperclip version or commit** `52cdf76bf3e0cdf29037b63bf0f5e99aa464eab7` ## What Changed - `retainedUiAssets.publish`: each asset is published in a retry loop. A throttled or server-side storage failure waits (0.5 s to 8 s, seven waits at most) and repeats the asset with a fresh stream. - `isTransientStorageError`: recognizes `SlowDown`, throttling, request timeout and HTTP 429/500/502/503/504 answers. - `app.ts`: when publication still fails with a transient storage error, the server logs an error and continues. Other failures, such as a name collision with different bytes, are still fatal. - Tests for the retry, for the give-up path, and for the error classification. ## Verification - `npx vitest run src/__tests__/retained-ui-assets.test.ts` in `server/`: 4 tests passed. The two new tests fail on `master` because `publish` rejects on the first `SlowDown` and takes no `sleep` option. - Not run locally: the full suite. CI supplies that coverage. - Not verified: a live start against throttling storage. ## Risks - A start can take up to about 31 seconds longer for each throttled asset before it gives up. - If storage stays unavailable, the server starts without its assets in shared storage. An older browser tab can then fail to load a chunk after the old container is gone. The server logs this at error level. - Collision detection is unchanged. ## Model Used Claude Fable 5.2 (`claude-fable-5-2`), through Claude Code with tool use and code execution. ## 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 - [ ] 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 - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>