## Thinking Path > - Paperclip helps people manage AI agents and their work. > - Task conversations and documents use the shared Markdown renderer. > - GitHub repository, pull request, and issue links currently use the same icon. > - Long pasted URLs make these references hard to scan in a conversation. > - This change identifies each resource from its URL and shows a compact label with a distinct icon. > - The exact destination and custom link text stay intact. Connected status data keeps its existing behavior. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What existing behavior does this improve?** Inline GitHub links in rendered Markdown. **Current behavior** Repositories, pull requests, and issues all use the GitHub mark. Pasted resource links show the full URL. **Proposed behavior** Pull requests use the pull request icon. Issues use the issue icon. Repositories and other GitHub pages keep the brand mark. Pasted resource URLs show `owner/repository#number` or `owner/repository`. Custom labels keep their text and formatting. **Reason and benefit** Readers can identify GitHub resource types and scan references in a narrow conversation. Full URLs, query strings, and comment anchors stay available through the link destination. Link rendering makes no remote metadata requests. **Breaking changes** The visible text of a bare GitHub resource URL becomes compact. The destination does not change. No API, database, or connection changes are required. Searches found no duplicate work for GitHub inline resource presentation. Related work: [same-origin Markdown routing](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/17864). This change preserves that route handling. ## What Changed - Add a pure GitHub URL classifier with exact host checks and resource labels. - Move ordinary URL presentation into `MarkdownUrlLink`. Keep internal references, workspace links, custom resolvers, and connected metadata in their existing order. - Add separate icons and accessible resource names. Preserve authored Markdown titles and formatted labels. - Add Playground, Narrow, and Streaming Storybook examples that mount `MarkdownBody`. - Add parser and renderer tests, eight Chromium browser cases, and the browser command in the development guide. - Consider Open Graph loading. Use the existing connected metadata path for remote status and titles. Add no arbitrary page fetches. ## Verification - Focused Vitest coverage: 129 passing tests across nine files for GitHub parsing, Markdown rendering, connected metadata, document rendering, and workspace-file rendering. - `pnpm check:token-gates`. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui typecheck`. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui build`. - `pnpm build-storybook`. - Storybook catalog generation/check and 30 catalog/map tests. - Site-route regression: Stars, Education, and enterprise pages keep general GitHub branding and their full URL text. Three parser cases failed before the fix; parser and renderer cases now pass. - Streaming regression: three resource cases failed before the fix and pass after it. The fix preserves the generated word span and custom formatted labels. - Chromium: `STORYBOOK_TEST_BASE_URL=http://localhost:6106 pnpm exec playwright test inline-links.spec.ts --config=tests/storybook-visual/playwright.config.ts --project=stories`. - Browser scope: eight passing cases for ordinary/streaming modes, dark/light at desktop and 390px mobile, completed play assertions, exact comment destinations, safe external attributes, keyboard focus, wrapping, and no GitHub requests. Screenshots are saved as task artifacts; no review images are committed. - The first browser attempt in the resumed environment could not launch Chromium because its executable was missing. The browser was installed, and all eight cases then passed. - The browser cases use synthetic text and one connected metadata fixture. They do not prove provider authentication or server persistence. No visual baseline comparison is claimed; the repository baseline manifest is unpublished. - Initial typecheck found two unsupported story assertion options and an unbuilt SDK dependency in the fresh checkout. The options were removed and the SDK was built before the successful retry. - `pnpm verify` returned 2 because the new browser spec requires broad CI coverage. Focused tests and the browser suite supply local evidence. Required CI supplies broad coverage. ## Risks - Compact labels hide URL detail from the visible line. The exact href and default tooltip preserve that detail. - GitHub site routes can change. Unknown paths retain the general GitHub treatment. Lookalike hosts and credential-bearing URLs do not get GitHub resource treatment. - Connected external-object status and title rendering keeps priority over URL-derived presentation. ## Model Used OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 (`gpt-6` family), with reasoning, tool use, browser checks, and code execution. The exact deployment ID and context window are not exposed in this run. ## 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 - [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>
Storybook Visual Baselines
The visual suite compares built Storybook stories against PNG snapshots stored
outside git. The checked-in manifest at baseline-manifest.json pins the
immutable archive URL, SHA-256, byte size, snapshot count, and capture
environment.
Commands
pnpm storybook-visual:baseline download
pnpm storybook-visual:baseline verify
pnpm test:storybook-visual
pnpm test:storybook-visual:update
download fetches the archive, verifies its SHA-256 and byte size, unpacks it to
tests/storybook-visual/.snapshots/, and checks the PNG count. The same snapshot
directory can be overridden with STORYBOOK_VISUAL_SNAPSHOT_DIR.
Known Limitation: Linux Baselines
Storybook visual baselines are platform-locked. The checked-in manifest records
the capture environment as ubuntu-24.04, and Playwright compares screenshots
with maxDiffPixels: 0. Pixel-exact results are only meaningful when local runs
use the same Linux/Ubuntu capture platform as the baseline.
macOS, Windows, and other non-matching local environments can produce
false-positive diffs from font rasterization and subpixel rendering differences.
Use the Storybook Visual GitHub Actions workflow on ubuntu-latest as the
source of truth for cross-platform review, or run the suite locally in a matching
Linux environment before accepting or updating baselines.
CI and Review Artifacts
Storybook visual tests are opt-in while the suite stabilizes. Add the
storybook-visual label to a pull request, or run the Storybook Visual
workflow manually, to download the pinned baseline, build Storybook, and run the
Playwright visual suite on GitHub Actions.
The workflow uploads tests/storybook-visual/playwright-report/ and
tests/storybook-visual/test-results/ as a storybook-visual-report-* artifact
on every run. When screenshots differ, Playwright writes the actual, expected,
and diff PNGs into test-results, so reviewers can inspect the failure without
rerunning the suite locally.
Normal PR visual runs use repository read-only permissions and never upload or
modify baseline objects. To review intentional visual changes before updating
baseline-manifest.json, run the workflow manually with update_snapshots
enabled. That produces a storybook-visual-baseline-review-* artifact containing
the packed candidate snapshot archive for review. Publishing that bundle to the
baseline bucket still requires the explicit maintainer upload command below.
Updating Baselines
- Run
pnpm test:storybook-visual:updateafter reviewing intentional visual diffs. - Run
pnpm storybook-visual:baseline packto createtests/storybook-visual/baseline-review/snapshots.tgz. - Upload the archive from a trusted maintainer environment with
STORYBOOK_VISUAL_S3_URI=s3://bucket/baselines/storybook-visual/<sha>/snapshots.tgz pnpm storybook-visual:baseline upload. - Copy the printed
snapshotCountandarchivefields intobaseline-manifest.json.
Generated snapshots, review bundles, Playwright reports, and downloaded caches are ignored by git.