Add the host broker for the sandbox duplex channel. The broker reads request frames from one persistent channel, forwards each request on the existing API path, and writes one response frame back. It sends heartbeat frames on an interval to prove liveness. The broker keeps the forward path unchanged. The caller passes a forward handler, and the broker calls it for each request. The handler owns the route allowlist, the token replacement, and the run attribution, so those rules stay in one place. The broker runs nested timeout budgets: forward 30 s, response 32 s, and gateway wait 35 s. Each inner budget is smaller than its outer budget. The broker asserts this order at construction and rejects a configuration that breaks it. Loss is terminal. The broker detects loss through channel exit, a stream write failure, a protocol failure, a heartbeat write failure, and a close timeout. On loss the broker stops, records the loss for metrics only, and dispatches nothing more. It never reconnects and never replays a request. Wire the existing forward timeout in execution-target.ts to a new option that defaults to the broker forward budget (30 s), so the current behavior does not change. 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.