## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Plugin Runner owners manage a physical task through an environment lease. > - The existing replacement path can assign a new physical task to that same lease. > - A delayed old owner can then stop the replacement or mark it stopped. > - Cleanup must keep the original physical task identity across RPC and database writes. > - This pull request pins that identity and keeps cleanup available to the new owner. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Refs #19134 and #19157. This fix is based on master and does not enable repeated stopped-source recovery. A search found no duplicate fix. **What happened?** The maintained `createOwnedSandbox` replacement path changes `providerLeaseId` on one lease. An old task owner uses that mutable lease for a later Stop. A stopped-state response already in flight can also update the new task's flags. **Expected behavior** The old owner must address its original task. Its late cleanup writes must not alter the replacement. The replacement's own owner must still stop and complete it. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Create a plugin task owner for a stopped task. 2. Replace that task through the existing describe/startup path on the same lease. 3. Resume an old checkpoint or a held old status response. 4. Observe a Stop for the replacement or an incorrect stopped flag before this fix. ## What Changed - Require each task owner to keep the physical ID returned by its description. Reject a rebind to a different task. - Carry the ID through the existing internal task context after startup ends. Reject a changed physical task before RPC dispatch. - Match the physical task in stopped-state, completion and credential-handoff writes. - Hold the exact lease row through the retained-session database update and local checkpoint save. - Cover the maintained replacement path with real PostgreSQL tests. Preserve positive cleanup for the replacement owner. Document this boundary. ## Verification - Both replacement regressions failed on unmodified master `10a7d039c8`: delayed old-owner Stop targeted the replacement, and a held old status response marked it stopped. - Six focused files passed 160 tests: task authority, task runtime, warm tasks, execution target, credential writeback and task owner. - Four selected executor factory cases passed. They cover task-only providers and the physical task binding after the startup context ends. - Runner TypeScript, plugin SDK and adapter-utils builds passed. Server TypeScript check passed. Diff and added-line secret scans passed. - All 15 setup-probe cases passed with the actual Runner and fake provider binaries. The first local attempt lacked cargo on PATH. A sandboxed native attempt timed out in seven process cases; the unchanged run with loopback permission passed all 15. A separate initial DB integration attempt was denied a loopback listener; its permission-correct run passed. - Review found three missed constructors in the existing SDK/Core lifecycle fixture. They now use the actual describe result. All four cases in that real PostgreSQL and worker RPC file passed. - The first GitHub attempt failed in the unchanged GitHub recovery pagination case in `chat-channels.integration.test.ts`: its zero-request assertion observed a configuration GET. That exact case passed locally without code or assertion changes. The one failed-job-only retry passed; the initial failure log is retained. - [GitHub workflow 42082587576](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42082587576) passed on its second attempt. All CI checks completed, and Snyk passed. Standard Greptile scored exact head `fb914d98b99e` 5/5 with no unresolved threads. The branch is mergeable and ready for review. ## Risks The task context change is internal. It adds no plugin wire field, schema or Runner mode. A stale owner now gets an error and cannot clean up a replacement. A new owner can still clean up that task. The retained checkpoint write holds one existing lease row during a bounded local file write. Repeated stopped-source incarnation admission, runtime pins and deployments are outside this change. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), high reasoning. Used repository tools, TypeScript and real PostgreSQL tests. ## 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 described the issue in-PR using the bug template - [x] I have not referenced internal or instance-local Paperclip issues or links - [x] My branch name describes the change - [x] I have run the focused tests locally and they pass - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation - [x] I have considered and documented risks - [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no unresolved findings - [x] I will address 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.
Sandbox bridge deadlines
Command-managed bridge control operations (queue reads, input delivery, setup, and cleanup) have a host-enforced deadline of at most 30 seconds per shell command. A shorter configured timeout still applies. These operations cannot inherit the agent run's hours-long lifetime or wait forever on a provider that ignores its timeout. Long-lived agent session commands keep their own limits.
A control timeout reports a transport failure. It does not prove that the remote command stopped and does not replay an uncertain write. The process session closes failed input delivery and uses its existing shutdown path; normal execution settlement must still verify termination.
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.