## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - Run diagnostics help operators find the cause of a failed agent run. > - The failure reporter treated unknown environment settings as credentials. > - It replaced every use of those values in diagnostic text. > - A flag set to `1`, `2`, or `safe` removed parts of dates, model names, versions, and normal words. > - This pull request preserves explicit ordinary settings and keeps unknown values private. > - Operators can read the failure details while real credentials stay masked. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** Run-failure contexts contained redaction markers inside timestamps, model names, driver versions, and the word "safely". Provider failure diagnostics used the same broad environment-value rule. **Expected behavior** Ordinary flags, counts, paths, regions, and mode labels leave diagnostic text readable. API keys, URL passwords, and declared secret bindings remain masked. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Set ordinary environment settings to `1`, `2`, and `safe`. 2. Report a failed native run with a timestamp, `gpt-6.1-sol`, `phase6-v2`, and "safely" in its details. 3. Inspect the run failure report. Before this fix, unrelated fragments are replaced. Related work: #13668 addresses a separate model-ID false positive. #11311 and #15524 address credential capture at other boundaries. This change keeps the existing command scanner and registered-secret replacement. ## What Changed - Add a shared environment selector in adapter-utils. Keep unknown values private. Exempt explicit ordinary process settings, typed flags and counts, mode labels, and key selectors. - Use the same selector for run-failure reports and inherited provider failure environments. Keep one policy for both consumers. - Keep configured provider bindings private because that API does not carry separate secret-reference metadata. - Preserve short declared secrets, unknown opaque values, encoded credentials, and inherited Bedrock tokens. Add regressions for ordinary `SORT_KEY` values and both Bedrock consumers. - Add screenshot-shaped regressions, real database reporter coverage, and credential tests. - Document the policy in `doc/observability.md`. The optional monitoring gate stays in place. ## Verification Linux, Node v25.9.0, pnpm 9.15.4. The published tree matches the tested local tree `cb236f072cca195e4c2cfb4034c7cc06ea7adbc5`. - Before the fix, four diagnostic regressions failed. The output reproduced the damaged timestamp, model, version, and word. - Review regressions: six tests failed on the first revision. They proved the missed Bedrock token, opaque inherited-value exposure, and key-selector false positive. All pass after the correction. - 555 focused tests pass on the final source tree. - `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run src/services/__tests__/run-failure-diagnostics.test.ts src/__tests__/redaction.test.ts src/__tests__/redact-sensitive.test.ts src/__tests__/run-secret-redaction.test.ts`: 206 passed. - `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run src/services/__tests__/run-failure-report.test.ts`: 289 passed, with real embedded PostgreSQL. - `pnpm exec vitest run packages/adapter-utils/src/command-redaction.test.ts packages/adapter-utils/src/acpx-engine/terminal-session-failure.test.ts`: 60 passed. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/adapter-utils typecheck`: passed. - `git diff --check`: passed. - The first reporter attempt could not load the unbuilt plugin SDK. It passed after `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/plugin-sdk ensure-build-deps`. - The filtered install omitted the CLI tsx loader, so `pnpm verify --explain` could not start. The equivalent verifier entry points ran with the installed server loader and returned exit 2: broader CI coverage is required for the observability document. - Full local build/typecheck and browser suites were not duplicated. [Final-revision CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42231412547) passed on `013960a4c6fa6279e1f28b0f6af5f036d7cad5a7`, attempt 1. This includes typecheck, build, general/server/chat tests, serialized suites, Runner checks, eight E2E shards, and the canary dry run. - [Greptile review](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/19461#issuecomment-6686592783) scored this head 5/5 with zero new findings. All four inline threads are resolved. The security rescan and Snyk status passed. The PR has no merge conflicts. ## Risks - Ordinary-setting exemptions need a known name or a name/value type rule. Unknown opaque values remain private. Declared secret bindings and recognizable credentials override these exemptions. - A real short secret still masks matching fragments. Removing that protection would expose the secret. - Existing stored redaction markers cannot restore their original text. This fix applies when new diagnostics are produced. - No migration, dependency, workflow, authorization, or default monitoring changes. > For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. This change is a focused bug fix. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6, through Codex, with shell execution and file tools. The host does not expose the exact runtime variant 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.
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.
Native archive transfer deadlines
Native syncIn and syncOut calls accept an optional minimumTimeoutMs budget. The
server validates this budget and extends the worker RPC deadline. Providers can
honor this field for file transfers without changing their configuration. Daytona
uses the larger of this minimum and its configured timeout. Other providers keep
their existing behavior. The minimum is limited to 30 minutes and does not change
sandbox lifetimes, stored settings or the timeout for other commands.
The remote-workspace archive path uses the verified capture size for downloads and the local archive size for uploads. Large archives get one second per MiB plus 60 seconds, capped at 30 minutes. Small archives keep the existing provider timeout when that calculation is no greater than five minutes. Archive size, checksum, confinement and host space checks still apply.
An exact retained-sandbox resume keeps its recorded provider timeout and RPC overhead. It uses the normal one-minute fallback only when no timeout was recorded. A five-minute cold restore must not be cut off by that fallback. Resume still targets the recorded allocation and does not acquire a replacement.
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.