## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Operators create agents and configure their runtimes in the board
UI.
> - The old creation flow presents several choices and a large form
before an agent can start.
> - The existing onboarding controls already provide clear provider
connection steps.
> - This pull request uses those controls in a new-agent wizard and
organizes the full configuration pages.
> - Operators can connect, test, save, and assign a first task while
keeping the existing configuration tools.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Related: #10974. That earlier open PR also reorganizes agent
configuration. This PR follows the reviewed Storybook designs for agent
creation and the current configuration tabs.
**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Agent creation, provider connection, runtime tests, and full agent
configuration.
**Current behavior**
The creation dialog leads to a large manual configuration form. Provider
login controls differ from onboarding. Environment variables and secret
access appear in separate places.
**Proposed behavior**
Choose a name and adapter. Connect Claude or Codex through the existing
onboarding controls. Configure and test the runtime, save the agent, and
open a task dialog with that agent assigned. Use the same design on the
existing configuration tabs.
**Reason and benefit**
The first setup asks for fewer decisions. The full editor keeps
instructions, skills, runtime controls, secret access, permissions,
keys, and revisions available in clear sections.
**Breaking changes**
The board creation and configuration layouts change. The
test-environment API adds an optional, allowlisted `testCredentials`
field for one-shot probes. Database contracts stay the same. Native ACPX
tests now reject unsupported local platforms before a CLI login can mask
the runtime restriction.
## What Changed
- Added a new-agent wizard with numbered steps, adapter branding,
provider connections, editable model choices, runtime tests, and
confirmation.
- Added Codex app-server, Claude ACPX, and OpenCode runner choices.
- Stored API credentials through existing secret APIs and persisted
references in agent configuration. New setup keys are isolated from
credentials used by existing agents.
- Preserved external-agent invitations beside the wizard, including
optional messages, one-time prompts, and clipboard fallback.
- Added OpenRouter provider and secret bindings for Pi and OpenCode.
- Added adapter-specific prerequisite fields for Cursor, Gemini, Kimi,
and Hermes. Cursor Cloud keys are saved as new organization secrets.
- Fixed Cursor Cloud repository field mapping, omitted empty remote
environment values, and added useful model and repository error
messages.
- Preserved complete MCP assignments when multiple valid profiles
contain more than 250 tools in total. Generated profiles retain exact
tool selectors.
- Added service branding and deployment-aware adapter choices. Cloud
setup offers Claude, Codex, and OpenCode; local native runners require
the experimental setting.
- Made the agent list responsive at intermediate widths.
- Applied the reviewed design to the real agent configuration pages.
Kept the instruction editor, skills, and existing mutations.
- Combined secret access and environment variables under one Save and
Discard action.
- Added interactive Storybook screens for setup, configuration,
confirmation, authentication, and test results.
- Fixed Pi provider-error parsing and thinking-effort persistence.
Native ACPX validates Linux x64 on the actual local, SSH, or sandbox
target.
- Redacted the complete transient probe-credential field from HTTP error
logs, including rejected provider names.
## Verification
- Current head `df0292fe6` has a fresh Greptile 5/5 review with no
unresolved findings. All 31 executed CI checks passed, including the
aggregate verification gate and all browser E2E shards. Storybook visual
regression is skipped by its workflow; the local Storybook build passed.
- Browser tests completed real assigned tasks with direct Codex, Claude,
OpenCode, Pi, and native Codex.
- Verified external-agent invitation generation and automatic prompt
copying in the live browser.
- Pi and OpenCode used an existing OpenRouter secret. Browser checks
covered save and reload, instruction edits, skill selection,
environment-variable Save and Discard, and assigned task creation.
- Invalid Claude API credentials remained on the connection step with an
error. A live Pi/OpenRouter invalid-key probe returned a provider
failure and left the user-secret inventory unchanged (zero entries
before and after).
- Full workspace typecheck and build passed after rebasing onto current
master. After review fixes, server and UI typechecks, token gates, and
the full build passed again. Storybook built successfully.
- All 5,542 local UI tests passed. The Cursor Cloud and Pi adapter
regressions passed all 24 tests. Review regressions passed 69 server
tests and all 18 agent-list tests.
- The local full test command ran 6,971 general server tests
successfully. Editing review fixes during that long run caused nine
tests to use stale modules; fresh isolated runs passed. An unrelated
embedded-Postgres fixture hit the host shared-memory limit; its 15
affected tests passed when the fixture groups ran separately.
- Local workspace groups passed after rerunning 18 CLI tests
sequentially to avoid host database limits and parallel-load timeouts.
The local full command stopped at the general server phase, so
serialized server verification comes from the five passing CI shards.
- Browser testing at 390px confirmed that the agent action menu opens
and the page has no horizontal overflow. CI browser E2E shards passed.
- Review the `Onboarding / New agent` and `Agents / Configuration
refresh` Storybook groups. In the real app, create an agent, run its
connection test, save it, assign a task, and reload its configuration.
## Risks
- This changes the main agent setup and configuration UI. Regression
tests cover routing, persistence, secret bindings, and form actions.
- Native Claude ACPX requires Linux x64. Direct Claude works on macOS.
Remote checks execute a bounded platform probe and reject unsupported or
unverified targets.
- A native OpenCode task reached the provider context limit because of
its tool payload. Its provider connection test passed. Direct OpenCode
completed a task. This existing native execution limit is not fixed
here.
- Claude and Codex connection keys use the existing user-secret store.
Other runtime setup keys use distinct organization secrets. Existing
credentials are never rotated. Probes do not store entered keys. Failed
agent creation removes newly staged credentials.
- Cursor Cloud has not completed a live task. Its authenticated account
still needs GitHub repository access. The live run passed MCP
provisioning, remote environment validation, and explicit Auto model
selection before the repository prerequisite blocked execution.
- Generated runtime MCP profiles can exceed the public profile-edit
request limit. They still contain exact catalog selectors and preserve
permission boundaries.
- No database migration, dependency, lockfile, or workflow changes are
included.
## Model Used
OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository tools, shell
execution, and browser automation. The runtime did not expose the exact
model ID 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
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