## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - GitHub connections give agents access to approved repositories.
> - One GitHub identity can use installations across several
organizations.
> - The permissions page linked to one installation and showed an
unfiltered list.
> - Users could not easily find another organization or inspect a large
selection.
> - This change adds account filtering, search, and access configuration
links.
> - Users can inspect repository access in one compact view.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Refs #12993. Related repository-catalog work in #11228 and #11234 was
checked. This change only improves the existing GitHub connection
permissions page.
**What existing behavior does this improve?**
The GitHub connection permissions page and its repository display
metadata.
**Current behavior**
The page links directly to an existing installation. The repository list
has no account filter, search, height limit, or private-repository
marker. Refresh access occupies a separate section.
**Proposed behavior**
Show all authorized repositories by default. Filter by account or
organization and search by name. Open GitHub's account chooser to
configure access across organizations. Show GitHub icons and
private-repository locks. Keep refresh beside configuration and limit
the visible list to about ten rows.
**Reason and benefit**
Users can find repositories across organizations and configure missing
access without creating another GitHub identity. Large repository lists
no longer fill the page.
**Breaking changes**
None. Repository display metadata gains an optional private flag. Older
snapshots remain valid and gain the flag after access refresh. No SQL
migration is required.
## What Changed
- Add an All accounts view, account filter, search, and empty states.
- Link both configuration controls to GitHub's app account chooser.
- Place an accessible refresh icon beside the configuration button.
- Keep the repository heading and list in one section.
- Add GitHub icons and private-repository locks.
- Cap the scrollable list at ten rows using a design token.
- Persist GitHub's private flag only when the provider returns a
boolean.
- Recover missing legacy app configuration from GitHub installation
metadata.
- Update tests and the GitHub connection runbook.
## Verification
- Focused tests passed: 54 permissions-page tests and four GitHub
metadata tests.
- UI and server typechecks passed before submission. Token gates passed.
- Browser checks verified account filtering, search, empty results, and
the configuration destination.
- The live list contained 40 repositories. Its final height was 272
pixels, which fits ten single-line rows with gaps. Scrolling retained
all rows.
- A live access refresh populated 30 private-repository lock icons from
GitHub metadata.
- Full workspace typecheck and build passed. The broad local suite
stopped in the general-server group with 18 failed files. Failures
include macOS temporary-path handling and embedded PostgreSQL startup.
That run also overlapped the legacy fix and retained a stale GitHub
module; the final focused run passed all 58 tests. Clean-runner CI is
tracked separately.
- Latest-head review is 5/5 with the legacy chooser finding resolved.
All CI checks passed on commit
`0ff2b63f348f5c87d8b7df6e43388f60f5d872d9`, including build, typecheck,
all test shards, browser tests, and canary dry run.
## Risks
- Older repository snapshots lack visibility metadata until refreshed.
Unknown visibility does not display a lock.
- The account filter lists authorized installation owners. Users add
other organizations through GitHub's chooser.
- Filtering changes only the displayed list. GitHub remains
authoritative for repository access.
## Model Used
OpenAI GPT-6 (`gpt-6-astra`) via Codex. Reasoning, code execution, and
browser tools were used. The exact context window size was not exposed.
## 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>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - GitHub connections give agents an account with selected repository
access.
> - Fresh local instances enroll with production Paperclip Cloud.
> - Enrollment could finish while the GitHub OAuth profile remained
disabled.
> - Setup then switched to a personal access token form without
explanation.
> - This change preserves sign-in intent and shows the connected account
and repositories.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Related: #12907, #12943, #12947. Existing open GitHub connection work
was checked. No duplicate was found.
**What happened?**
After Cloud enrollment, a fresh test-drive asked for a GitHub key.
Production did not advertise the managed GitHub profile. Staging did.
The permissions page also omitted the authenticated username and
repository names.
**Expected behavior**
Continue with GitHub OAuth when available. Explain unavailable sign-in
and allow retry otherwise. Show the GitHub username and complete
accessible repository list.
**Steps to reproduce**
Start a fresh test-drive. Choose GitHub and complete instance enrollment
while the Cloud GitHub profile is disabled. Open an existing GitHub
connection's permissions page.
## What Changed
- Preserve managed sign-in intent when the gallery omits its profile.
- Refresh the selected gallery entry on retry without resetting the
audience.
- Fetch all pages of GitHub installations and repositories.
- Store only repository IDs, full names, and installation IDs in grant
metadata.
- Show the GitHub username, repository list, management link, and
refresh action.
- Discard the repository snapshot after newer installation lifecycle
events. Preserve snapshots verified after delayed events.
- Lock and re-read grant metadata when applying installation events or
saving refreshed access. Patch only webhook fields for other events.
Reject snapshots if access changed during the external fetch, using
unique access revisions even when timestamps collide.
- Show repository installation recovery for managed OAuth even when the
app also offers an advanced PAT method.
- Update tests and the GitHub connection runbook. No SQL migration is
required.
## Verification
- Local typecheck, build, and token gates passed. All latest-head CI
gates passed, including the complete test matrix and browser suites.
Greptile is 5/5 with no unresolved findings.
- All 382 focused setup, permissions, metadata, service, and webhook
tests passed across final runs. One socket-hang-up test passed on rerun
with the full service suite. Final service, metadata, and webhook checks
passed all 230 tests.
- The broad local suite was stopped after failures. Seven
workspace-runtime exposure and control-conflict failures reproduce on
base commit `54a99d884`. The broad run also overlapped local iteration;
final focused tests and clean-checkout CI are tracked separately.
- Browser: a fresh production-backed instance completed enrollment,
retried after profile enablement, reached GitHub consent, recovered from
a missing installation, and completed OAuth.
- Browser: the permissions page showed the authenticated username and
the selected private test repository. A real `get_me` call returned the
same account. Reading the selected repository passed; reading an
unselected private repository failed with 404.
- Browser: a second fresh instance completed enrollment and OAuth
without a PAT form or unavailable state. Its username and repository
list survived reload and refresh. A real get_me call on the final code
returned the displayed account.
## Risks
- Repository names are now stored in company-scoped grant metadata and
shown with that credential. They are display data, not authorization
data.
- Large selections require more GitHub API calls. A failed later page
rejects the refresh rather than reporting a partial list.
- Older grants and webhook-invalidated snapshots require Refresh access
to load the list.
- Cloud profile enablement is separate deployment configuration. This PR
does not change OAuth scopes or GitHub App permissions.
## Model Used
OpenAI GPT-6 (`gpt-6-astra`) via Codex. Reasoning, code execution, and
browser tools were used. The exact context window size was not exposed.
## 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>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Connections give those agents access to external services.
> - Connection setup first asks who may use the credential.
> - Some providers need a local method selection before OAuth starts.
> - The Access button said it would open GitHub even when it opened
another local step.
> - This pull request names the actual next action and shows the
external arrow only for a provider handoff.
> - Users can distinguish local setup from leaving Paperclip.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Refs: #12943
The browser audit found a second, separate clarity problem. GitHub
showed "Continue to GitHub" twice: once to open its local method
selection and once to start OAuth. The first label promised the wrong
action. This change fixes that label without adding or removing a setup
step.
## What Changed
- Use "Continue" when Access opens another local OAuth setup step.
- Keep "Continue to <provider>" and the external arrow when Access
starts OAuth directly.
- Test GitHub defaults, pre-enrollment setup, direct Notion OAuth, and
dialog behavior.
- Document the two GitHub button actions.
- Preserve the external-handoff arrow in the direct-OAuth Storybook
fixture.
## Verification
- Targeted connection tests: 114 passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui typecheck`: passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui build`: passed.
- `node scripts/check-token-gates.mjs`: passed.
- `git diff --check`: passed.
- After the Storybook review fix: 100 connection-flow tests, UI
typecheck, token gates, and Storybook build passed; visually confirmed
the Gmail handoff arrow and local GitHub step labels.
- Actual test-drive browser: confirmed default personal identity and Any
agent; clicked Continue to the local method screen; switched PAT and
OAuth; returned to Access with selections intact; cancelled without a
duplicate connection.
- Live OAuth, local MCP identity, and a real staging sandbox task passed
during the audit. This patch does not change those paths.
- Full local suite has known unrelated macOS path/runtime test failures
from the audit. All CI passed on head
`936ce09f4e1faaf09f9fb778c2cd4c65c2a41972`, including typecheck, build,
all test shards, browser tests, and canary dry run. Greptile: 5/5; no
unresolved comments.
## Risks
- Low risk. This changes button text and an icon cue only. There is no
new schema, permission, consent, or credential behavior.
- Providers with multiple methods now say Continue before their method
screen. Direct OAuth providers keep their existing wording.
## Model Used
- OpenAI Codex assisted with code, tests, terminal checks, and actual
browser verification. The runtime does not expose the exact model ID or
context-window size, so those details are unavailable.
## 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 references)
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass (targeted tests; full-suite
caveats above)
- [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>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Managed connections deliver credentials to an approved instance.
> - A self-hosted instance starts with a time-limited approval link.
> - The setup page cached that link and reused it after expiry.
> - This pull request lets the existing server choose a valid enrollment
link.
> - Users can recover without another setup step or a service restart.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Related: #12891 (one-time enrollment) and #12907 (sandbox GitHub
identity).
No duplicate open enrollment-recovery PR or issue was found.
**What happened?**
After a pending Cloud enrollment expired, Continue opened the same
expired
approval link. Cloud returned ENROLLMENT_NOT_AVAILABLE. Returning to
setup and
selecting Continue repeated the failure.
**Expected behavior**
Continue must ask the server for a valid enrollment. The server must
reuse a
live pending enrollment and replace an expired one. Existing approved
instances
must not need another approval.
**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start GitHub setup on a fresh self-hosted instance.
2. Start Cloud enrollment but leave it unapproved until the link
expires.
3. Return to step 2 and select Continue.
4. Before this change, the browser opens the expired link again.
**Paperclip version or commit**
Reproduced from master commit 05735b3d87.
**Deployment mode**
Fresh source test-drive instance, connected to staging Cloud.
## What Changed
- Always call the existing enrollment-start endpoint from Continue.
- Retain the server's expiry, pending-enrollment reuse, and concurrency
rules.
- Test both expired and future-dated cached enrollment responses.
- Document recovery from an expired unapproved link.
## Verification
- Five targeted connection suites: 150 tests passed.
- `pnpm check:token-gates`: passed.
- Live browser: reproduced the expired-link loop, then recovered with
this fix.
- Live browser: approved once, returned to step 2, connected GitHub
without a
restart or repeated Cloud approval, and ran GitHub MCP get_me
successfully.
- Separate new managed staging stack: connected without self-hosted
enrollment;
an actual Daytona task verified the responsible user's GitHub identity,
authenticated API access, both token variables, Git helper
configuration,
shallow clone/fetch, and author/committer metadata. No repository
writes.
- Repository-wide typecheck and build passed.
- The full local unit command is not claimed green: macOS temporary-path
fixture failures, Linux `/proc` listener checks, and overlapping local
service-port tests affected the runs. The two isolated workspace-control
and
remote-profile suites pass unchanged with `TMPDIR=/private/tmp` (30
tests).
A further canonical-path run passed 216 of 220 tests; remaining failures
were in the unrelated runtime-exposure suite. Superseded full runs were
stopped after exact-head CI completed successfully.
- Exact-head CI is green: all general and serialized test shards,
typecheck,
build, canary dry run, and all three browser shards passed. Storybook
was
skipped by its normal path filter. Greptile is 5/5 with no findings or
review
threads. The PR is mergeable.
## Risks
- Low risk: one additional local API request before navigation when a
cached
pending URL exists. The request already exists for first enrollment.
- Cloud remains the approval authority. This change does not extend link
expiry, bypass approval, change permissions, or change active
enrollment.
- No schema, Cloud service, dependency, or telemetry changes.
- The first sandbox agent guessed the wrong Paperclip API hostname when
reporting its result. Recovery succeeded with the supplied API URL. A
second
bounded task verified GitHub identity, reported its result, and reached
Done
in 36 seconds without recovery. No service change was needed for that
mistake.
## Model Used
OpenAI Codex. The runtime does not expose the exact model identifier or
context
window to this task. Used reasoning, source editing, shell tests, and
live
browser verification. No model version or window size is inferred.
## 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>
## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents need source control access for repository work
> - A shared token cannot preserve the responsible person's identity or
an agent's dedicated identity
> - GitHub App tokens also need durable refresh, repository access
checks, and webhook delivery
> - Paperclip already has managed connections, encrypted grants, run
secret leases, and merge-confirmation behavior
> - This pull request extends those systems with GitHub identities
instead of adding a parallel credential system
> - The benefit is durable GitHub access with explicit identity,
repository, runtime, and webhook boundaries
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
No public GitHub issue describes this connection change. This
description follows the feature request template.
**Subsystem affected**
Connected Apps, connection grants, secret resolution, native Git runtime
setup, webhook processing, and the Apps UI.
**Problem or motivation**
Users need to connect GitHub once and let agents use the correct GitHub
identity. A run should use a dedicated agent account when one exists.
Otherwise, it should use the responsible person's account. The
connection must survive token expiry, repository access changes, and
temporary instance downtime.
**Proposed solution**
Add user-owned and agent-owned GitHub grants to the existing connection
model. Resolve one identity for MCP, Git, `gh`, health checks, and
webhook bindings. Store provider tokens in the existing encrypted secret
system. Refresh expiring token pairs under the existing lease and
compare-and-swap path. Register signed Cloud webhook bindings and
process normalized pull request and installation events through a
durable local inbox.
**Alternatives considered**
An organization-wide GitHub token would lose person and agent
attribution. Environment variables alone would bypass the managed
connection and grant model. A new GitHub-only credential store would
duplicate the existing secret and access systems. GitHub App
installation tokens and private-key custody remain outside this first
version.
**Roadmap alignment**
This change implements the Connected Apps direction. It also extends the
shipped MCP Tool Gateway, per-agent secret access, and
action-attribution systems. It does not add a repository catalog. The
open repository catalog work in
[#11234](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/11234) is related
and complementary.
## What Changed
- Added agent-owned connection grants and a per-agent credential policy
with company and subject constraints.
- Added a managed GitHub App method while keeping the personal access
token method as an advanced fallback.
- Added durable access-token and refresh-token handling with proactive
rotation and one automatic recovery after a provider `401`.
- Added GitHub identity and installation summaries without storing
repository-name lists.
- Added signed Cloud webhook binding, event lease, acknowledgement,
local idempotency, pull request merge processing, and installation
access handling.
- Added one identity resolver for MCP, native Git, `gh`, checkout,
health checks, and webhook bindings.
- Added a class-3 run projection for `GH_TOKEN`, `GITHUB_TOKEN`, a
`github.com`-only credential helper, SSH-to-HTTPS rewrite, and GitHub
noreply commit attribution.
- Added personal and dedicated-agent setup choices plus identity,
repository, continuity, and webhook status in the Apps UI.
- Added schema migrations, tests, and connection documentation.
## Verification
- The current head is fully green in GitHub CI, including build,
typecheck, all serialized/general server shards, all browser shards,
policy, canary dry run, review, and security checks.
- Live staging proof completed with a non-expiring GitHub App user
token, selected-repository installation, repository add/remove refresh,
managed MCP, native `gh`, HTTPS clone/push/delete, GitHub noreply commit
attribution, signed merged-PR webhook acceptance, durable
Cloud-to-instance delivery, and installation-access event processing.
Temporary branches and temporary repository access were removed
afterward.
- `pnpm check:token-gates` passed.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` passed before and after the rebase onto
`origin/master`.
- `pnpm build` passed.
- The focused connector suite passed 285 tests after the rebase.
- The full stable suite passed 5,790 tests and failed 22 tests across 8
general server files. The failures reproduced as shared-runner
environment issues. They included `/tmp` versus `/private/tmp`, closed
database connections, and invalid high ephemeral ports. The focused
connection tests pass in isolation.
## Risks
- Migrations add agent grant subjects and a durable connection-event
inbox. Migration numbering and safety checks pass.
- A raw GitHub user token enters the agent process for Git and `gh`.
Per-tool Ask-first controls cannot limit those shell operations. The UI
warns users about this boundary.
- GitHub App user tokens can be non-expiring. Paperclip performs a
continuity check every 30 days, but provider revocation still requires a
reconnect.
- The webhook path accepts only signed and bounded payloads. It stores a
minimal normalized record and no raw provider payload.
- GitHub repository permissions remain authoritative. Removed access can
make a cached repository count temporarily stale, but runtime access
fails immediately.
> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
## Model Used
OpenAI Codex, `gpt-5.6-sol`, extended reasoning, tool use, code
execution, browser control, and multi-file repository editing. The
context window size was not provided.
## 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
- [ ] 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>
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