paperclip/tests/runner-e2e

Paid runner full-stack E2E

This is the billable browser acceptance campaign system for Paperclip runner profiles. It is deliberately separate from tests/e2e: every independently scheduled execution gets a fresh Paperclip home, embedded Postgres database, instance configuration, port, workspace, company, encrypted secrets, environment, and agent.

The vocabulary is: a campaign is one workflow invocation against one SHA; a suite is a durable testing purpose; a matrix is that suite's profiles × environments × cases; an execution/cell is one parallel job; and an attempt is one isolated harness run, including an infrastructure retry.

The browser creates and assigns the task. The harness does not call a private runner hook or write fixtures directly to the database.

Credentials

Copy .env.runner-e2e.example to .env.runner-e2e.local and fill only the credentials needed by the selected cells:

cp .env.runner-e2e.example .env.runner-e2e.local
chmod 600 .env.runner-e2e.local

Shell variables take precedence over the local file. The recognized names are:

• OPENAI_API_KEY
• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
• OPENROUTER_API_KEY
• DAYTONA_API_KEY
• PAPERCLIP_E2E_DAYTONA_IMAGE (Daytona only)

The image must be an immutable image@sha256:... reference. The launcher reports missing variable names but never prints values. It passes raw provider keys only to Playwright, which posts each value once to the company-secrets API. Paperclip receives secret references in agent/environment payloads. Provider keys, Daytona keys, DATABASE_URL, and DATABASE_MIGRATION_URL are removed from the Paperclip child process.

Never put credentials in catalog.ts, screenshots, fixture metadata, workflow inputs, or a tracked env file.

Local commands

Install dependencies and Chromium once. Native local cells also need the local runner binaries:

pnpm install
pnpm exec playwright install chromium
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner build:runner-binaries

List cells without loading credentials or starting Paperclip:

pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --list

Examples of explicit billable runs:

pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --id core-compatibility.legacy-codex.local.message-marker --headed
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --suite openrouter-model-breadth --case hello-complete
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --group native --environment local
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --profile runner-codex --case message-marker
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --case plan-revise-accept --group local
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --case ask-question --group native
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --suite daytona-warm-continuity
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --all

The catalog contains five suites. core-compatibility (Core Runner Compatibility) is seven major runner profiles × local/Daytona × three workflows: 42 cells. Its cases are:

• message-marker: one basic visible response and Done transition;
• plan-revise-accept: an initial Plan, a browser-requested revision on the same Plan, browser acceptance of the new revision, and verified execution;
• ask-question: a direct answer from a task created in Ask mode.

openrouter-model-breadth (OpenRouter Model Breadth) is four qualified models from the tracked weekly tool-capable ranking snapshot × native OpenCode × local, with 10 supported model/workflow cells. Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 remains recorded in the immutable ranking snapshot but is excluded from paid qualification because its latency repeatedly exhausts the cell deadline. DeepSeek V4 Flash remains qualified for hello and question/resume, but its Plan cell is excluded after three successful semantic completions consistently ignored the required exact final response. Tencent HY3 likewise remains qualified for hello and question/resume, but its Plan cell is excluded after two fresh attempts completed every durable Plan and finalization operation yet consistently replaced the required exact visible terminal marker with prose. Its cases are:

• hello-complete: a basic nonce response and explicit Done transition;
• question-resume-complete: one structured question, browser selection of “Cobalt,” then a resumed completion on the same task; and
• plan-approve-complete: one exact two-step Plan, browser approval of that revision, then a resumed completion on the same task.

local-session-integrity (Local Session Integrity) is the seven supported local native and direct-adapter profiles × two two-run structured-question workflows: 14 cells. Both prove that a required structured interaction is rendered, answered in the browser, and resumed once on the same task without duplicating the final response. The second workflow restarts the isolated Paperclip server while the interaction is waiting, reloads that state, and then resumes it. The suite has no Daytona cells.

daytona-warm-continuity (Daytona Warm Continuity) is exactly two paid cells: legacy Codex and Runner Codex against one reusable warm Daytona configuration. Each cell creates a real project with a primary local-path workspace through the API, selects it in the browser task dialog, and performs three browser-driven turns on one issue. Every turn reads and extends the same nonce file, verifies host copy-back, records scheduler/run/end-to-end timing, and asserts created, resumed, resumed lease acquisition on one sandbox. Runner Codex additionally proves stable native session, provider session, runner instance, PID, and process-start identity. Each turn is bounded to ten minutes, the cell to thirty minutes, and cleanup explicitly deletes the sandbox rather than waiting for Daytona's idle timeout.

agent-chat (Persistent Agent Chat) adds six workflows on legacy-codex, legacy-claude, runner-codex, and runner-acpx-claude: 24 local cells. They cover continuity across server restart, fresh context after /new, Stop/reset/resume, draft/revise/approve/plan handoff, clarification with existing project reuse, and a new project with two repository URLs. Each cell opens the production chat surface and resolves the backing issue through the chat API. The source conversation must settle to in_review / waiting; handed-off execution tasks must finish with their initial Plan and output documents. Reset runs are retained separately from the 68 expected provider turns in this suite. Cancelled turns and execution-task runs remain included in billing and cleanup. The production chat directive is injected normally; fixtures do not replace it with completion instructions. Daytona is excluded.

# Run these after deterministic checks, with the required provider keys set.
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --id agent-chat.legacy-codex.local.continuity-restart
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --id agent-chat.legacy-claude.local.continuity-restart
pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --suite agent-chat

The regular browser suite has deterministic process providers in tests/e2e/fixtures/agent-chat.mjs. It exercises the real queue, APIs, database, MCP project tools, and shared task UI without provider billing. Only upstream GitHub discovery is simulated, scoped to a fixture-only credential; repository permissions and mutations remain real. Run it with:

pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui build
pnpm test:e2e tests/e2e/agent-chat.spec.ts
# Against a dedicated authenticated test instance configured per that suite:
pnpm test:e2e:multiuser-authenticated --grep 'agent chats'

Both suites save and restore experimental settings. Browser E2E always starts a throwaway instance; never point the authenticated suite at the running demo. Missing provider credentials fail paid preflight and are not passing coverage.

The complete catalog is 92 cells (69 local and 23 Daytona) and 188 expected paid agent turns. Follow-up steps remain ordered within their cell; all other cells are independent. Narrow selectors are strongly recommended while developing fixtures.

--suite, --group, --profile, --environment, and --case are repeatable. Repeated values in one dimension use OR semantics; dimensions and repeated groups use AND semantics. --id is exclusive with dimension selectors and --all. --headed, --ui, and --debug are forwarded to Playwright. An unknown selector, an empty selection, or a run with no explicit selector exits before Paperclip starts. --max-parallel <n> controls the number of isolated profile/environment/case harnesses that can overlap (default 1, also configurable with PAPERCLIP_E2E_MAX_PARALLEL). Headed/UI/debug runs are forced to one worker. The Plan case is still sequential internally because its turns share one task; it runs in parallel with unrelated scenarios.

Use a single --id smoke test for routine local verification. Full-matrix parallelism is intended for GitHub Actions; raising local parallelism starts multiple Paperclip/Postgres/Chromium stacks and can consume substantial CPU and memory.

Credential-free checks are:

pnpm test:e2e:runner:unit
pnpm test:e2e:runner:typecheck

The OpenRouter ranking snapshot is tracked in openrouter-models.json; nightly runs never mutate it. Refresh it deliberately, review the source/capture/hash diff, and rerun credential-free checks:

pnpm test:e2e:runner:models:update

Daytona image

Use the immutable digest printed by the Publish verified Daytona image job, or publish the current source locally:

content_id="$(pnpm --silent test:e2e:runner:image-id)"
source_revision="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
image="ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner:e2e-content-${content_id}"
if ! docker buildx imagetools inspect "$image" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  docker buildx build \
    --platform linux/amd64 \
    --build-arg "PAPERCLIP_RUNNER_CONTENT_ID=${content_id}" \
    --build-arg "PAPERCLIP_RUNNER_SOURCE_REVISION=${source_revision}" \
    --file docker/daytona-runner/Dockerfile \
    --tag "$image" \
    --push \
    .
fi
docker buildx imagetools inspect "$image"

The content ID hashes the audited image inputs, including the Dockerfile, platform, root package/lock/build configuration, dependency patches, paperclip-eval-kernel, and paperclip-runner. Changes elsewhere in the repository keep the same tag and reuse the already signed image. The Git SHA is stored separately as image provenance. CI reads that provenance back from a reused image when it builds the controller-side provider pack, preserving the exact manifest match required to avoid restaging the pack into Daytona.

Resolve the manifest digest and set PAPERCLIP_E2E_DAYTONA_IMAGE to ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:.... The repository workflow signs that digest with Cosign/OIDC and verifies that it is publicly pullable, includes the provider pack, and advertises dial_ws_loopback, dial_wss, and listen_ws. The GHCR package must be configured as public; the image job deliberately fails its anonymous-pull check otherwise. Existing content tags are never rebuilt or overwritten by the workflow.

Evidence and cleanup

Packaged, access-controlled evidence is written beneath tests/runner-e2e/results/<campaign>/.... Passing attempts include final-state.png, Plan draft/revision screenshots when applicable, matcher outcomes, sanitized fixture/API metadata, a result record, JUnit, HTML, and a blob report. Failures additionally retain the Playwright trace/video, browser diagnostics, failure screenshot, and sanitized Paperclip/run logs when produced. WebM files remain limited to the local results directory and access-controlled GitHub Actions artifact. Declared PNG screenshots are also published with permanent campaign dashboards; fixture authors must therefore keep credentials and other private data out of every captured UI state. SVG is active content and is rejected from the packaged evidence entirely.

Every completed local campaign also writes tests/runner-e2e/results/<campaign>/dashboard.html. The self-contained page shows the complete profile/environment grid with screenshot thumbnails. Expanding a case shows its matchers, pass/fail details, provider/model/runtime, timings, token and cost accounting, and evidence links. The campaign header aggregates input, output, and cached tokens, provider-reported LLM spend, Daytona list-price runtime estimates, and pricing coverage. Missing provider usage is labeled unavailable or unpriced; it is never presented as zero cost. The CI report job stages the same portable site at normalized/index.html inside the access-controlled merged report artifact.

The trusted publisher discovers display-only entries for selected execution IDs absent from its local catalog, so branch-only suites remain visible in the dashboard, filters, gallery, and summary image. It validates execution identity and escapes display text without loading target-branch executable code. Unknown suite cardinality is not treated as proof of full-suite coverage.

Permanent publication uses two explicit bundles. Both retain only normalized result PNG files with the explicit public-runner-fixture publication marker, including marked failure.png captures, so every campaign dashboard has its screenshot thumbnails and gallery. The capture helper adds this marker only for the reviewed runner fixture and blocks public capture outside the exact issue route for the fixture that the harness created. A blocked failure capture remains private. The CloudFront-backed S3 history also contains one publisher-generated public-images/campaign-summary.png. Trusted publisher code renders it offline from fixed catalog labels and sanitized status/count/duration fields; provider output, error text, comments, and target-produced pixels are never inputs. The PNG must pass a 12 MiB bound and signature validation before entering the immutable manifest. S3 also retains allowlisted inert per-attempt evidence (.json, .log, .md, and .txt); .log copies have already passed exact-value/key-shape scanning and redaction. The GitHub Pages bundle is regenerated separately with the same declared-screenshot boundary.

Publication fails if any declared public screenshot is missing from the bundle. The evidence packager explicitly retains chat-plan-draft.png and chat-plan-revised.png; arbitrary chat-prefixed files remain excluded.

Both public bundles exclude video, archives, raw/unallowlisted logs, SVG or other active content, generated Playwright/blob/HTML report trees, and undeclared PNG files, and per-attempt XML. The root junit.xml remains public because the report aggregator builds it from fixed markup and XML-escaped fields. Full evidence remains available only in the access-controlled workflow artifact.

Billing interpretation

Each result contains raw sanitized usage, normalized billing, and runtimeUsage:

• LLM token and dollar values come from the persisted heartbeat-run usage. A multi-turn case aggregates every selected run and records how many runs supplied tokens and provider-reported cost.
• Local execution records agent run time but is not_metered because there is no external environment provider charge to attribute.
• Daytona records every public-API lease window and its pinned 4 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, and 10 GiB disk allocation. Its runtime dollar value is an estimate at the versioned public list rates in billing.ts, not an invoice amount. Credits, discounts, the storage allowance, and delayed billing adjustments can make the eventual Daytona charge lower.

normalized-results.json uses the v2 campaign schema and includes per-test, per-suite, and overall billing. The compact history.json index retains the same metrics per campaign/suite/execution, source SHA/ref, definition fingerprints, completeness, retries, and cleanup. Trend charts compare only complete campaigns by default; partial/manual selections remain browsable. summary.md carries the current totals into the GitHub Actions job summary. In CI, its View results section links to the exact immutable public campaign report, the workflow and per-cell logs, and the access-controlled report artifacts. Each cell name links to its exact section in the campaign report. The public campaign links become available after the history publisher finishes. The artifact links remain available for 30 days.

For a development branch that adds a suite, the trusted default-branch dashboard may not yet include that suite's interactive cards. Its published summary.md and normalized-results.json still contain every selected cell. Use those files, the GitHub job summary, or html/index.html in the merged Playwright artifact to inspect branch-only results; an absent dashboard card is not passing coverage.

Iterate on a published dashboard without rerunning paid tests

Download and extract the github-pages artifact from an existing workflow run, then regenerate only its HTML from the retained normalized-results.json and public structured evidence files. The Pages artifact has already had private visual and generated report evidence removed:

gh run download <run-id> --repo paperclipai/paperclip --name github-pages --dir /tmp/runner-e2e-pages
mkdir /tmp/runner-e2e-site
tar -xf /tmp/runner-e2e-pages/artifact.tar -C /tmp/runner-e2e-site
pnpm test:e2e:runner:dashboard -- /tmp/runner-e2e-site
# Optionally use a downloaded history index:
pnpm test:e2e:runner:dashboard -- /tmp/runner-e2e-site --history /tmp/history.json

Serve that directory with any static file server. This path does not start Paperclip, invoke an agent, create a Daytona lease, or consume provider tokens.

Before an access-controlled evidence artifact is uploaded, the launcher:

1. copies only allowlisted file types;
2. scans raw API snapshots before sanitizing them;
3. scans the closed Paperclip home/database and workspace as streams;
4. redacts loaded exact values and known provider-key shapes from text;
5. expands ZIP reports for secret scanning;
6. rejects SVG and other unsafe files and fails the cell if a leak is detected; and
7. verifies that a passing attempt has its final-state screenshot.

The temporary Paperclip home, embedded database, raw workspace, master key, and unredacted logs are removed after each attempt. Daytona teardown destroys the environment and any reusable leases through the public API; provider-side auto-stop/archive/delete values remain as cancellation backstops.

GitHub Actions

Runner Full-Stack E2E has only schedule and workflow_dispatch triggers; it never runs for a pull request or ordinary push. Start the trusted workflow from the default branch. A CODEOWNER can set the optional target_branch input to any branch in paperclipai/paperclip. The authorization job resolves that branch to one immutable commit before any checkout. A separate credential-free job checks out the resolved commit and regenerates pnpm-lock.yaml once with --ignore-scripts --no-frozen-lockfile --lockfile-only. It uploads that exact lockfile under a run-attempt-scoped artifact ID and records its SHA-256. Catalog, image, shared-build, provider-pack, and paid test jobs download the artifact by ID, verify its digest, and restore it before setup or a frozen install. The shared-build, provider-pack, and paid test jobs all disable dependency lifecycle scripts, and provider secrets are introduced only in the final test step. This permits an authorized target branch to exercise an intentionally uncommitted workspace patch while keeping every target job on one identical dependency resolution. The shared-build job compiles the selected campaign's TypeScript outputs and native binaries once, then each paid cell verifies and extracts the immutable bundle. Remote native cells similarly reuse one verified provider pack. Report sanitization and AWS history publication do not consume the target lockfile; they explicitly check out and install from the trusted workflow commit. The workflow definition, runner-group permission, and protected-environment deployment still come from the default branch. Do not select the target branch in GitHub's Use workflow from control.

Because this repository is public, manual campaigns fail before checkout unless the trusted workflow runs from the default branch and both the original actor and rerun actor have numeric GitHub user IDs in the non-empty JSON-array repository variable RUNNER_E2E_ALLOWED_ACTOR_IDS. Keep this stable-ID list in sync with the owners of .github/** in .github/CODEOWNERS. Usernames are intentionally not trusted. The first scheduled attempt is trusted automation; any human rerun of a scheduled campaign must pass the triggering-actor allowlist.

For example, this command runs one branch cell through the trusted default-branch workflow:

gh workflow run runner-full-stack-e2e.yml \
  --ref master \
  -f target_branch=fix/example \
  -f all=false \
  -f id=core-compatibility.runner-codex.local.message-marker

Create a protected runner-e2e-paid GitHub environment, restrict it to the default branch, limit environment administration to trusted maintainers, and store the four provider secrets there. This is a second authorization boundary: the pre-check prevents unauthorized scheduling, while the environment prevents secret release if the workflow gate is accidentally weakened. Also restrict Actions to approved actions and require review of .github/workflows/** and tests/runner-e2e/** through CODEOWNERS and branch protection. Manual inputs accept comma-separated values for repeatable dimensions.

The nightly cron is 08:47 UTC, but scheduled execution is intentionally gated by the repository variable RUNNER_FULL_STACK_E2E_NIGHTLY_ENABLED=true. Set it only after the live acceptance ladder in the architecture plan is green. Set RUNNER_E2E_AWS_ENABLED=true to route paid cells to the repository-scoped ephemeral AWS RunsOn fleet selected by runs-on/fleet=paperclip-public-pr-x64/env=public-ci. Any other value uses the proven GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest target. Set RUNNER_E2E_MAX_PARALLEL to an integer from 1–100 on AWS (default 100); use at least 92 to run the current complete catalog in one wave. The fallback runner retains its 1–57 limit and default of 32. Multi-turn steps are sequential inside their cell while independent cells overlap. Artifacts and merged HTML/JUnit/normalized reports are retained for 30 days.

Restrict the RunsOn fleet to this repository and independently trusted workflows. Do not let untrusted pull-request or fork-triggered workflows target it, and require a fresh ephemeral instance for each job so one paid cell cannot leave state for the next. Provider secrets remain protected by the stable-ID authorization checks and the default-branch-only runner-e2e-paid environment; the fleet itself is not an authorization boundary. These external fleet controls are as important as the workflow checks in a public repository. A CODEOWNER dispatch is an explicit authorization to execute the selected repository branch with the cell's scoped provider credential.

Development branch campaigns share a concurrency key per target branch and cancel an older run when a replacement is dispatched. Default-branch target campaigns are retained and are never auto-cancelled, preserving their audit trail.

GitHub Actions artifacts are access-controlled 30-day operational copies, not the permanent public history. They retain packaged PNG/WebM and generated reports for debugging. Create a second protected runner-e2e-history environment, restricted to the default branch and trusted environment administrators, then configure these repository variables:

• RUNNER_E2E_HISTORY_AWS_ROLE_ARN
• RUNNER_E2E_HISTORY_AWS_REGION
• RUNNER_E2E_HISTORY_S3_BUCKET
• RUNNER_E2E_HISTORY_PUBLIC_BASE_URL
• optional RUNNER_E2E_HISTORY_PREFIX (default runner-e2e)

The job exchanges GitHub OIDC for short-lived AWS credentials; never add AWS access-key secrets. Its IAM role must trust only repo:paperclipai/paperclip:environment:runner-e2e-history, and permit only Get/List/Put under the configured prefix—never Delete. Enable S3 versioning and Block Public Access. CloudFront reads the private bucket through Origin Access Control. Immutable campaign bundles live under campaigns/<run-id>-<attempt>/; mutable history.json, latest.json, and latest-green.json are updated by a globally serialized publisher. An existing campaign key with a different bundle digest fails closed.

GitHub Pages remains the stable latest dashboard. Enable Pages with GitHub Actions as its source and set RUNNER_FULL_STACK_E2E_PUBLISH_PAGES=true. The publisher creates an S3 stage with the trusted synthetic summary PNG and a separate Pages stage. Both surfaces publish only per-result PNG screenshots with the explicit public-runner-fixture marker alongside sanitized structured evidence. The runner capture helper refuses to mark a screenshot outside the exact live fixture issue route. Neither surface publishes video, archives, SVG/active content, databases, Paperclip homes, workspaces, raw/unallowlisted logs, or credentials.

See FIXTURES.md before adding or changing a profile, environment, task, matcher, or future Paperclip object fixture. See SECURITY.md before enabling paid dispatch, the runner group, or permanent public history in this public repository.