## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their provider runtimes.
> - The paid runner workflow installs target dependencies with lifecycle
scripts disabled.
> - The bundled Daytona plugin depends on an audited repo-local plugin
SDK link.
> - The lifecycle-safe install path did not create that link.
> - This pull request restores only the trusted Daytona preparation step
before provider secrets are exposed.
> - The benefit is a working Daytona canary without enabling dependency
lifecycle scripts.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
**What happened?**
The Daytona paid canary stopped before lease or provider startup. The
trusted paid job disabled root lifecycle scripts, so the repo-local
plugin SDK link was absent. The plugin install returned a missing
runtime dependency error for @paperclipai/plugin-sdk.
**Expected behavior**
The trusted workflow must prepare the bundled Daytona plugin without
running untrusted dependency lifecycle scripts. The paid cell must start
only after its runtime dependencies and entrypoints pass validation.
**Steps to reproduce**
1. Dispatch the runner full-stack paid workflow for
core-compatibility.runner-acpx-claude.daytona.message-marker.
2. Let the trusted job install root dependencies with lifecycle scripts
disabled.
3. Observe the Daytona plugin installation fail before a lease or
provider process starts.
**Paperclip version or commit**
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README.md
@paperclipai/plugin-daytona
Published Daytona sandbox provider plugin for Paperclip.
This package lives in the Paperclip monorepo, but it is intentionally excluded from the root pnpm workspace and shaped to publish and install like a standalone npm package. That lets operators install it from the Plugins page by package name without introducing root lockfile churn for Daytona's SDK dependencies.
Install
From a Paperclip instance, install:
@paperclipai/plugin-daytona
The host plugin installer runs npm install into the managed plugin directory, so transitive dependencies such as @daytonaio/sdk are pulled in during installation.
Configuration
Configure Daytona from Instance Settings -> Environments, not from the plugin's plugin page.
- Put the Daytona API key on the sandbox environment itself.
- When you save an environment, Paperclip stores pasted API keys as company secrets.
DAYTONA_API_KEYremains an optional host-level fallback when an environment omits the key.- Optional
apiUrlandtargetsettings map directly to the Daytona SDK/client configuration. IfapiUrlis omitted, the Daytona SDK uses its default endpoint.
Notes:
- The current published Daytona SDK package is
@daytonaio/sdk. - The driver supports both
snapshot-based andimage-based sandbox creation. If both are set, validation rejects the config as ambiguous. - Reusable leases map to Daytona stop/start semantics. Non-reusable leases are deleted on release.
Local development
cd packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona
pnpm install --ignore-workspace --no-lockfile
pnpm build
pnpm test
pnpm typecheck
These commands assume the repo root has already been installed once so the local @paperclipai/plugin-sdk workspace package is available to the compiler during development.
Package layout
src/manifest.tsdeclares the sandbox-provider driver metadatasrc/plugin.tsimplements the environment lifecycle hookspaperclipPlugin.manifestandpaperclipPlugin.workerpoint the host at the built plugin entrypoints indist/