## Why
The build derived `<title>` from the **sidebar label** and the
description from the **first paragraph clipped to 220 characters**. Both
are the wrong source. A sidebar label is written for a 240px-wide nav
that supplies its own context; a search result has none.
On production that produced:
- **7 pages titled "Overview"**, and 32 pages sharing a title with
another page
- **109 of 193 descriptions cut off mid-word**, and 174 over 160
characters (where Google truncates)
```
/guides/welcome/key-concepts/
BEFORE (220): ...and if you misunderstand them early, the product wi
```
Near-identical titles are the weak-differentiation signal behind
"crawled — currently not indexed", which is the exact symptom on this
property.
## What changed
`seo_title` and `seo_description` frontmatter on **every one of the 192
pages**, written by hand against each page's real content and optimised
for the click — lead with what the reader can do, name the concrete
things covered, no keyword stuffing, no repeating the title.
| | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Duplicate titles | 32 pages | **0** |
| Duplicate descriptions | — | **0** |
| Descriptions cut mid-word | 109 | **0** |
| Descriptions over 160 chars | 174 | **0** |
| Title length (incl. suffix) | up to "Overview" | **26–60** |
| Description length | 31–240 | **122–158** |
**No prose was rewritten.** I measured content overlap between the
colliding pairs first — only 17–23%, so these were always distinct pages
wearing the same label, not duplicate content. The `docs/` diff is **564
insertions, zero deletions**.
### Examples
```
BEFORE — all seven identical: "Overview | Paperclip Docs"
AFTER: "Adapters Overview" "API Overview" "CLI Overview"
"Deployment Overview" "Bundled Skills" "Optional Skills"
"Experimental Features"
BEFORE — both identical: "Issues | Paperclip Docs"
AFTER: "Issues: Creating and Tracking Work" /guides/day-to-day/issues/
"Issues API" /reference/api/issues/
```
```
/guides/getting-started/five-minute-path/
BEFORE (220): The shortest route from a running Paperclip instance to an agent that has
just completed work for you. After Paperclip is installed, the path takes
about 5 minutes: create a company, hire a CEO agent, approve its first s
AFTER (131): Install Paperclip, create a company, hire a CEO agent, and approve its
first strategy — a working AI company in about five minutes.
```
## Plumbing
- **`site/build-release.mjs`** prefers the authored fields; the derived
path stays only as a fallback the CI gate prevents ever reaching.
`<title>`, `<meta name="description">`, and the `TechArticle` JSON-LD
all read from the same source.
- **`site/app.js`** uses the same fields, so a client-side transition
cannot leave a different title on screen than the crawler was served.
Verified in-browser: navigating `/guides/day-to-day/issues/` →
`/reference/api/issues/` swaps to exactly the server-rendered values, no
JS errors.
- **`scripts/verify-seo-metadata.mjs`** (new) enforces presence,
uniqueness, length, complete-sentence endings, and the
frontmatter-safety rules. Wired into `docs:test` and CI as its own step.
I negative-tested the gate rather than assuming it works — it correctly
fails on a duplicate title, a mid-word description, and a missing field,
and passes again once restored.
## Automating it going forward
`skills/sync-docs/SKILL.md` now:
- gains an **"Authored SEO metadata"** section: why the fields exist,
the enforced rules as a table, and how to actually write them (title
names the subject not the nav position; description writes for the
click; never generate mechanically from the first paragraph — *that is
the fallback the gate exists to prevent*).
- requires both fields in the **page-authoring instruction** given to
every subagent, with guidance on when to update an existing description
versus leave it.
- runs `docs:test:seo-metadata` and `docs:test:crawlable-links` as
**fail-loud gates in Phase 7** before commit.
- documents all six build gates in the files/gates section.
So once this lands, a new page cannot ship without hand-written
metadata, and a title collision cannot reach production.
## Verified
All six verifiers pass:
```
Static route verification passed
Asset fingerprint verification passed
Hierarchical Skills nav verification passed
Skill source block verification passed (11 skill pages, 1 control page)
Crawlable-link contract passed: 40886 internal links across 194 pages resolve in one hop
Authored-SEO contract passed: 192 pages carry a unique, hand-written seo_title and seo_description
```
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Ships the v2026.817.0 docs to live: the doc content that was authored
and verified
earlier, plus a full screenshot overhaul.
The content half (`cdf81e2` and the nightly commits behind it) has
already been
reviewed. **The screenshots are the part that needs eyes** — `f24d734`,
342 PNGs.
## Screenshots
Everything was recaptured against the release commit
`213dabab4f8e1f3bb1803a2924c0fea1289fcd4c`
(`upstream/candidate/release-2026.817.0`). The previous shots were 375
parent-commits stale (v2026.720.0), with 228 of 310 entries flagged
pending. All
342 registry entries now carry that SHA.
> ⚠️ Worth knowing: the release commit is **not** an ancestor of the
parent's
> `master`, and local `master` was four days *older* than it. Capturing
against
> `master` would have both missed release UI and leaked 93 post-tag
commits' worth
> of UI into the release docs.
### New coverage (34 entries)
Three guides shipped with **no images at all** despite being 115–136
lines. They
now have them:
| Guide | Shots |
|---|---|
| `guides/day-to-day/decisions.md` | queue, an agent-proposed decision
with its options, triage strip, filter panel, named queue, Decided
curtain, empty state |
| `experimental/status-cards.md` | board, New card dialog, and all four
drawer tabs |
| `experimental/task-chat.md` | thread, composer mode picker, side pane
|
| `reference/api/secrets.md` | the board-side Proposals tab |
Chat-Style Tasks is captured in a **separate pass**:
`enableTaskChatRedesign` is
instance-wide, so leaving it on would have turned every classic
issue/task/work-mode
shot into the redesigned chat.
## Two defects that were already live
Both were shipping in the docs before this PR:
1. **`issues/detail-chat.png` and the `tasks/*` shots were mostly plugin
debug
output.** The Kitchen Sink example plugin mounts a panel into the issue
page
that dumps the raw issue JSON, and the seed installed it. Those guides
were
illustrating a debug panel instead of the task page. The seed no longer
installs it.
2. **The seeded task thread was a monologue** — four board-user messages
in a row,
because the board actor cannot post agent comments. It is now a real
two-sided
exchange.
## Targets repointed because the UI moved
| Target | Why |
|---|---|
| `activity/*` | `Activity.tsx` deleted; `/activity` renders
`pages/audit/CompanyActivity.tsx` |
| `experimental/cloud-upstream` | `CloudUpstream.tsx` deleted; the route
now redirects to `/company/export` |
| `settings/*`, `plugins/*`, `adapters/*` | `/instance/settings/*` are
legacy redirects now |
| `dashboard/stale-tasks-panel` | panel removed from `Dashboard.tsx` —
target dropped |
Plus eight targets with **silent selector drift**. A failed interaction
step falls
back to "whatever state was reached", so these had been quietly
producing wrong
images — a plain inbox where the doc promised a mode picker, a whole
dashboard
where it promised one panel. Full table in
`docs/user-guides/screenshots/SCREENSHOTS_PLAN_v2026.817.0.md` §C2.
## Pipeline
Decisions, status-card summaries and secret proposals are all
**agent-authored**,
and the board actor the seed runs as is refused by every one of them
(`"Agent run context required"`, `"Secret proposals require a verified
run-bound
agent token"`). Rather than insert rows behind the API,
`seed-new-surfaces.mjs`
borrows the two doors a real run already has — a board-minted agent API
key, and a
locally signed agent JWT — so every write goes through the production
code path.
Also:
- `capture.mjs` records a real `captured_against` on a detached checkout
instead of
the literal string `"HEAD"` (which is what every pre-2026.817 entry
recorded), and
gains a `scrollTo` step for content below the fold.
- `run.mjs` gains `--serve` for iterating on the seed, the task-chat
phase, and a
keeper that holds the demo board's issue statuses steady — the demo
`process`
agents finish runs without declaring a disposition, so the stalled-work
sweep
re-blocks issues every few minutes over a capture that runs far longer.
## Reviewing
Light and dark both captured at 1440×900 @2x. The new surfaces are the
ones to
scrutinise; the rest is a like-for-like refresh.
### One leftover
Dropping `dashboard/stale-tasks-panel` leaves
`{light,dark}/dashboard/stale-tasks-panel.png`
tracked but unused — they need deleting by hand.
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Co-authored-by: DevRel Gemini <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dotta <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: ClaudeCoder <[email protected]>
Ships the docs for **paperclip v2026.720.0** to `docs.paperclip.ing`.
Window: `v2026.707.0...v2026.720.0` — 196 commits, 1,523 changed files,
0 truncated leaves.
Most of this release was already drafted on `nightly` over the past
cycle (Cases, Folders, Decision Training, Attention, Built-in Agents,
company skill policy, inbox agent policy, `costStatus`, the ACP engine
graduation and `acpx_local` retirement, and
`PAPERCLIP_TOOL_ACTION_SIGNING_SECRET`). This PR adds the surfaces
nightly had **not** yet covered, then stamps the release version across
everything touched this cycle.
## New pages
**`docs/reference/api/tool-gateway.md`** — the MCP Tool Gateway, the
headline experimental feature. Covers applications and connections,
catalog entries and risk levels, profiles/entries/bindings, the
tool-access policy and its decision outcomes, named MCP gateways and
their tokens, the audit feed, and the Smoke Lab. Documents the five
`tools:*` permission keys and the viewer/membership rules on routes that
don't use a permission key. Flags both experimental gates (`enableApps`,
and `enableSmokeLab` separately).
**`docs/reference/api/summary-slots.md`** — the built-in Summarizer and
summary slots. Covers slot addressing (`scopeKind` / `scopeId` /
`slotKey`), generation, revisions, and the `enableSummaries` gate.
Cross-references Built-in Agents rather than duplicating it.
## Updated
**`docs/guides/org/skills.md`** — Skill Studio (the three-pane authoring
workspace, saved inputs, test runs and their unavailability reasons, run
templates, version history), nested skill folders and the My Skills
view, importing skills straight from a project, and company skill forks.
Cross-references the existing Folders and Company Skill Policy API pages
instead of restating them.
## Release stamping
`paperclip_version: v2026.720.0` applied to all 26 pages touched this
cycle — bumped on 10 that already had frontmatter, added to 13 that had
none (including the API pages nightly authored, which were intentionally
versionless until they merged to `main`).
## ↻ Renames detected
`detect-renames.mjs` reports no directory renames. It flags one
`removed_dirs_no_match`:
- `packages/adapters/acpx-local` — **already reconciled on nightly.**
The adapter was retired upstream (ACP became a capability of each
harness adapter rather than a standalone adapter).
`docs/reference/adapters/acpx-local.md` is now a retired stub that
points at Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI and documents the automatic
migration. No action needed.
## Screenshots — full overhaul recommended
**248 of 298** registry entries are stale. This release landed a
design-system convergence (single-source design tokens, retuned theme,
broad Card/Badge adoption, a multiplicative radius ladder, unified list
surfaces, Lucide task-status glyphs), so nearly every captured surface
moved. This is an overhaul cycle, not a targeted refresh:
```sh
npm run screenshots:refresh:all
```
Full per-entry breakdown in `SCREENSHOTS_PENDING.md`. Captures go to
their own PR for review — nothing is auto-pushed.
## Verification
- **Drift:** clean — 0 records against `903bd15` (8 parent paths, 57 CLI
commands, 66 env vars, 389 REST routes, 18 permission keys, 4 roles).
- **Claim verification:** `verify-edit.mjs` against `v2026.720.0` — **0
unverified, 0 suspicious** across all three authored files.
- **Reconciliation:** no disappeared manifest entries.
- **`npm run docs:build`:** passes — 169 markdown files, sitemap and
robots generated.
- **`npm run sync:check`:** links clean (172 files), nav clean,
screenshots indexed, drift clean.
- **Nav orphans:** `docs/reference/cli/commands.md` and
`docs/reference/cli/control-plane-commands.md` — intentional redirect
anchors, expected.
`.sync-state.json` bumped to `base_release_tag: v2026.720.0` /
`base_release_sha: 903bd157…`, which also repoints the drift checker's
pinned ref (the previous `f12bb27…` no longer resolves upstream).
No open `nightly-draft/*` PRs to fold in.
## Checklist
- [ ] Tool Gateway page reads correctly for an operator enabling
`enableApps` for the first time
- [ ] Summary Slots experimental gating is accurate
- [ ] Skill Studio guide matches what you see in the running UI
- [ ] Decide whether to run the screenshot overhaul before or after
merging this
- [ ] **After squash-merging: run `node scripts/sync/realign-nightly.mjs
release/v2026.720.0 --push` before the next nightly sync.** The squash
severs `main`↔`nightly` ancestry; the realign (shipped in this PR)
prevents add/add conflicts at the next nightly run.
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Co-authored-by: DevRel Gemini <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <[email protected]>
- hermes-gateway.md: rename dangerouslyAllowRemoteHttp →
dangerouslyAllowInsecureRemoteHttp (actual field name in
packages/adapters/hermes/src/gateway/server/transport-security.ts)
- reference/skills.md: correct Agent→Skills tab section labels from
"Company skills"/"Unmanaged" to the actual rendered headings:
"Installed skills", "Other skills", and
"({N}) User-installed skills, not managed by Paperclip"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
Round 2 — worked the human-review items, verified each against parent source:
- Skills: the per-agent `required` attribute is retired upstream
(AgentSkillEntry dropped required/requiredReason; AgentSkillOrigin dropped
paperclip_required; resolveDesiredSkillAssignment now persists exactly the
desired set with no bundled union). Fixed reference/skills.md and
reference/cli/skills.md: removed "non-required" qualifiers, the retired
`required` frontmatter row, the wrong "forced into every agent" claim, and
corrected the snapshot example + the UI grouping (Company skills + Unmanaged,
no "Required" group).
- paperclip-dev skill removed upstream: dropped from the bundled list and
swapped stale source/key examples to paperclip-create-agent.
- Experimental features: strengthened the settings.md caution to match the new
in-app "no compatibility guarantees" warning.
- Task watchdogs: new operator guide page (guides/projects-workflow/
task-watchdogs.md) + nav entry. API/config/behaviour verified against
routes/issues.ts, schema/issue_watchdogs.ts, and doc/TASK-WATCHDOG.md intent.
Reviewed, no change needed: instance-scoped environments (routes still match
docs), skills store (UI reframe; guide already accurate), plugin-sdk lease
params (fields not documented).
verify-edit all clean; build/links/nav/drift all green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The "Bundled with the Paperclip server (skills/)" list claimed three skills
that are NOT server-bundled — they live under .agents/skills/ (repo-development
skills) at v2026.618.0 and also at v2026.609.0, so this is pre-existing drift.
Verified against parent v2026.618.0:
- server-bundled skills/ contains exactly 6 dirs (all force-imported + required
by ensureBundledSkills): paperclip, paperclip-board, paperclip-create-agent,
paperclip-dev, paperclip-converting-plans-to-tasks, para-memory-files.
- paperclip-create-plugin, diagnose-why-work-stopped, terminal-bench-loop are
under .agents/skills/, not skills/.
Fixes:
- Remove the 3 non-bundled skills from the bundled list (now matches skills/ 1:1).
- Drop the brittle "five paperclip-*" count (it also wrongly excluded the bundled
para-memory-files); phrase count-free.
- Repair the paperclip-create-plugin link: parent has no `main` branch and the
skill moved, so blob/main/skills/... (404) -> blob/master/.agents/skills/...
verify-edit: 7/7 claims verified. sync:check clean (no broken internal links).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Publish accumulated nightly drafts to main and document the new surfaces
shipped between v2026.529.0 and v2026.609.0 (130 parent commits).
New pages (gaps not covered by nightly drafts):
- docs/reference/cli/token.md — `token agent` / `token board` API-key commands
- docs/reference/cli/connect.md — interactive `connect` setup wizard
- docs/reference/api/teams-catalog.md — teams catalog REST API
Also:
- Stamp paperclip_version: v2026.609.0 on 49 release doc pages
- Register the 3 new pages in site/content.json nav
- Bump .sync-state.json base_release_tag to v2026.609.0
Verification: 49 pages checked against v2026.609.0; 11 verifier flags,
all confirmed false-positives (flagged flags/env-vars exist in parent).
Drift: 0. Reconciliation: 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Cumulative window v2026.529.0 → e78c064 (24h-quarantined nightly cutoff).
Three user-visible surfaces newly documented this run:
- skills: app-shipped catalog now supports *referenced* entries fetched from
an external GitHub repo pinned to a commit (CatalogSkill.source). First one
is the research-category last30days skill. Documented in the Skills
reference and the org Skills guide.
- routines: scheduled ticks are suppressed (recorded as skipped, no backfill)
while the routine's project is paused.
- companies: archiving runs a cascade that pauses active agents
(pauseReason company_archived) and cancels queued wake-ups.
All claims verified against parent code (Phase 5.5 clean). Build + link/nav
checks pass; no drift. Teams Catalog, company-artifacts page, and low-trust
review containment are quarantined (<24h) and deferred to the next run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Add the two release features quarantined from nightly, and stamp
paperclip_version on every touched page.
- Claude Local: document UI-driven live model discovery (#6953) —
/v1/models lookup via ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, 60s cache, built-in fallback,
Bedrock IDs, and the refresh control.
- Workspaces: document reused-workspace environment consistency and
finalize-gated dependent wakes / interaction.accept (#6969).
- Stamp paperclip_version: v2026.529.0 on all 14 touched pages.
- Regenerate SCREENSHOTS_PENDING.md: 90/276 stale for this window.
Inherits the six features already drafted on nightly: resource
memberships (#6677), document annotations (#6733), bundled plugins in
plugin manager (#6734), skills CLI + catalog (#6782), first-admin
claim (#6755).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Closes the four coverage gaps surfaced by the docs audit:
Gap 1 — env vars (verify-edit: 0 high-confidence unverified)
- docs/reference/deploy/environment-variables.md
- Added `BETTER_AUTH_SECRET` row to "Deployment And Auth" (falls back
to `PAPERCLIP_AGENT_JWT_SECRET`; server refuses to start without
either), and `SERVE_UI` row to "Server Configuration" (overrides
`server.serveUi`). Both values copied verbatim from parent at
v2026.512.0 (.env.example + server/src/auth/better-auth.ts).
Gap 2 — skill bundles (verify-edit: 0 unverified)
- docs/reference/skills.md
- Added one-liner entries for `diagnose-why-work-stopped`,
`paperclip-converting-plans-to-tasks`, `para-memory-files`,
`terminal-bench-loop`. Descriptions distilled from each parent
`SKILL.md` frontmatter at v2026.512.0.
Gap 3 — Plugin SDK page (verify-edit: 0 high-confidence unverified)
- docs/reference/plugins/sdk.md (new)
- site/content.json (new "Plugins" section under Reference tier)
- Comprehensive reference for @paperclipai/plugin-sdk. Every public
export (definePlugin, runWorker, startWorkerRpcHost, test harness,
bundler presets, dev server, host-client factory, JSON-RPC protocol
helpers, all manifest/protocol types, zod re-export, constants)
is listed verbatim from packages/plugins/sdk/src/index.ts at
v2026.512.0. 13 unverified items are SHOUT_CASE SDK constants
mis-classified as env vars by verify-edit (all confidence: null).
Gap 4 — REST routes (verify-edit: 0 high-confidence unverified)
- docs/reference/api/adapters.md (new) — 9 endpoints from
server/src/routes/adapters.ts.
- docs/reference/api/plugins.md (new) — install/lifecycle/config/jobs/
webhooks/local-folders/bridge endpoints from
server/src/routes/plugins.ts.
- docs/reference/api/instance-admin.md (new) — umbrella covering
instance-settings, instance-database-backups, llms reflection,
environments, and execution-workspaces.
- site/content.json — added the three new pages to the API section.
- All seven flagged route files turned out to be public/admin surfaces;
none qualified as internal-only.
FOLLOW-UPS.md
- Added "Internal REST routes — intentionally undocumented" section
recording the Gap 4 triage outcome.
Verification gates
- npm run sync:test — 26/26 passed
- npm run docs:build — clean (90 markdown files)
- npm run sync:lint-links — same 3 pre-existing broken screenshots
- npm run sync:verify-nav — same 1 pre-existing orphan
- check-drift: 41 -> 43 (+2; both are the new SERVE_UI / BETTER_AUTH_SECRET
rows hitting the known env-var-missing false-positive class tracked
in FOLLOW-UPS.md; the routes-missing item for instance-admin.md is a
filename-normalization false positive — routes exist in parent).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Adds docs/reference/skills.md covering file shape, install
pipeline, assignment, scoping, skill-vs-plugin-vs-adapter,
naming collisions, versioning, and troubleshooting. Wires it
into the Reference tier in content.json and updates the org
skills guide to link to it. Also corrects the agents API page,
which advertised skillIds/skillKeys for /agents/:id/skills/sync
but the validator only accepts desiredSkills.
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <[email protected]>
