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8121a9c947 Release docs for paperclip v2026.720.0 (#67)
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.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: DevRel Gemini <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <[email protected]>
2026-07-20 19:59:18 +02:00

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Instance Admin API

A grab-bag of instance-scoped REST endpoints that don't fit neatly into the other API pages: general and experimental instance settings, on-demand database backups, the LLM reflection endpoints, environments (sandbox/runtime drivers), and execution-workspace lifecycle.

These surfaces are stable enough to call from your own tooling, but they are intentionally narrow — most operators reach them through the UI, the CLI, or via the paperclipai doctor command rather than by hand.

All routes are mounted under /api. Most require instance-admin or board authentication; per-route notes call out exceptions.


Instance settings

Endpoint Purpose
GET /api/instance/settings/general Read general instance settings (display name, defaults, etc.).
PATCH /api/instance/settings/general Update general settings. Body is validated against patchInstanceGeneralSettingsSchema.
GET /api/instance/settings/experimental Read the experimental-features block.
PATCH /api/instance/settings/experimental Toggle experimental features. Body is validated against patchInstanceExperimentalSettingsSchema.
POST /api/instance/settings/experimental/issue-graph-liveness-auto-recovery/preview Preview what the auto-recovery sweep would change without applying.
POST /api/instance/settings/experimental/issue-graph-liveness-auto-recovery/run Run the auto-recovery sweep.

The experimental "issue-graph-liveness auto-recovery" routes are paired: preview produces a dry-run summary; run applies the same changes. Both share the issueGraphLivenessAutoRecoveryRequestSchema body shape.

The experimental-settings response and patch body include enableBuiltInAgents as a boolean. Set it to true before using the Built-in Agents API; while it is off, those routes return 404 Not Found.


Database backups

POST /api/instance/database-backups

Trigger a manual database backup. Returns a structured result that includes the backup directory, retention policy, and timing. Scheduled backups follow the same code path but are not exposed as a separate route.

Instance-admin only.


Claim first instance admin

POST /api/bootstrap/claim

On a brand-new private instance that requires login, this lets the first person to sign in promote themselves to instance_admin — no manual database seeding. The first caller to claim wins; everyone after them is locked out.

Availability. This route only exists when the instance runs with deploymentMode set to authenticated and deploymentExposure set to private. On any other configuration it returns 404 with Browser first-admin claim is not available.

Authentication. The caller must be a signed-in browser session (a board actor whose session source is the browser). Other callers — agents, CLI tokens, unauthenticated requests — get 401 with Sign in from a browser session before claiming first admin.

Behaviour. If no instance_admin exists yet, the signed-in user is promoted to instance_admin. The claim is atomic — the table is locked so exactly one user can win. If the instance has already been claimed, the route returns 409 with Someone else has already claimed this instance.

The request takes no body. On success the response is:

{ "claimed": true, "userId": "<the promoted user's id>" }

LLM agent-configuration reflection

These endpoints exist so agents can introspect what server-side adapters and icons are available to them.

Endpoint Purpose
GET /api/llms/agent-configuration.txt Plain-text dump of available agent adapters and their declared shape.
GET /api/llms/agent-configuration/:adapterType.txt Same, scoped to one adapter type.
GET /api/llms/agent-icons.txt List of supported agent-icon names (AGENT_ICON_NAMES).

Access is limited to board callers and agents whose permissions include canCreateAgents — the routes return 403 otherwise.


Environments

Environments are the plugin-managed execution backends declared by environment-driver plugins (custom sandboxes, runners, etc.).

Endpoint Purpose
GET /api/companies/:companyId/environments List configured environments for the company.
GET /api/companies/:companyId/environments/capabilities List the capabilities reported by available environment drivers.
POST /api/companies/:companyId/environments Create an environment. Body validated against createEnvironmentSchema.
POST /api/companies/:companyId/environments/probe-config Probe a candidate environment config without persisting. Body validated against probeEnvironmentConfigSchema.
GET /api/environments/:id Read one environment.
PATCH /api/environments/:id Update an environment. Body validated against updateEnvironmentSchema.
DELETE /api/environments/:id Delete an environment.
POST /api/environments/:id/probe Probe an existing environment (driver health check).
GET /api/environments/:id/leases List active leases on the environment.
GET /api/environment-leases/:leaseId Read a single lease.

Execution workspaces

Execution workspaces are the materialised working directories Paperclip creates for an issue run.

Endpoint Purpose
GET /api/companies/:companyId/execution-workspaces List execution workspaces for the company.
GET /api/execution-workspaces/:id Read one workspace.
GET /api/execution-workspaces/:id/close-readiness Whether the workspace is safe to close (no pending operations, no dirty state).
GET /api/execution-workspaces/:id/workspace-operations List the operations recorded against the workspace.
PATCH /api/execution-workspaces/:id Update a workspace. Body validated against updateExecutionWorkspaceSchema.
POST /api/execution-workspaces/:id/runtime-services/:action Run a runtime-service control action against the workspace.
POST /api/execution-workspaces/:id/runtime-commands/:action Run a runtime-command control action against the workspace. Both routes share the workspaceRuntimeControlTargetSchema body and the same handler.