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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7475577cdb fix(daytona): keep a runner sandbox alive through the controller reconnect grace (#19754)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A remote agent run executes in a Daytona sandbox and keeps working
while the Paperclip server restarts
> - The server reattaches that runner within a 7-minute reconnect grace
> - Daytona stops an idle sandbox after its `autoStopInterval`, and it
counts only SDK and lifecycle calls as activity
> - With the server down, nothing touches the sandbox, so a 5-minute
auto-stop kills the runner before the server returns
> - This pull request makes the host tell the provider its reconnect
grace, so Daytona never auto-stops a runner sandbox inside that grace
> - The benefit is that a controller outage of up to 7 minutes no longer
turns a healthy remote run into a blocked task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19199 (the same floor for the warm runner idle window). Refs
#19741 (follow-up delivery through restarts; no overlap).

**What happened?**
A restart-chaos wave on Daytona killed the server for 4m51s while a
per-turn remote run was active. The environment used `autoStopInterval:
5`. The last sandbox activity was at 06:09:16. The server came back at
06:14:19 and then crashed again. At 06:15:21 recovery called the
sandbox. The plugin found it not started and started it again. The
runner identity marker was still on disk, but its process was gone:
`native.remote_runner_recovery_failed {stage: process_verification,
reason: process_not_running}`, then
`runner_remote_process_identity_unavailable`. The task went from done to
blocked. An earlier wave showed the same failure after a 4m45s outage.

**Expected behavior**
A sandbox that holds a live remote runner survives any controller outage
up to the reconnect grace. The server reattaches the runner and the run
continues.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a Daytona environment with `autoStopInterval: 5` and a
`paperclip_runner` agent.
2. Start a remote run and kill the server for more than 5 minutes (less
than 7).
3. Restart the server. Recovery reports `process_not_running` and the
task becomes blocked.

## What Changed

- `server`: add `resolveRunnerReconnectGraceMsForRun`. It returns
`REMOTE_RUNNER_RECONNECT_GRACE_MS` for `paperclip_runner` on a sandbox
environment.
- `server`: forward `runnerReconnectGraceMs` to the provider worker on
lease acquisition and on the recovery reattach resume. It uses the same
provider-only path as `warmRunnerIdleTimeoutMs`. It is not lease
identity, lease metadata, or saved environment config.
- Daytona plugin: the effective auto-stop is at least the largest host
floor (warm idle window or reconnect grace) plus 5 minutes. With the
current grace this is 12 minutes. The plugin applies it at creation and
raises an older sandbox's shorter interval on resume (bounded, best
effort).
- Daytona plugin: keep the forwarded grace out of the normalized config.
Update the `autoStopInterval` manifest description.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document the reconnect-grace floor next
to the warm floor.

## Verification

- Red/green Daytona plugin tests: `cd
packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona && npx vitest run --config
vitest.config.ts`. The new cases failed before the fix (for example
`expected 120000 to be >= 720000`, and no `setAutostopInterval` call on
resume). All 605 tests pass after the fix.
- Server tests: `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/environment-run-orchestrator.test.ts
src/__tests__/environment-runtime.test.ts`. 247 pass. They prove
acquisition forwards the grace only for `paperclip_runner` on a sandbox,
that the reattach resume forwards it, and that it does not reach lease
metadata or saved config.
- `pnpm typecheck` for the plugin and `tsc --noEmit` for the server are
clean.
- `pnpm verify` asks for broad CI coverage because a doc changed.
Required CI supplies it.
- Evidence from the kept wave database: lease metadata shows
`autoStopInterval: 5`, `reuseLease: false`, `runnerLifecycleMode:
per_turn`. The run had no events between 06:09:16 and 06:14:19.

## Risks

- Cost: a runner sandbox that leaks (no cleanup) now auto-stops after 12
minutes instead of a shorter configured value. Cleanup still stops or
destroys released sandboxes. Explicit `0` and longer values are
unchanged. Auto-archive and auto-delete are unchanged.
- I did not inspect the sandbox state in Daytona directly. Cleanup
destroyed it before this investigation. The proof is the timing, the
lease config, and the `process_not_running` result after a restart that
kept the disk.
- No live Daytona replay ran.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, with tool use (shell,
file edit, code execution) in Claude Code.

## 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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-11-07 01:36:18 -06:00
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