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Sam f7b77f370f office: worktrees when the folder is a repository, ask before making one, refuse a folder agents cannot see

2026-11-12 18:09:05 +11:00

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type: session id: session.paperclip-harness.rich-discovery-config-2026-11-12-06-19-59 title: Rich discovery: .config 2026-11-12 06:19:59 status: active source_of_truth: false freshness: current last_reviewed: 2026-11-12 tags: - pack/paperclip-harness - agent-memory/session - autolearn - rich-discovery - repo/config

Rich discovery: .config 2026-11-12 06:19:59

Sanitized rich discovery snapshot captured automatically from the completed turn.

Source paths observed

paperclip-harness/tui/paperclip
home/sam/SECURITY
HOME/.local/share/paperclip-harness/bin/office
home/sam/SECURITY/.harness/harness.toml
nix/store/m15fsh578q4yplc2hi12gp5xsyn6zkq2-tuios-0.12.1/bin/tuios
etc/profiles/per-user/sam/bin/tuios
home/sam/.config/paperclip-harness/projects.toml
home/sam/SECURITY/.harness/check.sh
home/sam/SECURITY/.harness/NOTES.md
.config/environment.d/10-secrets.conf
.local/share/paperclip-harness/bin

Final answer snapshot

Fixed, and your security project is now running.

What the error was

Two things, and the first hid the second.

1. The key is not in your shell on .27. PAPERCLIP_BOARD_KEY lives in ~/.config/environment.d/10-secrets.conf, which systemd's user manager reads. On .13 the session inherits it; on .27 your terminal is started by the desktop session, which does not import environment.d. So the file was right there and the variable was empty.

2. Even with the key, office on .27 was aiming at the wrong machine. The default address was http://127.0.0.1:3100, and Paperclip runs on .13. .27 can reach it — I checked, 200 — but nothing was asking that address.

Both are fixed in the code, on the Python commands and in the Go program, so it works from a shell and from inside a pane:

the key, the company id and the API address are read from ~/.config/environment.d/*.conf when the environment does not have them (read only; never printed);
if PAPERCLIP_API_URL is not set and 127.0.0.1:3100 does not answer, the address becomes http://192.168.20.13:3100.

A third problem your command would have hit

~/SECURITY is not a git repository, and --new always created a project with a branch per task in a worktree. A worktree needs a repository, so every run on that project would have failed. --new now checks, and for a folder that is not a repository it creates a local_path project: the folder stays in place and a task changes the files directly. It says so when it does that.

It is created and running

project   security      8b33e222-8b62-40a2-950d-dbc9a3a2ffcd
source    local_path    cwd /home/sam/SECURITY
policy    none          (no worktrees: not a git repository)
session   security      on .27, 8 panes
panes     board · work · agents · reply · new · project · repair  = harness
          shell = a shell

Attach with tuios attach security on .27.

If you would rather have a branch per task for that folder, git init it and re-run office ~/SECURITY --project security; the project keeps the folder but you would need a new one to get the worktree policy, because the policy is set when the project is created.

Two things I noticed on `.27` while doing this

tuios.service is in activating (auto-restart) — the unit keeps failing to start, while a manually started daemon (pid 1603888) is what your sessions actually live on. That is why your sessions exist at all. After a reboot the manual daemon will not be there, so this is worth fixing before you rely on .27 surviving a restart.
The .27 rebuild for ~/.local/bin on PATH clearly took effect, since office resolved by name. .51 still needs its rebuild if you have not done it yet:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#sam-thinkpad

Committed

paperclip-harness → 55085ba. The updated commands are also copied to .27 and .51 at ~/.local/share/paperclip-harness/bin/, with --help working on both.

Evidence

Confidence: 86%
Reason: Preserve full sanitized discovery detail from a rich investigation turn

packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest

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