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Workspace fallback fix + unofficial Docker self-host stack — attach the project folder first.

2026-08-14

Hey {{firstName}},

Last week was secrets and quotas. This week is the quieter failure mode: the run finishes, the log still says workspace unavailable, and the agent never opened your tree.

Short issue. High leverage if onboarding left you without a project folder.

Read this week
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Ops
Agent workspace unavailable: what it means and fixes
Project → session → agent-home ladder. Company settings are the wrong surface. `/home/[]/...` is usually log redaction. Checklist to attach Local folder where the server runs.
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Ops
When board approvals leave agents hanging
The other “stuck but not thinking” pattern — decide + wake, not comment-only. Pairs with the workspace guide for silent stalls.
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Try this
Fresh listing
Tool Paperclip AI Docker
Unofficial community Compose stack — build from source, agent CLIs preinstalled, bind 127.0.0.1, reverse-proxy ready. MIT. Not affiliated with upstream support.
Also worth a bookmark
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Pillar
AI Agent Orchestration: How Agent Teams Actually Run
Heartbeats, atomic checkout, budgets before the call — the control-plane frame behind cwd and approvals.
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This week’s move: open the project on one coding agent (not company branding), set Local folder to an absolute path the Paperclip server can see, re-run a small issue, and confirm the fallback warning is gone. Self-hosting? Peek at the Docker listing before you invent compose from scratch — and treat product bugs as upstream, not the packager.

Ship something useful? Reply — next issue picks it up.

Cheers,

Aron 📎

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