@paperclipai/plugin-daytona

Published Daytona sandbox provider plugin for Paperclip.

This package lives in the Paperclip monorepo, but it is intentionally excluded from the root pnpm workspace and shaped to publish and install like a standalone npm package. That lets operators install it from the Plugins page by package name without introducing root lockfile churn for Daytona's SDK dependencies.

Install

From a Paperclip instance, install:

@paperclipai/plugin-daytona

The host plugin installer runs npm install into the managed plugin directory, so transitive dependencies such as @daytonaio/sdk are pulled in during installation.

Configuration

Configure Daytona from Company Settings -> Environments, not from the plugin's instance settings page.

• Put the Daytona API key on the sandbox environment itself.
• When you save an environment, Paperclip stores pasted API keys as company secrets.
• DAYTONA_API_KEY remains an optional host-level fallback when an environment omits the key.
• Optional apiUrl and target settings map directly to the Daytona SDK/client configuration. If apiUrl is omitted, the Daytona SDK uses its default endpoint.

Notes:

• The current published Daytona SDK package is @daytonaio/sdk.
• The driver supports both snapshot-based and image-based sandbox creation. If both are set, validation rejects the config as ambiguous.
• Reusable leases map to Daytona stop/start semantics. Non-reusable leases are deleted on release.

Local development

cd packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona
pnpm install --ignore-workspace --no-lockfile
pnpm build
pnpm test
pnpm typecheck

These commands assume the repo root has already been installed once so the local @paperclipai/plugin-sdk workspace package is available to the compiler during development.

Package layout

• src/manifest.ts declares the sandbox-provider driver metadata
• src/plugin.ts implements the environment lifecycle hooks
• paperclipPlugin.manifest and paperclipPlugin.worker point the host at the built plugin entrypoints in dist/