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Company ID is required. Pass --company-id or set…

Error message

Company ID is required. Pass --company-id or set PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID.

What it means

disableAllRoutinesInConfig resolved the company scope from --company-id and PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID and found neither, so it cannot tell which company's routines to disable.

Solutions

1. Pass --company-id or set PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cli/src/commands/routines.ts:245 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of paperclipai/paperclip@120ae5428f (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/035fafc9bfa145dd. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at cli/src/commands/routines.ts:245

  } catch (error) {
    if (embeddedHandle?.startedByThisProcess) {
      await embeddedHandle.stop().catch(() => undefined);
    }
    throw error;
  }
}

export async function disableAllRoutinesInConfig(
  options: Pick<RoutinesDisableAllOptions, "config" | "companyId">,
): Promise<DisableAllRoutinesResult> {
  const configPath = resolveConfigPath(options.config);
  loadPaperclipEnvFile(configPath);
  const companyId =
    nonEmpty(options.companyId)
    ?? nonEmpty(process.env.PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID)
    ?? null;
  if (!companyId) {
    throw new Error("Company ID is required. Pass --company-id or set PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID.");
  }

  const config = readConfig(configPath);
  if (!config) {
    throw new Error(`Config not found at ${configPath}.`);
  }

  let embeddedHandle: EmbeddedPostgresHandle | null = null;
  let db: ClosableDb | null = null;
  try {
    if (config.database.mode === "embedded-postgres") {
      embeddedHandle = await ensureEmbeddedPostgres(
        config.database.embeddedPostgresDataDir,
        config.database.embeddedPostgresPort,
      );
      const adminConnectionString = `postgres://paperclip:paperclip@127.0.0.1:${embeddedHandle.port}/postgres`;
      await ensurePostgresDatabase(adminConnectionString, "paperclip");
      const connectionString = `postgres://paperclip:paperclip@127.0.0.1:${embeddedHandle.port}/paperclip`;

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