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Failed to ensure managed sandbox environment

Error message

Failed to ensure managed sandbox environment

What it means

Generic wrap-up failure in ensureManagedSandboxEnvironment: an insert/select inside the reconciliation transaction could not produce a usable row (unexpected DB outcome). Thrown with no detail so the surrounding service layers report reconciliation failure; the DB transaction rolls back.

Source

Thrown at server/src/services/environments.ts:488

            return {
              environment: toEnvironment(inserted),
              action: "added",
              stockStatus: "missing",
              updateAvailable: false,
              stockHash: latestStockHash,
            };
          }
          row = await tx
            .select()
            .from(environments)
            .where(eq(environments.driver, "sandbox"))
            .for("update")
            .then(
              (rows) => rows.find(
                (candidate) => (candidate.metadata as Record<string, unknown> | null)?.managedByPaperclip === true,
              ) ?? null,
            );
          if (!row) throw new Error("Failed to ensure managed sandbox environment");
        }

        const nameOwner = await tx
          .select({ id: environments.id })
          .from(environments)
          .where(eq(environments.name, input.name))
          .then((rows) => rows[0] ?? null);
        const desiredName = nameOwner && nameOwner.id !== row.id ? row.name : input.name;
        const desiredStock = managedEnvironmentStock({
          name: desiredName,
          description: input.description ?? null,
          config: desiredConfig,
          metadata: desiredMetadata,
          status: "active",
        }, keys);
        const latestStockHash = stockHash(desiredStock);
        const currentStock = managedEnvironmentStock({
          name: row.name,

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Solutions

1. Check server logs for the underlying failure when ensuring the managed sandbox environment, then retry.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/services/environments.ts:488 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of paperclipai/paperclip@01ad858492 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ab9db2a4c06d9469. Report an issue: GitHub.