paperclipai/paperclip · error · Error

Target company was not found.

Error message

Target company ${companyId} was not found.

What it means

Merge precondition failure: the company id chosen for the merge plan does not exist as a row in the target database, so target-side inserts would violate foreign keys; likely the target was seeded differently than expected.

Solutions

1. Verify the company id exists in the target database and retry with a valid --company value.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cli/src/commands/worktree.ts:2672 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/b5f7ace0b2b09b6c. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at cli/src/commands/worktree.ts:3487

      .select()
      .from(agents)
      .where(eq(agents.companyId, companyId)),
    input.targetDb
      .select()
      .from(projectWorkspaces)
      .where(eq(projectWorkspaces.companyId, companyId)),
    input.targetDb
      .select()
      .from(goals)
      .where(eq(goals.companyId, companyId)),
    input.sourceDb
      .select({ count: sql<number>`count(*)::int` })
      .from(heartbeatRuns)
      .where(eq(heartbeatRuns.companyId, companyId)),
  ]);

  if (!targetCompanyRow) {
    throw new Error(`Target company ${companyId} was not found.`);
  }

  const plan = buildWorktreeMergePlan({
    companyId,
    companyName: input.company.name,
    issuePrefix: input.company.issuePrefix,
    previewIssueCounterStart: targetCompanyRow.issueCounter,
    scopes: input.scopes,
    sourceIssues: sourceIssuesRows,
    targetIssues: targetIssuesRows,
    sourceComments: sourceCommentsRows,
    targetComments: targetCommentsRows,
    sourceProjects: sourceProjectsRows,
    sourceProjectWorkspaces: sourceProjectWorkspaceRows,
    sourceDocuments: sourceIssueDocumentsRows as IssueDocumentRow[],
    targetDocuments: targetIssueDocumentsRows as IssueDocumentRow[],
    sourceDocumentRevisions: sourceDocumentRevisionRows as DocumentRevisionRow[],
    targetDocumentRevisions: targetDocumentRevisionRows as DocumentRevisionRow[],

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