Symptoms before this PR:
- After ~60 min of workspace uptime, every git push/clone returns 401
- PMM, DevRel, Social Media Brand and other content agents infinite-loop
status reports back to PMs ("I tried, GH_TOKEN dead")
- PM A2A queues overflow with retry-status messages (depth 27 on Marketing
Lead, 18 on Dev Lead, 11 on Core Platform Lead at peak)
Root cause:
- GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN injected at provision time has a ~60 min TTL
(GitHub App installation tokens cap at one hour)
- Workspace env is frozen at container start — no in-process mechanism
to refresh after expiry
- The credential-helper architecture exists in the codebase but was
never wired up at template boot. Specifically the claude-code template:
- did not COPY the helper scripts into the image
- did not configure git credential.helper at boot
- did not start the background refresh daemon
- did not run initial gh auth login
Fix:
1. Dockerfile COPYs scripts/molecule-git-token-helper.sh and
scripts/molecule-gh-token-refresh.sh into /app/scripts/
2. entrypoint.sh (root half) configures git credential helper for
github.com and creates the per-user token cache directory
3. entrypoint.sh (agent half) starts the refresh daemon under a
respawn loop and runs initial `gh auth login --with-token`
The helper hits the platform's /admin/github-installation-token endpoint
(fallback to env-var GH_TOKEN when platform unreachable). The refresh
daemon calls _refresh_gh every ~45 min ± 2 min jitter so cli auth and
helper cache stay warm even when no git operation triggers a refresh.
Acceptance:
- After this image deploys, `gh api /user` from inside a workspace
should keep returning 200 even after >60 min uptime
- Marketing Lead / Dev Lead a2a queues should drain to <5 within one
cycle of the new image rolling
Follow-up issues to file (not in this PR):
- Replicate this wiring in the other 7 template repos (autogen, crewai,
deepagents, gemini-cli, hermes, langgraph, openclaw)
- Lift the wiring into the molecule-runtime PyPI package so future
templates inherit it instead of re-implementing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
