* fix(files): serve rendered documents instead of generator source Generated docs (docx/pptx/pdf/xlsx) store their generation source as the primary file; the rendered binary lives in a separate content-addressed artifact store. resolveServableDocBytes is the chokepoint that swaps one for the other, and the serve route, single-file download and ~50 tool routes all go through it. Archive compression and the public v1 download read raw bytes instead, so a generated document arrived as source text under a .docx name and Word reported it as corrupt. Both now resolve through the servable reader. Adds fetchServableWorkspaceFileBuffer beside the raw reader so the record to UserFile mapping lives in one place, preserving storageContext; the raw reader's doc comment now says it returns generation source, so the next call site has to choose deliberately. v1 also has to send the resolved content type rather than the record's source MIME, and returns a retryable 409 rather than a 500 when an artifact is still compiling. docNotReadyMessage centralizes the 409 copy, and isRenderableDocumentName is shared so the read path and its callers agree on which extensions can expand. * perf(files): stream workspace archives instead of buffering them The bulk download route materialized every selected file before writing a byte, so peak memory tracked the size of the selection. Ordinary files are now appended as lazy streams: each opens its storage read only when the archiver reaches it, so one entry is resident at a time rather than the whole archive. Generated documents still resolve to buffers first. They are the only entries whose bytes decide anything, and every status this route returns comes from them — once the first byte is written the status code is committed, so those decisions have to happen before the archive starts. The per-entry allowance and byte budget therefore govern documents only. archiver processes appended entries through a sequential queue; lazystream defers each storage read until that entry's turn, since handing the archiver an open stream per entry would hold more connections than the storage client pools. nodeReadableToWebStream moves out of input-validation.server.ts into a shared util rather than being written twice: Readable.toWeb throws ERR_INVALID_STATE when a consumer cancels while the source is still flowing, which is exactly what a cancelled download does. Trade: a storage read failing mid-archive truncates the response rather than returning 500, since the status is already sent. Documents cannot hit this. The table export route already behaves this way. * improvement(files): surface archive download errors in place Bulk and folder downloads navigated to the API route, so any rejection replaced the Files page with the raw JSON error body. Single-file download already fetched and saved the blob, so the two paths had diverged. That was survivable when the only failures were "too many files" and "too large"; resolving rendered documents adds a 409 for a still-compiling artifact, which is reachable in normal use. Both archive paths now fetch the zip and show the server's message as a toast — the route writes that copy for a person, so it is worth surfacing rather than discarding. Single-file download shows its error too instead of only logging it. * improvement(files): simplify the archive route and stop buffering real uploads Four review passes over the branch converged on the same points. Routing every office extension through the buffered path held an entire selection of genuinely uploaded documents in memory — for a check the resolver settles on the first few magic bytes. Only files stored under a generator-source content type need resolving; a real .docx serves what is stored and now streams like anything else, which is what the change was for. With resolution sequential, the AbortController cancelled nothing (its signal never reached the storage read), the success-path over-limit branch was unreachable, and the cancellation guard in the catch could not fire. A plain loop that returns at the point of failure replaces the outcome record, the sentinel, the fan-out helper at limit 1, and four post-hoc scans. ZIP_MATERIALIZE_CONCURRENCY was dead, and the aggregate over-limit message reported a byte count that was by construction under the limit. lazystream and its types are gone: Readable.from over an async generator defers the open the same way and propagates source errors natively, so the PassThrough relay went with them. The client uses requestRaw with the existing binary contract instead of a hand-built query string and a re-typed error extractor, and both archive call sites share one callback. The render headroom moves beside isRenderableDocumentName, the servable reader stops minting a request id per file, and the v1 download returns a view rather than a second full copy. * improvement(files): keep the lazy entry stream in byte mode Readable.from defaults to object mode; these chunks are bytes headed for an archive, so the mode is now explicit. Also makes the fire-and-forget bulk download call consistent with its sibling. * improvement(files): correct the servable reader's 409 note Batch callers build the response from docNotReadyMessage rather than through docNotReadyResponse, so the doc comment now describes the outcome instead of naming one of the two helpers. * improvement(files): correct two comments that described the wrong behavior The resolution loop's comment claimed at most one rendered document is resident. It is not: every resolved buffer is held until the archive is assembled, bounded by the request's remaining budget. The loop resolves one at a time, it does not release one at a time. RENDERED_DOCUMENT_HEADROOM_BYTES was documented as bounding the expansion beyond the declared size, but it is passed straight through as maxBytes and is an absolute ceiling on the rendered document — renamed to MAX_RENDERED_DOCUMENT_BYTES so the name matches. Download failures also carry a fallback message, so a transport error surfaces something better than a bare "Failed to fetch". * fix(files): put streamed files and rendered documents on one byte budget The budget only counted rendered documents, so streamed entries never reserved their declared bytes. A mixed selection could clear the up-front declared-size gate and still ship close to two full limits: ordinary files up to the cap, plus documents drawing a fresh cap of their own. Streamed entries ship exactly what they declared, so their share is known before anything is read and is now reserved up front; documents draw from what is left. The budget-exhausted rejection also quoted declared sizes, which for a selection of small sources reads as a tiny total exceeding the limit. That case has no knowable byte count — the documents have not been rendered — so it now says what happened without inventing a number. * fix(files): attach the download anchor and handle a finalize rejection A detached anchor's click() works in current browsers, but every other download helper in the app attaches first, and a silent no-op on this path would look exactly like a download that never started. Not worth the ambiguity for two DOM operations. archive.finalize() was fired with void, so a failure after the response had started became an unhandled rejection on top of the stream error event that already fails the response. It is caught and logged now. * fix(files): guard the archive download against concurrent clicks Navigating to the route meant a second click just re-navigated. Fetching the archive instead means each click starts another download that holds the whole zip in tab memory, and the Download button gave no sign anything was happening. The button now reflects the in-flight download alongside the existing move and delete states. The ref guard is there as well as the state because two clicks in the same tick would both pass a state check. * fix(files): resolve every generated-document source type, not four of five The archive keyed off a locally enumerated set of source content types that omitted text/x-pdflibjs — the isolated-vm PDF generator. Those files failed the check and streamed their generator source under a .pdf name, which is the exact corruption this change exists to fix. A canonical five-member set already existed in the file viewer; enumerating a fourth copy was the mistake, not the missing string. The set moves to file-utils beside the other file-type predicates, the viewer imports it, and the route asks isGeneratedDocumentSourceType rather than carrying its own list. A parameterized test pins all five, so adding a generator without extending the set fails. * test(files): validate the produced archive with a real zip reader Every existing test mocks the storage stream and reads the result back with the same JS library that wrote it, which cannot catch the failure this route exists to fix: an archive a real zip reader will not open. This drives 5 MB of non-repeating bytes from an fs stream through archiver, the lazy entry generator and the Node-to-web bridge, then checks the output with the operating system's unzip and compares the extracted bytes. Skips rather than fails where unzip is unavailable. * fix(files): bound the markdown export's embedded-asset bundling The embed list is produced by scanning the document body, so its length and the bytes behind it are whatever the author put there. Every referenced asset was downloaded at once with no concurrency bound, no per-file cap and no total cap, so one request could materialize an unbounded number of unbounded files. Its sibling bulk-download route already had a count cap and a byte cap. Metadata is now resolved first, which bounds the download from declared sizes before a byte is read and moves the authorization check off the download path. Assets are then fetched with bounded concurrency and a per-file cap; a single unreadable or oversized asset drops out of the bundle rather than failing the export, which is what the previous allSettled did. * fix(files): mount rendered documents into the sandbox, not generator source Mounting a generated document handed the sandbox its generator source under a .docx name, so a python-docx or openpyxl script failed on a file that looked fine and the agent debugged code that was correct. Both branches were wrong, not just the buffered one: with cloud storage the mount presigns record.key, which is the raw source object, so swapping the buffered read alone would have fixed only local storage. Source-backed documents now always take the servable path — they are bounded by the render ceiling, so routing them through the web process instead of presigning is affordable. The text/binary decision also keyed off record.type, which for these files is text/x-docxjs, so a resolved binary would have been decoded as UTF-8. It reads the resolved content type now. * chore(deps): regenerate the lockfile against staging's dependency rework Staging reworked the OTel split, dropped dead deps and declared emcn peers, so the lockfile is regenerated on top of that rather than carrying a stale merge. The archive dependency is the only addition; lazystream stays as archiver's transitive dep now that it is no longer declared directly. Regenerated incrementally rather than from scratch: a clean resolve fails the bunfig age gate because minimumReleaseAgeExcludes lists only the darwin and linux-gnu @next/swc binaries, not the musl and windows variants that a full re-resolve also pulls. * fix(files): budget sandbox mounts on rendered bytes, not declared source size A source-backed document declares the size of its generator, not of the document, so the per-file and aggregate mount pre-checks were reading a number unrelated to what was about to be mounted — tiny sources cleared the guard and only afterwards was the running total updated with the real length. Those pre-checks now apply only to files that serve what they declare. A document is capped by the read instead, at the smaller of the per-file limit and the budget left, and a size rejection is reported in the same terms as the other mount limits. Same invariant the archive route already had to learn: declared size is not a bound once bytes can be rendered. * test(files): cover the two surfaces added without tests The markdown export route had no test file at all, and the sandbox mount's source-backed branch was exercised by nothing — both were changed in this PR and one of them shipped a defect a reviewer caught within minutes. Export: the embed-count rejection, the declared-bytes rejection landing before any asset leaves storage, the per-asset download cap, an unreadable asset dropping out rather than failing the export, and an unauthorized asset never being read. Mount: a generated document never presigning its raw key even on cloud storage, its rendered bytes mounting as base64 rather than being utf-8 decoded off the source MIME, and the budget rejecting on rendered length. * fix(files): stop the export caps from rejecting documents that used to work The caps I picked would have failed exports that previously succeeded: a screenshot-heavy document can hold more than 100 embeds, and 100 embeds of unoptimised PNGs can exceed 100 MB. Adding a limit to bound memory is right; setting it below real usage turns a memory risk into a broken feature. The byte ceiling now matches the bulk-download route, so the two export surfaces reject at the same size rather than at two invented ones. The count is only a guard on the metadata lookups that run before the byte check, so it moves well above any hand-authored document instead of sitting where a legitimate one could reach it.
A workspace to build, deploy and manage AI agents and workflows.
Quickstart
Cloud-hosted: sim.ai
Self-hosted
git clone https://github.com/simstudioai/sim.git && cd sim
bun run setup
Capabilities
- Connect 1,000+ integrations and every major LLM
- Add Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, databases, and more
- Build agents visually, conversationally, or with code
- Ingest files, knowledge bases, and structured table data
- Monitor runs, logs, schedules, and workflow activity
One workspace, every surface
Chat and workflows are just the start — tables, files, knowledge, and scheduled tasks all live in the same workspace.
Tables — a database, built in |
Files — one store for your team and every agent |
Knowledge — your agents' memory |
Scheduled tasks — runs on your schedule |
Self-hosting
bun run setup is an interactive wizard: it provisions the database, generates secrets, writes your .env files, connects a Chat API key, and starts Sim the way you choose:
- Local dev — run from source to contribute or hack on Sim
- Docker Compose — a self-contained instance for testing self-hosting
- Kubernetes (Helm) — deploy to a local cluster
When it finishes, open http://localhost:3000.
Manage your install with bun run sim:
bun run sim start | stop | restart # bring your install up / down / cycle
bun run sim status # what's installed and healthy
bun run sim logs # follow logs
bun run sim doctor # diagnose configuration problems
bun run sim down # remove containers (data kept)
bun run sim reset # archive .env and wipe managed data
sim detects how you're running (Docker Compose, local dev, or Kubernetes) and acts accordingly.
Prefer a bare sim? Run bun link once — but note sim lands in ~/.bun/bin, which Homebrew's bun doesn't add to your PATH, so you may need export PATH="$HOME/.bun/bin:$PATH" in your shell profile.
Sim also supports local models via Ollama and vLLM. See the self-hosting docs for details.
Chat API Keys
Chat is a Sim-managed service. bun run setup connects a Chat API key for you — sign in when it opens your browser and the key is stored automatically. To view, create, or revoke keys later, go to sim.ai/selfhost/settings/chat-keys.
Environment Variables
See the environment variables reference for the full list, or apps/sim/.env.example for defaults.
Tech Stack
Next.js · Bun · PostgreSQL · Drizzle · Better Auth · Tailwind — and the rest of the stack
- Framework: Next.js (App Router)
- Runtime: Bun
- Database: PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM
- Authentication: Better Auth
- Schema Validation: Zod
- UI: Shadcn, Tailwind CSS
- Streaming Markdown: Streamdown
- State Management: Zustand, TanStack Query
- Flow Editor: ReactFlow
- Docs: Fumadocs
- Monorepo: Turborepo
- Realtime: Socket.io
- Background Jobs: Trigger.dev
- Remote Code Execution: E2B
- Isolated Code Execution: isolated-vm
Contributing
We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.
License
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