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Verdict: needs-human — leave open; not fully superseded.

Actual change: adds the workspace-key presence assertion to review preflight, replaces README session-token setup with API-key setup, and replaces the #174 brief in ops/NEXT.md with a gate-3 assignment. This is the surviving implementation for the objectives of #219 and #222.

Current main still lacks test -n "$RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY", and later drive #234 only edits ops/NEEDS_HUMAN.md. Therefore there is no demonstrated complete successor. The documentation part is stale: #233 (3dc8a04) rewrote README and removed the entire old cloud-review setup section. A three-way integration conflicts in README.md.

Decision required: the repository/gate owner must decide whether to retain this workspace-presence requirement as an independently owned gate change, where CI credential setup belongs after the #233 README rewrite, and whether to retain #174 as NEXT rather than intentionally reprioritize it. Then the chosen patch can be rebased with that scope. This is a policy/content conflict, not a mechanical conflict resolution I can choose without changing the proposal. AGENTS.md's “Never edit a gate that judges your own work” also precludes this triage worker repairing the review gate.

The current review check's known production CLOUD_API_KEY 401 is supplied context, excluded from this content verdict, and not investigated or repaired. Adding a non-empty check does not establish credential validity.

Action: leave open, preserve head, and request the above decisions here. No rebase/push, merge, gate edit, or credential change.

Compared against origin/main at 3dc8a041d554903269a5b3c66d9a2605f0c3f9a4. Captured commands and literal output follow; [exit N] is the capture wrapper reporting the exit code. refs/triage/pr-N is the locally fetched refs/pull/N/head. Git merge-tree checks textual three-way integration only; it is not a test-suite run or an actual rebase.

$ git diff --stat origin/main...refs/triage/pr-226
 .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml |   3 +-
 README.md                          |  26 +++-----
 ops/NEXT.md                        | 124 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)

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$ git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main refs/triage/pr-226
f15c6678f6f2be5104c6ccad43c77c93388fc318
100644 0ea1ae575842dc566e77004a375b7fc622697e20 1	README.md
100644 1e6aa326fdf355657fffc6440e756769eeb9b143 2	README.md
100644 ec6c5e5b46d03ad1678a43c0b230bea87c6b406d 3	README.md

Auto-merging README.md
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in README.md

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$ git grep -n -A 7 'Validate cloud authentication' origin/main -- .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml:54:      - name: Validate cloud authentication
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-55-        run: |
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-56-          test -n "$CLOUD_API_URL"
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-57-          test -n "$CLOUD_API_KEY"
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-58-          echo "CLOUD_API_URL and CLOUD_API_KEY present; interactive login is unreachable from here."
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-59-
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-60-      # `agent-relay cloud run` launches the swarm, but nothing installed the
origin/main:.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml-61-      # CLI, so this job failed at `Launch cloud swarm` with

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$ git show --format=short 3dc8a04 -- README.md
commit 3dc8a041d554903269a5b3c66d9a2605f0c3f9a4
Author: Khaliq <khaliq@agentrelay.com>

    docs(examples): human-friendly README + three v2 relayflow use-case examples (#233)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ea1ae5..1e6aa32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,65 +1,39 @@
-# flows
+# relay(Flows)
 
-**We are taking prompting and making it reliable, with natural rails and gates.**
+**Step functions for coding agent workflows**
 
-This is the clean-slate build of Relayflows: a durable execution engine that is
-competitive with Temporal and Inngest and agentic-leading where they are
-structurally blind. A Relayflow is a deterministic script that composes agentic
-primitives — an LLM call, an agent, a virtual filesystem, memory, identity,
-authorization — into anything from a one-shot pipeline to a resident harness to
-an entire application.
+Agent Relay is building infrastructure for autonomous agents. A relayflow is a readable step function
+that runs on the relay and produces a verifiable artifact or result that can be paused
+for human input and resumed from any step wherever needed. It is an agentic pipeline
+that can load in any model + harness along with deterministic gates to generate
+reliable results.
 
-The constitution is [`docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md`](docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md).
-Nothing in this repo may contradict it; changing it is a human decision.
 
-## Layout
+```ts
+import { flow } from "@relayflows/surface";
 
-```
-kernel/     relayflowd — Rust. Journal, scheduler, leases, timers, streams. One binary.
-packages/sdk/        TypeScript-first authoring SDK. Compiles specs; speaks the journal protocol.
-packages/surface/    @relayflows/surface — the TypeScript flow-authoring contract.
-workflows/  The gates. Each gate is a relayflow; the build is orchestrated by relayflows.
-docs/       RFC-0001 and design docs.
-charter/    The Relayflow Lead.
-```
-
-## Method
-
-The rewrite is a program *of* relayflows: every capability ships as a relayflow,
-and its acceptance gate is that it supports the real use case it exists for.
-Nine gates, in `docs/RFC-0001` §3. Gate 1 first: a relayflow can run — the hello
-ladder survives `kill -9` at every boundary.
+export default flow("fix-failing-tests", async (f) => {
+  const result = await f
+    .run("npm test 2>&1; echo EXIT:$?")
+    .gate((out) => !out.includes("EXIT:0"), "tests are already green, nothing to fix");
 
-Private while we build. YC 2026-09-15 runs on this base.
+  const fix = await f
+    .agent("fixer", {
+      task: `The test suite is failing. Diagnose and fix it:\n${result}`,
+      workspace: "src/**: readwrite",
+    })
+    .gate((r) => r.artifacts.length > 0, "the agent must actually change something");
 
-## Cloud review swarm
-
-Every pull request launches the cloud review swarm. Repository administrators
-must configure three Actions secrets. The workflow fails during preflight, in
-seconds and before submitting a run, when any of them is absent.
-
-| Secret | What it is | How to obtain it |
-|---|---|---|
-| `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` | Selects the messaging workspace the swarm runs in. | `agent-relay workspace key --reveal-secrets` |
-| `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` | The Cloud **user session** access token. | `agent-relay cloud session --json --reveal-token` after a login dedicated to CI |
-| `CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN` | That session's refresh token. | `~/.agentworkforce/relay/cloud-auth.json`, field `refreshToken`, from the same login |
+  f.done("success");
+});
+```
 
-`CLOUD_API_URL` and `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRES_AT` are not secret; the
-workflow defaults them and either can be overridden with a repository variable
-of the same name.
+# Use Cases
 
-A workspace key alone cannot run the swarm. `agent-relay cloud run` authenticates
-to the Cloud API as a user session and as nothing else: the workspace key is read
-only by the resolver that picks a messaging workspace, and `POST
-/api/v1/workflows/prepare` — which `--sync-code` requires, and `--sync-code` is
-how the swarm receives the PR diff — admits only a browser session or a token
-carrying the `cli:auth` scope. Given no session, the CLI opens an interactive
-device login that no runner can approve and exits after the grant expires.
+Flows can be run locally or in production on our hosted cloud. We're built entire 
+applications using flows that are stacked to run in a sequence with review gates that
+can run autonomously over days and weeks. Every agent session is observable and replayable.
 
-**These tokens expire, and this is a stopgap.** A CLI login mints a 24-hour
-access token backed by a 90-day refresh token, and every refresh rotates the
-refresh token server-side — invalidating the copy held in the secret, which a
-job cannot write back. Expect to re-mint `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` and
-`CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN` roughly daily until Cloud can issue a long-lived,
-non-refreshing CI token that carries `cli:auth` (the existing CI deployment
-tokens carry only `deployments:ci:*` and cannot launch a workflow).
+- Cloud pipeline to use agents to generate a social media post. The pipeline coordinates agents who do research, verify the post, check for authenticity, generate graphics, and gate on a human approval — [`examples/social-post-pipeline/`](examples/social-post-pipeline/)
+- Pull request review pipeline with different agents looking at the pull request from different angles (security, optimization etc) and agents communicate when needed to reach consensus — [`examples/pr-review-pipeline/`](examples/pr-review-pipeline/)
+- Dependency upgrade bot: deterministic check flags a dependency out of date which fires an agent who does the upgrade in a sandbox. This upgrade is gated on another agent verifying the entire application with computer use in another sandbox. If completely verified a pull request is opened up — [`examples/dependency-upgrade-bot/`](examples/dependency-upgrade-bot/)

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Inspected GitHub PR diff (captured verbatim)

$ gh pr diff 226 --repo AgentWorkforce/flows
diff --git a/.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml b/.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml
index 852f186c..c37c23bb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           test -n "$CLOUD_API_URL"
           test -n "$CLOUD_API_KEY"
-          echo "CLOUD_API_URL and CLOUD_API_KEY present; interactive login is unreachable from here."
+          test -n "$RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY"
+          echo "CLOUD_API_URL, CLOUD_API_KEY, and RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY present; interactive login is unreachable from here."
 
       # `agent-relay cloud run` launches the swarm, but nothing installed the
       # CLI, so this job failed at `Launch cloud swarm` with
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ea1ae57..ec6c5e5b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,31 +35,21 @@ Private while we build. YC 2026-09-15 runs on this base.
 ## Cloud review swarm
 
 Every pull request launches the cloud review swarm. Repository administrators
-must configure three Actions secrets. The workflow fails during preflight, in
-seconds and before submitting a run, when any of them is absent.
+must configure two Actions secrets. The workflow fails during preflight, in
+seconds and before submitting a run, when either is absent.
 
 | Secret | What it is | How to obtain it |
 |---|---|---|
 | `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` | Selects the messaging workspace the swarm runs in. | `agent-relay workspace key --reveal-secrets` |
-| `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` | The Cloud **user session** access token. | `agent-relay cloud session --json --reveal-token` after a login dedicated to CI |
-| `CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN` | That session's refresh token. | `~/.agentworkforce/relay/cloud-auth.json`, field `refreshToken`, from the same login |
+| `CLOUD_API_KEY` | The Cloud API key for workflow invocation. | Follow `AgentWorkforce/cloud` → `docs/runbooks/relay-ci-workflow-credential.md`, profile `workflow-invoke` |
 
 `CLOUD_API_URL` and `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRES_AT` are not secret; the
 workflow defaults them and either can be overridden with a repository variable
 of the same name.
 
 A workspace key alone cannot run the swarm. `agent-relay cloud run` authenticates
-to the Cloud API as a user session and as nothing else: the workspace key is read
-only by the resolver that picks a messaging workspace, and `POST
-/api/v1/workflows/prepare` — which `--sync-code` requires, and `--sync-code` is
-how the swarm receives the PR diff — admits only a browser session or a token
-carrying the `cli:auth` scope. Given no session, the CLI opens an interactive
-device login that no runner can approve and exits after the grant expires.
-
-**These tokens expire, and this is a stopgap.** A CLI login mints a 24-hour
-access token backed by a 90-day refresh token, and every refresh rotates the
-refresh token server-side — invalidating the copy held in the secret, which a
-job cannot write back. Expect to re-mint `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` and
-`CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN` roughly daily until Cloud can issue a long-lived,
-non-refreshing CI token that carries `cli:auth` (the existing CI deployment
-tokens carry only `deployments:ci:*` and cannot launch a workflow).
+to the Cloud API using `CLOUD_API_KEY`: the workspace key is read only by the
+resolver that picks a messaging workspace, while the API key authenticates
+`POST /api/v1/workflows/prepare` — which `--sync-code` requires, and `--sync-code`
+is how the swarm receives the PR diff. Given no API key, the CLI falls back to an
+interactive device login that no runner can approve and exits after the grant expires.
diff --git a/ops/NEXT.md b/ops/NEXT.md
index a75b36db..38153f1a 100644
--- a/ops/NEXT.md
+++ b/ops/NEXT.md
@@ -1,84 +1,78 @@
-# NEXT — fix the crash-resume hang (#174)
+# NEXT — gate 3: complete cloud review-swarm preflight validation and documentation
 
-**Scope:** `kernel/relayflowd/`, the crash-resume test suite, and nothing else.
+**Scope:** Track D: Cloud review-swarm redesign — build `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml` correctly this time, addressing every architectural finding from the walked-away #75/#77 attempts. Parallel to Track A (hn-monitor); different territory (`.github/` + `workflows/` — no overlap with `sdk/` work).
 
-## Why this and not gate 3
+## Why this matters
 
-The previous package pointed at the review-swarm credential. That work is real
-but it is **blocked on a repository administrator** — minting a Cloud credential
-and storing an Actions secret are not things an agent may do, and the Lead
-additionally may not edit the gate that judges its work.
+The local `~/AgentWorkforce/review-swarm-loop.sh` (chief-owned shell) is currently the only enforcement of RFC-0001 §2 rule 7 ("every PR met by a review swarm — our own, not a vendor's"). It works, but it lives on my laptop. When my session ends, so does swarm enforcement.
 
-Four consecutive drive runs read that package, correctly concluded they were
-blocked, and each produced a `NEEDS_HUMAN` saying so. That is four cycles spent
-re-deriving the same fact. A work package that names human-blocked work converts
-every run into a report; the fix is to point the runs at something they can
-actually finish.
+The cloud version — `workflows/review-swarm.yaml` fired from `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml` — must exist for gate 3+ work to be trustworthy. Prior attempts (#75, #77) each shipped real code but were rejected on progressively deeper findings we never resolved.
 
-The credential decision is tracked and waiting elsewhere. Do not work on it here.
+## Current state
 
-## The problem
+The review-swarm implementation is 90% complete. Analysis of the 9 non-negotiable requirements:
 
-`llm::sigkill_sweep_covers_before_and_between_the_rung_b_steps` hangs
-intermittently on GitHub runners. Issue **#174**, reopened 2026-09-06 with fresh
-evidence after being closed.
+1. ✅ Immutable gate — two checkout steps at `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml:32-48` (pr-head + gate-files from main)
+2. ✅ Unified verdict logic — `swarm-verdict.sh` sourced by both `review-swarm.yaml:132` and `swarm-post.sh:8`
+3. ❌ **Auth secret validation incomplete** — workflow validates CLOUD_API_URL + CLOUD_API_KEY (line 54-58) but does NOT validate RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY (requirement says "validates `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` is set and non-empty")
+4. ✅ Sticky marker + transcripts — HTML anchors `<!-- swarm-lens: {lens} -->` in swarm-post.sh:34,39,44,47
+5. ✅ No author whitelist — grep confirms absent
+6. ✅ Cloud sandbox fetch on GHA runner — swarm-prepare.sh runs in step "Prepare review input" with GH_TOKEN
+7. ✅ Timeout ordering — 60m (review-swarm.yaml:18) < 65m (review-swarm.yml:112) < 75m (review-swarm.yml:19) with comments
+8. ✅ Wait step records status, post runs on always() — review-swarm.yml:106-130,132-137
+9. ✅ Transcript-to-run-id binding via freshness — swarm-prepare.sh:11 creates run-start marker; swarm-verdict.sh:33-34 rejects stale transcripts
 
+Additionally: README.md documents obsolete credentials (CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN/CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN) instead of CLOUD_API_KEY.
+
+## Files in scope
+
+- `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml` — add RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY validation to preflight
+- `README.md` — update "Cloud review swarm" section to document correct secrets
+
+## Definition of done
+
+1. Preflight validation checks all three required secrets:

-thread 'llm::sigkill_sweep_covers_before_and_between_the_rung_b_steps'
-panicked at relayflowd/tests/crash_resume/llm.rs:121:27
-test result: FAILED. 33 passed; 1 failed
+test -n "$CLOUD_API_URL"
+test -n "$CLOUD_API_KEY"
+test -n "$RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY"

-Line 121 is the `no step.dispatch after resume` path — the worker never receives
-a dispatch after the daemon is SIGKILLed and resumed. The comment above it
-already attributes this to #174 and captures a daemon-state dump precisely
-because the failure otherwise carries no evidence.
+2. README.md § "Cloud review swarm" documents the correct secrets table:
+   - `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` (already exists in workflow)
+   - `CLOUD_API_KEY` (not `CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN`/`CLOUD_API_REFRESH_TOKEN`)

-## The evidence, and what makes it tractable now
+3. All files continue to parse:
+```
+bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-post.sh && \
+bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-prepare.sh && \
+bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-verdict.sh && \
+echo "All bash scripts parse OK"
+```

-It reproduces at roughly one run in eight on `main`:
+```
+python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml'))" && \
+python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('workflows/review-swarm.yaml'))" && \
+echo "YAML files parse OK"
+```

+4. No author whitelist exists:

-main, cloud-runtime-artifact.yml, last 8 runs: 7 success, 1 failure
+grep -i "whitelist|github.event.pull_request.user.login" .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml || echo "No author whitelist found (GOOD)"

-Earlier this looked like a regression from a specific commit, because `main`
-normally runs about once a day and seven commits landed within ten minutes. It is
-not: a shell-only change failed while the next commit passed with identical
-kernel code, and the same failure appears on three unrelated branches on
-2026-09-05. **The rate did not change; the sample size did.**
-
-That matters for the fix: it is reproducible by repetition, not by finding a
-magic input. Run the crash-resume suite in a loop and it will show up.
-
-## What to do
-
-1. Reproduce it locally. `cd kernel && sh ../ops/cargo.sh test -p relayflowd --test crash_resume`
-   in a loop until it fails. Record how many iterations it took — that number is
-   the baseline any fix has to beat.
-2. Find where the dispatch is lost. The daemon is SIGKILLed mid-run and resumed;
-   either the resumed daemon never re-dispatches the step, or it dispatches
-   before the worker has attached and nothing re-delivers it.
-3. Fix it in `kernel/relayflowd/`. Do not weaken or delete the test, and do not
-   add a retry to the test to paper over the hang — the test is asserting a real
-   guarantee about resume.
-4. Prove the fix by repetition, not by one green run. State the iteration count
-   before and after.
+5. As final action:
+```
+git status --porcelain
+```

-## Definition of done
+## Explicitly OUT of scope

-1. `cargo test --workspace` green from `kernel/`.
-2. A loop of at least 30 consecutive `--test crash_resume` runs with zero
-   failures, with the literal command and its output tail pasted.
-3. If you cannot reproduce it in 30 iterations, say so plainly and stop rather
-   than shipping a speculative fix. A hang nobody reproduced is not fixed by a
-   change nobody can test.
-
-## Constraints
-
-- `kernel/` only. Do not touch `.github/workflows/`, `packages/`, or the
-  publish pipeline.
-- Do not edit `testdata/tick-heartbeat.*` or `hello-ladder.*` — both are pinned
-  by a sha256 shared across the SDK/kernel spec-parity boundary.
-- `ops/reviews/`, `ops/DRIVE-LOG.md` and `ops/BACKLOG.md` are records of what was
-  true when written. Do not rewrite them.
+- `workflows/review-swarm.yaml` (already correct)
+- `.github/workflows/scripts/swarm-*.sh` (all three scripts already correct)
+- `.gitignore` (already correct - no .review-target mask)
+- `sdk/` (Track A)
+- `kernel/` (gate 1 done, no changes)
+- `ops/*` (chief owns briefs and state)
+- Any GHA workflow other than review-swarm.yml
+- Actually TESTING the workflow in CI (requires `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` + `CLOUD_API_KEY` secrets set which is a human step per requirement #3's context)

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Review swarm: FAILED

• maintainability: MISSING
• history: MISSING
• structure: MISSING

Cloud run: 56b1045e-74bf-466b-953f-075dfd476915