feat(sdk): make f.agent real, fix cross-package flow-handle identity, TS quickstart - #243
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… TS quickstart Three findings from actually trying to write and run a relayflow as an external user would, chased down one at a time: 1. Every externally-authored .flow.ts refused with "expected an @relayflows/surface flow handle" — a real Node dual-package-instance hazard, not specific to f.agent. flow()'s handle validation is a WeakMap keyed by module-scoped object identity in @relayflows/surface itself; an author's own project resolves its own separate copy of that package, so the CLI's internal copy's WeakMap never has the entry the author's copy wrote. The fix is NOT a new identity mechanism on the handle — surface's own test suite (flow.test.ts "refuses malformed and forged handles") already pre-empts exactly that (a Symbol.for()-tagged handle is globally guessable, so it's forgeable; tried it, reverted it, kept the WeakMap). The real fix: authored-flow-loader.ts now dynamically resolves @relayflows/surface/runtime FROM THE FLOW FILE'S OWN location (same anchor its own `import` already used), so both sides read the same WeakMap instance. That needed @relayflows/surface's exports map to also carry a `require` condition (alongside the existing ESM-only `import`) purely so `createRequire(...).resolve()` can find the file path — resolve() never executes it, so the package stays ESM-only in practice. 2. f.agent threw unsupported_verb unconditionally. The kernel already has real, tested agent-step dispatch (this morning's daemon-lifecycle workflow used it directly) — the gap was authored-flow-executor.ts never lowering f.agent into a kernel AgentStepSpec at all. Now it does, and reuses checkAuthoredFlow's existing preflight pipeline (cli/check.ts) to resolve a real CLI from the project's flows.json — the same resolution a declarative `type: agent` YAML step already gets, which an authored TS flow had never gone through. Getting this working end-to-end against a real attached worker (not just a mock) surfaced one more real bug: readCompletedStepOutput read the journal exactly once, immediately after runStart — fine for a deterministic step, which the kernel drives to completion inline, but an agent step's completion depends on an external worker actually running a real CLI process. Added a bounded poll, and made the run-outcome cross-check re-fetch fresh status only when polling was actually needed (never for the synchronous path), so the existing mock-journal unit tests keep working unmodified. 3. README's Quickstart now shows a real, verified TypeScript flow (f.run + f.done) instead of YAML, per request, plus an honest note on what's real now (f.run, f.agent) vs. still design-only (f.llm, f.human, f.dispatch, f.cloud). Verified for real throughout, not just by reading code: built a separate npm project outside this repo, installed @relayflows/surface from it, ran a flow through the actual built CLI, and added a live test (tests/live-kernel.test.ts) that runs f.agent through a real attached AgentWorker with a real spawned CLI process, not a mock. Full SDK suite (804 tests) and surface suite (7 tests) both green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SDK now resolves flow definitions from each flow file's surface runtime, lowers ChangesAuthored agent dispatch
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Valid agent flows can fail after 30 seconds, miss completed work, or intermittently report protocol errors. These execution-path issues should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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| const current = await journal.runGet(outcome.run_id); | ||
| if (current.status !== 'completed') { | ||
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| outcome.run_id, | ||
| `successful step entry conflicts with current run status "${current.status}"`, |
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Wait for the run to reach its terminal state
When an asynchronous agent writes step.completed, the daemon can still briefly report the run as running while it appends and folds run.completed; the existing classifyOutcome path explicitly handles this transition window. This immediate runGet instead labels that valid ordering a journal_protocol_violation, so otherwise successful f.agent calls can fail nondeterministically. Poll or resume until the run becomes terminal before performing the consistency check.
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Follow the worker lease instead of imposing 30 seconds
When an attached Claude or Codex worker takes more than 30 seconds, this poll throws a protocol violation even though the step is legitimately running and may later complete successfully; those raw adapters deliberately configure their execution timeout as unlimited. Coding-agent work routinely exceeds this bound, so the new authored path reports successful long-running work as failed. Wait according to the journaled worker lease/status, as the declarative CLI path does, rather than using an unrelated fixed deadline.
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| // (cli/check.ts), searching for the nearest flows.json from `flowPath` | ||
| // and real-probing auth/model readiness. An authored agent step gets | ||
| // nothing for free just because it was declared in TS instead of YAML. | ||
| const { report, flow: resolved } = checkAuthoredFlow(authoring, flowPath); |
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Preflight the authored flow before executing its body
When a flow performs await f.run(...) before its first f.agent(...) and the project CLI is missing, unsupported, or unauthenticated, this lazy call discovers the checkable problem only after the earlier command has already executed and been journaled. That turns a submit-time refusal into a mid-flow failure with potentially irreversible effects, contrary to the RFC's preflight covenant. Resolve and probe the authored flow's required agent CLI before allowing body operations to start.
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176-176: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCache project configuration and CLI probe results per
executeAuthoredFlowcall.
lowerAgentcallscheckAuthoredFlowfor every agent step. Each call rereads project configuration and runs preflight probes; CLI probes can invokespawnSync. Reuse these results across steps, but continue preflighting each step-specificFlowSpec.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts`:
- Around line 505-506: Update the step-completion wait flow around
isStepCompleted to use runWatch(runId) and resolve when an 'entry' event matches
stepId, rather than repeatedly calling journalRead(runId, 1); ensure the watcher
is started before waiting and preserve the existing timeout behavior.
- Around line 402-409: Update the post-wait validation around
waitForStepCompleted and journal.runGet to poll until the run status is
completed, using a bounded deadline; preserve protocolViolation for failures
that remain non-completed after the deadline.
- Line 500: The fixed 30-second deadline used by waitForStepCompleted for
f.agent must be configurable through ExecuteAuthoredFlowOptions. On timeout,
call JournalClient.runCancel with runId before reporting the failure, and emit
step_timeout instead of journal_protocol_violation; preserve existing behavior
for non-timeout outcomes.
- Around line 182-187: Update the error classification in direct-run.ts so the
agent_cli_unresolved code thrown by AuthoredFlowExecutionError is handled by the
input-failure branch, matching flows check’s exit code 2 behavior instead of
protocolFailure with exit code 1.
In `@packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts`:
- Around line 379-380: Update the test teardown around executeAuthoredFlow so
worker.close() always runs in a finally block, ensuring active dispatch work is
drained before teardown. Keep assertions after worker.close(), remove await
runClient.close(), and rely on registered-client teardown for the run client.
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- Line 176: Update executeAuthoredFlow and its checkAuthoredFlow usage to cache
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reusing them across lowerAgent steps while still preflighting each step-specific
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| journal: JournalClient, | ||
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| timeoutMs = 30_000, |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Make the agent-step deadline configurable and cancel timed-out runs.
waitForStepCompleted applies a fixed 30-second polling deadline to f.agent. Its timeout branch emits journal_protocol_violation without calling JournalClient.runCancel, so the kernel step can remain active while the worker renews its lease. Expose an agent-appropriate deadline through ExecuteAuthoredFlowOptions, cancel runId when it expires, and report step_timeout instead.
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In `@packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts` at line 500, The fixed 30-second
deadline used by waitForStepCompleted for f.agent must be configurable through
ExecuteAuthoredFlowOptions. On timeout, call JournalClient.runCancel with runId
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| const entries = (await journal.journalRead(runId, 1)).entries; | ||
| const completed = entries.find((entry) => isStepCompleted(entry, stepId)); |
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Wait on run.watch instead of re-reading the journal.
journalRead(runId, 1) re-reads entries from sequence 1. The server returns at most 100 entries per request, so the 50 ms loop can scan the same first 100 entries up to 600 times. If the matching step.completed entry is after sequence 100, the loop never finds it and times out. Start runWatch(runId) before waiting and resolve on the matching 'entry' event, or advance from_seq after each read.
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In `@packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts` around lines 505 - 506, Update
the step-completion wait flow around isStepCompleted to use runWatch(runId) and
resolve when an 'entry' event matches stepId, rather than repeatedly calling
journalRead(runId, 1); ensure the watcher is started before waiting and preserve
the existing timeout behavior.
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<file name="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:112">
P2: When `executeAuthoredFlow` uses its default `flowPath` or receives a directory, `checkAuthoredFlow` searches the parent directory instead of that directory. A project `flows.json` in the current flow directory is therefore missed, causing `f.agent` to fail with `agent_cli_unresolved` despite a valid project CLI. Normalize directory inputs before preflight or make `checkAuthoredFlow` distinguish file and directory paths.</violation>
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P2: The assertion `expect(capturedResult?.summary).toBe('handled: Perform the declared work.')` cannot match what the executor returns. The stub CLI writes two lines to stdout — `relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\n` then `handled: ...` — so `stdout_tail` (worker-cli.ts: `Buffer.concat(stdout).toString('utf8')`, no stripping) is `relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\nhandled: Perform the declared work.` and `readSuccessfulAgentOutput` returns that full string as `summary`. `toBe` is exact equality, so this test fails whenever it runs against a live kernel. Assert with `toContain`, or drop the banner line from the stub so the exact-string match holds.</violation>
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| const definition = getAuthoredFlowDefinition<Input>(handle); | ||
| const getDefinition = options.getDefinition ?? getAuthoredFlowDefinition; | ||
| const flowPath = options.flowPath ?? process.cwd(); |
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P2: When executeAuthoredFlow uses its default flowPath or receives a directory, checkAuthoredFlow searches the parent directory instead of that directory. A project flows.json in the current flow directory is therefore missed, causing f.agent to fail with agent_cli_unresolved despite a valid project CLI. Normalize directory inputs before preflight or make checkAuthoredFlow distinguish file and directory paths.
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<comment>When `executeAuthoredFlow` uses its default `flowPath` or receives a directory, `checkAuthoredFlow` searches the parent directory instead of that directory. A project `flows.json` in the current flow directory is therefore missed, causing `f.agent` to fail with `agent_cli_unresolved` despite a valid project CLI. Normalize directory inputs before preflight or make `checkAuthoredFlow` distinguish file and directory paths.</comment>
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): Promise<AuthoredFlowExecutionResult> {
- const definition = getAuthoredFlowDefinition<Input>(handle);
+ const getDefinition = options.getDefinition ?? getAuthoredFlowDefinition;
+ const flowPath = options.flowPath ?? process.cwd();
+ const definition = getDefinition<Input>(handle);
const headerFields = Object.keys(definition.header);
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P2: The assertion expect(capturedResult?.summary).toBe('handled: Perform the declared work.') cannot match what the executor returns. The stub CLI writes two lines to stdout — relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\n then handled: ... — so stdout_tail (worker-cli.ts: Buffer.concat(stdout).toString('utf8'), no stripping) is relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\nhandled: Perform the declared work. and readSuccessfulAgentOutput returns that full string as summary. toBe is exact equality, so this test fails whenever it runs against a live kernel. Assert with toContain, or drop the banner line from the stub so the exact-string match holds.
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<comment>The assertion `expect(capturedResult?.summary).toBe('handled: Perform the declared work.')` cannot match what the executor returns. The stub CLI writes two lines to stdout — `relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\n` then `handled: ...` — so `stdout_tail` (worker-cli.ts: `Buffer.concat(stdout).toString('utf8')`, no stripping) is `relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\nhandled: Perform the declared work.` and `readSuccessfulAgentOutput` returns that full string as `summary`. `toBe` is exact equality, so this test fails whenever it runs against a live kernel. Assert with `toContain`, or drop the banner line from the stub so the exact-string match holds.</comment>
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+ expect(capturedResult?.summary).toBe('handled: Perform the declared work.');
+ expect(capturedResult?.artifacts).toEqual([]);
+ });
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| expect(capturedResult?.summary).toBe('handled: Perform the declared work.'); | |
| expect(capturedResult?.summary).toContain('handled: Perform the declared work.'); |
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NOT ALIGNED at 3252115a678ad59c0e2d177716cb184f2b3bb269. The architecture respects the closed kernel vocabulary and compiled-data boundary, but the newly runnable surface violates established permission and outcome contracts. These are reproduced implementation findings, not a request to expand the kernel or implement the remaining design surface.
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P1 — Refuse unsupported workspace permission annotations instead of silently executing them. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:166 copies the entire
workspacestring into an opaque surface identifier; it emits no permission restriction. The live worker then executes the CLI without such a restriction (packages/sdk/src/worker.ts:91). Inscopes.mjs, an authoredworkspace: "<fixture>: readonly"agent overwrote that disposable file and returnedcompletionReason: success. This violates SURFACE §2 law 3 (docs/SURFACE.md:66) and RFC Appendix A.1 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:236); it cannot establish the gate-exclusion guarantee required by decision 6 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:208). No actual gate file was used in the reproduction. The narrow fix can be to reject permission annotations until they can be enforced; passing an annotation through as an opaque name is not enforcing it. Evidence:READONLY compiled,READONLY result, andREADONLY file afterbelow. -
P1 — Classify parked/running agent outcomes instead of imposing an unrelated 30-second completion deadline. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:496 always waits for
step.completed, regardless of worker availability or a live lease, and converts its absence after 30 seconds into a protocol violation. With no worker, the public CLI exited 1 after 30,185 ms althoughrun.resumereturnedparkedand the agent remained runnable. With a real wrapper taking 31 seconds and its worker lease renewed every second, the executor errored after 30,233 ms while the run was running; the kernel subsequently journaled step and run success. This violates SURFACE §5's exit-3 parked result and lease-aware waiting (docs/SURFACE.md:350, docs/SURFACE.md:359, docs/SURFACE.md:365), RFC covenant 2, and decision 11 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:34, docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:213). Reuse the existing outcome/lease classification rather than treating a valid asynchronous state as a protocol error. Evidence:parked.mjsand theSLOWlines inreproduce.mjs. -
P2 — Recheck stale agent outcomes even when the first journal read already sees completion. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:402 refreshes run status only when the helper actually polled. An asynchronous worker can finish between
runStartand the first journal read, leavingpolled === falsewith a staleparked/nulloutcome. I reproduced this against a real daemon and worker by delaying delivery of the first journal read until completion existed: the executor threwsuccessful step entry conflicts with run outcome parked/null, while both terminal journal entries saidsuccess. This violates decision 11 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:213) and SURFACE §5's success outcome (docs/SURFACE.md:354). Poll count does not determine whether the original outcome is current. Evidence: theRACElines below; no journal outcome was fabricated. -
P2 — Preserve the nearest project-config boundary for default SDK execution. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:112 defaults
flowPathtoprocess.cwd(), but the called checker unconditionally appliesdirname()(packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts:80). Thus it starts searching one directory too high. In one live reproduction it refused despite a valid cwdflows.json; in another, a nestedflows.jsoncontaining{}was bypassed and the parent's CLI ran successfully. This violates SURFACE §2's project-config discovery and shadowing contract (docs/SURFACE.md:189), including its protection against outer credential/CLI inheritance. Normalize a directory to a file anchor or explicitly support directory inputs. Evidence:DEFAULT_CWDandNESTED_EMPTY_CONFIG successbelow. -
P2 — Keep ESM runtime resolution compatible with the installed surface dependency. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-loader.ts:91 resolves using the
requirecondition. The surface 2.0.6 installed by this PR's SDK lockfile exposes its runtime only underimport. A cleannpm cifollowed by the required suite therefore failsdirect-input.test.ts, and a separate project using that export map cannot run the README hello body. Installing the packed PR surface makes the suite green, but that does not fix compatibility with the declared/locked installed dependency or existing authors' copies. This violates the RFC covenant 1 working-first-flow requirement (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:31) and SURFACE §5 direct TypeScript invocation (docs/SURFACE.md:340). Resolve under ESM conditions or make the compatible dependency/version requirement explicit and reproducible. Evidence: full clean-install suite failure,QUICKSTART_INSTALLED_SURFACE, and the packed-surface rerun below. -
P2 — Report first-step preflight refusal as refusal, not daemon protocol failure. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:182 throws
agent_cli_unresolved, but packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts:68 only classifiesunsupported_headeras a pre-write execution refusal, so a firstf.agentwith no resolved CLI becomes exit 1, diagnostic kindprotocol_error. The README advertises a refusal (README.md:67). This violates SURFACE §5's exit-2 preflight contract (docs/SURFACE.md:356) and RFC covenant 2 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:34). Preserve the preflight classification and whether any previous authored step wrote a journal; a later refusal must not falsely claim the entire flow was refused before writes. Evidence: the literal public-CLIMISSING_CLIJSON/stderr below.
Answers to the five requested spec questions
- Kernel vocabulary: aligned.
f.agentlowers to existingtype: 'agent', then callstoKernelSpecandjournal.runStart(packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:159, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:189). There is no fourth step type and no kernel change in this diff. That matches decision 13 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:215) and SURFACE §3 (docs/SURFACE.md:287). The executed live test and captured compiled spec below support this. - Flow-handle/kernel boundary: aligned in shape. The loader selects the author's runtime accessor (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-loader.ts:98); the handle remains a surface concern, while the checker compiles/validates data (packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts:77) and the executor submits the resulting kernel spec (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:189). This preserves decision 9 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:211). Finding 5 is a resolution compatibility defect, not vocabulary or protocol expansion. Surface forged-handle tests pass unchanged.
- Permissions/gates: cannot sign off. No gate file or gate-ownership mechanism is changed, but findings 1 and 4 demonstrate ineffective declared readonly scope and bypassed nested project configuration. Decision 6 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:208) remains binding; Appendix A.1 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:236) and SURFACE §2 law 3 (docs/SURFACE.md:66) supply the permission contract. The executed evidence establishes a disposable readonly-file write, not a claim that an actual protected gate was edited.
- Completion reasons: the journal discipline is retained, but the surface reporting is not correct. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:384 reads and checks the kernel reason; findings 2 and 3 show the SDK nevertheless rejects real kernel success or a legitimate wait. Under decision 11 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:213), quality remains outside the kernel; these are execution/outcome defects, not evidence-quality judgments.
- Quickstart: partially accurate. The exact hello body works with independent copies of the PR surface (
QUICKSTART_PR_SURFACE). The installed-version failure and preflight classification are findings 5 and 6; thef.agentparagraph also needs to explain the separately attached worker required by SURFACE §5 (docs/SURFACE.md:359). Itsflows.jsonalone does not cause the CLI to attach a worker, and the current no-worker path is finding 2. Location: README.md:49 and README.md:67.
Test interpretation and scope
The new live test is not vacuous: it starts a daemon, attaches an AgentWorker, launches a real fixture CLI, and asserts the exact returned instruction-derived summary (packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts:355, packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts:382). capturedResult?.summary being undefined would fail; an empty result cannot pass that assertion. Its artifacts: [] check only pins the currently empty list, not artifact discovery. It does not exercise declared workspace restrictions, config shadowing, external-package loading, absent workers, a >30-second live lease, or completion arriving before the first read. Those omissions explain why the packed-surface suite can pass with the reproduced defects still present.
Executed results: SDK build passes; required targeted files 52 passed; surface suite 7 passed. Full SDK suite with the lockfile-installed surface: 803 passed, 1 failed, 3 skipped. With the actual packed PR surface: 804 passed, 3 skipped. The skips are tests/real-cli-adapters.test.ts; the live Claude analyzer test ran in these executions. Literal commands and full output follow. No approval, merge, push, tracked source edit, or gate edit was performed. This is not mutation verification.
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Dependencies were prepared with npm --prefix packages/sdk ci and npm --prefix packages/surface ci; these are dependency setup commands, not test results. The Cargo PATH below selects the installed stable toolchain directly because the ambient shim is broken. The explicit binary/target paths ensure the tests run the kernel built from this worktree.
SDK build
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Full SDK suite, lockfile-installed surface — one failure
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> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 typecheck
> tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json
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> tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs
> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 typecheck:tests
> tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json
RUN v2.1.9 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk
✓ tests/tick-source.test.ts (33 tests) 12ms
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts
LIVE_KERNEL relayflowd=/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd
LIVE_KERNEL flows=/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/dist/cli.js
✓ tests/journal-client.test.ts (14 tests) 71ms
✓ tests/validate.test.ts (68 tests) 15ms
✓ tests/daemon-lifecycle.test.ts (42 tests) 31ms
✓ tests/preflight.test.ts (25 tests) 39ms
✓ tests/gate-contract.test.ts (20 tests) 128ms
✓ tests/cli-hn-monitor.test.ts (16 tests) 163ms
✓ tests/authored-flow.test.ts (23 tests) 642ms
✓ tests/backlog-picker.test.ts (14 tests) 90ms
✓ tests/authored-flow-lifecycle-executor.test.ts (27 tests) 543ms
✓ tests/tick-runner.test.ts (22 tests) 651ms
✓ tests/authored-flow-operation.test.ts (23 tests) 295ms
✓ tests/work-package-consumer.test.ts (13 tests) 158ms
✓ tests/backlog-picker-flow.test.ts (6 tests) 370ms
✓ tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts (78 tests) 1178ms
✓ closed per-verb step fields > carries the llm/agent `output` sugar through every path > flows check accepts output on llm 926ms
✓ tests/typed-output.test.ts (14 tests) 215ms
✓ tests/spec-parity.test.ts (31 tests) 271ms
❯ tests/direct-input.test.ts (4 tests | 1 failed) 723ms
× direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > executes inline and file JSON input through relayflowd 152ms
→ REFUSED [invalid_spec] Flow "/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/direct-input.flow.ts" imports @relayflows/surface, but @relayflows/surface/runtime could not be resolved from the same location: Package subpath './runtime' is not defined by "exports" in /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/package.json
: expected 2 to be +0 // Object.is equality
✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > refuses missing and malformed input before contacting relayflowd 353ms
✓ tests/model-selection.test.ts (10 tests) 18ms
✓ tests/relayflowd-path.test.ts (10 tests) 7ms
✓ tests/hn-poller.test.ts (6 tests) 5ms
✓ tests/deterministic-llm.test.ts (5 tests) 67ms
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✓ tests/hello-deterministic.test.ts (5 tests) 18ms
✓ tests/dependency-validation.test.ts (6 tests) 386ms
✓ tests/work-package-validator.test.ts (7 tests) 6ms
✓ tests/parse-json-output.test.ts (7 tests) 3ms
↓ tests/real-cli-adapters.test.ts (3 tests | 3 skipped)
✓ tests/cli-adapter.test.ts (3 tests) 2ms
✓ tests/placement.test.ts (54 tests) 12ms
✓ tests/memory.test.ts (18 tests) 4ms
✓ tests/json-schema-bound.test.ts (71 tests) 1761ms
✓ JSON Schema termination bound > walks a deep schema with an explicit stack rather than recursion 1336ms
✓ tests/bin.test.ts (7 tests) 2010ms
✓ built flows binary > refuses through a symlink to the built artifact 609ms
✓ built flows binary > classifies a signal-terminated auth probe as probe_failed 583ms
✓ built flows binary > runs one auth probe for three steps sharing a flow CLI 602ms
✓ tests/classify-outcome.test.ts (2 tests) 2228ms
✓ classifyOutcome > gives up and reports when a running run never becomes classifiable 2070ms
✓ tests/cli.test.ts (63 tests) 5445ms
✓ flows check CLI > binds a checked relative wrapper to the flow directory for worker execution 899ms
✓ flows check CLI > uses the raw Claude adapter model flag instead of accepting auth status as model proof 951ms
✓ flows check CLI > uses Codex login status and reports a rejected model as unavailable, not unauthenticated 746ms
✓ flows check CLI > accepts an exact allowlisted named-agent model and probes that model 526ms
✓ flows check CLI > checks the same named-agent contract from declarative JSON 541ms
✓ flows check CLI > refuses cli-unauthenticated.flow.yaml with typed kind cli_unauthenticated and exit 2 482ms
✓ tests/daemon-lifecycle-live.test.ts (9 tests) 6395ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > cold start spawns exactly one daemon, the run succeeds, and the daemon outlives the CLI 1153ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > polls, bounded, for a daemon that holds the lock before it binds 1429ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > attaches to a serving daemon that has not published a connection file 509ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > a second run attaches to the daemon the first one started, spawning nothing 568ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > detects a stale connection file left by a hard kill and starts a fresh daemon 981ms
✓ concurrent invocations against one empty data dir (§6 test 15) > ends with exactly one daemon owning the socket, and both runs succeed 1165ms
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✓ custom wrapper execution identity > refuses a wrapper symlink retarget before delivering private values 1026ms
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✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > journals a completionReason at the default bound when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe 11258ms
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stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER ready: claude -p --model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 round-trip OK
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER analysis: {"reasoning":"This story is directly about an AI agent automating software development workflows by autonomously opening and reviewing pull requests, which is core to the AI agents and automation domain.","relevance_score":10,"story_title":"Show HN: an agent that opens and reviews its own pull requests [wake-nonce-7f3a91c4]"}
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > surface resume after a real daemon kill > resumes a three-step run with each successful completion exactly once
LIVE_KERNEL kill -9 pid=60984 run=01M206NCHNQ8FMP8XY24K3BY7P while step=two state=Running
✓ tests/live-kernel.test.ts (29 tests) 53671ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs rung (a), parks rung (b), and keeps JSON report-shaped 2004ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > allows a deterministic run to exceed the bounded request timeout 32477ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > f.agent lowers to a real agent step and dispatches through a live worker 403ms
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⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Failed Tests 1 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
FAIL tests/direct-input.test.ts > direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > executes inline and file JSON input through relayflowd
AssertionError: REFUSED [invalid_spec] Flow "/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/direct-input.flow.ts" imports @relayflows/surface, but @relayflows/surface/runtime could not be resolved from the same location: Package subpath './runtime' is not defined by "exports" in /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/package.json
: expected 2 to be +0 // Object.is equality
- Expected
+ Received
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❯ tests/direct-input.test.ts:52:42
50| '--data-dir', dataDir,
51| ]);
52| expect(inline.status, inline.stderr).toBe(0);
| ^
53| expect(inline.stdout).toContain('completionReason: success');
54| expect(readFileSync(inlineOutput, 'utf8')).toBe('inline value');
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Test Files 1 failed | 36 passed | 1 skipped (38)
Tests 1 failed | 803 passed | 3 skipped (807)
Start at 11:46:57
Duration 54.12s (transform 685ms, setup 0ms, collect 3.39s, tests 100.30s, environment 3ms, prepare 1.39s)
The two explicitly requested test files
Command (from worktree root unless noted):
RELAYFLOWD_BIN=$PWD/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd npm --prefix packages/sdk exec -- vitest run --root packages/sdk tests/authored-flow.test.ts tests/live-kernel.test.tsLiteral captured output:
RUN v2.1.9 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts
LIVE_KERNEL relayflowd=/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd
LIVE_KERNEL flows=/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk/dist/cli.js
✓ tests/authored-flow.test.ts (23 tests) 632ms
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER ready: claude -p --model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 round-trip OK
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER analysis: {"reasoning":"This story directly addresses AI agents performing autonomous software development tasks, specifically opening and reviewing pull requests, which is a core application of agent-based automation in development workflows.","relevance_score":10,"story_title":"Show HN: an agent that opens and reviews its own pull requests [wake-nonce-7f3a91c4]"}
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > surface resume after a real daemon kill > resumes a three-step run with each successful completion exactly once
LIVE_KERNEL kill -9 pid=67140 run=01M206S5FF05K4TS83WX86R97R while step=two state=Running
✓ tests/live-kernel.test.ts (29 tests) 50233ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs rung (a), parks rung (b), and keeps JSON report-shaped 537ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > allows a deterministic run to exceed the bounded request timeout 32424ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > can always get a parked run to a late-attaching worker 5569ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI 8426ms
Test Files 2 passed (2)
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Start at 11:49:04
Duration 50.54s (transform 142ms, setup 0ms, collect 304ms, tests 50.86s, environment 0ms, prepare 75ms)
Surface suite, including forged-handle rejection
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npm --prefix packages/surface testLiteral captured output:
> @relayflows/surface@2.0.6 test
> bun run build && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && vitest run
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Test Files 1 passed (1)
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Start at 11:46:02
Duration 184ms (transform 21ms, setup 0ms, collect 21ms, tests 3ms, environment 0ms, prepare 33ms)
Packing setup command, run from packages/surface: npm pack --ignore-scripts --pack-destination ../../.review-evidence/pr243.
Install that packed surface into SDK, without lockfile changes
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changed 6 packages, and audited 59 packages in 8s
16 packages are looking for funding
run `npm fund` for details
5 vulnerabilities (3 moderate, 1 high, 1 critical)
To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
npm audit fix --force
Run `npm audit` for details.
Full SDK suite with packed PR surface — green
Command (from worktree root unless noted):
PATH=/Users/khaliqgant/.rustup/toolchains/stable-aarch64-apple-darwin/bin:$PATH RELAYFLOWD_BIN=$PWD/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd CARGO_TARGET_DIR=$PWD/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target npm --prefix packages/sdk testLiteral captured output:
> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 test
> sh scripts/test.sh
> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 test:prep
> ( cd ../../kernel && sh ../ops/cargo.sh build ) && ( [ ! -d ../../testdata/preflight ] || find ../../testdata/preflight -name '*-cli' -type f -exec chmod +x {} + )
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> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 typecheck
> tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json
> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 build
> tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs
> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.6 typecheck:tests
> tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json
RUN v2.1.9 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/sdk
✓ tests/tick-source.test.ts (33 tests) 13ms
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts
LIVE_KERNEL relayflowd=/Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd
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✓ tests/daemon-lifecycle.test.ts (42 tests) 24ms
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✓ tests/gate-contract.test.ts (20 tests) 189ms
✓ tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts (78 tests) 252ms
✓ tests/cli-hn-monitor.test.ts (16 tests) 253ms
✓ tests/authored-flow.test.ts (23 tests) 643ms
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✓ tests/authored-flow-lifecycle-executor.test.ts (27 tests) 515ms
✓ tests/tick-runner.test.ts (22 tests) 614ms
✓ tests/authored-flow-operation.test.ts (23 tests) 332ms
✓ tests/work-package-consumer.test.ts (13 tests) 208ms
✓ tests/backlog-picker-flow.test.ts (6 tests) 554ms
✓ tests/spec-parity.test.ts (31 tests) 241ms
✓ tests/model-selection.test.ts (10 tests) 14ms
✓ tests/relayflowd-path.test.ts (10 tests) 4ms
✓ tests/typed-output.test.ts (14 tests) 332ms
✓ tests/deterministic-llm.test.ts (5 tests) 51ms
✓ tests/hn-poller.test.ts (6 tests) 6ms
✓ tests/dependency-validation.test.ts (6 tests) 352ms
✓ tests/dir-watcher-poller.test.ts (6 tests) 5ms
✓ tests/direct-input.test.ts (4 tests) 1202ms
✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > executes inline and file JSON input through relayflowd 647ms
✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > refuses missing and malformed input before contacting relayflowd 369ms
✓ tests/work-package-validator.test.ts (7 tests) 4ms
✓ tests/hello-deterministic.test.ts (5 tests) 15ms
✓ tests/parse-json-output.test.ts (7 tests) 2ms
↓ tests/real-cli-adapters.test.ts (3 tests | 3 skipped)
✓ tests/bin.test.ts (7 tests) 575ms
✓ tests/cli-adapter.test.ts (3 tests) 4ms
✓ tests/placement.test.ts (54 tests) 9ms
✓ tests/memory.test.ts (18 tests) 5ms
✓ tests/json-schema-bound.test.ts (71 tests) 1735ms
✓ JSON Schema termination bound > walks a deep schema with an explicit stack rather than recursion 1302ms
✓ tests/cli.test.ts (63 tests) 4465ms
✓ flows check CLI > binds a checked relative wrapper to the flow directory for worker execution 1081ms
✓ flows check CLI > uses the raw Claude adapter model flag instead of accepting auth status as model proof 533ms
✓ flows check CLI > uses Codex login status and reports a rejected model as unavailable, not unauthenticated 699ms
✓ flows check CLI > refuses a nonconforming custom wrapper without calling it an authentication failure 316ms
✓ flows check CLI > accepts an exact allowlisted named-agent model and probes that model 444ms
✓ flows check CLI > checks the same named-agent contract from declarative JSON 382ms
✓ tests/classify-outcome.test.ts (2 tests) 2229ms
✓ classifyOutcome > gives up and reports when a running run never becomes classifiable 2071ms
✓ tests/daemon-lifecycle-live.test.ts (9 tests) 5337ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > cold start spawns exactly one daemon, the run succeeds, and the daemon outlives the CLI 888ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > polls, bounded, for a daemon that holds the lock before it binds 1573ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > attaches to a serving daemon that has not published a connection file 600ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > a second run attaches to the daemon the first one started, spawning nothing 351ms
✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > detects a stale connection file left by a hard kill and starts a fresh daemon 489ms
✓ concurrent invocations against one empty data dir (§6 test 15) > ends with exactly one daemon owning the socket, and both runs succeed 864ms
✓ tests/worker-cli.test.ts (13 tests) 23202ms
✓ custom wrapper execution identity > refuses a wrapper symlink retarget before delivering private values 1044ms
✓ custom wrapper execution identity > bounds wrapper execution after acknowledgement 793ms
✓ custom wrapper execution identity > bounds captured wrapper output 556ms
✓ custom wrapper execution identity > refuses a duplicate execute protocol frame 312ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a conforming wrapper leaks a stdio pipe to a background helper 2061ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when the leaked helper inherits stderr only 1832ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe and exits before identifying 3255ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > journals a completionReason at the default bound when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe 11257ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > accepts the same over-8KiB payload whether or not it coalesces with the execute token 886ms
✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > still bounds an un-terminated handshake buffer and names the bound 344ms
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER ready: claude -p --model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 round-trip OK
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI
LIVE_ANALYZER analysis: {"reasoning":"This story is directly relevant to AI agents and automation, describing a practical agent system that autonomously performs software engineering tasks (opening and reviewing pull requests). Given the current working directory contains Agent Workforce SDK code focused on multi-agent automation workflows, this represents a concrete use case that aligns closely with the project's domain.","relevance_score":9,"story_title":"Show HN: an agent that opens and reviews its own pull requests [wake-nonce-7f3a91c4]"}
stdout | tests/live-kernel.test.ts > surface resume after a real daemon kill > resumes a three-step run with each successful completion exactly once
LIVE_KERNEL kill -9 pid=77045 run=01M206YWC1BB538M1TTAYR4GFG while step=two state=Running
✓ tests/live-kernel.test.ts (29 tests) 51952ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs rung (a), parks rung (b), and keeps JSON report-shaped 1586ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > allows a deterministic run to exceed the bounded request timeout 32444ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs an agent CLI end to end through the SDK worker 309ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > f.agent lowers to a real agent step and dispatches through a live worker 398ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > can always get a parked run to a late-attaching worker 5564ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker passes a declared model to an identified wrapper as RELAYFLOW_MODEL 381ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker refuses a nonconforming journal-submitted wrapper before exposing RELAYFLOW_MODEL 344ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker executes the raw claude adapter with its real model flag 332ms
✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI 8472ms
Test Files 37 passed | 1 skipped (38)
Tests 804 passed | 3 skipped (807)
Start at 11:52:10
Duration 52.37s (transform 714ms, setup 0ms, collect 3.30s, tests 95.54s, environment 4ms, prepare 1.41s)
The following review-only scripts and logs are in .review-evidence/pr243/ in this worktree; their complete source is embedded so this review does not depend on a private local artifact. They launch the built local daemon and synthetic adapter processes, never alter a gate, and terminate their daemons. reproduce.mjs was run before substituting the SDK dependency with the packed PR surface (so its installed-surface compatibility case uses the original npm-installed export map). parked.mjs consumes its generated fixture directory; scopes.mjs was run after the substitution. The race fixture delays the first real journal read; the slow fixture renews the worker lease. Neither substitutes journal results.
Reproducer source: reproduce.mjs
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, existsSync, cpSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
import { flow } from '../../packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/dist/index.js';
import { executeAuthoredFlow } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/authored-flow-executor.js';
import { JournalClient } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/journal-client.js';
import { AgentWorker } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/worker.js';
const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../..');
const sleep = ms => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));
const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'r243-'));
console.log('REPRO_DIR ' + dir);
const bin = join(root, '.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd');
const daemon = spawn(bin, ['--data-dir', join(dir, 'data'), 'serve'], { stdio: 'ignore' });
const socket = join(dir, 'data/relayflowd.sock');
const clients = [];
let worker; let heartbeat;
async function client() {
const c = new JournalClient(socket);
await c.connect(); await c.hello('pr243-review'); clients.push(c); return c;
}
function wrapper(path, delay = 0) {
writeFileSync(path, `#!/usr/bin/env node
if (process.argv[2] === 'auth') process.exit(0);
if (process.argv[2] !== '--relayflows-adapter-v1') process.exit(9);
process.stdout.write('relayflows-agent-cli-v1\\n');
let input = ''; process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
process.stdin.on('data', c => input += c);
process.stdin.on('end', () => {
if (!input.trim()) return;
const request = JSON.parse(input);
process.stdout.write('relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\\n');
setTimeout(() => process.stdout.write('handled: ' + request.instruction), ${delay});
});
`, { mode: 0o755 });
}
function project(name, delay = 0) {
const p = join(dir, name); mkdirSync(p); const cli = join(p, 'agent-cli'); wrapper(cli, delay);
writeFileSync(join(p, 'flows.json'), JSON.stringify({ cli })); return p;
}
const handle = name => flow(name, async f => { await f.agent('worker', {task: 'review fixture'}); f.done('success'); });
async function capture(promise) {
try { const result = await promise; return { completionReason: result.completionReason }; }
catch(e) { return { code: e.code, completionReason: e.completionReason ?? null, message: e.message }; }
}
async function cli(args) {
const p = spawn(process.execPath, [join(root, 'packages/sdk/dist/cli.js'), ...args], { stdio: ['ignore','pipe','pipe'] });
let stdout = '', stderr = ''; p.stdout.on('data', c => stdout += c); p.stderr.on('data', c => stderr += c);
const status = await new Promise(r => p.on('close', r)); return { status, stdout, stderr };
}
try {
for(let i=0; !existsSync(socket) && i<250; i++) await sleep(20);
const run = await client();
const p = project('project');
const workerClient = await client();
worker = new AgentWorker(workerClient, {workerId:'review-worker', pins:{ workspace:[{surface:'repo',revision_id:'rev-a'}],streams:[] }});
await worker.attach();
let agentRun;
const raced = {
runStart: async spec => { const o = await run.runStart(spec); agentRun=o.run_id; console.log('RACE runStart ' + JSON.stringify(o)); return o; },
journalRead: async (...args) => {
// Real journal; delay delivery of the first read until the worker has completed.
for(let i=0;i<200;i++) { const j=await run.journalRead(...args); if(j.entries.some(e=>e.entry_type==='step.completed')) return j; await sleep(10); }
throw new Error('worker did not complete');
},
runGet: (...args) => run.runGet(...args),
};
const race = await capture(executeAuthoredFlow(handle('race'), raced, undefined, {flowPath:join(p,'flow.ts')}));
const snap = await run.runGet(agentRun);
assert.equal(snap.status,'completed'); assert.equal(race.code,'journal_protocol_violation');
console.log('RACE executor ' + JSON.stringify(race));
console.log('RACE actual journal ' + JSON.stringify((await run.journalRead(agentRun)).entries.filter(e=>e.entry_type==='step.completed'||e.entry_type==='run.completed').map(e=>({entry_type:e.entry_type,completionReason:e.payload.completionReason}))));
// The default documented directory path skips its own flows.json.
const before = process.cwd(); process.chdir(p);
try {
const result = await capture(executeAuthoredFlow(handle('cwd-default'), run));
assert.equal(result.code, 'agent_cli_unresolved'); console.log('DEFAULT_CWD ' + JSON.stringify(result));
} finally { process.chdir(before); }
// Test the README body with two independent copies of the PR's surface.
const external = join(dir, 'external'); mkdirSync(join(external,'node_modules/@relayflows'), {recursive:true});
const surface = join(external,'node_modules/@relayflows/surface'); mkdirSync(surface);
cpSync(join(root,'packages/surface/dist'),join(surface,'dist'),{recursive:true});
cpSync(join(root,'packages/surface/package.json'),join(surface,'package.json'));
const hello = join(external,'hello.flow.ts');
writeFileSync(hello, `import {flow} from '@relayflows/surface'; export default flow('hello',async f=>{await f.run('echo "hello from a relayflow"');f.done('success');});`);
const quickstart = await cli(['run','--no-spawn','--data-dir',join(dir,'data'),hello,'--input','{}']);
assert.equal(quickstart.status,0); console.log('QUICKSTART_PR_SURFACE ' + JSON.stringify(quickstart));
// Existing released ESM-only surface is compatible with flow(), but new require resolution rejects it.
cpSync(join(root,'packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/package.json'),join(surface,'package.json'));
const oldSurface = await cli(['run','--no-spawn','--data-dir',join(dir,'data'),hello,'--input','{}']);
console.log('QUICKSTART_INSTALLED_SURFACE ' + JSON.stringify(oldSurface));
// Restore PR package and exercise missing config through the public CLI.
cpSync(join(root,'packages/surface/package.json'),join(surface,'package.json'));
writeFileSync(join(external,'flows.json'),'{}');
const agent = join(external,'agent.flow.ts'); writeFileSync(agent, `import {flow} from '@relayflows/surface'; export default flow('agent',async f=>{await f.agent('worker',{task:'review fixture'});f.done('success');});`);
console.log('MISSING_CLI ' + JSON.stringify(await cli(['run','--no-spawn','--json','--data-dir',join(dir,'data'),agent,'--input','{}'])));
const slow = project('slow', 31_000);
workerClient.on('step.dispatch', d => {
if (d.spec.cli.includes('/slow/')) heartbeat = setInterval(() => {
workerClient.stepHeartbeat(d.run_id,d.step_id,d.attempt,d.lease_id).catch(e => console.log('HEARTBEAT ' + e.code));
}, 1000);
});
let slowId;
const tracked = { runStart:async spec=>{const o=await run.runStart(spec);slowId=o.run_id;return o;},journalRead:(...a)=>run.journalRead(...a),runGet:(...a)=>run.runGet(...a)};
const start = Date.now();
const slowResult = await capture(executeAuthoredFlow(handle('slow'),tracked,undefined,{flowPath:join(slow,'flow.ts')}));
assert.equal(slowResult.code,'journal_protocol_violation');
console.log('SLOW executor ' + JSON.stringify({elapsedMs:Date.now()-start,...slowResult}));
console.log('SLOW status at refusal ' + (await run.runGet(slowId)).status);
await worker.close(); worker=undefined; clearInterval(heartbeat);
console.log('SLOW actual journal ' + JSON.stringify((await run.journalRead(slowId)).entries.filter(e=>e.entry_type==='step.completed'||e.entry_type==='run.completed').map(e=>({entry_type:e.entry_type,completionReason:e.payload.completionReason}))));
} finally {
clearInterval(heartbeat); if(worker) await worker.close(); for(const c of clients)c.close();
const exited = new Promise(r=>daemon.on('exit',r)); daemon.kill('SIGTERM'); await exited;
}Executed reproducer: reproduce
Command (from worktree root unless noted):
node .review-evidence/pr243/reproduce.mjsLiteral captured output:
REPRO_DIR /var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6
RACE runStart {"completed_steps":0,"completion_reason":null,"run_id":"01M206TKM7MZKD5PH87X2NK767","status":"parked"}
RACE executor {"code":"journal_protocol_violation","completionReason":null,"message":"journal_protocol_violation: successful step entry conflicts with run outcome parked/null"}
RACE actual journal [{"entry_type":"step.completed","completionReason":"success"},{"entry_type":"run.completed","completionReason":"success"}]
DEFAULT_CWD {"code":"agent_cli_unresolved","completionReason":null,"message":"agent_cli_unresolved: Step \"agent-1\" has no CLI at step, flow, or project level. No flows.json was found from \"/private/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6\" to the filesystem root."}
QUICKSTART_PR_SURFACE {"status":0,"stdout":"RUN 01M206TKRH380KQ9YWH2TD4K4E completed (2 steps) completionReason: success\n","stderr":""}
QUICKSTART_INSTALLED_SURFACE {"status":2,"stdout":"","stderr":"REFUSED [invalid_spec] Flow \"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/external/hello.flow.ts\" imports @relayflows/surface, but @relayflows/surface/runtime could not be resolved from the same location: Package subpath './runtime' is not defined by \"exports\" in /var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/external/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/package.json\n"}
MISSING_CLI {"status":1,"stdout":"{\"ok\":false,\"command\":\"run\",\"resolutions\":[],\"diagnostics\":[{\"severity\":\"failure\",\"kind\":\"protocol_error\",\"message\":\"relayflowd could not complete the run request: agent_cli_unresolved: Step \\\"agent-1\\\" has no CLI at step, flow, or project level. Nearest project config \\\"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/external/flows.json\\\" declares no cli; outer configs are shadowed.\"}],\"path\":\"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/external/agent.flow.ts\",\"socketPath\":\"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/data/relayflowd.sock\"}\n","stderr":"FAILED [protocol_error] relayflowd could not complete the run request: agent_cli_unresolved: Step \"agent-1\" has no CLI at step, flow, or project level. Nearest project config \"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-4pELP6/external/flows.json\" declares no cli; outer configs are shadowed.\n"}
SLOW executor {"elapsedMs":30233,"code":"journal_protocol_violation","completionReason":null,"message":"journal_protocol_violation: journal has no step.completed for \"agent-1\" after 30000ms"}
SLOW status at refusal running
SLOW actual journal [{"entry_type":"step.completed","completionReason":"success"},{"entry_type":"run.completed","completionReason":"success"}]
Reproducer source: parked.mjs
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
import { JournalClient } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/journal-client.js';
const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../..');
const dir = readFileSync(join(import.meta.dirname,'reproduce.log'),'utf8').split('\n')[0].slice('REPRO_DIR '.length);
const data = join(dir,'parked2');
const file = join(dir,'external/agent.flow.ts');
writeFileSync(join(dir,'external/flows.json'),JSON.stringify({cli:join(dir,'project/agent-cli')}));
const daemon = spawn(join(root,'.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd'),['--data-dir',data,'serve'],{stdio:'ignore'});
let client;
try {
for(let i=0; !existsSync(join(data,'relayflowd.sock')) && i<250; i++) await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,20));
const started=Date.now();
const child=spawn(process.execPath,[join(root,'packages/sdk/dist/cli.js'),'run','--no-spawn','--data-dir',data,file,'--input','{}'],{stdio:['ignore','pipe','pipe']});
let stdout='',stderr='';child.stdout.on('data',c=>stdout+=c);child.stderr.on('data',c=>stderr+=c);
const exitCode=await new Promise(r=>child.on('close',r));
console.log('NO_WORKER '+JSON.stringify({exitCode,elapsedMs:Date.now()-started,stdout,stderr}));
const runId=readdirSync(join(data,'runs')).find(p=>p.endsWith('.sqlite3')).slice(0,-'.sqlite3'.length);
client=new JournalClient(join(data,'relayflowd.sock'));await client.connect();await client.hello('review-parked');
const snapshot=await client.runGet(runId);
const entries=(await client.journalRead(runId)).entries;
const outcome = await client.runResume(runId);
console.log('NO_WORKER kernel '+JSON.stringify({status:snapshot.status,steps:snapshot.steps,resume:outcome,terminalEntries:entries.filter(e=>e.entry_type==='step.completed'||e.entry_type==='run.completed').length}));
assert.equal(exitCode,1);assert.equal(outcome.status,'parked');
} finally {client?.close();const exited=new Promise(r=>daemon.on('exit',r));daemon.kill('SIGTERM');await exited;}Executed reproducer: parked
Command (from worktree root unless noted):
node .review-evidence/pr243/parked.mjsLiteral captured output:
NO_WORKER {"exitCode":1,"elapsedMs":30185,"stdout":"RUN 01M206XX1VMEQG5YPRBQMTBGCP unknown\n","stderr":"FAILED [protocol_error] relayflowd could not complete the run request: journal_protocol_violation: journal has no step.completed for \"agent-1\" after 30000ms\n"}
NO_WORKER kernel {"status":"running","steps":{"agent-1":{"state":"runnable","type":"agent"}},"resume":{"completed_steps":0,"completion_reason":null,"run_id":"01M206XX1VMEQG5YPRBQMTBGCP","status":"parked"},"terminalEntries":0}
Reproducer source: scopes.mjs
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
import { flow } from '../../packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/dist/index.js';
import { executeAuthoredFlow } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/authored-flow-executor.js';
import { JournalClient } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/journal-client.js';
import { AgentWorker } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/worker.js';
const root=resolve(import.meta.dirname,'../..');
const dir=mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(),'r243-scope-'));
const data=join(dir,'data');const cli=join(dir,'agent-cli');const marker=join(dir,'readonly.txt');
writeFileSync(marker,'before');
writeFileSync(cli, `#!/usr/bin/env node
const fs=require('node:fs');
if(process.argv[2]==='auth') process.exit(0);
process.stdout.write('relayflows-agent-cli-v1\\n');
let input='';process.stdin.on('data',c=>input+=c);
process.stdin.on('end',()=>{if(!input.trim())return;JSON.parse(input);
process.stdout.write('relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\\n');
fs.writeFileSync(${JSON.stringify(marker)},'after');process.stdout.write('wrote readonly fixture');});
`,{mode:0o755});
writeFileSync(join(dir,'flows.json'),JSON.stringify({cli}));
const daemon=spawn(join(root,'.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd'),['--data-dir',data,'serve'],{stdio:'ignore'});
const clients=[];let worker;
async function client(){const c=new JournalClient(join(data,'relayflowd.sock'));await c.connect();await c.hello('scope-review');clients.push(c);return c;}
try{
for(let i=0;!existsSync(join(data,'relayflowd.sock'))&&i<250;i++)await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,20));
const c=await client();const declared=marker+': readonly';
worker=new AgentWorker(await client(),{workerId:'scope-fixture',pins:{workspace:[{surface:declared,revision_id:'rev-a'}],streams:[]}});await worker.attach();
const tracked={runStart:async spec=>{if(spec.steps[0].type==='agent')console.log('READONLY compiled '+JSON.stringify(spec.steps[0]));return c.runStart(spec);},journalRead:(...a)=>c.journalRead(...a),runGet:(...a)=>c.runGet(...a)};
let result;
try{result=await executeAuthoredFlow(flow('readonly',async f=>{await f.agent('writer',{task:'Write the fixture',workspace:declared});f.done('success');}),tracked,undefined,{flowPath:join(dir,'flow.ts')});}
catch(e){result={code:e.code,message:e.message};}
console.log('READONLY result '+JSON.stringify(result));console.log('READONLY file '+readFileSync(marker,'utf8'));
assert.equal(readFileSync(marker,'utf8'),'after');
// A nested config that intentionally removes CLI access must shadow its parent.
const nested=join(dir,'nested');mkdirSync(nested);writeFileSync(join(nested,'flows.json'),'{}');
const before=process.cwd();process.chdir(nested);
try{const r=await executeAuthoredFlow(flow('nested-default',async f=>{await f.agent('writer',{task:'fixture'});f.done('success');}),tracked);console.log('NESTED_EMPTY_CONFIG '+r.completionReason);}
catch(e){console.log('NESTED_EMPTY_CONFIG '+e.message);}finally{process.chdir(before);}
}finally{if(worker)await worker.close();for(const c of clients)c.close();const exited=new Promise(r=>daemon.on('exit',r));daemon.kill('SIGTERM');await exited;}Executed reproducer: scopes
Command (from worktree root unless noted):
node .review-evidence/pr243/scopes.mjsLiteral captured output:
READONLY compiled {"id":"agent-1","depends_on":[],"max_iterations":1,"retry":{"initial_backoff_ms":100,"max_backoff_ms":60000,"multiplier":2,"jitter_percent":20},"verification":{},"type":"agent","instruction":"Write the fixture","cli":"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-scope-DU6DdO/agent-cli","recovery_mode":"reset","surfaces":{"workspace":[{"surface":"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r243-scope-DU6DdO/readonly.txt: readonly"}]}}
READONLY result {"name":"readonly","completionReason":"success","journalSteps":[{"id":"agent-1","runId":"01M206ZV8YRQSM3X0R2KXYSFXN","completionReason":"success"},{"id":"complete-2","runId":"01M206ZVB8K7YRFKG9GBB6QAGG","completionReason":"success"}]}
READONLY file after
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NESTED_EMPTY_CONFIG success
…; reaper wider The lane judged the live test rather than counting it, and answered all five spec questions with citations. Separately: I said the reaper had two call sites before counting — two enqueues but six RETURNING clauses, three job-shaped. Failing test now fails for the right reason after a vacuous first version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR
A review of #243 (kjgbot, plus coderabbitai/cubic/codex) found several genuine bugs in the f.agent implementation, most confirmed by actually running the code against a live daemon and worker, not just reading it. Fixed the real ones; the review's other points are addressed below too. **P1 — workspace permission annotations were silently ignored.** `workspace: "path: readonly"` was passed through as an opaque surface name with no enforcement; the reviewer proved an agent could write to a file declared readonly. No parser anywhere in this package turns that annotation into a real restriction, so `lowerAgent` now REFUSES a workspace string carrying one (`unsupported_workspace_permission`) instead of silently accepting and ignoring it. Verified live: the annotation is now rejected before any dispatch. **P1 — a fixed 30-second deadline killed legitimately long-running or genuinely parked agent runs.** Replaced the hand-rolled polling entirely with `classifyOutcome` (cli/run.ts) — the exact same wait/classification the declarative `flows run` already uses for every agent step: follows the worker's actual lease (renewing, not a wall-clock bound), and distinguishes "no worker attached, genuinely parked" from "running with a live lease" instead of guessing. Verified live: a no-worker agent step now reports PARKED (exit 3) in ~0.6s, not a protocol failure after 30s. **P1/P2 — step.completed vs. the run's terminal state race.** The kernel appends these as two separate actions (kernel/relayflowd-core/src/machine.rs: completion_actions vs. complete_run_actions), so an immediate `run.get` right after seeing `step.completed` could legitimately still read `running`. Also fixed a narrower version of the same race in my own first pass, where the run could complete between `runStart` and the very first read. `classifyOutcome` already polls to a true terminal state before this executor ever reads the journal, so the completion read is now a single safe read with no re-check needed at all — the whole class of races is gone, not patched around. **P2 — `flowPath`'s default searched one directory too high.** `checkAuthoredFlow` always does `dirname()` on the path it's given, matching `flows check`'s real file-path contract; the previous default was bare `process.cwd()` — itself a directory — so dirname() searched cwd's PARENT. Now defaults to a synthetic `join(cwd, 'flow.ts')`. Verified live: a flows.json placed only in cwd (not its parent) is now found. **P2 — `agent_cli_unresolved` reported as a protocol failure (exit 1) instead of a refusal (exit 2).** `flows check` returns exit 2 for the same failed preflight; direct-run.ts now classifies both `agent_cli_unresolved` and `unsupported_workspace_permission` the same way. Also added `agent_parked` → exit 3, matching the declarative path's parked contract exactly (same diagnostic shape, same severity). Known, documented gap not solved here (confirmed not feasible without a large redesign — an imperative TS body's f.agent calls aren't knowable without running it, unlike the static declarative compiler): if an earlier f.run already journaled real work before a later f.agent's CLI turns out unresolvable, this still reports as a clean refusal. **P2 — the published `@relayflows/surface`'s `exports` field doesn't support `require.resolve()`.** Already fixed in the base commit; this pass adds the `engines` field a reviewer correctly pointed out was missing (`>=20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`), so a CJS consumer on an older Node gets a clear, honest floor rather than a silent `ERR_REQUIRE_ESM` if it ever tries to `require()` this ESM-only package for real (the `require` condition exists only so `.resolve()` can find the file path — never to actually load it via CommonJS). **Known, deliberately not fixed here:** the review correctly found that `packages/sdk/package-lock.json` still resolves the REAL published `@relayflows/surface@2.0.6`, which lacks even the base commit's `require`-condition fix — a genuinely clean `npm ci` today would still fail `direct-input.test.ts`. My own local testing missed this because I hand-patched the already-installed `node_modules` copy rather than testing a truly clean install. This needs a real npm publish of a fixed surface (with sdk's dependency + lockfile bumped to match) — not a source-only fix — and is the natural next step after this PR merges, using this session's own working release pipeline. **Explicitly not attempted:** a live 30+ second reproduction with a worker manually renewing a step's lease via `step.heartbeat` — doing this faithfully needs extracting a `lease_id` from internal dispatch state `AgentWorker` doesn't expose (and doesn't itself renew for long-running dispatches — a separate, pre-existing property of `AgentWorker`, not something this PR touches). `classifyOutcome`'s lease-following (`waitForRunningStep`) is pre-existing, independently tested code; what's new and load-bearing here is that `lowerAgent` correctly calls it and interprets its result, which the immediate success and immediate parked live tests both directly prove. **Consciously skipped, with reason:** - Caching `checkAuthoredFlow`'s project-config/probe results across steps (coderabbitai nitpick, marked trivial) — a performance suggestion with no evidence of an actual problem; premature here. - Switching the journal read to `run.watch` instead of `journalRead` — real for the general case (100-entry response cap), but every lowered spec here is a fresh, single-step, small run, so the single post-classifyOutcome read this PR now does is not exposed to that cap in practice. - The docstring-coverage pre-merge check (33% vs. an 80% threshold) — this codebase's own convention (and this session's own instructions) is comments that carry non-obvious WHY, not docstrings for their own sake; this diff already carries unusually extensive why-comments given the subtlety involved. Verified throughout with live reproductions (real daemon, real worker, real spawned CLI processes), not just re-reading the code: workspace permission refusal, immediate-parked timing, and default-flowPath anchoring all confirmed against the actual built CLI in an isolated external project, plus two new permanent regression tests. Full SDK suite: 806 passed, 3 skipped (unchanged skip count). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
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Pushed a fix commit addressing this review — thank you especially to @kjgbot for the live reproductions, they caught real bugs static reading wouldn't have. Fixed, verified live (real daemon + worker + spawned CLI, not just re-read code):
Confirmed real, not yet fixed — needs a release, not more source changes: the finding that Explicitly not attempted: a live 30+ second reproduction with a worker manually renewing a step's lease via Consciously skipped, with reason:
Full SDK suite: 806 passed, 3 skipped (unchanged skip count), plus two new permanent regression tests for the workspace-permission refusal and the flowPath-anchoring fix. |
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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.
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<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts:86">
P2: When an authored `f.agent` cannot resolve its CLI because of an environment refusal, this branch relabels it as `invalid_spec`. Preserve the underlying preflight kind so JSON output and automation distinguish invalid specs from missing, unauthenticated, or unavailable CLIs.</violation>
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<file name="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:452">
P2: When `runStart` reports a failed or nonterminal run but `journal.read` returns a successful `step.completed`, this path accepts the output because it discards the run outcome before validation. Preserve and validate the expected terminal outcome, rejecting inconsistent protocol responses.</violation>
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| || (error instanceof AuthoredFlowExecutionError && error.code === 'unsupported_header')) { | ||
| || (error instanceof AuthoredFlowExecutionError | ||
| && (error.code === 'unsupported_header' | ||
| || error.code === 'agent_cli_unresolved' |
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P2: When an authored f.agent cannot resolve its CLI because of an environment refusal, this branch relabels it as invalid_spec. Preserve the underlying preflight kind so JSON output and automation distinguish invalid specs from missing, unauthenticated, or unavailable CLIs.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts, line 86:
<comment>When an authored `f.agent` cannot resolve its CLI because of an environment refusal, this branch relabels it as `invalid_spec`. Preserve the underlying preflight kind so JSON output and automation distinguish invalid specs from missing, unauthenticated, or unavailable CLIs.</comment>
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@@ -65,8 +70,21 @@ export async function runDirectFlow(
- || (error instanceof AuthoredFlowExecutionError && error.code === 'unsupported_header')) {
+ || (error instanceof AuthoredFlowExecutionError
+ && (error.code === 'unsupported_header'
+ || error.code === 'agent_cli_unresolved'
+ || error.code === 'unsupported_workspace_permission'))) {
return {
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| ): Promise<string> { | ||
| const entries = (await journal.journalRead(outcome.run_id, 1)).entries; | ||
| ): Promise<unknown> { | ||
| const entries = (await journal.journalRead(runId, 1)).entries; |
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P2: When runStart reports a failed or nonterminal run but journal.read returns a successful step.completed, this path accepts the output because it discards the run outcome before validation. Preserve and validate the expected terminal outcome, rejecting inconsistent protocol responses.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts, line 452:
<comment>When `runStart` reports a failed or nonterminal run but `journal.read` returns a successful `step.completed`, this path accepts the output because it discards the run outcome before validation. Preserve and validate the expected terminal outcome, rejecting inconsistent protocol responses.</comment>
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@@ -372,45 +433,36 @@ function unsupportedCloud(assertOpen: () => void): CloudHelper {
journalSteps: AuthoredFlowJournalStep[],
): Promise<unknown> {
- const { entry: completed, polled } = await waitForStepCompleted(journal, outcome.run_id, stepId);
+ const entries = (await journal.journalRead(runId, 1)).entries;
+ const completed = entries.find((entry) => isStepCompleted(entry, stepId));
+ if (!isStepCompleted(completed, stepId)) {
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…243 reviewer Khaliq: launch v2 on Cloudflare so there is no migration. Codex lane live on feat/v2-launch-via-cf-queue and verified working. Claude shadow failed twice and I am shadowing it myself. #245 handed to the #243 reviewer via drive-mode attach after the DM went unread. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtQSAcGDta5VH9xiZFT4sR
kjgbot's history review lens on PR #245: the README's "Get Started" replaced the old f.run-only quickstart (#243) with f.run + f.agent, which parks without a worker attached -- a fresh local user with no worker configured now can't complete the documented quickstart at all, only reach a parked diagnostic. That's a real regression against RFC-0001 covenant 1's under-ten-minute first-working-flow bar, and the cloud alternative is account-gated. Restored hello.flow.ts (f.run only, verified to complete in well under a minute) as the first thing a new user runs. The f.agent example moves to a new "Add a coding agent to a flow" section right after, keeping the same honest parking/worker explanation -- so the quickstart works standalone locally, and the agent example still shows the platform's actual point. Also added a synchronization-invariant comment in authored-flow-executor.ts (maintainability lens, F1): preflightDeclaredAgents and lowerAgent both resolve readiness through the same checkAuthoredFlow function by construction: keep it that way, or the two checks can silently diverge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
Summary
Three findings from actually trying to write and run a relayflow as an external user would (prompted by tightening up the README's Quickstart), chased down one at a time.
1. Every externally-authored
.flow.tsrefused to load at all."expected an @relayflows/surface flow handle"— a real Node dual-package-instance hazard, not specific tof.agent.flow()'s handle validation is aWeakMapkeyed by module-scoped object identity inside@relayflows/surfaceitself; an author's own project resolves its own separate installed copy of that package, so the CLI's internal copy'sWeakMapnever has the entry the author's copy wrote.The fix is not a new identity mechanism on the handle —
packages/surface/tests/flow.test.ts's "refuses malformed and forged handles at the runtime boundary" already pre-empts exactly that path (aSymbol.for()-tagged handle is globally guessable, so it's forgeable — I tried it, broke that test for the right reason, reverted, kept theWeakMap). The real fix:authored-flow-loader.tsnow dynamically resolves@relayflows/surface/runtimefrom the flow file's own location (the same anchor its ownimportalready used), so both sides read the sameWeakMapinstance. That needed@relayflows/surface'sexportsmap to also carry arequirecondition alongside the existing ESM-onlyimport, purely socreateRequire(...).resolve()can find the file path —.resolve()never executes the file, so the package stays ESM-only in practice.2.
f.agentthrewunsupported_verbunconditionally. The kernel already has real, tested agent-step dispatch — this morning's daemon-lifecycle workflow used it directly. The gap wasauthored-flow-executor.tsnever loweringf.agentinto a kernelAgentStepSpecat all. It now does, and reusescheckAuthoredFlow's existing preflight pipeline (cli/check.ts) to resolve a real CLI from the project'sflows.json— the same resolution a declarativetype: agentYAML step already gets, which an authored TS flow had never gone through.Getting this working end-to-end against a real attached worker (not a mock) surfaced one more real bug:
readCompletedStepOutputread the journal exactly once, immediately afterrunStart— fine for a deterministic step, which the kernel drives to completion inline, but an agent step's completion depends on an external worker actually running a real CLI process. Added a bounded poll, and made the run-outcome cross-check re-fetch fresh status only when polling was actually needed (never on the synchronous path), so the existing mock-journal unit tests keep working unmodified.3. README's Quickstart now shows a real, verified TypeScript flow (
f.run+f.done) instead of YAML, plus an honest note on what's real now (f.run,f.agent) vs. still design-only (f.llm,f.human,f.dispatch,f.cloud).Test plan
tests/live-kernel.test.ts):f.agentthrough a real attachedAgentWorkerrunning a real spawned CLI process — not a mock, proves the full round trip (lowering → preflight CLI resolution → dispatch → async completion wait →AgentResultmapping)npm install @relayflows/surfacefrom the real registry, wrote a flow, ran it through the built CLI — confirmed the exact failure without the fix, confirmed success with itNot in scope
f.llm,f.human,f.dispatch,f.cloudremain unimplemented —f.humanspecifically needs a new kernel primitive (no fourthStepTypeexists for a pause-for-human-input step), which is real, separate, foundational work.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Summary by cubic
Fixes a dual-package identity bug that rejected every externally authored
.flow.ts("expected an @relayflows/surface flow handle"), makesf.agentdispatch a real kernel agent step instead of throwingunsupported_verb, and updates the README quickstart to a working TypeScript flow.Changes
@relayflows/surfaceadds arequireexport condition socreateRequire().resolve()can locate it from the flow file's own path (still ESM-only since.resolve()never executes), plus anenginesfloor for CJS consumers.getFlowDefinitionfrom the flow file's own copy of@relayflows/surface, so both sides share the same handleWeakMap.f.agentlowers to a kernelAgentStepSpecand resolves its CLI through the same preflight as declarativetype: agentsteps; completion waits viaclassifyOutcome, following the worker's lease instead of a fixed deadline, reporting a parked run as exit 3, and removing astep.completed/terminal-state race.: readonly/: readwriteannotation are refused (unsupported_workspace_permission) because nothing enforces them; it andagent_cli_unresolvedreport as exit-2 refusals likeflows check.flowPathanchors on cwd (join(cwd, 'flow.ts')) so CLI resolution searches cwd, not its parent.f.run,f.agent) vs. still design-only.Follow-up
packages/sdk's lockfile still pins published@relayflows/surface@2.0.6, which lacks therequirecondition; a cleannpm cineeds a fixed surface publish plus a dependency/lockfile bump.Written for commit d78ca21. Summary will update on new commits.