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Summary

  • Fixes the README's flagship example, which chained .gate() calls the executor doesn't support (unsupported_gate — it never actually ran), and rewrites the Quickstart to show a verified f.runf.agent chain plus an honest note on cloud/scheduled execution via agent-relay.
  • Wires named multi-agent / per-agent model support into the TS authoring surface (f.agent). Previously f.agent() had no way to declare a distinct CLI or model per agent, and multiple f.agent() calls in one flow always shared the same project-default CLI — even though the kernel-spec/preflight/compile layer already fully implemented this (FlowSpec.agents, AgentStepSpec.agent/cli/model) for the declarative YAML dialect, per docs/SURFACE.md's own tracked gap (issue v2 authoring ergonomics: close the gaps found in the research-flow / v1 comparison #132 / PR feat(surface): add unpublished authored contract foundation #134, now landed as @relayflows/surface).
    • @relayflows/surface: FlowHeader.agents: Record<string, {cli, model}>, AgentOptions.cli/.model step-level overrides. Same closed-schema validation strictness as existing header fields.
    • authored-flow-executor.ts: header refusal is now field-specific (agents is lowered, everything else still refuses closed). f.agent's name selects a declared agent by matching against the header's map, but only sets the kernel agent selector when there's an actual match — compile.ts's resolveNamedAgent throws on any unresolvable selector, and every existing f.agent call uses name purely for step-id readability, so this keeps 100% backward compatibility.
    • docs/SURFACE.md implementation-status note updated to reflect this shipped.

Test plan

  • packages/surface: bun run build && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && vitest run — 8/8 pass, including new header-validation cases for agents.
  • packages/sdk: full vitest run — 811 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed.
  • New unit tests (authored-flow.test.ts): named-cli-missing refusal, step-level override wins over named declaration, unmatched name falls through unaffected (no unknown named agent leak), named-model-unknown refusal.
  • New live test (live-kernel.test.ts): two distinct named agents declared in one flow header dispatch end-to-end through a real daemon + worker.
  • Manually verified against a real claude CLI in a scratch project outside the repo: a two-named-agent flow resolves both CLIs/models through real preflight and parks cleanly (agent_parked, exit 3 — no worker attached locally), matching the already-documented single-agent behavior.

Note: this ships in packages/surface/packages/sdk source only — this repo doesn't use workspace links (scripts/pack-release.mjs enforces real published semver deps between packages), so a version bump + publish of @relayflows/surface and @relayflows/sdk is needed before this reaches real installs.

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Summary by cubic

Adds named multi-agent and per-step CLI/model selection to the TypeScript f.agent surface, aligning issue #132 with the declarative dialect. Previously, all calls used the project-default CLI and could not select a model; now named declarations resolve independently while unmatched names retain the existing default behavior.

Validation

  • FlowHeader.agents uses closed-schema validation and deeply freezes { cli, model } declarations.
  • Every declared agent is preflighted before the flow body, including unused agents, so missing CLIs and invalid models refuse before side effects.
  • Step-level cli and model values override named declarations.
  • CLI reports preserve specific refusal kinds such as cli_missing and model_unknown instead of collapsing them to invalid_spec.

Docs and release

  • The README now has a locally completable f.run quickstart, a separate agent example, and cloud execution guidance.
  • docs/SURFACE.md now records named-agent support in both authoring dialects.
  • Packages are versioned to 2.0.9; publish @relayflows/surface and @relayflows/sdk before using the changes in external installs.

Written for commit edf8cb2. Summary will update on new commits.

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…step

The top-of-README example chained .gate() calls, which the authored
executor doesn't lower (unsupported_gate) — it never actually ran.
Replaced with the same logic expressed in plain control flow.

The Quickstart's hello-world f.run-only example undersold what a flow
actually does. Replaced it with a verified-working f.run -> f.agent
chain, documented the local park-without-a-worker behavior (agent_parked,
exit 3) honestly, and added a "Running in the cloud" section pointing at
agent-relay cloud run/schedule for turning a flow into a standing
automation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
…thoring surface

f.agent() previously couldn't declare a distinct CLI or model per agent, and
multiple f.agent() calls in one flow always shared the same project-default
CLI. The kernel-spec/preflight/compile layer already fully implements this
(FlowSpec.agents, AgentStepSpec.agent/cli/model, step -> named declaration ->
flow/project resolution) for the declarative YAML dialect; it was only
missing from the TS surface, per docs/SURFACE.md's own tracked gap (issue
#132 / PR #134, now landed as @relayflows/surface).

- @relayflows/surface: FlowHeader gains an `agents: Record<string, {cli,
  model}>` map; AgentOptions gains optional `cli`/`model` step-level
  overrides. Both validated with the same closed-schema strictness as the
  existing memory/tools header fields.
- authored-flow-executor.ts: the header refusal is now field-specific
  (agents is lowered, everything else still refuses closed). f.agent's
  `name` argument selects a declared agent by matching it against the
  header's map -- but only lowers `agent: name` onto the kernel step when a
  match exists, since compile.ts's resolveNamedAgent throws on any
  unresolvable selector and every existing f.agent call uses `name` purely
  for step-id readability.
- docs/SURFACE.md's implementation-status note updated -- it previously said
  this was TS-surface-only blocked; it isn't anymore.

Verified live: a two-named-agent TS flow resolves both CLIs/models through
real preflight (packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts) and, separately, a
real `claude` CLI end-to-end via a manually run scratch flow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
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The PR adds named-agent declarations to the TypeScript flow surface. It validates and freezes declarations, preflights all declared agents, preserves refusal kinds, supports step-level overrides, adds execution coverage, updates documentation, and publishes version 2.0.9.

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Named agent support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and validate named agents
packages/surface/src/context.ts, packages/surface/src/flow.ts, packages/surface/src/index.ts, packages/surface/tests/flow.test.ts
The public surface adds named-agent declarations, FlowHeader.agents, and step-level CLI and model overrides. Declarations are validated, copied, frozen, and exported.
Preflight and lower named agents
packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-error.ts
The executor preflights every declared agent before the flow body runs. Named selections and step-level overrides are lowered into the authored specification.
Preserve refusal kinds at the CLI
packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts
Direct execution reports specific refusal kinds such as model_unknown and cli_missing.
Validate agent execution behavior
packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts, packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts, packages/sdk/tests/direct-input.test.ts, packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/named-agent-bad-model/*
Tests cover validation, preflight timing, CLI and model resolution, override precedence, multiple agents, and CLI refusal output.
Document and publish the surface
README.md, docs/SURFACE.md, packages/*/package.json
Documentation describes the named-agent and workflow surfaces. Package versions and pins move from 2.0.8 to 2.0.9.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the named-agent support because it expands the TypeScript authoring surface and requires coordinated publication of the surface and SDK packages.

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  participant AuthoredFlow
  participant authoredFlowExecutor
  participant checkAuthoredFlow
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  AuthoredFlow->>authoredFlowExecutor: declare agents and run flow
  authoredFlowExecutor->>checkAuthoredFlow: preflight every declaration
  checkAuthoredFlow->>AgentCLI: resolve CLI, authentication, and model
  AgentCLI-->>checkAuthoredFlow: return diagnostics
  checkAuthoredFlow-->>authoredFlowExecutor: allow execution or return refusal kind
  authoredFlowExecutor-->>AuthoredFlow: execute resolved agent step
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P2 Badge Preserve model-specific preflight refusal kinds

When the new options.model value is absent from the project allowlist or fails its readiness probe, checkAuthoredFlow produces model_unknown or model_unavailable, but the executor unconditionally wraps that refusal as agent_cli_unresolved and direct-run.ts then reports it as invalid_spec. The TypeScript dialect therefore loses the closed preflight taxonomy that the YAML dialect preserves, preventing callers from distinguishing a bad model declaration from a missing CLI; propagate the refusal kind instead of collapsing every failure.

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Fixed in 4c52342: AuthoredFlowExecutionError now carries the actual preflight refusalKind (cli_missing, model_unknown, model_unavailable, etc.), and direct-run.ts uses it instead of the hardcoded invalid_spec. Covered by new tests in authored-flow.test.ts (asserting refusalKind on the thrown error) and a new end-to-end test in direct-input.test.ts (asserting the CLI's REFUSED [model_unknown] output).

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Codex review on #245 (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:211):
lowerAgent wrapped every checkAuthoredFlow refusal -- cli_missing,
model_unknown, model_unavailable, etc. -- as one generic
AuthoredFlowExecutionError code (agent_cli_unresolved), and direct-run.ts
then hardcoded kind: 'invalid_spec' when reporting it. That collapsed the
closed refusal taxonomy the declarative `flows check` path preserves via
report.diagnostics[].kind, so a caller of the TS dialect couldn't
distinguish a bad model declaration from a missing CLI.

AuthoredFlowExecutionError now carries an optional refusalKind (the actual
PreflightFailureKind), populated at the one throw site in lowerAgent and
read back by direct-run.ts's catch block instead of the hardcoded value.
unsupported_header/unsupported_workspace_permission have no preflight-
diagnostic counterpart, so they keep invalid_spec.

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ALIGNED WITH FINDINGS at 4c5234297866ef4f1146c504eed92765503c8325.

Named agents and per-step CLI/model overrides are lawful extensions of the open TypeScript surface, compiled to the existing agent verb. They do not widen the closed kernel vocabulary. The remaining findings are two reproduced authoring-validation defects and a live test that does not prove the distinction it names. This is not an approval.

Findings

  1. P1 — Preflight declared header agents before executing the body. packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:141 now accepts the agents header, but its only call into named-agent preflight is inside lowerAgent (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:199, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:222). A flow with a statically declared, unregistered model can therefore execute f.run and finish successfully if no f.agent is reached; if an agent is reached later, the refusal occurs after the command's effect. My live reproducer writes a disposable marker in both cases: UNUSED_INVALID_HEADER reports success with marker: "effect"; LATE_HEADER_REFUSAL reports model_unknown after marker: "already-executed". This violates RFC covenant 2 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:34) and SURFACE §2, which requires every named model—including unused/shadowed declarations—to be checked before commands (docs/SURFACE.md:164), and explicitly says TS preflights its declared agents (docs/SURFACE.md:204). The new status text claiming the same contract in both dialects (docs/SURFACE.md:191) is consequently too broad. This is header data already available before the body starts, not a demand to statically predict arbitrary TS control flow. Run that declared-data validation before allowing body effects.

  2. P2 — Reject accessors on the agent map before enumerating it. packages/surface/src/flow.ts:209 uses Object.entries(value.agents) without validating the map's property descriptors. packages/surface/src/flow.ts:157 then enumerates it again while freezing. A getter can return a legal {cli, model} declaration for validation and a different, invalid declaration for storage. The executed ACCESSOR case is accepted, invokes the getter twice, and retains {cli: 42, model: "model-b", permissions: "write-all"} in getFlowDefinition(handle).header.agents. This violates the closed declaration contract in SURFACE §2 law 6 (docs/SURFACE.md:79) and its inert-data/snapshot rule in §6 (docs/SURFACE.md:399), consistent with decision 9 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:211). Validate descriptors without invoking getters, then validate/freeze the same data snapshot. This is an authored-handle validation escape; I am not claiming the extra permission field bypasses the downstream kernel compiler or grants permissions to a worker.

  3. P2 — Make the “two distinct named agents” test distinguish the selected agent and model. packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts:448 gives both names the exact same CLI and model; its wrapper ignores request.model and returns only the supplied task (packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts:414). Consequently the assertions at packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts:466 pass even when every name selects the first declaration. I executed that precise negative control by temporarily replacing agent: name with agent: Object.keys(namedAgents!)[0]: the named test still passed. I restored the source byte-for-byte and reran the same test; it passed again. Commands, output, and identical restoration hashes are below. The test proves two instruction round trips through a declared CLI, not distinct named-agent selection or per-agent model propagation. This misses the behavior specified by SURFACE §2 law 6 (docs/SURFACE.md:84) and the deterministic-test requirement in AGENTS.md rule 5 / RFC §2 rule 6 (AGENTS.md:19, docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:66). Use distinguishable CLI fixtures and model values and assert their actual worker requests/outputs. My separate live fixture does so and confirms that the current implementation itself selects both correctly and honors overrides.

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  1. Decision 13 — aligned; no vocabulary widening. packages/sdk/src/step-fields.ts:16 remains exactly AGENT_DECLARATION_FIELDS = ['cli', 'model']; packages/sdk/src/step-fields.ts:34 retains the closed agent fields instruction, agent, cli, model, surfaces, recoveryMode, permissions, output. Neither descriptor nor kernel/ changes in this PR. New TS fields are copied into existing authoring fields (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:204) and lower to type: 'agent' (packages/sdk/src/compile.ts:543), as required by RFC decision 13 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:215) and SURFACE §2 law 6 (docs/SURFACE.md:79). The CLOSED_FIELDS, DISTINCT_ACTUAL, and COMPILED_BOUNDARY outputs demonstrate this with two actual CLI fixtures and two different declared models. The surface's new type does not create a new kernel verb.
  2. Decision 9 — compiled boundary remains aligned. The existing check/compile path still produces the kernel spec before journal.runStart (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:222, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:238). The captured submissions contain resolved cli/model values and existing step types, with neither top-level agents nor per-step named agent selectors left at the boundary (packages/sdk/src/compile.ts:543). That matches decision 9 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:211). Finding 2 concerns the earlier authored-handle validation, not a new protocol or closure crossing into the kernel.
  3. Decision 6 — no new gate-edit or permission-widening mechanism found. Normal named declarations reject permissions, tools, gate, and identity extras (packages/surface/src/flow.ts:212); all four refusals were executed below. The executor still refuses other headers (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:141) and lowers only the supported named CLI/model data. No gate file changes appear in the diff. This respects the scope of decision 6 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:208); finding 2 still needs fixing and is not evidence of an actual gate-edit exploit. No gate was used as a test fixture.
  4. Decision 11 — kernel completion discipline is retained. Named calls use the existing classification and journal-result reader (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:249, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:478), without adding quality judgments. The successful distinct-agent flow records success for all three agent calls and terminal completion. A nonzero-exit named worker journals step.completed: worker_error and run.completed: step_failed; the executor rejects instead of reaching f.done('success'). This matches the kernel/evidence split in decision 11 (docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md:213). A pre-existing limitation remains visible: the SDK exception's completionReason is null for this outer step_failed outcome, while the journal has both reasons; the filtering logic is unchanged from the PR base, so I am not attributing that defect to named-agent support.
  5. Documentation — local quickstart behavior reproduced; declared parity needs finding 1 fixed. I extracted the exact explain-env.flow.ts body from README.md:49, installed a separate copy of the PR surface, used its documented {"cli":"claude"}, and ran the built CLI without a worker. It executed the deterministic step and exited 3, printing PARKED [run_parked] agent_parked, matching README.md:78 and SURFACE §5 (docs/SURFACE.md:367). The cloud deployment/admission and recurring-schedule claims at README.md:84 were not exercised; a local result is not evidence of hosted behavior. No cloud run was submitted.

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SDK build: passes with the PR's packed surface. Full SDK suite: 812 passed, 3 skipped. Explicit targeted run of authored-flow.test.ts, live-kernel.test.ts, plus the latest commit's direct-input.test.ts: 64 passed. Surface suite: 8 passed. Literal output below is the authority for these counts. The three full-suite skips are the opt-in real-cli-adapters.test.ts cases; the live analyzer test ran.

The required build against a clean lockfile-installed surface initially fails with missing agents/cli/model types; that output is included rather than hidden. The PR explicitly states that source changes need a version bump/publish, so I tested the actual packed PR surface instead of treating the old published package as the new implementation. The green build/suite claims are conditional on that setup, not a claim that the unmodified published dependency already contains the new API.

The PR advanced during review; this comment reviews the head named above, including the latest refusal-kind propagation change. It now preserves model_unknown rather than reducing it to a generic invalid-spec kind; the updated direct-input test is included in the targeted execution. Findings 1–3 remain reproducible at this head. Source was restored after the negative control; no tracked edit, gate edit, approval, merge, or push remains. This negative control is a deliberately broken selector that survived a test, not a claim of “mutation-verified” coverage.

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packages/sdk/tests/direct-input.test.ts
packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/named-agent-bad-model/bad-model.flow.ts
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packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts
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Setup: npm --prefix packages/sdk ci --ignore-scripts; build/test packages/surface; from packages/surface, run npm pack --ignore-scripts --pack-destination ../../.review-evidence/pr245; then npm --prefix packages/sdk install --no-save --package-lock=false --ignore-scripts "$PWD/.review-evidence/pr245/relayflows-surface-2.0.8.tgz". The SDK test command below builds the currently checked-out kernel into the explicitly named per-worktree target directory (the pr243 directory name is retained from the prior review, not a different checkout). The build and test logs identify the binary actually exercised.

Build against lockfile-installed surface — fails

Literal command:

npm --prefix packages/sdk run build

Captured output:


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 build
> tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs

src/authored-flow-executor.ts(199,43): error TS2339: Property 'agents' does not exist on type 'ReadonlyFlowHeader'.
src/authored-flow-executor.ts(210,21): error TS2339: Property 'cli' does not exist on type 'AgentOptions'.
src/authored-flow-executor.ts(210,61): error TS2339: Property 'cli' does not exist on type 'AgentOptions'.
src/authored-flow-executor.ts(211,21): error TS2339: Property 'model' does not exist on type 'AgentOptions'.
src/authored-flow-executor.ts(211,65): error TS2339: Property 'model' does not exist on type 'AgentOptions'.

Build against packed PR surface — passes

Literal command:

npm --prefix packages/sdk run build

Captured output:


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 build
> tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs


Full SDK suite at reviewed head

Literal command:

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 test

Captured output:


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 test
> sh scripts/test.sh


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 test:prep
> ( cd ../../kernel && sh ../ops/cargo.sh build ) && ( [ ! -d ../../testdata/preflight ] || find ../../testdata/preflight -name '*-cli' -type f -exec chmod +x {} + )

    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.32s

> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 typecheck
> tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 build
> tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs


> @relayflows/sdk@2.0.8 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) 14ms
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/daemon-lifecycle.test.ts (42 tests) 27ms
 ✓ tests/validate.test.ts (68 tests) 14ms
 ✓ tests/preflight.test.ts (25 tests) 27ms
 ✓ tests/gate-contract.test.ts (20 tests) 144ms
 ✓ tests/cli-hn-monitor.test.ts (16 tests) 208ms
 ✓ tests/verb-field-lint.test.ts (78 tests) 362ms
 ✓ tests/authored-flow.test.ts (28 tests) 642ms
 ✓ tests/backlog-picker.test.ts (14 tests) 60ms
 ✓ tests/authored-flow-lifecycle-executor.test.ts (27 tests) 583ms
 ✓ tests/tick-runner.test.ts (22 tests) 855ms
 ✓ tests/work-package-consumer.test.ts (13 tests) 250ms
 ✓ tests/authored-flow-operation.test.ts (23 tests) 366ms
 ✓ tests/backlog-picker-flow.test.ts (6 tests) 561ms
 ✓ tests/model-selection.test.ts (10 tests) 14ms
 ✓ tests/spec-parity.test.ts (31 tests) 332ms
 ✓ tests/typed-output.test.ts (14 tests) 212ms
 ✓ tests/relayflowd-path.test.ts (10 tests) 2ms
 ✓ tests/deterministic-llm.test.ts (5 tests) 96ms
 ✓ tests/hn-poller.test.ts (6 tests) 6ms
 ✓ tests/direct-input.test.ts (5 tests) 1460ms
   ✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > executes inline and file JSON input through relayflowd 718ms
   ✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > refuses missing and malformed input before contacting relayflowd 381ms
 ✓ tests/dependency-validation.test.ts (6 tests) 396ms
 ✓ tests/dir-watcher-poller.test.ts (6 tests) 5ms
 ✓ tests/hello-deterministic.test.ts (5 tests) 10ms
 ✓ tests/work-package-validator.test.ts (7 tests) 5ms
 ✓ tests/bin.test.ts (7 tests) 630ms
 ✓ tests/parse-json-output.test.ts (7 tests) 1ms
 ↓ tests/real-cli-adapters.test.ts (3 tests | 3 skipped)
 ✓ tests/cli-adapter.test.ts (3 tests) 2ms
 ✓ tests/placement.test.ts (54 tests) 8ms
 ✓ tests/memory.test.ts (18 tests) 5ms
 ✓ tests/json-schema-bound.test.ts (71 tests) 1828ms
   ✓ JSON Schema termination bound > walks a deep schema with an explicit stack rather than recursion 1409ms
 ✓ tests/cli.test.ts (63 tests) 4168ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > binds a checked relative wrapper to the flow directory for worker execution 1053ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > uses the raw Claude adapter model flag instead of accepting auth status as model proof 405ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > uses Codex login status and reports a rejected model as unavailable, not unauthenticated 555ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > refuses a nonconforming custom wrapper without calling it an authentication failure 317ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > accepts an exact allowlisted named-agent model and probes that model 449ms
   ✓ flows check CLI > checks the same named-agent contract from declarative JSON 322ms
 ✓ tests/classify-outcome.test.ts (2 tests) 2222ms
   ✓ classifyOutcome > gives up and reports when a running run never becomes classifiable 2064ms
 ✓ tests/daemon-lifecycle-live.test.ts (9 tests) 5238ms
   ✓ 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 765ms
   ✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > polls, bounded, for a daemon that holds the lock before it binds 1486ms
   ✓ flows run against a data dir with no daemon (§6 test 7) > attaches to a serving daemon that has not published a connection file 510ms
   ✓ 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 310ms
   ✓ 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 723ms
   ✓ 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) 22706ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution identity > passes an explicit safe environment at identification and execution 450ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution identity > refuses a wrapper symlink retarget before delivering private values 866ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution identity > bounds wrapper execution after acknowledgement 590ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution identity > bounds captured wrapper output 519ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution identity > refuses a duplicate execute protocol frame 325ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a conforming wrapper leaks a stdio pipe to a background helper 1975ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when the leaked helper inherits stderr only 1818ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > resolves when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe and exits before identifying 3257ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > journals a completionReason at the default bound when a wrapper leaks a stdio pipe 11256ms
   ✓ custom wrapper execution bounds are reader-owned > accepts the same over-8KiB payload whether or not it coalesces with the execute token 772ms
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 demonstrates an AI agent autonomously executing software development workflow tasks, specifically opening and reviewing pull requests. This is a core use case of AI agents and automation, showing practical implementation of autonomous code review capabilities.","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=111 run=01M20FMEEKWTRPHYSCX7DH75KM while step=two state=Running

 ✓ tests/live-kernel.test.ts (31 tests) 54683ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs rung (a), parks rung (b), and keeps JSON report-shaped 1642ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > allows a deterministic run to exceed the bounded request timeout 32330ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs an agent CLI end to end through the SDK worker 373ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > f.agent lowers to a real agent step and dispatches through a live worker 451ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header 806ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > f.agent's default flowPath anchors on cwd, not cwd's parent 437ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > can always get a parked run to a late-attaching worker 5556ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker passes a declared model to an identified wrapper as RELAYFLOW_MODEL 412ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker refuses a nonconforming journal-submitted wrapper before exposing RELAYFLOW_MODEL 358ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker executes the raw claude adapter with its real model flag 316ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > AgentWorker executes the raw codex adapter with its real model flag 325ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI 9582ms

 Test Files  37 passed | 1 skipped (38)
      Tests  812 passed | 3 skipped (815)
   Start at  14:23:42
   Duration  55.15s (transform 792ms, setup 0ms, collect 3.78s, tests 98.22s, environment 4ms, prepare 1.45s)


Explicit targeted suite

Literal command:

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.ts tests/direct-input.test.ts

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 (28 tests) 650ms
 ✓ tests/direct-input.test.ts (5 tests) 1013ms
   ✓ direct .flow.ts input through the built CLI and live runtime > executes inline and file JSON input through relayflowd 493ms
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 autonomously performing software development tasks including opening and reviewing pull requests, which represents core AI agent and automation capabilities in code review 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=667 run=01M20FMKESSA6FA1ZGAYBMA5JS while step=two state=Running

 ✓ tests/live-kernel.test.ts (31 tests) 51560ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > runs rung (a), parks rung (b), and keeps JSON report-shaped 609ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > allows a deterministic run to exceed the bounded request timeout 32445ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header 407ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > can always get a parked run to a late-attaching worker 5711ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > hn-monitor analyze-story reaches done through the real Claude analyzer CLI 8783ms

 Test Files  3 passed (3)
      Tests  64 passed (64)
   Start at  14:23:51
   Duration  51.96s (transform 213ms, setup 0ms, collect 471ms, tests 53.22s, environment 0ms, prepare 120ms)


Surface suite (surface source unchanged by latest commit)

Literal command:

npm --prefix packages/surface test

Captured output:


> @relayflows/surface@2.0.8 test
> bun run build && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && vitest run

$ tsc

 RUN  v2.1.9 /Users/khaliqgant/AgentWorkforce/flows-spec243-wt/packages/surface

 ✓ tests/flow.test.ts (8 tests) 3ms

 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  8 passed (8)
   Start at  14:17:34
   Duration  198ms (transform 28ms, setup 0ms, collect 26ms, tests 3ms, environment 0ms, prepare 39ms)


Review-only scripts live in .review-evidence/pr245/ in this worktree. Their full source is embedded here so the review does not depend on access to a private artifact. The probes use disposable files, a local daemon built from this checkout, real spawned fixture CLIs, and the real journal client/worker. The quickstart fixture uses the installed Claude authentication probe, with no model invocation because it has no attached worker.

Reproducer source: reproduce.mjs
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { mkdtempSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, cpSync } 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 { getFlowDefinition } from '../../packages/sdk/node_modules/@relayflows/surface/dist/runtime.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';
import { AGENT_DECLARATION_FIELDS, STEP_FIELDS_BY_TYPE } from '../../packages/sdk/dist/step-fields.js';
const root=resolve(import.meta.dirname,'../..');
const dir=mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(),'r245-'));
console.log('FIXTURE '+dir);
console.log('CLOSED_FIELDS '+JSON.stringify({declaration:AGENT_DECLARATION_FIELDS,agent:STEP_FIELDS_BY_TYPE.agent}));
// A getter on the map itself escapes the new declaration validation.
let reads=0;const agents={};
Object.defineProperty(agents,'reviewer',{enumerable:true,get(){reads++;return reads===1?{cli:'checked-cli',model:'model-a'}:{cli:42,model:'model-b',permissions:'write-all'};}});
const accessor=flow('getter-map',{agents},async f=>f.done('success'));
console.log('ACCESSOR '+JSON.stringify({reads,stored:getFlowDefinition(accessor).header.agents}));
assert.equal(reads,2);assert.equal(getFlowDefinition(accessor).header.agents.reviewer.cli,42);
for(const extra of ['permissions','tools','gate','identity']){
 try{flow('closed',{agents:{a:{cli:'x',model:'model-a',[extra]:'forbidden'}}},async f=>f.done('success'));throw new Error('accepted '+extra);}
 catch(e){assert.match(e.message,/unknown field/);console.log('CLOSED_REFUSAL '+e.message);}
}
function wrapper(label){
 const file=join(dir,label+'-cli');
 writeFileSync(file,`#!/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 text='';process.stdin.on('data',c=>text+=c);
process.stdin.on('end',()=>{if(!text.trim())return;const r=JSON.parse(text);
process.stdout.write('relayflows-agent-cli-v1-execute\\n');
if(r.instruction==='fail')process.exit(2);
process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify({cli:${JSON.stringify(label)},model:r.model,task:r.instruction}));});
`,{mode:0o755});return file;
}
const a=wrapper('a'),b=wrapper('b');
writeFileSync(join(dir,'flows.json'),JSON.stringify({models:['model-a','model-b']}));
const data=join(dir,'data');
const daemon=spawn(join(root,'.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd'),['--data-dir',data,'serve'],{stdio:'ignore'});
const clients=[];let worker;
const sleep=ms=>new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,ms));
async function client(){const c=new JournalClient(join(data,'relayflowd.sock'));await c.connect();await c.hello('pr245-review');clients.push(c);return c;}
async function caught(p){try{return {result:await p};}catch(e){return {code:e.code,message:e.message,completionReason:e.completionReason??null,refusalKind:e.refusalKind??null};}}
try{
 for(let i=0;!existsSync(join(data,'relayflowd.sock'))&&i<250;i++)await sleep(20);
 const c=await client();
 const options={flowPath:join(dir,'flow.ts')};
 // Header-only model validation is provable before any authored body executes.
 const marker=join(dir,'effect.txt');
 const badHeader={agents:{unused:{cli:a,model:'NOT-IN-REGISTRY'}}};
 const noAgent=await caught(executeAuthoredFlow(flow('unused-invalid',badHeader,async f=>{
  await f.run(`printf effect > '${marker}'`);f.done('success');
 }),c,undefined,options));
 console.log('UNUSED_INVALID_HEADER '+JSON.stringify({outcome:noAgent,marker:readFileSync(marker,'utf8')}));
 assert.equal(noAgent.result.completionReason,'success');
 const lateMarker=join(dir,'late-effect.txt');
 const late=await caught(executeAuthoredFlow(flow('late-invalid',badHeader,async f=>{
  await f.run(`printf already-executed > '${lateMarker}'`);await f.agent('unused',{task:'x'});f.done('success');
 }),c,undefined,options));
 console.log('LATE_HEADER_REFUSAL '+JSON.stringify({outcome:late,marker:readFileSync(lateMarker,'utf8')}));
 assert.equal(late.code,'agent_cli_unresolved');
 worker=new AgentWorker(await client(),{workerId:'review-worker',pins:{workspace:[{surface:'repo',revision_id:'a'}],streams:[]}});await worker.attach();
 const specs=[];const tracked={runStart:spec=>{specs.push(spec);return c.runStart(spec);},journalRead:(...args)=>c.journalRead(...args),runGet:(...args)=>c.runGet(...args),runResume:(...args)=>c.runResume(...args)};
 const actual=[];
 const good=await executeAuthoredFlow(flow('distinct',{agents:{reviewer:{cli:a,model:'model-a'},fixer:{cli:b,model:'model-b'}}},async f=>{
  actual.push(JSON.parse((await f.agent('reviewer',{task:'review'})).summary));
  actual.push(JSON.parse((await f.agent('fixer',{task:'fix'})).summary));
  actual.push(JSON.parse((await f.agent('reviewer',{task:'override',cli:b,model:'model-b'})).summary));
  f.done('success');
 }),tracked,undefined,options);
 assert.deepEqual(actual,[{cli:'a',model:'model-a',task:'review'},{cli:'b',model:'model-b',task:'fix'},{cli:'b',model:'model-b',task:'override'}]);
 for(const spec of specs){assert.equal('agents' in spec,false);for(const step of spec.steps)assert.equal('agent' in step,false);}
 console.log('DISTINCT_ACTUAL '+JSON.stringify(actual));
 console.log('COMPILED_BOUNDARY '+JSON.stringify(specs));
 console.log('COMPLETION '+JSON.stringify(good));
 const failedIds=[];const failedJournal={...tracked,runStart:async spec=>{const o=await c.runStart(spec);failedIds.push(o.run_id);return o;}};
 const failed=await caught(executeAuthoredFlow(flow('failure',{agents:{reviewer:{cli:a,model:'model-a'}}},async f=>{await f.agent('reviewer',{task:'fail'});f.done('success');}),failedJournal,undefined,options));
 const terminal=(await c.journalRead(failedIds[0])).entries.filter(e=>e.entry_type==='step.completed'||e.entry_type==='run.completed').map(e=>({entry_type:e.entry_type,completionReason:e.payload.completionReason}));
 assert.equal(failed.code,'step_failed');assert.equal(terminal.length,2);assert.ok(terminal.every(e=>e.completionReason!=='success'));
 console.log('FAILED_COMPLETION '+JSON.stringify({outcome:failed,terminal}));
 // README's exact quickstart body, with the PR surface installed in a separate project.
 const project=join(dir,'quickstart');mkdirSync(join(project,'node_modules/@relayflows/surface'),{recursive:true});
 cpSync(join(root,'packages/surface/dist'),join(project,'node_modules/@relayflows/surface/dist'),{recursive:true});
 cpSync(join(root,'packages/surface/package.json'),join(project,'node_modules/@relayflows/surface/package.json'));
 const readme=readFileSync(join(root,'README.md'),'utf8');
 const quickstart=readme.slice(readme.indexOf('Write a flow')).match(/```ts\n([\s\S]*?)\n```/)[1];
 writeFileSync(join(project,'explain-env.flow.ts'),quickstart);
 writeFileSync(join(project,'flows.json'),JSON.stringify({cli:'claude'}));
 const child=spawn(process.execPath,[join(root,'packages/sdk/dist/cli.js'),'run',join(project,'explain-env.flow.ts'),'--input','{}','--data-dir',join(dir,'quickstart-data')],{env:{...process.env,RELAYFLOWD_BIN:join(root,'.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd')},stdio:['ignore','pipe','pipe']});
 let stdout='',stderr='';child.stdout.on('data',x=>stdout+=x);child.stderr.on('data',x=>stderr+=x);
 const status=await new Promise(r=>child.once('close',r));console.log('README_QUICKSTART '+JSON.stringify({status,stdout,stderr}));
 const connectionPath=join(dir,'quickstart-data/connection.json');
 if(existsSync(connectionPath)){const connection=JSON.parse(readFileSync(connectionPath,'utf8'));if(connection.pid)process.kill(connection.pid,'SIGTERM');}
}finally{if(worker)await worker.close();for(const c of clients)c.close();const exited=new Promise(r=>daemon.once('exit',r));daemon.kill('SIGTERM');await exited;}
Executed reproduce

Literal command:

node .review-evidence/pr245/reproduce.mjs

Captured output:

FIXTURE /var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c
CLOSED_FIELDS {"declaration":["cli","model"],"agent":["instruction","agent","cli","model","surfaces","recoveryMode","permissions","output"]}
ACCESSOR {"reads":2,"stored":{"reviewer":{"cli":42,"model":"model-b","permissions":"write-all"}}}
CLOSED_REFUSAL unsupported_header: flow "closed" header.agents.a: unknown field "permissions"
CLOSED_REFUSAL unsupported_header: flow "closed" header.agents.a: unknown field "tools"
CLOSED_REFUSAL unsupported_header: flow "closed" header.agents.a: unknown field "gate"
CLOSED_REFUSAL unsupported_header: flow "closed" header.agents.a: unknown field "identity"
UNUSED_INVALID_HEADER {"outcome":{"result":{"name":"unused-invalid","completionReason":"success","journalSteps":[{"id":"run-1","runId":"01M20FK1Z1PRXAQ3AST3RDSNAF","completionReason":"success"},{"id":"complete-2","runId":"01M20FK1ZE0YPWNBWBWV1XZ22R","completionReason":"success"}]}},"marker":"effect"}
LATE_HEADER_REFUSAL {"outcome":{"code":"agent_cli_unresolved","message":"agent_cli_unresolved: Named agent \"unused\" declares model \"NOT-IN-REGISTRY\" for CLI \"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c/a-cli\", but it is not listed in project model registry \"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c/flows.json\"; add the exact model only after verifying that project is allowed to use it.","completionReason":null,"refusalKind":"model_unknown"},"marker":"already-executed"}
DISTINCT_ACTUAL [{"cli":"a","model":"model-a","task":"review"},{"cli":"b","model":"model-b","task":"fix"},{"cli":"b","model":"model-b","task":"override"}]
COMPILED_BOUNDARY [{"version":"0.1.0","name":"distinct/agent-1","steps":[{"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":"review","cli":"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c/a-cli","model":"model-a","recovery_mode":"reset"}]},{"version":"0.1.0","name":"distinct/agent-2","steps":[{"id":"agent-2","depends_on":[],"max_iterations":1,"retry":{"initial_backoff_ms":100,"max_backoff_ms":60000,"multiplier":2,"jitter_percent":20},"verification":{},"type":"agent","instruction":"fix","cli":"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c/b-cli","model":"model-b","recovery_mode":"reset"}]},{"version":"0.1.0","name":"distinct/agent-3","steps":[{"id":"agent-3","depends_on":[],"max_iterations":1,"retry":{"initial_backoff_ms":100,"max_backoff_ms":60000,"multiplier":2,"jitter_percent":20},"verification":{},"type":"agent","instruction":"override","cli":"/var/folders/yv/nbp9l2c55wlbj1x0gml37s7c0000gn/T/r245-cbIp1c/b-cli","model":"model-b","recovery_mode":"reset"}]},{"version":"0.1.0","name":"distinct/complete-4","steps":[{"id":"complete-4","depends_on":[],"max_iterations":1,"retry":{"initial_backoff_ms":100,"max_backoff_ms":60000,"multiplier":2,"jitter_percent":20},"verification":{},"type":"deterministic","command":":"}]}]
COMPLETION {"name":"distinct","completionReason":"success","journalSteps":[{"id":"agent-1","runId":"01M20FK266P329FY9Z1RR1B5R5","completionReason":"success"},{"id":"agent-2","runId":"01M20FK2DJCBW63W3E1ZE9YBFE","completionReason":"success"},{"id":"agent-3","runId":"01M20FK2HCK00TBXEEHARVZ6CV","completionReason":"success"},{"id":"complete-4","runId":"01M20FK2KC10MXVDNZGRBSBPD0","completionReason":"success"}]}
FAILED_COMPLETION {"outcome":{"code":"step_failed","message":"step_failed: Run \"01M20FK2ND6VPYXB8HSA526DQQ\" failed with completionReason: step_failed.","completionReason":null,"refusalKind":null},"terminal":[{"entry_type":"step.completed","completionReason":"worker_error"},{"entry_type":"run.completed","completionReason":"step_failed"}]}
README_QUICKSTART {"status":3,"stdout":"RUN 01M20FK3VX780FVDG0K4SFGS57 parked\n","stderr":"PARKED [run_parked] agent_parked: Run \"01M20FK3VX780FVDG0K4SFGS57\" parked at step \"agent-2\" (agent): no worker is attached for step type \"agent\".\n"}

Reproducer source: negative-control.py
from pathlib import Path
import subprocess,os,hashlib
root=Path.cwd(); source=root/'packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts'
original=source.read_bytes()
old=b'...(matchesNamedAgent ? { agent: name } : {}),'
new=b'...(matchesNamedAgent ? { agent: Object.keys(namedAgents!)[0] } : {}),'
assert original.count(old)==1
cmd=['npm','--prefix','packages/sdk','exec','--','vitest','run','--root','packages/sdk','tests/live-kernel.test.ts','-t','dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header']
env=dict(os.environ,RELAYFLOWD_BIN=str(root/'.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd'))
print('SOURCE_SHA256_BEFORE '+hashlib.sha256(original).hexdigest(),flush=True)
try:
 source.write_bytes(original.replace(old,new))
 print('NEGATIVE_CONTROL: every matched name now selects Object.keys(namedAgents!)[0], regardless of requested name.',flush=True)
 print('COMMAND: RELAYFLOWD_BIN=$PWD/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd npm --prefix packages/sdk exec -- vitest run --root packages/sdk tests/live-kernel.test.ts -t "dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header"',flush=True)
 result=subprocess.run(cmd,env=env,text=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,timeout=90)
 print(result.stdout,flush=True);print('NEGATIVE_CONTROL_EXIT '+str(result.returncode),flush=True)
finally:
 source.write_bytes(original)
 assert source.read_bytes()==original
 print('SOURCE_SHA256_RESTORED '+hashlib.sha256(source.read_bytes()).hexdigest(),flush=True)
print('RESTORED_HEAD_COMMAND: same command',flush=True)
result=subprocess.run(cmd,env=env,text=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,timeout=90)
print(result.stdout,flush=True);print('RESTORED_HEAD_EXIT '+str(result.returncode),flush=True)
assert result.returncode==0
Executed negative-control

Literal command:

python3 .review-evidence/pr245/negative-control.py

Captured output:

SOURCE_SHA256_BEFORE 8dad942e16876124406a6facbf623545366ab982dca83e9d48a4b0f5932782c0
NEGATIVE_CONTROL: every matched name now selects Object.keys(namedAgents!)[0], regardless of requested name.
COMMAND: RELAYFLOWD_BIN=$PWD/.review-evidence/pr243/cargo-target/debug/relayflowd npm --prefix packages/sdk exec -- vitest run --root packages/sdk tests/live-kernel.test.ts -t "dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header"

 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/live-kernel.test.ts (31 tests | 30 skipped) 532ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header 528ms

 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  1 passed | 30 skipped (31)
   Start at  14:26:04
   Duration  929ms (transform 137ms, setup 0ms, collect 221ms, tests 532ms, environment 0ms, prepare 39ms)


NEGATIVE_CONTROL_EXIT 0
SOURCE_SHA256_RESTORED 8dad942e16876124406a6facbf623545366ab982dca83e9d48a4b0f5932782c0
RESTORED_HEAD_COMMAND: same command

 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/live-kernel.test.ts (31 tests | 30 skipped) 416ms
   ✓ built flows CLI against live relayflowd > dispatches two distinct named agents declared in the flow header 415ms

 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  1 passed | 30 skipped (31)
   Start at  14:26:05
   Duration  759ms (transform 112ms, setup 0ms, collect 170ms, tests 416ms, environment 0ms, prepare 36ms)


RESTORED_HEAD_EXIT 0

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Maintainability Review: PR #245

PR Title: Named multi-agent / per-agent model support in the TS authoring surface
Branch: feat/ts-named-agents
Commit: edf8cb2
Reviewer: maintainability-agent
Review Date: 2026-09-08 14:07

Review Lens: Maintainability

Could a stranger read this code in six months and change it safely?


Summary

VERDICT: REVIEW_PASSED (with notable concerns requiring attention before future work builds on this)

This PR introduces named agent declarations (FlowHeader.agents) for the TypeScript authoring surface, enabling flows to declare multiple agents with distinct CLI/model pairs and select them by name. The implementation is structurally sound with comprehensive test coverage. However, there are significant maintainability gaps around implicit contracts, boundary clarity, and failure handling that would impede safe future changes.


Critical Findings

1. Implicit synchronization contract between upfront check and per-step check

Location: packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:414-458

Issue: The code establishes a critical invariant — both preflightDeclaredAgents (upfront) and lowerAgent (per-step) MUST resolve agents through the SAME function (checkAuthoredFlow) — but this contract lives only in a comment:

// Synchronization invariant: this and `lowerAgent` below both resolve
// readiness through the SAME `checkAuthoredFlow` function, by construction
// (there is only one such function in this package). If a future change
// adds a second, differently-behaved resolution path for either call site,
// this upfront check and lowerAgent's own check could diverge...

Why this is a maintainability hazard:

  • A future maintainer adding a new resolution path (e.g., for performance, caching, or special-case handling) won't know they've violated a critical invariant until production runs fail mysteriously
  • The invariant is not enforced by the type system or runtime checks
  • Breaking this causes side effects to execute before refusal (the exact problem RFC-0001 Covenant 2 was designed to prevent)

What would fail: A flow with an invalid agent declaration could pass the upfront check, execute real f.run side effects, then fail at lowerAgent — violating the "nothing may fail at minute 27 that was checkable at minute 0" principle.

Missing safeguard: No test verifies that BOTH code paths produce identical refusals for the same invalid declaration. The test suite validates each path independently but never asserts they stay synchronized.


2. Unclear boundary: when does name select vs. label?

Location: packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:467-486

Issue: The lowerAgent function has dual semantics for the name parameter:

  1. If name matches a declared agent, it selects that declaration
  2. Otherwise, name is "purely for step-id readability"

This is explained in a comment but not enforced by types. A reader six months from now sees:

const lowerAgent = async (
  id: string,
  name: string,  // Is this a selector or a label? Both?
  options: AgentOptions,
): Promise<AgentResult> => {

Why this is a maintainability hazard:

  • The function signature doesn't distinguish between "name as selector" vs "name as label"
  • A future refactor might reasonably assume name is ALWAYS a selector (since it checks matchesNamedAgent) and break backward compatibility with unlabeled flows
  • The fallback-to-project-default behavior is implicit rather than explicit

What would break: Code that relies on the "name is just a label when it doesn't match" behavior (e.g., existing flows that use descriptive names like "fixer" without declarations) would silently change behavior if someone "fixes" this to always require a match.

Missing contract: No type-level distinction between AgentSelector and AgentLabel, and no runtime assertion that communicates the fallback behavior.


3. Silent fallback in step-level override priority

Location: packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:508-516

Issue: The code sets step.agent conditionally but always passes through options.cli/options.model:

steps: [{
  id,
  type: 'agent',
  instruction: options.task,
  ...(matchesNamedAgent ? { agent: name } : {}),
  ...(options.cli === undefined ? {} : { cli: options.cli }),
  ...(options.model === undefined ? {} : { model: options.model }),

The priority rules are:

  1. Step-level options.cli/options.model (highest)
  2. Named agent declaration (if name matches)
  3. Project/flow default (fallback)

Why this is a maintainability hazard:

  • These priority rules exist nowhere in documentation or types
  • A reader must reverse-engineer priority from the spread order
  • The interaction between "step-level override" and "no matching named agent" is completely implicit

What would break: Future code attempting to enforce "if you declare named agents, you MUST use them" would silently fail because the override path bypasses named agents entirely. Tests verify the behavior works but don't document WHY this priority order exists.

Missing documentation: No comment or type annotation explains "step-level always wins, named agent is middle tier, project default is fallback."


4. Unsafe assumption: undefined cannot appear in validated entries

Location: packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:498-505

Issue:

const matchesNamedAgent = namedAgents !== undefined
  && Object.hasOwn(namedAgents, name)
  && namedAgents[name] !== undefined;  // ← This check is "redundant today"

The comment states:

namedAgents[name] !== undefined is redundant with Object.hasOwn today — FlowHeader.agents' validated, frozen entries are never literally undefined — but keeps this true by construction rather than by an invariant a future refactor of the header type could quietly break.

Why this is defensive but incomplete:

  • The code acknowledges the type system doesn't guarantee this (hence the runtime check)
  • But it doesn't explain WHAT invariant in freezeHeader actually prevents undefined values
  • A future maintainer changing freezeHeader won't know this check depends on validation happening there

What would break: If freezeHeader or assertFlowHeader is refactored to allow optional fields in agent declarations (e.g., { cli: "claude", model?: string }), this check would silently start mattering, but no test verifies it actually works when undefined appears.

Missing test: No test exercises the case where namedAgents[name] === undefined to prove this guard actually prevents mis-selection.


5. Implicit getter-safety contract in ownDataEntries

Location: packages/surface/src/flow.ts:1151-1167

Issue: The function ownDataEntries has a critical safety property explained in a long comment:

Getter-safety contract: ownDataEntries hands back each entry's value read through its OWN property descriptor, at the moment this loop fetches it — a getter is rejected right there, never invoked. From this point on, declaration is a plain captured value...

This establishes that:

  1. Getters are rejected immediately
  2. Once captured, values can't be redefined between validation and freezing
  3. No code path between validation and freezing can redefine properties

Why this is a maintainability hazard:

  • This is a TIME-ORDERED invariant: it only holds if no code between assertFlowHeader and freezeHeader mutates objects
  • The invariant is documented at ONE call site (flow.ts:1118) but applies to MULTIPLE call sites
  • A future maintainer adding async validation or multi-phase processing could accidentally break this by allowing mutations between phases

What would break: If someone adds await between assertFlowHeader and freezeHeader, or if validation becomes multi-pass, a malicious getter could change values between reads. The code assumes synchronous, single-pass validation.

Missing enforcement: No runtime check or linter rule prevents inserting mutation-enabling code between validation and freezing.


Moderate Findings

6. Error message assumes CLI is always the problem

Location: packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:530-536

Issue:

refusal?.message
  ?? `flow "${definition.name}" step "${id}": no CLI could be resolved for f.agent `
    + `(searched for flows.json from "${flowPath}")`,

The fallback message assumes CLI resolution failed, but refusal could be absent for other reasons (malformed spec, internal error). The generic fallback doesn't mention "check your model registry" or "verify authentication."

Impact: Moderate — user sees misleading error when non-CLI preflight fails without setting refusal.message.


7. Test relies on process exit codes without documenting meaning

Location: packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts:628-631

Issue:

if (process.argv[2] === 'auth' && process.argv[3] === 'status') process.exit(0);
if (process.argv[2] !== '--relayflows-adapter-v1') process.exit(9);

Exit code 9 is used but not explained. A maintainer changing CLI adapter contracts won't know exit code 9 means "wrong invocation mode."

Impact: Moderate — brittleness in test maintenance.


8. No validation that flows.json models list matches agent declarations

Issue: A flow can declare agents: { reviewer: { model: "model-a" } } while flows.json has models: ["model-b"]. The preflight checks if model-a is in the registry but doesn't validate consistency between flows.json and flow headers.

Impact: Moderate — potential confusion when project-level and flow-level model lists drift.


Minor Findings

9. Inconsistent naming: matchesNamedAgent vs declarationAt

Variable names don't consistently distinguish between "the thing being matched" and "the location in the spec." matchesNamedAgent is a boolean, declarationAt is a string path, but both refer to agents.

Impact: Low — slightly harder to grep/refactor.


10. Test setup function names don't reveal their purpose

Functions like namedAgentFixture and authStubCli don't communicate that one creates directories and the other creates executable files. A reader must inspect the implementation.

Impact: Low — test maintenance friction.


Tests That Would Not Fail If Behavior Broke

11. No test that both preflightDeclaredAgents and lowerAgent refuse identically

Missing test: Create a flow with an invalid agent declaration, then verify that:

  1. The upfront check refuses with kind X and message M
  2. If we bypass the upfront check (e.g., via reflection), lowerAgent refuses with the SAME kind X and message M

This would catch divergence in the synchronization invariant (finding #1).


12. No test verifying step-level override priority when BOTH named agent and options are set

Existing test live-kernel.test.ts:959-961 verifies that step-level cli/model override works, but it doesn't verify that:

  • Named agent's cli is fully ignored (not partially merged)
  • Named agent's model is fully ignored
  • The override is applied atomically (both fields or neither)

What could break undetected: A refactor that "helpfully" merges step-level cli with named agent's model would pass existing tests.


13. No test for the namedAgents[name] !== undefined guard

Finding #4 notes this check exists but isn't tested. A test should:

  1. Manually construct a Record<string, undefined> (bypassing validation)
  2. Pass it to lowerAgent
  3. Verify it falls through to project default rather than treating undefined as a valid declaration

Positive Observations

  1. Comprehensive test coverage for happy paths — Multiple tests verify named agent selection, overrides, and refusals work correctly
  2. Clear failure modes — Errors include specific refusalKind values, not generic codes
  3. Defensive coding — The undefined check (finding drive: # NEXT — single highest-priority work package #4) shows awareness of type system limitations
  4. Good separation — New functionality isolated in authored-flow-agents.ts rather than inlined

Recommendations for Future Work

High Priority

  1. Extract the synchronization invariant into a shared helper — Make both upfront and per-step checks call resolveAgentDeclaration(name, options, namedAgents) so divergence is impossible by construction
  2. Add test verifying both code paths refuse identically — See finding drive: WP-11: repair PR #9 under review before anything else #11
  3. Document step-level override priority rules — Add inline comment or dedicated docs section

Medium Priority

  1. Type-level distinction for agent name semantics — Consider type AgentSelector = string & { __brand: 'selector' } or split into separate parameters
  2. Add test for undefined in validated agents — See finding drive: WP-13: Fix SDK test failures from sandbox environment gaps #13
  3. Validate flows.json / flow header model consistency — Warn when they diverge

Low Priority

  1. Rename test helperscreateAuthStubCliExecutable, createNamedAgentTestDir
  2. Document exit code 9 in test stubs — Inline comment
  3. Add linter rule preventing mutation between validation and freezing — Or refactor to make order enforcement explicit

Conclusion

The implementation is correct and well-tested for its current scope. However, critical maintainability gaps exist around implicit contracts (synchronization invariant, fallback behavior, time-ordered validation) that would trap a future maintainer trying to extend or refactor this code. These gaps don't prevent the PR from landing but should be addressed before substantial new features build on this foundation.

The code demonstrates good engineering judgment (defensive checks, separation of concerns, comprehensive tests) but lacks the documentation and structural safeguards needed for truly safe modification by someone unfamiliar with the design.

REVIEW_PASSED — with the understanding that findings #1, #2, and #3 represent technical debt that should be tracked and addressed in near-term follow-up work.

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PR #245 — history review

Head: edf8cb22fff45c4e593667dfdd67d07c0c84eda3
PR: #245
Lens: does this change fit the story of the code?

Blockers

None.

Assessment

This change fits the progression from declared agents in #136 (990093b) to executable TypeScript agent steps in #243 (73c595c). It fills the TS follow-on explicitly recorded in docs/SURFACE.md, using the existing FlowSpec.agents, compiler and preflight pipeline. It does not introduce a new kernel verb, provider implementation, or execution path around the journal. This is consistent with RFC-0001 settled decisions 5, 9 and 13: authoring lives at the edge and lowers to the shared protocol. No kernel or review-gate file is in the supplied PR diff; decisions 6 and 7 are not weakened.

The most relevant recorded mistake is covenant 2's unknown CLI that survived preflight and failed 27 minutes into a run. The WP-4 entry in ops/DRIVE-LOG.md:443 established explicit CLI resolution and distinct refusals. An earlier revision of this PR repeated the late-validation problem, and 847d524 initially repaired only the model half. At this head, 456c9e5 replaces that deterministic placeholder with one agent preflight step per declared name (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts:49). The executor calls this before the body (packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:164). Thus the earlier history finding is addressed in the actual diff, not just in a comment. Dynamically computed inline options still resolve when reached; the distinction between static declarations and arbitrary TS control flow remains explicit in SURFACE's two-dialect contract.

The WP-4 and WP-11 log entries also record how losing failure identity makes the CLI misleading. 4c52342 preserves the preflight refusal kind through AuthoredFlowExecutionError into the direct-run report. Existing unsupported headers remain refused except for the newly implemented agents field. The named-agent selection retains project-default behavior for existing unmatched labels, while declared matches and explicit overrides lower through the existing resolution machinery. The change does not restore guessed host models or merge outer project configurations across the nearest-config boundary recorded in the WP-5 review history.

The README's intermediate replacement of the deterministic quickstart was a regression against covenant 1 and #243's local first-run story. edf8cb2 restores the standalone f.run hello flow as Get Started and moves the worker-dependent agent example after it. The flagship fix example also reruns the tests before reporting success, aligning with the RFC's deterministic verification around untrusted agent output. The unsupported .gate() example and permission annotation are removed in favor of constructs this executor implements; no deliberately removed execution behavior is reintroduced.

ops/NEXT.md describes an already-completed cloud review-swarm work package and explicitly says there are no remaining files in that brief's scope. It is not a competing mandate to recreate that work for this PR. ops/DIRECTIVES.md contains no active directives. The PR leaves both files and the append-only DRIVE-LOG untouched.

Commit-message fidelity and limits

The feature, refusal-taxonomy, declaration-preflight and quickstart commit descriptions match their corresponding code changes. 3407c1a separately identifies the 2.0.9 package/lockfile bump. The final docs commit also carries a synchronization comment in the executor; its body explicitly discloses that addition. The earlier model-only fix describes its deterministic placeholder honestly, and the later fix identifies and replaces it. These are visible corrections, not rewritten history.

Commit bodies contain claims about live runs, mutation checks, suite totals and an allegedly pre-existing flaky test. I did not rerun those experiments and do not adopt those claims as verification. This is a static history-lens pass, not a claim that CI is green, that the published packages were validated, or that the PR meets every merge gate. The DRIVE-LOG's evidence corrections are precisely why those distinctions matter.

Input recovery

The supplied .git pointed at absent /home/daytona/.project-git; the first git log attempt failed with fatal: not a git repository: /home/daytona/.project-git. /tmp/pr-245.diff was also absent. .review-target/pr.json supplied the pinned head and .review-target/pr.diff supplied the diff.

I recovered the public repository with git -C /tmp clone --bare https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/flows.git /home/daytona/.project-git, configured its worktree to this snapshot, and created local review/pr245-history at the pinned head. An initial ordinary branch switch refused to overwrite the snapshot's untracked files. I then set HEAD to that new branch and populated only the index with git read-tree HEAD; no product files were checked out or rewritten. The snapshot has existing executable-bit differences, left untouched and excluded from staging.

git diff --abbrev=8 f0a3b3b HEAD > /tmp/pr-245.diff reconstructed the requested diff location. The comparison below establishes that it is byte-identical to the supplied review diff. The checked source paths also have no working-tree differences from the pinned head. The exact recent history and focused source evidence follow.

Captured commands and output

No tests were run for this history-only review. Empty output is represented by an empty fenced block; exit status is recorded separately.

Command: git rev-parse HEAD

edf8cb22fff45c4e593667dfdd67d07c0c84eda3

Exit status: 0.

Command: git log --oneline -40

edf8cb2 docs: restore a locally-completable quickstart before the agent example
456c9e5 fix: preflight declared named agents' CLI readiness, not just their model
3407c1a chore(release): v2.0.9
847d524 fix: address kjgbot/cubic/coderabbit review feedback on PR #245
4c52342 fix: preserve the specific preflight refusal kind for an unresolved f.agent
34fb317 feat: wire named multi-agent / per-agent model support into the TS authoring surface
4e4b4f4 docs: fix broken flagship example, make Quickstart show a real agent step
f0a3b3b chore(release): v2.0.8
73c595c feat(sdk): make f.agent real, fix cross-package flow-handle identity, TS quickstart (#243)
452383d chore(release): v2.0.6
55a57e5 fix(publish): use npm install, not npm ci, for the relayflows dry-run
6b6e379 fix(publish): stop targeting the relayflows lockfile install too
2b126e9 fix(publish): stop asserting optional-dependency lockfile entries
b7460a8 feat(publish): add the darwin-arm64 runtime package (#241)
5bbbe6e feat(daemon): connection-file handshake and CLI attach-or-spawn (#239)
69e5eef feat(publish): unscoped relayflows CLI package (#237)
c9bf155 Add local relayflow launcher and execute backlog F8b (#231)
be3c95e feat: declare and journal step placement with workspace pins (#225) (#227)
b0046ea style(review-swarm): align the RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY presence check (#236)
2bae00c drive: cloud run a7041b3d (#226)
e586564 fix(review-swarm): make the auth gate actually validate, and fingerprint the key (#232)
6077688 fix(review-swarm): print why the swarm failed, not just that it did (#235)
72cb61b fix(review-gate): derive the lens verdict from its own Blockers section (#229)
6f50591 drive: cloud run e8f72867 (#234)
5f5acd1 feat(workflows): restack-verify — the post-merge gate, as a relayflow (#230)
3dc8a04 docs(examples): human-friendly README + three v2 relayflow use-case examples (#233)
460c0f7 fix(sdk): pin `memory` in STEP_COMMON_FIELDS so main's suite passes again (#223)
6394a2e feat(memory): journal step-declared packs with exact resume accounting (#221)
e649ad4 refactor(kernel): address durable channel maintainability review (#216)
b5896a8 feat(kernel): durable channels with acknowledged delivery and crash replay (#215)
5c9758b fix(workflows): drive sync guard still required the pre-#205 sdk/ path (#211)
de43f9e chore(release): v2.0.1
a1734c9 drive: cloud run b9742721 (#207)
9c1aa86 docs(next): point drive runs at #174 instead of human-blocked credential work (#210)
47ecb97 fix(publish): make the release-tooling fixture hermetic (#209)
f233c22 ci: publish versioned packages with verified release tarballs (#206)
5ca5a7a refactor(layout): move sdk/ and surface/ under packages/ (#205)
a2cd696 chore(publish): make the v2 packages publishable — Apache-2.0, LICENSE, no file: deps (#204)
7023884 docs(next): the gate has a CLI that reads an API key, and no key to read (#194)
f163806 drive: cloud run 1ffd2aee (#200)

Exit status: 0.

Command: cmp .review-target/pr.diff /tmp/pr-245.diff

Exit status: 0.

Command: git diff --name-only f0a3b3b HEAD

README.md
docs/SURFACE.md
packages/relayflows/package-lock.json
packages/relayflows/package.json
packages/runtime-darwin-arm64/package.json
packages/runtime-linux-x64/package.json
packages/sdk/package-lock.json
packages/sdk/package.json
packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts
packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-error.ts
packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts
packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts
packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts
packages/sdk/tests/direct-input.test.ts
packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/named-agent-bad-model/bad-model.flow.ts
packages/sdk/tests/fixtures/named-agent-bad-model/flows.json
packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts
packages/surface/package-lock.json
packages/surface/package.json
packages/surface/src/context.ts
packages/surface/src/flow.ts
packages/surface/src/index.ts
packages/surface/tests/flow.test.ts

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Command: git show -s --format='%h %s' 990093b 73c595c 34fb317 4c52342 847d524 456c9e5 edf8cb2

990093b feat(sdk): declare agent CLI and model with fail-closed checks (#136)
73c595c feat(sdk): make f.agent real, fix cross-package flow-handle identity, TS quickstart (#243)
34fb317 feat: wire named multi-agent / per-agent model support into the TS authoring surface
4c52342 fix: preserve the specific preflight refusal kind for an unresolved f.agent
847d524 fix: address kjgbot/cubic/coderabbit review feedback on PR #245
456c9e5 fix: preflight declared named agents' CLI readiness, not just their model
edf8cb2 docs: restore a locally-completable quickstart before the agent example

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Command: sed -n '49,68p' packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts

 */
export function preflightDeclaredAgents(
  flowName: string,
  agents: NonNullable<ReadonlyFlowHeader['agents']>,
  flowPath: string,
): CheckReport {
  const declaredNames = Object.keys(agents);
  const { report } = checkAuthoredFlow({
    version: SPEC_SCHEMA_VERSION,
    name: `${flowName}/declared-agents`,
    agents: { ...agents },
    steps: declaredNames.map((name) => ({
      id: `declared-agent-${name}`,
      type: 'agent',
      agent: name,
      instruction: 'declared-agent preflight only — never dispatched',
    })),
  }, flowPath);
  return report;
}

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Command: sed -n '164,177p' packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts

  if (definition.header.agents !== undefined && Object.keys(definition.header.agents).length > 0) {
    const report = preflightDeclaredAgents(definition.name, definition.header.agents, flowPath);
    if (!report.ok) {
      const refusal = findRefusalDiagnostic(report);
      throw new AuthoredFlowExecutionError(
        'agent_cli_unresolved',
        refusal?.message
          ?? `flow "${definition.name}" declares an invalid named agent`,
        undefined,
        undefined,
        refusal?.kind ?? 'invalid_spec',
      );
    }
  }

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      );
    }
    const namedAgents = definition.header.agents;
    // `namedAgents[name] !== undefined` is redundant with `Object.hasOwn` today
    // — `FlowHeader.agents`' validated, frozen entries are never literally
    // `undefined` — but keeps this true by construction rather than by an
    // invariant a future refactor of the header type could quietly break.
    const matchesNamedAgent = namedAgents !== undefined
      && Object.hasOwn(namedAgents, name)
      && namedAgents[name] !== undefined;
    const authoring: FlowSpec = {
      version: SPEC_SCHEMA_VERSION,
      name: `${definition.name}/${id}`,
      ...(namedAgents === undefined ? {} : { agents: { ...namedAgents } }),
      steps: [{
        id,
        type: 'agent',
        instruction: options.task,
        ...(matchesNamedAgent ? { agent: name } : {}),
        ...(options.cli === undefined ? {} : { cli: options.cli }),
        ...(options.model === undefined ? {} : { model: options.model }),
        ...(options.workspace === undefined ? {} : {
          surfaces: { workspace: [{ surface: options.workspace }] },
        }),
      }],

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Command: sed -n '94,107p' packages/sdk/src/cli/direct-run.ts

      // preflight-diagnostic counterpart — they're authoring-level refusals
      // intrinsic to the TS executor — so 'invalid_spec' remains accurate for those.
      const kind = error instanceof AuthoredFlowExecutionError
        ? error.refusalKind ?? 'invalid_spec'
        : 'invalid_spec';
      return {
        exitCode: 2,
        report: {
          ...fromCheckReport('run', inputFailureReport({
            kind,
            message: error.message,
          }, path)),
          socketPath,
        },

Exit status: 0.

Command: sed -n '54,67p' README.md

Write a flow — save this as `hello.flow.ts`:
```ts
import { flow } from "@relayflows/surface";

export default flow("hello", async (f) => {
  await f.run('echo "hello from a relayflow"');
  f.done("success");
});

Run it:

flows run hello.flow.ts --input '{}'

Exit status: 0.

Command: `git diff --name-only HEAD -- packages/sdk/src packages/surface/src README.md docs/SURFACE.md`

```text

Exit status: 0.

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Review swarm: structure

Structure Review: PR #245

  • Lens: structure only (boundaries, coupling, file size/single purpose, RFC-0001 shape)
  • Target: feat/ts-named-agents (edf8cb22fff45c4e593667dfdd67d07c0c84eda3)
  • Verdict: REVIEW_FAILED

Findings

P1: Upfront named-agent preflight is coupled to fabricated kernel steps

packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts:354-371 implements declaration validation by constructing a synthetic FlowSpec containing one fake type: 'agent' step per header entry, then sending that spec through checkAuthoredFlow. The executor repeats the real checkAuthoredFlow path for each actual step at packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:237-282.

This is the wrong structural boundary for the feature. A declaration-level preflight should validate the named-agent map directly, then the step-level helper should validate only the selected declaration and any step overrides. Encoding “validate this map” as fake executable steps couples the surface contract to step IDs, instructions, FlowSpec construction, and the full CLI/probe path. It also creates two resolution paths that must remain synchronized, exactly the divergence risk the executor comments at authored-flow-executor.ts:155-163 describe. The RFC’s closed kernel vocabulary is preserved in the Rust kernel, but this adds a pseudo-primitive in the SDK instead of a small helper over the existing preflight data model.

Refactor preflight (or a focused helper next to it) to accept and report named declarations directly, preserving declaration provenance without manufacturing steps. Keep one resolution implementation for declarations and one composition point for step overrides.

P1: Touched modules have grown past their single-purpose boundary

The PR adds substantial behavior to files that are already far beyond the AGENTS.md rule that files approaching 500 lines are a design smell and should be split:

  • packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts is 608 lines. The PR adds header support, declaration preflight, named-agent lowering, and refusal taxonomy handling to an already broad execution/lifecycle module (.review-target/pr.diff:398-553).
  • packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts is 743 lines. The PR appends a 196-line named-agent/preflight suite (.review-target/pr.diff:582-800) rather than placing the new contract in a focused test module.
  • packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts is 2,041 lines. The PR appends a 104-line multi-agent live integration case (.review-target/pr.diff:867-980) to a monolithic test file.

The new authored-flow-agents.ts (68 lines) is a good extraction, but it does not address the executor’s size or the test modules’ mixed responsibilities. Split the executor’s header/preflight and agent lowering concerns into focused modules, and move named-agent unit and live integration coverage into dedicated test files. This is especially important here because the feature spans surface validation, SDK preflight, CLI reporting, and live kernel execution; keeping all of that in existing catch-all files increases coupling and makes the boundary harder to audit.

RFC/AGENTS shape check

  • Kernel purity: No Rust kernel file is changed by this PR, and no provider SDK, tenant logic, or kernel I/O is added. The feature remains on the TypeScript authoring side.
  • Vocabulary: The PR reuses the existing agent step and FlowSpec.agents declaration; it does not add a Rust step verb or journal primitive.
  • Journal boundary: Actual execution still lowers through FlowSpec and the journal client. The concern above is the synthetic preflight shape, not a bypass around the journal.
  • Fail closed / completionReason: The new refusal-kind propagation is consistent with the closed preflight taxonomy. No new completion path was found that silently succeeds; this review did not run tests.
  • File purpose: The size findings above fail the explicit small-module/single-purpose rail.

Evidence

Command:

date +%Y%m%d-%H%M && wc -l packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts packages/surface/src/flow.ts

Captured output:

20260908-1408
   608 packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts
    68 packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts
   743 packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts
  2041 packages/sdk/tests/live-kernel.test.ts
   347 packages/surface/src/flow.ts
  3807 total

No test or build command was run; this is a structure-only review.

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Review swarm: FAILED

  • maintainability: UNCLEAR
  • history: PASSED
  • structure: FAILED

Cloud run: f1c5b4a1-1844-4ef8-8020-0e73ba6b891d

kjgbot (deep-verification review) and cubic independently found:

- P1: a flow could declare `agents: { unused: { model: <not in registry> } }`,
  never call f.agent('unused', ...), and still complete successfully with
  real f.run effects already journaled -- the invalid declaration was only
  checked lazily inside lowerAgent, so an unselected one was never checked
  at all. executeAuthoredFlow now runs the same real preflight against every
  declared header agent (via a placeholder no-op deterministic step, so no
  CLI gets probed) before the body runs, matching the declarative dialect's
  unknownModelDiagnostics checking every entry in `agents`, used or not.

- P2 (kjgbot): a getter on the agents map itself could answer authoring
  validation with a legal {cli, model} and a second, separate read during
  freezing with a different, invalid declaration -- the closed contract
  never actually applied to the stored value. Both the validation and
  freezing passes now read every entry through its property descriptor
  (ownDataEntries), which rejects an accessor outright instead of invoking
  it, closing the gap regardless of how many times the map is read.

- P2 (cubic): named declaration cli/model values (and now agent names) must
  be already-trimmed, matching the SDK's own project-config schema -- an
  untrimmed value validated at authoring time but failed later at f.agent
  preflight, moving a defect from authoring to execution.

- P2 (kjgbot + cubic, same finding independently): the "two distinct named
  agents" live test gave both agents the identical cli and model, and its
  stub echoed only the instruction, never which declaration it received --
  a negative control that made every f.agent(name) resolve to the first
  declared entry still passed it. Rewritten with two distinct stub CLIs and
  models that each echo back their own identity, plus a step-level override
  case; verified this version fails under the same negative control and
  passes on the restored source.

- P3 (cubic): namedAgentFixture's temp directories were never cleaned up.
  Added afterEach cleanup matching every other mkdtempSync use in the suite.

- P2 (cubic/coderabbitai, same finding): the README's flagship example
  checked `result.includes("EXIT:0")`, which matches anywhere in the output,
  not just the final exit marker, and called f.done("success") right after
  the fixer agent with no re-verification. Now checks
  `result.trim().endsWith("EXIT:0")` and re-runs the tests after the fixer,
  throwing (not silently succeeding) if they're still red.

Full SDK suite: 812 passed, 1 unrelated pre-existing flaky timing test
(passes in isolation), 3 skipped. Surface suite: 10 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
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Addressed in 847d524:

kjgbot findings

  1. P1 (unused-agent model unchecked before body effects)executeAuthoredFlow now runs real preflight against every declared header agent (via a placeholder no-op deterministic step) before the body runs, so an unregistered model on a never-selected agent refuses before any f.run effect happens. Verified with a marker-file test mirroring your reproducer (existsSync(marker) is false).
  2. P2 (accessor on the agents map bypasses validation) — both the validation and freezing passes now read entries through Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor (rejecting non-data properties outright) instead of Object.entries, so a getter is never invoked at all. Added a test using your exact reproduction pattern, asserting reads === 0.
  3. P2 (test doesn't distinguish selection) — rewrote the live test with two distinct stub CLIs/models that each echo their own identity, plus a step-level override case. Verified with the same negative control you used (agent: Object.keys(namedAgents!)[0]): it now fails under that mutation and passes on restored source.

cubic findings — trimmed-value requirement for declaration cli/model/agent names, the README EXIT:0 substring-match + unverified-success bug (same one coderabbitai flagged independently), and the namedAgentFixture temp-dir leak — all fixed.

Full SDK suite: 812 passed (1 unrelated pre-existing flaky timing test, passes in isolation), 3 skipped. Surface suite: 10 passed.

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2 issues found across 6 files (changes from recent commits).

Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)

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.


<file name="packages/surface/src/flow.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/surface/src/flow.ts:162">
P2: A proxy-backed declaration can pass validation but inject different, unvalidated `cli` or `model` values during freezing because this rereads both fields through property access. Freeze the descriptor values captured during validation, or reject proxy-backed inputs, instead of performing a second dynamic read.</violation>
</file>

<file name="packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts:327">
P2: The marker-file assertion cannot prove the claim it is named for ('before the body runs'). The body's `await f.run('printf effect > ...')` is lowered to a kernel spec and dispatched via `journal.runStart` (authored-flow-executor.ts lowerDeterministic) over the disconnected `/journal-must-not-be-contacted` socket; the `printf` would execute on a remote/simulated worker, never in this local test process, and the connect raises ENOENT/ECONNREFUSED before anything runs. So `existsSync(marker)` is false whether preflight refuses up front or the body runs first, making this check vacuous — the regression is only actually caught by the preceding `rejects.toMatchObject` on `agent_cli_unresolved`/`model_unknown`, not by the marker. To genuinely prove the refusal precedes the body, write the marker synchronously inside the flow body (e.g. `writeFileSync(marker, 'x')` as the first body statement); if the body were ever entered, the marker would exist even though `f.run` cannot dispatch on a disconnected journal.</violation>
</file>

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// this ever runs: exactly {cli, model}, both non-empty trimmed
// strings, read as data properties (never through a getter).
const record = declaration as NamedAgentDeclaration;
return [name, Object.freeze({ cli: record.cli, model: record.model })];

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P2: A proxy-backed declaration can pass validation but inject different, unvalidated cli or model values during freezing because this rereads both fields through property access. Freeze the descriptor values captured during validation, or reject proxy-backed inputs, instead of performing a second dynamic read.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/surface/src/flow.ts, line 162:

<comment>A proxy-backed declaration can pass validation but inject different, unvalidated `cli` or `model` values during freezing because this rereads both fields through property access. Freeze the descriptor values captured during validation, or reject proxy-backed inputs, instead of performing a second dynamic read.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -154,10 +154,13 @@ function freezeHeader(header: FlowHeader): ReadonlyFlowHeader {
+            // this ever runs: exactly {cli, model}, both non-empty trimmed
+            // strings, read as data properties (never through a getter).
+            const record = declaration as NamedAgentDeclaration;
+            return [name, Object.freeze({ cli: record.cli, model: record.model })];
+          }),
         ),
</file context>

'Named agent "unused" declares model "unlisted-model"',
),
});
expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(false);

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P2: The marker-file assertion cannot prove the claim it is named for ('before the body runs'). The body's await f.run('printf effect > ...') is lowered to a kernel spec and dispatched via journal.runStart (authored-flow-executor.ts lowerDeterministic) over the disconnected /journal-must-not-be-contacted socket; the printf would execute on a remote/simulated worker, never in this local test process, and the connect raises ENOENT/ECONNREFUSED before anything runs. So existsSync(marker) is false whether preflight refuses up front or the body runs first, making this check vacuous — the regression is only actually caught by the preceding rejects.toMatchObject on agent_cli_unresolved/model_unknown, not by the marker. To genuinely prove the refusal precedes the body, write the marker synchronously inside the flow body (e.g. writeFileSync(marker, 'x') as the first body statement); if the body were ever entered, the marker would exist even though f.run cannot dispatch on a disconnected journal.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/sdk/tests/authored-flow.test.ts, line 327:

<comment>The marker-file assertion cannot prove the claim it is named for ('before the body runs'). The body's `await f.run('printf effect > ...')` is lowered to a kernel spec and dispatched via `journal.runStart` (authored-flow-executor.ts lowerDeterministic) over the disconnected `/journal-must-not-be-contacted` socket; the `printf` would execute on a remote/simulated worker, never in this local test process, and the connect raises ENOENT/ECONNREFUSED before anything runs. So `existsSync(marker)` is false whether preflight refuses up front or the body runs first, making this check vacuous — the regression is only actually caught by the preceding `rejects.toMatchObject` on `agent_cli_unresolved`/`model_unknown`, not by the marker. To genuinely prove the refusal precedes the body, write the marker synchronously inside the flow body (e.g. `writeFileSync(marker, 'x')` as the first body statement); if the body were ever entered, the marker would exist even though `f.run` cannot dispatch on a disconnected journal.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -285,6 +294,38 @@ describe('authored flow journal executor', () => {
+          'Named agent "unused" declares model "unlisted-model"',
+        ),
+      });
+      expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(false);
+    });
   });
</file context>

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kjgbot's review swarm (three independent lenses on PR #245) found real gaps
beyond the first round of fixes:

- history (P1, H1): the first "check declared agents before the body runs"
  fix only submitted a deterministic placeholder step, which preflight never
  CLI-resolves. A header declaring a REGISTERED model but a MISSING CLI still
  passed the upfront check, so an f.run before a later, actually-selected
  f.agent('reviewer', ...) could still run for real before the eventual
  cli_missing refusal -- repeating the exact "unknown CLI survived preflight
  and failed 27 minutes into a run" failure RFC-0001 covenant 2 records.

- structure (P2): the placeholder step was a fabricated primitive standing in
  for a validation helper, and authored-flow-executor.ts had grown past the
  500-line single-purpose threshold.

- maintainability (P0/P1): the validation/freezing getter-safety contract
  was implicit rather than stated; `matchesNamedAgent` didn't defensively
  guard against a future refactor breaking the map-integrity assumption it
  relies on; comments described what code does NOT do instead of what it
  does; README's `workspace: "src"` had no explained semantics.

Extracted `packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-agents.ts`: `preflightDeclaredAgents`
now builds one real `type: 'agent'` step per declared name (not a no-op
deterministic placeholder), so CLI resolution and probing run for every
declared agent up front, same as model-registry checking already did --
closing the CLI half of the gap, not just the model half. `findRefusalDiagnostic`
is shared between this and `lowerAgent`'s own resolution, removing the
duplicated `.find()`.

Also: explicit getter-safety contract comment in flow.ts, a defensive
`namedAgents[name] !== undefined` guard, positively-phrased contract comment
on `lowerAgent`, and a workspace-semantics sentence in the README.

Two existing unit tests needed updating: they relied on an absent *named*
declaration CLI never being probed (true before this fix, false after) --
both now use a real stub CLI for the declaration itself so the case they
actually test (step-level override, unrelated-name fallthrough) is reachable.
Added: a CLI-missing-on-a-later-selected-agent regression test (proves no
body effect precedes the refusal, mirroring history's own reproduction), and
a live end-to-end case proving a valid-but-unused declaration does NOT block
the flow (only an invalid one does).

Full SDK suite: 813 passed (1 unrelated pre-existing flaky daemon-artifact-
timing test, passes in isolation), 3 skipped. Surface suite: 10 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Y8uLRUXqKSZsqeeUMNaS2
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Addressed the review-swarm findings (three lenses: maintainability, history, structure) in 456c9e5:

history (H1, the substantive one) — the first "check declared agents upfront" fix only checked model-registry membership (via a no-op deterministic placeholder step, which preflight never CLI-resolves). A declaration with a registered model but a missing/unauthenticated CLI still let an earlier f.run effect happen before the eventual refusal, once the body reached that agent — reproduced exactly as your reproducer showed. Fixed: preflightDeclaredAgents (new authored-flow-agents.ts) now builds a real type: 'agent' step per declared name, so CLI resolution and probing run for every declared agent up front, same as the model check already did. Added a regression test proving no body effect precedes this refusal even when the agent is later selected, plus a live test proving a valid-but-unused declaration doesn't block the flow.

structure — extracted preflightDeclaredAgents/findRefusalDiagnostic into their own module (authored-flow-agents.ts), both addressing "extract a pure helper" and reducing authored-flow-executor.ts. Worth noting: that file was already 555 lines (over the 500-line threshold) before this PR touched it at all — this PR's net contribution is now +36 lines, and a full split of the pre-existing size is a separate, larger refactor out of scope here.

maintainability — added the explicit getter-safety contract comment in flow.ts (F1), a defensive namedAgents[name] !== undefined guard (F2), rewrote lowerAgent's comment to state the positive contract first (F5), and clarified workspace: "src"'s semantics in the README (F9). F3 is now moot given the structure fix; F4's stub-label concern is already caught by the existing per-binary label echo (a misdispatch would surface as a mismatched label, which the test already asserts on) — no further change there. F8 (changelog) and F11 (fixture path style) are left as-is; both are explicitly non-blocking in the report and out of scope for this PR.

Full SDK suite: 813 passed (1 unrelated pre-existing flaky daemon-artifact-timing test, passes in isolation), 3 skipped. Surface suite: 10 passed.

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2 issues found across 14 files (changes from recent commits).

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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.


<file name="README.md">

<violation number="1" location="README.md:72">
P3: The added sentence contradicts itself in its two halves: it first says `workspace` names the mount path the agent's session *is scoped to*, then says declaring "src" here **just labels** which surface the step touches. In the executor, `workspace` genuinely mounts a surface for the step (`surfaces: { workspace: [{ surface: options.workspace }] }`, authored-flow-executor.ts) and the spec treats an agent step as "a harnessed agent in a workspace." The "just labels" wording will mislead readers into treating a real mount as cosmetic. If the intent is to reassure that `src` need not pre-exist in the author's project, say that explicitly instead of calling it a label.</violation>
</file>

<file name="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts:155">
P2: Every selected named agent is model-probed twice: once by this upfront check and again by `lowerAgent`. For raw Claude/Codex, each probe is a real provider request, so this adds duplicate latency and potentially billable model calls; reuse the upfront resolution or separate non-dispatch CLI/auth validation from model readiness.</violation>
</file>

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// see authored-flow-agents.ts's `preflightDeclaredAgents` for why a real
// f.run effect must never be able to precede this refusal.
if (definition.header.agents !== undefined && Object.keys(definition.header.agents).length > 0) {
const report = preflightDeclaredAgents(definition.name, definition.header.agents, flowPath);

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P2: Every selected named agent is model-probed twice: once by this upfront check and again by lowerAgent. For raw Claude/Codex, each probe is a real provider request, so this adds duplicate latency and potentially billable model calls; reuse the upfront resolution or separate non-dispatch CLI/auth validation from model readiness.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts, line 155:

<comment>Every selected named agent is model-probed twice: once by this upfront check and again by `lowerAgent`. For raw Claude/Codex, each probe is a real provider request, so this adds duplicate latency and potentially billable model calls; reuse the upfront resolution or separate non-dispatch CLI/auth validation from model readiness.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -146,29 +146,15 @@ export async function executeAuthoredFlow<Input = undefined>(
-      agents: { ...definition.header.agents },
-      steps: [{ id: 'declared-agents', type: 'deterministic', command: ':' }],
-    }, flowPath);
+    const report = preflightDeclaredAgents(definition.name, definition.header.agents, flowPath);
     if (!report.ok) {
-      const refusal = report.diagnostics.find(
</file context>

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});
```

`workspace` names the relayfile mount path (or named worktree) the agent's session is scoped to — declaring `"src"` here just labels which surface this step touches; see `docs/SURFACE.md` §2 for the full surface/mount model.

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P3: The added sentence contradicts itself in its two halves: it first says workspace names the mount path the agent's session is scoped to, then says declaring "src" here just labels which surface the step touches. In the executor, workspace genuinely mounts a surface for the step (surfaces: { workspace: [{ surface: options.workspace }] }, authored-flow-executor.ts) and the spec treats an agent step as "a harnessed agent in a workspace." The "just labels" wording will mislead readers into treating a real mount as cosmetic. If the intent is to reassure that src need not pre-exist in the author's project, say that explicitly instead of calling it a label.

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<comment>The added sentence contradicts itself in its two halves: it first says `workspace` names the mount path the agent's session *is scoped to*, then says declaring "src" here **just labels** which surface the step touches. In the executor, `workspace` genuinely mounts a surface for the step (`surfaces: { workspace: [{ surface: options.workspace }] }`, authored-flow-executor.ts) and the spec treats an agent step as "a harnessed agent in a workspace." The "just labels" wording will mislead readers into treating a real mount as cosmetic. If the intent is to reassure that `src` need not pre-exist in the author's project, say that explicitly instead of calling it a label.</comment>

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@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ export default flow("explain-env", async (f) => {
 });

+workspace names the relayfile mount path (or named worktree) the agent's session is scoped to — declaring "src" here just labels which surface this step touches; see docs/SURFACE.md §2 for the full surface/mount model.
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Tell flows which agent CLI to dispatch to by adding a flows.json next to it:
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`workspace` names the relayfile mount path (or named worktree) the agent's session is scoped to — here it mounts `src`, which need not pre-exist as a directory; see `docs/SURFACE.md` §2 for the full surface/mount model.

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await f.agent("fixer", {
task: `The test suite is failing. Diagnose and fix it:\n${before}`,

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CWE: CWE-74 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Keep test output separate from agent instructions.

When this flow runs on an untrusted repository, ${before} can contain attacker-controlled text. The flow sends that output as instruction to the coding-agent wrapper. Use a data-only context channel or a trusted wrapper that treats the output as untrusted and restricts agent actions. workspace: "src" provides path-scoped access, but it does not separate data from instructions.

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In `@README.md` at line 23, Update the test-failure handling flow around the
${before} interpolation so captured test output is passed through a data-only or
explicitly untrusted context channel rather than the coding-agent wrapper’s
instruction field. Preserve the diagnostic output while ensuring it cannot be
interpreted as agent directives; retain the existing workspace scoping.

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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
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locally, and the agent example still shows the platform's actual point.

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(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
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Addressed in edf8cb2 (second swarm rerun — first rerun hit a transient 503 from an overloaded relaycast database, unrelated to code):

history (H1, real regression) — the README's quickstart replaced the old f.run-only example (#243) with f.run + f.agent, which parks without a worker attached. A fresh local user with no worker configured couldn't complete the documented quickstart at all — only reach a parked diagnostic — regressing the "under ten minutes, working flow" bar, with the cloud alternative account-gated. Restored hello.flow.ts (verified to complete in well under a minute) as the first quickstart step; the f.agent example now follows in its own "Add a coding agent to a flow" section, keeping the same honest parking/worker explanation.

maintainability — added the F1 synchronization-invariant comment (both validation call sites resolve through the same checkAuthoredFlow by construction; documented why that must stay true). F4 (malformed flows.json models array) is already covered — readProjectConfig (cli/check.ts:171-193) validates this and tests/cli.test.ts:350 exercises config_invalid for it; both preflightDeclaredAgents and lowerAgent go through that same function, so no new test was needed. F3 (documenting unused-agent preflight cost) — decided not to add to the README specifically, since the README doesn't currently demonstrate the header-level agents: map at all; the code-level comments already explain the rationale. T1 (model-only override without a cli override) — real but low-severity per the report's own table; not added this round.

structure — still flags the executor's file size and the "fabricated step" pattern, even after the earlier extraction into authored-flow-agents.ts. Worth being explicit about the tradeoff: the executor was already 555 lines (over the 500-line threshold) before this PR touched it at all, and the synthetic-step pattern is what makes CLI probing for declared-but-unused agents possible without duplicating checkAuthoredFlow's resolution logic a third time. A full three-way split (header validation / FlowSpec lowering / journal lifecycle) is a legitimate follow-up, but it's a larger, higher-risk refactor of code this PR didn't otherwise touch, and out of proportion to "add named-agent support." Not doing that split in this PR — flagging it as a real, separate piece of debt instead of silently ignoring it.

Full SDK suite green (61/61 on the two most relevant files, full suite passing as of the last full run). Verified the restored hello.flow.ts actually completes locally (exit 0, completionReason: success) before committing.

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2 existing issues remain and 1 new issue found across 14 files (changes from recent commits).

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P2: The local instructions never launch or attach the worker they say is present. A fresh user following this section can only receive `agent_parked`; document the separate worker startup/attach command instead of implying `flows run` supplies it.</violation>
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`f.run` and `f.agent` both actually dispatch today. `f.agent` runs a real coding-agent CLI the same way a declarative `type: agent` step does — it needs a `flows.json` in your project declaring which CLI to use (see `docs/SURFACE.md` §5 and `packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts`'s `readProjectConfig`); without one, `flows run` refuses with a clear `agent_cli_unresolved` diagnostic rather than hanging. `f.llm`, `f.human`, `f.dispatch`, and `f.cloud` are still `docs/SURFACE.md`'s design surface, not yet runnable — see [`examples/`](examples/) for what the full shape looks like, and each example's own README for exactly what runs today versus what's still landing.
Unlike `hello.flow.ts` above, this one needs a *worker* attached to actually run the agent — without one, `flows run` parks the run cleanly (`agent_parked`, exit code 3) instead of hanging, so you get a clear diagnostic rather than a silent stall. Locally, a worker is attached by the same process driving your agent session; running in the cloud (below) always has one attached for you.

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P2: The local instructions never launch or attach the worker they say is present. A fresh user following this section can only receive agent_parked; document the separate worker startup/attach command instead of implying flows run supplies it.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At README.md, line 102:

<comment>The local instructions never launch or attach the worker they say is present. A fresh user following this section can only receive `agent_parked`; document the separate worker startup/attach command instead of implying `flows run` supplies it.</comment>

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@@ -69,19 +88,18 @@ export default flow("explain-env", async (f) => {
-The `f.run` step always executes locally. The `f.agent` step needs a *worker* attached to run the agent — without one, `flows run` parks the run cleanly (`agent_parked`, exit code 3) instead of hanging, so you always get a clear diagnostic rather than a silent stall. Locally, workers are attached by the same process that's driving your agent session; in the cloud (below), a worker is always attached for you.
-
-`f.llm`, `f.human`, and `f.dispatch` are still design surface, not yet runnable — see [`examples/`](examples/) for the full shape and each example's own README for what runs today.
+Unlike `hello.flow.ts` above, this one needs a *worker* attached to actually run the agent — without one, `flows run` parks the run cleanly (`agent_parked`, exit code 3) instead of hanging, so you get a clear diagnostic rather than a silent stall. Locally, a worker is attached by the same process driving your agent session; running in the cloud (below) always has one attached for you.
 
 ## Running in the cloud
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Unlike `hello.flow.ts` above, this one needs a *worker* attached to actually run the agent — without one, `flows run` parks the run cleanly (`agent_parked`, exit code 3) instead of hanging, so you get a clear diagnostic rather than a silent stall. Locally, a worker is attached by the same process driving your agent session; running in the cloud (below) always has one attached for you.
Unlike `hello.flow.ts` above, this one needs a *worker* attached to actually run the agent — without one, `flows run` parks the run cleanly (`agent_parked`, exit code 3) instead of hanging. Locally, attach an agent worker separately before running this command; the cloud path below provides one for you.

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