feat(sdk): carry the authored step index (label, after) in flows status --json - #556
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An authored flow's steps each run in their own child journal, so no child's status view can say what a step is called or what it waited for. The root's `authored-steps` stream can, from the moment each child is admitted (#553). `flows status --json <root>` now folds that stream from the journal already in hand and adds it as `authored_steps`: one entry per authored step with its child `run_id`, `state`, and when present `completion_reason`, `kernel_step`, `label` (redacted like other free text) and `after`. The fold is shared with `readAuthoredStepIndex`, so the offline reader and the daemon reader cannot disagree. The field is additive and absent for every run without an index. This is what Cloud's live reporter polls, so the run graph can name and connect nodes while the run is in flight rather than only after it finishes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ChangesAuthored steps in status output
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participant runStatus
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runStatus->>authoredSteps: pass journal events and environment
authoredSteps->>foldAuthoredStepRecords: pass authored-step messages
foldAuthoredStepRecords-->>authoredSteps: return folded records
authoredSteps-->>runStatus: return presented authored steps
runStatus-->>runStatus: add authored_steps when records exist
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The live status view is intended to show a child as soon as it is admitted, but tests do not check that behavior against a running flow. Add an in-flight assertion; the implementation is otherwise mergeable with this bounded coverage gap. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| const previous = index.get(raw.step); | ||
| // An `admitted` record arriving after a `completed` one (a resumed body | ||
| // re-admitting the same child under its stable admission key) must not | ||
| // un-complete it. | ||
| if (previous?.state === 'completed' && raw.state === 'admitted') continue; | ||
| index.set(raw.step, raw); |
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🟡 Completed steps lose new graph metadata
When a completed step is re-admitted with new label or after, foldAuthoredStepRecords discards those fields. Resumed roots can keep that step unnamed and disconnected.
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A resumed authored body reuses stable child admission keys. A root written by an older runtime can therefore contain a completed record without graph fields, followed by a valid re-admission carrying label and after. The fold must retain the completed lifecycle state while incorporating those newly available graph fields. The current guard drops the entire re-admission, so the new status projection cannot expose its metadata.
Example: A journal contains completed for agent-4 without label, then admitted for the same step with label: "writer". The result remains completed but has no label; it must remain completed and gain label: "writer".
Recommended fix: When previous.state is completed and raw.state is admitted, preserve previous lifecycle fields while merging valid graph fields from raw. Add a fold test covering a metadata-bearing re-admission after a metadata-free completion.
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Fixed in af83471. foldAuthoredStepRecords now keeps the completed lifecycle state and takes any label or after it is missing from the other record for the same step. A record's own fields still win. This works both ways: a completion without the fields keeps the ones from the admission, and a re-admission that carries them adds them to a bare completion. Covered by the new test in authored-step-index.test.ts, "keeps graph fields across records, whichever record carried them".
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In `@packages/sdk/tests/authored-step-graph-live.test.ts`:
- Around line 101-119: Update the real-flow test around `executeAuthoredFlow` to
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…un in the live test - `foldAuthoredStepRecords`: a record lacking `label`/`after` no longer erases the ones another record for the same step carried. A completion without them keeps the admission's; a re-admission that carries them over a bare completion (a root an older runtime began) adds them while the step stays completed. A record's own fields still win. (Devin review.) - The live-kernel test now polls `flows status --json <root>` from outside the body while the run is held mid-flight, as Cloud's reporter does, and asserts the index it reads from the journal the daemon is still writing. A read that races the writer is refused and retried. (CodeRabbit review.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A truncated walk that found no predecessor journals `afterTruncated` without `after`; the fold treated it as edge-less and dropped the flag. `after` and `afterTruncated` now travel together. (Cursor review.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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For a prospect demo, the Cloud run graph (
/dashboard/workflow/{runId}/runner) has to show each authored step's human name (api-create, notagent-4) and its dependency edges while the run is in flight. #553 journalslabel/afteron the root'sauthored-stepsstream as soon as each child is admitted, and cloud#3945 persists them from the final telemetry — but Cloud's live view never sees them.Cloud's live reporter (
cloud/packages/core/src/bootstrap/lib/relayflow-v2-progress.ts) lists<dataDir>/runs/*.sqlite3and runsflows status --json --data-dir <dir> <runId>on every journal every 10 s. A child journal's view can't know its step's label or predecessors; only the root'sauthored-stepsstream does — andflows statusignoredstream.appendedentries (run-state.tsdefault branch).What
flows status --json <root>now addsauthored_steps: the root's index folded from the journal already in hand, one entry per authored step in admission order —step,run_id(the child journal whose own view holds that step id),state, and when presentcompletion_reason,kernel_step,label(redacted like any other free text),after,after_truncated.readAuthoredStepIndexintofoldAuthoredStepRecords, so the offline reader and the daemon reader share one implementation (completed wins over a later re-admission; unknown/malformed records skipped).label/after, so the names and edges are visible from the moment a step starts.docs/SURFACE.md(status--jsonsection) anddocs/CLOUD.md(hosted limits).Rollout
No ordering constraint from this side. Cloud's currently deployed reporter parses the status JSON and reads only
run_id/status/steps; it never forwards unknown fields, so pinning this runtime under today's Cloud changes nothing (no labels, no breakage). Cloud's snapshot parser does reject unknown step fields, but only the Cloud-side reporter builds snapshots, and it builds them from an allowlist — this PR's field never reaches it. Labels and live edges appear once both this runtime is pinned and the Cloud companion PR AgentWorkforce/cloud#3952 is deployed; either can land first.Evidence
Targeted tests (with
RELAYFLOWD_BIN=/Users/khaliqgant/.relayflows-toolchain/target/3742657831/debug/relayflowd):cli-status.test.ts— new: an authored root journal with admitted/completed records, a redacted label, a re-admission after completion, and three non-index records (other stream, v2 record, malformedafter) → exactauthored_steps; the existing shape test now also asserts the field is absent without an index.authored-step-graph-live.test.ts— extended: after a real authored flow through the live kernel,flows status --json <root>read from the journal file on disk equalsreadAuthoredStepIndexthrough the daemon, and the child journal named foragent-4shows step idagent-4(the join key Cloud uses).Mutation check — replaced
...(authored.length === 0 ? {} : { authored_steps: authored })with...({}):restored byte-for-byte:
Full sdk suite in this worktree:
Test Files 4 failed | 170 passed | 1 skipped,Tests 2 failed | 2694 passed | 17 skipped. The four failing files are environmental and fail identically with this change stashed:authored-node-runtime(bun version),bundle(worktree-local "expected an @relayflows/surface flow handle"),relay-cli-surface(missing@agent-relay/cli-surfacein the symlinked node_modules),generate-triggers(adapter mappings from the symlinked node_modules).Review follow-ups
foldAuthoredStepRecordskeeps graph fields across the records for one step. A completion without them keeps the admission's, and a re-admission that carries them adds them to a bare completion. The step stays completed and a record's own fields win (Devin). The live-kernel test now pollsflows status --json <root>from outside the body while the run is held mid-flight, as Cloud's reporter does. A read that races the writer is refused and retried (CodeRabbit). I ran that test 8 times in a row and it passed every time.afterTruncated: truewith noaftersurvives the fold (Cursor).Targeted suites at af2158d:
authored-step-index,cli-status,authored-step-graph-live—Tests 45 passed (45).🤖 Generated with Claude Code