feat(sdk): add immutable Flow Tool manifest contracts

[kjgbot]

Summary

Callable Relayflows ("Flow Tools"), SDK slice of RFC-0002. Starts from the immutable FlowToolManifestV1 contract and adds a narrow embedded kernel conformance runtime. It is not the hosted RFC; see packages/sdk/FLOW-TOOLS-IMPLEMENTATION.md for the gap matrix and Cloud handoff.

Scope at head c9b8a1b39214f5cca05f09d58e6fc6a3869b6886

• FlowToolManifestV1: operator-authored name and description, pinned flow name/version/digest, bounded JSON Schema 2020-12 input/result schemas, and a canonical digest. Validation fails closed with no coercion.
• Shared wire contract and validators (flow-tool-contract.ts, flow-tool-wire.ts), plus a canonical lifecycle client (flow-tool-client.ts) and an explicit HTTP transport (flow-tool-http.ts).
• Native, MCP and action adapters that call the same client and return identical canonical receipts.
• createKernelFlowToolControlPlane (flow-tool-kernel.ts): a real FlowToolTransport over a JournalClient. It verifies the sealed bundle digest and uses relayflowd admission keys for idempotency. Status, events, spend and evidence digest are projected from the journal, and principal-bound reconstruction works without a process-local map. The accepted executable template is deliberately tiny: one effect-free deterministic step.

Explicitly not provided

Hosted admission, tenant ledger, signer trust, effect/credential enforcement for write-enabled tools, hosted crash proof, and a live pilot. These are Cloud dependencies, listed in the implementation doc.

Exact-head evidence

• CI at c9b8a1b3 is green: linux-x64-artifact, packed-consumer, validate and guard. Cubic and CodeRabbit pass.
• Focused suite (manifest, public-api, control, http, kernel-live): 143/143 pass locally at c9b8a1b3, with live relayflowd and none skipped. The same result holds on a local, unpushed merge with current main 69ef8974, which has no kernel changes. Commands and output are in the driver comment on this PR.
• Full SDK suite: previously reported red for environment reasons (Linux-only isolation, Bun mismatch, live-analyzer auth). The baseline has not been re-documented at this head.

Readiness

DRAFT. Owner/product completion is pending, as is a full-suite baseline accounting. The existing approval comes from a commit author on this branch; see the driver comment.

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[kjgbot]

maintainability lens — FAIL

Not applicable — this is a review, not a multi-step build. Writing the review now.

Maintainability review — PR #568 (Flow Tool manifests)

Blockers

B1. Third argument to snapshotJsonValue does not exist.
packages/sdk/src/json-value.ts:12 defines snapshotJsonValue(value, at) — two parameters, no limits. The new code calls it with three at every site: flow-tool-manifest.ts:63, :73, :87, :99 and flow-tool-schema.ts:56, all passing FLOW_TOOL_LIMITS. This is a TS2554 (extra argument). Either the branch omits a companion change to json-value.ts, or the tests below cannot compile — a stranger in six months has no way to tell which.

B2. Advertised limits are unenforced.
FLOW-TOOL.md:63-70 and flow-tool-schema.ts:9 declare a 64/4,096/256 KiB envelope. Nothing consumes FLOW_TOOL_LIMITS. The test at flow-tool-manifest.test.ts:143-149 then asserts that 'x'.repeat(262145) and new Array(5000).fill(0) throw — neither will, because snapshotJsonValue has no byte-count or node-count budget. This is the exact "comment asserts what the code does not do" pattern the lens exists to catch, and the test would silently pass on the two conditions it looks like it covers (cycles, NaN, BigInt, Date, prototypes) while never actually protecting the limits the doc promises.

Concerns

C1. record() error swallows which field is wrong.
flow-tool-manifest.ts:26-30 throws "missing or unknown fields" for both cases without naming the offending key. Every top-level malformed manifest hits this path; debuggers will need to diff FIELDS by hand.

C2. Validation errors strip instance path.
flow-tool-manifest.ts:87-90 reduces Ajv failures to `schema validation failed (${keyword})`. The intent (// Report schema location, never data …) is good, but dropping instancePath too leaves the caller unable to say which property violated the schema. keyword alone (e.g., "required") is often useless.

C3. Ajv compile is not memoized.
flow-tool-schema.ts:52-54 builds a new Ajv2020 and recompiles the schema on every call to validateFlowToolInput/validateFlowToolResult (via flow-tool-manifest.ts:88). For a tool called from a loop this is a hidden hot path; a comment stating the intent (or a WeakMap<schema, validator>) would keep a future reader from "optimizing" wrongly.

C4. flowToolFunctionDefinition shape has no owning provider.
flow-tool-definitions.ts:20-23 returns {type:'function', name, description, parameters}. Neither Anthropic (input_schema) nor OpenAI Responses ({type:'function', function:{...}}) uses that literal shape. The JSDoc calls it "neutral"; a six-month reader wiring an adapter will not know whom to blame when it doesn't fit.

C5. Semver leading-zero rule is dense.
flow-tool-manifest.ts:38-40 chains six string ops to enforce "no numeric prerelease identifier with leading zero". A named predicate (hasLeadingZeroPrereleaseId) would carry the invariant forward.

Notes

• unchecked = (value: unknown) => createFlowToolManifest(value as FlowToolDeclarationV1) in the test file (:17) is a deliberate malformed-input helper; a one-line comment would prevent someone from "fixing" the cast.
• parseFlowToolManifest (:80) re-runs createFlowToolManifest for verification and equality-checks the digest. This is elegant but load-bearing: any future normalization inside createFlowToolManifest (trimming, case folding) will silently break already-signed manifests. Worth a one-line invariant comment.
• FLOW-TOOL.md:57-60 correctly qualifies digest ≠ signature/provenance — good; keep this discipline as the module grows.

The identity/canonicalization design and the fail-closed schema profile are clear and well-scoped. But the missing limits plumbing means either the branch doesn't compile or the enforcement claims (doc + test) are false — both of which are exactly the "implicit contract that will bite a maintainer" the lens should stop.

REVIEW_FAILED

[kjgbot]

history lens — PASS

Blockers: None.

Concerns (non-blocking): RFC-0001 settled decision #14 ultimately requires a trusted, signed, content-addressed bundle. Here, flow.digest is only syntax-checked and bundle existence/admission is not verified (packages/sdk/src/flow-tool-manifest.ts:43-56). That is an explicitly documented deferral: the module does not execute flows, prove provenance, or provide admission (packages/sdk/FLOW-TOOLS.md:54-57, 88-94). Under the stated scaffolding policy, this is not a contradiction.

Notes: This does not repeat DRIVE-LOG’s prior “immutable gate” mistake, where mutable content and its checksum shared the same authority (ops/DRIVE-LOG.md:6278-6296). The new documentation expressly says an attacker can rehash metadata and that the digest is not a signature or authorization (packages/sdk/FLOW-TOOLS.md:54-57); callers can supply an independently trusted digest (packages/sdk/src/flow-tool-manifest.ts:67-78). Deep snapshots and freezing support the narrower immutability claim (packages/sdk/src/flow-tool-manifest.ts:60-64; packages/sdk/tests/flow-tool-manifest.test.ts:33-43).

The SDK-only descriptors do not add a kernel verb or execution path, so they fit settled decision #13’s open-surface/closed-kernel boundary (packages/sdk/src/flow-tool-definitions.ts:17-27). The commit message, “add immutable Flow Tool manifest contracts,” accurately describes the six-file diff; it makes no false test or execution claim. The PR description also honestly states that the full suite is red and the PR is not merge-ready.

REVIEW_PASSED

[kjgbot]

structure lens — MISSING

[kjgbot]

🎯 review-swarm: FAILED (M:fail H:pass S:missing)

Lens transcripts posted as sibling comments above.

[kjgbot]

Exact-head review correction — f37ead4e125a2a9062ae3eea3f5ebbdde6f9afc9

The prior maintainability B1/B2 failure is not applicable to this head. I verified the branch contents directly:

• packages/sdk/src/json-value.ts defines snapshotJsonValue(value, at, limits?).
• Its budget tracks and enforces max depth, max nodes/properties, and max bytes.
• flow-tool-manifest.ts and flow-tool-schema.ts pass FLOW_TOOL_LIMITS at every relevant snapshot boundary.
• The current head adds the built-public-API contract test and acceptance documentation/comments; it does not need to modify the already-present limits implementation.

The earlier review’s remaining maintainability observations (error specificity, validator compilation lifecycle, provider adapter naming, and semver predicate readability) are non-blocking considerations for this typed foundation. Please run fresh independent maintainability and structure reviews against this exact head, including the 54 focused tests and public API build-path evidence. Do not reuse the prior stale B1/B2 conclusion.

The PR remains draft and explicitly not merge-ready. No review thread is being resolved by this comment.

[khaliqgant]

Runtime completion evidence is now on exact head 921645a (actual kernel-backed Flow Tool control plane; focused 139/139 plus live 4/4 reported). Remaining completion gates are explicit: rebase/update from stale base e07a190 onto current main, exact-head required CI/review, and account for the documented full-suite environment/baseline failures. Keep draft until those gates are terminal; no manifest-only claim.

[khaliqgant]

Independent exact-head review of c9b8a1b (merge parent current main d090ad3). The runtime/control-plane implementation is present (not manifest-only): prior exact implementation review covered SDK focused 139/139 and live relayflowd 4/4; this head is that implementation plus guarded main merge. Exact-head required checks are terminal green: linux 36060317105, packed 36060317104, validate 36060317185, guard 36060313935; Cubic/CodeRabbit statuses pass. No substantive blocker found in the reviewed Flow Tool kernel/admission/journal path. Draft remains preserved pending owner/product completion and any full-suite baseline documentation.

[kjgbot]

Driver verification at exact head c9b8a1b39214f5cca05f09d58e6fc6a3869b6886 (comment, not an approval)

Run on a clean worktree of origin/feat/flow-tool-manifest-v1 (macOS arm64). The kernel was built with cargo +stable build because ops/cargo.sh failed locally with rustup could not choose a version of cargo to run, a local toolchain issue.

$ git rev-parse HEAD
c9b8a1b39214f5cca05f09d58e6fc6a3869b6886
$ npm run typecheck && npm run build && npm run typecheck:tests   # all exit 0
$ npx vitest run tests/flow-tool-manifest.test.ts tests/flow-tool-public-api.test.ts tests/flow-tool-control.test.ts tests/flow-tool-http.test.ts tests/flow-tool-kernel-live.test.ts
 Test Files  5 passed (5)
      Tests  143 passed (143)

Local, unpushed merge with current main (69ef8974, 18 commits ahead, clean auto-merge, no kernel/ changes):

aa326e91 parents=c9b8a1b3 69ef8974 local trial merge (not pushed)
typecheck=0
build=0
typecheck_tests=0
 Test Files  5 passed (5)
      Tests  143 passed (143)

Findings:

1. Approval independence. The only approval (khaliqgant, APPROVED @ c9b8a1b) comes from the git author of 472f5b7e and 921645af, the kernel runtime commits. An independent reviewer should sign off before any merge.
2. Stale PR body (claimed head f37ead4, "does not execute flows", 54 tests). I replaced it with the exact-head scope.
3. Branch is 18 commits behind main. mergeStateStatus is CLEAN, and the merge verifies locally, so I did not push a merge. Pushing one would reset the exact-head CI and review for no functional gain. Push it if the owner wants.
4. Not re-run: the full SDK suite (scripts/test.sh), which is previously documented as env-red.

Not done: no approve, no ready-for-review, no merge, no push.