Adversarial review of the v1.2 Workflows track surfaced two HIGH footguns and
several correctness/hardening gaps. Fixes:
HIGH
- pull round-trip: `pic pull` dropped `[[workflows]]`, so a later
`apply --prune` silently deleted them. The list endpoint now returns the full
`definition`; pull rebuilds the manifest block (inverse of workflow_to_wire).
- case-colliding names: two workflows differing only by case collided in the
reconcile diff (keyed by lower(name)), silently dropping one. Rejected up
front in validate_bundle_for.
MEDIUM
- reclaim retry budget: a crashed attempt (no outcome) consumed the retry
budget. reclaim_stale_steps now decrements `attempt` (floored) and clears
`next_attempt_at`, so a crash no longer counts as a failed try.
- on_error/backoff: typed the manifest fields against the shared enums so a
bad value fails at TOML parse with a clear message, not an opaque 500.
- dedupe depends_on: a repeated dependency inflated the Kahn in-degree past the
single decrement, reporting a spurious cycle for a valid DAG. Count distinct.
- canceled child: a canceled sub-workflow resolved the parent step with a
message naming the cause instead of a generic "failed"; documented that a
run-level cancel op is not yet supported.
LOW
- list_run_steps is now app-scoped at the query (JOIN workflow_runs) rather
than relying on caller pre-verification.
- partial failure is surfaced: a run that succeeds with on_error=continue
failures records them in the run's `error` field.
- admin-started runs log the root_execution_id against the principal.
- documented the deliberate when(missing→false) vs template(missing→fail)
asymmetry; corrected the claim's atomicity comment.
Tests: unit (dedupe-deps), DB-gated reclaim-budget assertion, and two new CLI
journeys (duplicate-name rejection, pull→plan clean round-trip). fmt + clippy
-D warnings clean; 450 lib + 14 orchestrator DB + 5 workflow journeys pass;
schema snapshot unchanged (no migration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user-facing surface for the durable DAG engine. A workflow run can now be
started three ways, all resolving the workflow by name in the caller's app
(`cx.app_id` / the resolved app — never a passed-in arg, the isolation
boundary), seeding a run the orchestrator advances.
SDK seam (shared):
- `WorkflowService` trait + `NoopWorkflowService` + `WorkflowError` in
`shared::workflow` (mirrors `InvokeService`); added to `Services` as a
noop-defaulted `with_workflow` builder (all `Services::new` call sites
unchanged).
- `WorkflowServiceImpl` (manager-core): resolves + seeds a run; authenticated
callers gated on `AppInvoke` (anonymous skips, script-as-gate), the same gate
`invoke()` uses.
- `executor-core::sdk::workflow` — the Rhai bridge `workflow::start(name, input)`
/ `workflow::start(name)`, registered in `register_all`. Returns the run id.
Admin API (manager-core `workflows_api`, mounted in the binary):
- `GET /apps/{app}/workflows` — definitions (AppRead)
- `POST /apps/{app}/workflows/{name}/runs` — start a run (AppInvoke)
- `GET /apps/{app}/workflows/{name}/runs` — run history (AppRead)
- `GET /apps/{app}/workflow-runs/{run_id}` — one run + its steps (AppRead)
`app_id` scopes every query; a foreign run 404s.
CLI (`pic workflows`): `ls` · `run <name> [--input JSON]` · `runs <name>` ·
`run-status <run_id>` — all `--app`-scoped; run definitions stay declarative
(`[[workflows]]` → `pic apply`).
Also: `list_runs_for_workflow` repo reader.
Tests: `workflow_service_start_seeds_a_run` (DB-gated — the SDK/API-shared
entry) + `workflow_run_executes_end_to_end` CLI journey (apply → `pic workflows
run` → poll `run-status` → succeeded, through the real binary + orchestrator).
fmt + clippy -D warnings clean, 449 manager-core lib tests, 14 orchestrator DB
tests, 18 executor-core lib tests, 3 workflow CLI journeys green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First milestone of the v1.2 Workflows track (blueprint §9.1/§9.2): the durable
DAG engine's foundation — the definition model, its validation, and the
declarative `apply` reconcile path. No execution yet (the orchestrator is M2).
- Migration 0071_workflows: `workflows` (owner-polymorphic like scripts, app-
owned in M1), `workflow_runs`, and `workflow_run_steps` (the per-step
competing-consumer lease table the M2 orchestrator will claim). Schema golden
reblessed.
- `shared::workflow`: the `WorkflowDefinition` / `WorkflowStepDef` DTOs (shared
by the CLI, apply, and the future orchestrator) + run/step status enums.
- Pure, DB-free `workflow_template` (input `{{ input.x }}` / `{{ steps.a.output.y }}`
resolution, type-preserving) and `workflow_expr` (a small safe JSON-predicate
evaluator for `when` — keeps manager-core free of a scripting engine).
- `workflow_repo`: read trait + reconcile tx free-fns (insert/update/delete).
- apply_service: `BundleWorkflow` + `Plan.workflows` + `CurrentState.workflows`
+ `ApplyReport.workflows_*`; server-side `validate_workflow_definition`
(unique/acyclic steps via topological sort, deps exist, function XOR workflow,
`when`/template parse) rejecting on a group node; `diff_workflows` by
lower(name) (Update on a definition change) + in-tx reconcile.
- CLI: `[[workflows]]` + `[[workflows.steps]]` manifest structs → wire bundle;
plan/apply render + report counts.
- Tests: 16 manager-core lib tests (template, expr, definition validation) +
the `workflows` CLI journey (apply → NoOp → prune; cyclic DAG rejected).
Deferred to later milestones: the orchestrator worker (M2), conditional/template
runtime wiring (M3), nested sub-workflows (M4), the SDK/API/CLI run surface
(M5), the dashboard (M6). The `group_id` column + run/step tables ship now so
those slot in without a migration churn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
