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Summary

  • Problem: archon workflow run <name> "<msg>" silently resumed the last failed run on every invocation — even without --resume. The findResumableRun check in executeWorkflow fired unconditionally, and options.resume was never forwarded to the executor.
  • Why it matters: Users who changed workflow parameters or wanted a fresh start got a cached resume instead, causing confusing behavior that contradicted the documented --resume opt-in.
  • What changed: Added allowAutoResume?: boolean to executeWorkflow; gated the entire resume detection block behind it; CLI now forwards options.resume === true; the orchestrator's explicit foreground-resume call site passes true since it already located the run.
  • What did not change: archon workflow resume <id>, approval/rejection auto-resume paths, and web UI resume button — all continue to work as before.

UX Journey

Before

User                          CLI                        executeWorkflow
────                          ───                        ───────────────
archon workflow run foo "x"   ──────────────────────▶   findResumableRun() ← fires always
                                                         found prior failed run
                                                         ▶ silently resumes (wrong!)

After

User                          CLI                        executeWorkflow
────                          ───                        ───────────────
archon workflow run foo "x"   ──────────────────────▶   allowAutoResume=false → skip resume
                                                         ▶ creates fresh run ✓

archon workflow run foo "x" --resume
                              allowAutoResume=true  ──▶  findResumableRun() → resumes ✓

Architecture Diagram

Before

CLI (workflow.ts)
  options.resume → [used only for worktree path selection]
  executeWorkflow(…)  ← allowAutoResume NOT forwarded

executeWorkflow
  findResumableRun() ← fires unconditionally on EVERY call

After

CLI (workflow.ts)
  options.resume → allowAutoResume: options.resume === true
  executeWorkflow(…, allowAutoResume)

executeWorkflow
  if (allowAutoResume) {
    findResumableRun() ← only fires when caller opts in
  }

orchestrator-agent.ts (explicit foreground-resume path)
  executeWorkflow(…, allowAutoResume: true) ← already found the run

Connection inventory:

From To Status Notes
workflow.ts executeWorkflow modified now forwards allowAutoResume
orchestrator-agent.ts foreground-resume executeWorkflow modified passes true explicitly
executeWorkflow resume block findResumableRun modified gated on allowAutoResume

Label Snapshot

  • Risk: risk: low
  • Size: size: S
  • Scope: workflows, cli, core
  • Module: workflows:executor, cli:workflow, core:orchestrator

Change Metadata

  • Change type: bug
  • Primary scope: workflows

Linked Issue

Validation Evidence (required)

bun run type-check  # ✅ 0 errors
bun run lint        # ✅ 0 warnings
bun run format:check # ✅ pass
bun run test        # ✅ all pass, 0 fail

Security Impact (required)

  • New permissions/capabilities? No
  • New external network calls? No
  • Secrets/tokens handling changed? No
  • File system access scope changed? No

Compatibility / Migration

  • Backward compatible? Yes — allowAutoResume defaults to undefined (falsy); existing callers that relied on auto-resume will get fresh runs instead. This is the correct behavior per docs.
  • Config/env changes? No
  • Database migration needed? No

Human Verification (required)

  • Verified scenarios: type-check, lint, format, full test suite pass
  • Edge cases checked: workflow approve/reject paths (pass resume: trueallowAutoResume: true); orchestrator foreground-resume path (explicitly passes true); background dispatch via orchestrator.ts (no allowAutoResume, defaults false — correct since preCreatedRun is set)
  • What was not verified: live end-to-end manual test with a real failing workflow

Side Effects / Blast Radius (required)

  • Affected subsystems: CLI workflow run, orchestrator foreground-resume, executor resume detection
  • Potential unintended effects: Users previously relying on silent auto-resume will now get a fresh run. They must use --resume or /workflow resume <id> explicitly — which is the documented behavior.
  • Guardrails: All existing resume tests updated and passing; no test regressions.

Rollback Plan (required)

  • Fast rollback: revert this commit
  • Feature flags: none
  • Observable failure symptoms: users report --resume not resuming (would indicate a positional arg bug)

Risks and Mitigations

  • Risk: Users who depended on the undocumented auto-resume behavior will now get a fresh run.
    • Mitigation: This matches the documented behavior. The --resume flag and /workflow resume <id> command are the explicit paths.

github-actions Bot and others added 11 commits April 22, 2026 11:26
…be (#1359)

The pre-flight binary smoke does a bare `bun build --compile` — it
deliberately skips `scripts/build-binaries.sh` to stay fast. That means
packages/paths/src/bundled-build.ts retains its dev defaults, including
BUNDLED_IS_BINARY = false.

version.ts branches on BUNDLED_IS_BINARY: when true it returns the
embedded string; when false it calls getDevVersion(), which reads
package.json at `SCRIPT_DIR/../../../../package.json`. Inside a compiled
binary SCRIPT_DIR resolves under `$bunfs/root/`, the walk produces a CWD-
relative path that doesn't exist, and the smoke aborts with "Failed to
read version: package.json not found" — a false positive.

Hit during the 0.3.8 release attempt: the real Pi lazy-load fix was
working end-to-end; the smoke test was the only thing failing.

Use --help instead. It exercises the same module-init graph (so it still
catches the real failure modes the skill lists — Pi package.json init
crash, Bun --bytecode bugs, CJS wrapper issues, circular imports under
minify) but has no dev/binary branch, so no false positive.

Also add a longer comment block explaining why --help is preferred, so
this doesn't get "normalized" back to `version` by a future drive-by.
The brew path of /test-release runs `brew uninstall` in Phase 5 to leave the
system in its pre-test state. For operators using the dual-homebrew pattern
(renamed brew binary at `/opt/homebrew/bin/archon-stable` so it coexists with
a `bun link` dev `archon`), that uninstall wipes the Cellar dir the
`archon-stable` symlink points into → `archon-stable` becomes dangling →
`brew cleanup` sweeps it away on the next brew op. Next time the operator
wants stable, they have to manually re-run `brew-upgrade-archon`.

Fix: make the skill aware of `archon-stable` and restore it transparently.

- Phase 2 item 4: detect the `archon-stable` symlink before any brew op;
  export `ARCHON_STABLE_WAS_INSTALLED=yes` so Phase 5 knows to restore it.
  Only triggers for the brew path (curl-mac/curl-vps don't touch brew so
  they leave `archon-stable` alone).
- Phase 5 brew path: after `brew uninstall + untap`, if the flag was set,
  re-tap + re-install + rename. Verifies the restored `archon-stable`
  reports a version and warns (non-fatal) if the rename target is missing.
  Documents the tradeoff: the restored version is "whatever the tap ships
  today", not necessarily the pre-test version — usually that's what the
  operator wants (the release they just tested becomes stable) but the
  back-version-QA case requires a manual `brew-upgrade-archon` after.
- Phase 1 confirmation banner now mentions that `archon-stable` will be
  preserved so the operator isn't surprised by the reinstall during Phase 5.

No changes to curl-mac/curl-vps paths. No changes to Phase 4 test suite.
… a compiled binary (#1360)

v0.3.9 made Pi boot-safe: lazy-loading its imports meant `archon version`
no longer crashed on `@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent/dist/config.js`'s
module-init `readFileSync(getPackageJsonPath())`. That's what the
`provider-lazy-load.test.ts` regression test guards.

The fix was only half the problem though. When a Pi workflow actually
runs, sendQuery() triggers the dynamic import — and Pi's config.js
module-init fires then, hitting the exact same ENOENT on
`dirname(process.execPath)/package.json`. Discovered by running
`archon workflow run test-pi` against a locally-compiled 0.3.9 binary:

    [main] Failed: ENOENT: no such file or directory,
           open '/private/tmp/package.json'
        at readFileSync (unknown)
        at <anonymous> (/$bunfs/root/archon-providertest:184:7889)
        at init_config

Boot-safe ≠ runtime-safe. The `/test-release` run for 0.3.9 passed
because it only exercised `archon-assist` (Claude); Pi was never
actually invoked on the released binary.

Fix: before the dynamic `import('@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent')` in
sendQuery, install a PI_PACKAGE_DIR shim. Pi's config.js checks
`process.env.PI_PACKAGE_DIR` first in its `getPackageDir()` and
short-circuits the `dirname(process.execPath)` walk. We write a
minimal `{name, version, piConfig:{}}` stub to
`tmpdir()/archon-pi-shim/package.json` (idempotent — existsSync check)
and set the env var. Pi only reads `piConfig.name`, `piConfig.configDir`,
and `version` from that file, all optional, so the stub surface is
genuinely minimal.

Localized to PiProvider: no global state, no mutation of any shared
config, no upstream fork. Claude and Codex providers are unaffected
(their SDKs don't have this class of module-init side effect).

Verified end-to-end: built a compiled archon binary with this patch,
ran `archon workflow run test-pi --no-worktree` (Pi workflow with
model `anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5`), got a clean response. Before the
patch, same binary crashed at `dag_node_started` with the ENOENT above.

Regression test added: asserts `PI_PACKAGE_DIR` is set after sendQuery
hits even its fast-fail "no model" path. Together with the existing
`provider-lazy-load.test.ts` (boot-safe) this covers both halves.
… and Codex (#1361)

Both binary resolvers previously stopped at env-var + explicit config and
threw a "not found" error when neither was set. Users who followed the
upstream-recommended install flow (Anthropic's `curl install.sh` for
Claude, `npm install -g @openai/codex`) still had to manually set either
`CLAUDE_BIN_PATH` / `CODEX_BIN_PATH` or the corresponding config field
before any workflow could run.

Add a tier-N autodetect step between the explicit config tier and the
install-instructions throw. Purely additive: env and config still win
when set (precedence covered by new tests). On autodetect miss, the same
install-instructions error fires as before.

Claude probe list (verified against docs.claude.com "Uninstall Claude
Code → Native installation" section):
  - $HOME/.local/bin/claude            (mac/linux native installer)
  - $USERPROFILE\.local\bin\claude.exe (Windows native installer)

Codex probe list (verified against openai/codex README; npm global-
install puts the binary at `{npm_prefix}/bin/<name>` on POSIX,
`{npm_prefix}\<name>.cmd` on Windows):
  - $HOME/.npm-global/bin/codex   (user-set `npm config set prefix`)
  - /opt/homebrew/bin/codex       (mac arm64 with homebrew-node)
  - /usr/local/bin/codex          (mac intel / linux system node)
  - %APPDATA%\npm\codex.cmd       (Windows npm global default)
  - $HOME\.npm-global\codex.cmd   (Windows user-set prefix)

Not probed (explicit override still required):
  - Custom npm prefixes — `npm root -g` would need a subprocess per
    resolve, too much surface for a probe helper
  - `brew install --cask codex` — cask layout isn't a PATH binary
  - Manual GitHub Releases extracts — placement is user-determined
  - `~/.bun/bin/codex` — not documented in openai/codex README

Pi provider intentionally has no equivalent change: the Pi SDK is
bundled into the archon binary (no subprocess), so there's no "binary"
to resolve. Pi auth lives at `~/.pi/agent/auth.json` which the SDK
already finds by default, and the PR A shim (`PI_PACKAGE_DIR`) handles
the package-dir case via Pi's own documented escape hatch.

E2E verified: removed both config entries from ~/.archon/config.yaml,
rebuilt compiled binary, ran `archon workflow run archon-assist` and a
Codex workflow. Logs showed `source: 'autodetect'` for both, responses
returned cleanly.
…ry autodetect test

The native-installer autodetect test computed its expected path from
process.env.HOME, but the implementation uses node:os homedir(). On
Windows, HOME is typically unset (Windows uses USERPROFILE), so the
test fell back to '/Users/test' while the resolver returned the real
home dir — making the spy's path-equality check fail and breaking CI
on windows-latest.

Mirror the implementation by importing homedir() from node:os and
joining with node:path so the expected path matches the actual
platform-resolved home and separator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ver (#1365)

Reported in #1365: a user running `archon serve` with DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
set but the "Message Content Intent" toggle disabled in the Discord
Developer Portal saw the entire server crash with `Used disallowed
intents`. Discord rejects the gateway connection (close code 4014) when
a privileged intent is requested without being enabled, and the
unguarded `await discord.start()` propagated the error all the way up,
taking the web UI down with it.

Wrap discord.start() in try/catch — log the failure with an actionable
hint (special-cased for the disallowed-intent error) and continue
running. Other adapters and the web UI come up regardless. The shutdown
handler already uses optional chaining (`discord?.stop()`) so nulling
discord after a failed start is safe.

Other adapters (Telegram, Slack, GitHub, Gitea, GitLab) have the same
unguarded-start pattern but are out of scope for this fix — addressing
them is tracked separately.

Also expanded the Discord setup docs with a caution callout that names
the exact error string and the new log event so users can grep for
both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(script-nodes): add dedicated guide and teach the archon skill how to write them

Script nodes (script:) have been a first-class DAG node type since v0.3.3 but
were documented only as one-liners in CLAUDE.md and a CI smoke test. Claude
Code reading the archon skill would see "Four Node Types: command, prompt,
bash, loop" and reach for bash+node/python one-liners instead of a proper
script node — losing bun's --no-env-file isolation, uv's --with dependency
pins, and the .archon/scripts/ reuse story.

- New packages/docs-web/src/content/docs/guides/script-nodes.md mirroring the
  structure of loop-nodes.md / approval-nodes.md: schema, inline vs named
  dispatch, runtime/deps semantics, scripts directory precedence (repo > home),
  extension-runtime mapping, env isolation, stdout/stderr contract, patterns,
  and the explicit list of ignored AI fields.
- guides/authoring-workflows.md and guides/index.md updated so the new guide is
  discoverable from both the node-types table and the guides landing page.
- reference/variables.md calls out the no-shell-quote difference between
  bash: and script: substitution — a subtle correctness trap when adapting a
  bash pattern into a script node.
- Sidebar order bumped +1 on hooks/mcp-servers/skills/global-workflows/
  remotion-workflow to slot script-nodes at order 5 next to the other
  node-type guides.

- .claude/skills/archon/SKILL.md: replaces stale "Four Node Types" (which
  also silently omitted approval and cancel) with the accurate seven, with a
  script-node code block showing both inline and named patterns.
- references/workflow-dag.md: full Script Node section covering dispatch,
  resolution, deps, stdout contract, and the list of AI-only fields that are
  ignored; validation-rules list updated.
- references/dag-advanced.md and references/variables.md: retry-support line
  corrected; no-shell-quote note added.
- examples/dag-workflow.yaml: added an extract-labels TypeScript script node
  and updated the header comment.

* fix(docs): review follow-ups for script-node guide

- skills example: extract-labels was reading process.env.ISSUE_JSON which is
  never set; use String.raw`$fetch-issue.output` so the upstream bash node's
  JSON is actually consumed
- guides/script-nodes.md + skills/workflow-dag.md: idle_timeout is accepted
  but ignored on script (and bash) nodes — executeScriptNode only reads
  node.timeout. Clarify that script/bash use `timeout`, not idle_timeout
- archon-workflow-builder.yaml: prompt enumerated only bash/prompt/command/loop,
  so the AI builder could never propose script or approval nodes. Add both
  (plus examples + rule about script output not being shell-quoted) and
  regenerate bundled defaults
- book/dag-workflows.md + book/quick-reference.md + adapters/web.md: fill in
  the node-type references that were missing script, approval, and cancel.
  adapters/web.md also overclaimed "loop" in the palette — NodePalette.tsx
  only drags command/prompt/bash, so note that the other kinds are YAML-only
…nv gaps, add good-practices + troubleshooting (#1363)

* fix(skill/when): document the full `when:` operator set and compound expressions

The skill reference previously stated "operators: ==, != only" which is
materially wrong — the condition evaluator supports ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=
plus && / || compound expressions with && binding tighter than ||, plus
dot-notation JSON field access. An agent authoring a workflow from the
skill would think half the operators don't exist.

Replaces the single-sentence section with a structured reference covering:
- All six comparison operators (string and numeric modes)
- Compound expressions with precedence rules and short-circuit eval
- JSON dot notation semantics and failure modes
- The fail-closed rules in full (invalid expression, non-numeric side,
  missing field, skipped upstream)

Grounded in packages/workflows/src/condition-evaluator.ts.

* feat(skill): document Approval and Cancel node types

Approval and cancel nodes are first-class DAG node types (approval since the
workflow lifecycle work in #871, cancel as a guarded-exit primitive) but the
skill never described either one. An agent reading the skill and asked to
"add a review gate before implementation" or "stop the workflow if the input
is unsafe" would fall back to bash + exit 1, losing the proper semantics
(cancelled vs. failed, on_reject AI rework, web UI auto-resume).

Approval node coverage (references/workflow-dag.md, SKILL.md):
- Full configuration block with message, capture_response, on_reject
- The interactive: true workflow-level requirement for web UI delivery
- Approve/reject commands across all platforms (CLI, slash, natural
  language) and the capture_response → $node-id.output flow
- Ignored-fields list + the on_reject.prompt AI sub-node exception

Cancel node coverage (references/workflow-dag.md, SKILL.md):
- Single-field schema (cancel: "<reason>")
- Lifecycle: cancelled (not failed); in-flight parallel nodes stopped;
  no DAG auto-resume path
- The "cancel: vs bash-exit-1" decision rule (expected precondition miss
  vs. check itself failing)
- Two canonical patterns — upstream-classification gate, pre-expensive-step
  gate

Validation-rules list updated to enumerate approval/cancel constraints
(message non-empty, on_reject.max_attempts range 1-10, cancel reason
non-empty), plus a forward note that script: joins the mutually-exclusive
set once PR #1362 lands.

Placement in both files is after the Loop section and before the validation
section, so this commit stays additive with respect to PR #1362's Script
node insertion between Bash and Loop — rebase is clean.

* feat(skill): document workflow-level fields beyond name/provider/model

The skill's Schema section previously showed only name, description, provider,
and model at the workflow level — which is most of a stub. Agents asked to
"use the 1M-context Claude beta" or "run this under a network sandbox" or
"add a fallback model in case Opus rate-limits" had no way to discover
that any of these fields existed at the workflow level.

Adds a comprehensive Workflow-Level Fields section covering:
- Core: name, description, provider, model, interactive (with explicit
  callout that interactive: true is REQUIRED for approval/loop gates on
  web UI — a common footgun)
- Isolation: worktree.enabled for pin-on/pin-off (the only worktree field
  at workflow level; baseBranch/copyFiles/path/initSubmodules are
  config.yaml only, so a cross-reference points there)
- Claude SDK advanced: effort, thinking, fallbackModel, betas, sandbox,
  with explicit per-node-only exceptions (maxBudgetUsd, systemPrompt)
- Codex-specific: modelReasoningEffort (with note that it's NOT the same
  as Claude's effort — this has confused users), webSearchMode,
  additionalDirectories
- A complete worked example combining sandbox + approval + interactive

All fields cross-referenced against packages/workflows/src/schemas/workflow.ts
and packages/workflows/src/schemas/dag-node.ts.

* feat(skill/loop): document interactive loops and gate_message

Interactive loop nodes pause between iterations for human feedback via
/workflow approve — used by archon-piv-loop and archon-interactive-prd.
The skill's Loop Nodes section previously omitted both interactive: true
and gate_message entirely, so an agent writing a guided-refinement
workflow wouldn't know the feature exists or that gate_message is
required at parse time.

Adds:
- interactive and gate_message rows to the config table (marking
  gate_message as required when interactive: true — enforced by the
  loader's superRefine)
- A dedicated "Interactive Loops" subsection explaining the 6-step
  iterate-pause-approve-resume flow
- Explicit call-out that $LOOP_USER_INPUT populates ONLY on the first
  iteration of a resumed session — easy to miss and a common surprise
- Workflow-level interactive: true requirement for web UI delivery
  (loader warning otherwise) so the full-flow example is complete
- Note that until_bash substitution DOES shell-quote $nodeId.output
  (unlike script bodies) — called out since the audit surfaced this
  inconsistency

* fix(skill/cli): complete the CLI command reference with missing lifecycle commands

The CLI reference previously documented only list, run, cleanup, validate,
complete, version, setup, and chat — missing nearly every workflow
lifecycle command an agent needs to operate a paused, failed, or stuck
run. The interactive-workflows reference assumed these commands existed
without actually documenting them.

Adds full documentation for:
- archon workflow status — show running workflow(s)
- archon workflow approve <run-id> [comment] — resume approval gate
  (also populates $LOOP_USER_INPUT on interactive loops and the gate
  node's output when capture_response: true)
- archon workflow reject <run-id> [reason] — reject gate; cancels or
  triggers on_reject rework depending on node config
- archon workflow cancel <run-id> — terminate running/paused with
  in-flight subprocess kill
- archon workflow abandon <run-id> — mark stuck row cancelled without
  subprocess kill (for orphan-cleanup after server crashes — matches
  the #1216 precedent)
- archon workflow resume <run-id> [message] — force-resume specific
  run (auto-resume is default; this is for explicit override)
- archon workflow cleanup [days] — disk hygiene for old terminal runs
  (with explicit callout that it does NOT transition 'running' rows,
  a common confusion)
- archon workflow event emit — used inside loop prompts for state
  signalling; documented so agents don't invent their own mechanism
- archon continue <branch> [flags] [msg] — iterative-session entry
  point with --workflow and --no-context flags

Also:
- Adds --allow-env-keys flag to the `workflow run` flag table with
  audit-log context and the env-leak-gate remediation use case
- Adds an "Auto-resume without --resume" note disambiguating when
  --resume is needed vs. when auto-resume handles it
- Adds --include-closed flag to `isolation cleanup`, which was
  previously missing; converts the flag list to a structured table
- Explains the cancel/abandon distinction (live subprocess vs. orphan)

All grounded in packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts, continue.ts,
and isolation.ts.

* feat(skill/repo-init): add scripts/ and state/, three-path env model, per-project env injection

The repo-init reference was missing two first-class .archon/ directories
(scripts/ since v0.3.3, state/ since the workflow-state feature) and had
nothing to say about env — the #1 thing a user hits on first-run when
their repo has a .env file with API keys.

Directory tree updates:
- Adds .archon/scripts/ with the extension->runtime rule (.ts/.js -> bun,
  .py -> uv) so agents know where to put named scripts referenced by
  script: nodes.
- Adds .archon/state/ with explicit "always gitignore" callout — these
  are runtime artifacts, not source. Previously undocumented in the skill.
- Adds .archon/.env (repo-scoped Archon env) and distinguishes it from
  the target repo's top-level .env.
- Adds a "What each directory is for" list so the structure isn't just
  a tree with no narrative.

.gitignore guidance:
- state/ and .env added as must-gitignore (state/ matches CLAUDE.md and
  reference/archon-directories.md — skill was lagging).
- mcp/ demoted to conditional — gitignore only if you hardcode secrets.

New "Three-Path Env Model" section:
- ~/.archon/.env (trusted, user), <cwd>/.archon/.env (trusted, repo),
  <cwd>/.env (UNTRUSTED, target project — stripped from subprocess env).
- Precedence (override: true across archon-owned paths) and the
  observable [archon] loaded N keys / stripped K keys log lines so
  operators can verify what actually happened.
- Decision tree for where to put API keys vs. target-project env vs.
  things Archon shouldn't touch.
- Links to archon setup --scope home|project with --force for writing
  to the right file with timestamped backups.

New "Per-Project Env Injection" section:
- Documents both managed surfaces: .archon/config.yaml env: block
  (git-committed, $REF expansion) and Web UI Settings → Projects →
  Env Vars (DB-stored, never returned over API).
- Names every execution surface that receives the injected vars:
  Claude/Codex/Pi subprocess, bash: nodes, script: nodes, and direct
  codebase-scoped chat.
- Documents the env-leak gate with all 5 remediation paths so an agent
  hitting "Cannot register: env has sensitive keys" knows the options.

Grounded in CHANGELOG v0.3.7 (three-path env + setup flags), v0.3.0
(env-leak gate), and reference/security.md on the docs site.

* fix(skill/authoring-commands): correct override paths and add home-scoped commands

The file-location and discovery sections described an override layout that
does not match the actual resolver. It showed:

  .archon/commands/defaults/archon-assist.md  # Overrides the bundled

and claimed `.archon/commands/defaults/` was where repo-level overrides
lived. In fact the resolver (executor-shared.ts:152-200 + command-
validation.ts) walks `.archon/commands/` 1 level deep and uses basename
matching — putting `archon-assist.md` at the top of `.archon/commands/`
is the canonical way to override the bundled version. The `defaults/`
subfolder is a Archon-internal convention for shipping bundled defaults,
not a user-facing override pattern.

Also, home-scoped commands (`~/.archon/commands/`, shipped in v0.3.7)
were completely absent — agents authoring personal helpers wouldn't
know they could live at the user level and be shared across every repo.

Changes:
- File Location section now shows all three discovery scopes (repo,
  home, bundled) with precedence ordering and 1-level subfolder rules
- Duplicate-basename rule documented as a user error surface
- Discovery and Priority section rewritten with accurate 3-step lookup
  order — no more references to the nonexistent defaults/ override path
- Adds the Web UI "Global (~/.archon/commands/)" palette label note so
  users authoring helpers for the builder know what to expect

No code changes — this is a pure fix of stale/incorrect skill reference
material.

* feat(skill): add workflow good-practices and troubleshooting reference pages

Closes two gaps from the audit. The skill previously had zero guidance on
designing multi-node workflows (what to avoid, what to reach for first,
how to structure artifact chains) and zero guidance on where to look
when things go wrong (log paths, env-leak gate remediations, orphan-row
cleanup, resume semantics).

New references/good-practices.md (9 Good Practices + 7 Anti-Patterns):

- Use deterministic nodes (bash:/script:) for deterministic work, AI for
  reasoning — the single biggest quality lever
- output_format required whenever downstream when: reads a field — the
  most common source of "workflow silently routes wrong"
- trigger_rule: none_failed_min_one_success after conditional branches —
  the classic bug where all_success fails because a skipped when:-gated
  branch doesn't count as a success
- context: fresh requires artifacts for state passing — commands must
  explicitly "read $ARTIFACTS_DIR/..." when downstream of fresh
- Cheap models (haiku) for glue, strong for substance
- Workflow descriptions as routing affordances
- Validate (archon validate workflows) + smoke-run before shipping
- Artifact-chain-first design
- worktree.enabled: true for code-changing workflows (reversibility)
- Anti-patterns with before/after YAML examples for each (AI-for-tests,
  free-form when: matching, context: fresh without artifacts, long flat
  AI-node layers, secrets in YAML, retry on loop nodes, tiny
  max_iterations, missing workflow-level interactive:, tool-restricted
  MCP nodes)

New references/troubleshooting.md:

- Log location (~/.archon/workspaces/<owner>/<repo>/logs/<run-id>.jsonl)
  with jq recipes for common queries (last assistant message, failed
  events, full stream)
- Artifact location for cross-node handoff debugging
- 9 Common Failure Modes, each with root cause + concrete fix:
  - $BASE_BRANCH unresolvable
  - Env-leak gate (5 remediations)
  - Claude/Codex binary not found (compiled-binary-only)
  - "running" forever (AI working / orphan / idle_timeout)
  - Mid-workflow failure and auto-resume semantics
  - Approval gate missing on web UI (workflow-level interactive:)
  - MCP plugin connection noise (filtered by design)
  - Empty $nodeId.output / field access (4 causes)
- Diagnostic command cheat sheet (list, status, isolation list, validate,
  tail-log, --verbose, LOG_LEVEL=debug)
- Escalation protocol (version + validate + log tail + CHANGELOG + issue)

SKILL.md routing table now dispatches "Workflow good practices /
anti-patterns" and "Troubleshoot a failing / stuck workflow" to the new
references so an agent can find them without having to know they exist.

* docs(book): update node-types coverage from four to all seven

The book is the curated first-contact reading path (landing page → "Get
Started" → /book/). Both dag-workflows.md and quick-reference.md were
stuck on "four node types" — missing script, approval, and cancel. A user
reading the book as their first introduction would form an incomplete
mental model, then find three more node types in the reference section
later with no explanation of when they arrived.

book/dag-workflows.md:
- "four node types" → "seven node types. Exactly one mode field is
  required per node"
- Table now lists Command, Prompt, Bash, Script, Loop, Approval, Cancel
  with one-line "when to use" for each, and cross-links to the dedicated
  guide pages for Script / Loop / Approval
- New sections below the table for Script (inline + named examples with
  runtime and deps), Approval (with the interactive: true workflow-level
  note that's easy to miss), and Cancel (guarded-exit pattern) — keeping
  the existing narrative shape for Bash and Loop

book/quick-reference.md:
- Node Options table now includes script, approval, cancel rows
- agents row added (inline sub-agents, Claude-only)
- New "Script-specific fields" and "Approval-specific fields" subsections
  so the cheat-sheet is actually complete rather than pointing users
  elsewhere for the required constraints
- Retry row callout that loop nodes hard-error on retry — previously
  omitted
- bash timeout note widened to cover script timeout (same semantics)

Both files are docs-web content; the CI build on the docs-script-nodes
PR (#1362) previously validated the Starlight build path with a similar
table addition, so this should render clean.

* fix(skill/cli): remove nonexistent \`archon workflow cancel\`, fix workflow status jq recipe

Two accuracy issues from the PR code-reviewer (comment 4311243858).

C1: \`archon workflow cancel <run-id>\` does NOT exist as a CLI subcommand.
The switch at packages/cli/src/cli.ts:318-485 dispatches on list / run /
status / resume / abandon / approve / reject / cleanup / event — running
\`archon workflow cancel\` hits the default case and exits with "Unknown
workflow subcommand: cancel" (cli.ts:478-484). Active cancellation is
only available via:
  - /workflow cancel <run-id> chat slash command (all platforms)
  - Cancel button on the Web UI dashboard
  - POST /api/workflows/runs/{runId}/cancel REST endpoint

cli-commands.md: removed the \`### archon workflow cancel <run-id>\`
subsection; kept the \`abandon\` subsection but made it explicit that
abandon does NOT kill a subprocess. Added a call-out box at the bottom
of the abandon section explaining where to go for actual cancellation.

troubleshooting.md "running forever" section: split the original
cancel-vs-abandon advice into three bullets — Web UI / CLI abandon (for
orphans, no subprocess kill) / chat \`/workflow cancel\` (for live runs
that need interruption). Added an explicit "there is no archon workflow
cancel CLI subcommand" parenthetical since the wrong command was being
suggested in flow.

I1: the \`archon workflow list --json\` diagnostic used an incorrect jq
filter. workflow list's --json output (workflow.ts:185-219) has shape
{ workflows: [{ name, description, provider?, model?, ... }], errors: [...] }
with no \`runs\` field — \`jq '.workflows[] | select(.runs)'\` returns empty
unconditionally. Replaced with \`archon workflow status --json | jq '.runs[]'\`,
which matches the actual shape of workflowStatusCommand at
workflow.ts:852+ ({ runs: WorkflowRun[] }). Also tightened the narration
to distinguish JSON from human-readable status output.

No change to the commit history in this PR — these are follow-up fixes
to claims I introduced in earlier commits of this branch (f10b989 for
C1, 66d2b86 for I1).

* fix(skill): remove env-leak gate references (feature was removed in provider extraction)

C2 from the PR code-reviewer (comment 4311243858). The pre-spawn env-leak
gate was removed from the codebase during the provider-extraction refactor
— see TODO(#1135) at packages/providers/src/claude/provider.ts:908. Zero
hits for --allow-env-keys / allowEnvKeys / allow_env_keys / allow_target_repo_keys
across packages/. The CLI's parseArgs (cli.ts:182-208) has no
--allow-env-keys option, and because parseArgs uses strict: false, an
unknown --allow-env-keys would be silently ignored rather than error.

What remains accurate and is NOT touched:
- Three-Path Env Model section (user/repo archon-owned envs are loaded;
  target repo <cwd>/.env keys are stripped from process.env at boot)
  still correctly describes current behavior, grounded in
  packages/paths/src/strip-cwd-env.ts + env-integration.test.ts
- Per-Project Env Injection section (Option 1: .archon/config.yaml env:
  block; Option 2: Web UI Settings → Projects → Env Vars) is unchanged —
  both remain the sanctioned way to get env vars into subprocesses

Removed claims (all three files):
- cli-commands.md: --allow-env-keys flag row in the workflow run flags
  table
- repo-init.md: the "Env-leak gate" subsection at the end of Per-Project
  Env Injection listing 5 remediations (all of which reference UI/CLI/
  config surfaces that don't exist). Replaced with a succinct callout
  that explains the actual current behavior — target repo .env keys are
  stripped, workflows that need those values should use managed
  injection — so the reader still gets the "where to put my env vars"
  answer
- troubleshooting.md: the "Cannot register: codebase has sensitive env
  keys" section (error message that can no longer be emitted)

If the env-leak gate is ever resurrected per TODO(#1135), the docs can be
re-added then. The CHANGELOG v0.3.0 entry describing the gate is a
historical record of past behavior and does not need to be rewritten.

* fix(skill/troubleshooting): correct JSONL event type names and field name

C3 from the PR code-reviewer (comment 4311243858). The troubleshooting
reference's event-types table used _started / _completed / _failed
suffixes, but packages/workflows/src/logger.ts:19-30 shows the actual
WorkflowEvent.type enum is:

  workflow_start | workflow_complete | workflow_error |
  assistant | tool | validation |
  node_start | node_complete | node_skipped | node_error

The second jq recipe also queried `.event` but the discriminator is `.type`.

Fixes:
- Event table: renamed columns (_started → _start, _completed → _complete,
  _failed → _error). Explicitly called out the field name as `type` so the
  reader knows what jq selector to use
- Replaced the "tool_use / tool_result" row with a single `tool` row and
  listed its actual payload fields (tool_name, tool_input, duration_ms,
  tokens) — tool_use/tool_result are SDK message kinds that appear within
  the AI stream, not top-level log event types
- Added a `validation` row (was missing; it's emitted by workflow-level
  validation calls with `check` and `result` fields)
- Removed `retry_attempt` row — this event type is not emitted to the
  JSONL file. Retry bookkeeping goes through pino logs, not the workflow
  log file
- Added an explicit callout that loop_iteration_started /
  loop_iteration_completed (and other emitter-only events) go through
  the workflow event emitter + DB workflow_events table, NOT the JSONL
  file. Pointed readers to the DB or Web UI for loop-level detail. This
  distinguishes the two parallel event systems — easy to conflate
  (store.ts:11-17 uses _started/_completed/_failed for the DB side,
  logger.ts uses _start/_complete/_error for JSONL)
- Fixed the "all failed events" jq recipe: .event → .type and _failed → _error
- Minor cleanup: the inline "tool_use events" mention in the "running
  forever" section said the wrong event name — updated to "tool or
  assistant events in the tail"

Grounded in packages/workflows/src/logger.ts (canonical JSONL event
shape) and packages/workflows/src/store.ts (the parallel DB event
naming, which the reviewer correctly flagged as different and worth
keeping distinct).

* fix(skill): two stragglers from the code-reviewer audit

Cleanup of two references that slipped through the earlier C1 and C3 fixes:

- references/troubleshooting.md:126: \`node_failed\` → \`node_error\`
  (the "Node output is empty" diagnostics section references the JSONL
  log, which uses the logger.ts enum — not the DB workflow_events table
  which does use \`node_failed\`). The C3 fix corrected the event table
  and one jq recipe but missed this inline mention.

- references/interactive-workflows.md:106: removed \`archon workflow
  cancel <run-id>\` (nonexistent CLI subcommand) from the
  troubleshooting bullet. This was pre-existing before the hardening
  PR but fell within the C1 remediation scope. Replaced with the
  correct triage: reject (approval gate only) vs abandon (orphan
  cleanup, no subprocess kill) vs chat /workflow cancel (actual
  subprocess termination).

Grounded in the same sources as the earlier C1/C3 commits:
packages/cli/src/cli.ts:318-485 (no cancel case) and
packages/workflows/src/logger.ts:19-30 (JSONL type enum).

* feat(skill): point to archon.diy as the canonical docs source

The skill had no reference to archon.diy (the live docs site built from
packages/docs-web/). Several reference files said "see the docs site"
without naming the URL, leaving the agent to guess or grep the repo for
the hostname. An agent with the skill loaded should know that when the
distilled reference pages don't cover a case, the full canonical docs
are one WebFetch away.

SKILL.md: new "Richer Context: archon.diy" section between Routing and
Running Workflows. Covers:
- When to reach for the live docs (longer examples, tutorial framing,
  features the skill only mentions in passing, "where's that
  documented?" user questions)
- URL map — 13 starting points covering getting-started, book (tutorial
  series), guides/ (authoring + per-node-type + per-node-feature),
  reference/ (variables, CLI, security, architecture, configuration,
  troubleshooting), adapters/, deployment/
- Precedence: skill refs first (context-cheap, tuned for agents), docs
  site as escalation. Prevents agents defaulting to WebFetch when a
  local skill ref already covers the answer

Also upgrades the 5 existing generic "docs site" mentions across
reference files to concrete archon.diy URLs with anchor fragments where
helpful:
- good-practices.md: Inline sub-agents pattern → archon.diy/guides/
  authoring-workflows/#inline-sub-agents
- troubleshooting.md: "Install page on the docs site" → archon.diy/
  getting-started/installation/
- workflow-dag.md: "Workflow Description Best Practices" → anchor link;
  sandbox schema reference → archon.diy/guides/authoring-workflows/
  #claude-sdk-advanced-options
- repo-init.md: Security Model reference → archon.diy/reference/
  security/#target-repo-env-isolation (deep-link into the section that
  covers the <cwd>/.env strip behavior)

URL source of truth: astro.config.mjs:5 (site: 'https://archon.diy').
URL structure mirrors packages/docs-web/src/content/docs/<section>/
<page>.md — verified by the 62 pages the docs build produces.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 landed 2026-04-16; on the Anthropic API, opus /
opus[1m] now resolve to 4.7 with a 1M context window at standard
pricing. Using the alias instead of the hard-pinned claude-opus-4-6[1m]
lets bundled default workflows auto-track the recommended Opus version.

No explicit effort is set, so nodes inherit the per-model default
(xhigh on 4.7, high on 4.6).
Previously, executeWorkflow unconditionally called findResumableRun on
every invocation, silently resuming the last failed run even when the
user ran `archon workflow run` without --resume. This contradicts the
documented behavior where --resume is the explicit opt-in.

Add allowAutoResume?: boolean to executeWorkflow and gate the entire
resume detection block on it. The CLI now forwards options.resume to
this flag, and the orchestrator's explicit foreground-resume path passes
true since it has already located the resumable run.
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PR: #1396 — fix(workflows): make auto-resume opt-in via --resume flag
Reviewed by: 4 specialized agents (code-review, test-coverage, comment-quality, docs-impact)
Date: 2026-04-24


Summary

The core implementation is clean and correct: allowAutoResume?: boolean is surgically added to executeWorkflow, the resume detection block is properly gated behind if (allowAutoResume), and both explicit call sites (CLI --resume and orchestrator foreground-resume) correctly pass true. The PR is focused and KISS-compliant.

The main issue is that three existing tests in executor.test.ts have become stale — their custom mock setups are dead code and none assert expect(store.findResumableRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled(). Without this, reverting the gate wouldn't break any tests. Two additional gaps exist in the CLI and orchestrator test files.

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES

Severity Count
🟠 HIGH 1
🟡 MEDIUM 2
🟢 LOW 5

🟠 HIGH: Three stale "fresh run" tests have dead mocks and missing assertions

Location: packages/workflows/src/executor.test.ts:529, :547, :568

These tests were written when resume detection was always-on. Now that it only fires when allowAutoResume: true is passed:

  1. None pass allowAutoResume — so findResumableRun is never reached and their custom mock setups are dead code
  2. None assert expect(store.findResumableRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled() — so a regression that removes the if (allowAutoResume) gate would not break these tests

The review scope explicitly requires this assertion. It's absent.

Affected tests:

  • starts fresh run when findResumableRun returns null — mock returns null, never called
  • starts fresh run when findResumableRun throws — throwing mock, never reached
  • starts fresh run when prior run has 0 completed nodes — dead findResumableRun + getCompletedDagNodeOutputs mocks
Recommended fix

Minimal: Add to each of the three tests:

expect(store.findResumableRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled();

Better (Option B): For tests at L547 and L568 whose mock setups are permanently dead without allowAutoResume: true, move them into a describe('when allowAutoResume: true') block so their mocks are exercised. Replace the three stale tests with a single shared default-behavior test:

it('does NOT call findResumableRun when allowAutoResume is omitted (default is fresh)', async () => {
  const findResumableSpy = mock(async () => makeRun({ status: 'failed' }));
  const store = makeStore({ findResumableRun: findResumableSpy });
  const deps = makeDeps(store);

  await executeWorkflow(
    deps, makePlatform(), 'conv-1', '/tmp', makeWorkflow(), 'test message', 'db-conv-1'
    // allowAutoResume intentionally omitted
  );

  expect(findResumableSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
  expect(store.createWorkflowRun).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
});

🟡 MEDIUM: CLI test doesn't verify allowAutoResume forwarding

Location: packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.test.ts (gap — no existing test)

workflowRunCommand now passes options.resume === true as argument 12 (0-indexed) to executeWorkflow. No test asserts this. A future refactor that drops or misplaces this argument would silently break the CLI resume contract.

Suggested tests
it('passes allowAutoResume=true to executeWorkflow when --resume is set', async () => {
  // ... setup mocks ...
  await workflowRunCommand('/test/path', 'assist', 'hello', { resume: true, noWorktree: true });
  const callArgs = (executeWorkflow as ReturnType<typeof mock>).mock.calls[0] as unknown[];
  expect(callArgs[12]).toBe(true);
});

it('does NOT pass allowAutoResume when --resume is absent', async () => {
  // ... same setup ...
  await workflowRunCommand('/test/path', 'assist', 'hello', { noWorktree: true });
  const callArgs = (executeWorkflow as ReturnType<typeof mock>).mock.calls[0] as unknown[];
  expect(callArgs[12]).toBeFalsy();
});

🟡 MEDIUM: orchestrator-agent.test.ts doesn't assert allowAutoResume: true

Location: packages/core/src/orchestrator/orchestrator-agent.test.ts:1133

The foreground_resume_detected test checks callArgs[3] (cwd) and callArgs[10] (parentConversationId) but not callArgs[12] (allowAutoResume). If allowAutoResume: true is accidentally dropped from the foreground-resume call site, approval-gate workflows would silently stop resuming.

One-liner fix
// Inside the existing foreground_resume_detected test:
const callArgs = mockExecuteWorkflow.mock.calls[0] as unknown[];
expect(callArgs[3]).toBe('/repos/test-repo/worktrees/feature');
expect(callArgs[10]).toBe('conv-1');
expect(callArgs[12]).toBe(true); // allowAutoResume — semantic core of this call site

🟢 LOW Issues

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Issue Location Suggestion
Stale comment: "implicit findResumableRun" workflow.ts:951-952 Update to: "Passing resume: true forwards allowAutoResume: true to executeWorkflow, which enables findResumableRun..."
Orchestrator comment compressed orchestrator-agent.ts:301 true // allowAutoResume — caller confirmed a resumable run exists at working_path
CLI comment says "failed run" workflow.ts:431 Change to "resumable run (failed/paused)" since findResumableRun isn't limited to failed status
Test undefined args unlabelled executor-preamble.test.ts:334-339, executor.test.ts:363-365 Add // codebaseId, // issueContext, etc. labels to match source call site style

Docs — follow-up PR needed (out of scope here)

The docs-impact agent found that guides/authoring-workflows.md currently says "the next invocation automatically resumes — no --resume flag needed" which is now incorrect. This is intentionally deferred per scope. A follow-up issue/PR should update:

  • guides/authoring-workflows.md "DAG Resume on Failure" section — flip to: "default is fresh; --resume opts in"
  • guides/authoring-workflows.md "Pattern: Checkpoint and Resume" — add --resume to the example sentence
  • Minor: CLAUDE.md API endpoint description, reference/api.md resume endpoint

What's Good

  • Core implementation: The if (allowAutoResume) gate wraps the entire detection block correctly. No brace mismatch.
  • Call-site discipline: undefined, // param-name comments maintained consistently at all updated call sites.
  • Preamble tests correct: All three resume tests in executor-preamble.test.ts correctly pass allowAutoResume: true.
  • Orphan-cancel tests: Cover the non-obvious side-effect (cancelling preCreatedRun when resume activates) with both happy and error paths.
  • Approve/reject chain intact: workflowApproveCommandworkflowRejectCommandworkflowRunCommand(resume: true)allowAutoResume: true confirmed.
  • Background dispatch untouched: Correctly does not pass allowAutoResume (uses preCreatedRun instead).
  • Type safety: allowAutoResume?: boolean — properly optional, no any.
  • executor.ts comment: // Default is a fresh run — callers that want resume pass allowAutoResume: true is textbook documentation.

Consolidated artifact: /Users/rasmus/.archon/workspaces/coleam00/Archon/artifacts/runs/7848b893ac5ebfd48e8523eb6271429e/review/consolidated-review.md

- Fix three stale executor.test.ts tests that had dead mock code after the
  allowAutoResume gate was introduced; restructure to actually exercise
  findResumableRun mocks and add explicit not.toHaveBeenCalled() assertions
  to guard against regressions on the default fresh-run path
- Add allowAutoResume=true assertion to orchestrator foreground-resume test
- Add CLI tests verifying allowAutoResume is forwarded (true with --resume,
  falsy without) at the executeWorkflow call site
- Update stale comments: "implicit findResumableRun" → explicit opt-in language,
  "failed run" → "resumable run (failed/paused)", orchestrator comment clarified
- Add inline param labels to undefined positional args in test calls
- Update CLAUDE.md, authoring-workflows.md, and api.md to reflect that
  DAG resume is now opt-in via --resume rather than automatic on next invocation
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⚡ Self-Fix Report (Aggressive)

Status: COMPLETE
Pushed: ✅ Changes pushed to archon/task-fix-issue-1392
Commit: 7fe8b8d6
Philosophy: Fix everything unless clearly a new concern


Fixes Applied (11 total)

Severity Count
🔴 CRITICAL 0
🟠 HIGH 1 (+ 1 docs)
🟡 MEDIUM 2 (+ 1 docs)
🟢 LOW 3 (+ 2 docs)
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Tests (H1):

  • Three stale executor.test.ts tests restructured — replaced dead-mock tests with 4 tests that actually exercise their setups; added explicit expect(store.findResumableRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled() to lock in the default-fresh-run invariant

Tests (M1 + M2):

  • CLI: allowAutoResume=true forwarding verified (workflow.test.ts) — two new tests assert callArgs[12] === true when --resume is set and falsy otherwise
  • Orchestrator: allowAutoResume: true at position 12 asserted (orchestrator-agent.test.ts) — added expect(callArgs[12]).toBe(true) to the foreground_resume_detected test

Comments (LOWs):

  • Stale "implicit findResumableRun" comment (workflow.ts:950) — updated to describe explicit opt-in
  • "failed run" → "resumable run (failed/paused)" (workflow.ts:430)
  • Orchestrator comment clarified (orchestrator-agent.ts:301) — "caller confirmed a resumable run exists at working_path"
  • Undefined arg labels added in executor-preamble.test.ts and executor.test.ts

Docs (all 4 deferred findings addressed):

  • authoring-workflows.md "DAG Resume on Failure" — flipped language; default is fresh start, --resume opts in
  • authoring-workflows.md "Pattern: Checkpoint and Resume" — updated to say "re-run with --resume"
  • CLAUDE.md resume endpoint description — clarified --resume or Web UI required
  • reference/api.md resume endpoint — "Marks the run as resumable. The next CLI invocation with --resume, or a Web UI re-run, will skip already-completed nodes."

Tests Added

  • executor.test.ts: does NOT call findResumableRun when allowAutoResume is omitted (default is fresh) + 3 restructured tests with active mock setups
  • workflow.test.ts: passes allowAutoResume=true to executeWorkflow when --resume is set
  • workflow.test.ts: does NOT pass allowAutoResume=true 到 executeWorkflow when --resume is absent

Skipped

(none — all findings addressed)


Validation

✅ Type check | ✅ Lint | ✅ Tests (all pass)


Self-fix by Archon · aggressive mode · fixes pushed to archon/task-fix-issue-1392

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Closing this in favor of a cleaner refactor. The original fix gates the existing findResumableRun call inside executeWorkflow behind a new allowAutoResume boolean — which works, but leaves two issues:

  1. The trailing-positional-arg pattern (undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, options.resume === true) is a maintenance hazard — executeWorkflow now has 7+ positionals.
  2. Conceptually, the executor shouldn't be deciding whether to resume — that's a caller-side intent. Each entry point (CLI --resume, orchestrator approve/reject, web bridge) knows its own answer. Hiding the decision inside the executor (even behind a flag) keeps the responsibility in the wrong place.

Follow-up PR moves findResumableRun out of executeWorkflow entirely, makes resume an explicit caller decision via preCreatedRun, and converts the executor's trailing positionals to an options object. Closes #1392 the same way, with a cleaner shape.

Will link the new PR here when it's open.

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…esumableRun (closes #1392) (#1646)

* fix(workflows): make resume explicit via prepareResumedRun / hydrateResumableRun (closes #1392)

Previously `executeWorkflow` called `findResumableRun(workflow.name, cwd)`
unconditionally and silently auto-resumed the most recent failed run for
the same `(workflow_name, cwd)` pair. The `--resume` CLI flag was
documented as opt-in but had no causal effect on this path — it only
steered worktree selection. Net effect: cached node outputs from a prior
failed run (e.g. an `extract-pr-number` returning "1634") bled into the
next invocation of the same workflow at the same path.

This commit moves the resume decision out of the executor and into the
caller. The executor takes a `preCreatedRun` and optional
`priorCompletedNodes` via a new options bag; it never queries the store
for a prior run. Two helpers in `@archon/workflows/executor` cover the
two real lookup shapes:

- `hydrateResumableRun(deps, candidate)` — caller already has the run
  row (CLI `--resume` post worktree-path resolution; orchestrator
  foreground-resume via `findResumableRunByParentConversation`).
- `prepareResumedRun(deps, workflow, cwd)` — canonical
  `(workflow, cwd)` lookup-and-hydrate.

Both throw on DB errors instead of the previous "warn and degrade to
fresh" silent fallback, matching the Fail Fast principle.

`executeWorkflow`'s trailing positional args (`codebaseId`,
`issueContext`, `isolationContext`, `parentConversationId`,
`preCreatedRun`, plus the new `priorCompletedNodes`) consolidate into a
single `ExecuteWorkflowOptions` bag — fixing the
`undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, true` smell at every
caller. 7 required positionals + 1 opts; future additions go to opts.

Orphan-cleanup code in the executor deletes outright: with caller-side
resume there is no separate `preCreatedRun` to orphan when resume takes
over.

Supersedes #1396 (which gated the same internal lookup behind a flag
without addressing the positional explosion or the conceptual
responsibility leak).

Closes #1392

* fix(workflows): address review feedback on explicit-resume PR

Server resume endpoint: wire POST /api/workflows/runs/:runId/resume to
dispatch via the orchestrator (parent web conversation) instead of
returning a stale "re-run to auto-resume" message that no longer
matches reality. CLI-created runs and non-web parents return a clear
400 pointing at `archon workflow resume <id>`.

Executor type design: drop the YAGNI `prepareResumedRun` helper (no
production callers), tighten `ExecuteWorkflowOptions` with a
discriminated union so `priorCompletedNodes` without `preCreatedRun`
is a type error, and rename `hydrateResumableRun`'s return key from
`run` to `preCreatedRun` so callers can spread directly.

Orchestrator foreground-resume: when hydration returns null (prior
run had nothing worth resuming) surface a user-visible notice and
fall through to a fresh run on the same worktree, instead of
throwing a >100-char error that `classifyAndFormatError` would
swallow into the generic `/reset` advice.

CLI resume: wrap `hydrateResumableRun` in try/catch with context so
DB errors don't surface as raw stack traces.

Docs: update three stale locations describing resume as automatic
on re-invocation (book/dag-workflows.md, guides/authoring-workflows.md,
guides/approval-nodes.md).

Tests + comments: rewrite resume endpoint tests to cover the four
new branches (404, 400 no-parent, 400 non-web, 200 web dispatch);
add orchestrator test for the new hydrate→null fall-through; fix
the off-by-one arg-index comment in executor.test.ts; drop
issue-number references and position-leaky comments per
comment-analyzer feedback.
cropse pushed a commit to cropse/Archon that referenced this pull request May 19, 2026
…esumableRun (closes coleam00#1392) (coleam00#1646)

* fix(workflows): make resume explicit via prepareResumedRun / hydrateResumableRun (closes coleam00#1392)

Previously `executeWorkflow` called `findResumableRun(workflow.name, cwd)`
unconditionally and silently auto-resumed the most recent failed run for
the same `(workflow_name, cwd)` pair. The `--resume` CLI flag was
documented as opt-in but had no causal effect on this path — it only
steered worktree selection. Net effect: cached node outputs from a prior
failed run (e.g. an `extract-pr-number` returning "1634") bled into the
next invocation of the same workflow at the same path.

This commit moves the resume decision out of the executor and into the
caller. The executor takes a `preCreatedRun` and optional
`priorCompletedNodes` via a new options bag; it never queries the store
for a prior run. Two helpers in `@archon/workflows/executor` cover the
two real lookup shapes:

- `hydrateResumableRun(deps, candidate)` — caller already has the run
  row (CLI `--resume` post worktree-path resolution; orchestrator
  foreground-resume via `findResumableRunByParentConversation`).
- `prepareResumedRun(deps, workflow, cwd)` — canonical
  `(workflow, cwd)` lookup-and-hydrate.

Both throw on DB errors instead of the previous "warn and degrade to
fresh" silent fallback, matching the Fail Fast principle.

`executeWorkflow`'s trailing positional args (`codebaseId`,
`issueContext`, `isolationContext`, `parentConversationId`,
`preCreatedRun`, plus the new `priorCompletedNodes`) consolidate into a
single `ExecuteWorkflowOptions` bag — fixing the
`undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, true` smell at every
caller. 7 required positionals + 1 opts; future additions go to opts.

Orphan-cleanup code in the executor deletes outright: with caller-side
resume there is no separate `preCreatedRun` to orphan when resume takes
over.

Supersedes coleam00#1396 (which gated the same internal lookup behind a flag
without addressing the positional explosion or the conceptual
responsibility leak).

Closes coleam00#1392

* fix(workflows): address review feedback on explicit-resume PR

Server resume endpoint: wire POST /api/workflows/runs/:runId/resume to
dispatch via the orchestrator (parent web conversation) instead of
returning a stale "re-run to auto-resume" message that no longer
matches reality. CLI-created runs and non-web parents return a clear
400 pointing at `archon workflow resume <id>`.

Executor type design: drop the YAGNI `prepareResumedRun` helper (no
production callers), tighten `ExecuteWorkflowOptions` with a
discriminated union so `priorCompletedNodes` without `preCreatedRun`
is a type error, and rename `hydrateResumableRun`'s return key from
`run` to `preCreatedRun` so callers can spread directly.

Orchestrator foreground-resume: when hydration returns null (prior
run had nothing worth resuming) surface a user-visible notice and
fall through to a fresh run on the same worktree, instead of
throwing a >100-char error that `classifyAndFormatError` would
swallow into the generic `/reset` advice.

CLI resume: wrap `hydrateResumableRun` in try/catch with context so
DB errors don't surface as raw stack traces.

Docs: update three stale locations describing resume as automatic
on re-invocation (book/dag-workflows.md, guides/authoring-workflows.md,
guides/approval-nodes.md).

Tests + comments: rewrite resume endpoint tests to cover the four
new branches (404, 400 no-parent, 400 non-web, 200 web dispatch);
add orchestrator test for the new hydrate→null fall-through; fix
the off-by-one arg-index comment in executor.test.ts; drop
issue-number references and position-leaky comments per
comment-analyzer feedback.
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