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f.agent(..., { transport: 'broker' }) opens interactive PTY sessions on the existing local Relay broker. skills, keepAlive, channel, absolute/worktree cwd, f.message(name, text, { timeout }), and f.release(name) support implementer/reviewer workflows. AgentResult.agentName identifies the retained session; summary contains the agent's JSON completion.

Broker team is exactly flow-<runId> so Relay Desktop groups the run's Fleet agents. Run/flow/step metadata travels through the harness environment; the spawn API has no arbitrary metadata field. Shared PTY launch code preserves existing communication behavior. Each operation remains a journaled agent step, with correlated completion turns, bounded messages, fail-closed journal writes, and session cleanup.

Preflight verifies the optional Relay SDK packages and the existing broker with a read-only health check. Every broker work step warns that token and dollar ceilings cannot bound its unmetered usage, including priced models. Accepted completion survives a subsequent normal PTY exit.

Sessions require an existing local broker and optional Relay SDK packages. Skills install from AgentWorkforce/skills using the skills CLI. Worker loss refuses subsequent messages; automatic reattachment is not implemented. Broker retries are disabled. Tests use fake broker, tool, and installer clients; the authored-flow integration uses the real journal daemon with the fake broker.

Initial implementation validation (09704e84, SDK package directory):

npm run build && npm run typecheck && npm run typecheck:tests
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 build
npm notice run tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck
npm notice run tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck:tests
npm notice run tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json
npx vitest run tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/authored-broker.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts tests/communication-worker.test.ts tests/communication-lazy.test.ts tests/communication.test.ts tests/communication-tools.test.ts tests/authored-preflight.test.ts tests/plugin-loader.test.ts tests/authored-probe-cache.test.ts
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 npx
npm notice run 'vitest' run tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/authored-broker.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts tests/communication-worker.test.ts tests/communication-lazy.test.ts tests/communication.test.ts tests/communication-tools.test.ts tests/authored-preflight.test.ts tests/plugin-loader.test.ts tests/authored-probe-cache.test.ts

 RUN  v2.1.9 /Users/will/Projects/AgentWorkforce/flows-worktrees/agent-broker/packages/sdk

 ✓ tests/communication-tools.test.ts (1 test) 121ms
 ✓ tests/communication.test.ts (10 tests) 10ms
 ✓ tests/authored-broker.test.ts (10 tests) 9ms
 ✓ tests/broker-worker.test.ts (13 tests) 1277ms
 ✓ tests/communication-worker.test.ts (20 tests) 1897ms
 ✓ tests/communication-lazy.test.ts (1 test) 4ms
 ✓ tests/plugin-loader.test.ts (9 tests) 258ms
 ✓ tests/broker-flow.test.ts (1 test) 552ms
   ✓ journals spawn, message, and release through the authored surface and worker 551ms
 ✓ tests/authored-preflight.test.ts (5 tests) 3869ms
   ✓ shares failed facts across callers but retains each step identity 2114ms
   ✓ uses the isolated provider environment during authored agent preflight 1222ms
   ✓ carries a symlink declaration identity beside its canonical executable 524ms
 ✓ tests/authored-probe-cache.test.ts (5 tests) 28848ms
   ✓ authored run CLI probe cache > nine calls have no expired attempts at capacity 1 9700ms
   ✓ authored run CLI probe cache > nine calls have no expired attempts at capacity 4 7832ms
   ✓ authored run CLI probe cache > does not serialize nine starts behind nine probes, and probes again on a new run 8693ms
   ✓ authored run CLI probe cache > caches probe failures while refusing all nine calls 833ms
   ✓ authored run CLI probe cache > shares probe results across agent calls too 1790ms

 Test Files  10 passed (10)
      Tests  75 passed (75)
   Start at  08:30:15
   Duration  32.79s (transform 5.53s, setup 660ms, collect 20.73s, tests 36.85s, environment 1ms, prepare 1.33s)

The initial daemon-backed checks failed with spawn .../debug/relayflowd ENOENT; building the daemon resolves that setup failure. The initial authoring-doc test under npm 12 fails with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'files') because npm 12 changes pack --json from an array to a keyed object. The unchanged check runs with npm 10:

cd packages/surface
npx --yes --package npm@10 npm run check:docs

Captured terminal output:

1..27
# tests 27
# suites 0
# pass 27
# fail 0
# cancelled 0
# skipped 0
# todo 0
# duration_ms 15694.350083

Validation at 030245f6 (SDK package directory):

npm run build && npm run typecheck && npm run typecheck:tests
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 build
npm notice run tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck
npm notice run tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck:tests
npm notice run tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json
npx vitest run tests/broker-preflight.test.ts tests/broker-environment.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/budget-preflight.test.ts
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 npx
npm notice run 'vitest' run tests/broker-preflight.test.ts tests/broker-environment.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/budget-preflight.test.ts

 RUN  v2.1.9 /Users/will/Projects/AgentWorkforce/flows-worktrees/agent-broker/packages/sdk

 ✓ tests/broker-environment.test.ts (4 tests) 11ms
 ✓ tests/budget-preflight.test.ts (25 tests) 23ms
 ✓ tests/broker-worker.test.ts (14 tests) 1304ms
 ✓ tests/broker-preflight.test.ts (5 tests) 8ms
 ✓ tests/broker-flow.test.ts (1 test) 646ms
   ✓ journals spawn, message, and release through the authored surface and worker 645ms

 Test Files  5 passed (5)
      Tests  49 passed (49)
   Start at  08:41:26
   Duration  3.90s (transform 2.94s, setup 396ms, collect 7.72s, tests 1.99s, environment 1ms, prepare 813ms)

Retained sessions require a local worker stream and refuse attached named/predicate gates before spawn. Idle exit events retire the session immediately; release failures remain retryable and messages never target the exited PTY.

Lifecycle regression validation at 7730888f (SDK package directory):

npx vitest run tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/authored-broker.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 npx
npm notice run 'vitest' run tests/broker-flow.test.ts tests/authored-broker.test.ts tests/broker-worker.test.ts

 RUN  v2.1.9 /Users/will/Projects/AgentWorkforce/flows-worktrees/agent-broker/packages/sdk

 ✓ tests/authored-broker.test.ts (11 tests) 14ms
 ✓ tests/broker-worker.test.ts (16 tests) 1515ms
 ✓ tests/broker-flow.test.ts (3 tests) 656ms
   ✓ journals spawn, message, and release through the authored surface and worker 461ms

 Test Files  3 passed (3)
      Tests  30 passed (30)
   Start at  08:50:32
   Duration  3.96s (transform 2.27s, setup 518ms, collect 4.21s, tests 2.18s, environment 37ms, prepare 477ms)

CI at 030245f6 failed in the unchanged kernel crash-resume gate. Command: gh run view 38424459901 --log-failed. Relevant captured failure:

thread 'agent::rung_c_sigkill_boundaries_resume_only_unfinished_steps_via_real_cli' (7192) panicked at relayflowd/tests/crash_resume/agent.rs:139:27:
before-first: no step.dispatch after resume: timed out after 60s waiting for a protocol frame; the daemon sent nothing (see #174)
--- resume child ---
stdout (0 bytes):

stderr (68 bytes):
Error: run_not_found: run 01M4TZ2M4PMKGDDJF71M5FGGXD does not exist

--- journal (0 entries) ---

test result: FAILED. 43 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 63.13s

Build/type validation at 7730888f (SDK package directory):

npm run build && npm run typecheck && npm run typecheck:tests
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 build
npm notice run tsc && node scripts/make-cli-executable.mjs
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck
npm notice run tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.type-tests.json
npm notice run @relayflows/sdk@2.0.50 typecheck:tests
npm notice run tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json

The probe's node -e argument indexes are correct. The review assertion that argv[1] contains [eval] does not reproduce:

node --input-type=module -e 'console.log(JSON.stringify(process.argv))' file:///installed/driver.js /run
["/Users/will/.nvm/versions/node/v22.22.2/bin/node","file:///installed/driver.js","/run"]

CI at 7730888f is green. gh pr checks 663 captured:

linux-x64-artifact pass 23m47s https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/flows/actions/runs/38425639908/job/115394194749
packed-consumer pass 58s https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/flows/actions/runs/38425639942/job/115394193920
validate pass 23s https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/flows/actions/runs/38425639929/job/115394195270
guard pass 6s https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/flows/actions/runs/38425633658/job/115394172493

Other checks are skipped or review-rate-limited. The PR remains unmerged.

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The SDK adds broker-backed agent sessions to authored flows. Flows can start agents, send messages, and release sessions. Workers manage broker dispatch, PTY lifecycle, and completion records. Preflight checks broker availability and reports broker budget limitations.

Changes: Broker-backed agent sessions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Broker protocol and authored operations
packages/sdk/src/communication/broker-spec.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-broker.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-flow-executor.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-worker-step.ts, packages/surface/src/context.ts, packages/surface/AUTHORING.md, packages/sdk/src/plugin-manifest.ts, packages/sdk/tests/authored-broker.test.ts, packages/sdk/tests/broker-flow.test.ts, docs/SURFACE.md
Adds broker instruction validation and authored agent, message, and release operations. Updates surface declarations, documentation, reserved plugin verbs, and flow tests.
Worker session lifecycle
packages/sdk/src/communication/broker-worker.ts, packages/sdk/src/communication/relay.ts, packages/sdk/src/communication/pty.ts, packages/sdk/src/communication/skills.ts, packages/sdk/src/communication/worker.ts, packages/sdk/src/worker.ts, packages/sdk/tests/broker-worker.test.ts
Adds broker session dispatch, PTY and skill setup, completion handling, and session cleanup. The worker routes broker instructions to the session manager. The communication worker uses the shared PTY launcher.
Broker preflight and budget checks
packages/sdk/src/communication/broker-preflight.ts, packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts, packages/sdk/src/authored-preflight.ts, packages/sdk/src/preflight.ts, packages/sdk/src/budget-preflight.ts, packages/sdk/tests/broker-environment.test.ts, packages/sdk/tests/broker-preflight.test.ts
Adds broker environment checks and includes broker steps in managed CLI probing. Budget diagnostics identify broker operations as unmetered.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthoredFlow
  participant AgentWorker
  participant BrokerSessions
  participant LocalBroker
  participant AgentPTY
  participant JournalClient
  AuthoredFlow->>AgentWorker: submit broker agent step
  AgentWorker->>BrokerSessions: execute broker dispatch
  BrokerSessions->>LocalBroker: connect and dispatch spawn or message
  BrokerSessions->>AgentPTY: start or message agent
  AgentPTY->>LocalBroker: send turn completion
  BrokerSessions->>JournalClient: record step completion
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Possibly related issues

  • AgentWorkforce/relaycast#453: The changes add broker PTY setup that passes communication credentials, but the supplied summaries do not state that workspace-key delegation changes or agent-scoped credentials are introduced.

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 77308

A declared check on a broker message may be skipped, so that behavior should be corrected before merge. The broker probe and skill installation paths also warrant attention.

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Description check Passed The description states that f.agent with transport 'broker' opens interactive PTY sessions on the local Relay broker. It also covers skills, keepAlive, channel, cwd, message, and release, plus preflig…
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The title "feat: run flow agents as interactive broker sessions" matches the main change. The PR adds f.agent with transport 'broker', which opens interactive PTY sessions on the local Relay broker, and the raw summary confirms the broker-session, message, and release work across the SDK, surface, and docs.

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The description states that f.agent with transport 'broker' opens interactive PTY sessions on the local Relay broker. It also covers skills, keepAlive, channel, cwd, message, and release, plus preflight, budget warnings, validation runs, and CI status. It relates directly to the changeset.

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await client.stepComplete(dispatch.run_id, dispatch.step_id, dispatch.attempt, dispatch.idempotency_key,
reason, { output, usage: { tokens_in: 0, tokens_out: 0, dollars_unmetered: true },

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P1 Badge Report broker sessions as unmetered before admission

When a broker step declares a priced model under a frozen maxDollars budget, normal budget diagnostics emit no warning because that model has a known price, yet this completion always records zero tokens and dollars_unmetered: true. The kernel therefore cannot charge the broker's actual usage or trip the dollar ceiling, allowing a supposedly bounded session to spend for up to 60 minutes without warning; either ingest broker usage or classify every broker step as unmetered during preflight.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L3-L5

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Already handled. budgetDiagnostics warns budget_unmetered for every non-release broker step before admission, including a priced model under a frozen dollar budget. The worker still journals zero tokens and dollars_unmetered: true, because the broker does not report usage. tests/broker-preflight.test.ts ("warns that even a priced broker model cannot be bounded by token or dollar ceilings") pins that warning. No further change.

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if (event.name === name && ['agent_exit', 'agent_exited', 'agent_released'].includes(event.kind)) {
current.turn?.reject(new Error(`Broker agent ${name}: ${event.kind}`));

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P1 Badge Ignore exit events after accepting completion

With the default keepAlive: false, an agent can call the completion helper and then exit its PTY normally. The helper marks the turn completed but delays resolution by 100 ms, while this handler still rejects the same turn if the broker publishes agent_exit during that window, so a valid completion is nondeterministically journaled as worker_error; ignore exit events once current.turn.completed is true or otherwise settle the result before this race.

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Fixed on this branch. The exit handler rejects the active turn only when turn.completed is unset, so a normal PTY exit after complete keeps the accepted JSON summary. The comment is outdated against the current diff. No further change.

await Promise.all(resolved.resolutions.map(async resolution => {
const step = resolved.compiled!.steps.find(step => step.id === resolution.stepId)!;
const managed = step.type === 'agent' && communicationInstruction(step.instruction) !== undefined;
const managed = step.type === 'agent' && (communicationInstruction(step.instruction) !== undefined || brokerInstruction(step.instruction) !== undefined);

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P2 Badge Check broker prerequisites during preflight

For an authored broker flow where the optional Relay packages are absent or no local broker is running, this only switches the CLI probe to managed mode. The later environment check in checkAuthoredFlow is still guarded exclusively by communicationInstruction, so preflight succeeds and the run fails only after admission—potentially after skill installation—at connectLocalBroker; add broker-specific package and connection checks so these locally provable prerequisites are reported before execution.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L3-L5

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Fixed and kept through the merge of main. checkAuthoredFlow calls checkBrokerEnvironment for a broker spawn, and broker steps use the managed CLI probe. tests/broker-preflight.test.ts refuses the flow when that probe throws. Message and release steps skip the probe so a later release can still reach the worker (ef04df91). No further change on the original preflight request.

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const probe = spawnSync(process.execPath, ['--input-type=module', '-e',
'const { HarnessDriverClient } = await import(process.argv[1]); const client = HarnessDriverClient.connect({ cwd: process.argv[2] }); try { await client.healthCheck(); } finally { await client.shutdown(); }',
pathToFileURL(driver).href, cwd], { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 10_000, maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 });

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Preflight probe uses wrong argv

High Severity

The spawned probe imports process.argv[1] and treats process.argv[2] as the broker cwd. With node -e, argv[1] is [eval] and the file URL and directory start at argv[2], so the child never loads the driver or health-checks the broker. After the optional packages resolve, preflight refuses every broker flow, including runtime admission through checkAuthoredFlow.

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No change. With node --input-type=module -e, the extra arguments are argv[1] and argv[2]. On this machine:

node --input-type=module -e 'console.log(JSON.stringify(process.argv))' file:///installed/driver.js /run
["/exec-daemon/node","file:///installed/driver.js","/run"]

argv[1] is the driver URL and argv[2] is the broker cwd, which is what checkBrokerEnvironment passes. The probe loads the driver.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 2
packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts: 1

251-258: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Probe the broker only for spawn steps. The probe currently blocks the event loop on every broker operation.

checkBrokerEnvironment calls spawnSync with a 10 s timeout. The authored runner runs check(authoring) for every broker step, so the probe runs for spawn, message, and release. Each call blocks the event loop of the flow process. That process also hosts the local worker, so lease heartbeats for concurrent steps can stall.

A release step also fails preflight when the broker is unreachable. The step then never reaches the worker, so the session cannot be cleaned up through the normal path.

Probe only when a step spawns a session. message and release act on an existing session, and the worker reports a missing session itself.

⚡ Proposed fix
-    if (flow?.steps.some(step => step.type === 'agent' && brokerInstruction(step.instruction))) {
+    if (flow?.steps.some(step => step.type === 'agent' && brokerInstruction(step.instruction)?.operation === 'spawn')) {

Consider an async probe, cached per run, for the remaining spawn calls.

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Review comment at @packages/sdk/src/cli/check.ts around lines 251 - 258:
Update the broker preflight condition in the flow steps check to call
checkBrokerEnvironment only when brokerInstruction identifies a spawn operation.
Keep message and release steps out of preflight so they proceed to the worker.
packages/sdk/src/communication/skills.ts: 1

13-15: Trivial · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Pin the skills package version and limit the inherited environment.

npx --yes skills add downloads and runs the latest published skills package on every spawn. No env option is set, so the child process inherits the full worker environment.

A compromised or changed release runs with all worker credentials. It also makes spawn behavior non-reproducible across runs.

Pin an exact version, for example skills@<version>. Pass an explicit minimal env, such as PATH, HOME, and npm settings.

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-  await execute('npx', ['--yes', 'skills', 'add', 'https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/skills',
+  await execute('npx', ['--yes', `skills@${SKILLS_CLI_VERSION}`, 'add', 'https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/skills',
     '--skill', ...skills, '--agent', harness, '--yes', '--copy'],
-  { cwd, signal, timeout: 120_000, maxBuffer: 1024 * 1024 });
+  { cwd, signal, timeout: 120_000, maxBuffer: 1024 * 1024,
+    env: { PATH: process.env.PATH, HOME: process.env.HOME } });

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- Around line 598-601: Update the message operation created in the authored-flow
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  • packages/sdk/src/authored-worker-step.ts
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Comment on lines +598 to +601
return trackStep(authoredSteps, new AuthoredFlowOperation<AgentResult>(id, 'message',
() => assertOperationAllowed('message', definition.name, requestedCompletion),
() => observeStep(id, 'agent', () => worker.message(id, agentName, text, messageOptions), onProgress),
lifecycle));

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

f.message(...).gate({...}) silently drops the named gate.

AuthoredFlowOperation.namedGate is read only when the start closure builds the step spec. f.agent passes agentOp.namedGate to worker.agent. The message start closure never reads namedGate, and worker.message and broker.message have no verification parameter.

An author who writes await f.message(name, text).gate({ type: 'artifact_exists', ... }) gets a passing step. The declared check never runs. A predicate gate still works, because begin() applies it for every operation. The two gate kinds therefore behave differently on the same step.

Pass the gate through to execute. As an alternative, throw unsupported_gate when namedGate is set. A retained session does not need the spawn-time refusal, because the declaration already exists when f.message runs.

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-      return trackStep(authoredSteps, new AuthoredFlowOperation<AgentResult>(id, 'message',
-        () => assertOperationAllowed('message', definition.name, requestedCompletion),
-        () => observeStep(id, 'agent', () => worker.message(id, agentName, text, messageOptions), onProgress),
-        lifecycle));
+      let messageOp!: AuthoredFlowOperation<AgentResult>;
+      messageOp = new AuthoredFlowOperation<AgentResult>(id, 'message',
+        () => assertOperationAllowed('message', definition.name, requestedCompletion),
+        () => observeStep(id, 'agent',
+          () => worker.message(id, agentName, text, messageOptions, messageOp.namedGate), onProgress),
+        lifecycle);
+      return trackStep(authoredSteps, messageOp);

Also change message in packages/sdk/src/authored-broker.ts (outside the selected range):

-    async message(id: string, name: string, text: string, options?: { timeout?: string | number }): Promise<AgentResult> {
+    async message(id: string, name: string, text: string, options?: { timeout?: string | number },
+      verification?: NamedGate): Promise<AgentResult> {
       const declaration = lookup(name);
       if (typeof text !== 'string' || !text.trim()) invalid('f.message text must be nonempty');
       const result = await execute(id, { ...declaration, instruction: { ...declaration.instruction,
         operation: 'message', task: text, timeoutMs: options?.timeout === undefined
-          ? declaration.instruction.timeoutMs : parseAgentStepTimeout(options.timeout) } });
+          ? declaration.instruction.timeoutMs : parseAgentStepTimeout(options.timeout) } }, verification);
       return result;
     },
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Fixed in ef04df91. f.message passes namedGate through worker.message and broker.message into the journaled agent step, so the kernel lowers it to <id>.gate. Predicate gates are unchanged.

tests/broker-flow.test.ts ("runs a named gate on f.message against the broker result") rejects when the gate is artifact_exists for result.json and the broker result lists no artifacts. Dropping the namedGate argument makes that same test resolve success.

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…sions

Keep broker session preflight, retained-session gates, and the shared PTY
launcher, and keep main's per-step secret grants and secret-aware CLI probe
keys. Declared broker secrets travel with spawn, message, and release.

Co-authored-by: Will Washburn <willwashburn@users.noreply.github.com>
f.message dropped a named gate because the start closure never read it.
Message and release no longer block on a fresh broker health probe, so a
release can still reach the worker when the broker is down.

Co-authored-by: Will Washburn <willwashburn@users.noreply.github.com>
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CodeRabbit review nitpicks (in the review body on 7730888f, not separate threads):

  1. Probe the broker only for spawn steps. Done in ef04df91. checkBrokerEnvironment runs when a broker instruction's operation is spawn. Message and release go to the worker. tests/broker-preflight.test.ts ("leaves broker message/release steps to the worker instead of probing again") fails if the probe runs for those operations.

  2. Pin skills and pass a minimal env. Not changed. This repo has no chosen skills CLI version, and npx needs more than PATH and HOME (certificate paths, npm config, nvm). Spawn still runs npx --yes skills add with the worker environment. Pinning a version and an env allowlist needs a decision from Will.

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[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; the previous cleanup issue is fixed and no new blocking issues were found.

Summary

Adds interactive broker agents with retained sessions, follow-up messages, explicit release, and journaled results.

  • Flows can keep a local Relay agent open for more work.
  • Broker flows report setup needs and unmetered usage before they run.
  • Communication agents use the shared Relay PTY launcher.

Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant Flow
  participant Journal
  participant Worker
  participant Broker
  Flow->>Journal: f.agent with broker transport
  Journal->>Worker: Dispatch agent step
  Worker->>Broker: Open PTY session
  Broker-->>Worker: Complete current turn
  Worker->>Journal: Record result
  Flow->>Journal: f.message
  Journal->>Worker: Dispatch next turn
  Worker->>Broker: Send work to retained session
  Flow->>Journal: f.release
  Journal->>Worker: Dispatch release
  Worker->>Broker: Release session
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Comment thread packages/sdk/src/authored-broker.ts Resolved
…udget failure

A hung spawnPty no longer holds the worker until the broker answers. A PTY
that arrives after the timeout is released. f.release stays journaled without
the flow budget, so a failed gate or an exhausted header cannot strand the session.

Co-authored-by: Will Washburn <willwashburn@users.noreply.github.com>
Comment on lines +160 to +163
if (session.pty === undefined) void spawned.then(async late => {
try { await late.handle.release('Flow broker session ended', { deleteIdentity: true }); }
finally { await late.close(); }
}, () => {});

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P1 Late cleanup can crash worker

If spawning times out and the PTY arrives later, a failure in late.handle.release() or late.close() rejects the detached promise returned by spawned.then(). The second argument catches only a failed spawn, not errors from the async cleanup callback. This unhandled rejection can terminate the Node worker and interrupt other agents. Track the late cleanup and handle its failures explicitly.

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Path: packages/sdk/src/communication/broker-worker.ts
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**Late cleanup can crash worker**

If spawning times out and the PTY arrives later, a failure in `late.handle.release()` or `late.close()` rejects the detached promise returned by `spawned.then()`. The second argument catches only a failed spawn, not errors from the async cleanup callback. This unhandled rejection can terminate the Node worker and interrupt other agents. Track the late cleanup and handle its failures explicitly.

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Fixed. The late cleanup now catches a failed release and a failed close separately, so neither rejects the detached promise. The timed-out step is already journaled.

tests/broker-worker.test.ts ("a late release failure stays inside the timed-out spawn") records unhandledRejection. With the catches removed, that test receives Error: late release failed. With them restored, the rejection list stays empty and the step completion remains timeout.

A PTY that arrives after the spawn timeout still releases, and a failure
from that release or its link removal stays inside the detached cleanup.

Co-authored-by: Will Washburn <willwashburn@users.noreply.github.com>
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willwashburn merged commit 878e089 into main Oct 28, 2026
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