faster-whisper and piper as plain Function nodes, the mic -> STT -> logic ->
TTS -> speaker wiring, the Modules manifest they need (uv pip compile, av<19)
and measured sizes, memory and CPU times. Modules docs now say uv pip sync
installs no dependencies.
The hello carries the fluksio-worker version. An agent refused for an older
protocol stays listed as Needs upgrade until it attaches again. Docs gain an
Upgrading workers section.
The connector now serves /mcp, its OAuth documents and /hooks/ besides
/api/v1/, refuses any dot segment (httpx resolves them, which carried
/api/v1/../../mcp onto the MCP mount), addresses calls to the hub's host,
and bridges served sockets by calling the app with a websocket scope.
A hook without a secret answers the tunnel with the 404 (or 1008) of a
wrong secret. Requests through the hub get the hub's issuer, resource and
consent page in the OAuth metadata and the 401, and the MCP host check
admits the hub while enrolled.
Every datetime the API emits for versions (flow summaries' updated_at,
runs' created/started/finished with flow_version) is already ISO 8601
with Z or +00:00. A test holds it and the API docs say so.
DELETE /runs?flow= removes every Run row of the flow but left its flow_run
rows, so a deleted flow kept appearing in the history. history=true now
drops those too, and the flow delete dialogs (editor and bulk) send it when
"Also delete its runs" is ticked.
Its entries are the cards present, and a local child's allocation is
named through them, so under =2,3 card 0 is device 2. Remote workers
keep mapping against their own mask.
POST /observability/flush handles what the collector has queued and writes
it, so the soak harness no longer sleeps FLUSH_INTERVAL_S before clearing
its own rows.
A shared source goes live in every flow using it the moment it is saved, so
the write is recorded in the audit trail like a publish. Private source saves
stay drafts and are not audited.
DELETE /flows/library/{name} still answers 409 while nodes use the source.
With detach=true each of them keeps a copy of the code, in the published
flow and the draft, the source is deleted and the running users rebuild.
The generated batch script exported nothing and passed `--token`, which
any user on a shared compute node reads from `ps`. It now exports
FLUKSIO_WORKER_TOKEN after `prerun`, which the worker already reads.
`ConnectorNode.store` keeps short strings per connector package in the
engine's database (`connector_state`, migration f8c3e5a91d27), so the nodes of
one package share them and `fluksio serve` needs nothing new: get, set and
delete, at most 64 kB a value and 256 keys a package. A superuser lists the
keys (never the values) and clears them through `/connectors/{node_type}/state`,
or under Stored state in a connector node's panel. Documented in the connector
contract.
The enrolment exemption covered any *.local host, which mDNS answers with
whoever claims it; it is now localhost, 127.0.0.0/8 and ::1. /docs, /redoc
and openapi.json stay closed in production and otherwise answer only a
loopback caller unless API_DOCS_ENABLED is set, which the dev compose does,
so `fluksio serve --host 0.0.0.0` no longer hands the schema to the network.
fluksio-worker now refuses ws:// and http:// engine and artifact URLs unless
they are loopback or --insecure is given; the engine still accepts both.
An artifact reference must be sha256: plus 64 hex digits before it is joined
into a path, and node code gets the host environment through the engine's
credential denylist instead of all of it.
Writing node source, installing modules and any flow save that adds,
retypes or repoints a code node (Function, Command), edits a Command
node's settings or changes a node's resources.env now answer 403 for
everyone but a superuser. MCP tools and the assistant reach the same
routes, so they inherit the gate. Node types report runs_code.
The editor shows code read-only with a note, disables a Command node's
settings, leaves code nodes and reusable nodes out of the palette and
paste, and the Modules page offers no install.
A worker over FLOW_WORKER_MAX_RSS_MB (--worker-max-rss) when its node
returns is retired instead of kept warm, in the shared pool and in every
declared one; 0, the default, keeps them all. The engine now accounts its
own memory (FLOW_RAM / --ram, else the box or the cgroup limit less 1 GB),
so a node's `ram` declaration holds locally. A declared environment the
shared pool already has is that pool rather than a duplicate set of warm
workers.
A provider set under Settings (OpenAI-compatible; key encrypted in
flow-data/ai.json) turns on an Assistant panel in the sidebar. Each turn runs
the FastMCP tools in-process as the person chatting, streams the rounds over
SSE and keeps one transcript per user. The panel floats on any screen and
shares the editor's lane: a settings panel keeps the top half, the chat the
bottom. The MCP client is now built once, for the endpoint and the chat.
A history recorded before the move (MLflow experiments) had nowhere to
go, since runs were only made by running a flow. Each entry is stored as
it ended: parameters completed and checked like a submit, cause
"import", empty commit and code digest, metrics and artifacts written
as given, nothing queued or announced. Run.external_id (new migration)
makes a second import a no-op and is an export column so a row joins
back. The request is all or nothing and capped at 200 entries;
Client.import_runs pages a longer history.
`fluksio run` walked the working directory and imported every module in
it, which ran a research repository's analysis scripts before the run was
submitted. A flow's origin now records the file and module name that
declared it, and run/sweep import just that, under the same name so the
generated node bodies do not change. A flow with no record still walks,
now skipping what .gitignore covers.
Every code-defined flow reports `flow` changed once on its next sync,
since the origin gained two fields.
A serve that lost the port race had already signed in, so client.json
named a port another engine held and every client talked to that one.
The socket is now bound first and handed to uvicorn.
A run record is a record of what ran, so deleting a flow no longer sweeps its
history: `_forget_runs` is gone from the flow-delete path, and `DELETE /runs/{id}`
is the only thing that removes a run one at a time. The in-flight guard stays —
that is about work, not history.
`DELETE /runs?flow=` is the counterpart to the list's flow filter and what a
reseed needs, sharing the four statements with the single-run delete and
refusing the same way while a run of that flow is still going.
A run whose flow is gone reads as one: `useFlowInputs` reports the 404 rather
than an empty declaration set, so the run page says "flow deleted", explains it,
and disables Retry, which the route would refuse anyway.
The icon variant lost its last caller when the responsive variant stopped
carrying a second cropped image. runOverviewQueryOptions now takes the
refetch interval, defaulting to the 30s the Runs screen and the dashboard
panel want; Home passes 10s so a short run does not linger on the tile.
agents.md spells the API host as api.${DOMAIN}, which is what the rest of
the docs use.
Each was a loose end recorded under `### SDK` in the notepad.
`serve` takes its own pidfile down on SIGTERM. uvicorn restores the handler it
found and re-raises the signal it stopped on, so the default handler ended the
process without unwinding and the `finally` never ran — which is what a stop
sends, and what left `serve.pid` behind.
`serve.log` is cut back past 5 MB by the engine rather than by the screen that
started it, so an adopted engine is bounded too. Gated on its own stdout being
an appended regular file, which is what makes the cut safe: the kernel then
puts the next write at the new end.
Cards are counted from `/dev/nvidia[0-9]*`, so `FLOW_GPUS`/`--gpus` of 0 means
"work it out" the way `FLOW_CPUS` always has. The engine counts, not the
accountant — a remote worker builds one of those from its own inventory, and
detecting there would hand it the engine host's cards. The worker counts last:
what a batch job says it was granted still wins.
`GET /runs/metrics/names` is the distinct over a selection that `--list` and
the terminal's metric picker were approximating by reading the newest run that
had measured anything, which missed a name only an older run ever wrote.
`MetricSink` announces each batch it has written (`run_metric`, carrying the
names). Not a per-point event: one covers up to 500 points or two seconds of
them, and the rows stay the record. The terminal comparison fills in as the
first readings land instead of staying blank until reopened, and the browser
refetches the run and any comparison rather than the list behind them.
`retry --group` pages the list route by `before` instead of stopping at 500.
The terminal dashboard takes the terminal's colours (`ansi-dark`), and the web
UI can re-pair from Settings without disconnecting first.
The rate the media dtypes could carry was one frame every second or two: each
was a file on the data volume, an event on the socket, and a request back for
the bytes. This closes both halves of that, and they are one feature.
`save_artifact(..., volatile=True)` writes to a `VolatileStore` — the same
content-addressed store, in `/dev/shm`, bounded by size with the oldest falling
out (`ARTIFACT_VOLATILE_BYTES`, 48 MB under the container's raised `shm_size`).
Nothing sweeps it: a frame nobody kept is not worth walking the store to find.
`ArtifactStore.path` falls through to it, which is what lets a volatile frame be
an ordinary reference everywhere else — the dtype check, a panel's digest scope,
`load_artifact` in a node, and the widget's own fetch all work on one unchanged.
`adopt` copies one into the store when a run records it, so "returned media is
kept, emitted media is not" stays true.
The bytes then go down the flows websocket as a length-prefixed binary frame,
sent just ahead of the `message_value` naming them, so a tile has the frame when
it hears the value moved. Nothing is pushed unasked: a client names the messages
it is drawing (`{"type":"media","names":[…]}`), a panel's list is intersected
with the scope it already had, and only the newest frame per name in a batch is
sent — a client that fell behind is not handed frames it would draw over. The
tunnel relays text only, so a screen reached through a portal falls back to
fetching, which is why the rate table now has two rows.
Around the edges: the remote worker's fetch cache is bounded at last
(`FLUKSIO_ARTIFACT_CACHE_BYTES`), since content addressing means nothing in it
ever expires and a media stream fills it with chunks nothing asks for twice; a
port carrying an image draws the frame in the node panel rather than only
saying `image/png · frame.png · 1.79kB`; and an edge chip says that much instead
of a line of hash. The media screenshot stops waiting for `networkidle` — a
camera is a socket that never goes quiet, which is the point of it.
serve: refuse a second engine for one data directory whatever port it was
asked for, using the pidfile and a token this directory signed. The check
runs before the database is touched and before the credential is written,
which is what left every later CLI call pointing at a dead port.
The terminal dashboard is three tabs (Overview, Runs, Logs) with the toolbar
following the focused pane, the engine's output goes to serve.log rather than
down a pipe, and closing the screen stops both reader threads so the prompt
comes back. It adopts a running engine on every start, so stop/start and
restart work on one it did not start, and a stop waits for the process to be
gone before the next start. Enrolment reports itself in the modal.
enroll: a new claim code replaces the pairing instead of being refused. The
code is redeemed before anything is written, mappings to a portal being left
are cleared, and a running engine redials when the stored enrolment changes.
runs: an engine re-queues the runs left `queued` by the one before it, and
`fluksio retry <id>` / `retry --group <sweep>` submits an interrupted run
again with the same inputs and group, recorded through Run.parent_id.
The site read as a design journal: rationale paragraphs, hedges
("deliberately", "on purpose", "genuinely"), meta-commentary about the docs
themselves, and one em-dash every ten lines carrying an aside.
Roughly twenty rationale blocks are gone or reduced to what a reader needs
in order to use the thing. Em-dashes go from 507 to 135, and what is left is
structural rather than prose: list and definition separators, table cells,
and four inside code blocks that quote what the CLI actually prints.
Also: api.example.com becomes api.fluksio.com (the emails stay, since
bootstrap.py really defaults to admin@example.com and RFC 2606 reserves it);
the mqtt table gains the two settings it had drifted behind on and inject's
wording matches the engine; llms.txt lists the two connector pages that were
in the nav but not in it; and the two device/device_policy notes now agree.
Builds clean under `zensical build --strict`.
Follows the portal: the noun is "instance" everywhere the app says it —
UI strings, CLI output, error details, docs and comments. The wire keys
(`instance_id`, `instance_token`) and the hub route this calls move with it.
An existing cloud.json is adopted rather than refused: without the key
alias the dataclass fails to parse, which the caller swallows and reads as
"never enrolled" instead of "reconnect".
`instance_key` on a node type becomes `target_key`. It means the outside
thing a node points at, which is a different sense of the word, and keeping
both would put two meanings of "instance" in one codebase.
`space` ticks runs on the serve dashboard's table and `enter` compares them:
one metric in braille, five distinct hues, and the table of what actually
differs under it. Both halves are routes that already existed — the browser's
own comparison endpoint for the curves, the runs export for the table, whose
input columns are filtered to the ones that vary.
The palette is hue rather than the web's lightness ramp on purpose: five steps
of one brand hue collapse to a single colour on a 16-colour tty.
The screen also subscribes to the engine's event bus over the same websocket a
browser uses, so a run that starts and finishes inside a tick is seen rather
than only recorded. `a` lists what a run left behind and fetches it.
Covers this round of CLI work: the serve dashboard and its keys, the refusal
to start a second engine for one installation, --plain, --gpus and the
declared-not-detected card count, `fluksio artifacts`, the age column,
`fluksio.logger` inside a node, the server extra, per-directory study module
names, and an export whose columns no longer move with the selection.
`GET /api/v1/search/` hands the client one flat index of everything worth
jumping to — flows and the nodes inside them, dashboards and the widgets on
them, panels, secrets, modules, workers and alert channels — and cmdk matches
it in the browser, so results narrow while typing without a round trip per
keystroke. A node hit is the one thing no list endpoint could answer: it opens
its flow with that node in focus.
The panel is reached from **Search** above Documentation in the sidebar, or
⌘K anywhere. The flow canvas palette moves to ⌘P, being the narrower of the two.
The panels dialog gains an address (`/dashboards?panels`) so a panel hit has
somewhere to land, and the sidebar logo gets `shrink-0`: the rail's width
animates while the logo is already back, and a flex item short of room is
squeezed rather than clipped.
Three things the one-folder-per-study layout ran into.
**Discovery walks down.** A plain directory is now walked all the way, so
`fluksio sync dev` finds `dev/s1_baseline/study.py` and naming each study is
no longer the price of the layout. Hidden directories, `__pycache__`,
`node_modules` and virtualenvs are left alone, and a package is taken whole.
Two files that would import under one module name are refused, naming both:
Python keeps one module per name, so the second would silently *be* the first
— and a node's generated body imports by that name, so a worker would run the
wrong study's code. The message says the fix, which is an `__init__.py` per
study directory. A module that raises while importing is now a sentence
naming the file rather than an importlib traceback.
**`run` and `sweep` sync downwards too**, so the flow is found from the
repository root without the sync-then-`--no-sync` two-step. A study that will
not import is a warning rather than a stopped run, since a walk meets every
study and a half-finished one two directories away is not this run's problem.
The upload was already a no-op for a flow nothing changed in, so what the walk
costs is import time — `--sync PATH` narrows it, and skipping unchanged
subtrees would need a cache keyed on file state that is deliberately not here.
**`serve` moves off a busy default port** — 8001, 8002, up to twenty — says
which it took, and writes that one into `client.json`. A port given with
`--port` still fails when it is taken, because naming one is asking for it.
Comparing the per-node digest against an engine that does not record one is
comparing against nothing, and reporting every node as changed on every sync
for ever — which is what a client newer than its engine did, since `NodeDef`
drops fields it has never heard of. A node is named now only when both sides
carry a digest, so a no-op sync is `unchanged` again and the signal one syncs
for is back.
That silence had also been the only sign of the mismatch, so sync now names
it: one line saying the engine stored no record of what a node's code reaches,
with both versions in it and what to run. Bumped to 0.1.6 — the digest changed
the stored document's shape, and a version that does not move makes two
different engines indistinguishable, which is the thing it was made
load-bearing for a day ago.
`— draft` was printed whenever there was simply nothing to publish, which
reads as work left unfinished. It is said only when a draft is genuinely
there, and `— published` when one was.
`sync` follows each node function's imports through the project's own modules
— stopping at the standard library, at anything installed, and at Fluksio
itself, whose checkout would otherwise be most of every digest — and records
the file list with what it hashed to. The engine hashes those files again when
the run is claimed, so the fingerprint is live rather than a snapshot, and
falls back to what sync recorded when it cannot see them: a remote worker's
runs used to share one empty digest, and therefore one key.
Three things follow. Editing a helper a node calls into re-runs that node, as
before. Editing something the node never reaches no longer re-runs anything —
a notebook two directories away was invalidating every arm. And
`Run.code_digest` is now the hash of its nodes' digests, so it is neither
looser nor tighter than "the code behind these numbers", which is what makes
it worth joining an exported table on.
`sync` says so too: it compares the per-node digest against the stored one, so
a helper edit prints `train: updated (flow, fit)` instead of `unchanged`. The
digest is read when the document is built rather than when the flow is
declared, so a second `sync()` in one process sees an edit between them.
Also: `fluksio runs` shows only the inputs that differ from what the flow
declares, fitted to the terminal, so a flow taking a few kB of json no longer
wraps every line.
Every existing cache entry misses once — the fingerprint changed shape.
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Melvin Strobl