The canvas lays itself out: a layered graph, left to right on a desktop and
top to bottom on a phone, with room reserved for the value each edge carries.
Nodes cannot be dragged and `NodeDef.position` is gone from the document —
a graph nobody can arrange is one worth keeping small, which is what keeps
flows atomic. Endpoints join the same layout, so their lanes and the
localStorage that remembered where they were dragged go too.
Mobile, per the new Responsive section of DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md: the dock caps
its width and wraps instead of running off the screen, the dashboard stacks
into one column rather than shrinking a wall panel to a fifth of its size, and
Home stops widening its grid track past the viewport. A Playwright project at
a phone's width fails the build when a screen no longer fits.
Along the way: publish is the checkmark that was already there rather than a
button that appears and disappears, with discard beside it on both the flow
and the dashboard; the brain reveals a neuron's name on the first tap; and the
port sparklines get room to breathe.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VDSXaRhvqHYNevgDGmNAto
A series, record or list message declares its shape instead of riding
DType.JSON, so a widget binds a shape rather than some JSON and a wrong
binding is refused before anything runs. A list declares its item type,
which is what keeps list[float] expressible for a pipeline.
On top of that: an agenda over a list, a notification over a record, and
a dashboard alert channel that publishes engine faults as one — so a
panel can show what went wrong without a flow wiring it by hand.
Also: only None means a node published nothing, a falsy value of the
wrong shape is now the named error it always should have been; and the
gauge's readout says its size is viewBox geometry rather than type scale.
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Both overviews carried the same toolbar twice, left-aligned, with a search
field permanently taking a row of width. One `OverviewToolbar` now serves
them: the search folds into an icon and expands again on click (Escape puts
it away and hands focus back), create is a `+`, and everything sits right of
the page. Each page keeps its own create dialog — the toolbar only renders
the trigger — so the testids the runtime spec and the capture script drive
stayed where they were.
Dashboards get the flow store's draft/publish split. The editor autosaves
`dashboard.draft.json` beside `dashboard.json`; `/view/{name}`, `bindings_for`
and `history_requirements` keep reading the published file, so a wall panel
sees an edit only once someone publishes it. `POST /dashboards/{name}/publish`
and `/discard` mirror the flow routes down to the version precondition and the
409, `GET /dashboards/{name}?draft=true` is what the editor asks for, and the
dock grows the same Publish button — which flushes a queued save first, so an
autosave in flight is not published around. Creating a dashboard still writes
the published file directly: an empty document on a panel is harmless, and it
keeps the store free of a never-published case.
"Publish all" is a checkmark in the toolbar, live only when something actually
has `has_draft`. A summary carries no version and publish needs the one it is
based on, so each document's detail is read immediately before its publish —
honest against a stale list, and no version-less backend path to maintain.
Failures are counted rather than swallowed: three of five fails says so and
names the three.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XC2jX6Hdj7pxGGKzBTrbqB
The health screen was fixed at 24 hours everywhere except its lists, which
were fixed at nothing: `failuresQueryOptions` read the newest 100 rows and
`HealthActivity` filtered them client-side, so on a busy engine the failures
list covered whatever few minutes 100 rows happened to span while the chart
beside it spanned a day — and pinning an older minute showed an empty card.
One `RangePicker` now sits on the Health heading and governs the whole block:
the tiles, the flow table, both charts and both lists. Presets are 1h / 6h /
24h / 7d — the collector prunes at `OBS_RETENTION_DAYS` (30), so a week is
behind the last one. The longer windows ask for coarser buckets, since a week
of minute rollups is ten thousand points nobody can see.
Failures get the escape hatch the runs already had: a pinned minute is asked
for with `since`/`until` rather than filtered out of what is held, and the
list itself is bound to the selected range. `RUN_DEPTH`/`EVENT_DEPTH` become
one `LIST_DEPTH`, which now buys coverage of the window on screen instead of
a fixed newest-N — narrowing the range is what makes the same rows reach the
whole of it. The "Failures (24h)" tile counts errors over the selected window
from the rollups the table is drawn from, so tile, column and chart agree.
The node-panel and edge trend curves get no picker. They are a Redis ring of
the last 120 values per message with no window to ask for, so hovering one
reveals what it actually shows — how many readings, and the span they cover.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XC2jX6Hdj7pxGGKzBTrbqB
Home is the one overview now: the brain graph flat across the top, the flow
switches, then the health sections. The /brain and /health routes and their
sidebar entries are gone.
- charts report their cursor and clicks, so hovering one filters the list
beside it to that minute and a click pins it until Escape or Clear
- chart values round to about three significant digits, the legend mounts
under the plot so it can wrap without leaving the card, and axis ticks
shorten past a thousand
- the embedded brain leaves the wheel to the page rather than zooming
- number fields no longer draw their up/down spinner (NOTEPAD)
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MeiWk3Yq12n2pTvnQWYvt
The worker script is handed to the interpreter by path, so app/flow was
sys.path[0] for every node: `import queue` got the engine's. It now drops
its own directory before anything else imports, and runs with the
deployment's credentials scrubbed out of its environment.
Also: reload builds off the event loop, the pool wakes what is blocked on
it when it stops, a refused metrics flush is kept for the next one rather
than dropped, and the cascade events are paired through failures.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MeiWk3Yq12n2pTvnQWYvt
A node type can now say which outside thing its parameters point at, and
nodes sharing one — a broker topic, a URL, a bucket — are drawn as a single
neuron on a new /brain canvas. That makes the wiring which runs between
flows through a broker visible for the first time; no single flow's canvas
can show it. The key is read off stored parameters, so a credential
reference never reaches an id.
Layout is a d3 force simulation settled once and then frozen, lit by the
socket the editor already listens to: a neuron pulses when any node behind
it publishes, and its connections light as values pass.
Fixes the message pulse while here: interpolating the stroke against the
edge's `color-mix()` resting colour went through oklab and left the gamut,
which turned every pulse on both canvases fluorescent yellow.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MeiWk3Yq12n2pTvnQWYvt
A second bus subscriber folds executions, errors, timings and queue lag
into per-minute rollups, keeps failures with their traceback and an audit
trail of who published what, and records one row per cascade — manual runs
and previews included, under an id of their own that writes no idempotency
markers. Read back through /observability/*, which always answers 200 so a
degraded engine still renders its own health screen.
Also fixes two things found on the way: node-health alerts read `status`
where the engine publishes `health`, so a device dropping never alerted
anyone, and the Redis queue reported `parked: 0` whatever was held.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MeiWk3Yq12n2pTvnQWYvt
User code no longer execs in the engine. A pool of persistent worker
subprocesses speaks one JSON object per line; the controller installs a
proxy as the node's function, so every execution path funnels through it
and the pipeline is untouched. A crash costs one subprocess, a per-node
timeout is a kill, and cancelling from the canvas is that same kill.
The workers run a venv of the user's own on the data volume, filled from
a pip manifest versioned beside the flows. Applying it retires the
workers and rebuilds, so a package lands without restarting the engine.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017MeiWk3Yq12n2pTvnQWYvt
A dashboard now carries the canvas it is drawn for (canvas_width /
canvas_height, presets plus two numbers in the settings panel). Editor and
wall panel render that surface at its true pixel size and scale it to fit,
so a side panel opening changes only the scale — never the arrangement
being made. With the width and column count known the dot pitch is exact,
(width + gap) / columns by row height + gap, so a dot sits where every
widget corner snaps. The wall panel shows no dots.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H7LwYgJfpkbLCTeiAf8U4A
One shell for both editors. Flows and dashboards each get a searchable
overview under the padded shell, their editors move to the full-bleed
canvas, and the floating chrome is shared: a title bar that only says
what you are looking at, and a bottom dock carrying everything else —
the flow bar's status, settings and Publish moved down there, the
add-flow button moved to the overview.
Dashboards gain the rest of M4's visualization work:
- widgets are picked by clicking them, with the header as the drag
handle so a slider still slides and a switch still flips while
editing; settings moved into the flows' SidePanel
- react-grid-layout for drag and edge-resize, so the stored x/y finally
mean something; a dashboard nobody arranged is shelf-packed once
- a per-dashboard grid size, so a panel can be matched to its screen
- the chart widget, drawn with uPlot: several messages on one axis, fed
from the stored history plus the live socket tail, coloured from the
new --chart-1..5 ramp
- /view/{name}: the URL a wall panel is pointed at — no sidebar, no
footer, no editing, and no editor code, since routes are split
- a widget wired to a payload type it cannot carry, or wired to nothing
at all, carries the same red dot a failing node does; the picker
records the type it bound and WidgetDef refuses a mismatch on save
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H7LwYgJfpkbLCTeiAf8U4A
An agent that registered itself was invisible, and withdrawing one meant
deleting rows or rotating the signing key. It now sits next to Users, with
the live-token count that tells an approved agent from one that only
registered.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H7LwYgJfpkbLCTeiAf8U4A
Two backends that had no way in: secrets could only be set through the API,
and alerting could only be configured by hand-editing its file. Both are
engine-wide operator settings rather than personal ones, so they get sidebar
entries of their own instead of tabs under the per-user Settings — and the
missing-secret error now names the place the page actually is.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H7LwYgJfpkbLCTeiAf8U4A
Widgets bind to a message name and read it live off the socket the editor
already had — lifted out of the flow editor so a dashboard route gets the
same values, which also gives the home page live data for free.
The input widgets close the loop the other way: a slider publishes into
the graph and whatever consumes that message runs. Verified end to end in
the running app — moving a slider set a flow input, and the stat bound to
what the flow computed from it followed.
View mode is plain CSS grid. A wall panel that only displays should not
download the code that lets someone drag things around, and it now does
not. Editing is a widget picker, a per-widget width control and a
settings card fed by the message catalog.
No new dependencies: the slider is a range input, the gauge is an arc,
and the markdown is a five-line subset. Charts are the one widget still
missing — they need a charting library and the chart tokens the design
guidelines reserved — so they are stored and validated but not offered.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LF61rxW1FG5YCD2J9YqjY
The engine now speaks MCP at /mcp, with a built-in OAuth 2.1 authorization
server in front of it: an agent registers itself, sends a human to the browser
to approve it, and exchanges the resulting code for a token. PKCE is required,
codes are single-use and stored only as hashes, the browser is redirected to
the URI that was registered rather than the one asked for, and refresh tokens
rotate so that replaying a spent one revokes the whole line.
Twenty tools cover reading, building, publishing and running flows, and each
one calls the same REST endpoint the dashboard calls, in-process, carrying the
caller's own token. That keeps one description of what a flow is and what may
be done to it — validation, the draft/publish split, the version check — and
means an agent can do nothing a person could not do in the browser.
Agent tokens are RS256 with a keypair of their own rather than the secret that
signs browser sessions, so deleting the key withdraws every agent without
logging anyone out, and deps.decode_token grew the branch that trusting a
second issuer will need when the hosted login arrives.
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Flows can now be taken off the engine and put back. Stopped state lives in a
runtime.json beside the flow, not in the flow document: the canvas autosaves
that document, so a stopped flow would otherwise start itself again on the
next edit. A stopped flow gets no subscriptions, schedules or webhooks, its
nodes are skipped by the scheduler, and running it answers 409. Pausing holds
a flow's nodes while its values keep arriving, so the canvas still shows what
is coming in.
Node code is user code and print is how it says things, so stdout is teed
through a contextvar sink active only during a node execution — one event per
execution, capped, so a chatty node cannot outrun the stream. A node that
fails sends its traceback the same way, trimmed to the author's own frames.
The dock gains a logs panel and a pause control; the dashboard replaces its
placeholder with what is running, stopped or failing; the edge inspector can
send the last message again.
Single-stepping is deferred and noted: the scheduler keeps no progress between
calls, so a step button would re-run the same node rather than advance.
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The footer was a user card with the theme picker and log out buried in
its dropdown. It is now two plain entries, Settings and Log Out, and the
theme moved into the settings page as its own tab.
The dark sidebar never matched the canvas because _canvas.tsx painted
bg-card across the whole viewport underneath it, so the floating
panel's bg-card/80 resolved to card over card and its gutter was card
too. Nothing there should paint a surface; the panel now reads the same
as the other frosted chrome.
The superuser guard sliced the first three tabs, which silently changed
meaning when a fourth arrived.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KkmeRiyeYmVZqJVwuyHq9o
An expired or orphaned session left the app on a half-rendered page instead of
the login screen: a properly signed token naming a user who no longer exists
answered 404, which the client does not treat as an authentication failure. All
failures in get_current_user are 401 now, and the client stops retrying them,
so a dead session goes straight back to the login screen.
- Clicking an edge names the two nodes it runs between, not just the message.
- A node with a problem shows one badge carrying the whole explanation, rather
than a corner badge and a status dot saying the same thing twice. The dot is
back to what it is good at: whether the node ran.
- The sidebar's collapse control sits in the sidebar, where a phone still finds
one in the chrome because there is no sidebar on screen to hold it.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016WzrvW7rjQbynnhF6pxh6i
- MQTT nodes failed to build: the topic map was renamed to talk in ports, but
__slots__ still declared the old name, so every MQTT node raised
AttributeError. Building one of each node type is now a test, since __slots__
makes this failure invisible until someone places the node.
- Port names offer the messages already in play: everything published is worth
reading, and an input nobody provides yet is worth publishing. A message only
connects when both ends spell it the same way, so choosing beats typing.
- Adding a port focuses its name field.
- Dragging onto an input that already reads something offers the extra port as
well as the replacement — an MQTT or InfluxDB node usually wants both.
- The template's Item model, its routes, screens and table are gone.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016WzrvW7rjQbynnhF6pxh6i
The browser half of M3. Flows open on a full-bleed canvas with their chrome
floating over it: flow tabs top, dock bottom, node settings in a panel on the
right that leaves the graph visible and running behind it.
- Connections are derived, not stored. A node declares the messages it reads
and publishes; every matching pair draws an edge, so two producers of one
message converge on their consumer. Dragging output to input is shorthand
for pointing that input at the producer's message, and asks before it
replaces an existing one.
- Values land on the edges as they flow, over a websocket that feeds a store
outside React, so a value arriving re-renders its own chip and nothing else.
Clicking an edge shows the last payload and when it arrived.
- Node source is edited in Monaco, loaded only when a panel opens and themed
from the design tokens.
- Edits autosave; identical documents are skipped server-side, so a quiet
canvas writes nothing.
- Validation from the API shows on the node it belongs to and is summarised in
the dock, where each entry pans to its node.
- Works on a phone: touch-connect, 44px dock targets, and the node panel
becomes a full-screen sheet.
Two new tokens (--status-success, --font-mono) are mirrored in the website repo
and recorded in DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016WzrvW7rjQbynnhF6pxh6i
The submodule collapse was only half applied: .gitmodules was deleted but
backend/ and frontend/ were still recorded as gitlinks, so none of their
files were tracked. Replace the gitlinks with the real trees.
Also untrack .env (it carried placeholder secrets) in favour of a tracked
.env.example, drop the committed __pycache__, and narrow the blanket *.png
ignore that would have swallowed design assets.
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