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.
/users/signup answers 403 unless SIGNUP_ENABLED is set. A public
GET /utils/config/ tells the login page, which hides the sign-up link,
and the signup page explains that an administrator creates accounts.
/search lists each input and batch output under its qualified message,
and picking one opens the flow on the label's id, which the editor now
treats like a click on the label: it opens the flow's settings.
`Run.passed` (migration d5a3c8e1f246) keeps the names the caller chose, so
the run detail and the comparison table can mark a value as the flow's own
again; rows from before it fall back to the names their params lack. Retries
hand on their parent's list, imports record their entry's.
Also: a cancel of a queued run no longer leaves its id in `_cancelled`, a
linked comparison no longer crashes before the list loads, and the pre-commit
failures are fixed (stale client, `text-[10px]`, worker formatting).
A claimed run only joined the leased set once its pipeline was built, so a
build waiting for a busy worker pool got the run swept as abandoned. Cancel
now also stops such a run, and a terminal status being overwritten is logged.
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.
`widgets.spec.ts` took a one-shot `boundingBox()` of a fill that is still
moving. Two ways that reads wrong. "a bar draws a row per reading" compared
two widths that are both zero until the socket has delivered the readings,
and a plain `expect` over a captured number does not retry. "a reading over
its scale fills the track and no more" allowed the fill one pixel past the
track, but the house spring is underdamped: `motion`'s own generator puts the
fluksio look at 100.66% of the track 276ms in (material 100.91%, glass
103.58%), which on this tile's ~240px track is ~1.6px — over the tolerance,
and reached only if the sample happens to land near the peak.
Neither is the widget. `fractionOf` clamps the reading to [0, 1] and
`.dui-bar-track` is `overflow: hidden`, so nothing past a full track is ever
drawn; a bounding box just is not clipped by an ancestor's overflow. So both
now poll: one until the shorter reading is drawn shorter, the other until the
fill is flush with its track — which is a stricter reading of "and no more"
than the pixel of slack was.
The live-socket test gains the other half of what that spin cost: an ASGI
task that never returns is one uvicorn's graceful shutdown waits on forever,
which is why `fluksio serve` could only be SIGKILLed and left `serve.pid`
behind.
`receive_text` raises `WebSocketDisconnect` once the peer has gone and
`RuntimeError` on every call after that. The loop swallowed both — the
exception was checked only to decide whether the frame held a media
subscription — and immediately made another read, which raised again. A
closed tab therefore left a coroutine reading a dead socket at full tilt:
around 15,000 turns a second, one orphaned `Queue.get()` per turn parked on
the bus queue's waiter list. The event loop stalled behind it, `/health`
answered 503 on its loop-lag check, and Docker's probe plus Traefik took
the API out of the pool mid-request — which is what `make verify` was dying
on, with `TypeError: Failed to fetch` from the browser.
The spin ended only when an event finally reached the send path and the
socket raised there, so it lasted from milliseconds to minutes depending on
what the bus happened to be carrying. Four abandoned sockets logged 2,518
`Task was destroyed but it is pending!` lines and up to 2.6s of loop lag;
twenty now log none and cost 1.0ms.
A failed read is the disconnect, so it ends the stream. The getter created
beside it is cancelled rather than abandoned: nothing reads it after the
turn that made it, and left behind it would also take an event the live
reader wanted.
`wanted_names` never read its `previous` argument — the caller reassigns
`wanted` from the return value — so the parameter goes rather than gaining
an underscore; its one call site and four test calls follow. Sorts the
imports in test_artifacts.py. Both were failing `make lint-backend` at HEAD.
Regenerates the client, which 8c097d9 left behind when it corrected the
revoke_client docstring.
An MCP access token is a stateless JWT good until it expires, so deleting
the client row revoked nothing already handed out — on the MCP endpoint or
on the REST API, which takes the same token directly. Both doors now look
the client up by the `client_id` the token has always carried, so tokens
already in circulation are held to it too.
A dashboard's `locked` setting stopped the client drawing a control and
nothing else; the server took a publish from a panel showing it anyway. It
now bounds the panel's write scope, resolved live where a flow drives the
flag, exactly as the client resolves it. Reads are untouched — read-only is
not blind — and so is a querying chart's request, which is how that tile
reads rather than something anyone touched.
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.
Several stateless instructions where a single button is one — six presets are
otherwise six tiles to place, six titles to read, and the message they share
repeated six times. Nothing is read back, as for a single button: what these
send is an instruction, and the last one sent is not a state to draw.
Auto-fit columns rather than a configured count: a tile is resized in the
editor and scaled again to whatever panel it hangs on, so how many fit is not
something the document can know.
The editor reads `cfg.buttons` raw rather than through `buttonsOf`, which
drops the blanks — a row being typed into is blank until the first keystroke.
Also carried along by the hooks: the generated SDK was stale (it had no
`RunsReadMetricNames`) and one pre-existing block in `test_panels.py` was
unformatted.
A python node's ports and settings arrive as keyword arguments, so a declared
name its `process` does not take was a TypeError on every call — and a node
that loads fine and fails every time it runs is the quiet kind of broken: the
hosted demo did it 720 times an hour for two days and the health badge read
ok throughout. `_build_node` now reads a written body with `ast` and refuses
the mismatch at load, so the node is an error on the canvas and an issue on
publish. Skipped for `**kwargs`, a decorated or absent `process`, and the
template a new node opens with. The SDK's generated shim always takes
`**settings`, so synced flows are untouched.
`/observability/summary` names a node that has failed in the last fifteen
minutes and reads degraded while it does, which is what would have made the
badge amber. `nodes.failing` carries the count.
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 site promises simulated inputs and mocked sensor values, and nothing in
the app was that. A run already is: the values are the caller's, the state is
the run's own namespace, and nothing it computes reaches the live flow. What
was missing was a screen to do it from, and the draft flag being honoured.
`/runs/new` is a flow, a field per declared input, a seed and Run; `/runs`
stays the log. A comma-separated list in a number field expands into the grid
`fluksio sweep --param` builds and goes to the sweep route, so launching one
no longer needs a terminal. Only numbers split: a comma in a string is
content, and one in JSON is syntax.
`RunCreate.draft` was validated at submit and dropped before the run
executed, so "try the working copy" ran the published one. `Run.draft` is a
column now, the driver reads the same copy the submit checked, and a retry
carries it. `FlowSummary.mode` came with it so the rail can say which flows
are batch before one is picked.
Also here: a Retry button on a finished run, which the route has always had
and the UI never did, and parameter cells truncated to their column with the
full value on hover.
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.
It described the wrong object. A dashboard is a document that may hang on a
hallway tablet and in a desk browser at the same time, and only one of those
has fingers on it — so the flag moves off `DashboardDef.settings` and onto
`PanelDef` as a plain bool, ticked in the Panels dialog. `useCanvasRoot` takes
it as an argument rather than reading the document, and `/panel/{id}` is the
only surface with a panel to ask.
Dropping the message binding with it is deliberate: nothing drove it, and a
flow deciding whether a screen has fingers on it was never the point. A stored
`settings.touch` is inert rather than migrated, which `_check_settings`
skipping unknown names already guaranteed.
The rail was the other half. It had no touch behaviour at all and its 40px
buttons met neither branch of the 44/32 rule. `[data-touch] .dui-rail{-item}`
in `ui/core/core.css` spends the padding and the gap on the buttons instead,
so they reach the 44px target and the rail comes out taller at exactly the
same width — `RAIL_INSET` never moves, and the arrangement under it does not
either.
Also closes the panels-dialog icon gap: `DashboardSummary` carries the `icon`
now, so the dialog draws each assigned dashboard's rail glyph beside its
checkbox. `initials()` went from three identical copies in the looks to one in
`Dashboard/icons.ts`, so the dialog and the rail fall back the same way.
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.
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.
`--format jsonl` existed, but `_cell` ran json.dumps at row-build time,
before a format was chosen — so a nested value was a string by then and
jsonl only re-escaped it, leaving a consumer against csv's 128KB field
limit either way. Stringifying moved to the csv writer, so csv is
byte-identical and jsonl carries json. The runs TUI followed, or a record
would draw as a Python repr.
**SQLite is the database, and now says so.** `metric_minute` and every run
table are written with `sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite.insert(...)
.on_conflict_do_update` and with `max(a, b)`, neither of which another
dialect has — so pointing `DATABASE_URL` at Postgres migrated cleanly,
served, logged in, and then lost every observability flush into the
collector's hold buffer and failed every run. It refuses at startup
instead. (The Postgres in the compose stack is Umami's; the engine's own
database has been a file beside the flows since 2026-08-21.)
**Every integer query parameter is bounded.** The caps were written as
`min(limit, 500)`, which a negative walks straight through — `?limit=-1`
compiles to `LIMIT -1` and SQLite returns the whole table. Ten signatures,
now `Query(ge=…, le=…)`. `hours=0` still means an hour, which
`_window_hours` was already deliberate about.
**Exports are capped at 10 000 runs** and say so with `X-Truncated`. The
filters bounded a sensible request and nothing bounded an unfiltered one,
which read every row into memory before a byte was streamed. `_series`
resolves cached curves in two queries rather than a `Run` lookup and a
`RunMetric` query per restored node — a comparison of twenty runs was
calling that twenty times over.
**`PUT /artifacts` has a size limit** (`MAX_ARTIFACT_BYTES`, 2 GiB, 0 to
disable), checked against `Content-Length` and again against the stream for
a chunked body, and its writes moved off the event loop.
**`/observability/timeseries` takes `since`/`until`**, the same window
`/runs` and `/events` take, capped at 2000 points — `hours=720&bucket_s=60`
was 43 200 of them in one array. It is also what a dragged chart needs to
re-fetch at its own resolution rather than magnifying buckets it has.
**Composite indexes** for the three list screens: `run(flow, created_at)`
and `(status, created_at)`, `flow_run(flow, started_at)`,
`engine_event(type, ts)`. Every index was single-column, so SQLite picked
one and sorted the rest by hand. Verified against a copy of a live database
(250k `flow_run` rows): the planner takes all four.
**Redis clients have socket timeouts.** A Redis that stops answering
without closing the connection hung the caller until the kernel gave up —
including `/utils/health/`, whose job is to notice.
**The panels file is written under one lock.** `save_panels` and
`unpair_panel` are both read-modify-write, and a save that read before an
unpair wrote put the old nonce back — silently un-revoking a screen that
had just been unpaired. The nonce carry-forward was written to make that
impossible; the gap between its read and its write is where it happened.
**Startup releases what it acquired.** Everything past `event_bus.bind`
registers how to close itself and the `finally` walks that list backwards;
a failure part-way through used to reach none of the shutdown steps and
leave the worker pool's subprocesses and every background task behind —
under `--reload`, once per bad edit. `modules.reconcile` moved into the
background: `uv` gets five minutes twice over, the healthcheck allows
eighty seconds, and the autoheal restarted the container before it could
finish installing.
`delete_run` takes SQLite's write lock up front (`core.db.writing`) rather
than upgrading a deferred transaction and losing to whichever flush
committed in between. `modules.sync` is serialised — two applies mutated
one venv at once. The proxied-call and stream dicts are bounded, and a
reused id cancels its predecessor instead of dropping the reference.
Security, found in passing and small enough to fix here:
- **`/secrets/` required only a signed-in user.** The names alone say what
this installation talks to, and `PUT /{name}` takes any name, so any
account could overwrite the credential a flow authenticates with.
Superuser now — which `/search` already assumed and said so.
- **`POST /login/access-token` had no rate limit.** Argon2 is deliberately
expensive and the route is unauthenticated and runs in the shared
threadpool. Ten *failed* attempts per address per five minutes; a
successful sign-in spends nothing.
- **a password reset link worked repeatedly for 48 hours.** The token now
carries a digest of the password hash it was minted against, so it stops
verifying once it has set one. No table of spent tokens needed.
- **enrolment accepted `http://`**, sending the claim code and then this
installation's credential in clear. https, or a local address.
- the rate limiter read `request.client.host`, which behind Traefik is the
proxy — so every per-address limit was one global bucket and one caller
could lock out everyone. It reads the forwarded address, and its
bucket table is capped rather than growing one key per address forever.
- SMTP has a timeout and sends after the response, so an unreachable mail
host cannot pin a threadpool worker, and a reply's timing no longer says
whether the address exists.
Test suite: engine-written rows are cleared between modules. A `FlowRun`
left `running` by one module turned up in another's query. Per-test
rollback is not available here — the module-scoped `client` runs the real
lifespan and its collector and run service write through sessions of their
own — so this bounds it where the writes come from. Three consecutive
green runs, orders randomised.
Three things the first pass left.
`serve` now names the flows asking for a GPU when the engine has none
declared. The placer already warned, but into the log, where a fresh install
that forgot `--gpus` does not read it — and the cost of missing it is GPU
nodes running concurrently, which is what the declaration exists to prevent.
The seed was the one field an export still had to coalesce: `--seed 1`
filled the run-level column and left `param.seed` blank, while a declared
seed filled the parameter and left the column blank. It is resolved like
every other input now, and the column carries the seed the run actually used
however it arrived — including when a parameter outranks the run's own,
where the column used to report the one that lost.
And the docs say plainly that declaring the card is what buys the worker
retirement: a node that imports jax without `resources={"gpus": 1}` never
gets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, so nothing marks its worker as one holding a card.
A data-science environment installing fluksio waited for lxml, aiohttp and
the rest of a connector stack it has nothing to talk to. Outbound mail,
error reporting and the MQTT and InfluxDB clients moved to
`fluksio[server]`, which the image installs; each import is guarded and
names the extra. `tenacity` had no import site at all and is gone.
23 fewer packages and the compiled ones among them — a bare `pip install
fluksio` still serves, runs every python node, and registers the mqtt and
influxdb node types, which only need the library when one is actually
built. sentry-sdk arrives anyway underneath `fastapi[standard]`; what
changed there is that nothing of ours requires it.
The dev environment keeps every extra: the suite exercises the connectors
and strict mypy checks their call sites.
`export runs` dropped a `param.*` column whose value was constant across the
exported runs, so a downstream filter broke depending on which runs the
selection happened to hold. Every input the selection recorded is a column
now; `--params` still narrows it to a sweep's axis. The metrics default is
unchanged.
A run submitted without explicit inputs recorded `params = {}`: Port
initials filled the values at node level and were never written back, so an
exported row had a blank `param.*` cell and the runs listing could not tell
a run that took every default from one submitted with those same numbers.
Declared initials are now folded in at submit, explicit values winning, and
the run-level seed still wins over a declared one.
`params_digest` is computed over the resolved values, so it changes shape
once: a run recorded before this does not dedupe against a newer identical
submit, and its stage-cache entries miss once.
Runs: a run can now be deleted (DELETE /runs/{id}, cancelling a live one
first), exported as csv from the screen's own filters, and its flow label
opens the flow. Its "Parameters" panel became "Inputs" and lists every
input the flow declares, marking the ones that took the flow's own value
rather than the run's — the comparison table resolves the same defaults
instead of printing "unset".
Home reads brain, dashboards, health, flows: the mosaic is one full-width
scrolling strip, and the flows list and the flow-activity rollups merged
into a single left-joined table so a flow's state and its numbers sit on
one row.
Charts take a drag to narrow the x window and a double click or tap to
come back out. UplotChart holds the scale and passes resetScales:false
while a window is held, which is what the old comment said made this
impossible.
`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.
`PUT /dashboards/{name}` had no backend test: three cover what it promises —
a first draft for a name nobody has used (200, not the 404 that came off in
b2466bf), an update that keeps everything the edit did not name, and a save
based on a version someone moved past.
The Playwright half is the same property through the editor. Pages and
sections are gone since 9ec38d4, so what the editor never draws — a widget's
md/sm placements and the dashboard-wide settings — is what a save has to
carry, and dragging one widget is what the spec makes it carry it through.
The poll loop remembered what it read rather than what it published, so a
value the node could not publish counted as said: the next poll skipped it,
succeeded, and health went back to ok with the port still dark. Remember it
only after inject returns, and report ok last.
A node reporting itself down is now derived into its flow's issues on read
and counted on the health summary, so the canvas marks it and Home says so.
Being down does not stop the flow, and the issue clears by itself when the
node reports well again. The repeating poll warning is logged once per
outage rather than once per tick.
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.
Three things the first export pass got wrong for a real study.
**Dotted paths.** A node returns a record, not a scalar — the numbers arrive
inside `final_metrics` — so `--metrics final_metrics.train_loss` yielded an
empty column and `--metrics final_metrics` yielded the whole record in one
cell. Both sides of the wide table now take dotted paths, and the defaults
reach the same depth: every number a result carries is a column named by its
path, and inputs are compared leaf by leaf, so two configurations differing in
one field give that field as the axis rather than two blobs that are merely
not equal. Lists stay whole — a curve belongs in the long table.
**`--list`.** Metric names are flow-qualified, so `--name train_loss` matched
nothing and said only that. `fluksio export metrics --list` prints the names
the selection carries, and an empty export made with `--name` points at it.
**A version to compare.** The CLI ships ahead of the engine and a stale one
answered a flat 404 with nothing anywhere in the API to tell how old it was.
The engine reports `version` on `/observability/summary`, `fluksio status`
prints it, and a 404 from export now names both versions — or says "older"
when the field itself predates the engine. Bumped to 0.1.5, which is what
makes the number worth reading.
Also formats `flow/metrics.py`, which had been committed unformatted and was
the last `ruff format --check` failure.
`fluksio export metrics` is the long table — a row per run, metric and step —
and `fluksio export runs` the wide one, a row per run with the inputs that
*vary* across the selection as columns beside its final numbers, status,
duration and the commit and digest of the code it ran. Both carry the run id
on every row, which is the join back to the run page and what makes an
exported file auditable. `Client.export_metrics`/`export_runs` answer the same
rows to a notebook.
The engine streams csv or jsonl from two routes declared above `/{run_id}`;
parquet is a client-side conversion behind the new `fluksio[parquet]` extra,
so nobody pays for pyarrow who does not want dtypes kept. The long export
reads each run through `_series`, so a cached node's curve comes with it, and
`--stride` thins each series rather than the concatenation of all of them.
Two things they needed on the way: `GET /runs` takes `?since=` and `?before=`,
so a long history pages by the last row's own timestamp instead of an offset
that shifts under it; and a read that reaches no engine now says so in half a
second rather than seven, because `runs`, `flavors`, `export` and an unwatched
`status` pass `retries=0`. Everything that submits keeps them.
The newest metric bucket is upserted every flush while its minute runs, and
both rollup endpoints summed it in — so every curve on Home ended on a fall
that was only the clock. The timeseries now stops at the last closed bin, and
the flow rollups' window ends on the last closed minute, so all sixty slices
are whole ones.
Concurrent runs sat at 4 whatever FLOW_MAX_CASCADES said: that setting bounds
cascades, and the run drivers read a hardcoded MAX_PARALLEL nobody could reach.
FLOW_MAX_RUNS is the knob they read now, --max-runs/--max-cascades/--max-workers
are the same three as flags on serve, and the engine says which numbers it
started with — which is the only way to tell that a settings file was read.
Events keep the run they happened in. The payload always carried it and the
persist path dropped it, so reading one run's failures meant filtering the
engine-wide list; a batch run's id reaches those events now too, since a run
has no journaled item to name itself by.
Also: a provisioner's 0 means "no deadline" rather than "cancel on the next
reconcile", and a command that reaches no engine says how to start one.
Raw cpus and gpus are a property of the machines an installation has, so a node
written against a cluster quietly stops meaning anything when the cluster is
replaced. A node says "gpu-small" instead, and what that is stored here —
editable, and read again every time the node is built, so changing the flavor
changes what the next run gets.
Memory joins the schema properly (`ram`, in MB, accepting "2G"), along with
`duration_s` for how long a node is expected to take. That one is recorded and
shown and nothing else yet: a statement for whoever is planning around the node,
not a limit — the limit is still `timeout`.
A flavor and a number for the same thing is refused, compared by value so an
editor writing the whole object back with its defaults still round-trips. A name
nothing stores is refused at the save, which covers the canvas and `fluksio
sync` at once, and deleting one a node still asks for says which node.
Four sizes are seeded on an installation that has none, and never re-seeded:
re-adding one somebody deliberately removed is an argument nobody wins.
A port may now declare `image`, `audio` or `video`. Each is the artifact
reference the engine already had, narrowed by the `media_type` on it, so a
speech recogniser declares what it eats rather than taking any bytes at all and
finding out. Bytes still never travel as a message and nothing on the wire
stops being JSON: a camera publishes one reference per frame, a microphone one
per chunk, and a reference may carry a `meta` dict nothing here interprets.
Streaming media is therefore an ordinary streaming port — with one change to
what that means. An emission used to journal an item with no payload, so
downstream read whatever was current when the item was claimed; a consumer
slower than its producer saw only the newest chunk and the ones between were
lost. That is right for a training curve and wrong for a second of speech, so
an emission now journals a `kind="emission"` item carrying its values, and the
executor hands them to the nodes reading that message instead of writing them
to state again. The value in state stays the latest, which is what everything
else reads, and the wave is filtered by what actually changed rather than
walking everything reachable. No queue serialization change — the existing
`outputs` field carries it.
Continuous media makes the store's missing GC a real problem, so this closes
it: `sweep_artifacts` runs hourly, keeps every digest a `run_artifact` row
records or a live message holds, spares anything written in the last hour, and
stands aside entirely while a run is in flight, since a node may store a
checkpoint long before it returns the reference to it. That also collects the
orphans a deleted flow has always left behind. `ARTIFACT_GC_INTERVAL_S=0` turns
it off.
Around the edges: `GET /artifacts/{digest}` serves the media type the caller
passes and answers ranged requests, so a browser plays a clip rather than
downloading it; `PUT` spools to disk instead of holding the whole body in
memory, as does `save_artifact` given a path; a Media widget draws whatever its
message points at, and a wall panel may fetch the bytes its own tiles are
showing and nothing else; and a connector gets `save_artifact`, for a device
whose readings are bytes.
What this cannot do is live video: a frame every second or two is a glance, and
the honest answer above that is the camera's own stream, which the widget takes
as a URL and the browser plays from source.
A run_artifact row is keyed by the message the bytes left on, and that was
also the only name it could answer with — so an `@run:` reference resolved
through the row was the same bytes under a name its producer never chose.
The row now records the file name beside the message name; rows written
before the column answer as they always did.
The fallback also checks the bytes are still in the store, which the bare
digest spelling beside it has always done. A missing blob now fails at
submit rather than in the middle of the run that wanted it.
Three faults with one root: the stored body of a code-defined node is an
import shim, and nothing that mattered was ever read from the code itself.
- The run stamp could not identify what ran. The shim imports whatever is on
disk when the worker starts, and an uncommitted tree stamps <commit>-dirty
for every run it ever produces. Run.code_digest hashes the repository's .py
files, memoized on their stat state, and it is read again when the run is
actually claimed -- so a sweep queued for hours records the code each of its
runs executed, not the code that was there when it was submitted.
- The stage cache adopted code that was too new. The fingerprint hashed the
shim, which is invariant under any edit to the imported function or anything
it calls into, so a re-run was served from cache and answered without the
outputs the edit added. It now carries the repo digest and the node's
declared ports. Every fingerprint changes once, which invalidates the
existing cache; a canvas flow has no repository and keys as before.
- An interrupted sync looked like a hand-edited canvas. The engine answers a
new-node template for a node with no stored body, and the template carries
no marker, so the drift check read "somebody edited this" and demanded
--force -- for the one state that re-running the sync is the fix for.
NodeSource.missing states the fact, and sync skips those and reuses the
bodies it read instead of asking for each one twice.
A driver script died of one slow answer: httpx.ReadTimeout out of
RunHandle.refresh() with a 30 s read timeout and no retry anywhere, which
cost a sweep 78 of its 84 runs.
- Split the timeout (5 s connect, 120 s read): a wrong URL fails at once,
and a busy engine gets longer than the slowest thing it does on purpose
(a 60 s compile, a 15 s rebuild wait).
- Retry idempotent calls three times on a transport error or 502/503/504.
503 is the engine's own "ask again" — it is what RebuildBusy answers.
- Submit carries a key the engine stores with the run, so a retry after a
timeout returns that run instead of starting a second. A sweep keys every
entry, so a half-created one recreates only what is missing.
- wait() and --follow tolerate five failed polls in a row; a 404 still stops
at once, because that is an answer rather than a gap.
- CLI says "engine not answering" and names the run still on the engine,
instead of printing a traceback.
- runs: clamp the params column to 80 characters; events() takes the
flow/since/until the endpoint already had; RunHandle.failures answers
"what killed this run" from the run's own node rows.
Clearing a node's last error on the engine published nothing, so a second
browser kept the marker until its next snapshot. One event carries the
qualified node; the receiving client drops the marker without refetching.
`POST /runs/flows/{name}` hardcoded `cause: "api"`, so every row in the
history claimed the same origin. The body now carries an optional `cause`,
closed to the values the column knows — the dashboard sends nothing and stays
"api", `fluksio run` says "cli", and the SDK client says "sdk".
The suite runs in a random order and a run left marked running by an
earlier module lands in the same list, so asserting on data[0] failed on
whichever seed put that module first.
A cache hit still replays no emissions — those values were the story of an
execution that is not happening — but the run they were recorded in is now
written on the row (`run_node.cached_from`), and the metrics endpoints read the
series back from there. So a reused run answers `run.metrics("train.loss")`
with the same points the run that trained did, rather than looking like a run
that produced no numbers at all. Pointed at rather than copied: a sweep of 500
reusing one frozen node would otherwise duplicate its curve 500 times.
That needed the cross-flow restore fixed first. The cache key has no flow in
it while the stored outputs are named for the flow that produced them, so
`quick.prepare` getting a hit from `train` wrote `train.dataset` into `quick`'s
state and the next node was called without its argument. One rule now covers
both halves: `requalify` reads a name owned by one flow as the same name in
another, applied to the restored outputs, to the node id behind the pointer,
and to the series names on the way out. Reuse across flows is kept.
Also: `@run:<id>.<output>` and a bare `sha256:` digest resolve on every input,
not only artifacts. Chaining a run's json config into the next one from a shell
meant pasting the whole object inline, and the CLI could not even send the
spelling — `_coerce` died in `json.loads` before the engine saw it. Both
spellings are reserved on every input now, `str` included, and `_from_run`
returns whatever the run's result holds rather than only a reference.
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