Per the Microcopy rule: size and duration errors, the flavor errors, run
parameter errors, the Resources field descriptions, 401/409/400 details,
secret errors, the websocket node description and its on_connect setting.
The generated client follows.
POST/GET /flows/{name}/nodes/{id}/train submit wren_train on the node's
targets, examples and tests and read its latest run (run.for_node,
cause "train"); "Use this model" writes `model` into the draft.
- `stt`: one realtime transcription session per utterance on the speech
server's url, opened at `listening` true or the first chunk, committed at
false; a whole clip goes to /v1/audio/transcriptions. Returns at once and
publishes `partial` and `text` when the server answers.
- `tts`: one /v1/audio/speech call per sentence, cached by voice and text in
node state; a reference is marked `append` while earlier ones still play.
- wren: `reply` says what was applied, `unhandled` carries the prompt when
nothing was. The install hint names the git pin (PyPI's `wren` is another
package).
- ai/client: transcribe, speak and transcribe_stream beside stream_completion.
- A device socket publishes scalar `in` ports as {"type": "publish"} text,
in order with its binary frames.
- Pipeline.publish walks only what its values reach: a node downstream of a
consumer that published nothing no longer runs again (wren re-acted on
every microphone chunk).
- `service` node type: command, port, worker label, health path, env and
weights (an artifact digest the worker fetches as {weights}). Its flow
starts it; it restarts with backoff, reads degraded while starting or
without a worker and down after three starts that never got healthy, and
publishes http://<worker>:<port> once /health answers 200, "" when it ends.
- Worker protocol 3: a `serve` call, every call in its own process group,
killed when the engine ends the call, the socket drops or the agent gets
SIGTERM. `--service-host` overrides the address the engine sees.
- Services and compiles take no `--parallel` slot, and a flow's detail is
built off the event loop, so a save no longer stalls the engine.
C4: a device's `viewers` (superusers by default, or members) covers the
image and video messages its ports publish. Anyone else gets none of their
values on the socket, in the catalogue or a flow's state, 403 for their
history, for the frames they hold (the last 8 included) and for TURN
credentials, no bytes when asking for them, and `bye: forbidden` for a live
view. A device credential stays bounded by its dashboards. The device page
sets it in its Camera section, and a tile the viewer may not see says
"No access to this camera" and asks the camera for nothing.
C3:
- A volatile upload is held to MAX_FRAME_BYTES (4 MiB, 413 above it, read
without extra copies), and so is a frame on a device's socket.
- A frame the engine holds in memory is written to the ring directory
before a local worker is handed it, so load_artifact finds it.
- A socket the bus dropped events for catches up with a snapshot, demand
included, and a device's credential is checked again per frame, cached by
the flow store revision and its nonce, so a lost event never keeps an
unpaired device's frames coming.
- A report is at most 64 KB once its named config_schemas are put in place.
- A device away for 60 s has its true bool messages set to false.
- Refused frames are logged by fixed keys, a frame is named after its
message, `fluksio serve` waits 5 s for open connections, a tile with a
stream URL creates no demand, the 8-name cap keeps the newest names.
- Every container's log rotates (json-file, 3 x 10 MB).
A device reporting a `live` port streams its camera to the browser's own
RTCPeerConnection. The flows socket carries the signalling as text, so it
crosses the portal: `live` messages on a person's socket, `signal` on a
device's (start, sdp, candidate, bye, busy). The server routes by session,
holds a device to two viewers, ends a session when either socket closes or
no answer comes within 10 s, and gives each socket an outbox of its own
that ends a session rather than drop a message. TURN credentials are
minted per session in coturn's REST scheme (STUN_URLS, TURN_URLS,
TURN_SECRET), the viewer's with the device's offer; GET /devices/{id}/ice
hands them out too. The tunnel keeps a stream's early frames instead of
dropping them past eight and forgets them when the stream or link goes.
A media tile on a device's camera, and the Devices tab's preview, play
live when tapped, pause frames meanwhile, and fall back to frames with a
short note on busy, failure or no picture within 10 s. coturn is an
optional compose service behind the `turn` profile.
- Volatile frames are held in memory with a byte-bounded queue instead of
the /dev/shm ring scanned on every put; workers keep writing to the
directory, which is trimmed on a timer. A volatile upload no longer spools
to disk. ARTIFACT_VOLATILE_BYTES=0 turns the ring off.
- A device sends camera frames as binary messages on its socket, held and
published in one step and credited to its device node; refused frames are
logged and dropped. Its snapshot carries demand and the uplink (binary, or
http through the portal).
- One demand registry for every socket's wanted media, the tunnel's
included, plus what running flows read, mapped onto on-demand ports and
published as device_demand; at most 8 media names per socket.
- Per-message deflate off in serve and dev; a device may fetch the last 8
digests of a message; published dashboards cached per store revision; a
revoked device socket is closed with 1008.
- Media tiles want bytes only while on screen; the Devices tab previews a
wired camera; the device node warns when a flow reads an on-demand port.
- A device credential that cannot be checked now (device store not running,
nonces unreadable) raises DeviceUnavailable: 503 over HTTP, and the
/flows/ws handshake and the tunnel stream accept and close with 1013.
1008 (a 403 before accepting) stays for a revoked or invalid one
- Device files are written through a temporary file, so a read mid-save no
longer looks like a deleted device
- The first report turns Touch friendly on only for a device paired since
pairings are noted (DeviceState.paired_at), so devices paired before keep
the switch they were given
- NodeDef reads `device`/`device_policy` from older clients as the worker
label, for a release
- Tests: transient vs revoked socket, the touch default, the old worker keys,
and a restart with a device node and a node_health rule sending no push
- NodeDef `device`/`device_policy` become `worker`/`worker_policy`, the
issue `ignored_device` becomes `ignored_worker`, and the SDK's `@node`
takes `worker=` and `worker_policy=`
- FlowStore._migrate renames the keys in published and draft documents
once, bumping their version; a queued run's `needs` reads the old key
- placement passes the label as `label`, client regenerated
- docs: worker placement wording, MCP issuer without DOMAIN, device rows in
the CLI data directory and the API table, device links in compose comments
- flow/nodes/device.py: `device` node with params `device` and `config`;
provides the device's `in` ports, requires its `out` ports without
waking anything, never run (Node.passive), down "Offline" from presence
- DeviceDef.io and DevicePort go; GET /devices/{id} computes `io` and
`bindings` from the device nodes of published flows, in a fixed order,
cached by FlowStore.revision; the credential's scope comes from them
- issues `unknown_device` and `device_port` (wired twice; against a report
the wrong direction or dtype, or unlisted as advisory), rechecked when a
device is created or deleted; ValidationIssue.advisory is a field
- a device publishing on a bound port is credited to its node by the
server; the panel endpoint kind is gone from `_endpoints` and the canvas
- a rebuild that moves a device's bindings sends `dashboard_changed` with
an empty name, which the firmware refetches on
- startup moves each device's `io` rows into device nodes in the flows
declaring their messages, draft and published, one commit; rows no
flow declares are logged and left out
- frontend: Device node settings (device, Publishes, Follows, a port
picker from a report), palette shortcuts per reported port, DeviceDetail
lists bindings with "Use in flow" in place of the I/O editor
- docs: devices, flow editor, node types, issues, API
- flow/devices.py: DeviceDef in FLOWS_DIR/_devices/<id>.json, committed under
the flow store's write lock, 409 on a stale version; nonces in DEVICES_FILE
outside git; in-memory presence announced as device_status
- api/routes/devices.py: CRUD, pairing with an optional {name, board,
firmware}, a pending list adopted without a code from the LAN only, unpair;
/panels/pair, /panels/pair/{code} and GET /panels/{id} kept as aliases,
PUT /panels/ gone
- _device_may replaces _panel_may, JWT claims unchanged
- panels.json moves into devices once at startup, then .migrated
- MCP list_devices, get_device; search category device
- Devices tab (list, detail with presence, pairing, ordered dashboards,
touch, I/O), PanelsDialog removed, serialised optimistic saves
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.
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.
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.
`asyncio.wait(..., FIRST_COMPLETED)` returns with at least one of the two
tasks done, so `receiver` missing from `done` already means `sender` is in
it. The `elif sender not in done: continue` could never fire.
`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.
Home's "recently modified" order was a proxy — drafts first, then the
version counter, then the name. Both summaries now carry `updated_at`,
read as the mtime of the working copy: every write in the store commits
immediately, so a file's mtime is its commit time, and `git log -1 --
<path>` costs ~990ms across this instance's 15 documents (it walks the
history back to the last commit touching each one, so it is slowest for
the stalest) against ~1.8ms for the stats. No cache needed.
`DashboardSummary` also carries `footprint`: each widget as its type plus
the placement a panel resolves, which is the whole of what the mosaic
draws. That drops the document fetch per tile and with it the cap of
eight, past which tiles showed a name and nothing else. Verified against
this instance's 8 dashboards: the blocks are identical to what the old
client-side derivation produced.
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 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.
The log tee wrote through to the real stream unguarded, and the worker
pool tees a returned call's logs there after reading its result and
before handing it back — so a dead stdout, which `fluksio serve` makes
possible by running the engine as a child of the dashboard holding that
pipe, failed the node with its outputs already in hand. The capture half
runs first, so swallowing the write loses nothing.
Also: `flow_events` catches the RuntimeError a peer leaving mid-send
raises, which is a disconnect by another route, and the remote agent no
longer raises out of the task when its subprocess died before it could
be written to — the read below reports that and ends the call.
A three-node cascade publishes 13-16 events and each one crossed to the
event loop on its own. They are one `call_soon_threadsafe` now — whatever
was published between two turns of the loop goes over together — and every
subscriber still receives every event, oldest still dropped first when one
falls behind.
The socket end of the same path:
- **any frame from the client ended its stream.** `receive_text` was
awaited once, outside the loop, so a keepalive — or anything else a
client decided to say — satisfied it and was read as the client going
away. It is recreated per iteration; only a disconnect ends the stream.
- events go out in one frame per wave (`{"type": "batch", "events": [...]}`,
capped at 64), serialised once with orjson rather than per client with
the stdlib's `json.dumps` through `send_json`. The client unpacks a batch
and still understands single frames, so an older engine behind a newer
bundle keeps working.
- authenticating and building the snapshot happen on a thread. Both were on
the event loop: one is a database round trip, the other reads the whole
of state, per connect and again per `dashboard_changed` per panel.
`Pipeline.values()` — what that snapshot is — no longer SCANs the whole
Redis namespace. It scanned five bookkeeping keys for every message to find
the messages; `RedisState` keeps a set of the names beside them and answers
from it. Maintained wherever a message is written, so a seeded value or a
deleted flow keeps it exact.
On the client, while in the same file:
- a `node_health` event invalidates the flow's detail. The canvas draws
health from the server-derived `issues`, so a node going down or
recovering only showed on mount, navigation or a rebuild. The store had
a health map of its own that nothing ever read; it and `useNodeHealth`
are gone rather than wired up, since the server's view is the one the
canvas already uses.
- a reconnect invalidates the five key families this socket feeds instead
of the entire cache, and the backoff is jittered. The usual reason a
socket dropped is the engine restarting, so every tab and every wall
panel refetched everything, together, at the moment it was least able to
answer.
- a frame that will not parse costs the frame, not the connection. It was
the one unguarded `JSON.parse` in the app; an exception there escaped to
`window.onerror` and left whatever it had already applied behind.
A bool was excluded from the history as "not a measurement", so a true/false
port had no curve in the node panel and none on an edge — only the word. It is
recorded as 0/1 now and drawn as steps, since a bezier through two states
slopes through readings that never happened. The axis is pinned to 0..1, so a
flag that was never on sits at the floor rather than mid-box.
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.
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.
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.
Publishing or deleting a flow now splices that one flow into the running
graph instead of reconnecting every node in the installation, saving a
shared node's source rebuilds the flows using it, and installing modules
rebuilds only the flows holding a node that would not load.
Renaming stays on the full rebuild — it rewrites message references in
every other flow's document — and so does startup, which has no graph to
splice into.
A node's timeout now covers its body only: the pool loads the source into the
worker it picked, off the node's budget, so imports that outlast the timeout no
longer make a node impossible to run. Draft checks compile without caching, so
saving does not evict what a busy node is serving calls from. Requests carry an
id the worker echoes and the pool checks, a reply is encoded once, and the
remote-exception cache is bounded.
DELETE /flows/{name} answers 409 while the flow has a running or queued run,
which is what was letting run_node rows outlive their run.
- A node's height follows the ports on its busiest side. It is a function of
the document, so `layoutGraph` reserves exactly what is drawn and nothing
measured is fed back into the layout.
- The three status controls now sit in slots that are there whether the
control is or not. A node running many times a second mounted and unmounted
the stop button on every execution, resizing the card each time.
- A port bound to another flow's message is drawn as a label, naming the node
at the far end and its type. Only the opposite direction was answered
before. The scan behind both is now cached on the store's commit counter
rather than reading every flow per request.
A wheel whose top-level module is `app` collides with anything else in a
user's venv, so the package that is about to be published takes the name
it is published under. Only the Python package moves; the repo, the
Docker WORKDIR and the compose project keep theirs.
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Melvin Strobl