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Melvin StroblandClaude Fable 5 7344eac262 Start, stop and pause flows, and show what their nodes print
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 23:35:08 +02:00

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# Roadmap
Component-level breakdown. The milestone-level master (M1M5, with the vision
decisions behind it) is `docs/private/roadmap.md` in the docs submodule.
Implementation strategy and record of existing/planned features. Completed items are
terse checklists — the requirement detail lives in `docs/private/vision.md` (goals,
requirements, decisions) and `docs/architecture/structure.canvas` (the four-way component split).
Remaining tasks keep enough scope to be actionable.
Legend: `[x]` done · `[ ]` planned · sub-lists split done vs. remaining for partial items.
Within each phase, remaining `[ ]` items are listed in rough priority order: making the
existing flow engine reachable and persistent precedes new feature breadth.
## Phase 0 — Workspace and platform
- [x] Root orchestrator repo with `app`, `index` and `docs` as submodules
- [x] `make init` bootstrap: secrets generation, per-stack `.env` propagation, shared
`proxy` docker network
- [x] Layered compose (`compose.yml``compose.dev.yml``compose.local.yml`) for both
stacks, one Traefik serving `${DOMAIN}`, `app.${DOMAIN}`, `api.${DOMAIN}`
- [x] Design token contract: root `DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md`, per-repo `DESIGN.md`,
byte-identical token blocks verified by `make design-check`
- [ ] CI on Codeberg (Forgejo Actions): pre-commit, backend tests, Playwright, compose smoke
## Phase 1 — Backend: management
Python, optimised for development speed. Owns the graph structure, persistence and the
external interfaces. See `docs/architecture/structure.canvas`*Backend Management*.
- [x] FastAPI + SQLModel + Alembic + Postgres base with JWT auth and user management
- [x] Flow engine in `backend/app/flow/`: `Node` / `Pipeline` / `StateBackend`
(memory + Redis) / `FlowController`
- [x] Node types: HTTP, MQTT, InfluxDB, Delay, MLP
- [x] `app/flow` is an importable package with absolute `app.flow.*` imports
- [x] Typed, serializable node I/O: every port declares a `DType`, messages are
JSON on the wire and in Redis, no pickle anywhere. Binary codecs are still
open — `DType.JSON` carries everything non-scalar for now
- [x] Message namespacing per flow (`flow.message`), with several producers per
message resolving to real fan-in
- [x] Secrets/credentials store for node integrations managed via the API/UI
(encrypted at rest, referenced from node params as `{"$secret": "name"}`);
`.env` bootstrap-only
- [ ] Connector node contract: declared I/O schemas, UI-driven credential and
setup flow, polling/discretization behaviour, health reporting, packaging
metadata — plus an authoring guide and skeleton repo. Device-specific
nodes are written against it as external plugins; the registry follows
later
- [x] Flow persistence: `flow.json` plus node sources per flow, replacing the
watch-directory prototype
- [x] REST + WebSocket API over the engine: create/read/update flows, edit node
source, run, and stream values, node status and execution events
- [x] Dependency-loop detection and graph validation surfaced as API errors
- [x] Per-flow start/stop, stored in a `runtime.json` beside the flow so it
survives a restart and stays out of the autosaved document; pause/resume
holds a flow's nodes while its values keep arriving
- [x] Node log streaming: what a node prints, and the traceback of one that
fails, reach the editor as `node_log` events
- [ ] MQTT broker / InfluxDB compose services for local development
- [x] Git-based versioning of the flow store (one commit per saved change)
- [x] Draft/publish split: edits autosave to `flow.draft.json` / `nodes.draft/`,
the engine runs only the published files, and publishing promotes the
draft. Saves carry the version they were based on, so a second client
editing the same flow is refused rather than overwritten
- [ ] Import/export of a flow as human-readable code plus a JSON structure
- [ ] Per-input/-output discretization interval setting
- [ ] Alert / notification handler
- [ ] Test nodes: a small node dragged onto an existing one, smoke or unit, blocking
deployment on failure
- [ ] User management scoped per flow and per data set
- [ ] LLM interface for natural-language flow authoring
## Phase 2 — Backend: processing
Rust, optimised for throughput. Executes nodes and distributes them across workers. See
`docs/architecture/structure.canvas`*Backend Processing*.
- [ ] Parallel invocation of stateless nodes over independent input sets, to
keep I/O delay minimal (stateful I/O nodes keep serializing via the
`synchronous` mechanism)
- [ ] Extract node execution from the Python prototype into a Rust engine
- [ ] Worker distribution and load balancing across capable devices
- [ ] Input/output validation at the node boundary
- [ ] Data aggregation and discretization
## Phase 3 — Frontend: admin view
React + Vite, primarily desktop but usable on mobile. See `docs/architecture/structure.canvas`
*Frontend Admin View*.
- [x] Dashboard SPA shell: TanStack Router, floating frosted sidebar, auth flows,
generated OpenAPI SDK
- [x] Node canvas (`@xyflow/react`) showing nodes and their connections, which
are derived from message names rather than stored
- [x] Tab-style view of atomic flows, with a floating dock
- [x] Embedded code editor (Monaco) for node source
- [x] Live values on the edges, with the last payload and its time on click
- [x] Validation shown on the node it belongs to, and summarised in the dock
- [x] Publish control and draft markers in the flow bar, discard in the flow
panel, and a conflict dialog when another client got there first
- [x] Dashboard showing which flows run, which are stopped and which have
errors, with a switch per flow
- [x] Logs panel in the canvas dock, pause/resume beside Run, and replaying an
edge's last message from the inspector
- [ ] Device assignment per node, selectable from compatible devices
- [ ] Test-node affordance on the canvas
- [ ] User management screens
- [x] Mobile-friendly canvas: touch connect, full-screen node panel
- [ ] Installable as a PWA (`vite-plugin-pwa`)
## Phase 4 — Frontend: dashboard view
Shares components with the admin view. See `docs/architecture/structure.canvas`
*Frontend Dashboard View*.
- [ ] User-defined dashboard layout with edit and view modes
- [ ] Responsive layout targeting wall panels, mobile and desktop
- [ ] Per-device view
## Phase 5 — Website and docs
- [x] Marketing site with a live node-graph demo, shared design system
- [ ] Published documentation site fed from the `docs` submodule
- [ ] Umami analytics configured (the site still ships the placeholder script)