Manifest-backed MCP tools, prompts, and resources with surface affordance contracts; agent capability manifest and governance projection; API contract tests and capability route projection; operations-loop and intelligence-funnel telemetry; release-control subsystem documentation, registry, and tooling; licensing and configuration.
Closes the last known gap in the agent substrate. The three
action endpoints (POST /api/actions/plan, /api/actions/{id}/decision,
/api/actions/{id}/execute) previously emitted the platform-wide
APIError shape (stable code under "code", human under "error").
The agent surface uses the inverted shape (stable code under
"error", human under "message"), so adding action capabilities
to the manifest as-is would have forced agents to remember which
envelope each capability uses.
The slice refactors actions.go to emit the agent-stable envelope
across all 42 writeErrorResponse call sites. writeJSONError gains
a writeJSONErrorWithDetails sibling so the 13 calls that pass
field-level reasons (validation failures) preserve that
information under a new optional `details` field. The action
endpoints' JSON shape becomes:
{"error": "<stable_code>", "message": "<human>",
"details"?: {"<field>": "<reason>"}}
Frontend impact: zero. Verified that no frontend code consumes
the three action endpoints; the refactor is API-only.
Three new manifest entries (plan_action, decide_action,
execute_action) under a new "action" category, with their
declared error codes pinned per capability. Internal-failure 5xx
codes (audit-store outages, encode failures) are not declared
per capability; agents branch on 5xx generically.
TestContract_AgentSurfaceErrorCodesMatchManifestDeclarations now
audits actions.go alongside the existing two handler files, with
a documented internal-only allowlist for the 5xx codes.
The TestAgentSubstrate_ActionEndpointsEmitAgentStableEnvelope e2e
test exercises one error path through each endpoint via the actual
HTTP boundary, asserting the agent-stable envelope reaches the
wire and the legacy APIError fields (code, status_code, timestamp)
do NOT — drift back would mean the refactor regressed.
The TestContract_ActionDryRunOnlyExecutionErrorJSONSnapshot pin
is updated to match the new envelope shape; the manifest's
category allowlist gains "action".
api-contracts.md documents the new envelope (with details map),
the action governance loop's place in the substrate, the
ai:execute scope distinction from monitoring:write, and the
"manifest projection has a footnote" trade-off: bringing an
existing endpoint into the agent surface may require migrating
its error envelope, but the substrate keeps a single envelope
contract rather than carrying a translation wrapper layer.
agent-lifecycle.md and storage-recovery.md document the action
surface joining the agent paradigm and its zero-new-persistence
posture respectively. AGENT_SUBSTRATE.md's "what it does not do
yet" no longer lists the action surface; it now reflects the
real outstanding items (consumer feedback, an in-Pulse agent
integrations panel, a distribution path for pulse-mcp).
Closes the certainty loop for agents watching the substrate's push
channel. The action audit's read-after-write probe outcome was
already persisted on the audit record, but agents watching
action.completed only learned "the action ran" — they had to fetch
/api/actions/{id} to know whether the read-back probe confirmed
the intended state. That defeated the substrate's
push-notification guarantee for dispatch certainty.
The new agent-stable AgentResourceActionVerification projection
(ran, success, command, note, ranAt — output stays in the audit
record, deliberately omitted from events to keep payloads small)
is now carried on both:
- the action.completed SSE payload, projected from
record.Result.Verification by the router-side bridge in
wireAIChatDependenciesForService, and
- the resource-context bundle's recentActions surface, via the
same shared projectAgentResourceVerification helper
so the bundle (depth) and the doorbell (push) speak the same
vocabulary. Refused-before-dispatch failures omit verification
(the probe never runs) so agents branch on field presence to
distinguish "no probe attempted" from "probe ran with empty
result". Three contract pins lock the symmetry: payload field
present, router bridge populates it, bundle parallels.
The capabilities manifest's subscribe_events description now
mentions the verification block so external agents discover the
field through the same path they already use to learn the rest
of the agent surface.
The substrate had a per-resource bundle but no fleet view, so
"where do I focus?" forced agents to walk every resource id and
bundle each — O(N) round trips that scale with fleet size. The
fleet endpoint returns a thin per-resource rollup in a single
read: identity, operator-intent flags (intentionallyOffline,
neverAutoRemediate, maintenanceWindowActive), per-severity
finding counts, and pending-approval count.
Same auth scope and same provider wiring as the per-resource
bundle — operator-state via the canonical unified store, findings
via AgentFindingsProvider, approvals via AgentApprovalsProvider —
so the fleet sweep is the per-resource bundle's wiring multiplied
by N with no new dependencies. Audit reads are deliberately
omitted from the rollup; agents that want depth on a flagged
resource follow up via /api/agent/resource-context/{id}.
The capabilities manifest declares get_fleet_context with
AgentFleetContext as the response shape so external agents
discover the triage entry point through the same path they
already use to learn the rest of the agent surface.
The substrate's "everything an agent needs in one read" guarantee
covered identity, operator state, findings, and recent actions but
forced a separate /api/approvals call for pending governance
state. AgentResourceContext now carries pendingApprovals as a
lightweight AgentResourceApprovalSummary projection — same
vocabulary as approval.pending SSE events, so the doorbell and
the bundle agree on shape. AgentApprovalsProvider is the parallel
seam to AgentFindingsProvider; the router wires a closure that
resolves approval.GetStore() at request time, scopes via
BelongsToOrg, and filters by CanonicalResourceID so cross-tenant
or cross-resource pending requests don't leak. Empty arrays
preserve the iteration-safe contract the existing sections
already follow.
The "+N" overflow indicator on TagBadges was styled with
`cursor-pointer`, which signals a clickable affordance — but the
element only listens for mouseenter/mouseleave to show a tooltip and
has no click handler. Switch to `cursor-help` so the cursor matches
the actual interaction (hover for more info), avoiding a phantom
click expectation.
Tail of the operator-local-UI redaction sweep (abdde303a, a17f879a1).
resolveKubernetesContextForResource gated on requiresGovernedResourceDisplay
to choose between getPreferredInfrastructureDisplayName and a manual
displayName-or-name fallback. Both branches produce a raw infra name
once we trust that displayName never carries a redacted summary in
local rendering, so the gate is dead complexity. Collapse to a single
call and drop the now-unused requiresGovernedResourceDisplay import.
problemResourcePresentation.getProblemResourceDisplayName has no
production consumers today, but it still routes through the governed
helper. Reclassify it now (same as every other operator-local helper)
so the rule is consistent across the codebase if the surface ever gets
adopted.
Third slice on the agent-paradigm pivot, closing the substrate
triangle (discovery + bundled reads + push). Agents subscribe once
to a long-lived SSE connection and receive real-time events instead
of polling: finding.created when a new finding is raised, heartbeat
every 15 seconds for keepalive. Each event carries a monotonic ID so
agents can dedupe and reason about ordering across reconnects.
The broadcaster fan-outs to multiple subscribers and drops events
for slow consumers rather than blocking the publish path —
publishers cannot stall on consumer slowness. The findings-runtime
hook in router.go publishes finding.created when the finding is new
AND not auto-dismissed by operator-state suppression (operator
already said to stay quiet about that resource); patrol-cycle
re-detection of existing findings doesn't fire the event.
Capabilities manifest declares the stream under subscribe_events so
external agents discover it through the same channel as the REST
surface. SSE chosen over WebSocket because it's simpler, works
through every HTTP proxy without special-casing, and matches the
existing deploy_handlers pattern; agents that need bidirectional
comms call REST endpoints in parallel.
Tests pin the broadcaster's pub/sub semantics (fan-out, unsubscribe,
slow-consumer drop, monotonic IDs), the SSE handler's stream
contract (text/event-stream, no-cache, X-Accel-Buffering=no), and
the connected/published-event delivery via httptest.NewServer. A
contract test pins the publish-gate semantics so operator-state
suppression and stream notifications stay aligned.
Second slice on the agent-paradigm pivot: the discovery document any
external agent (Claude Code, custom integrations, future MCP servers)
needs to learn what Pulse exposes. Each capability declares its
agent-stable name (snake_case), description, category, REST surface,
required scope, response shape, and the closed set of stable error
codes the response may carry. Agents branch on the codes
(operator_state_invalid, resource_not_found, etc.) rather than
parsing human messages.
The manifest is hand-authored, not auto-generated, because the
contract decisions (what's agent-stable, which categories, which
error codes) are product-shaping and must not drift behind code
changes. Adding a capability is a deliberate "this is part of the
agent surface" commitment.
v1 surface includes: get_resource_context (substrate from slice 39),
get/set/clear_operator_state (slice 30), and the finding-lifecycle
actions (acknowledge, snooze, dismiss, resolve). Action-broker
capabilities are not in v1 because they go through approval flow,
not direct dispatch — those need their own contract design.
Tests pin: stable shape, version contract, unique-and-snake_case
names, every capability has method/path/scope, closed category set,
required error codes for the most consequential capabilities. The
manifest is unauthenticated and cacheable (5min); the underlying
capabilities keep their own auth scopes.
