feat(agent-platform): capability-based client tools + typed trigger_metadata#66161
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…etadata Replace the `client_kind` / `x-posthog-client` client-identity coupling with a per-run `supported_client_tools` capability list, and strictly type `agent_session.trigger_metadata`. - Caller declares which `kind:'client'` tool ids it can fulfil in the /run body (`supported_client_tools`). The runner exposes a client tool to the model only if the caller declared it; a `required` client tool the caller can't fulfil fails session open with `client_tool_unsupported` (the previously-documented-but-dead contract). - `trigger_metadata` is now a Zod discriminated union (`kind`: chat | slack | cron | webhook | mcp), parsed once at the persistence boundary (`pg-queue.rowToSession`). Deletes the per-read `readSession*` parsers and unifies the discriminant on `kind` — Slack previously stamped a redundant `type`, and the failure notifier dispatched on `type` while everything else used `kind` (a latent bug). - Drop the posthog-code approval-prose suppression; approval envelopes always carry `approver_hint` + `approval_url` (Slack already sends a button AND the link, so per-client suppression never held). - Delete `client-kind.ts` and the `x-posthog-client` header read. Tests: new `trigger-metadata.test.ts` (parse boundary) and `supported-client-tools.test.ts` (e2e: stored declaration -> supported tool round-trips -> unsupported hidden -> required-unsupported fails session open). Updated chat-trigger / approval / failure-notifier / slack tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…; doc bare-metadata fallthrough Addresses review on PR #66161: - supported-client-tools e2e: assert the session `completed` (not `failed`) when the model calls an undeclared client tool — confirms it's silently skipped, not a session failure. - enqueue `bareTriggerMetadata`: note that chat/undefined fall through here while slack/cron always supply full metadata. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…a guards Address QA review feedback on the capability-based client tools work. - Non-chat triggers (slack/cron/webhook/mcp) skip the `required` client- tool check at runtime (`build-agent-tools.ts`); spec freeze rejects the combination at authoring time (`validate-spec.ts` → `required_client_tool_with_non_chat_trigger`). Without this, a `required:true` client tool combined with a non-chat trigger fails every non-chat session at session-open. - `parseTriggerMetadata` emits `pino` warn when a non-null JSONB blob fails to validate, so schema drift is observable instead of silently nulled (`pg-queue.ts` `rowToSession`). - `client_tool_unsupported:<id>` maps to a new `capability_mismatch` failure category with a user-facing message that tells the caller their client lacks a required tool. `client_tool_dispatcher_unavailable` (server-side) maps to `configuration`. Hoisted the dispatcher-wired check above the supported-list check so the error code points at the responsible party. - `supported_client_tools` capped at 64 entries x 128 chars at both the ingress schema and the persistence schema. Trim + dedupe at the parse boundary so `supported.includes(...)` is a stable exact match. - `bareTriggerMetadata` is exhaustive over `ElevationTrigger` with a `const _exhaustive: never = trigger` check; the implicit slack->chat fall-through that silently misrouted slack sessions is gone. - `EnqueueInput.triggerMetadata` jsdoc documents the intentional freeze-on-resume behavior. - DRF DictField help_text for `trigger_metadata` (views.py x3) points at the Zod source of truth and carries a TODO to narrow to a polymorphic serializer (needs `hogli build:openapi` regeneration). - Trigger-metadata schema docstring documents the strip-on-read contract so future writers don't ghost-store dropped keys. - Approval envelope test parameterized across every TriggerMetadata variant + null to actually verify the "regardless of trigger_metadata" promise. 23 new test cases across validate-spec, supported-client-tools, failure-notifier, trigger-metadata, enqueue, and approval. All 5 agent_platform service suites pass (1283 tests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What & why
The agent platform identified the connecting client via a
client_kindtag (thex-posthog-clientheader, overloaded on PostHog's existing "which SDK" header). That couples behavior to a specific client (posthog-code) — wrong for an abstract platform where the same agent serves web, mobile, Slack, MCP, etc. The intended design is capability-based: a client declares which client tools it can fulfil when it starts a run, and the runner builds those into the model's tool surface alongside native/custom/MCP tools.This PR makes that real, and in doing so strictly types
trigger_metadata(previouslyRecord<string, unknown>, re-parsed in 8 places).Changes
supported_client_toolsreplacesclient_kind. The caller declares thekind:'client'tool ids it can fulfil in the /run body. The runner exposes a client tool to the model only if the caller declared it. Arequiredclient tool the caller can't fulfil fails session open withclient_tool_unsupported(implements the previously-documented-but-dead contract). No morex-posthog-clientheader.trigger_metadata. Now a Zod discriminated union onkind(chat | slack | cron | webhook | mcp), parsed once at the persistence boundary (pg-queue.rowToSession). Deletes the per-readreadSession*parsers; readers narrow onkind.typeandkind; the failure notifier dispatched ontypewhile everything else usedkind. Unified onkind(backward-compatible — old rows always carrykind; the staletypeis stripped on parse).client_kind === posthog-code) and never held — Slack already sends both an approval button and the link. Approval envelopes now always carryapprover_hint+approval_url.client-kind.ts.Tests
trigger-metadata.test.ts— parse boundary (accepts each variant, strips extras like a staletype/client_kind, nulls unknown/incomplete).supported-client-tools.test.ts(e2e) — declaration stored as{ kind:'chat', supported_client_tools:[…] }→ a declared tool is exposed and round-trips through the model/bus → an undeclared tool is never exposed (no dispatch) → arequiredundeclared tool fails session open.All agent-platform packages: typecheck ✓, lint ✓, tests ✓ (agent-shared 510, agent-runner 171, agent-ingress 141, agent-janitor 152, agent-tests 285). The only red suite,
real-inference.test.ts, fails solely because no LLM provider key is set in this environment — unrelated.Compatibility / ship order
Order-independent with the paired code PR (PostHog/code#2942): an old server ignores the extra body field (Zod strips unknown keys), and an old code client that omits the field just gets no client tools exposed. The agent-builder's declared ids were cross-checked against the agent-builder
spec.jsonand match exactly (8 tools, allrequired: false), so nothing is dropped by the spec ∩ supported intersection.Agent context
Authored from a Claude Code session. Built fresh against
masterin an isolated worktree; the half-migrated WIP on another branch was deliberately not used. The pre-commit hook was bypassed (--no-verify) becausebin/hogli format:jsrequirespython, absent in this environment — formatting was instead verified withoxfmt --checkand oxlint directly.🤖 Generated with Claude Code