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Jakub Piasecki 551c781fb0 feat(flow): support running end-to-end flows without agent (#429)
# Flow E2E

This PR turns flows from replayable tool-call recordings into a
declarative, portable e2e test system that runs headlessly via `argent
flow run <name>` — no LLM in the loop, non-zero exit on failure,
suitable for CI.

Agents can still replay flows via `flow-execute` and get the full output
from each step after it finishes.

## Flow format

Flows are YAML files in `.argent/flows/`, now built from **directives**
interpreted by the runner rather than raw tool calls:

- `launch` — terminate + relaunch the app under test (per-platform app
id map supported); its presence marks a flow as **e2e** (controls its
own start state) vs. a **fragment** (runs against current state,
declares an `executionPrerequisite`, composable via `run:` with
cycle/depth guards).
- `tap`, `type` (focus handshake + optional submit), `scroll-to`
(momentum-free, increments by half the container, `within:` for nested
scrollers), `await`/`assert` (`visible`/`exists`/`hidden`/`text`
conditions), `wait`, `snapshot`, `echo`, and raw `tool:` as escape hatch
— still fully supported, so previously recorded flows keep working
unchanged.
- **Selectors** are `{ text, identifier, role }`; a bare string is a
loose selector resolving identifier-first, then visible text. Any
directive failure hard-stops the flow; later steps report `skip`.

## Execution engine

- Flows store no device id — the runner binds a device at replay
(explicit `--device`/`--platform` or the single booted one).
- Selector resolution runs against **platform-unified UI trees**: iOS
native view hierarchy (full testID coverage, gated on native-devtools
connecting), Android full accessibility hierarchy (full resource-id
coverage), Chromium CDP DOM, and the Vega automation toolkit. A shared
flatten/text-hoisting pass lets `text` assertions read what an
identified container visibly shows. Vega is remote-driven, so touch
directives fail with guidance to use `tv-remote`/`keyboard`.
- Steps wait for the tree to **settle** (two consecutive identical
reads) before acting; `launch` additionally gates on platform
tree-source readiness instead of silently degrading.

## Visual snapshots

`snapshot` diffs a full-resolution screenshot against baselines in
`.argent/flows/__baselines__/<flow>/`, keyed by platform + resolution,
with configurable `maxMismatch` and `--update-baselines`. The status bar
is pinned for the whole run (iOS `simctl status_bar`, Android demo mode)
so clocks/battery don't drive diffs. Baseline/current/diff images are
returned as artifacts on failure (and the written baseline on first
capture/update); a clean pass carries none, keeping reports and agent
context lean.

## Recording

The record-live workflow (`flow-start-recording` → `flow-add-step` →
`flow-finish-recording`) now emits directives automatically: coordinate
taps are rewritten to portable selector `tap:` steps (selector captured
from the pre-tap tree), a leading `restart-app` becomes `launch:`,
`flow-execute` of a sibling fragment becomes `run:`, and device ids are
stripped. The skill instructs the agent to polish the saved YAML
afterwards (fold tap+keyboard into `type:`, swipes-to-reach into
`scroll-to:`, awaits into sugar form).

## Also included

- `argent flow run` / `argent flow list` CLI with per-step report
rendering, artifact materialization, and `--json` output.
- New structured failure codes for flow validation, device resolution,
composition, and devtools readiness.
- Extensive unit test coverage (tree adapters, selector matching,
scrolling, composition, type focus, snapshots, status bar).
2026-07-13 17:15:01 +02:00
filip131311 c01f41cd5f feat(remote): input-side file boundary — flows, screenshot-diff, profiler reports, workspace tools (#319)
## Why

PR #278 fixed the **output** half of the remote file boundary: files a
tool *produces* travel to the client as `ArtifactHandle`s. But seven
tools still break when the tool-server runs on a different machine than
the agent, in one (or both) of two ways:

- **Output-side leftovers** — `native-profiler-analyze` and
`screenshot-diff` still returned raw host paths (and embedded them in
report/summary prose), so the agent can't open them remotely.
- **Input-side gap** — nothing moved a file the *agent* owns onto the
tool-server. Any tool taking a client-local path as a parameter
(`screenshot-diff` baselines, the three flow tools' `project_root`,
`react-profiler-component-source`, `gather-workspace-data`) silently
read/wrote the wrong machine's disk. Flows were fully broken in remote
mode: the YAML landed on the server's disk under the agent's path.

## What

### Output side (apply the existing pattern)
- **native-profiler-analyze** — `reportFile` is now an `ArtifactHandle`
(mirrors `react-profiler-analyze`'s `fileArtifact()`); the inline report
now says *"use the Read tool on the `reportFile` path in this result"*
instead of embedding the server path.
- **screenshot-diff** — `diffPath` / `contextDiffPath` are now
`ArtifactHandle`s; the MCP adapter renders the context-diff image from
materialized bytes (legacy string-path results from older servers still
render co-located). The summary references the result fields instead of
embedding host paths.

### Input side (new, symmetric mechanism)
A declarative **file-input boundary**, mirroring the artifact gate in
the opposite direction:

- A tool declares `fileInputs: [{ target, path: "${param}…", kind }]` on
its `ToolDefinition`; the declaration ships to the client via `GET
/tools`.
- Before sending a call, the client (`@argent/tools-client`, shared by
CLI and MCP) interpolates each template from the args and replaces the
target arg with a wrapper: `{ __argentFileInput, path, size, mtimeMs,
content? }`. File bytes are base64-inlined **only when routed to an
external tool-server** (`argent link` / `ARGENT_TOOLS_URL`) — unlinked
local calls never pay for encoding.
- The server resolves wrappers **before zod validation**, so tools
always execute against a plain local path:
- path matches on the server's own filesystem (existence for dirs,
size+mtime for files) → used **in place**, zero copies — the exact dual
of the artifact materializer's co-located gate;
- otherwise `kind: "file"` content is materialized into a temp file
(with size-integrity check, 32 MB cap);
- `kind: "directory"` (trees that can't ride in a call) → 422 with
actionable remote-mode guidance;
- `kind: "probe"` → never fails; the tool learns host-presence via
`ctx.fileInputs` and adapts.
- The reverse channel: a tool whose output belongs in the **agent's
project** returns a `__argentClientFile` directive (path + content); the
client writes it and rewrites the directive to the path. Writes are
constrained to `**/.argent/flows/<safe-name>.yaml` so a tool-server
can't direct writes anywhere else on the client machine.

### Tool migrations
| Tool | Boundary use |
|---|---|
| `flow-start-recording` | `probe` on `project_root`: present → host
persistence exactly as before; absent (remote) → recording kept in
server memory, YAML returned as a client-write directive |
| `flow-add-step` / `flow-add-echo` / `flow-finish-recording` | follow
the session's persist mode; every mutation returns `savedTo` (path
locally, directive remotely) so the agent-side file is always current |
| `flow-execute` / `flow-read-prerequisite` | `file` input derived from
`${project_root}/.argent/flows/${name}.yaml` into an internal
`flow_file` param — read in place locally, uploaded when remote |
| `screenshot-diff` | `baselinePath`/`currentPath` as `file` inputs;
`outputDir` now **optional** (temp default) and probe-ignored when
absent on the host |
| `react-profiler-component-source`, `gather-workspace-data` |
`directory` gate — unchanged locally; clear error remotely instead of a
silent empty AST index / all-nulls snapshot |

### Version skew
Both halves degrade to today's behavior: an old client sends plain
strings (the resolver passes them through, tools take their legacy
paths), and an old server doesn't advertise `fileInputs` (the new client
never wraps). Wrappers on undeclared params fail the tool's own schema
validation, so nothing can be smuggled through free-form args.

## Tests

**Unit** (all green: registry 68, tool-server 992, tools-client 107,
argent-mcp 66, argent-cli 117):
- `tool-server/test/file-inputs.test.ts` — in-place gate, stat-mismatch
→ upload, truncated-upload rejection, directory gate, probe semantics,
undeclared-target smuggling.
- `argent-tools-client/test/file-inputs.test.ts` — wrapping (stat-only
vs inlined content), multi-param template derivation, explicit-override
respect, directive writes incl. path-validation refusals (relative,
traversal, outside `.argent/flows`, bad charset/extension).
- `tool-server/test/flows/flow-remote-recording.test.ts` — remote
recording stays in memory + returns directives, nothing written on the
host, replay/read from a boundary-resolved `flow_file`.
- Updated existing screenshot-diff / native-profiler tests to the
artifact-handle contract.

**Local / co-located (unlink scenario)** — isolated tool-server + CLI on
an iPhone 17 Pro simulator: full flow
record→finish→read-prerequisite→execute loop (YAML written via the same
path as before, in-place gate hit, no byte copies); screenshot-diff with
and without `outputDir`; wire-level checks of the unlinked client shape
(wrapper without content → in-place read) and the legacy plain-string
shape; missing-file → 422 with a precise message.

**Remote (Lima Linux VM as the agent machine, tool-server on the host
Mac, `--host` bind + bearer auth)** — via both the CLI and the real MCP
stdio server:
- flow recording from the VM: YAML lands **in the VM's project**,
`savedTo` rewritten to the VM path, *no* agent-path directories created
on the host; replay from the VM uploads the YAML and drives the host
simulator.
- `screenshot` materializes into the VM temp cache; `screenshot-diff`
round-trips both directions (VM baseline uploaded, live capture on host,
diff artifacts downloaded back; MCP returns `image,text` content with
the context diff inlined).
- `gather-workspace-data` / `react-profiler-component-source` with
VM-only paths → the new actionable 422.

## Notes
- `native-profiler-analyze` was not exercised live (xctrace export is
unusable on this machine's iOS 26.4 simulators — known, unrelated); its
change is the same one-line `fileArtifact` pattern
`react-profiler-analyze` already ships, covered by unit tests.
- `react-profiler-analyze`'s own `project_root` (AST resolve stage) is
left as-is deliberately: it degrades gracefully (report still renders)
and gating it would break currently-working remote analysis. Tracked as
follow-up alongside nested invocations (`run-sequence`/`flow-execute`
steps bypass the HTTP boundary by design).

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 17:14:04 +02:00