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vercel[bot] 631f1035a0 [docs] Correct the run-limit guidance against the published limits
Review of the guidance added here turned up several claims that disagree
with https://vercel.com/docs/workflows/pricing#workflow-run-limits, the
page this change designates as the single source of truth.

- Steps per run are capped too. The skill said "deep runs are fine — a
  long sequential chain of steps is not itself a problem", but the
  pricing page publishes a separate steps-per-run ceiling, which the v5
  comparison tables already cite. Size all three axes, not two.

- The ceilings are raisable. The skill said "raising the limit is not an
  option"; the pricing table annotates both the event and step limits
  with "reach out if you need a higher limit". The env-var reasoning was
  right, the conclusion was not.

- Split threshold. Six places recommended child workflows at "tens of
  thousands of events". The pricing page recommends them past a few
  thousand, because replay slows down long before the run fails — and
  since the ceiling itself is tens of thousands, the old advice fired
  once the run was already failing. Calibrate to the degradation point.

- step_retrying is optional. "A retry adds a step_retrying and another
  step_started" contradicted the event table eight lines above it, in
  the one section whose purpose is counting events.

Guard test:

- Resolve anchors. Renaming the Vercel World heading previously broke
  four inbound links with the suite still green; two new cases catch it.
  The section is now "Per-run limits", since it covers steps as well.

- Close the literal bypass. The forbidden spellings were derived from
  the Local World's SDK default, which only happens to match the managed
  ceiling; deriving from it meant an SDK bump would silently re-point
  the guard. They are now literal, cover the "25K" form, and span every
  docs tree rather than v5 alone.

- Cover sequential-and-parallel.mdx, which presents the ceiling but was
  missing from the list.

- Replace the "~1000 steps in flight" assertion. That figure was "~100"
  two commits ago and has no published source; the guard now rejects
  unsourced steps-in-flight thresholds instead of pinning one.

Skill snippets now typecheck: processItem and handle were undefined, and
the bundled example was never called from a workflow.

Signed-off-by: Pranay Prakash <1797812+pranaygp@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-Authored-By: Pranay Prakash <1797812+pranaygp@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-13 00:38:34 +00:00
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