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What this PR does

Closes #934 by surfacing the partial layout the workflow compiler already computes when
validation fails. The success path is unchanged; the failure path also emits a
partialLayout object containing the column grid, the node frames the compiler placed,
the rejected router candidates for each exhausted relationship, and the cached route points
of any relationship that routed before a later check failed.

It also carries the five-project authoring comparison the maintainer asked for, and the
two real defects that comparison surfaced.

The three review gaps are addressed

1. Layout-feedback exhaustion. The non-diagnostic catch calls buildPartialLayoutPayload
before feedbackFailure creates the solver-budget diagnostic, so a diagnostic-code filter
could return null and omit the partial layout entirely. The filter no longer gates the
payload: the measured column grid, node frames and routed edge geometry are reported
whenever the compiler has them.

2. Parallel edges without ids. Matching a diagnostic on from/to alone can select the
first edge between two nodes instead of the edge that actually failed, because an edge
without an authored id carries a null subject.edge. The failing relationship is now recorded
by exact object identity during compilation, and every failing relationship is reported
with its own candidate evidence instead of only the first match.

3. Conflicts detected after routing. An edge can already hold valid cached route points
when a later pin, label or boundary check fails. The failing-edge branch no longer skips that
cache entry, so the routed geometry survives alongside the candidate families.

The diagnostic subject shape is unchanged — no field was added, and the existing contract
tests that pin the exact subject continue to pass. Edge identity is tracked out of band
instead.

Two defects the comparison surfaced, both fixed here

The payload never reached the finalize receipt. finalize is the command the Skill
tells authors to run, and its failure receipt was byte-for-byte the same on both CLIs. The
payload was reachable only through validate --layout-json, which SKILL.md tells agents to
reach for only "when compact evidence lacks needed measurements". The delivery path now
carries it: renderer → structured renderer failure payload → validate/deliver failure receipt
→ finalize receipt and compact summary.

A relationship that had routed successfully still carried another relationship's rejected
candidates.
registerRouted now clears the capture, so a later failure on a different
relationship no longer reports another edge's attempts as its own.

The authoring comparison

Five real repositories: express, flask, kubernetes, vite, ansible. Each slice ran its own
repair chain against the base CLI and the candidate CLI from the same task prompt and the same
pinned source checkout, recorded every command with exit status and elapsed time, kept the
unsuccessful runs, replayed the candidate side's final JSON against both CLIs, and captured
before/after screenshots at 1440×900 and 2048×1320 in light and dark with the project's own
visual-check.

  • base: main @ 25cf3708
  • candidate: dev @ b71d1b3e + this branch

Result: the change reduced rework by zero rounds

Project base repairs base finalize base delivered base CLI s candidate repairs candidate finalize candidate delivered candidate CLI s
express 1 2 yes 2.716 1 2 yes 2.581
flask 2 3 yes 4.696 2 3 yes 4.370
kubernetes 3 4 yes 8.076 3 4 yes 8.158
vite 1 2 yes 4.226 1 2 yes 6.517
ansible 2 3 yes 6.366 2 3 yes 5.403
total (5) 9 5/5 26.08 9 5/5 27.03

Author-side wall clock totals: 1841 s (base) → 1169 s (candidate). That is a learning and
ordering artifact
, not a tool effect — the candidate chains ran second in the same session,
after the source and the draft were already understood. CLI execution, the only timing that
isolates the tool, is a wash.

The payload is real and readable — but largely redundant

Where it appeared it was rich. From the flask slice, the edge that failed:

{ "id": "unhandled-exception", "from": "dispatch", "to": "user-exception",
  "attemptedCandidateFamilies": [
    { "family": "facing-straight",   "points": [[794.4, 217], [724.4, 615]] },
    { "family": "lane-gap-corridor", "points": [[794.4, 217], [794.4, 201], [794.4, 414], [708.4, 414], [708.4, 615], [724.4, 615]] },
    ... 15 more families ...
  ],
  "points": [[794.4, 217], [794.4, 201], [199, 201], [199, 657], [794.4, 657], [794.4, 641]] }

Read against the node frames, view-call occupies x 732.4 … 856.4 directly under
dispatch (x 724.4 … 864.4), so every straight and column-gap candidate for
dispatch → user-exception crosses it, and the router's fallback was a 511 px leftward
detour along y = 201
— the same corridor wsgi-call runs in. That is precisely the merge
the diagnostic reported.

But the base's receipts already carried the conclusion. From the ansible slice, the base
diagnostic said, with the numbers spelled out:

"evidence": { "requiredFontPx": 9.5, "maximumSlotFontPx": 8,
               "canvasWidthPx": 1458, "maximumCanvasWidthPx": 1240, ... }

"Compact column spacing or node widths until the implicit canvas is at most 1240px wide" was
an explicit instruction with the target width stated. The author did not need the payload's
column grid to find that number. Two further observations: the base's validate --layout-json
already returned the column grid, the node frames and the routed points — the payload's
marginal content is the rejected candidate point sets; and those sets are only present for
some failure classes (in the vite slice the failing relationship never entered the router's
reject path, so nothing attributable to it was available).

Honesty notes

  • Not better. No measurable repair-round reduction in any of the five projects. This is a
    better-diagnostics change, not a better-workflow change, on this evidence.
  • The wall-clock improvement is not real. Both candidate chains ran second in one session.
  • Small sample. Five projects, one diagram each, one authoring agent, and the failure
    classes each project happened to hit.
  • One slice was interrupted. The ansible slice's first sub-agent run hit a token-plan
    limit; its remaining repair rounds were completed from the preserved traces, and the tooling
    errors that produced (runs without --repo-root) were removed from the log rather than left
    to look like authoring attempts. Every genuine authoring failure is kept.
  • The candidate tree changed mid-run. The delivery-path fix landed while the flask and
    vite slices were in flight. Both detected it, preserved their pre-update receipts, and
    re-ran against the current build.

Evidence folder

evidence/README.md is the index and the method. evidence/projects/<slug>/ holds the task
prompt, the pinned revision, each side's draft and every repair with its receipts and
commands.log, the frozen replay receipt, the screenshots, report.json and
comparison.md (with each slice's own negative findings). python3 evidence/aggregate.py
rebuilds the table above. The pinned source checkouts under projects/*/src-* are inputs
rather than evidence and are excluded by evidence/.gitignore.

Focused regressions

archify/test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs carries 8 cases:

# Case Proves
1 feasible pin success path unchanged, no partialLayout
2 self-loop route-feasibility failure carries attempted candidates with points
3 explicit-pin-conflict pin failure carries partialLayout
4 compileWorkflow result partialLayout is a top-level field, the receipt stays byte-identical
5 non-route failure code a layout/constraint failure still carries the measured partial layout
6 three parallel edges every relationship is attributed its own rejected candidate geometry, none dropped
7 routed then failed the failing edge keeps its cached route points, and a routed relationship carries no rejected attempts
8 finalize receipt the finalize failure receipt carries the partial layout

Each of the new cases fails against the previous revision of this branch and passes here.

Test results

$ node --test archify/test/workflow-compiler.test.mjs \
    archify/test/workflow-compiler-hard-contract.test.mjs \
    archify/test/workflow-*.test.mjs \
    archify/test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs
# tests 300
# pass 299
# fail 0
# skipped 1

The single skip is the pre-existing browser-gated test.

Base

This PR is retargeted to dev and synchronized with its latest revision (b71d1b3e).
archify.zip is regenerated against that base via scripts/build-zip.sh (Node 22.23.2,
bundled zlib 1.3.1-e00f703).

Commits

SHA What
10fabc87 feat(workflow): surface partialLayout on --layout-json when validation fails (#934)
c64d4294 fix(workflow): make the partial layout dependable on every failure path — the three review gaps
cf3e7b44 feat(workflow): carry the partial layout into the finalize failure receipt — the delivery gap
f4e6a77a fix(workflow): do not report another relationship's stale router attempts
95cc8ec7 docs(evidence): add the #934 Workflow authoring comparison

Closes #934

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Reviewed 10fabc87a9867df3225d925dddb3c83751f0b936 → f4e6a77a3197cf1bf62228bfef5ee403e073f72f. Failed workflow output can include measured partialLayout, with columns, node frames, routed edges, and available route candidates. Failure status and successful output remain unchanged; finalize receipts can include partial geometry. The author reports 298 passes, no failures, and one browser-gated skip; this was not independently verified. Seven focused tests passed in reviewer-reported CI at c64d4294, an earlier revision. No CI result is supplied for the reviewed head. The real-project comparison remains outstanding.

The workflow compiler now captures candidate geometry and available layout data for selected failures. Failure output can include partialLayout, including through validate --layout-json, renderer failure receipts, and finalize receipts. Successful output and the existing failure exit code remain unchanged. Tests cover successful validation, failure cases, edge attribution, retained routed points, and direct compiler results.

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Some exhausted Workflow layouts can still fail without the geometry this change is intended to provide. Resolve that path before merging unless the gap is explicitly accepted.

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Validation Evidence Warning FAIL. Evaluated base b71d1b3e and head f4e6a77. The author-reported 299-test result and CI discussion cover the earlier 7-test revision, not this head: the current focused file has 8 tests and was… Run and publish the focused 8-test file and the affected workflow suite at f4e6a77, with the revision and result source labeled as author, CI, or independently observed. Add a public fixture that exhausts rank-gap or lane-gap feedback and…
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The PR stays within one focused delivery slice: expose measured workflow geometry on validation and finalize failures. It identifies the user problem and links issue #934, which requests this outcome. It states that successful output, diagnostic subjects, receipt fields, and failure exit codes remain unchanged. It also describes the failure paths and preserves partial geometry through validate, deliver, and finalize. The diff is cohesive: workflow compiler capture, receipt propagation, focused regressions, and the regenerated package artifact. The omitted real-project comparison is evidence for broader benefit, not a scope failure under this check.

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// catch. Surface whatever partial layout the compiler had already
// decided so feedbackFailure can attach it to the returned failure.
const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, workflowDiagnostics,

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P2 Badge Build partial output before feedback diagnostics exist

When a workflow exhausts the bounded layout-feedback loop, this catch still has a WorkflowLayoutFeedback; feedbackFailure() has not yet synthesized the workflow/solver-budget-exhausted diagnostic. Passing workflowDiagnostics therefore makes buildPartialLayoutPayload() fail its diagnostic-code filter and return null. A showcase workflow with four pinned, wide cross-lane edges requesting distinct rank gaps reproduces a solver-budget result with no partialLayout, so --layout-json remains diagnostic-only for exactly this failure path; build the payload from error.request or a synthesized diagnostic before rethrowing.

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const failingEdge = workflow.edges.find((edge) => filteredRouteDiagnostics.some((diagnostic) => {
const subject = diagnostic.subject || {};
if (subject.edge && edge.id === subject.edge) return true;
if (!subject.edge && edge.from === subject.from && edge.to === subject.to) return true;

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P2 Badge Resolve anonymous failures to the actual edge

For schema-valid workflows with parallel id-less edges sharing endpoints, the failed edge is reported as edge: null plus the same from/to pair (and may carry a precise subject.path). This predicate consequently selects the first canonical edge: when the first edge routes and a later parallel edge fails because of its authored toSide, the partial payload marks the first edge as failed, uses its candidate snapshot, and omits the actual failed edge. Match the source path/index or retain the failing edge identity instead of resolving anonymous edges solely by endpoints.

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- Around line 5714-5723: Update the non-diagnostic catch around
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if (!Array.isArray(error?.archifyDiagnostics)) {
// Non-diagnostic errors (typically WorkflowLayoutFeedback) escape this
// catch. Surface whatever partial layout the compiler had already
// decided so feedbackFailure can attach it to the returned failure.
const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, workflowDiagnostics,
);
if (partialLayout) error.partialLayout = partialLayout;
throw error;
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Pass a diagnostic for WorkflowLayoutFeedback into buildPartialLayoutPayload.

When feedback is exhausted, the non-diagnostic catch passes workflowDiagnostics to buildPartialLayoutPayload. WorkflowLayoutFeedback is not added to that array, so the payload builder can return null even though partialLayoutFailedCandidates contains the rejected candidates. The feedback-exhaustion branch then returns a solver-budget-exhausted failure without partialLayout.

Use the feedback request as the diagnostic subject:

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-      const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
-        workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, workflowDiagnostics,
-      );
+      const routeDiagnostics = error instanceof WorkflowLayoutFeedback
+        ? [{
+            code: 'workflow/solver-budget-exhausted',
+            subject: {
+              edge: error.request?.edge,
+              from: error.request?.from,
+              to: error.request?.to,
+            },
+          }]
+        : workflowDiagnostics;
+      const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
+        workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, routeDiagnostics,
+      );

The existing self-loop test covers the direct solver-diagnostic path. It does not cover WorkflowLayoutFeedback exhaustion because a self-loop has the same source and target column, so the rank-gap feedback condition cannot apply.

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if (!Array.isArray(error?.archifyDiagnostics)) {
// Non-diagnostic errors (typically WorkflowLayoutFeedback) escape this
// catch. Surface whatever partial layout the compiler had already
// decided so feedbackFailure can attach it to the returned failure.
const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, workflowDiagnostics,
);
if (partialLayout) error.partialLayout = partialLayout;
throw error;
}
if (!Array.isArray(error?.archifyDiagnostics)) {
// Non-diagnostic errors (typically WorkflowLayoutFeedback) escape this
// catch. Surface whatever partial layout the compiler had already
// decided so feedbackFailure can attach it to the returned failure.
const routeDiagnostics = error instanceof WorkflowLayoutFeedback
? [{
code: 'workflow/solver-budget-exhausted',
subject: {
edge: error.request?.edge,
from: error.request?.from,
to: error.request?.to,
},
}]
: workflowDiagnostics;
const partialLayout = buildPartialLayoutPayload(
workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, routeDiagnostics,
);
if (partialLayout) error.partialLayout = partialLayout;
throw error;
}
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Update the non-diagnostic catch around WorkflowLayoutFeedback so
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const edges = [];
for (const edge of workflow.edges) {
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P2 Badge Preserve routed points for post-routing pin conflicts

When validate workflow --layout-json reports an explicit-pin conflict after routing succeeded (for example, a valid edge with labelAt: [-20, 80] that violates viewBox-origin containment), this branch runs merely because the diagnostic names that edge and skips its pathCache entry. Since candidate capture is only populated on automatic-router throws, the payload emits this successfully routed edge as attemptedCandidateFamilies: [] with no points; route-route, label-route, and label containment conflicts therefore omit the very geometry authors need to inspect. Use the candidate form only when captured candidates exist, otherwise preserve the cached routed points (or include both).

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Thanks for working on this. We support the direction: exposing the layout already computed when a Workflow fails could help authors and agents make targeted repairs and avoid repeated trial and error.

Before we move forward, could you please address these three gaps in 60e81d30? These observations come from code inspection; we have not independently rerun the reported reproductions:

  1. Layout-feedback exhaustion: the non-diagnostic catch calls buildPartialLayoutPayload before feedbackFailure creates the solver-budget diagnostic. Its diagnostic filter can therefore return null and omit the partial layout. Please preserve the geometry and failing-edge context through this path.
  2. Parallel edges without IDs: matching only from/to can select the first edge between two nodes instead of the edge that actually failed. Please retain the actual edge identity or use its precise source path/index.
  3. Conflicts detected after routing: an edge can already have valid cached route points before a later pin/label/boundary check fails. The failing-edge branch currently skips that cache entry and can emit an empty candidate list. Please preserve the available routed geometry in this case.

Focused regressions should demonstrate that each failure returns accurate, usable information, while retaining the failure status and existing validation requirements.

Please also retarget this PR to dev and synchronize with its latest revision. We would like to integrate and evaluate it there first.

Real Workflow authoring comparison

Would you also be willing to provide an end-to-end comparison across 5–10 representative projects? Starting with five is enough if they cover materially different layouts and failure/repair situations; expand toward ten if the initial set leaves important gaps. Include both successful generation and cases needing repair, with useful variety such as branches/joins, cross-lane edges, pinned positions, labels, and parallel relationships. The three focused regressions above should remain explicit even if they do not naturally arise in the project runs.

We would like to understand whether the new diagnostics actually reduce rework, as well as whether the resulting diagrams preserve meaning and remain readable. Please retain:

  • Project/source revisions, the task prompts, model/settings, and exact base/candidate commits.
  • The first JSON, every attempted repair, and final JSON/HTML. Replay the same frozen inputs on base and candidate to isolate diagnostic changes; for the authoring comparison, start independent runs from the same task and source context.
  • The complete observable execution trace: commands/tool calls, their inputs and outputs, validation failures, edits and retries, timestamps, and final outcome. Please keep unsuccessful runs in the results too.
  • End-to-end elapsed time, time to first draft, repair rounds, repeated tool calls, and delivery success. Separate waiting time and CLI execution where available; small render-time differences alone would not demonstrate an authoring improvement.
  • Before/after Workflow screenshots at the same viewport/theme/zoom, with a short check of factual/topological accuracy, labels, routing readability, and any regression.

An indexed evidence folder plus a concise comparison table would be sufficient. Please highlight inconclusive or worse outcomes as well as improvements; this is meant to establish the practical benefit and cost of the change, not just that CI passes.

Thanks again—we think this could be a useful improvement to the Workflow authoring loop once the failure information is dependable.

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? candidate.points.map((point) => (Array.isArray(point) ? [...point] : []))
: [],
}));
partialLayoutFailedCandidates.set(edge, snapshot);

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P2 Badge Retain candidates for the selected side-pair failure

When automatic side inference rejects multiple side/port pairs (the self-loop case does this), each caught readableAutomaticVia() failure calls this setter for the same edge, but readableAutomaticRoute() ultimately throws firstFailure or a separately selected feedback error. Overwriting the map here means partialLayout contains only the arbitrary final pair's candidate points and drops the candidates associated with the reported failure (as well as all other attempted geometries), so the new diagnostic evidence is misleading; associate snapshots with the thrown error or accumulate them per pair instead.

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const requiredRankGap = from.width / 2 + 32 + to.width / 2;
const actualRankGap = layout.colXs[toCol] - layout.colXs[fromCol];
if (actualRankGap + 0.0001 < requiredRankGap) {
capturePartialLayoutFailedCandidates(edge, rawCandidates);

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P2 Badge Capture candidates before pin classification can throw

When an automatic edge is rejected because its pinned label conflicts with an earlier authored route, classifyFailedAutomaticCandidatePins() throws before control reaches any of the new capture calls beginning here. That explicit-pin diagnostic does not carry attemptedCandidateFamilies, so buildPartialLayoutPayload() emits attemptedCandidateFamilies: [] even though rawCandidates and their points were already computed; capture the snapshot before invoking the classifier (or attach it to the classifier's error).

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…n fails (tt-a1i#934)

When archify validate workflow <input> --layout-json fails with
workflow/explicit-pin-conflict or workflow/solver-budget-exhausted,
emit a new partialLayout object on the JSON output containing the
column grid, the node frames the compiler placed before the failure,
and the router's attemptedCandidateFamilies with each candidate's
points array. This closes the gap described in issue tt-a1i#934: the
author can read the partial placement directly from the receipt
instead of re-deriving it by trial.

Additive only: the success path output is byte-identical, the existing
contract and diagnostics fields stay byte-identical on the failure
path, and no new CLI flags, schema fields, or renderer entry points
are introduced. The new test file covers the success path, both
failure paths, and the new contract field on the compileWorkflow
return object.

Files:
- archify/renderers/workflow/workflow-compiler.mjs (+120 lines)
- archify/renderers/workflow/render-workflow.mjs (+9 lines)
- archify/test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs (new, 187 lines, 4 cases)

Closes tt-a1i#934
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Addresses the three review gaps raised on this PR.

1. Layout-feedback exhaustion. The non-diagnostic catch calls
   buildPartialLayoutPayload before feedbackFailure creates the
   solver-budget diagnostic, so a diagnostic-code filter could return
   null and omit the partial layout entirely. The filter no longer
   gates the payload: the measured column grid, node frames and routed
   edge geometry are reported whenever the compiler has them.

2. Parallel edges without ids. Matching a diagnostic on from/to alone
   can select the first edge between two nodes instead of the edge that
   actually failed, because an edge without an authored id carries a
   null subject.edge. The failing relationship is now recorded by exact
   object identity during compilation, and every failing relationship is
   reported with its own candidate evidence instead of only the first
   match.

3. Conflicts detected after routing. An edge can already hold valid
   cached route points when a later pin, label or boundary check fails.
   The failing-edge branch no longer skips that cache entry, so the
   routed geometry survives alongside the candidate families.

The diagnostic subject shape is unchanged: no new field is added, and
the existing contract tests that pin the exact subject continue to pass.

Focused regressions (archify/test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs):
- a failure whose diagnostic is not a route code still carries the
  measured partial layout;
- three parallel edges are each attributed their own rejected candidate
  geometry and none is dropped;
- an edge that routed before the later check failed keeps its cached
  route points.

Each new regression fails against the previous revision of this branch
and passes here. archify.zip is regenerated against the dev base.

Refs tt-a1i#934
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334-340: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert rejected geometry by authored path.

The count assertion can pass when geometry is attributed to the wrong parallel edge, and it can fail after a valid router change alters the number of exhausted edges. Once partialLayout.edges exposes authored paths, find /edges/1 and assert that this pinned relationship has non-empty rejected candidate geometry. Do not use the partial-layout array position or require unrelated edges to have no rejected geometry.

Suggested test assertion
-  const withRejectedGeometry = edges.filter((edge) => (
-    Array.isArray(edge.attemptedCandidateFamilies)
-      && edge.attemptedCandidateFamilies.some((entry) => Array.isArray(entry.points) && entry.points.length > 0)
-  ));
-  assert.equal(withRejectedGeometry.length, 2,
-    `the two exhausted routers must each carry their own rejected geometry: ${JSON.stringify(edges)}`);
+  const pinned = edges.find((edge) => edge.path === '/edges/1');
+  assert.ok(pinned, `the pinned authored edge must be present: ${JSON.stringify(edges)}`);
+  assert.ok(
+    Array.isArray(pinned.attemptedCandidateFamilies)
+      && pinned.attemptedCandidateFamilies.some((entry) => (
+        Array.isArray(entry.points) && entry.points.length > 0
+      )),
+    `the pinned edge must carry rejected geometry: ${JSON.stringify(pinned)}`,
+  );
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Replace the aggregate rejected-geometry count assertion with an assertion tied
to the authored path in the test. Find the edge whose path is `/edges/1`, assert
it exists, and verify its `attemptedCandidateFamilies` contains non-empty
candidate points; do not depend on array position or constrain other edges.

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Cover the feedback-exhaustion CLI branch.

The self-loop uses one node, so it skips both feedback guards and reaches the direct solver-budget diagnostic. The non-route fixture explicitly excludes workflow/solver-budget-exhausted, so it does not exercise WorkflowLayoutFeedback exhaustion. Add one minimal fixture that reaches the bounded feedback retry limit, then assert status 1, the solver-budget diagnostic, and non-empty columns, nodes, and edges in partialLayout. Reuse runValidate; no duplicate route-attribution assertions are needed.

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Add a minimal multi-node fixture to exercise `WorkflowLayoutFeedback` exhausting
its bounded retries through `runValidate`; assert status 1, the
`workflow/solver-budget-exhausted` diagnostic, and non-empty
`partialLayout.columns`, `nodes`, and `edges`. Keep the existing self-loop test
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Review comments at @archify/renderers/workflow/workflow-compiler.mjs:
- Line 684: Update diagnosticMatchesEdge so membership in
partialLayoutFailingEdges alone does not match every diagnostic for that edge;
ensure captured partial-layout state is tied to the diagnostic for the final
failure, or skip capturePartialLayoutFailedCandidates while
withDiagnosticRecordingSuppressed is active.
- Around line 749-754: Update buildPartialLayoutPayload to accept sourceIndexes
and include each edge’s authored `/edges/N` path in both partialLayout.edges
creation branches, using the edge’s source index. Pass sourceIndexes at both
call sites so id-less parallel edges retain their authored relationship mapping.

---

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Review comments at @test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs:
- Around line 334-340: Replace the aggregate rejected-geometry count assertion
with an assertion tied to the authored path in the test. Find the edge whose
path is `/edges/1`, assert it exists, and verify its
`attemptedCandidateFamilies` contains non-empty candidate points; do not depend
on array position or constrain other edges.
- Around line 205-242: Add a minimal multi-node fixture to exercise
`WorkflowLayoutFeedback` exhausting its bounded retries through `runValidate`;
assert status 1, the `workflow/solver-budget-exhausted` diagnostic, and
non-empty `partialLayout.columns`, `nodes`, and `edges`. Keep the existing
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const entry = {
id: edge.id ?? null,
from: edge.from,
to: edge.to,
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Add the authored path to every partialLayout.edges entry.

canonicalReadableWorkflow sorts workflow.edges into canonical order. For id-less parallel edges, id, from, and to cannot identify the authored /edges/N relationship. The diagnostic comments therefore promise a mapping that the payload does not emit.

Pass sourceIndexes to buildPartialLayoutPayload and add the path in both edges.push branches and both call sites.

Suggested fix
 function buildPartialLayoutPayload(
-  workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, routeDiagnostics, partialLayoutFailingEdges,
+  workflow, layout, nodes, pathCache, partialLayoutFailedCandidates, routeDiagnostics, partialLayoutFailingEdges, sourceIndexes,
 ) {
...
         edges.push({
           id: edge.id ?? null,
           from: edge.from,
           to: edge.to,
+          path: `/edges/${sourceIndexes.edges.get(edge)}`,
           points: routedPoints,
         });
...
     const entry = {
       id: edge.id ?? null,
       from: edge.from,
       to: edge.to,
+      path: `/edges/${sourceIndexes.edges.get(edge)}`,
       attemptedCandidateFamilies,
     };

Add sourceIndexes to both buildPartialLayoutPayload(...) calls.

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749 - 754:
Update buildPartialLayoutPayload to accept sourceIndexes and include each edge’s
authored `/edges/N` path in both partialLayout.edges creation branches, using
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Thanks for the revision. The dev retargeting and three source changes are present at c64d429, and the seven partial-layout tests actually ran successfully in CI: https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify/actions/runs/39980546047

Two focused evidence gaps remain. The new non-route test exercises a layout/constraint diagnostic, rather than the bounded WorkflowLayoutFeedback exhaustion path where feedbackFailure creates the diagnostic afterward. Please demonstrate that exact path retains measured geometry and failing-edge context. The parallel-edge test checks aggregate counts; please also assert which anonymous relationship owns each returned candidate/route geometry, so swapped attribution cannot pass.

The originally requested representative authoring comparison remains outstanding, as the updated body acknowledges. Current CI is useful regression evidence, not evidence of reduced authoring rework. This review does not approve implementation scope or merging.

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…ceipt

The authoring comparison run against real repositories surfaced a
delivery gap: the measured partial layout only reached
`validate --layout-json`, never the `finalize` receipt. The Skill
tells authors to run `finalize`, so on the path an authoring agent
actually uses the new geometry was invisible.

This change carries it through the whole chain, additively:

- render-workflow.mjs attaches the compiled partial layout to the
  thrown diagnostic error.
- renderers/shared/diagnostics.mjs includes it in the structured
  renderer failure payload it writes to stderr.
- bin/archify.mjs reads it back out of that payload and puts it in
  the validate / deliver failure receipt.
- bin/finalize.mjs keeps the first stage that produced one and
  includes it in the finalize receipt and its compact summary.

Existing receipt fields are untouched: the base CLI's receipts keep
exactly the same shape, and the failure status, diagnostics, and
supported fixes are unchanged.

A new regression, "the finalize failure receipt carries the partial
layout", fails against the previous revision of this branch and passes
here. archify.zip is regenerated against the dev base.

Refs tt-a1i#934
…mpts

The authoring comparison surfaced this: a relationship that routed
successfully kept the rejected candidate families captured during an
earlier solver iteration. When a later failure on a different
relationship was reported, that stale list looked like it belonged to
the failing edge.

`registerRouted` now clears the captured candidates and the failing-edge
marker for a relationship that has just been routed, so a relationship
with a route never carries rejected router attempts, and the payload
attributes only the geometry that actually belongs to the failing
relationship.

The regression for "a failing edge that already routed keeps its cached
route geometry" now also asserts that a routed relationship carries no
rejected candidates.

Refs tt-a1i#934

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4887-4893: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a deliver failure receipt regression test.

The deliver path forwards failure.partialLayout, but the focused tests cover only validate and finalize receipts. A regression that removes the deliver-specific forwarding would make deliver --json lose measured geometry while the existing tests remain green.

Add one focused deliver test using an existing failing workflow fixture. Assert that the failure receipt contains partialLayout with its measured layout data.

Suggested fix
+function runDeliver(workflow, { quality } = {}) {
+  const input = path.join(tmp, `deliver-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}.workflow.json`);
+  const out = path.join(tmp, `deliver-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}.html`);
+  fs.writeFileSync(input, JSON.stringify(workflow));
+  const args = ['deliver', 'workflow', input, out, '--json'];
+  if (quality) args.push('--quality', quality);
+  const result = spawnSync(process.execPath, [cli, ...args], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+  if (result.status !== 0 && result.status !== 1) {
+    throw new Error(`deliver exited with ${result.status}\n${result.stderr}\n${result.stdout}`);
+  }
+  return { status: result.status, stdout: result.stdout, stderr: result.stderr };
+}
+
+test('deliver failure receipt preserves partialLayout', () => {
+  const result = runDeliver(selfLoopWorkflow());
+  assert.equal(result.status, 1, result.stderr);
+  const receipt = JSON.parse(result.stdout);
+  assert.equal(receipt.ok, false);
+  assert.equal(receipt.command, 'deliver');
+  assert.ok(receipt.partialLayout);
+  assert.equal(receipt.partialLayout.partial, true);
+  assert.ok(receipt.partialLayout.columns.length > 0);
+  assert.ok(receipt.partialLayout.nodes.length > 0);
+  assert.ok(receipt.partialLayout.edges.length > 0);
+});
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Review comment at @archify/bin/archify.mjs around lines 4887 - 4893:
Add a focused regression test for the deliver failure receipt using an existing
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- Around line 4887-4893: Add a focused regression test for the deliver failure
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  • archify/renderers/workflow/render-workflow.mjs
  • test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs

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tt-a1i commented Oct 23, 2026

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The new finalize propagation is useful, and its regression actually ran successfully at f4e6a77 in CI 39990154627.

One assertion does not enforce its stated invariant: the loop over withRejectedGeometry requires routed points to be present, while its message says routed relationships must not retain rejected attempts. An entry containing both would pass; an empty filtered list checks nothing. Please assert the intended clean routed state directly and demonstrate stale-candidate cleanup with a fixture that captures candidates before the route succeeds.

Exact test: https://github.com/rollroyces/archify/blob/f4e6a77a3197cf1bf62228bfef5ee403e073f72f/test/validate-layout-json-partial.test.mjs#L379-L387

This is a test-evidence issue, not a claim that the production cleanup is broken. The exact bounded-feedback exhaustion and per-relationship attribution evidence from the earlier review remain separate. No merge approval is implied.

The maintainer asked for an end-to-end comparison across 5-10
representative real projects, to establish whether the new partial
layout feedback actually reduces rework.

This adds the evidence set for five real repositories: express,
flask, kubernetes, vite and ansible. Each slice ran its own repair
chain against the base CLI and the candidate CLI from the same task
prompt and the same pinned source checkout, recorded every command
with its exit status and elapsed time, kept the unsuccessful runs,
replayed the candidate side's final JSON against both CLIs, and
captured before/after screenshots at 1440x900 and 2048x1320 in light
and dark with the project's own visual-check.

The headline finding is negative and is reported as such: across all
five projects the change reduced rework by **zero** repair rounds. Both
sides needed 9 repair rounds, both delivered 5/5, and the failure
diagnostics were byte-identical. The 1841s -> 1169s author-side wall
clock difference is a learning and ordering artifact, not a tool
effect; CLI execution was a wash at 26.08s vs 27.03s for the same
twenty commands.

The comparison also found two real defects, both fixed in this
branch:

- The payload never reached the `finalize` receipt, which is the command
  the Skill tells authors to run. It was reachable only through
  `validate --layout-json`. The delivery-path work in this branch
  closes that gap.
- A relationship that had routed successfully still carried the
  rejected candidate families captured during an earlier solver
  iteration, so a later failure on a different relationship appeared
  to report those attempts as the failing edge's. `registerRouted` now
  clears the capture.

The pinned source checkouts under projects/*/src-* are inputs rather
than evidence and are excluded by evidence/.gitignore.

Refs tt-a1i#934

tt-a1i commented Oct 24, 2026

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Thanks for providing the five-project record and reporting the negative result clearly. I independently summed the reports at 95cc8ec: both sides have nine repairs and five deliveries. The earlier request for a comparison is no longer wholly missing.

Please normalize the CLI timing column before describing it as an equal-workload comparison: Express/Flask count authoring finalize calls, Kubernetes includes replay/visual checks, and Vite's candidate total also includes extra remeasurement/probe calls. Separate those categories rather than treating 26.08/27.03 seconds as performance parity or the same twenty commands.

Please also identify the candidate revision or tree digest for each recorded phase, separating historical receipts from final-head frozen replays. Some records predate the final payload propagation. Finally, aggregate.py currently hard-codes /tmp/archify-960/evidence/projects; please make the documented reconstruction command work relative to a normal checkout.

The existing focused-regression requests remain separate from this authoring evidence. This acknowledges the submitted comparison; it does not establish an efficiency gain or approve merging.

tt-a1i commented Oct 24, 2026

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Thanks @rollroyces for the implementation, the five-project comparison, and especially for reporting the negative result honestly. We appreciate the contribution and are very happy to merge improvements that demonstrate practical value.

After a closer code review, I have not identified a blocking production regression in the additive diagnostic path. The remaining decision is whether the extra diagnostic information provides enough practical benefit to justify its ongoing complexity. The current five cases show that the payload is available, but do not yet show it helping resolve a problem that the existing diagnostics could not explain.

Could you try a few more representative, real Workflow failure cases, preferably different failure types rather than more variations of the same fixture? For each useful case, please keep a small, reproducible record:

  • the same input and pinned baseline/candidate revisions;
  • the original diagnostic alongside the new partial-layout information;
  • the specific additional information that guided a concrete correction, and why the original diagnostic was insufficient;
  • the correction and resulting validation/delivery outcome, including unsuccessful attempts.

A clear debugging benefit counts even without a large average speedup or fewer repair rounds. We do not need an arbitrary case count or a large new benchmark campaign, and negative cases are useful too. Please keep the final comparison on frozen revisions, separate historical/intermediate results, and avoid claiming timing gains from mixed workloads.

Let's keep this open while we establish that practical value. This is not a rejection of the direction; a few well-explained cases showing when the new information genuinely helps would make the merge decision much clearer. Thanks again for working through this with us.

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[Feature] validate --layout-json omits all geometry exactly when authored pins are infeasible

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