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reference process · partners · 16 activities · 12 on the rosterCertify a Partner
An onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver, and the run trains and tests them before any of them is let near a customer alone. What each role has to prove is written down before a course is built, so the training answers a standard rather than a preference. The people sit a written exam and a watched practical, and a person signs every pass and every fail. Certificates carry a date and an expiry, because a partner whose certified people have left is a partner who is no longer certified.
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16 activities from an onboarded partner names who will sell or deliver to the partner has certified people in every role, 2 of them gates a person has to sign. Drag the diagram to move along it.
Certify a Partner an onboarded partner names who will sell or deliver → the partner has certified people in every role
nobody named holds the base skill the lab shows the training did not land the exam questions are wrong, not the answers failed the gap is closed a certificate lapses or a person leaves an onboarded partner names who will sell or deliver 1 Take in the Named People who at the partner will sell or deliver 2 Set What Each Role Must P… the skills each role has to prove a person signs · never an agent 3 Check What They Already K… prior experience and certificates already held 4 Build the Curriculum the courses each role takes, in order 5 Book the Sessions dates, trainers and rooms agreed on both sides 6 Publish the Course Materi… decks, labs and recordings published at a version 7 Run the Sales Training the pitch, the price, the objections, the help 8 Run the Delivery Training the product, the build and the common failures 9 Give the Hands-On Lab they build the thing themselves, once 10 Sit the Written Exam scored against the question set at its version 11 Assess the Practical a mock pitch or a mock build, watched and scored 12 Decide Pass or Fail a person signs every pass and every fail a person signs · never an agent 13 Retrain Whoever Failed the gap named and the session run again 14 Issue the Certificates issued with a date and an expiry against each 15 Publish Who Is Certified the list of certified people both sides can see 16 Watch for Expiry and Drift certificates lapse and certified people leave the partner has certified people in every role The roster this process needs
Hover a name to see the activities it holds. A dashed one is a person, and stays one.
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Everything in amber is yours to fill in: who owns it, when it takes effect, which platforms, which numbers, and who holds each activity. Everything else is the process, and it is the same wherever it is run.
PROCESS: certify a partner id: <team> /certify-a-partner v1
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: an onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver
in <your partner portal>
watch: record=<partner record> system=<your partner portal>
change=<an onboarded partner names the people who will
sell or deliver>
concurrency: runs may overlap - <how many> certification runs open at
once, and one partner is certified by one run at a time
goal: every named person passes the exam and the practical for their
role within <weeks> , with a signed pass on file and a certificate
carrying a date and an expiry
phases:
take-in-people - runs collect-and-report: who at the partner will
sell, who will deliver, what each one does today,
and how much of their time this gets
owner: partner-manager after: trigger
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-requirements - convenes decide-and-announce: what a certified
seller and a certified deliverer each have to
prove, written as things a person can be tested on
owner: <your enablement role>
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: never
read-prior-skill - runs assessment: prior experience, certificates
already held and work already delivered, scored
against the requirements rather than admired
owner: curriculum-manager
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: <level>
build-curriculum - runs build-by-talent: the courses each role
takes, in order, with the requirement each course
covers named against it
owner: curriculum-manager
after: set-requirements + read-prior-skill
by: <days> automation: <level>
book-sessions - human: dates, trainers, rooms or links, and the
people expected at each session, agreed on both
sides and in diaries
owner: curriculum-manager
after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-courseware - human: the decks, the labs, the sample data and
the recordings, published at a version where the
partner's people can reach them
owner: portal-keeper after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
sales-training - convenes briefing: the pitch, who it is for, the
price, the objections that actually come up, and
where to get help mid-deal
owner: <your enablement role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
delivery-training - convenes briefing: the product, the build, the
integration points and the failures that show up
in the first month of every deployment
owner: <your delivery role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
hands-on-lab - human: each person builds the thing themselves on
<your lab environment> , unaided, with the trainer
watching rather than typing
owner: curriculum-manager
after: delivery-training
by: <days> automation: <level>
written-exam - runs assessment: scored against the question set
at its version, with the pass mark set before the
exam rather than after it
owner: certification-check
after: sales-training + hands-on-lab
automation: <level>
practical - runs assessment: a mock pitch or a mock build,
watched by an assessor and scored against <your
practical rubric> at a version
owner: certification-check
after: written-exam
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-pass - convenes approval: a named signer passes or fails
each person, and a fail names the requirement
that was not met
owner: <your certification signer role>
after: practical
by: <days> automation: never
retrain - convenes briefing: the named gap taught again to
the people who failed it, and only that gap
owner: curriculum-manager after: decide-pass
by: <weeks> automation: <level>
issue-certificates - system: a certificate per person and per role,
carrying the date, the requirement version and
the expiry
owner: certification-check
after: decide-pass
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-certified - human: the list of who is certified in what,
visible to the partner and to our own people, so
nobody has to ask
owner: portal-keeper
after: issue-certificates
automation: <level>
watch-expiry - runs roll-call: certificates approaching expiry,
certified people who have left the partner, and
roles the partner no longer covers
owner: partner-monitor after: publish-certified
by: <days> automation: <level>
run-scoped:
attendance - runs roll-call owner: curriculum-manager
every: <cadence>
from: book-sessions until: decide-pass
cost - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your enablement role>
from: book-sessions until: run close
handoffs:
take-in-people -> set-requirements [intended-roles]: the roles the
partner intends to cover, and how many people they are putting
behind each one
take-in-people -> read-prior-skill [named-people]: the named people,
with what each one claims to have done before
set-requirements -> build-curriculum [role-requirements]: what each
role has to prove, one testable line at a time, at a version
read-prior-skill -> build-curriculum [exemptions]: what each person
can be excused, with the evidence behind every exemption
build-curriculum -> book-sessions [course-plan]: the courses, their
length, and who has to be in each one
build-curriculum -> publish-courseware [material-list]: the material
each course needs and the version it is taught at
book-sessions -> sales-training [sales-schedule]: the dates, the room
and the people expected, confirmed by the partner
book-sessions -> delivery-training [delivery-schedule]: the same
schedule, so nobody is booked into two sessions at once
publish-courseware -> sales-training [published-material]: the
material at a version, at an address the partner's people can reach
delivery-training -> hands-on-lab [taught-build]: the build as it was
taught, and the environment each person will do it in
hands-on-lab -> written-exam [lab-result]: what each person got
working alone, and where the trainer had to step in
sales-training -> written-exam [pitch-as-taught]: the pitch and the
pricing as taught, so the exam tests what was actually covered
written-exam -> practical [exam-scores]: the score per person, the
question set version, and which requirement each wrong answer sits
under
practical -> decide-pass [practical-scores]: the assessor's score
against the rubric, with a note on anything the score does not
carry
decide-pass -> issue-certificates [signed-passes]: the signed passes,
per person and per role, with the date of the signature
decide-pass -> retrain [named-fails]: the fails, each naming the
requirement that was not met rather than a grade
retrain -> written-exam [closed-gaps]: the gap taught again, and the
date it was taught, so the retake is scored against the same
requirements
issue-certificates -> publish-certified [certificates]: the
certificates as issued, each with its expiry
publish-certified -> watch-expiry [certified-list]: the certified
list as published, and who at the partner it covers
deviations:
read-prior-skill -> take-in-people [no-base-skill]: nobody the
partner named holds the base skill, so the partner names other
people rather than the requirement being lowered for them
hands-on-lab -> delivery-training [training-did-not-land]: people
cannot build the thing they watched being built, so the part they
could not do is taught again before the lab runs a second time
decide-pass -> retrain [a-person-fails]: a person fails, so the
requirement that was not met is taught again to them alone
decide-pass -> build-curriculum [question-is-wrong]: everybody fails
the same question, so the curriculum and the question set are
worked again against the requirement each of them claims to test
watch-expiry -> book-sessions [coverage-lapses]: a certificate lapses
or a certified person leaves, so sessions are booked for the
replacements and the partner is told which role is uncovered
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the enablement lead, the
trainers, the assessors, the certification signer, and the
partner's practice lead and sales lead>
systems: the learning system (write), the partner portal (write),
the certification record (write), the lab environment
(trigger, cap: <n> hours per person), the calendar (write),
the partner record (read), the partner record (write)
data: <your role requirements> <version> , <your question set>
<version> , <your practical rubric> <version> , <your course
materials> <version> , the partner agreement and its tier
policy:
what a role has to prove is written down before the curriculum is
built, and a course that covers no requirement is not run
the pass mark is set before the exam is sat and is not moved for a
person or a partner
a pass is signed by a named person and is never issued by an agent
alone
a fail names the requirement that was not met, and the person retakes
only that part
a person may retake <n> times, after which <who> decides whether they
are certified at all
a certificate carries an expiry of <months> , and an expired
certificate does not count towards the partner's coverage
a certified person who leaves the partner is removed from the
published list within <days> of us being told
nobody sells or delivers alone on a certificate they do not hold
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the named people to the first signed pass
pass rate: <target> at first attempt, reported per role
coverage: <target> number of certified people per role the partner
must hold to stay at their tier
volume: <people certified per period>
quality gate: no certificate is issued without a signed pass, and no
pass is signed without a watched practical
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Convert the business process below into a runnable LangGraph graph:
one Python file with a TypedDict state, a StateGraph, nodes, edges,
conditional edges and a checkpointer.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langgraph/interrupts
interrupt() and Command(resume=), which is how a gate stops a run
https://reference.langchain.com/python/langgraph/graph/state/StateGraph
StateGraph, add_edge, add_conditional_edges, defer
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN LANGGRAPH
11. A phase is a node added with `add_node`, under the phase's own name.
12. The state is a TypedDict. Each handoff key is one field on it.
13. A join is the trap. `add_edge(["a", "b"], "c")` looks right and releases
once: when a backward edge re-enters ONE arm, the joined node never runs
again, and the run ends early reporting success rather than raising. Mark the
joined node `defer=True` and re-check inside it that both inbound handoffs
exist.
14. A gate is `interrupt()` inside the node, resumed with `Command(resume=...)`.
The platform lets anything at all call resume, so require the resumed value to
name a person and a date and refuse anything else. Say in the fidelity note
that this proves only that whoever resumed typed a name, because
`Command(resume=True)` from a scheduled job is indistinguishable from a person
signing.
15. A deviation is `add_conditional_edges` with a routing function named after
the key in brackets.
16. Pass a durable checkpointer rather than taking the in-memory default. The
gates wait days, and the default loses every paused run on restart.
17. Leave every phase body unimplemented, raising until somebody registers an
implementation. The automation level is a blank, so writing a body would
answer on the adopter's behalf whether an agent may do that work.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: certify a partner id: <team>/certify-a-partner v1
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: an onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver
in <your partner portal>
watch: record=<partner record> system=<your partner portal>
change=<an onboarded partner names the people who will
sell or deliver>
concurrency: runs may overlap - <how many> certification runs open at
once, and one partner is certified by one run at a time
goal: every named person passes the exam and the practical for their
role within <weeks>, with a signed pass on file and a certificate
carrying a date and an expiry
phases:
take-in-people - runs collect-and-report: who at the partner will
sell, who will deliver, what each one does today,
and how much of their time this gets
owner: partner-manager after: trigger
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-requirements - convenes decide-and-announce: what a certified
seller and a certified deliverer each have to
prove, written as things a person can be tested on
owner: <your enablement role>
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: never
read-prior-skill - runs assessment: prior experience, certificates
already held and work already delivered, scored
against the requirements rather than admired
owner: curriculum-manager
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: <level>
build-curriculum - runs build-by-talent: the courses each role
takes, in order, with the requirement each course
covers named against it
owner: curriculum-manager
after: set-requirements + read-prior-skill
by: <days> automation: <level>
book-sessions - human: dates, trainers, rooms or links, and the
people expected at each session, agreed on both
sides and in diaries
owner: curriculum-manager
after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-courseware - human: the decks, the labs, the sample data and
the recordings, published at a version where the
partner's people can reach them
owner: portal-keeper after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
sales-training - convenes briefing: the pitch, who it is for, the
price, the objections that actually come up, and
where to get help mid-deal
owner: <your enablement role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
delivery-training - convenes briefing: the product, the build, the
integration points and the failures that show up
in the first month of every deployment
owner: <your delivery role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
hands-on-lab - human: each person builds the thing themselves on
<your lab environment>, unaided, with the trainer
watching rather than typing
owner: curriculum-manager
after: delivery-training
by: <days> automation: <level>
written-exam - runs assessment: scored against the question set
at its version, with the pass mark set before the
exam rather than after it
owner: certification-check
after: sales-training + hands-on-lab
automation: <level>
practical - runs assessment: a mock pitch or a mock build,
watched by an assessor and scored against <your
practical rubric> at a version
owner: certification-check
after: written-exam
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-pass - convenes approval: a named signer passes or fails
each person, and a fail names the requirement
that was not met
owner: <your certification signer role>
after: practical
by: <days> automation: never
retrain - convenes briefing: the named gap taught again to
the people who failed it, and only that gap
owner: curriculum-manager after: decide-pass
by: <weeks> automation: <level>
issue-certificates - system: a certificate per person and per role,
carrying the date, the requirement version and
the expiry
owner: certification-check
after: decide-pass
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-certified - human: the list of who is certified in what,
visible to the partner and to our own people, so
nobody has to ask
owner: portal-keeper
after: issue-certificates
automation: <level>
watch-expiry - runs roll-call: certificates approaching expiry,
certified people who have left the partner, and
roles the partner no longer covers
owner: partner-monitor after: publish-certified
by: <days> automation: <level>
run-scoped:
attendance - runs roll-call owner: curriculum-manager
every: <cadence>
from: book-sessions until: decide-pass
cost - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your enablement role>
from: book-sessions until: run close
handoffs:
take-in-people -> set-requirements [intended-roles]: the roles the
partner intends to cover, and how many people they are putting
behind each one
take-in-people -> read-prior-skill [named-people]: the named people,
with what each one claims to have done before
set-requirements -> build-curriculum [role-requirements]: what each
role has to prove, one testable line at a time, at a version
read-prior-skill -> build-curriculum [exemptions]: what each person
can be excused, with the evidence behind every exemption
build-curriculum -> book-sessions [course-plan]: the courses, their
length, and who has to be in each one
build-curriculum -> publish-courseware [material-list]: the material
each course needs and the version it is taught at
book-sessions -> sales-training [sales-schedule]: the dates, the room
and the people expected, confirmed by the partner
book-sessions -> delivery-training [delivery-schedule]: the same
schedule, so nobody is booked into two sessions at once
publish-courseware -> sales-training [published-material]: the
material at a version, at an address the partner's people can reach
delivery-training -> hands-on-lab [taught-build]: the build as it was
taught, and the environment each person will do it in
hands-on-lab -> written-exam [lab-result]: what each person got
working alone, and where the trainer had to step in
sales-training -> written-exam [pitch-as-taught]: the pitch and the
pricing as taught, so the exam tests what was actually covered
written-exam -> practical [exam-scores]: the score per person, the
question set version, and which requirement each wrong answer sits
under
practical -> decide-pass [practical-scores]: the assessor's score
against the rubric, with a note on anything the score does not
carry
decide-pass -> issue-certificates [signed-passes]: the signed passes,
per person and per role, with the date of the signature
decide-pass -> retrain [named-fails]: the fails, each naming the
requirement that was not met rather than a grade
retrain -> written-exam [closed-gaps]: the gap taught again, and the
date it was taught, so the retake is scored against the same
requirements
issue-certificates -> publish-certified [certificates]: the
certificates as issued, each with its expiry
publish-certified -> watch-expiry [certified-list]: the certified
list as published, and who at the partner it covers
deviations:
read-prior-skill -> take-in-people [no-base-skill]: nobody the
partner named holds the base skill, so the partner names other
people rather than the requirement being lowered for them
hands-on-lab -> delivery-training [training-did-not-land]: people
cannot build the thing they watched being built, so the part they
could not do is taught again before the lab runs a second time
decide-pass -> retrain [a-person-fails]: a person fails, so the
requirement that was not met is taught again to them alone
decide-pass -> build-curriculum [question-is-wrong]: everybody fails
the same question, so the curriculum and the question set are
worked again against the requirement each of them claims to test
watch-expiry -> book-sessions [coverage-lapses]: a certificate lapses
or a certified person leaves, so sessions are booked for the
replacements and the partner is told which role is uncovered
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the enablement lead, the
trainers, the assessors, the certification signer, and the
partner's practice lead and sales lead>
systems: the learning system (write), the partner portal (write),
the certification record (write), the lab environment
(trigger, cap: <n> hours per person), the calendar (write),
the partner record (read), the partner record (write)
data: <your role requirements> <version>, <your question set>
<version>, <your practical rubric> <version>, <your course
materials> <version>, the partner agreement and its tier
policy:
what a role has to prove is written down before the curriculum is
built, and a course that covers no requirement is not run
the pass mark is set before the exam is sat and is not moved for a
person or a partner
a pass is signed by a named person and is never issued by an agent
alone
a fail names the requirement that was not met, and the person retakes
only that part
a person may retake <n> times, after which <who> decides whether they
are certified at all
a certificate carries an expiry of <months>, and an expired
certificate does not count towards the partner's coverage
a certified person who leaves the partner is removed from the
published list within <days> of us being told
nobody sells or delivers alone on a certificate they do not hold
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the named people to the first signed pass
pass rate: <target> at first attempt, reported per role
coverage: <target> number of certified people per role the partner
must hold to stay at their tier
volume: <people certified per period>
quality gate: no certificate is issued without a signed pass, and no
pass is signed without a watched practical
```
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Convert the business process below into a runnable Microsoft Agent Framework workflow:
one Python file with Executor classes, a WorkflowBuilder, typed edges,
request_info gates and durable checkpoint storage.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/human-in-the-loop
ctx.request_info, @response_handler, and answering a parked run later
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/checkpoints
what a checkpoint holds, and allowed_checkpoint_types
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/edges
add_edge with condition, add_fan_in_edges, add_switch_case_edge_group
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/state
ctx.set_state and ctx.get_state as they actually are today
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK
11. Write for Python, and read those pages before writing a line. This API has
moved: `set_shared_state`, `RequestInfoExecutor`, `RequestInfoMessage` and
`send_responses_streaming` are all in the training data and none of them exist
any more. The .NET workflow API differs in kind rather than in spelling, so a
file written for one does not port by renaming.
12. A phase is a class deriving from `Executor` whose `super().__init__(id=...)`
takes the phase name verbatim. The id is not cosmetic: a checkpoint stores a
signature over the topology and the executor ids, so an id built from a run, a
timestamp or a counter cannot be resumed into.
13. Give each phase a `@handler` method and move work on with
`await ctx.send_message(...)`. A handler that returns without sending is a dead
end: the branch stops, the run converges, and it reports success. So a phase
you are deliberately leaving unimplemented must still send a placeholder
onward. Do not stub with `raise NotImplementedError`, which fails the run
instead of leaving it runnable.
14. `after: a` is `builder.add_edge(a, b)`. `after: a + b` is
`builder.add_fan_in_edges([a, b], target)`, and the target's handler must be
annotated `list[T]`, because a fan-in delivers one aggregated list rather than
the separate messages. A handler typed for the single value is dropped as a
mismatch with nothing raised.
15. The join is the trap here, and it is the opposite of LangGraph's. The
barrier re-arms: it clears its buffer when it fires and then demands a fresh
message from every source. So a deviation that re-enters ONE arm parks the
run forever waiting for an arm that will not run again, and the workflow ends
IDLE reporting success. Wherever a deviation re-enters one arm of a join,
replace the barrier with an ordinary edge from each arm into a small executor
that records each arrival with `ctx.set_state` and only forwards when every
expected key is present, and say in a comment that putting `add_fan_in_edges`
back reintroduces the stall.
16. A phase that is both a join target and a deviation target needs two
handlers, one annotated `list[T]` for the barrier and one annotated `T` for the
backward message. Write only the list handler and every backward edge into it
is discarded as a type mismatch, silently.
17. `automation: never` is `await ctx.request_info(request_data=...,
response_type=...)` inside the phase, answered by a `@response_handler` on the
same executor whose annotations match those exact types. The run parks at
`IDLE_WITH_PENDING_REQUESTS` and the host answers with
`workflow.run(stream=True, responses={request_id: value})`. If no handler
matches the pair, the framework logs a warning and parks anyway, so the gate
reads as working right up until somebody asks why the approval did not take.
18. A gate is only a gate if the wait survives a restart, so pass
`checkpoint_storage=FileCheckpointStorage(...)` to the builder. Checkpointing
is off by default and `InMemoryCheckpointStorage` reads as configured while
persisting nothing. Register every handoff payload type in
`allowed_checkpoint_types`, or the first restore raises. Anything an executor
keeps as an instance attribute is absent after a restore unless you export it
from `on_checkpoint_save` and read it back in `on_checkpoint_restore`, and it
comes back empty rather than missing.
19. Each line under `deviations:` is `builder.add_edge(source, earlier,
condition=fn)` with `fn` named after the key. Cycles are legal and unchecked,
but raise `max_iterations` well above its default of 100, because several live
cycles will exhaust a budget sized for a straight line and fail with a message
about convergence that reads like a broken graph. Keep the ordinary forward
edge unconditional and add each deviation beside it: a condition that returns
false is dropped with no event, so a forward path expressed as a condition
dies silently on every normal run, which is most of them.
20. Handoff values go in `ctx.set_state(key, value)` and come back from
`ctx.get_state(key)`, untyped and unchecked. A write is visible to its writer
at once and to everyone else only in the next superstep, and two writers of one
key in a superstep keep the last write. Never read a key in the same superstep
another phase wrote it.
21. There are no timers, no deadlines and no scheduled wakes. Nothing in
`run-scoped:` becomes an executor and `by:` has no expression at all, so write
them as comments naming where they start and stop, and say plainly in the
fidelity note that a run can close over an unfinished run-scoped line. Do not
fake a deadline with a sleep inside a handler, which blocks the whole superstep
barrier, and never let an expiring wait release a gate.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: certify a partner id: <team>/certify-a-partner v1
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: an onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver
in <your partner portal>
watch: record=<partner record> system=<your partner portal>
change=<an onboarded partner names the people who will
sell or deliver>
concurrency: runs may overlap - <how many> certification runs open at
once, and one partner is certified by one run at a time
goal: every named person passes the exam and the practical for their
role within <weeks>, with a signed pass on file and a certificate
carrying a date and an expiry
phases:
take-in-people - runs collect-and-report: who at the partner will
sell, who will deliver, what each one does today,
and how much of their time this gets
owner: partner-manager after: trigger
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-requirements - convenes decide-and-announce: what a certified
seller and a certified deliverer each have to
prove, written as things a person can be tested on
owner: <your enablement role>
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: never
read-prior-skill - runs assessment: prior experience, certificates
already held and work already delivered, scored
against the requirements rather than admired
owner: curriculum-manager
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: <level>
build-curriculum - runs build-by-talent: the courses each role
takes, in order, with the requirement each course
covers named against it
owner: curriculum-manager
after: set-requirements + read-prior-skill
by: <days> automation: <level>
book-sessions - human: dates, trainers, rooms or links, and the
people expected at each session, agreed on both
sides and in diaries
owner: curriculum-manager
after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-courseware - human: the decks, the labs, the sample data and
the recordings, published at a version where the
partner's people can reach them
owner: portal-keeper after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
sales-training - convenes briefing: the pitch, who it is for, the
price, the objections that actually come up, and
where to get help mid-deal
owner: <your enablement role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
delivery-training - convenes briefing: the product, the build, the
integration points and the failures that show up
in the first month of every deployment
owner: <your delivery role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
hands-on-lab - human: each person builds the thing themselves on
<your lab environment>, unaided, with the trainer
watching rather than typing
owner: curriculum-manager
after: delivery-training
by: <days> automation: <level>
written-exam - runs assessment: scored against the question set
at its version, with the pass mark set before the
exam rather than after it
owner: certification-check
after: sales-training + hands-on-lab
automation: <level>
practical - runs assessment: a mock pitch or a mock build,
watched by an assessor and scored against <your
practical rubric> at a version
owner: certification-check
after: written-exam
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-pass - convenes approval: a named signer passes or fails
each person, and a fail names the requirement
that was not met
owner: <your certification signer role>
after: practical
by: <days> automation: never
retrain - convenes briefing: the named gap taught again to
the people who failed it, and only that gap
owner: curriculum-manager after: decide-pass
by: <weeks> automation: <level>
issue-certificates - system: a certificate per person and per role,
carrying the date, the requirement version and
the expiry
owner: certification-check
after: decide-pass
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-certified - human: the list of who is certified in what,
visible to the partner and to our own people, so
nobody has to ask
owner: portal-keeper
after: issue-certificates
automation: <level>
watch-expiry - runs roll-call: certificates approaching expiry,
certified people who have left the partner, and
roles the partner no longer covers
owner: partner-monitor after: publish-certified
by: <days> automation: <level>
run-scoped:
attendance - runs roll-call owner: curriculum-manager
every: <cadence>
from: book-sessions until: decide-pass
cost - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your enablement role>
from: book-sessions until: run close
handoffs:
take-in-people -> set-requirements [intended-roles]: the roles the
partner intends to cover, and how many people they are putting
behind each one
take-in-people -> read-prior-skill [named-people]: the named people,
with what each one claims to have done before
set-requirements -> build-curriculum [role-requirements]: what each
role has to prove, one testable line at a time, at a version
read-prior-skill -> build-curriculum [exemptions]: what each person
can be excused, with the evidence behind every exemption
build-curriculum -> book-sessions [course-plan]: the courses, their
length, and who has to be in each one
build-curriculum -> publish-courseware [material-list]: the material
each course needs and the version it is taught at
book-sessions -> sales-training [sales-schedule]: the dates, the room
and the people expected, confirmed by the partner
book-sessions -> delivery-training [delivery-schedule]: the same
schedule, so nobody is booked into two sessions at once
publish-courseware -> sales-training [published-material]: the
material at a version, at an address the partner's people can reach
delivery-training -> hands-on-lab [taught-build]: the build as it was
taught, and the environment each person will do it in
hands-on-lab -> written-exam [lab-result]: what each person got
working alone, and where the trainer had to step in
sales-training -> written-exam [pitch-as-taught]: the pitch and the
pricing as taught, so the exam tests what was actually covered
written-exam -> practical [exam-scores]: the score per person, the
question set version, and which requirement each wrong answer sits
under
practical -> decide-pass [practical-scores]: the assessor's score
against the rubric, with a note on anything the score does not
carry
decide-pass -> issue-certificates [signed-passes]: the signed passes,
per person and per role, with the date of the signature
decide-pass -> retrain [named-fails]: the fails, each naming the
requirement that was not met rather than a grade
retrain -> written-exam [closed-gaps]: the gap taught again, and the
date it was taught, so the retake is scored against the same
requirements
issue-certificates -> publish-certified [certificates]: the
certificates as issued, each with its expiry
publish-certified -> watch-expiry [certified-list]: the certified
list as published, and who at the partner it covers
deviations:
read-prior-skill -> take-in-people [no-base-skill]: nobody the
partner named holds the base skill, so the partner names other
people rather than the requirement being lowered for them
hands-on-lab -> delivery-training [training-did-not-land]: people
cannot build the thing they watched being built, so the part they
could not do is taught again before the lab runs a second time
decide-pass -> retrain [a-person-fails]: a person fails, so the
requirement that was not met is taught again to them alone
decide-pass -> build-curriculum [question-is-wrong]: everybody fails
the same question, so the curriculum and the question set are
worked again against the requirement each of them claims to test
watch-expiry -> book-sessions [coverage-lapses]: a certificate lapses
or a certified person leaves, so sessions are booked for the
replacements and the partner is told which role is uncovered
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the enablement lead, the
trainers, the assessors, the certification signer, and the
partner's practice lead and sales lead>
systems: the learning system (write), the partner portal (write),
the certification record (write), the lab environment
(trigger, cap: <n> hours per person), the calendar (write),
the partner record (read), the partner record (write)
data: <your role requirements> <version>, <your question set>
<version>, <your practical rubric> <version>, <your course
materials> <version>, the partner agreement and its tier
policy:
what a role has to prove is written down before the curriculum is
built, and a course that covers no requirement is not run
the pass mark is set before the exam is sat and is not moved for a
person or a partner
a pass is signed by a named person and is never issued by an agent
alone
a fail names the requirement that was not met, and the person retakes
only that part
a person may retake <n> times, after which <who> decides whether they
are certified at all
a certificate carries an expiry of <months>, and an expired
certificate does not count towards the partner's coverage
a certified person who leaves the partner is removed from the
published list within <days> of us being told
nobody sells or delivers alone on a certificate they do not hold
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the named people to the first signed pass
pass rate: <target> at first attempt, reported per role
coverage: <target> number of certified people per role the partner
must hold to stay at their tier
volume: <people certified per period>
quality gate: no certificate is issued without a signed pass, and no
pass is signed without a watched practical
```
Take it somewhere
Use this process in CrewAI Flows
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Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current CrewAI documentation, then writes two files: the flow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.
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388 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
Convert the business process below into a runnable CrewAI Flow:
one Python file with a Pydantic state model, one Flow subclass, @start,
@listen, @router and a durable human feedback provider.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://docs.crewai.com/en/concepts/flows
Flow, @start, @listen, @router, and_, or_, state, kickoff, plot
https://docs.crewai.com/en/learn/human-feedback-in-flows
@human_feedback, the provider protocol, from_pending and resume
https://docs.crewai.com/en/guides/flows/mastering-flow-state
@persist and what persistence actually promises, which is less than it sounds
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN CREWAI FLOWS
11. Build a Flow, not a Crew. A Crew is a team of roles with no graph, no join,
no persistence handle and no gate, and cannot express this document at all.
Each phase is one method on a single `Flow` subclass, keeping its name with
hyphens turned into underscores. A phase that genuinely needs role-based agents
builds its own Crew inside its own method body, and the Flow stays the graph.
12. Declare the state as a Pydantic model bound as the type parameter,
`class NegotiateTheAgreement(Flow[NegotiationState])`, and read and write
`self.state.field`. Never use the untyped dict form: the handoff keys are this
process's memory, and an untyped dict turns a misspelt key into a handoff that
is silently absent. Keep the auto-injected `id` field, which is what every
resume depends on.
13. `after: a` is `@listen(a)`. `after: a + b` is `@listen(and_(a, b))`. Never
write `or_` where the document writes `+`.
14. Check every inbound handoff at the top of the method and raise if one is
missing. `@listen` says when a method may run and says nothing about what is
in hand when it does.
15. The join is the trap, and it is proven rather than theoretical. `and_()`
empties its accumulator the moment it fires, so re-entering BOTH arms works
forever, and re-entering ONE arm after it has fired leaves it holding a single
trigger and waiting for the other for good. The cascade drains, CrewAI prints
that the flow completed, and `kickoff()` returns normally. So for any joining
phase that a deviation can send work back into, do not use `and_()` at all:
make the join a `@router` that both arms trigger, which reads the state fields
and emits its label only when every inbound handoff is present. A router is
re-evaluated against durable state every time and is never suppressed by the
once-fired set.
16. Do not write a phase as `@listen(or_(and_(a, b), "some_label"))`. There is
one accumulator per listener, shared across every branch of its condition and
wiped when any branch satisfies, so the label firing while the join is half
full erases the arm that had already arrived.
17. `automation: never` is `@human_feedback(message=..., provider=...)` stacked
under the method's `@listen`, with a provider whose `request_feedback` raises
`HumanFeedbackPending`. The run then persists, returns that object from
`kickoff()`, and a different process answers later with `from_pending(flow_id,
persistence)` and `resume(text)`. Do not take the default `ConsoleProvider`,
which calls `input()`: that gate exists only while somebody is watching a
terminal, and a run started by a scheduler either hangs or takes an empty
string.
18. Silence must not approve, and the platform's default is that it does. With
`emit=[...]` set, an empty resume collapses to `default_outcome`, or to the
first label when that is unset, with no model consulted and nobody named. Treat
an empty or unrecognised answer as a refusal in your own router. And write the
approver's name and the time onto the state yourself, because
`HumanFeedbackResult` carries the text, the outcome and a timestamp but has no
field for the person, which the specification requires.
19. Each line under `deviations:` is a `@router` named after the key, returning
a label named after the same key, with the target subscribing as
`@listen(or_(normal_trigger, "the_label"))`. Route rather than listen
directly, because a router is re-evaluated on every cycle while a top-level
`or_` listener is suppressed after it first fires.
20. An exception edge is a `try` and `except` around the failing phase's body,
recording the failure on the state and emitting an exception label from a
router. Wiring it as `@listen(or_(x, y))` fires when those phases SUCCEED, so
the clearing phase would run on every healthy run.
21. An unimplemented phase is a method with the document's own sentence as its
docstring and a bare `pass`, which is safe because listeners still fire on a
`None` return. An unimplemented `@router` is not safe: returning `None` emits
no label, every phase below it disappears from the run including the gates, and
the flow reports success. A stub router must return a hard-coded label with a
TODO beside it, or raise.
22. Turn persistence on with `@persist(SQLiteFlowPersistence(...))`, then treat
every phase that performs a real act as something that will run twice.
Persistence saves the state fields and nothing else, so a restart rehydrates
the data and runs the graph again from `@start`: a flow that had already sent a
written refusal sends a second one. Guard each acting phase with a state field
it checks and sets.
23. There are no timers, no deadlines and no cadences, and `run-scoped:` has no
counterpart at all. Put each `by:` value as a named constant, name the
run-scoped lines in the module docstring as unimplemented obligations, and say
in the fidelity note that no deadline in this document is enforced by anything.
These absences produce no diagnostic whatsoever, which is exactly why they have
to be written down.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: certify a partner id: <team>/certify-a-partner v1
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: an onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver
in <your partner portal>
watch: record=<partner record> system=<your partner portal>
change=<an onboarded partner names the people who will
sell or deliver>
concurrency: runs may overlap - <how many> certification runs open at
once, and one partner is certified by one run at a time
goal: every named person passes the exam and the practical for their
role within <weeks>, with a signed pass on file and a certificate
carrying a date and an expiry
phases:
take-in-people - runs collect-and-report: who at the partner will
sell, who will deliver, what each one does today,
and how much of their time this gets
owner: partner-manager after: trigger
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-requirements - convenes decide-and-announce: what a certified
seller and a certified deliverer each have to
prove, written as things a person can be tested on
owner: <your enablement role>
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: never
read-prior-skill - runs assessment: prior experience, certificates
already held and work already delivered, scored
against the requirements rather than admired
owner: curriculum-manager
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: <level>
build-curriculum - runs build-by-talent: the courses each role
takes, in order, with the requirement each course
covers named against it
owner: curriculum-manager
after: set-requirements + read-prior-skill
by: <days> automation: <level>
book-sessions - human: dates, trainers, rooms or links, and the
people expected at each session, agreed on both
sides and in diaries
owner: curriculum-manager
after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-courseware - human: the decks, the labs, the sample data and
the recordings, published at a version where the
partner's people can reach them
owner: portal-keeper after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
sales-training - convenes briefing: the pitch, who it is for, the
price, the objections that actually come up, and
where to get help mid-deal
owner: <your enablement role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
delivery-training - convenes briefing: the product, the build, the
integration points and the failures that show up
in the first month of every deployment
owner: <your delivery role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
hands-on-lab - human: each person builds the thing themselves on
<your lab environment>, unaided, with the trainer
watching rather than typing
owner: curriculum-manager
after: delivery-training
by: <days> automation: <level>
written-exam - runs assessment: scored against the question set
at its version, with the pass mark set before the
exam rather than after it
owner: certification-check
after: sales-training + hands-on-lab
automation: <level>
practical - runs assessment: a mock pitch or a mock build,
watched by an assessor and scored against <your
practical rubric> at a version
owner: certification-check
after: written-exam
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-pass - convenes approval: a named signer passes or fails
each person, and a fail names the requirement
that was not met
owner: <your certification signer role>
after: practical
by: <days> automation: never
retrain - convenes briefing: the named gap taught again to
the people who failed it, and only that gap
owner: curriculum-manager after: decide-pass
by: <weeks> automation: <level>
issue-certificates - system: a certificate per person and per role,
carrying the date, the requirement version and
the expiry
owner: certification-check
after: decide-pass
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-certified - human: the list of who is certified in what,
visible to the partner and to our own people, so
nobody has to ask
owner: portal-keeper
after: issue-certificates
automation: <level>
watch-expiry - runs roll-call: certificates approaching expiry,
certified people who have left the partner, and
roles the partner no longer covers
owner: partner-monitor after: publish-certified
by: <days> automation: <level>
run-scoped:
attendance - runs roll-call owner: curriculum-manager
every: <cadence>
from: book-sessions until: decide-pass
cost - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your enablement role>
from: book-sessions until: run close
handoffs:
take-in-people -> set-requirements [intended-roles]: the roles the
partner intends to cover, and how many people they are putting
behind each one
take-in-people -> read-prior-skill [named-people]: the named people,
with what each one claims to have done before
set-requirements -> build-curriculum [role-requirements]: what each
role has to prove, one testable line at a time, at a version
read-prior-skill -> build-curriculum [exemptions]: what each person
can be excused, with the evidence behind every exemption
build-curriculum -> book-sessions [course-plan]: the courses, their
length, and who has to be in each one
build-curriculum -> publish-courseware [material-list]: the material
each course needs and the version it is taught at
book-sessions -> sales-training [sales-schedule]: the dates, the room
and the people expected, confirmed by the partner
book-sessions -> delivery-training [delivery-schedule]: the same
schedule, so nobody is booked into two sessions at once
publish-courseware -> sales-training [published-material]: the
material at a version, at an address the partner's people can reach
delivery-training -> hands-on-lab [taught-build]: the build as it was
taught, and the environment each person will do it in
hands-on-lab -> written-exam [lab-result]: what each person got
working alone, and where the trainer had to step in
sales-training -> written-exam [pitch-as-taught]: the pitch and the
pricing as taught, so the exam tests what was actually covered
written-exam -> practical [exam-scores]: the score per person, the
question set version, and which requirement each wrong answer sits
under
practical -> decide-pass [practical-scores]: the assessor's score
against the rubric, with a note on anything the score does not
carry
decide-pass -> issue-certificates [signed-passes]: the signed passes,
per person and per role, with the date of the signature
decide-pass -> retrain [named-fails]: the fails, each naming the
requirement that was not met rather than a grade
retrain -> written-exam [closed-gaps]: the gap taught again, and the
date it was taught, so the retake is scored against the same
requirements
issue-certificates -> publish-certified [certificates]: the
certificates as issued, each with its expiry
publish-certified -> watch-expiry [certified-list]: the certified
list as published, and who at the partner it covers
deviations:
read-prior-skill -> take-in-people [no-base-skill]: nobody the
partner named holds the base skill, so the partner names other
people rather than the requirement being lowered for them
hands-on-lab -> delivery-training [training-did-not-land]: people
cannot build the thing they watched being built, so the part they
could not do is taught again before the lab runs a second time
decide-pass -> retrain [a-person-fails]: a person fails, so the
requirement that was not met is taught again to them alone
decide-pass -> build-curriculum [question-is-wrong]: everybody fails
the same question, so the curriculum and the question set are
worked again against the requirement each of them claims to test
watch-expiry -> book-sessions [coverage-lapses]: a certificate lapses
or a certified person leaves, so sessions are booked for the
replacements and the partner is told which role is uncovered
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the enablement lead, the
trainers, the assessors, the certification signer, and the
partner's practice lead and sales lead>
systems: the learning system (write), the partner portal (write),
the certification record (write), the lab environment
(trigger, cap: <n> hours per person), the calendar (write),
the partner record (read), the partner record (write)
data: <your role requirements> <version>, <your question set>
<version>, <your practical rubric> <version>, <your course
materials> <version>, the partner agreement and its tier
policy:
what a role has to prove is written down before the curriculum is
built, and a course that covers no requirement is not run
the pass mark is set before the exam is sat and is not moved for a
person or a partner
a pass is signed by a named person and is never issued by an agent
alone
a fail names the requirement that was not met, and the person retakes
only that part
a person may retake <n> times, after which <who> decides whether they
are certified at all
a certificate carries an expiry of <months>, and an expired
certificate does not count towards the partner's coverage
a certified person who leaves the partner is removed from the
published list within <days> of us being told
nobody sells or delivers alone on a certificate they do not hold
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the named people to the first signed pass
pass rate: <target> at first attempt, reported per role
coverage: <target> number of certified people per role the partner
must hold to stay at their tier
volume: <people certified per period>
quality gate: no certificate is issued without a signed pass, and no
pass is signed without a watched practical
```
Take it somewhere
Use this process in Google ADK
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Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current ADK documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.
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Convert the business process below into a runnable Google ADK workflow:
one Python file with a Workflow, nodes, routed edges, a JoinNode,
RequestInput gates and a persisting session service.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://adk.dev/graphs/routes/
nodes, tuple chains, Event(route=), JoinNode, back-edges
https://adk.dev/graphs/human-input/
RequestInput and the rerun_on_resume handoff
https://adk.dev/runtime/resume/
ResumabilityConfig, resuming by invocation id, at-least-once tools
https://adk.dev/graphs/data-handling/
Event.output against state, and the selector syntax in instructions
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN GOOGLE ADK
11. Build a `Workflow` from `google.adk.workflow`, and pin `google-adk>=2.0` in
a comment. Do not use `SequentialAgent`, `ParallelAgent` or `LoopAgent`: they
are deprecated in favour of the graph, and they carry their own defects around
state and control flow. The documentation moved to adk.dev, and anything you
remember about nesting agents rather than drawing a graph is out of date.
12. Each phase is one node keeping its name. Take the node kind from how the
phase resolves rather than from taste: a `human:` or `system:` phase is a plain
Python function node, and a `runs` or `convenes` phase is an `Agent`.
13. `after:` gives the edges, written as tuple chains in `edges=[...]`, and the
trigger is the `"START"` keyword. Take the order only from `after:` lines and
never from the order the phases are listed in.
14. `after: a + b` is a `JoinNode`, and it must be guarded, because this is the
worst trap of any runtime here. The join fires when every static predecessor is
marked COMPLETED, nothing ever un-completes a node, and stored outputs are
never cleared. So after a deviation re-runs one arm, the join fires the instant
that arm finishes and hands the next phase LAST PASS'S value for every arm that
did not re-run. It does not stall, it proceeds with stale data, and nothing
logs. Stamp each arm's output with a pass counter or a content hash, and have
the phase after the join compare the stamps and refuse to run when they
disagree.
15. Each line under `deviations:` is a routed back-edge: a router after the
phase on the left returning `Event(route=...)`, named after the key in
brackets, with one arm going back to the phase on the right and one going
forward. An unconditional cycle raises at construction, which is the one place
this model checks your work. Nothing budgets a routed cycle, so add your own
count and stop rather than looping forever.
16. Give every router an explicit `DEFAULT_ROUTE` arm, and route it to a phase
that stops and asks a person. A route value matching no key writes a log
warning, ends that branch, and lets the run finish reporting success with the
rest of the process never having happened.
17. `automation: never` is a `RequestInput` node of its own, never an `Agent`
asking a question. Decorate it `@node(rerun_on_resume=False)` and yield
`RequestInput(message=..., payload=..., response_schema=...)`, so the run
stops, persists, and delivers the person's answer to the node's successor as
its typed input. A resumed workflow runs its tools at least once, so any
irreversible act needs its own duplicate guard.
18. Make the gates durable or say plainly that they are not. Wrap the graph in
`App(..., resumability_config=ResumabilityConfig(is_resumable=True))` and pass
a persisting session service, never the in-memory one. Note in the file that
the command line and the web UI cannot resume a run, so whoever releases these
gates needs an operator surface that somebody has to write.
19. Every `Agent` in the graph gets `mode="single_turn"` and no `sub_agents`.
A non-empty `sub_agents` list silently adds a transfer tool, and a model that
uses it runs a different agent in this node's place while the graph's outgoing
edge fires on schedule regardless: the topology is honoured perfectly and the
work belongs to somebody else.
20. Model failure as a route, not as an exception. A node that raises does not
propagate: the failure is caught, recorded, and shuts the workflow down without
raising to the caller. So a phase that can fail catches its own failure and
returns `Event(route="could-not-finish")`, and the exception phase hangs off
that arm.
21. Keep every blank as a named module-level constant and never interpolate one
into an `instruction=` string. Angle brackets and curly braces are ADK's own
data selector syntax inside instructions, so a blank pasted verbatim stops
being a blank and becomes a selector.
22. `by:` and `not-before:` have no expression, and `@node(timeout=)` is not
one: it is an in-process wall clock that cancels the node and, because failures
are swallowed, ends the run silently rather than recording a missed deadline.
Nothing in `run-scoped:` has an expression either, and it must not be faked as
an ordinary node, because a node has to be reached and has to finish before
anything downstream starts, which is the opposite of what those lines mean.
Leave both out of the graph and name them in the fidelity note.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: certify a partner id: <team>/certify-a-partner v1
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: an onboarded partner names the people who will sell or deliver
in <your partner portal>
watch: record=<partner record> system=<your partner portal>
change=<an onboarded partner names the people who will
sell or deliver>
concurrency: runs may overlap - <how many> certification runs open at
once, and one partner is certified by one run at a time
goal: every named person passes the exam and the practical for their
role within <weeks>, with a signed pass on file and a certificate
carrying a date and an expiry
phases:
take-in-people - runs collect-and-report: who at the partner will
sell, who will deliver, what each one does today,
and how much of their time this gets
owner: partner-manager after: trigger
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-requirements - convenes decide-and-announce: what a certified
seller and a certified deliverer each have to
prove, written as things a person can be tested on
owner: <your enablement role>
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: never
read-prior-skill - runs assessment: prior experience, certificates
already held and work already delivered, scored
against the requirements rather than admired
owner: curriculum-manager
after: take-in-people
by: <days> automation: <level>
build-curriculum - runs build-by-talent: the courses each role
takes, in order, with the requirement each course
covers named against it
owner: curriculum-manager
after: set-requirements + read-prior-skill
by: <days> automation: <level>
book-sessions - human: dates, trainers, rooms or links, and the
people expected at each session, agreed on both
sides and in diaries
owner: curriculum-manager
after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-courseware - human: the decks, the labs, the sample data and
the recordings, published at a version where the
partner's people can reach them
owner: portal-keeper after: build-curriculum
by: <days> automation: <level>
sales-training - convenes briefing: the pitch, who it is for, the
price, the objections that actually come up, and
where to get help mid-deal
owner: <your enablement role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
delivery-training - convenes briefing: the product, the build, the
integration points and the failures that show up
in the first month of every deployment
owner: <your delivery role>
after: book-sessions + publish-courseware
automation: <level>
hands-on-lab - human: each person builds the thing themselves on
<your lab environment>, unaided, with the trainer
watching rather than typing
owner: curriculum-manager
after: delivery-training
by: <days> automation: <level>
written-exam - runs assessment: scored against the question set
at its version, with the pass mark set before the
exam rather than after it
owner: certification-check
after: sales-training + hands-on-lab
automation: <level>
practical - runs assessment: a mock pitch or a mock build,
watched by an assessor and scored against <your
practical rubric> at a version
owner: certification-check
after: written-exam
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-pass - convenes approval: a named signer passes or fails
each person, and a fail names the requirement
that was not met
owner: <your certification signer role>
after: practical
by: <days> automation: never
retrain - convenes briefing: the named gap taught again to
the people who failed it, and only that gap
owner: curriculum-manager after: decide-pass
by: <weeks> automation: <level>
issue-certificates - system: a certificate per person and per role,
carrying the date, the requirement version and
the expiry
owner: certification-check
after: decide-pass
by: <days> automation: <level>
publish-certified - human: the list of who is certified in what,
visible to the partner and to our own people, so
nobody has to ask
owner: portal-keeper
after: issue-certificates
automation: <level>
watch-expiry - runs roll-call: certificates approaching expiry,
certified people who have left the partner, and
roles the partner no longer covers
owner: partner-monitor after: publish-certified
by: <days> automation: <level>
run-scoped:
attendance - runs roll-call owner: curriculum-manager
every: <cadence>
from: book-sessions until: decide-pass
cost - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your enablement role>
from: book-sessions until: run close
handoffs:
take-in-people -> set-requirements [intended-roles]: the roles the
partner intends to cover, and how many people they are putting
behind each one
take-in-people -> read-prior-skill [named-people]: the named people,
with what each one claims to have done before
set-requirements -> build-curriculum [role-requirements]: what each
role has to prove, one testable line at a time, at a version
read-prior-skill -> build-curriculum [exemptions]: what each person
can be excused, with the evidence behind every exemption
build-curriculum -> book-sessions [course-plan]: the courses, their
length, and who has to be in each one
build-curriculum -> publish-courseware [material-list]: the material
each course needs and the version it is taught at
book-sessions -> sales-training [sales-schedule]: the dates, the room
and the people expected, confirmed by the partner
book-sessions -> delivery-training [delivery-schedule]: the same
schedule, so nobody is booked into two sessions at once
publish-courseware -> sales-training [published-material]: the
material at a version, at an address the partner's people can reach
delivery-training -> hands-on-lab [taught-build]: the build as it was
taught, and the environment each person will do it in
hands-on-lab -> written-exam [lab-result]: what each person got
working alone, and where the trainer had to step in
sales-training -> written-exam [pitch-as-taught]: the pitch and the
pricing as taught, so the exam tests what was actually covered
written-exam -> practical [exam-scores]: the score per person, the
question set version, and which requirement each wrong answer sits
under
practical -> decide-pass [practical-scores]: the assessor's score
against the rubric, with a note on anything the score does not
carry
decide-pass -> issue-certificates [signed-passes]: the signed passes,
per person and per role, with the date of the signature
decide-pass -> retrain [named-fails]: the fails, each naming the
requirement that was not met rather than a grade
retrain -> written-exam [closed-gaps]: the gap taught again, and the
date it was taught, so the retake is scored against the same
requirements
issue-certificates -> publish-certified [certificates]: the
certificates as issued, each with its expiry
publish-certified -> watch-expiry [certified-list]: the certified
list as published, and who at the partner it covers
deviations:
read-prior-skill -> take-in-people [no-base-skill]: nobody the
partner named holds the base skill, so the partner names other
people rather than the requirement being lowered for them
hands-on-lab -> delivery-training [training-did-not-land]: people
cannot build the thing they watched being built, so the part they
could not do is taught again before the lab runs a second time
decide-pass -> retrain [a-person-fails]: a person fails, so the
requirement that was not met is taught again to them alone
decide-pass -> build-curriculum [question-is-wrong]: everybody fails
the same question, so the curriculum and the question set are
worked again against the requirement each of them claims to test
watch-expiry -> book-sessions [coverage-lapses]: a certificate lapses
or a certified person leaves, so sessions are booked for the
replacements and the partner is told which role is uncovered
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the enablement lead, the
trainers, the assessors, the certification signer, and the
partner's practice lead and sales lead>
systems: the learning system (write), the partner portal (write),
the certification record (write), the lab environment
(trigger, cap: <n> hours per person), the calendar (write),
the partner record (read), the partner record (write)
data: <your role requirements> <version>, <your question set>
<version>, <your practical rubric> <version>, <your course
materials> <version>, the partner agreement and its tier
policy:
what a role has to prove is written down before the curriculum is
built, and a course that covers no requirement is not run
the pass mark is set before the exam is sat and is not moved for a
person or a partner
a pass is signed by a named person and is never issued by an agent
alone
a fail names the requirement that was not met, and the person retakes
only that part
a person may retake <n> times, after which <who> decides whether they
are certified at all
a certificate carries an expiry of <months>, and an expired
certificate does not count towards the partner's coverage
a certified person who leaves the partner is removed from the
published list within <days> of us being told
nobody sells or delivers alone on a certificate they do not hold
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the named people to the first signed pass
pass rate: <target> at first attempt, reported per role
coverage: <target> number of certified people per role the partner
must hold to stay at their tier
volume: <people certified per period>
quality gate: no certificate is issued without a signed pass, and no
pass is signed without a watched practical
```
One run
A simulation of one run
The activities are on the left, whoever is doing the active one is on the right, and the record of the run builds up as it goes.
This run is built from the same rows as the diagram above: the left column is the activity list, the captions are the activity lines, the cast is the roster, and the labels on the wires are what the handoffs say actually passes.
Adoption
What you fill in
57 blanks to fill. Everything else is the process.
this process
from: ref/prt/certify-a-partner v1
Copy this line into your own document. It never claims this process is running anywhere; it records which draft yours started from, and it is what lets the catalog tell you when this one changes.
The header. Your own id, an owner, and the date it takes effect. One line records where it came from, and that line is what lets the catalog tell you when this reference process changes.
The roster. Which agent takes each activity, and which person takes each of the human ones. The process already names what it needs, so this is a lookup rather than a design exercise.
The numbers. Dates, budgets, cadences, and the targets in the measures block. Nothing here can be a reference value, because a target nobody chose is a target nobody meets.