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reference process · revenue-operations · 15 activities · 10 on the roster
Administer a Tool
A tool is live and somebody has to hold it: who may get in, what the configuration says, how many licences are paid for against how many are used, and whether the links either side of it still carry. This process is the standing work of keeping one tool fit to run the process it was bought for, and it ends each cycle at a review that asks whether the tool still earns its place. The review has three answers, and one of them is retirement. A tool nobody reviews is a tool nobody can defend at renewal.
The walk
The document
One run
Adoption
The activities
What happens in a run
15 activities from a tool goes live under an owner to the tool is held, and its place is decided again, 3 of them gates a person has to sign. Drag the diagram to move along it.
Administer a Tool a tool goes live under an owner → the tool is held, and its place is decided again
the request is not what the tool is for the change breaks something the change has to be taken back more sellers are used than are held a link has stopped carrying a supplier change forces a change here an account nobody can account for keep it, with changes to make first a tool goes live under an owner 1 Take On the Tool the owner, the licence, and what it is for 2 Set the Roles and the Per… who may see and who may change what a person signs · never an agent 3 Open and Close Accounts joiners get in, leavers are taken out 4 Hold the Configuration at… changes are recorded, not just made 5 Take in Change Requests each request read against what the tool is for 6 Try the Change away from … the change made where nothing real breaks 7 Apply the Change applied, dated, and the version moved on 8 Keep the Licence Count Ri… licences paid for set against licences used 9 Watch Who Uses It and for… usage read against the process it serves 10 Check the Links Still Car… the counts either side still agree 11 Take in Supplier Changes new versions, changed terms, and notices 12 Read Every Account Again every account named, with who approved it a person signs · never an agent 13 Run the Standing Review whether the tool still earns its place 14 Decide Keep, Change or Re… the named decider says which, and why a person signs · never an agent 15 Record the Review what was decided, and the evidence behind it the tool is held, and its place is decided again
The roster this process needs
Hover a name to see the activities it holds. A dashed one is a person, and stays one.
The document
The document, with the blanks marked
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.
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PROCESS: administer a tool id: <team> /administer-a-tool v1
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a tool goes live under an owner, and again every <cadence>
while it is still in the stack
watch: record=<tool> system=<your stack record>
change=<a tool is recorded as live under an owner>
or watch: every=<cadence>
concurrency: one run per tool - runs for different tools overlap freely
and never touch each other
goal: the right people in, the wrong people out, the configuration at a
known version, the licences matched to use, and a dated answer to
whether the tool still earns its place
phases:
take-on-tool - human: read the entry as the stack record holds it:
the owner, the licence, the term, and the process
the tool runs
owner: tool-administrator after: trigger
automation: <level>
set-permissions - human: the roles the tool offers, what each one may
see and change, and which role each kind of user
gets by default
owner: <your security role> after: take-on-tool
by: <days> automation: never
manage-accounts - system: joiners get the role their job calls for,
and a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of
the leaving record
owner: tool-administrator after: set-permissions
automation: <level>
hold-config - human: the settings that matter held at a version,
so a change can be seen, dated and taken back
owner: tool-administrator after: manage-accounts
by: <days> automation: <level>
take-requests - human: each request read against the process the
tool runs, and refused in writing when it is not
what the tool is for
owner: tool-administrator after: hold-config
automation: <level>
try-change - human: the change made where no live record is
touched, and what it affects written down
owner: tool-administrator after: take-requests
by: <days> automation: <level>
apply-change - human: the change applied on a stated date, the
version moved on, and the way back kept
owner: tool-administrator after: try-change
automation: <level>
licence-count - runs allocate-and-reconcile: licences paid for set
against licences used, with every seller that has not
been used in <days> named
owner: tool-administrator after: apply-change
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
watch-usage - runs collect-and-report: who uses the tool, for
what, and how often, read against the process it
was bought to run
owner: analytics after: licence-count
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
check-links - runs assessment: the links either side checked
against the record of what flows where, and the
counts compared
owner: integration-keeper after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
supplier-changes - runs collect-and-report: new versions, changed
terms, price notices and end-of-life notices, each
with what it would force here
owner: supplier-check after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
access-review - runs roll-call: every account read again, with the
role it holds and the person who approved it
owner: <your security role>
after: supplier-changes
every: <cadence> automation: never
standing-review - runs assessment: use, cost, links, findings and
supplier changes set against the process the tool
runs and what it was bought to do
owner: stack-planner
after: check-links + access-review
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-future - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says keep,
change or retire, gives the reason, and everyone
who works in the tool hears at the same time
owner: stack-planner after: standing-review
by: <days> automation: never
record-review - human: the decision, the date, the evidence it was
made on, and the date the next review falls
owner: tool-administrator after: decide-future
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
access - runs roll-call owner: tool-administrator
every: <cadence>
from: manage-accounts until: run close
spend - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your finance role>
every: <cadence>
from: licence-count until: run close
handoffs:
take-on-tool -> set-permissions [stack-entry]: the entry as the stack
record holds it, and the process the tool runs
set-permissions -> manage-accounts [role-map]: the roles, what each
one reaches, and the role each kind of user gets by default
manage-accounts -> hold-config [open-accounts]: every account open
today, with its role and the person who approved it
hold-config -> take-requests [config-version]: the settings that
matter at their current version, and the date of the last change to
each
take-requests -> try-change [accepted-request]: the request, what it
would change, and the reason it is what the tool is for
try-change -> apply-change [trial-result]: what the change did away
from live, and everything it touched that nobody expected
apply-change -> licence-count [applied-change]: the change as
applied, its date, its version, and the way back
licence-count -> watch-usage [licence-position]: licences paid for,
licences used, and every licence unused for <days>
watch-usage -> check-links [usage-record]: who used the tool, for
what, and how often, against the process it runs
watch-usage -> supplier-changes [affected-users]: the same usage, so
a supplier change can be read against who it would actually affect
check-links -> standing-review [link-health]: whether the links still
carry, with every difference in the counts and how long it has been
there
supplier-changes -> access-review [supplier-notices]: what the
supplier has changed, and what each change would force here
access-review -> standing-review [account-check]: every account, its
role, who approved it, and every one nobody can account for
standing-review -> decide-future [review-evidence]: use, cost,
findings and supplier changes set against what the tool was bought
to do
decide-future -> record-review [future-decision]: the decision, who
made it, on what date, and anyone who disagreed
deviations:
take-requests -> hold-config [request-refused]: the request is not
what the tool is for, it is refused in writing, and the
configuration stands where it is
try-change -> take-requests [trial-breaks]: the change breaks
something away from live, so the request is worked again before
anything reaches the tool
apply-change -> try-change [change-taken-back]: the change has to be
taken back, so it goes to the trial again rather than being patched
in live
licence-count -> manage-accounts [more-used-than-held]: more sellers
are used than are held, so accounts are opened or closed before the
count is read again
check-links -> apply-change [link-stopped-carrying]: a link has
stopped carrying, and the fix goes in as a change the same way any
other change does
supplier-changes -> take-requests [supplier-forces-change]: a
supplier change forces work here, so it enters as a change request
access-review -> manage-accounts [account-unaccounted]: an account
turns up that nobody can account for, so the accounts are worked
again
decide-future -> take-requests [keep-with-changes]: the decision is
keep it with changes to make first, and those changes enter as
requests
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the requester, the security
reviewer, procurement and the revenue operations lead>
systems: the tool (write), the stack record (write),
the configuration record (write), the account record (write),
<your identity system> (read), the flow record (read),
the budget record (read), a non-live environment (write)
data: the entry in the stack record, the record of what flows
where, <your security and privacy standards> <version> ,
<your access rules> , the licence agreement and its renewal
date
policy:
a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of the leaving record,
and the closure is recorded against the person
no account is opened without a named approver, and no account carries
a role wider than the job it was opened for
every configuration change is recorded with its date, its version and
the request behind it. A change nobody can find a request for is
taken back
no change is made straight to live where a non-live copy exists
the access review is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
a licence unused for <days> is taken back at the next renewal unless its
owner says in writing why it is held
the standing review runs on its cadence whether or not anybody has
complained about the tool
measures:
cycle time: <hours> from the leaving record to the account being
closed
coverage: <share> of accounts carrying a named approver and a role
volume: <changes per period>
quality gate: no review closes without a decision, a date and the
evidence it was made on
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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: administer a tool id: <team>/administer-a-tool v1
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a tool goes live under an owner, and again every <cadence>
while it is still in the stack
watch: record=<tool> system=<your stack record>
change=<a tool is recorded as live under an owner>
or watch: every=<cadence>
concurrency: one run per tool - runs for different tools overlap freely
and never touch each other
goal: the right people in, the wrong people out, the configuration at a
known version, the licences matched to use, and a dated answer to
whether the tool still earns its place
phases:
take-on-tool - human: read the entry as the stack record holds it:
the owner, the licence, the term, and the process
the tool runs
owner: tool-administrator after: trigger
automation: <level>
set-permissions - human: the roles the tool offers, what each one may
see and change, and which role each kind of user
gets by default
owner: <your security role> after: take-on-tool
by: <days> automation: never
manage-accounts - system: joiners get the role their job calls for,
and a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of
the leaving record
owner: tool-administrator after: set-permissions
automation: <level>
hold-config - human: the settings that matter held at a version,
so a change can be seen, dated and taken back
owner: tool-administrator after: manage-accounts
by: <days> automation: <level>
take-requests - human: each request read against the process the
tool runs, and refused in writing when it is not
what the tool is for
owner: tool-administrator after: hold-config
automation: <level>
try-change - human: the change made where no live record is
touched, and what it affects written down
owner: tool-administrator after: take-requests
by: <days> automation: <level>
apply-change - human: the change applied on a stated date, the
version moved on, and the way back kept
owner: tool-administrator after: try-change
automation: <level>
licence-count - runs allocate-and-reconcile: licences paid for set
against licences used, with every seller that has not
been used in <days> named
owner: tool-administrator after: apply-change
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
watch-usage - runs collect-and-report: who uses the tool, for
what, and how often, read against the process it
was bought to run
owner: analytics after: licence-count
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
check-links - runs assessment: the links either side checked
against the record of what flows where, and the
counts compared
owner: integration-keeper after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
supplier-changes - runs collect-and-report: new versions, changed
terms, price notices and end-of-life notices, each
with what it would force here
owner: supplier-check after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
access-review - runs roll-call: every account read again, with the
role it holds and the person who approved it
owner: <your security role>
after: supplier-changes
every: <cadence> automation: never
standing-review - runs assessment: use, cost, links, findings and
supplier changes set against the process the tool
runs and what it was bought to do
owner: stack-planner
after: check-links + access-review
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-future - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says keep,
change or retire, gives the reason, and everyone
who works in the tool hears at the same time
owner: stack-planner after: standing-review
by: <days> automation: never
record-review - human: the decision, the date, the evidence it was
made on, and the date the next review falls
owner: tool-administrator after: decide-future
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
access - runs roll-call owner: tool-administrator
every: <cadence>
from: manage-accounts until: run close
spend - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your finance role>
every: <cadence>
from: licence-count until: run close
handoffs:
take-on-tool -> set-permissions [stack-entry]: the entry as the stack
record holds it, and the process the tool runs
set-permissions -> manage-accounts [role-map]: the roles, what each
one reaches, and the role each kind of user gets by default
manage-accounts -> hold-config [open-accounts]: every account open
today, with its role and the person who approved it
hold-config -> take-requests [config-version]: the settings that
matter at their current version, and the date of the last change to
each
take-requests -> try-change [accepted-request]: the request, what it
would change, and the reason it is what the tool is for
try-change -> apply-change [trial-result]: what the change did away
from live, and everything it touched that nobody expected
apply-change -> licence-count [applied-change]: the change as
applied, its date, its version, and the way back
licence-count -> watch-usage [licence-position]: licences paid for,
licences used, and every licence unused for <days>
watch-usage -> check-links [usage-record]: who used the tool, for
what, and how often, against the process it runs
watch-usage -> supplier-changes [affected-users]: the same usage, so
a supplier change can be read against who it would actually affect
check-links -> standing-review [link-health]: whether the links still
carry, with every difference in the counts and how long it has been
there
supplier-changes -> access-review [supplier-notices]: what the
supplier has changed, and what each change would force here
access-review -> standing-review [account-check]: every account, its
role, who approved it, and every one nobody can account for
standing-review -> decide-future [review-evidence]: use, cost,
findings and supplier changes set against what the tool was bought
to do
decide-future -> record-review [future-decision]: the decision, who
made it, on what date, and anyone who disagreed
deviations:
take-requests -> hold-config [request-refused]: the request is not
what the tool is for, it is refused in writing, and the
configuration stands where it is
try-change -> take-requests [trial-breaks]: the change breaks
something away from live, so the request is worked again before
anything reaches the tool
apply-change -> try-change [change-taken-back]: the change has to be
taken back, so it goes to the trial again rather than being patched
in live
licence-count -> manage-accounts [more-used-than-held]: more sellers
are used than are held, so accounts are opened or closed before the
count is read again
check-links -> apply-change [link-stopped-carrying]: a link has
stopped carrying, and the fix goes in as a change the same way any
other change does
supplier-changes -> take-requests [supplier-forces-change]: a
supplier change forces work here, so it enters as a change request
access-review -> manage-accounts [account-unaccounted]: an account
turns up that nobody can account for, so the accounts are worked
again
decide-future -> take-requests [keep-with-changes]: the decision is
keep it with changes to make first, and those changes enter as
requests
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the requester, the security
reviewer, procurement and the revenue operations lead>
systems: the tool (write), the stack record (write),
the configuration record (write), the account record (write),
<your identity system> (read), the flow record (read),
the budget record (read), a non-live environment (write)
data: the entry in the stack record, the record of what flows
where, <your security and privacy standards> <version>,
<your access rules>, the licence agreement and its renewal
date
policy:
a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of the leaving record,
and the closure is recorded against the person
no account is opened without a named approver, and no account carries
a role wider than the job it was opened for
every configuration change is recorded with its date, its version and
the request behind it. A change nobody can find a request for is
taken back
no change is made straight to live where a non-live copy exists
the access review is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
a licence unused for <days> is taken back at the next renewal unless its
owner says in writing why it is held
the standing review runs on its cadence whether or not anybody has
complained about the tool
measures:
cycle time: <hours> from the leaving record to the account being
closed
coverage: <share> of accounts carrying a named approver and a role
volume: <changes per period>
quality gate: no review closes without a decision, a date and the
evidence it was made on
```
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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 Agent Framework 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 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: administer a tool id: <team>/administer-a-tool v1
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a tool goes live under an owner, and again every <cadence>
while it is still in the stack
watch: record=<tool> system=<your stack record>
change=<a tool is recorded as live under an owner>
or watch: every=<cadence>
concurrency: one run per tool - runs for different tools overlap freely
and never touch each other
goal: the right people in, the wrong people out, the configuration at a
known version, the licences matched to use, and a dated answer to
whether the tool still earns its place
phases:
take-on-tool - human: read the entry as the stack record holds it:
the owner, the licence, the term, and the process
the tool runs
owner: tool-administrator after: trigger
automation: <level>
set-permissions - human: the roles the tool offers, what each one may
see and change, and which role each kind of user
gets by default
owner: <your security role> after: take-on-tool
by: <days> automation: never
manage-accounts - system: joiners get the role their job calls for,
and a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of
the leaving record
owner: tool-administrator after: set-permissions
automation: <level>
hold-config - human: the settings that matter held at a version,
so a change can be seen, dated and taken back
owner: tool-administrator after: manage-accounts
by: <days> automation: <level>
take-requests - human: each request read against the process the
tool runs, and refused in writing when it is not
what the tool is for
owner: tool-administrator after: hold-config
automation: <level>
try-change - human: the change made where no live record is
touched, and what it affects written down
owner: tool-administrator after: take-requests
by: <days> automation: <level>
apply-change - human: the change applied on a stated date, the
version moved on, and the way back kept
owner: tool-administrator after: try-change
automation: <level>
licence-count - runs allocate-and-reconcile: licences paid for set
against licences used, with every seller that has not
been used in <days> named
owner: tool-administrator after: apply-change
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
watch-usage - runs collect-and-report: who uses the tool, for
what, and how often, read against the process it
was bought to run
owner: analytics after: licence-count
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
check-links - runs assessment: the links either side checked
against the record of what flows where, and the
counts compared
owner: integration-keeper after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
supplier-changes - runs collect-and-report: new versions, changed
terms, price notices and end-of-life notices, each
with what it would force here
owner: supplier-check after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
access-review - runs roll-call: every account read again, with the
role it holds and the person who approved it
owner: <your security role>
after: supplier-changes
every: <cadence> automation: never
standing-review - runs assessment: use, cost, links, findings and
supplier changes set against the process the tool
runs and what it was bought to do
owner: stack-planner
after: check-links + access-review
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-future - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says keep,
change or retire, gives the reason, and everyone
who works in the tool hears at the same time
owner: stack-planner after: standing-review
by: <days> automation: never
record-review - human: the decision, the date, the evidence it was
made on, and the date the next review falls
owner: tool-administrator after: decide-future
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
access - runs roll-call owner: tool-administrator
every: <cadence>
from: manage-accounts until: run close
spend - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your finance role>
every: <cadence>
from: licence-count until: run close
handoffs:
take-on-tool -> set-permissions [stack-entry]: the entry as the stack
record holds it, and the process the tool runs
set-permissions -> manage-accounts [role-map]: the roles, what each
one reaches, and the role each kind of user gets by default
manage-accounts -> hold-config [open-accounts]: every account open
today, with its role and the person who approved it
hold-config -> take-requests [config-version]: the settings that
matter at their current version, and the date of the last change to
each
take-requests -> try-change [accepted-request]: the request, what it
would change, and the reason it is what the tool is for
try-change -> apply-change [trial-result]: what the change did away
from live, and everything it touched that nobody expected
apply-change -> licence-count [applied-change]: the change as
applied, its date, its version, and the way back
licence-count -> watch-usage [licence-position]: licences paid for,
licences used, and every licence unused for <days>
watch-usage -> check-links [usage-record]: who used the tool, for
what, and how often, against the process it runs
watch-usage -> supplier-changes [affected-users]: the same usage, so
a supplier change can be read against who it would actually affect
check-links -> standing-review [link-health]: whether the links still
carry, with every difference in the counts and how long it has been
there
supplier-changes -> access-review [supplier-notices]: what the
supplier has changed, and what each change would force here
access-review -> standing-review [account-check]: every account, its
role, who approved it, and every one nobody can account for
standing-review -> decide-future [review-evidence]: use, cost,
findings and supplier changes set against what the tool was bought
to do
decide-future -> record-review [future-decision]: the decision, who
made it, on what date, and anyone who disagreed
deviations:
take-requests -> hold-config [request-refused]: the request is not
what the tool is for, it is refused in writing, and the
configuration stands where it is
try-change -> take-requests [trial-breaks]: the change breaks
something away from live, so the request is worked again before
anything reaches the tool
apply-change -> try-change [change-taken-back]: the change has to be
taken back, so it goes to the trial again rather than being patched
in live
licence-count -> manage-accounts [more-used-than-held]: more sellers
are used than are held, so accounts are opened or closed before the
count is read again
check-links -> apply-change [link-stopped-carrying]: a link has
stopped carrying, and the fix goes in as a change the same way any
other change does
supplier-changes -> take-requests [supplier-forces-change]: a
supplier change forces work here, so it enters as a change request
access-review -> manage-accounts [account-unaccounted]: an account
turns up that nobody can account for, so the accounts are worked
again
decide-future -> take-requests [keep-with-changes]: the decision is
keep it with changes to make first, and those changes enter as
requests
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the requester, the security
reviewer, procurement and the revenue operations lead>
systems: the tool (write), the stack record (write),
the configuration record (write), the account record (write),
<your identity system> (read), the flow record (read),
the budget record (read), a non-live environment (write)
data: the entry in the stack record, the record of what flows
where, <your security and privacy standards> <version>,
<your access rules>, the licence agreement and its renewal
date
policy:
a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of the leaving record,
and the closure is recorded against the person
no account is opened without a named approver, and no account carries
a role wider than the job it was opened for
every configuration change is recorded with its date, its version and
the request behind it. A change nobody can find a request for is
taken back
no change is made straight to live where a non-live copy exists
the access review is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
a licence unused for <days> is taken back at the next renewal unless its
owner says in writing why it is held
the standing review runs on its cadence whether or not anybody has
complained about the tool
measures:
cycle time: <hours> from the leaving record to the account being
closed
coverage: <share> of accounts carrying a named approver and a role
volume: <changes per period>
quality gate: no review closes without a decision, a date and the
evidence it was made on
```
Take it somewhere
Use this process in CrewAI Flows
close
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.
copy the prompt
367 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: administer a tool id: <team>/administer-a-tool v1
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a tool goes live under an owner, and again every <cadence>
while it is still in the stack
watch: record=<tool> system=<your stack record>
change=<a tool is recorded as live under an owner>
or watch: every=<cadence>
concurrency: one run per tool - runs for different tools overlap freely
and never touch each other
goal: the right people in, the wrong people out, the configuration at a
known version, the licences matched to use, and a dated answer to
whether the tool still earns its place
phases:
take-on-tool - human: read the entry as the stack record holds it:
the owner, the licence, the term, and the process
the tool runs
owner: tool-administrator after: trigger
automation: <level>
set-permissions - human: the roles the tool offers, what each one may
see and change, and which role each kind of user
gets by default
owner: <your security role> after: take-on-tool
by: <days> automation: never
manage-accounts - system: joiners get the role their job calls for,
and a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of
the leaving record
owner: tool-administrator after: set-permissions
automation: <level>
hold-config - human: the settings that matter held at a version,
so a change can be seen, dated and taken back
owner: tool-administrator after: manage-accounts
by: <days> automation: <level>
take-requests - human: each request read against the process the
tool runs, and refused in writing when it is not
what the tool is for
owner: tool-administrator after: hold-config
automation: <level>
try-change - human: the change made where no live record is
touched, and what it affects written down
owner: tool-administrator after: take-requests
by: <days> automation: <level>
apply-change - human: the change applied on a stated date, the
version moved on, and the way back kept
owner: tool-administrator after: try-change
automation: <level>
licence-count - runs allocate-and-reconcile: licences paid for set
against licences used, with every seller that has not
been used in <days> named
owner: tool-administrator after: apply-change
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
watch-usage - runs collect-and-report: who uses the tool, for
what, and how often, read against the process it
was bought to run
owner: analytics after: licence-count
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
check-links - runs assessment: the links either side checked
against the record of what flows where, and the
counts compared
owner: integration-keeper after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
supplier-changes - runs collect-and-report: new versions, changed
terms, price notices and end-of-life notices, each
with what it would force here
owner: supplier-check after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
access-review - runs roll-call: every account read again, with the
role it holds and the person who approved it
owner: <your security role>
after: supplier-changes
every: <cadence> automation: never
standing-review - runs assessment: use, cost, links, findings and
supplier changes set against the process the tool
runs and what it was bought to do
owner: stack-planner
after: check-links + access-review
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-future - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says keep,
change or retire, gives the reason, and everyone
who works in the tool hears at the same time
owner: stack-planner after: standing-review
by: <days> automation: never
record-review - human: the decision, the date, the evidence it was
made on, and the date the next review falls
owner: tool-administrator after: decide-future
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
access - runs roll-call owner: tool-administrator
every: <cadence>
from: manage-accounts until: run close
spend - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your finance role>
every: <cadence>
from: licence-count until: run close
handoffs:
take-on-tool -> set-permissions [stack-entry]: the entry as the stack
record holds it, and the process the tool runs
set-permissions -> manage-accounts [role-map]: the roles, what each
one reaches, and the role each kind of user gets by default
manage-accounts -> hold-config [open-accounts]: every account open
today, with its role and the person who approved it
hold-config -> take-requests [config-version]: the settings that
matter at their current version, and the date of the last change to
each
take-requests -> try-change [accepted-request]: the request, what it
would change, and the reason it is what the tool is for
try-change -> apply-change [trial-result]: what the change did away
from live, and everything it touched that nobody expected
apply-change -> licence-count [applied-change]: the change as
applied, its date, its version, and the way back
licence-count -> watch-usage [licence-position]: licences paid for,
licences used, and every licence unused for <days>
watch-usage -> check-links [usage-record]: who used the tool, for
what, and how often, against the process it runs
watch-usage -> supplier-changes [affected-users]: the same usage, so
a supplier change can be read against who it would actually affect
check-links -> standing-review [link-health]: whether the links still
carry, with every difference in the counts and how long it has been
there
supplier-changes -> access-review [supplier-notices]: what the
supplier has changed, and what each change would force here
access-review -> standing-review [account-check]: every account, its
role, who approved it, and every one nobody can account for
standing-review -> decide-future [review-evidence]: use, cost,
findings and supplier changes set against what the tool was bought
to do
decide-future -> record-review [future-decision]: the decision, who
made it, on what date, and anyone who disagreed
deviations:
take-requests -> hold-config [request-refused]: the request is not
what the tool is for, it is refused in writing, and the
configuration stands where it is
try-change -> take-requests [trial-breaks]: the change breaks
something away from live, so the request is worked again before
anything reaches the tool
apply-change -> try-change [change-taken-back]: the change has to be
taken back, so it goes to the trial again rather than being patched
in live
licence-count -> manage-accounts [more-used-than-held]: more sellers
are used than are held, so accounts are opened or closed before the
count is read again
check-links -> apply-change [link-stopped-carrying]: a link has
stopped carrying, and the fix goes in as a change the same way any
other change does
supplier-changes -> take-requests [supplier-forces-change]: a
supplier change forces work here, so it enters as a change request
access-review -> manage-accounts [account-unaccounted]: an account
turns up that nobody can account for, so the accounts are worked
again
decide-future -> take-requests [keep-with-changes]: the decision is
keep it with changes to make first, and those changes enter as
requests
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the requester, the security
reviewer, procurement and the revenue operations lead>
systems: the tool (write), the stack record (write),
the configuration record (write), the account record (write),
<your identity system> (read), the flow record (read),
the budget record (read), a non-live environment (write)
data: the entry in the stack record, the record of what flows
where, <your security and privacy standards> <version>,
<your access rules>, the licence agreement and its renewal
date
policy:
a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of the leaving record,
and the closure is recorded against the person
no account is opened without a named approver, and no account carries
a role wider than the job it was opened for
every configuration change is recorded with its date, its version and
the request behind it. A change nobody can find a request for is
taken back
no change is made straight to live where a non-live copy exists
the access review is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
a licence unused for <days> is taken back at the next renewal unless its
owner says in writing why it is held
the standing review runs on its cadence whether or not anybody has
complained about the tool
measures:
cycle time: <hours> from the leaving record to the account being
closed
coverage: <share> of accounts carrying a named approver and a role
volume: <changes per period>
quality gate: no review closes without a decision, a date and the
evidence it was made on
```
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.
copy the prompt
358 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
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: administer a tool id: <team>/administer-a-tool v1
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a tool goes live under an owner, and again every <cadence>
while it is still in the stack
watch: record=<tool> system=<your stack record>
change=<a tool is recorded as live under an owner>
or watch: every=<cadence>
concurrency: one run per tool - runs for different tools overlap freely
and never touch each other
goal: the right people in, the wrong people out, the configuration at a
known version, the licences matched to use, and a dated answer to
whether the tool still earns its place
phases:
take-on-tool - human: read the entry as the stack record holds it:
the owner, the licence, the term, and the process
the tool runs
owner: tool-administrator after: trigger
automation: <level>
set-permissions - human: the roles the tool offers, what each one may
see and change, and which role each kind of user
gets by default
owner: <your security role> after: take-on-tool
by: <days> automation: never
manage-accounts - system: joiners get the role their job calls for,
and a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of
the leaving record
owner: tool-administrator after: set-permissions
automation: <level>
hold-config - human: the settings that matter held at a version,
so a change can be seen, dated and taken back
owner: tool-administrator after: manage-accounts
by: <days> automation: <level>
take-requests - human: each request read against the process the
tool runs, and refused in writing when it is not
what the tool is for
owner: tool-administrator after: hold-config
automation: <level>
try-change - human: the change made where no live record is
touched, and what it affects written down
owner: tool-administrator after: take-requests
by: <days> automation: <level>
apply-change - human: the change applied on a stated date, the
version moved on, and the way back kept
owner: tool-administrator after: try-change
automation: <level>
licence-count - runs allocate-and-reconcile: licences paid for set
against licences used, with every seller that has not
been used in <days> named
owner: tool-administrator after: apply-change
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
watch-usage - runs collect-and-report: who uses the tool, for
what, and how often, read against the process it
was bought to run
owner: analytics after: licence-count
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
check-links - runs assessment: the links either side checked
against the record of what flows where, and the
counts compared
owner: integration-keeper after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
supplier-changes - runs collect-and-report: new versions, changed
terms, price notices and end-of-life notices, each
with what it would force here
owner: supplier-check after: watch-usage
every: <cadence> automation: <level>
access-review - runs roll-call: every account read again, with the
role it holds and the person who approved it
owner: <your security role>
after: supplier-changes
every: <cadence> automation: never
standing-review - runs assessment: use, cost, links, findings and
supplier changes set against the process the tool
runs and what it was bought to do
owner: stack-planner
after: check-links + access-review
by: <days> automation: <level>
decide-future - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says keep,
change or retire, gives the reason, and everyone
who works in the tool hears at the same time
owner: stack-planner after: standing-review
by: <days> automation: never
record-review - human: the decision, the date, the evidence it was
made on, and the date the next review falls
owner: tool-administrator after: decide-future
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
access - runs roll-call owner: tool-administrator
every: <cadence>
from: manage-accounts until: run close
spend - runs allocate-and-reconcile owner: <your finance role>
every: <cadence>
from: licence-count until: run close
handoffs:
take-on-tool -> set-permissions [stack-entry]: the entry as the stack
record holds it, and the process the tool runs
set-permissions -> manage-accounts [role-map]: the roles, what each
one reaches, and the role each kind of user gets by default
manage-accounts -> hold-config [open-accounts]: every account open
today, with its role and the person who approved it
hold-config -> take-requests [config-version]: the settings that
matter at their current version, and the date of the last change to
each
take-requests -> try-change [accepted-request]: the request, what it
would change, and the reason it is what the tool is for
try-change -> apply-change [trial-result]: what the change did away
from live, and everything it touched that nobody expected
apply-change -> licence-count [applied-change]: the change as
applied, its date, its version, and the way back
licence-count -> watch-usage [licence-position]: licences paid for,
licences used, and every licence unused for <days>
watch-usage -> check-links [usage-record]: who used the tool, for
what, and how often, against the process it runs
watch-usage -> supplier-changes [affected-users]: the same usage, so
a supplier change can be read against who it would actually affect
check-links -> standing-review [link-health]: whether the links still
carry, with every difference in the counts and how long it has been
there
supplier-changes -> access-review [supplier-notices]: what the
supplier has changed, and what each change would force here
access-review -> standing-review [account-check]: every account, its
role, who approved it, and every one nobody can account for
standing-review -> decide-future [review-evidence]: use, cost,
findings and supplier changes set against what the tool was bought
to do
decide-future -> record-review [future-decision]: the decision, who
made it, on what date, and anyone who disagreed
deviations:
take-requests -> hold-config [request-refused]: the request is not
what the tool is for, it is refused in writing, and the
configuration stands where it is
try-change -> take-requests [trial-breaks]: the change breaks
something away from live, so the request is worked again before
anything reaches the tool
apply-change -> try-change [change-taken-back]: the change has to be
taken back, so it goes to the trial again rather than being patched
in live
licence-count -> manage-accounts [more-used-than-held]: more sellers
are used than are held, so accounts are opened or closed before the
count is read again
check-links -> apply-change [link-stopped-carrying]: a link has
stopped carrying, and the fix goes in as a change the same way any
other change does
supplier-changes -> take-requests [supplier-forces-change]: a
supplier change forces work here, so it enters as a change request
access-review -> manage-accounts [account-unaccounted]: an account
turns up that nobody can account for, so the accounts are worked
again
decide-future -> take-requests [keep-with-changes]: the decision is
keep it with changes to make first, and those changes enter as
requests
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for the requester, the security
reviewer, procurement and the revenue operations lead>
systems: the tool (write), the stack record (write),
the configuration record (write), the account record (write),
<your identity system> (read), the flow record (read),
the budget record (read), a non-live environment (write)
data: the entry in the stack record, the record of what flows
where, <your security and privacy standards> <version>,
<your access rules>, the licence agreement and its renewal
date
policy:
a leaver's account is closed within <hours> of the leaving record,
and the closure is recorded against the person
no account is opened without a named approver, and no account carries
a role wider than the job it was opened for
every configuration change is recorded with its date, its version and
the request behind it. A change nobody can find a request for is
taken back
no change is made straight to live where a non-live copy exists
the access review is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
a licence unused for <days> is taken back at the next renewal unless its
owner says in writing why it is held
the standing review runs on its cadence whether or not anybody has
complained about the tool
measures:
cycle time: <hours> from the leaving record to the account being
closed
coverage: <share> of accounts carrying a named approver and a role
volume: <changes per period>
quality gate: no review closes without a decision, a date and the
evidence it was made on
```
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
48 blanks to fill. Everything else is the process.
this process
from: ref/rev/administer-a-tool 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.