Stop silently discarding agent metadata on registration and spawn - #1436
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ChangesAgent registration metadata
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Fleet-spawned agents may still be created without durable delegation identity, forcing consumers to infer hierarchy from names and risking incorrect attribution. Merge readiness requires confirming that spawn metadata is actually accepted and persisted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant register_agent
participant registerAgentWithRebind
participant Relay
participant WorkspaceRecords
register_agent->>registerAgentWithRebind: pass metadata and verifyMetadata
registerAgentWithRebind->>Relay: register agent with metadata
registerAgentWithRebind->>WorkspaceRecords: list workspace agents
WorkspaceRecords-->>registerAgentWithRebind: stored agent records
registerAgentWithRebind-->>register_agent: metadata_verified and warnings
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Persist metadata after reclaiming the registered identity
When a strict session already owns this agent, falling through to registerOrRotate still does not update the existing record: that operation reclaims the identity and rotates its token, as demonstrated by the existing create-conflict → get-agent → rotate-token sequence in crates/broker/src/relaycast/auth.rs, without an agent update request. Consequently, the exact metadata/persona correction scenario targeted here still returns success while leaving those fields unchanged; explicitly update the record after reclaiming it rather than treating token rotation as the write.
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For the default fleet spawn path, adding metadata to the action input does not attach it to the spawned agent record. packages/fleet/src/index.ts parses the loose input but constructs an AgentSpec without metadata, while the built-in broker action handler extracts only fields such as name, CLI, task, channel, and model and its AgentRegister wire type has no metadata field. Thus callers receive a queued invocation containing their metadata, but the spawned record still lacks the promised delegation identity; the metadata must be threaded through the fleet/broker registration path as well.
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Confirmed still live and current: on origin/main today (crates/broker/src/{fleet_wire,runtime/fleet,runtime/relaycast_events}.rs and relaycast/mod.rs), the default fleet spawn path still has no plumbing to carry declared metadata past the broker's action handler into an AgentRegister wire frame or a published agent record — I grepped for anything resembling this and found nothing. But the fix is not something this PR can do: relay#1504 ("feat(fleet): publish declared worker metadata", open) adds a dedicated AgentRegistrationMetadata struct + RelaycastHttpClient::publish_declared_metadata specifically because the agent.register wire frame is .strict()-parsed by the relaycast engine and any extra key stalls the registration waiter for the full 30s timeout — so declared metadata has to ride a separate HTTP publish after registration, not the action input. This PR dropped its own freeform metadata param on spawn for exactly that reason (to not collide with #1504's typed schema on the same tool surface), so it no longer claims to solve fleet-spawn metadata delivery at all — only register_agent's direct-call path, which doesn't go through the fleet wire frame and isn't affected by this gap. Your finding is correct and stays open as a #1504 concern, not a #1436 one.
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Update since that reply: relay#1504 merged (592d371, "feat(fleet): publish declared worker metadata"). Confirmed on current main: crates/broker/src/fleet_wire.rs now has AgentRegistrationMetadata and the publish_declared_metadata path this reply described as pending. So the gap you originally flagged — freeform/declared metadata not reaching the fleet-spawned agent record — is fixed on main today, via #1504's mechanism. Not by anything in this PR, which still only touches register_agent's direct-call path.
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This commit changes the public register_agent and spawn MCP behavior but leaves CHANGELOG.md unchanged, so the pending release narrative will omit the new metadata support. Add a concise impact-first entry under the existing [Unreleased - Patch] section as required by the repository changelog policy.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L31-L33
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Added: see the ### Fixed bullet under [Unreleased - Minor] in CHANGELOG.md — "register_agent now writes supplied metadata or persona instead of silently discarding it when returning a cached token, and its new verify_metadata option reports whether the write actually persisted."
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.test.ts`:
- Around line 101-106: Update the fleet metadata assertion in the relay agent
test so the custom message is passed to expect for record.metadata.fleet, while
keeping toEqual focused only on the expected value and preserving the existing
assertion behavior.
In `@packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.ts`:
- Around line 479-491: Update the metadata comparison in verifyMetadataLanded to
avoid relying on JSON.stringify’s insertion-order serialization for nested
objects. Use a stable, key-order-independent comparison or stable serialization
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574-628: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAdd metadata support to
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SpawnToolRequest,buildSpawnActionInput, and the MCP input schema omitmetadata. The handler therefore cannot forward delegation identity metadata to the fleet spawn action.Add
metadatato the schema and request type. Build the registration metadata withdeclaredWorkforceMetadata. Omit empty metadata. Defaultobjectivefromtaskonly when no explicit objective exists. Do not deriveobjectivefromname.The PR objective requires fleet
spawnto accept and forward metadata. Based on learnings, use the shareddeclaredWorkforceMetadatahelper for workforce registration metadata.Also applies to: 1020-1065
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.ts`:
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SpawnToolRequest, and buildSpawnActionInput. Use declaredWorkforceMetadata to
construct workforce registration metadata, omit it when empty, and default
metadata.objective from task only when no explicit objective is provided; never
derive objective from name. Ensure the handler forwards the resulting metadata
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register_agent's strict-identity short-circuit returned a cached token without writing anything when a caller supplied metadata or persona -- silent success, record untouched. Fall through to the write when either is present; a bare re-registration still short-circuits as before. Add an opt-in verify_metadata: read the record back and report metadata_verified as true, false (with a warning naming which keys didn't persist), or the literal 'unchecked' when verification wasn't requested -- "nobody looked" is a different claim from "it is not there", and collapsing them repeats the silent-discard mistake this fixes. verifyMetadataLanded compares stored vs supplied values with an order-insensitive deep comparison (node:util isDeepStrictEqual, not JSON.stringify, which is key-order-sensitive for nested objects and could false-negative a correctly-persisted value). Both arms of that comparison are covered: a positive test with reordered-but-equal nested keys, and a control test with a genuinely different nested value, each verified to fail against a deliberately broken implementation before being verified to pass against the real one. Scope note: this PR originally also added a freeform `metadata` param to the `spawn` tool. Dropped -- relay#1504 (merged) occupies that surface with a typed five-field schema (organization/project/ workstream/role/objective) published through the broker over HTTP after registration, specifically to avoid the relaycast engine's .strict()-parsed agent.register wire frame. Two competing metadata channels on one tool would be worse than either alone; register_agent here is unaffected since it doesn't go through that wire frame. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Delegation identity —
organization,project,workstream,role,reportsTo— belongs on the Relaycast agent record, where any consumer can read it. The record already has a first-classmetadatabag, and the fleet spawn path already writesmetadata.fleetinto it (451 of 745 agents in one live workspace carry non-empty metadata). Identity cannot get there by either available route, so consumers fall back to inferring a hierarchy from the agent's name.That fallback is a guess, and for a multi-token project slug it is not even a recoverable one — nothing in
chief-delegation-governance-dispatch-contract-workermarks where the project ends and the workstream begins. A consumer splitting at the first hyphen readscloud-chief-yc-demo-delivery-leadas projectcloud.Two independent gaps
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register_agentacceptedmetadataand threw it away.registerAgentWithRebindshort-circuits when strict worker identity is on and the session already holds a token for that name, returning the cached token without ever callingregisterOrRotate. The short-circuit is right about tokens and wrong about writes — a caller supplyingmetadataorpersonais asking for the record to change, and got back success, no warnings, and an untouched record.Verified against installed relay CLI 11.2.0 before writing any code. A call carrying a full identity bag returned
{name, token, registered_name, warnings: []}; reading the record back afterwards showed only the platform's ownmetadata.fleet. A silent discard on a documented parameter is worse than a rejection, because the caller has no way to notice.Now a supplied
metadataorpersonafalls through to the write. The token-only path is unchanged and still short-circuits, so a bare re-registration does not rotate a token for nothing.2. The fleet
spawnaction could not carry metadata at all.Its input schema has no metadata parameter, so identity cannot be supplied at spawn even in principle. Added and forwarded — this is what lets an agent record carry its identity from birth rather than depending on a follow-up write that may never land.
Together these make the durable path reachable: a dispatcher can stamp a worker at spawn, and an agent can correct its own record afterwards.
Why this matters beyond one dashboard
Without it there is no route by which a dispatcher can attribute a worker it spawned. Chief's delegation gate (AgentWorkforce/chief#24) currently compensates with a local ledger that the Cloud dashboard cannot read — it closes the loop on one side only. This PR is what removes the need for that compensation.
Tests
packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.test.ts— write-through on metadata, write-through on persona, and that the token-only short-circuit survives unchanged.packages/cli/src/cli/agent-relay-mcp.startup.test.ts— spawn forwards identity metadata into the action input.Two pre-existing failures in
agent-relay-mcp.startup.test.tsare unrelated and reproduce on an unmodified checkout (24 passed / 2 failed at baseline; 34 passed / same 2 failed with this change). They assert on telemetry context and pick up local machine configuration.🤖 Generated with Claude Code