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The gap

Ctx exposes a first-class f.gitlab helper, GitLab is listed as a supported provider, and the trigger surface is generous — but the helper could only post. Its writeback catalog was comments + discussions against GitHub's eight, so a GitLab-sourced factory could not list issues, read an issue, or open a merge request through the helper. Authors used glab instead, splitting the integration across two mechanisms for one journaled comment.

Why this is a dependency bump and not a new client

f.gitlab is generated (scripts/generate-helpers.mjs) from WRITEBACK_PATH_CATALOG in @relayfile/adapter-core, reached through the @relayfile/relay-helpers pin in packages/surface/package.json. Each catalog resource becomes .read() / .list() / .write() / .path(). The catalog was the missing piece, not the helper.

relayfile-adapters#282 added the GitLab writeback resources (shipped in adapter-core 0.6.x), and relay-helpers@0.4.12 is the first release that depends on a core carrying them — npm could never resolve the old ^0.5.x range to 0.6.x, which is why this was blocked until that republish.

Result, verified against the built surface

f.gitlab.issues               read/list/write/path
f.gitlab.merge-requests       read/list/write/path
f.gitlab.refs                 read/list/write/path
f.gitlab.merge                read/list/write/path
f.gitlab.close-merge-request  read/list/write/path

GitLab goes from 2 writeback resources to 7, against GitHub's 8.

What changed, and why some files did not

  • packages/surface/package.json + lockfile: @relayfile/relay-helpers 0.4.11 → 0.4.12 (resolves adapter-core 0.6.2).
  • src/helpers/gitlab.ts is unchanged — a provider's resources come from the type of its client (ReturnType<typeof gitlabClient>), not from enumerated code, so the surface expands with no edit to that file. That is the design working as intended.
  • src/helpers/ramp.ts + clients.ts: generator-driven, not hand-edited. 0.4.12 exports a real rampClient, so the generator drops the generic providerClient("ramp") fallback.
  • workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts (new): performs this bump end to end — probes the registry for a relay-helpers whose transitive catalog really carries the resources (installs and reads it, rather than trusting a version range), bumps, regenerates, asserts the built surface, has an agent fix stale docs, and opens a PR. It declines with the exact blocking dependency edge when no usable version exists. A run today is a no-op; it earns its keep on the next catalog bump.

Checks

  • npm test --prefix packages/surface — 50/50 pass, including helpers.snapshot.test.ts (the gate that catches generator drift).
  • Runtime assertion of all five resources against dist/helpers/gitlab.js — pass (output above).
  • flows check workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts — CHECK PASSED.
  • typecheck:examples — 0 errors from the added file. It does report 2 pre-existing errors in workflows/stuck-run-triage.flow.ts (Cannot find name 'URL'); identical count with the file removed, so they are not from this PR and are left alone.

Note for maintainers: a preflight false positive

flows check refuses any flow whose string literals contain f.<provider>, even when the helper is never called:

f.run("echo f.gitlab")   → REFUSED [helper_provider.mount_required]
f.run("echo f.github")   → REFUSED
// f.gitlab in a comment → passes

Cloud's equivalent (flow-source-requirements.ts) deliberately blanks strings and comments so "f.slack.post" names nothing; the SDK blanks only comments. The practical effect is that a flow cannot mention a helper in a prompt, shell command, or PR title without being forced to declare a mount it does not use. The new flow works around it by keeping the token out of strings. Worth fixing separately.

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Medium Risk
Expands the published GitLab integration surface via upstream adapter catalog changes and adds npm overrides that affect install resolution; the new workflow can commit and force-push when run on a clean tree.

Overview
Bumps @relayfile/relay-helpers from 0.4.11 to 0.4.12 in packages/surface and packages/sdk (with lockfile refreshes) so the generated f.gitlab helper picks up the GitLab writeback resources from adapter-core 0.6.x—issues, merge-requests, refs, merge, and close-merge-request with read/list/write/path—without editing gitlab.ts.

Adds an overrides block in packages/sdk/package.json so npm resolves @relayflows/surface’s relay-helpers peer to the SDK’s pinned version, keeping npm ci working across callers.

Regenerated Ramp wiring now uses upstream.rampClient instead of a generic providerClient("ramp") fallback in clients.ts / ramp.ts.

Introduces workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts and gitignores parity/ so future catalog bumps can probe npm, bump/regenerate, assert the built helper, update docs, and open a PR; with 0.4.12 already applied, a first run is expected to no-op at the “already resolved” path.

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Bumps @relayfile/relay-helpers from 0.4.11 to 0.4.12 so the generated f.gitlab helper gains its issue and merge-request surface: issues, merge-requests, refs, merge, and close-merge-request, each with read/list/write/path. No GitLab method is hand-written; the helper is regenerated from the adapter-core writeback catalog, so src/helpers/gitlab.ts is unchanged. ramp.ts and clients.ts drop the generic providerClient("ramp") fallback because 0.4.12 exports a real rampClient.

SDK peer resolution

  • Adds an overrides entry in packages/sdk/package.json pointing the published surface's exact relay-helpers peer at the SDK's own 0.4.12, which lets npm ci succeed in every caller without workflow or script edits. This replaces an earlier attempt that patched scripts/surface-package-gate.sh with --legacy-peer-deps and --force, which was reverted because the same install runs in publish and schema workflows.
  • The override becomes a no-op once a surface carrying peer 0.4.12 is published.

Automation

  • Adds workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts, which probes the registry, bumps, regenerates, asserts the built surface, updates docs, and opens the PR, so the next catalog bump needs no human.
  • The flow now rewrites the pin under peerDependencies, ignores its parity/ scratch tree, and refuses a dirty worktree before staging so unrelated edits cannot ride along to the forced push.

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…face

f.gitlab could only post: its writeback catalog was comments + discussions
against GitHub's eight, so a GitLab-sourced factory could not list issues,
read an issue, or open a merge request through the helper and authors fell
back to glab.

The helper is generated from WRITEBACK_PATH_CATALOG in @relayfile/adapter-core,
reached through the relay-helpers pin here — so the catalog was the missing
piece, not the helper. relayfile-adapters#282 added the GitLab writeback
resources and relay-helpers 0.4.12 is the first release that depends on a core
carrying them (npm could never resolve the old ^0.5.x range to 0.6.x).

Bumping the pin to 0.4.12 and regenerating gives, verified against the built
surface:

  f.gitlab.issues              read/list/write/path
  f.gitlab.merge-requests      read/list/write/path
  f.gitlab.refs                read/list/write/path
  f.gitlab.merge               read/list/write/path
  f.gitlab.close-merge-request read/list/write/path

No GitLab method is hand-written; helpers/gitlab.ts is byte-identical, since a
provider's resources come from the type of its client rather than from
enumerated code. ramp.ts and clients.ts change because 0.4.12 exports a real
rampClient, so the generator drops the generic providerClient fallback.

Also adds workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts, which performs this bump
end to end (probe the registry for a relay-helpers whose transitive catalog
really carries the resources, bump, regenerate, assert the built surface,
update docs, open a PR) so the next catalog bump does not need a human.

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The changes update Relay Helper versions, switch Ramp helpers to the shared client, and add a GitLab parity flow that probes compatible versions, regenerates and validates surface resources, updates documentation, and creates or updates a pull request.

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Surface parity and client updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and Ramp wiring
packages/sdk/package.json, packages/surface/package.json, packages/surface/src/helpers/clients.ts, packages/surface/src/helpers/ramp.ts
The SDK and surface package use Relay Helpers 0.4.12. The SDK override aligns the nested surface dependency. Ramp helpers use the shared rampClient factory.
Flow inputs and upstream probe
workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts
The flow validates inputs and workspace state, probes published helper versions, inspects GitLab catalog resources, and declines with a report when the required upstream resource is unavailable.
Helper generation and validation
workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts
The flow pins the discovered helper version, reinstalls dependencies, regenerates and builds the surface, verifies required GitLab capabilities, and runs tests.
Report and pull request handling
workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts, .gitignore
The flow records parity results, detects changes, publishes a validated branch, and creates or updates a pull request. The parity/ directory is ignored by Git.

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  participant GitlabSurfaceParityFlow
  participant NpmRegistry
  participant SurfacePackage
  participant GitProvider
  GitlabSurfaceParityFlow->>NpmRegistry: probe relay-helpers versions
  NpmRegistry-->>GitlabSurfaceParityFlow: return compatible version and resources
  GitlabSurfaceParityFlow->>SurfacePackage: pin dependency, regenerate, build, and test
  SurfacePackage-->>GitlabSurfaceParityFlow: return parity results
  GitlabSurfaceParityFlow->>GitProvider: commit changes and create or update pull request
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Comment thread packages/surface/package.json
Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
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await f.run(
`git checkout -B ${shellWord(branch)} && `
+ `git add -A ':(exclude)parity' && `

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Scratch tree breaks decline and publish

Medium Severity

The flow writes probe artifacts under parity/ and then uses git status --porcelain to decide there was no change. That directory is not gitignored (unlike review/ for the sibling PR-review flow), so status is never empty and the already-resolved decline never fires. Publish then runs git add -A ':(exclude)parity', an exclude-only pathspec this repo already found exits 1.

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Fixed in 0b3a75e9. parity/ now sits beside review/ in .gitignore, and the flow asserts it with git check-ignore rather than trusting it — the decline branch silently depends on that, which is exactly how this slipped through. With the scratch tree ignored the ':(exclude)parity' pathspec is unnecessary and is dropped.

One sub-claim does not reproduce: an exclude-only pathspec does not exit 1. Tested on a scratch repo — git add -A ':(exclude)parity' with an untracked parity/ present exits 0 and stages the rest. The real defect was only the unignored scratch tree making git status --porcelain never empty, which is how the other two reviews framed it.

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},
"peerDependencies": {
"@relayfile/relay-helpers": "0.4.11"
"@relayfile/relay-helpers": "0.4.12"

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🟡 Stale lock blocks surface validation

The peer bump leaves bun.lock pinned to relay-helpers@0.4.11. The surface gate uses a frozen install, so validation stops before building.

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The repository tracks both npm and Bun lockfiles for this package. The npm lock was updated, but bun.lock still records the old peer requirement and old transitive packages. The mandatory surface workflow calls bun install --frozen-lockfile, which refuses to rewrite a stale lockfile.

Example: A clean CI checkout reads relay-helpers@0.4.12 from package.json and 0.4.11 from bun.lock. The frozen install exits before bun run build, instead of validating the new GitLab surface.

Recommended fix: Regenerate and commit packages/surface/bun.lock with the pinned Bun version after changing the peer dependency. Confirm bun install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts reports no lockfile changes.

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Already fixed — this reviewed debf9efe, and 47f412be (pushed before these comments landed) regenerated packages/surface/bun.lock to relay-helpers 0.4.12 / adapter-core ^0.6.1. You were right that this was the blocker: it is exactly why packed-consumer failed, since the gate installs with bun install --frozen-lockfile. It passes now.

Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +134 to +136
+ `const cur=m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"];`
+ `if(cur===undefined) throw new Error("no @relayfile/relay-helpers dependency in "+p);`
+ `m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"]=probe.version;`

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🟡 Successful probes cannot update the pin

Every successful probe reads m.dependencies, while the pin lives in peerDependencies. cur stays undefined, so the workflow fails before regeneration.

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+ `const cur=m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"];`
+ `if(cur===undefined) throw new Error("no @relayfile/relay-helpers dependency in "+p);`
+ `m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"]=probe.version;`
+ `const cur=m.peerDependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"];`
+ `if(cur===undefined) throw new Error("no @relayfile/relay-helpers peer dependency in "+p);`
+ `m.peerDependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"]=probe.version;`

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Confirmed and fixed in 0b3a75e9. The pin is under peerDependencies (surface declares the helper library as a peer), so m.dependencies[...] was always undefined and the flow threw before installing, regenerating or publishing — the entire path was dead. Now reads and writes m.peerDependencies, and the comment above it names the field so the next reader doesn't repeat it.

Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +192 to +195
const changed = await f.run("git status --porcelain | head -c 4000");
if (changed.trim().length === 0) {
await f.run(`printf '%s\\n' 'No change: the pin already resolved a catalog with the GitLab resources.' >> ${REPORT}`);
return f.done("declined");

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🟡 No-op runs fail during commit

The unignored parity directory always makes changed nonempty. Since staging excludes that directory, an otherwise unchanged run reaches git commit with nothing staged.

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The flow creates parity/probe and parity/report.md before this status check. Neither path is ignored, so git status --porcelain reports ?? parity/ even when regeneration and documentation changed no tracked files. The publish command later excludes parity, leaving an empty index for git commit.

Example: With relay-helpers@0.4.12 already pinned and no stale documentation, only parity/ exists. The no-op branch is skipped, git add -A ':(exclude)parity' stages nothing, and git commit exits nonzero instead of returning declined.

Recommended fix: Base no-op detection on the same path set used for staging, such as checking the staged index after excluding parity. Alternatively place scratch artifacts under an ignored directory and verify only intended tracked changes trigger publishing.

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Fixed in 0b3a75e9. parity/ now sits beside review/ in .gitignore, and the flow asserts it with git check-ignore rather than trusting it — the decline branch silently depends on that, which is exactly how this slipped through. With the scratch tree ignored the ':(exclude)parity' pathspec is unnecessary and is dropped.

One sub-claim does not reproduce: an exclude-only pathspec does not exit 1. Tested on a scratch repo — git add -A ':(exclude)parity' with an untracked parity/ present exits 0 and stages the rest. The real defect was only the unignored scratch tree making git status --porcelain never empty, which is how the other two reviews framed it.

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Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
`node -e '`
+ `const fs=require("fs"); const probe=JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("${PROBE}","utf8"));`
+ `const p="${SURFACE_PKG}"; const m=JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(p,"utf8"));`
+ `const cur=m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"];`

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P1 Badge Update the peer dependency that actually holds the pin

Whenever the probe finds a usable version—including the currently pinned 0.4.12—this step reads m.dependencies["@relayfile/relay-helpers"], but packages/surface/package.json stores that package under peerDependencies. Consequently cur is always undefined and the flow throws before installing, regenerating, testing, or publishing; read and update m.peerDependencies instead.

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Confirmed and fixed in 0b3a75e9. The pin is under peerDependencies (surface declares the helper library as a peer), so m.dependencies[...] was always undefined and the flow threw before installing, regenerating or publishing — the entire path was dead. Now reads and writes m.peerDependencies, and the comment above it names the field so the next reader doesn't repeat it.

Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
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await f.run(
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+ `git add -A ':(exclude)parity' && `

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P1 Badge Refuse dirty worktrees before staging the generated change

When the documented local invocation runs in a checkout containing unrelated tracked or untracked edits, git add -A stages all of them except parity, and the next commands commit and force-push them to the automation branch. This can publish unrelated work or credentials; require a clean worktree before mutation or stage only the explicitly generated and agent-approved paths.

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Fixed in 0b3a75e9. The flow now refuses a dirty worktree up front, before it mutates anything, rather than trying to filter at staging time — git add -A followed by a force-push is not something to make safe with a pathspec.

Comment thread workflows/gitlab-surface-parity.flow.ts Outdated
// same PR instead of opening a second one. `gh` uses the sandbox's
// GH_TOKEN, the same credential git has there (see pr-review.flow.ts:
// the relayfile GitHub mount is not attached to authored Cloud runs).
const changed = await f.run("git status --porcelain | head -c 4000");

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P2 Badge Exclude scratch artifacts from the no-change test

When the selected helper version is already pinned and regeneration/docs make no repository changes—the stated first-run and scheduled no-op case—the parity/ directory still contains the probe installation and report and is not ignored, so git status --porcelain is never empty. The decline branch is therefore unreachable, and after excluding parity from staging the subsequent git commit fails with no staged changes; scope this status check to committable paths or explicitly exclude the scratch directory.

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Fixed in 0b3a75e9. parity/ now sits beside review/ in .gitignore, and the flow asserts it with git check-ignore rather than trusting it — the decline branch silently depends on that, which is exactly how this slipped through. With the scratch tree ignored the ':(exclude)parity' pathspec is unnecessary and is dropped.

One sub-claim does not reproduce: an exclude-only pathspec does not exit 1. Tested on a scratch repo — git add -A ':(exclude)parity' with an untracked parity/ present exits 0 and stages the rest. The real defect was only the unignored scratch tree making git status --porcelain never empty, which is how the other two reviews framed it.

…he gate

The first commit bumped only packages/surface/package.json + its npm lockfile,
so packed-consumer failed: the gate installs the surface with
`bun install --frozen-lockfile`, and bun.lock still pinned relay-helpers
0.4.11, whose client surface has no rampClient.

The pin lives in more places than that one manifest:

  packages/surface/package.json      peerDependencies (already bumped)
  packages/surface/package-lock.json (already bumped)
  packages/surface/bun.lock          what CI actually installs from
  packages/sdk/package.json          the SDK's own copy

The gate also cannot survive any move of that pin as written. It installs the
LAST-PUBLISHED surface into the SDK and then overwrites it with the freshly
packed one, and the published peer range is an exact version, so npm refuses
both orderings: the old pin conflicts with the new tarball, and the new pin
conflicts with the old registry copy. `npm ci --legacy-peer-deps` relaxes that,
but it also stops npm resolving peers on the fly — and adapter-core 0.6 added
a @relayfile/sdk peer that 0.5 did not have, whose absence broke the SDK suite
at import time. Generating the SDK lockfile with `npm install --force` records
that peer, so `npm ci` only installs what is already pinned.

Verified by running scripts/surface-package-gate.sh locally end to end:
exit 0, PACKED_RUNTIME_OK, PACKED_RUNTIME_REFUSAL_OK, PACKED_TYPESCRIPT_OK,
SDK 25/25, surface 50/50.

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Comment thread packages/sdk/package.json
…flags

Reverts the surface-package-gate.sh change from the previous commit and fixes
the same deadlock declaratively instead.

The conflict: packages/sdk depends on the LAST-PUBLISHED @relayflows/surface,
whose peer range pins an exact @relayfile/relay-helpers. Bumping this repo's
pin puts the SDK's own dependency (0.4.12) against that published peer
(0.4.11), and npm refuses. Patching the gate script was not enough — the same
`npm ci --prefix packages/sdk` runs in four more places:

  .github/workflows/schema-publish.yml       (validate)
  .github/workflows/cloud-runtime-artifact.yml (linux-x64-artifact)
  .github/workflows/publish.yml              x3, so it would have broken the
                                             release, not just PR CI

Spraying --legacy-peer-deps across five call sites also has a second cost: it
stops npm resolving peers on the fly, and adapter-core 0.6 added a
@relayfile/sdk peer that 0.5 did not have.

An `overrides` entry pointing the published surface's peer at the root
project's own version fixes the resolution in one committed place, for every
caller, with no workflow or script edits. It becomes a no-op once a surface
carrying peer 0.4.12 is published, and can be dropped then.

Verified: `npm ci --prefix packages/sdk --ignore-scripts` exits 0 with the
@relayfile/sdk peer installed, and scripts/surface-package-gate.sh — byte
identical to main — exits 0 with PACKED_RUNTIME_OK, PACKED_TYPESCRIPT_OK,
SDK 25/25 and surface 50/50.

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- Line 134: Update the dependency handling in the generated flow around the
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CI is green. Notes on the two failures this PR hit, in case they recur:

packed-consumer / validate — mine, fixed. The first commit bumped only packages/surface/package.json + its npm lockfile, but the gate installs via bun install --frozen-lockfile, and bun.lock still pinned relay-helpers 0.4.11 (no rampClient). Fixing that exposed a second, pre-existing deadlock: packages/sdk depends on the last-published surface, whose peer range pins an exact relay-helpers, so any move of that pin makes npm ci --prefix packages/sdk unsatisfiable in both directions. That command runs in five places, including publish.yml ×3 — so it would have broken the release, not just PR CI. Fixed with an overrides entry in the SDK manifest rather than --legacy-peer-deps across five call sites (which would also have stopped npm resolving peers — adapter-core 0.6 added a @relayfile/sdk peer that 0.5 did not have). scripts/surface-package-gate.sh ends up byte-identical to main. The override becomes a no-op once a surface carrying peer 0.4.12 is published and should be deleted then.

linux-x64-artifact — flaky, not this PR. Three runs on identical code:

run result
1 flow-executor-chain.test.ts › runs f.llm -> f.agent -> f.run… → not connected (run.get)
2 same file, different test › runs a dollar-budgeted authored Claude agent… → not connected (journal.read)
3 2573 passed, 0 failed

Different test each time, then a clean pass — a regression would fail the same test consistently. main failed this same job 12h ago (f6ce94694) on a different socket test in a different file. The tests use a stubbed claude script, so no network or real CLI is involved; the symptom is the SDK's journal socket to a locally-spawned relayflowd dropping under CI load. Might be worth a retry policy on that suite.

… staging

Review findings on the added flow, all of which would have made a real run
fail rather than being style points.

1. The pin is read and rewritten under `dependencies`, but surface declares
   the helper library under `peerDependencies`. `cur` was always undefined, so
   the flow threw before installing, regenerating or publishing — the whole
   path was dead. (Four reviewers independently caught this one.)

2. The scratch tree was not gitignored. The no-op decline reads
   `git status --porcelain`, so `parity/` made every run look changed, skipped
   the decline, and then reached `git commit` with nothing staged. `parity/`
   now sits beside `review/` in .gitignore, and the flow asserts that with
   `git check-ignore` rather than trusting it, since the decline branch
   silently depends on it.

3. `git add -A` would sweep unrelated local edits into the automation branch
   and force-push them. The flow now refuses a dirty worktree up front,
   before it mutates anything.

With the scratch tree ignored, the `':(exclude)parity'` pathspec is no longer
needed and is dropped. Note it was not itself broken: one review said an
exclude-only pathspec exits 1, which does not reproduce — `git add -A
':(exclude)parity'` exits 0.

flows check: CHECK PASSED. typecheck:examples: 0 errors from this file.

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… override (#572)

* fix(sdk): read helper references as syntax, and drop the surface peer override

Two cleanups that both became possible once surface 2.0.30 published.

1. A helper NAMED in a string or comment is not a helper USED. Both readers
   tested the raw body text, so `f.run("echo f.gitlab")`, an agent prompt
   naming `f.slack`, or a PR title in a commit message each declared a helper
   requirement and refused the flow with `helper_provider.mount_required` for
   a mount it never touches. That also made the SDK stricter than Cloud, whose
   `flow-source-requirements.ts` already reads these shapes as syntax — a flow
   Cloud accepts could be refused locally.

   Dot access is now read on the copy with comments AND strings blanked;
   bracket access (`f["gitlab"]`, whose key IS a string) on the comments-only
   copy, confirmed against the fully blanked one so the `f[` must have
   survived. Extracted to helper-reference.ts because both `preflightHelpers`
   and `flowRequirements` carried their own copy of the regex — the comment in
   flow-requirements.ts said "same recognition as preflightHelpers", which is
   how the two drifted into the same bug twice.

2. Removes the `overrides` entry added in #537. It existed only because the
   then-published surface pinned an exact peer `relay-helpers 0.4.11` against
   this repo's 0.4.12; surface 2.0.30 ships peer 0.4.12, so it is now inert.
   Verified, not assumed: `npm install` and a clean `npm ci` both exit 0
   without it, with the @relayfile/sdk peer still installed.

Regression test asserts both directions and is red against main's code
(2 failed) and green here (6 passed). Surface gate exits 0. The daemon-backed
suites fail identically before and after (7/7 on tests/yaml-local-agent-live
either way) — they need a live relayflowd this environment lacks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(sdk): lex templates and regex literals in the helper scan

Review found two shapes my blanking got wrong, and both were worse than the
bug it fixed: they hid REAL helper use, so a flow would deploy without its
mount and fail at runtime, where the original bug only refused a flow that
needed nothing.

  await f.run(`echo ${await f.gitlab.issues.list({})}`)  -> PASSED (regression)
  const a = /'/; await f.gitlab.issues.list({})          -> PASSED (regression)
  const p = /f.gitlab/                                   -> REFUSED (pre-existing)

A template is not one span: quasis are text but each `${…}` is live code, so
interpolations are now walked as code, nested templates included. A regex is
not code: `/f.gitlab/` is a mention, and a quote inside one opened a phantom
string that blanked the entire rest of the body.

Regex-vs-division is resolved conservatively — only after a character that
cannot end an expression. Misreading division as a regex would blank real
code and hide a helper; misreading a regex as division only risks the milder
false refusal, so ambiguity resolves toward "not a regex".

Verified on all ten shapes (the three reported, the six already covered, plus
division): regression test now 12 passing. Surface gate exits 0. The
kernel-backed suites fail identically before and after (5/6 on
tests/authored-helpers either way) — they need a live relayflowd.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(sdk): parse the flow body instead of lexing it by hand

The lexer this replaces had to decide whether `/` opened a regex or divided,
which is not decidable without parse context — only a heuristic on the
preceding token. Review was right that the heuristic was the weak point, and
it was not merely theoretical: the lexer missed optional chaining outright,

  await f?.gitlab?.issues.list({})   -> PASSED, should refuse

a false negative deploying a flow with no GitLab mount, to fail at the call.

acorn (zero dependencies, ~565 KB unpacked) parses the body and the walk looks
for member access on the context parameter. Regex-vs-division, templates and
their interpolations, comments, strings and optional chaining are all settled
by construction rather than by rule, so the whole class is gone rather than
approximated.

`Function.prototype.toString()` can yield an arrow, a function expression, a
declaration or an object-literal method, and only some of those are
expressions, so each shape gets a parse attempt. If none parse the scan falls
back to matching text — deliberately the permissive direction, since
under-reporting deploys a flow without a mount it needs while over-reporting
only asks for one that may go unused.

What no parser can see is indirection: `const p = 'gitlab'; f[p]…` needs value
tracking. That is documented on the function, and it is why
`header.tools[namespace]` — which already short-circuits this scan — is the
authority and this is a convenience for the literal case.

17 tests now, including the five shapes that separate a parse from a lex.
Surface gate exits 0. The kernel-backed suites fail identically before and
after (5/7 on tests/authored-flow-slack either way).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(sdk): unescape the context parameter and require a whole-body parse

Two more false negatives from review, both hiding real helper use.

`root` was regex-escaped from when it built a pattern, but it is now compared
to an AST Identifier name. A legal parameter like `f$` became `f\$`, matched
no identifier, and every helper call in that flow went undeclared.
`contextParameter` now returns the raw name and the regex scanners escape it
themselves.

`parseExpressionAt` stops at the end of the first expression without objecting
to what follows, so `async post(f) { … }` parsed as the identifier `async`,
reported success having read five characters, and declared nothing. Each
attempt must now consume the whole source.

Fixing that exposed the same case failing one step earlier: the parameter
regex did not match method shorthand at all, so `root` was undefined and the
body was never scanned — true on main too, not a regression. It now matches,
so the case works end to end rather than only past the parser.

33 tests. Surface gate exits 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(sdk): recognise generator method bodies as a context parameter shape

Checking the non-async method case from review surfaced a third shape the
parameter regex still missed: a generator method (`*gen(f) { … }`), whose
leading `*` kept it from matching at all, leaving `root` undefined and the
body unscanned. Same class as the method-shorthand gap, same consequence — a
helper used and never declared.

Non-async methods and `$`-prefixed parameters were already correct after
70dc7a5; both are now pinned by tests so the shapes stay covered.

34 tests. Surface gate exits 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(sdk): cover the flowRequirements parameter path, not just preflight

Review caught that the generator-method fix was only asserted through
`preflightHelpers`, while the identical regex also lives in
`flowRequirements`, which extracts the context parameter itself. Verified the
gap by mutation: reverting the flow-requirements.ts line left all 34 tests
green, so that mirror was pinned by nothing.

Adds a flowRequirements case per body shape — async method, plain method,
generator method, `$`-prefixed parameter, and a string mention that must NOT
declare. Re-ran the same mutation with it in place: the revert now fails that
test and passes once restored, so the coverage is real rather than decorative.

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