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Problem

A relayflow run's observer link showed nothing about the flow. The dashboard has no notion of a run, and even structured messages could not render live: the realtime message.created event dropped metadata (which GET /v1/channels/:name/messages returns), and @relaycast/react's reducer dropped it again.

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  • engine wsTransform.ts: message.created carries the message metadata when it is an object. It is the same document the REST list already returns to the same token, so no new exposure.
  • react reducer.ts: handleMessageCreated keeps metadata.
  • observer-dashboard: lib/relayflow-run.ts parses the newest metadata.relayflow (version 1) run snapshot in a channel, field by field, ignoring anything malformed. RunPanel draws it as a step graph (columns by dependency depth, state and timing per step), pinned above the feed.

Companion flows PR (the producer): AgentWorkforce/flows — fix/observer-run-projection.

Evidence

  • packages/engine: npx vitest run src/engine/__tests__/wsTransform.test.ts → Tests 35 passed (35)
  • packages/react: npx vitest run src/__tests__/reducer.test.ts → Tests 26 passed (26)
  • packages/observer-dashboard: npx vitest run src/lib/relayflow-run.test.ts → Tests 5 passed (5); tsc --noEmit clean for engine, react, dashboard.
  • End to end: a self-hosted engine built from this branch (dist/bin/serve.js --port 8799) + this dashboard + a flows run from the companion branch. One page session's panel went 0/4 → 1/4 → 2/4 → 3/4 → 4/4 steps with no reload. Against production cast.agentrelay.com (without this engine change) the panel froze at its first REST load while the text feed kept updating, which is the bug this fixes.

Known, not addressed here

A channel-scoped observer token (filters.channel_names, include_dms: false) still receives other agents' dm.received events in the Activity panel, and the agents sidebar lists the whole workspace.

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Changes realtime event shape and client ordering semantics across engine, SDK, and React; behavior is backward-compatible via optional fields and createdAt fallback, but observers and agents depending on old payloads may see different message ordering or new metadata fields.

Overview
Realtime message.created now matches REST list payloads: the engine and direct-node WebSocket paths forward message.metadata (object-only) and the persisted createdAt, and @relaycast/react stores both instead of stamping client time and stripping metadata. MessageCreatedEvent gains optional created_at; OpenAPI/README document the behavior.

The observer dashboard parses the newest valid metadata.relayflow v1 snapshot in a channel (snowflake ID order, tolerant parsing) and pins a RunPanel above the feed with a dependency-column step graph, textual step states, and timing. Vitest is configured for automatic JSX in dashboard tests.

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…me events

The observer opened a relayflow run's link onto an arbitrary channel with no
notion of the flow. Relayflows now projects each run into its wf-<runId>
channel with a run snapshot in metadata.relayflow on every message; the
dashboard renders that snapshot as the run's step graph above the feed.

The realtime message.created event dropped metadata (REST returned it), and
the React reducer dropped it again, so the graph froze at the first load.
Both now carry it through.

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Realtime message events now carry metadata and server creation timestamps into client state. The observer dashboard selects Relayflow run snapshots from channel messages and displays the latest run and its step graph above the feed.

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Realtime messages and Relayflow run display

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Realtime message metadata and timestamps
packages/types/src/events.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/wsTransform.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/__tests__/wsTransform.test.ts, packages/react/src/reducer.ts, packages/react/src/__tests__/reducer.test.ts, packages/sdk-typescript/src/ws.ts, packages/sdk-typescript/src/__tests__/agent-ws.test.ts, README.md, openapi.yaml, packages/engine/CHANGELOG.md, packages/sdk-typescript/CHANGELOG.md, packages/types/CHANGELOG.md
The event schema accepts an optional created_at. Engine and TypeScript SDK transforms include object-valued metadata, and the SDK transform includes a string creation timestamp. The React reducer stores event metadata and uses the server timestamp when present. Tests and documentation cover these fields.
Relayflow snapshot selection and step layout
packages/observer-dashboard/src/lib/relayflow-run.ts, packages/observer-dashboard/src/lib/relayflow-run.test.ts
Snapshot selection uses the greatest message ID. Cyclic steps receive depth zero, and dependent steps retain dependency-depth grouping. Tests cover snapshot validation, ordering, and grouping.
Run panel and channel feed integration
packages/observer-dashboard/src/components/ChatFeed.tsx, packages/observer-dashboard/src/components/RunPanel.tsx, packages/observer-dashboard/src/components/RunPanel.test.tsx, packages/observer-dashboard/vitest.config.ts, CHANGELOG.md
The channel feed renders a panel for the latest valid run above its messages. The panel displays run and step details, including state text, elapsed time, and attempts.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChannelMessages
  participant latestRelayflowRun
  participant RunPanel
  participant FeedList
  ChannelMessages->>latestRelayflowRun: sorted channel messages
  latestRelayflowRun-->>ChannelMessages: latest valid run or null
  ChannelMessages->>RunPanel: render when a run exists
  ChannelMessages->>FeedList: render channel messages
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This change adds Relayflow run visibility and richer realtime message state; the inspected workspace path preserves server timestamps, and no actionable merge risk remains in the supplied review context.

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In `@packages/observer-dashboard/src/components/RunPanel.tsx`:
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In `@packages/observer-dashboard/src/lib/relayflow-run.ts`:
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…r vitest

RunPanel imported React only so its test could render under vitest's classic
JSX transform; Next compiles with the automatic runtime. Match Next in the
test config and drop the unused import.

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