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The agent-side half of P3.1, next to reportOutcome where an agent already closes the loop on a task.

What it does

await agent.fetch({ url, taskId: 'call-8821' });
await agent.emitOutcome({
  taskId: 'call-8821',
  outcomeKind: 'meeting_booked',
  idempotencyKey: 'call-8821:meeting_booked',
});

Floe resolves the task id to the call it belongs to and binds the claim there, so cost and outcome sit on one row. That is what makes cost-per-outcome a number rather than an estimate.

What it is not

Not a sibling of reportOutcome's vocabulary. That is FLO-633's per-action quality signal feeding the quality throttle, and it never reaches an invoice. This is the invoice-grade claim. The two share a word and nothing else, which is why they are separate methods with separate types rather than an overload.

An agent key may only report

There is deliberately no status argument. Confirming a claim, voiding one and resolving a collision are operator acts on the developer-scoped surface: they move money, and the evidence that justifies them — a CRM webhook, a calendar invitation — reaches the operator's backend minutes to days after the call, never the agent's process. Offering the field here would invite a 400 the type system should have prevented.

confirmedAt is likewise absent from the emission type and always null in the response: emitting never sets the billing anchor.

Validation is local first

Matching this file's existing posture — a bad argument is a FloeAgentError, not a round trip. One deviation worth naming: the idempotency key is capped at the server's 200 rather than at MAX_TAG_LENGTH (128). It is not an attribution tag, and rejecting a key the API would have accepted is a bug in the client, not strictness.

externalRef without externalSystem fails locally too. The server has a CHECK constraint saying the same thing, but failing here names the actual mistake instead of returning a constraint message.

Tests

6 new cases, 18 passing in the file, typecheck clean. They pin the wire contract (omitted optionals are absent, not null — the route is .strict()), the evidence allowlist going out verbatim, the local guards short-circuiting before any fetch, and a refused task id surfacing as a typed error carrying task_not_found.

Requires the API side (floe-monorepo #502); POST /v1/agents/outcomes 404s until that ships.

The Python mirror is Floe-Labs/agentkit-actions-py — parity between the two SDKs is an advertised property, so they land together.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for emitting outcome claims for billable tasks.
    • Outcome claims can include task details, outcomes, quantities, timestamps, corroborating evidence, notes, and idempotency information.
    • Claims now provide lifecycle and source details after successful submission.
    • Added validation for required and malformed claim data, including invalid task references and oversized idempotency keys.
    • Added typed error handling for rejected submissions.

The agent-side half of P3.1. `emitOutcome` posts a billable outcome claim
against the task id the caller already has; Floe resolves that id to the
call and binds the claim there, so cost and outcome sit on one row.

Deliberately NOT a sibling of `reportOutcome`'s vocabulary. That is the
per-action quality signal and never reaches an invoice; this is the
invoice-grade claim. They share a word and nothing else.

An agent key may only REPORT. There is no `status` argument: confirming a
claim, voiding one and resolving a collision are operator acts on the
developer surface, because they move money and the evidence justifying
them reaches the operator's backend minutes to days after the call, never
this process.

Local validation first, matching the file's existing posture — a bad
argument is a FloeAgentError, not a round trip. The idempotency key is
capped at the server's 200 rather than at MAX_TAG_LENGTH: rejecting a key
the API would have accepted is a client bug, not strictness.
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The SDK adds typed outcome-claim contracts and exports. FloeAgent.emitOutcome validates and submits billable task claims. Tests cover payloads, optional fields, validation failures, idempotency limits, and typed task errors.

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Outcome emission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Outcome claim contracts and exports
src/floeAgent.ts, src/index.ts
Adds public types for outcome emissions and stored claims. Exports the new types from the package.
Outcome emission flow
src/floeAgent.ts
Adds FloeAgent.emitOutcome, including input validation, normalized POST data, response parsing, and returned OutcomeClaim data.
Emission validation and API behavior
test/actionAttribution.test.ts
Tests successful requests, optional and evidence fields, local validation, idempotency-key limits, and typed task_not_found errors.

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  Application->>FloeAgent: emitOutcome(emission)
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  FloeAgent-->>Application: Parsed OutcomeClaim or error
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Outcome emission can send invalid timestamps despite its public contract, and task-not-found errors lose their useful server message. Address these localized SDK contract issues before merging where possible.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve the API error message. · floeAgent.ts:939

src/floeAgent.ts:939
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Preserve the API error message.

emitOutcome receives { error, message }, but parseJson ignores message and uses "task_not_found" as FloeAgentError.message. Parse message and use it before the error code. Extend the 404 test to assert the descriptive message.

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-      let parsed: { error?: string; detail?: string } = {};
+      let parsed: { error?: string; detail?: string; message?: string } = {};
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-        parsed.detail ?? parsed.error ?? `${operation} failed: ${resp.status}`,
+        parsed.detail ?? parsed.message ?? parsed.error ?? `${operation} failed: ${resp.status}`,
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In `@src/floeAgent.ts` at line 939, Update the response parsing in emitOutcome to
include the message field alongside error and detail, then prefer parsed.message
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In `@src/floeAgent.ts`:
- Around line 637-639: Update the occurredAt validation in FloeAgent to reject
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The guard checked only `typeof === "string"`, so "not-a-date" passed and was
POSTed — a 400 the SDK could have named itself, which is the round trip this
method's local-validation posture exists to avoid.

Mirrors the route exactly rather than approximating it. The API declares
occurredAt as z.string().datetime(): RFC-3339 with a Z, so neither
"2026-09-15" nor a +01:00 offset is accepted there. A bare Date.parse check
would have been LOOSER than the server and still let a 400 through, so the
guard pairs the shape with a parse — "2026-13-45T00:00:00Z" matches the
pattern and is not an instant.

Two tests: four rejected forms asserting fetch is never called, and a
well-formed value asserted to go out verbatim. Mutation-proven — reverting
to the typeof-only guard turns the rejection case red.

The same fix lands in agentkit-actions-py to keep TS/Py parity, and in the
MCP server's emit_outcome schema.
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Correct, and fixed — with one deliberate difference from the obvious patch.

The fix mirrors the route rather than approximating it

The guard checked only typeof === "string", so "not-a-date" passed straight into the POST. That is a 400 the SDK could have named locally, which is the whole point of validating before this.request.

The obvious fix is a Date.parse check, and it would still be wrong — looser than the server. The route declares the field z.string().datetime(), which demands RFC-3339 with a Z:

Value Date.parse The route Now
2026-09-15T10:30:00Z ok ok accepted
2026-09-15 ok rejected rejected
2026-09-15T10:30:00+01:00 ok rejected rejected
2026-13-45T00:00:00Z NaN rejected rejected

So the guard pairs the shape with a parse — the pattern alone admits 2026-13-45T00:00:00Z, which is shape-valid and not an instant (Date.parse returns NaN, confirmed rather than assumed).

Tests

Two, as asked. One walks the four rejected forms and asserts fetchMock was never called; the other sends a well-formed value and pins that it goes out verbatim. Mutation-proven: reverting to the typeof-only guard turns the rejection case red.

20 passing in the file, typecheck clean.

Two things carried beyond this PR

Parity. agentkit-actions-py had this field with no validation at all — weaker than the TS side — so fixing only here would have widened the gap rather than closed it. The same rule now lands there, field for field. (178 passing, ruff clean; its mutation proof kills 3 of the 4 rejected forms, the fourth being one the transport happened to reject anyway.)

The MCP server had the same bare z.string() on emit_outcome.occurred_at; now z.string().datetime() — floe-mcp-server #87.

Not tightened anywhere: since / until. Those go to parseRange, which uses Date.parse and accepts a bare date. Demanding RFC-3339 there would reject input the backend honours, and being stricter than the server is its own bug.

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What changed in this PR

Adds FloeAgent.emitOutcome for submitting invoice-grade task outcome claims.

Changes:

  • Adds outcome types and public exports.
  • Implements local validation and POST submission.
  • Adds request, validation, serialization, and error tests.
File Reviewed changes
test/​actionAttribution.test.ts Tests submission, validation, serialization, and errors.
src/​index.ts Exports the new outcome types.
src/​floeAgent.ts Defines outcome types and implements emitOutcome.

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Comment thread src/floeAgent.ts
if (
typeof ts !== "string"
|| !/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(\.\d+)?Z$/.test(ts)
|| Number.isNaN(Date.parse(ts))
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