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Five docs pages told a host that a configuration refusal comes back "with CONFIGURATION_ERROR". That is the name of the enum member. The error's code is the string 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR', the value of GMIErrorCode.CONFIGURATION_ERROR in src/core/utils/errors.ts, so a host that compares err.code with 'CONFIGURATION_ERROR' never matches the refusal.

Each page now names the string a host compares:

  • docs/getting-started/SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.md: the conversation manager's refusal of a conversations or conversation_messages table it did not make, whose message names conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix.
  • docs/safety/PROVENANCE.md: AgentOS.initialize() refusing a provenance policy that leaves prefixed conversation tables unprotected.
  • docs/GMI.md: AgentOS.initialize() refusing a learning option that is not valid.
  • docs/AGENCIES.md: the full runtime refusing an agencies bound out of range.
  • docs/PERSONAS.md: AgentOS.create() refusing an inline personas list.

docs/GMI.md already wrote the member with its string beside it for a fallback failure, as CONFIGURATION_ERROR (SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR); that form stays allowed.

Six source comments the API reference is built from named the member alone as well: the TSDoc of ConversationManager.initialize(), GMIManager.createAgencySeat(), AgentOS's learning-option check, assertInlinePersonaDefinitions() and validatePersonaSource(), and a line comment in MetapromptExecutor. Each now names the member with its string. ConversationManager.initialize()'s TSDoc also names the option as its message does, conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix.

docs/PERSONAS.md also said every refusal of an inline personas list names "the index or id". A value that is not an array is refused with the type it received in the error's details, and an entry with no usable id by its index alone; the page and assertInlinePersonaDefinitions()'s TSDoc now say which refusal names what.

An entry whose id is blank (empty or whitespace only, such as id: ' ') is refused by its index alone, but the page said its id is named "where that id is a non-empty string", and the refusal's message said the entry needs "a non-empty string id", which ' ' is. The message now reads personas[<index>] must be an object with a string `id` that is not blank., and the page and the TSDoc say blank where they said non-empty.

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Follows #620.

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CI, test first. The first commit changes the quickstart assertion in src/api/__tests__/learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.ts, and its run failed at that assertion. The second adds src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts, which reads every page under docs/ (the generated API reference left out) and fails on the member's name in backticks without the string beside it; its run failed naming the five pages. The commit that changes the pages turns both green. A third test commit pins, on each of the six pages that describe a configuration refusal, the sentence's words that name SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR, matches the member's name with or without backticks, and scans every comment line under src/ (tests left out); its run failed naming the six source comments, and the commit that changes them turns it green. A fourth pins the personas page's sentence on what each refusal names, and has agentos-personas-inline.test.ts expect each refusal's message and details through AgentOS.create() (a repeated id, an entry with no id, an entry whose id is a number, a value that is not an array); its run failed at the page's sentence, and the docs commit turns it green. The last test commit adds a blank id (' ') to those cases and pins the new message and the page's words; its run failed at the message and the page, and the commit that changes the message, the TSDoc and the page turns it green. The code behind each sentence is pinned by cases that expect code: 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' (or GMIErrorCode.CONFIGURATION_ERROR): learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.ts, conversation-tables-provenance.e2e.test.ts, agencies-launch.package.e2e.test.ts and agentos-personas-inline.test.ts. The learning option's refusals had no case on their code; the case in agentos-learning.e2e.test.ts that refuses learning.namespace, learning beside a passed layer and an unknown mode now expects it.

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  • Tests cover the changed behavior.
  • Docs are updated.
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  • Documentation
    • Clarified that configuration and startup validation failures use SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR across agency, learning, persona, and conversation storage guidance.
    • Updated storage guidance to identify the relevant table-prefix setting and explain which tables may need to be added to a storage policy.
    • Expanded persona validation guidance to describe invalid input types, entry positions, available persona IDs, and the requirement for IDs to be nonblank.
    • Clarified that table creation failures use SYS_DATABASE_ERROR, distinct from configuration errors.

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Documentation and source comments now identify SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR for covered configuration refusals. Tests check error codes, inline-persona refusal details, and documentation and source comments for outdated bare CONFIGURATION_ERROR references. The persona loader error message now says “not blank.” No runtime validation behavior changes are described.

Changes: Configuration error-code documentation

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Update documented error codes
docs/AGENCIES.md, docs/GMI.md, docs/getting-started/SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.md, docs/safety/PROVENANCE.md, src/api/AgentOS.ts, src/api/runtime/personaLoaderResolution.ts, src/cognition/substrate/GMIManager.ts, src/cognition/substrate/MetapromptExecutor.ts, src/core/conversation/ConversationManager.ts, src/api/__tests__/agentos-learning.e2e.test.ts, src/api/__tests__/learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.ts, src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts
Documentation and source comments identify SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR for covered configuration refusals. The ConversationManager.initialize documentation also identifies SYS_DATABASE_ERROR for table creation failures and names conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix. Tests check expected error codes and scan documentation and source comments for bare CONFIGURATION_ERROR references.
Document and test inline-persona refusals
docs/PERSONAS.md, src/cognition/substrate/personas/InMemoryPersonaLoader.ts, src/api/__tests__/agentos-personas-inline.test.ts
Persona documentation and validation details cover invalid entries and non-array input. The invalid-ID message now says “not blank.” Tests check refusal messages and details, and verify the documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

  • framerslab/agentos#620: Adds the learning, table-prefix, provenance, agency, and persona configuration behavior covered by these documentation and test updates.
  • framerslab/agentos#617: Adds full-runtime AgentOS agencies configuration and validation covered by the agencies documentation update.
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Updates five documentation pages and related tests so hosts are directed to compare configuration-refusal errors against the actual err.code string, SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR, rather than the enum member name CONFIGURATION_ERROR; adds a repository-wide documentation regression check.

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Correct configuration-refusal documentation to identify the runtime error-code string hosts must compare.
  • Replace bare CONFIGURATION_ERROR references with SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR and clarify the relevant error property and message context.
  • Cover conversation table-prefix, provenance, learning, agency bounds, and inline persona validation refusals.
docs/AGENCIES.md
docs/GMI.md
docs/PERSONAS.md
docs/getting-started/SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.md
docs/safety/PROVENANCE.md
Add regression coverage ensuring documentation does not expose the enum member name as the host-facing code.
  • Recursively scan Markdown documentation while excluding generated API docs.
  • Allow the enum name only when immediately accompanied by its string value.
  • Assert the enum maps to SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR and that the docs set is discovered.
src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts
Align targeted tests with the documented error-code contract.
  • Assert code: 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' for learning configuration refusals.
  • Update the SQL quickstart documentation assertion and reject the old bare wording.
src/api/__tests__/agentos-learning.e2e.test.ts
src/api/__tests__/learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.ts

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@jddunn jddunn changed the title docs(conversation): name the code a host reads when the conversation tables are refused docs: name the code a host reads when the runtime refuses a configuration Nov 1, 2026
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Document the configuration refusal code hosts receive

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• Correct five guides to name SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR, the value hosts read from err.code.
• Add a docs-wide check to prevent bare enum-member names from obscuring the returned string.
• Assert the returned code for conversation-table and learning configuration refusals.
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graph TD
  C["Invalid config"] --> R["Runtime validation"] --> E["Error code"] --> H["Host handler"]
  E --> D["Documentation"] --> H
  D --> T["Docs guard"]
  E --> T
  R --> U["Runtime tests"]
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Keep the returned string explicit in host-facing prose and retain the docs-wide guard. Using only the enum member would preserve the ambiguity this PR fixes; no runtime or API change is needed.

Files changed (8) +65 / -9

Tests (3) +60 / -4
agentos-learning.e2e.test.tsAssert codes on three learning configuration refusals +6/-3

Assert codes on three learning configuration refusals

• Extends existing pre-initialization refusal checks to assert both 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' and the field-specific message for an invalid namespace, conflicting layer, and unknown mode.

src/api/tests/agentos-learning.e2e.test.ts

learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.tsPin the quickstart's conversation refusal wording +4/-1

Pin the quickstart's conversation refusal wording

• Updates the documentation assertion to require the returned string code and full table-prefix option name, and rejects the former bare enum-member wording.

src/api/tests/learning-store-and-scopes.e2e.test.ts

configurationErrorDocs.test.tsGuard configuration error wording across docs +50/-0

Guard configuration error wording across docs

• Adds a test that verifies the enum member's string value and scans Markdown under 'docs/', excluding the generated API reference, for bare 'CONFIGURATION_ERROR' references. It also checks that the scan includes 'docs/GMI.md'.

src/core/utils/tests/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts

Documentation (5) +5 / -5
AGENCIES.mdName the code for full-runtime agency bounds refusals +1/-1

Name the code for full-runtime agency bounds refusals

• Replaces the enum-member name with 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' when describing an out-of-range agencies setting on the full runtime.

docs/AGENCIES.md

GMI.mdClarify the code for learning configuration refusals +1/-1

Clarify the code for learning configuration refusals

• States that 'AgentOS.initialize()' returns the code 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' for invalid learning settings.

docs/GMI.md

PERSONAS.mdClarify the code for invalid inline personas +1/-1

Clarify the code for invalid inline personas

• Names 'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR' as the code on 'AgentOS.create()' rejections for invalid inline personas.

docs/PERSONAS.md

SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.mdDocument the conversation-table refusal code and message +1/-1

Document the conversation-table refusal code and message

• Identifies ''SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR'' as the error's 'code' when a conversation table belongs to another component. Clarifies that the message names 'conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix'.

docs/getting-started/SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.md

PROVENANCE.mdName the code for provenance policy refusals +1/-1

Name the code for provenance policy refusals

• Clarifies that initialization returns an error with 'code' ''SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR'' when a policy omits prefixed conversation tables.

docs/safety/PROVENANCE.md

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1. Docs can lose all refusal codes unnoticed ✓ Resolved
Description
configurationErrorDocs.test.ts only searches for bare backticked CONFIGURATION_ERROR references
and asserts that none remain. If documentation removes the references entirely or uses wording
without the code, the test still passes because it never requires SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR to
appear.
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src/core/utils/tests/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts[44]

+    expect(bare).toEqual([]);
Evidence
The test's regex only matches bare backticked enum-member references, and the assertion checks that
this list is empty. Its separate discovery assertion only verifies that GMI.md exists; it does not
assert that any page contains SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR, even though the runtime enum defines that
as the value hosts read.

src/core/utils/tests/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts[32-44]
src/core/utils/tests/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts[47-49]
src/core/utils/errors.ts[28-39]

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## Issue description
The documentation regression test only rejects one incorrect form of the enum member and does not require any documentation to name `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR`, so deleting all relevant code references would pass.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts[32-44]
## Recommended Fix
Add positive assertions for the expected host-readable code and, preferably, for the targeted documentation pages or required paired forms. Keep the negative assertion for bare `CONFIGURATION_ERROR` references, but ensure the test fails when the required code is absent from the pages it is intended to protect.

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## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts" line_range="22" />
<code_context>

 An argument or a seat key the table does not name is refused.

</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**API docs still name the enum member**

When a host reads the public method's JSDoc instead of the quickstart, `ConversationManager.initialize()`'s public JSDoc calls the error `CONFIGURATION_ERROR`, while the error exposes `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR` in `err.code`, so a host copying that name still misses the refusal.

Update the public JSDoc to name the `err.code` string and include source JSDoc in the regression check, or otherwise correct that documentation alongside the Markdown pages.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="docs/getting-started/SQL_STORAGE_QUICKSTART.md" line_range="199" />
<code_context>
+- `tablePrefix` (`conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix` on the runtime), unset by default, names the two tables `<prefix>conversations` and `<prefix>conversation_messages`, with their indexes. Set one where the database holds another component's table of either name: a memory Brain on the same adapter makes a `conversations` table of its own, with other columns, and so does `SqlStorageAdapter`. `initialize()` refuses a database whose table of either name it did not make, with an error whose `code` is `'SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR'` and whose message names `conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix`, before it changes anything; `AgentOS.initialize()` fails with it. A prefix is letters, digits and underscores, starting with a letter or an underscore, at most 32 characters (`'agentos_'`, for one). Setting one on a database that holds conversations leaves those in the tables of the old name. A provenance policy names the tables it protects exactly: where it protects `conversations` or `conversation_messages` and not the prefixed name, `AgentOS.initialize()` refuses to start, naming the tables to add to `storagePolicy.protectedTables` ([Provenance](../safety/PROVENANCE.md#storage-policies)). Set the prefix before the runtime first starts on a database that will also hold a Brain: the check runs when the manager starts, so a Brain opened later beside the unprefixed tables finds a `conversations` table that is not its own. On PostgreSQL that Brain does not open (its `messages` table's foreign key names `conversations` columns the runtime's table lacks); on SQLite it opens, and its conversation export and import fail.
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Conflict message names wrong option**

When a host hits a conversation-table conflict and relies on the message to identify the configuration field, `ConversationManager.initialize()` rethrows the table-conflict message unchanged, and its documented field name is `tablePrefix`, not `conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix`; callers following the guide cannot find that full option path in the error message.

Describe the message as naming `tablePrefix`, and identify `conversationManagerConfig.tablePrefix` separately as the runtime config path.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path="src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts" line_range="33" />
<code_context>
+}
+
+/** The member's name in backticks, where the string a host reads does not follow it. */
+const BARE_MEMBER = /`CONFIGURATION_ERROR`(?! \(`SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR`\))/g;
+
+describe('the docs on a configuration refusal', () => {
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Incorrect refusal codes pass checks**

When a refusal page gives a wrong code, omits it, or uses an unbackticked wrong member, `BARE_MEMBER` only catches a backticked `CONFIGURATION_ERROR` without the expected value, and the enum assertion checks only the source; incorrect or missing `err.code` guidance therefore passes.

Assert each refusal page names `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR` and reject wrong member names with or without backticks.

Also at `src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts:44`.
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Nitpick Assert the refusal code without pinning the sentence.

62-62: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the refusal code without pinning the sentence.

Changing “before any service starts” to “before services start” would fail the GMI test even if the refusal still names SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR. Check the code within the relevant refusal passage instead of matching the full sentence. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Based on learnings, tests should avoid exact prose assertions unless the copy itself is the requirement.

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Review comment at @src/core/utils/__tests__/configurationErrorDocs.test.ts at
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Update the GMI documentation assertion in the test around
`configurationErrorDocs.test.ts` to check that the relevant refusal passage
contains `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR` without matching the full sentence. Keep the
assertion scoped to the refusal passage so wording changes do not break the
test.

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Minor · Correct the non-array validation wording. · PERSONAS.md:68

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Correct the non-array validation wording.

When personas is not an array, assertInlinePersonaDefinitions reports the personas field and the received value. It does not identify an index or id. The sentence should limit “naming the index or id” to entry-level validation errors.

Suggested fix
-`personas` replaces the file-system source: when it is set, no directory is read. The list is checked before any subsystem starts; `create()` rejects with the code `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR`, naming the index or id, when the value is not an array, an entry is not an object with a non-empty string `id`, an id repeats, or one of two optional fields is present with the wrong shape: `activationKeywords` must be an array of strings and `sentimentTracking.presets` an array. `personas` and `personaLoader` cannot both be set.
+`personas` replaces the file-system source: when it is set, no directory is read. The list is checked before any subsystem starts; `create()` rejects with the code `SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR` when the value is not an array. For entry-level errors, the refusal names the index or id. An entry must be an object with a non-empty string `id`; an id cannot repeat; and, when present, `activationKeywords` must be an array of strings and `sentimentTracking.presets` an array. `personas` and `personaLoader` cannot both be set.
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Review comment at @docs/PERSONAS.md at line 68:
Update the `personas` validation description to distinguish a non-array value
error from entry-level errors: state that `create()` rejects a non-array value
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@coderabbitai Two items from the reviews on aa33832 and 72ec957, which came in the review bodies rather than as threads:

  • docs/PERSONAS.md:68, "naming the index or id" (outside the diff range): fixed in 091ad31, test first in baf43c5. A value that is not an array is refused with no index or id (details.received holds the type), and an entry without a usable id is named by its index alone. The page now reads "The refusal of an entry names its index, and its id where the entry has one; the refusal of a value that is not an array gives the type it received in its details.", and assertInlinePersonaDefinitions()'s TSDoc says the same. agentos-personas-inline.test.ts now expects each refusal's message and details through AgentOS.create() (a repeated id, an entry with no id, a string) and pins the page's sentence; its run on baf43c5 (CI 41348741711) failed at the two page pins before the fix.
  • configurationErrorDocs.test.ts, pinning whole sentences (nitpick): the pins are now the clause that names the call and the code, such as "from AgentOS.initialize() with the code SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR", so "before any service starts" and the rest of each sentence can change without touching the test. The clause itself stays pinned: the point of the check is that each refusal page names the string beside the call that refuses, and a page that says only "the refusal" with the code elsewhere would not tell a host which call's error to compare.

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@jddunn Both follow-ups address the review concerns.

  • Persona refusals: docs/PERSONAS.md and assertInlinePersonaDefinitions() now distinguish entry refusals from non-array refusals. The tests check messages and details for a repeated ID, an entry without an ID, and a string through AgentOS.create(). They also check that no provider initializes.
  • Documentation assertions: configurationErrorDocs.test.ts now pins refusal clauses rather than whole sentences. Keeping the refusing call and SYS_CONFIGURATION_ERROR together serves the test’s purpose. I withdraw the suggestion to loosen those clause assertions further.

I verified the current source and assertions. I did not run the tests or verify the reported historical CI result. No further change is needed for these two review items.


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@jddunn jddunn changed the title docs: name the code a host reads when the runtime refuses a configuration fix: name the code a host reads on a configuration refusal, and say a blank persona id is refused Nov 1, 2026
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