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Split out of #200 so the bundle stays limited to the four bundled PRs. This PR is stacked on nickhuo/skill-docs-bundle, so its diff shows only the service-boundary change. After #200 merges, retarget this PR to main.

What changes

This rewrites §5 "Choose service boundaries" in references/source-survey.md, replacing the "smallest useful service map" rule with a fixed split:

  • LangChain defines the agent. Each LangChain agent becomes one service, including its internal model/tools loop. The following count as agents:
    • create_agent, create_react_agent, and AgentExecutor
    • a hand-built equivalent: a model node bound to tools, plus ToolNode, plus a tools_condition loop
  • LangGraph defines the orchestration. StateGraph construction, edges, conditional edges, Command(goto=...) handoffs, and Send fan-out are rewritten as workflow code. The remaining node functions and routers are imported from the source unchanged.
  • Not agents:
    • tools, including a subagent wrapped as a tool
    • model calls outside an agent loop (llm.invoke, prompt | llm | parser, with_structured_output, supervisors/LLM routers). These run in the workflow, which has its own llm_proxy.
    • routers and pure transforms
  • Service method is the graph node that runs the agent: either the compiled agent added as a node, or the node function that invokes it.
  • Plain Python sources (no framework) are split by the same rules. An agent is a function or method that runs the model/tools loop itself, and that function or method is the service method. The code that sequences, branches on, or fans out agents (asyncio.gather, thread pools) becomes the workflow. A single model call outside such a loop runs in the workflow.

SKILL.md step 2 and the survey output line now say "one service per agent" instead of "smallest useful service map".

This is a semantic change. The same source will usually yield fewer, coarser services than a3c1914 did: a plain LLM node was a service under a3c1914, and now it runs in the workflow.

Decisions to confirm in review

  1. No-agent / single-agent graphs are kept whole: preserve graph.compile().invoke(...) and wrap it as one service. I did not verify that a .car whose only service is the workflow builds and deploys, so this rule does not depend on it.
  2. Supervisors and LLM routers are not services under this definition. Their model call runs inside the workflow.
  3. Scope. §5 now covers LangChain/LangGraph and plain Python sources. The SKILL.md description still lists CrewAI and AutoGen, which §5 does not address. I left the description unchanged; narrowing it would stop the skill from triggering for those sources.

Test plan

  • uv run pytest -q tests/test_skill_smoke.py: 5 passed
  • Port an existing example (e.g. tests/e2e/portfolio) with the updated skill and check the resulting service map

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Clarified survey guidance for mapping agents to services and graph orchestration to workflows, including when to keep a graph as a single service.
    • Added clearer distinctions between agents and other node types, and clarified that interactive request-time nodes block readiness.
    • Specified that adapter and configuration work should wait until the readiness gate and all survey sections are complete.
    • Clarified guidance for stateful services and plain Python sources.

Saaketh0 and others added 24 commits September 17, 2026 18:48
…388)

A ported checkpointer/cache/store defaulting to localhost silently
crashes under CanyonOS, since each agent/workflow gets its own
container. Document the injected CANYONOS_REDIS_HOST/CANYONOS_REDIS_PORT
contract in adapter.md and add the matching symptom to troubleshooting.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stop ignoring docs/ so this guide can be reviewed and shared through the repo.
…y.txt

Each port now records one eligible workflow input, verbatim, for
end-to-end testing via canyonos test "$(cat .car/config/test_query.txt)".
Also documents that query is always a str and that Future arguments and
.value() results arrive as text regardless of the declared yaml type.
…nickhuo/skill-docs-bundle

# Conflicts:
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/adapter.md
… into nickhuo/skill-docs-bundle

# Conflicts:
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/adapter.md
Replace the smallest-service-map rule in the porting skill with a definition
of what counts as an agent in LangGraph/LangChain sources, how agents group
into services, and how edges between agents move into the workflow.
…pport

The proxy relays text/event-stream responses since CAN-356, so token-by-token
reads are no longer a blocker. Note the two remaining caveats: OpenAI stream
usage needs include_usage, and the canyonos test stub does not emulate SSE.
"The framework" read as CanyonOS itself; service boundaries come from the
control flow of the original workflow being ported.
Moved to a separate PR so the bundle stays limited to the four bundled PRs.
Reverts a3c1914, c4150dd, and 21cf262.
…ngGraph

A service is a LangChain agent (create_agent, create_react_agent,
AgentExecutor, or a hand-built model/ToolNode loop). Model calls outside an
agent loop, routers, and the LangGraph graph itself become the workflow.
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The porting survey guidance now requires mapping each agent to a service and resolving survey sections before adapter or configuration work. It defines agent boundaries and describes how graph and plain Python orchestration maps to workflows.

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Agent-to-service porting guidance

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Survey output and readiness requirements
.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md
The survey now requires one service per agent and a graph-to-workflow map. Adapter and configuration work must wait until the readiness gate is met and survey sections are resolved.
Agent and workflow boundaries
.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md
The guidance defines agents as model/tool loops and distinguishes them from tools, standalone model calls, routing, transforms, and I/O. It maps graph execution to services and graph orchestration to workflows, with corresponding guidance for plain Python sources.

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The new porting guidance for sources with no agent could lead to an invalid manifest. Adding the workflow mapping to both rules resolves it, and the risk to merge is low.

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Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in .claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/SKILL.md: The survey guidance now requires mapping each agent to a service before writing runtime code or configuration, replacing the instruction to choose the smallest useful service map.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md: The required output changes from a short survey and the smallest useful service map to a survey plus one service per agent. Adapter/configuration work must wait for the readiness gate and resolved sections; blockers still pause the build.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md: The service-boundary output now requires one service per agent, graph edges moved into the workflow, and identification of services requiring replicas: 1, replacing the smallest-useful-map and cross-service-edge criteria.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md: The guidance now frames LangChain agents as services and their LangGraph orchestration as the workflow, applying the same split to plain Python sources.
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@nickhuo nickhuo changed the title docs(skill): define services by LangChain agents, orchestration by LangGraph docs(skill): Splitting the service according langchain/langraph Sep 24, 2026
- Resolve database clients against their declared entry, not the Redis env.
- Link the readiness guide on main instead of a branch commit.
- Exclude .venv from the readiness compile check.
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# Conflicts:
#	docs/CANYONIZATION-APP-READINESS.md
A function or method that runs the model/tools loop itself is an agent; the
Python code that sequences, branches on, or fans out agents is the workflow.
@nickhuo nickhuo changed the title docs(skill): Splitting the service according langchain/langraph docs(skill): Splitting the service according langchain/langraph/python Sep 25, 2026
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# Conflicts:
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/SKILL.md
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/llm-proxy.md
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/source-survey.md
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/troubleshooting.md
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/references/validation-and-deploy.md
#	.claude/skills/porting-to-canyonos/validation/dependencies.py
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From my understanding, Here the splitting tries to preserve the number of agents from the original workflow, rather than trying to combine automatically agents.

But I remember we are discussing about merging automatically the agents which are coupled with the help of coding assistant.

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it makes sense for agents which coupled should be one agent service in canyonos (one container), though let's assume one agent in langchain semantics already decouple with others (it's my thought)

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So, @nickhuo this is something that will be specifically for skill file? not on a doc file?

if so, I'm ok with merging it

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it should be under skill file

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If the graph holds no agent or a single agent, do not split it: preserve
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Map zero-agent sources to a workflow service.

CanyonOS treats an entry without type as an agent entry, which requires entrypoint. A workflow entry requires type: workflow and workflow_file. State this mapping in both zero-agent rules. Otherwise, a porter can create a manifest that fails validation.

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-If the graph holds no agent or a single agent, do not split it: preserve
-`graph.compile().invoke(...)` and wrap it as one service.
+If the graph holds no agent, preserve `graph.compile().invoke(...)` and wrap
+it as one `type: workflow` service with its `workflow_file`. If the graph
+holds a single agent, do not split it: preserve `graph.compile().invoke(...)`
+and wrap it as one agent service.
-If the source holds no agent or a single agent, wrap its entrypoint function as
-one service.
+If the source holds no agent, wrap its entrypoint function as one
+`type: workflow` service with its `workflow_file`. If the source holds a
+single agent, wrap its entrypoint function as one agent service.
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If the graph holds no agent or a single agent, do not split it: preserve
`graph.compile().invoke(...)` and wrap it as one service.
If the graph holds no agent, preserve `graph.compile().invoke(...)` and wrap
it as one `type: workflow` service with its `workflow_file`. If the graph holds
a single agent, do not split it: preserve `graph.compile().invoke(...)` and
wrap it as one agent service.
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- 145:
Update both zero-agent rules to map zero-agent sources to a workflow service
with the required workflow type and workflow file; keep single-agent sources as
one agent service. Preserve the existing graph.compile().invoke(...) behavior
where applicable.

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moved the service boundary description to #239, this one can be closed

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