feat(operator): let it test-drive an agent or group by actually talking to it - #156
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…ng to it The operator could build an agent and never exercise one. Asked to check its own creation it answered "I don't have a start conversation tool" - accurate, and useless to the admin who had just approved the build. "Deployed" only means the config loaded; it says nothing about whether the LLM call, the tool wiring or the vault key resolve at runtime. Grants the runtime conversation endpoints the Manager's own chat uses: start, say, read-back, and the group equivalents. No new tool is written - the operator's tools are generated from the OpenAPI spec, so a capability IS an allow-list entry. The POSTs go in WRITE_ENDPOINTS, not READ_ENDPOINTS. They change no configuration, but grantsWriteCapability keys off the method: with them among the reads, a read_only operator lost its "you are read-only" rule and gained the six write rules - describing a boundary it was not behind. The existing tests caught it. READ_ENDPOINTS means "GETs", not "harmless". Consequence, accepted: a read-only operator cannot test-drive, which is coherent since it cannot create the conversation record either. Every send pauses for approval like any other write - sending a message as the admin is a decision they should see - and the agent under test keeps its OWN gate. exempt stays ["http.get:*"]. Excluded and pinned by test: /resume (self-approval - a complete escape from the gate), /state, /cancel, /endConversation, /undo, /redo. See planning/operator-write-scope-plan.md §5. Prompt guidance is gated on the endpoints actually being granted, and states the rule that matters: a conversation coming back AWAITING_HUMAN means the agent under test paused on its OWN gate - a PASS, not a failure.
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Read-only operators currently tell administrators they can test-drive agents even though the required conversation actions are unavailable, creating misleading behavior and an incorrect capability boundary. The prompt scoping and assertion should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant ToolScopes
participant SystemPrompt
Operator->>ToolScopes: Resolve granted endpoints
ToolScopes-->>Operator: Grant test-drive and inspection operations
Operator->>SystemPrompt: Compose prompt with granted capability
SystemPrompt-->>Operator: Include test-drive guidance when supported
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In `@src/lib/operator/system-prompt.ts`:
- Around line 129-133: Remove the TEST-DRIVE instructions from BODY_ROLE and
place them in BODY_TEST_DRIVE so read_only operators do not receive unavailable
POST capabilities. Update the system-prompt test to reject the exact phrase
“TEST-DRIVE an agent” or another phrase uniquely identifying that action,
replacing the ineffective “Testing an agent” assertion.
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… section CodeRabbit, Major, and correct: the bullet went into BODY_ROLE, which is always included, so a read_only operator - whose endpoint set excludes both conversation POSTs - was told to start conversations and send messages. That is exactly the contract this module exists to enforce: the prompt may never describe a capability the agent lacks. Moved into BODY_TEST_DRIVE, which is already gated on grantsConversationTesting. The existing assertion would not have caught it - it checked only for the section heading, which was never in BODY_ROLE. It now asserts on every phrase that promises the capability. Verified by mutation: making the section unconditional fails two tests.
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The operator could build an agent and never exercise one. Asked to check its own creation, it answered "I don't have a start conversation tool" — accurate, and useless to the admin who had just approved the build. "Deployed" only means the config loaded; it says nothing about whether the LLM call, the tool wiring, or the vault key resolve at runtime.
What changes
Grants the runtime conversation endpoints the Manager's own chat already uses —
POST /agents/{agentId}/start,POST /agents/{conversationId},GET /agents/{conversationId}(+/status), and the group equivalents. No new tool is written: the operator's tools are generated from the OpenAPI spec, so a capability is an allow-list entry.The bug my first attempt introduced, and the existing tests caught
I initially put the POSTs in
READ_ENDPOINTS. They change no configuration, so it felt right — butgrantsWriteCapabilitykeys off the method. A read-only operator promptly lost its "you are read-only" rule and gained the six write rules, describing a capability boundary it was not actually behind. Ten existing tests failed and were right to.They now live in
WRITE_ENDPOINTS(asTEST_DRIVE_WRITES).READ_ENDPOINTSmeans "GETs", not "harmless". Consequence, accepted deliberately: a read-only operator cannot test-drive — coherent, since it cannot create the conversation record either.Security posture
exemptstays["http.get:*"]— no hole is punched inhttp.post:*./resume(the operator approving its own pauses would be a complete escape from the gate),/state,/cancel,/endConversation,/undo,/redo. Seeplanning/operator-write-scope-plan.md§5 in the EDDI repo.WRITE_ENDPOINTSpin test forced this addition to be a conscious edit rather than a silent one — working as designed.Prompt
Gated on the endpoints actually being granted (never on scope), and it states the rule that matters: a conversation coming back
AWAITING_HUMANmeans the agent under test paused on its own gate — a PASS, not a failure. An operator that read that as broken would report a correctly-configured agent as failing.Verification
1720 tests across the operator suites green;
tsc -b, eslint, i18n gate (3870 keys / 11 locales) clean.Note: existing operators pick this up only on re-activation — the endpoint filter and prompt body are baked in at provisioning.
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