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Summary

  • Remove categorical determinism claims for tools, workflows, and code execution.
  • Clarify that temperature 0 does not guarantee repeatability.
  • Update the generated AI-rule source templates.
  • Preserve specific implementation-backed determinism claims where Veryfront owns the behavior.

Validation

  • deno fmt --check on all 15 changed files
  • deno task docs:validate (69 guides, 1344 links, 95 guide checks; one pre-existing warning that webhook is not listed in getting-started index)
  • VF_DISABLE_LRU_INTERVAL=1 deno test --no-check --allow-all templates/index.test.ts (42 steps)
  • git diff --check

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  • Local pre-push was bypassed because it executed unrelated untracked probe tests in the worktree and failed those unrelated tests.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Clarified how agents, tools, workflows, routes, and resources divide responsibilities.
    • Added guidance for choosing the right primitive for conversational, reusable, or fixed-control-flow tasks.
    • Explained that evaluations measure behavior across examples, including retrieval, tools, and operational limits.
    • Clarified that workflows use explicit execution order and are easier to debug.
    • Updated guidance on temperature defaults, authorization, and tool capabilities across documentation and project templates.

The docs now describe determinism as bounded by runtime contracts and provider behavior instead of treating tool, workflow, and code execution as categorically repeatable. This keeps the guidance aligned with temperature 0 behavior while preserving implementation-backed claims where Veryfront owns the deterministic boundary.

Constraint: Temperature 0 and provider execution paths do not guarantee repeatability
Rejected: Remove every determinism claim | Specific runtime-backed claims still help readers reason about Veryfront behavior
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: deno fmt --check on all 15 changed files
Tested: deno task docs:validate (69 guides, 1344 links, 95 guide checks; one pre-existing warning that webhook is not listed in getting-started index)
Tested: VF_DISABLE_LRU_INTERVAL=1 deno test --no-check --allow-all templates/index.test.ts (42 steps)
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full repository test suite
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  • docs/concepts/agent.md
  • docs/concepts/eval.md
  • docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md
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  • docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md
  • docs/concepts/eval.md
  • docs/concepts/agent.md

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Walkthrough

This documentation-only change clarifies boundaries between agents, tools, workflows, skills, and evals. It also updates temperature guidance, workflow execution terminology, primitive selection rules, and AI rule templates.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Concept boundary definitions
docs/concepts/agent.md, docs/concepts/eval.md, docs/concepts/framework-primitives.md, docs/concepts/skill.md, docs/concepts/tool.md, docs/concepts/webhook.md
The concept pages define agent decision-making, tool-owned execution, callable work, eval coverage, and application-owned authorization.
Primitive selection and runtime guidance
docs/guides/agents.md, docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md, docs/guides/multi-agent.md
The guides clarify temperature behavior, primitive selection, and explicit workflow execution order.
AI rule conventions
templates/ai-rules/*.md
The templates describe tools as callable capabilities for agents and workflows without requiring determinism.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to ed3eb

This PR clarifies documentation and generated guidance without changing runtime behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Suggested reviewers: kwakayama

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Comment thread docs/concepts/agent.md Outdated
The agent concept page now separates resources as readable context from the executable surfaces that can act. This addresses the review thread without broadening the docs change beyond the ownership boundary.

Constraint: Resources describe context surfaces, while tools, runs, and app routes own execution paths
Rejected: Keep resources grouped with execution surfaces | That wording implies resources can execute work
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: deno fmt --check docs/concepts/agent.md
Tested: deno task docs:validate (69 guides, 1344 links, 95 guide checks; same pre-existing webhook index warning)
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full repository test suite

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/concepts/agent.md`:
- Around line 38-40: Update the execution-boundary sentence near “Tools, runs,
and app routes” to make the list explicitly non-exhaustive or add tasks and
workflows, aligning it with the execution ownership described in
framework-primitives.md.

In `@docs/concepts/eval.md`:
- Around line 11-12: Update the guidance sentence near the eval introduction to
refer to “agent or tool behavior” instead of “model behavior,” while preserving
the existing wording about measuring behavior across examples rather than using
a single unit test.

In `@docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md`:
- Line 35: Update the Tool row in the decision table to say “An agent or
workflow needs a typed operation...” instead of limiting the guidance to agents,
while preserving the existing operation examples and surrounding table content.
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📒 Files selected for processing (15)
  • docs/concepts/agent.md
  • docs/concepts/eval.md
  • docs/concepts/framework-primitives.md
  • docs/concepts/skill.md
  • docs/concepts/tool.md
  • docs/concepts/webhook.md
  • docs/guides/agents.md
  • docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md
  • docs/guides/multi-agent.md
  • templates/ai-rules/agents.md
  • templates/ai-rules/claude-code.md
  • templates/ai-rules/copilot.md
  • templates/ai-rules/cursor.md
  • templates/ai-rules/skill.md
  • templates/ai-rules/windsurf.md

Comment thread docs/concepts/agent.md Outdated
Comment thread docs/concepts/eval.md Outdated
Comment thread docs/guides/choose-a-primitive.md Outdated
The concept and selection docs now describe executable ownership consistently across agents, tools, tasks, workflows, runs, and routes. The eval and primitive chooser language also reflects that tools and workflows can be measured or use typed tools without implying resources execute work.

Constraint: Primitive guidance must not contradict concept-level ownership boundaries
Rejected: Patch only the reviewed lines independently | The three threads describe the same cross-page primitive consistency issue
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: deno fmt --check on the three changed files
Tested: deno task docs:validate (69 guides, 1344 links, 95 guide checks; same pre-existing webhook index warning)
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Full repository test suite
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