aion_core/activity_event.rs
1//! The `ActivityEvent` envelope for the agent-observability real-time channel.
2//!
3//! This module defines the *typed contract* for a live, durable, per-`(workflow, activity,
4//! attempt)` transcript of what an agent harness is doing inside an activity: its messages,
5//! tool calls, tool results, progress, stop reasons, and (ephemeral) token deltas. It is the
6//! sibling of [`crate::cluster_event`] — a **non-replay real-time DTO** that crosses the
7//! Rust -> TypeScript boundary via `ts-rs` into the ops-console generated bindings.
8//!
9//! The wire shapes live in `aion-core` (not `aion-server` / the SDK) for the same reason the
10//! cluster events do: only this leaf crate depends on `ts-rs`, so this is the single place a
11//! Rust type can cross into the ops console's generated union. The `aion-integrations` SDK
12//! re-exports these neutral types; the worker-side per-harness adapter is the single point that
13//! maps a harness's native events into this envelope.
14//!
15//! # Harness neutrality (LOCKED)
16//!
17//! Every type in this module is **harness-neutral**: it names no agent harness, no transport,
18//! and no wire protocol. There is no `Norn`, no JSON-RPC, and no stdio concept here. A harness
19//! is integrated by mapping its native events into these shapes in the worker-side adapter,
20//! never by editing this module. [`ActivityEventKind::Raw`] is the passthrough fallback that
21//! makes the harness-agnostic path possible (and forward-compatible when a harness emits a
22//! shape the adapter does not yet classify).
23//!
24//! # Observability, never replay
25//!
26//! An `ActivityEvent` is an observability record. It is **never** part of the workflow replay
27//! log: the replay-authoritative output of an activity is its single terminal result, not its
28//! transcript. These types deliberately carry no behaviour and no engine coupling — they are
29//! pure data.
30//!
31//! # `u64` precision across the TS boundary
32//!
33//! The ts-rs config exports every `u64` as TS `number` (`with_large_int("number")`), which
34//! truncates above `2^53`. [`ActivityEvent::worker_seq`] and [`ActivityEvent::store_seq`] are
35//! `u64`. This is the *same* accepted ceiling that already applies to [`crate::EventEnvelope::seq`]
36//! and the cluster channel's sequence fields; the transcript sequence follows the established
37//! project convention rather than a divergent string encoding.
38
39use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
40use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
41use uuid::Uuid;
42
43use crate::ids::{ActivityId, WorkflowId};
44
45/// The role a conversational message is attributed to.
46///
47/// Harness-neutral: the worker-side adapter maps a harness's native speaker attribution onto
48/// these roles. `Tool` covers a tool/function participant turn where the harness models one.
49#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, ts_rs::TS, Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
50#[serde(tag = "role")]
51pub enum MessageRole {
52 /// A turn attributed to the operator / end user.
53 User,
54 /// A turn produced by the agent (model output).
55 Assistant,
56 /// A system / instruction turn.
57 System,
58 /// A turn attributed to a tool or function participant.
59 Tool,
60}
61
62/// A fine-grained progress signal within an activity attempt.
63///
64/// Harness-neutral projection of the incremental, non-terminal signals a harness can emit
65/// (streaming text/thinking fragments, tool-call argument streaming, usage estimates). It is a
66/// tagged union so a harness advertises only the progress shapes it actually produces; anything
67/// unclassifiable falls through to [`ActivityEventKind::Raw`] instead.
68#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, ts_rs::TS, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
69#[serde(tag = "detail")]
70pub enum ProgressDetail {
71 /// A running estimate of resource usage for the attempt so far.
72 UsageEstimate {
73 /// Estimated input (prompt) tokens consumed so far, when the harness reports it.
74 input_tokens: Option<u64>,
75 /// Estimated output (completion) tokens produced so far, when the harness reports it.
76 output_tokens: Option<u64>,
77 },
78 /// A free-form, human-readable progress note the adapter could not model more precisely.
79 Note {
80 /// The progress note text.
81 text: String,
82 },
83}
84
85/// Why an agent run reached a terminal boundary.
86///
87/// Harness-neutral projection of a harness's native stop/finish reason. `Other` carries the
88/// harness's raw reason label for reasons this neutral set does not enumerate, so no stop reason
89/// is ever silently dropped.
90#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, ts_rs::TS, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
91#[serde(tag = "stop")]
92pub enum StopKind {
93 /// The agent completed its turn normally (produced its result).
94 EndTurn,
95 /// The agent stopped to await a tool result before continuing.
96 ToolUse,
97 /// The run hit a configured resource limit (tokens / turns / time).
98 LimitReached,
99 /// The run was cancelled (e.g. by an intervention or shutdown).
100 Cancelled,
101 /// The run stopped because of an error.
102 Error {
103 /// Human-readable error description.
104 message: String,
105 },
106 /// A stop reason this neutral set does not enumerate; carries the harness's raw label.
107 Other {
108 /// The harness's raw stop-reason label.
109 reason: String,
110 },
111}
112
113/// The payload of an [`ActivityEvent`] — the classified kind of transcript signal.
114///
115/// **Kinds are LOCKED:** `Message`, `ToolCall`, `ToolResult`, `Progress`, `Stop`, `Raw`, plus
116/// `Delta` carried on the same channel but flagged ephemeral (forwarded to the WS, never
117/// persisted). [`Self::Raw`] is the passthrough fallback — critical for the harness-agnostic
118/// path and for forward-compat when a harness adds an event shape the adapter does not yet map.
119#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, ts_rs::TS, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
120#[serde(tag = "kind")]
121pub enum ActivityEventKind {
122 /// A complete conversational message (assistant text/thinking, an operator turn, etc.).
123 Message {
124 /// Who the message is attributed to.
125 role: MessageRole,
126 /// The message text.
127 text: String,
128 },
129 /// The agent invoked a tool/function with structured input.
130 ToolCall {
131 /// The tool/function name.
132 tool: String,
133 /// Correlation id linking this call to its eventual [`Self::ToolResult`].
134 call_id: String,
135 /// The structured tool input.
136 #[ts(type = "unknown")]
137 input: serde_json::Value,
138 },
139 /// A tool/function returned a result for a prior [`Self::ToolCall`].
140 ToolResult {
141 /// Correlation id matching the originating [`Self::ToolCall`].
142 call_id: String,
143 /// The structured tool output.
144 #[ts(type = "unknown")]
145 output: serde_json::Value,
146 /// Whether the tool reported an error result.
147 is_error: bool,
148 },
149 /// A fine-grained, non-terminal progress signal.
150 Progress {
151 /// The progress detail.
152 detail: ProgressDetail,
153 },
154 /// The agent run reached a terminal boundary.
155 Stop {
156 /// Why the run stopped.
157 reason: StopKind,
158 },
159 /// Passthrough fallback for an unmapped or other-harness line.
160 ///
161 /// Carries the source label the adapter observed and the raw value verbatim, so nothing is
162 /// ever silently dropped and the harness-agnostic path stays lossless.
163 Raw {
164 /// A label identifying where the raw value came from (adapter-defined).
165 source: String,
166 /// The raw value, passed through verbatim.
167 #[ts(type = "unknown")]
168 value: serde_json::Value,
169 },
170 /// An ephemeral token delta — forwarded to the WS only, **never persisted**.
171 ///
172 /// Always carried with [`ActivityEvent::ephemeral`] set to `true`.
173 Delta {
174 /// The id of the message this fragment belongs to.
175 message_id: String,
176 /// The incremental text fragment.
177 text_fragment: String,
178 },
179}
180
181/// A live transcript event for one `(workflow, activity, attempt)` produced by an agent harness.
182///
183/// Streamed to the ops console in real time and persisted to a durable observability keyspace
184/// (except [`Self::ephemeral`] events). It is **never** mixed into workflow replay history — the
185/// activity's single terminal result is the replay-authoritative output, not this transcript.
186///
187/// # Ordering
188///
189/// [`Self::emitted_at`] and [`Self::worker_seq`] are best-effort producer-side ordering hints.
190/// [`Self::store_seq`] is assigned by the server at durable-commit time and is `None` until the
191/// event has been persisted — an unpersisted (e.g. ephemeral, or in-flight) event carries no
192/// store sequence.
193#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, ts_rs::TS, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
194pub struct ActivityEvent {
195 /// The workflow this activity belongs to.
196 pub workflow_id: WorkflowId,
197 /// The activity within the workflow.
198 pub activity_id: ActivityId,
199 /// The attempt number of the activity this event was produced during.
200 pub attempt: u32,
201 /// Sub-identity of the agent that produced this event — REQUIRED for multi-agent
202 /// attribution (a single activity attempt may run several agents).
203 pub agent_id: Uuid,
204 /// The role/label of the producing agent (e.g. an orchestrator vs a sub-agent).
205 pub agent_role: String,
206 /// Producer-clock instant the event was emitted (best-effort ordering hint).
207 pub emitted_at: DateTime<Utc>,
208 /// Worker-local best-effort monotonic sequence.
209 ///
210 /// Exported to TypeScript as `number`; see the module docs for the accepted `2^53` ceiling.
211 pub worker_seq: u64,
212 /// Server-stamped monotonic sequence assigned at durable-commit time; `None` until the event
213 /// is persisted (ephemeral events are never persisted and always carry `None`).
214 ///
215 /// Exported to TypeScript as `number`; see the module docs for the accepted `2^53` ceiling.
216 pub store_seq: Option<u64>,
217 /// When `true`, this event is WS-forward-only and is **never persisted** (token deltas).
218 pub ephemeral: bool,
219 /// The classified payload of this event.
220 pub kind: ActivityEventKind,
221}
222
223#[cfg(test)]
224mod tests {
225 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
226 use serde::de::DeserializeOwned;
227 use serde_json::json;
228 use uuid::Uuid;
229
230 use super::{
231 ActivityEvent, ActivityEventKind, MessageRole, ProgressDetail, StopKind, WorkflowId,
232 };
233 use crate::ids::ActivityId;
234
235 fn fixed_time() -> DateTime<Utc> {
236 DateTime::from_timestamp(1_700_000_000, 0).unwrap_or_default()
237 }
238
239 fn round_trip<T>(value: &T) -> Result<T, serde_json::Error>
240 where
241 T: DeserializeOwned + serde::Serialize,
242 {
243 let json = serde_json::to_string(value)?;
244 serde_json::from_str::<T>(&json)
245 }
246
247 fn envelope(kind: ActivityEventKind, ephemeral: bool, store_seq: Option<u64>) -> ActivityEvent {
248 ActivityEvent {
249 workflow_id: WorkflowId::new(Uuid::nil()),
250 activity_id: ActivityId::from_sequence_position(7),
251 attempt: 2,
252 agent_id: Uuid::nil(),
253 agent_role: "orchestrator".to_owned(),
254 emitted_at: fixed_time(),
255 worker_seq: 42,
256 store_seq,
257 ephemeral,
258 kind,
259 }
260 }
261
262 #[test]
263 fn envelope_round_trips_through_json() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
264 let event = envelope(
265 ActivityEventKind::Message {
266 role: MessageRole::Assistant,
267 text: "hello".to_owned(),
268 },
269 false,
270 Some(9),
271 );
272 let decoded = round_trip(&event)?;
273 assert_eq!(event, decoded);
274 Ok(())
275 }
276
277 #[test]
278 fn every_event_kind_round_trips() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
279 let kinds = vec![
280 ActivityEventKind::Message {
281 role: MessageRole::User,
282 text: "steer".to_owned(),
283 },
284 ActivityEventKind::ToolCall {
285 tool: "read_file".to_owned(),
286 call_id: "call-1".to_owned(),
287 input: json!({ "path": "/tmp/x" }),
288 },
289 ActivityEventKind::ToolResult {
290 call_id: "call-1".to_owned(),
291 output: json!({ "bytes": 12 }),
292 is_error: false,
293 },
294 ActivityEventKind::Progress {
295 detail: ProgressDetail::UsageEstimate {
296 input_tokens: Some(100),
297 output_tokens: None,
298 },
299 },
300 ActivityEventKind::Progress {
301 detail: ProgressDetail::Note {
302 text: "thinking".to_owned(),
303 },
304 },
305 ActivityEventKind::Stop {
306 reason: StopKind::EndTurn,
307 },
308 ActivityEventKind::Stop {
309 reason: StopKind::Error {
310 message: "boom".to_owned(),
311 },
312 },
313 ActivityEventKind::Stop {
314 reason: StopKind::Other {
315 reason: "custom".to_owned(),
316 },
317 },
318 ActivityEventKind::Raw {
319 source: "unknown-harness".to_owned(),
320 value: json!({ "anything": [1, 2, 3] }),
321 },
322 ];
323 for kind in kinds {
324 let event = envelope(kind, false, None);
325 let decoded = round_trip(&event)?;
326 assert_eq!(event, decoded);
327 }
328 Ok(())
329 }
330
331 #[test]
332 fn ephemeral_delta_round_trips_without_store_seq() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
333 let event = envelope(
334 ActivityEventKind::Delta {
335 message_id: "msg-1".to_owned(),
336 text_fragment: "wor".to_owned(),
337 },
338 true,
339 None,
340 );
341 let decoded = round_trip(&event)?;
342 assert!(decoded.ephemeral);
343 assert_eq!(decoded.store_seq, None);
344 assert_eq!(event, decoded);
345 Ok(())
346 }
347}