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go-prompt-state-backend-mismatch

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Root cause. The admin storePrompt persisted manifests to the git-backed state backend at prompts/{i}{name}.prompt.json (auto-incrementing index prefix, JSON), while the workflow LLM handler loaded {workflow.path}/{ref}.prompt.yaml from local disk. Different store, different naming scheme, different extension — every manifest written to state was unreachable at runtime.

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Answer 1

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SOLUTION

Root cause. The admin storePrompt persisted manifests to the git-backed state backend at prompts/{i}_{name}.prompt.json (auto-incrementing index prefix, JSON), while the workflow LLM handler loaded {workflow.path}/{ref}.prompt.yaml from local disk. Different store, different naming scheme, different extension — every manifest written to state was unreachable at runtime.

The fix (implemented in ~/promptfix, module promptfix):

1. Canonical state location — prompts/{name}.prompt.json (state.go). One deterministic path per prompt name; the index prefix that made lookups unpredictable is gone:

// ManifestPath returns the canonical state location for a prompt.
func ManifestPath(name string) string {
    return filepath.Join("prompts", name+".prompt.json")
}

2. AppID added to workflow.ExecutionContext (workflow.go). The workflow now knows which application it runs for; the loader uses it to scope lookups and reject cross-app manifests:

type ExecutionContext struct {
    AppID        string // application the workflow belongs to
    WorkflowPath string // dir holding legacy local YAML prompt files
    Ref          string // prompt reference, e.g. "agent-reply"
}

3. Optional state-backed prompt loader injected into llmWorkflowHandler, with local-file YAML fallback (loader.go, workflow.go). newStatePromptLoader prefers state (prompts/{name}.prompt.json), and on ErrPromptNotFound reproduces the legacy loader exactly ({workflow.path}/{ref}.prompt.yaml), so file-only workflows keep working unmigrated:

type StatePromptLoader struct {
    state        StateBackend
    root         string
    appID        string // from ExecutionContext (per-run copy)
    workflowPath string
}

func (l *StatePromptLoader) LoadPrompt(ctx context.Context, ref string) (*PromptManifest, error) {
    m, err := l.state.ReadPrompt(ctx, promptName(ref)) // canonical: prompts/{name}.prompt.json
    if err == nil {
        if l.appID != "" && m.AppID != "" && m.AppID != l.appID {
            return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: manifest %q belongs to app %q, not %q",
                ErrPromptNotFound, m.Name, m.AppID, l.appID)
        }
        return m, nil
    }
    if !errors.Is(err, ErrPromptNotFound) {
        return nil, err
    }
    return l.loadLegacyYAML(ctx, ref) // fallback: {workflow.path}/{ref}.prompt.yaml
}

The handler takes the loader as an optional constructor argument and binds execution context per run (copy-on-write, so one injected instance is safe to share):

func (h *llmWorkflowHandler) resolvePrompt(ctx context.Context, ec ExecutionContext) (*PromptManifest, error) {
    if h.promptLoader == nil {
        return nil, fmt.Errorf("resolve prompt %q: no prompt loader injected", ec.Ref)
    }
    if sp, ok := h.promptLoader.(*StatePromptLoader); ok {
        return sp.forExecution(ec).LoadPrompt(ctx, ec.Ref) // binds AppID + WorkflowPath
    }
    return h.promptLoader.LoadPrompt(ctx, ec.Ref)
}

4. JSON tags on PromptManifest make decode trivial (manifest.go). One tagged struct is the on-disk format, so json.Unmarshal is all it takes:

type PromptManifest struct {
    Schema    string         `json:"schema"`
    Name      string         `json:"name"`
    Version   int            `json:"version"`
    AppID     string         `json:"app_id,omitempty"`
    Format    string         `json:"format"`
    Body      string         `json:"body"`
    Params    map[string]any `json:"params,omitempty"`
    UpdatedAt time.Time      `json:"updated_at,omitempty"`
}

admin.storePrompt (admin.go) now writes to ManifestPath(name), stamps AppID, and reports the exact path — while a not-found error names both sources (prompts/x.prompt.json and .../x.prompt.yaml) for one-line debugging.

EVIDENCE

go vet clean; go test -race clean; 9/9 tests pass (go test -v, 0.004s). Files: manifest.go, state.go, loader.go, workflow.go, admin.go, promptfix_test.go.

Test	What it proves
`TestStorePromptWritesCanonicalLocation`	Writes go to `prompts/agent-reply.prompt.json`; old `prompts/{i}_agent-reply.prompt.json` files do not exist
`TestManifestJSONDecodeTrivial`	Raw state bytes round-trip through plain `DecodeManifest` (name, app_id, body all intact)
`TestEndToEndStateBackedResolution`	Headline regression: admin writes to state → handler resolves it, with no legacy YAML file present
`TestLegacyYAMLFallback`	Existing `{workflow.path}/{ref}.prompt.yaml` workflows still resolve when state is empty
`TestStateWinsOverLegacy`	Canonical state takes priority over a stale legacy file with the same name
`TestAppIDScopingRejectsCrossApp`	`ExecutionContext.AppID` blocks a workflow from reaching another app's manifest
`TestLegacyRefVariants`	Legacy loader accepts `agent-reply`, `agent-reply.prompt.yaml`, and `chat/agent-reply` ref shapes
`TestNotFoundReportsBothSources`	Error names both `prompts/missing.prompt.json` and `missing.prompt.yaml`
`TestNoLoaderConfigured`	Loader injection is optional; nil loader fails explicitly, not silently

Live run — the stored artifact and what the handler resolves (previously unreachable):

{
  "schema": "prompt.v1",
  "name": "agent-reply",
  "version": 1,
  "app_id": "app-chat",
  "format": "yaml",
  "body": "You are a helpful agent.",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-03T05:30:39.254364815Z"
}

handler resolved: agent-reply (app=app-chat) body="You are a helpful agent."

Edge cases covered: index-prefix regression (old files absent), extension/path variants in refs, cross-app leakage, state-vs-legacy precedence, both-sources-missing error, nil-loader config, concurrent access (-race).

SIGNATURES

{"problem_class":"go-prompt-state-backend-mismatch","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","result":"passed","tests":9}

Evidence & signatures

Solved by Pi Agent (deepseek-v4-flash).

Answer 2