Three final-review findings on the two picker pages:
1. DebugView's localStorage auto-reconnect restored the stored instance id with
no membership check, where the ?instanceId= path has one — a stored instance
that is no longer Enabled (or was deleted, or moved sites) is filtered out of
the list the picker is handed, so the field rendered blank while the page held
a non-zero id and auto-connected to it anyway. The guard now mirrors the
deep-link path: forget the stored instance id, tell the operator, and leave the
site selected and loaded so they can pick again.
2. FlowDebugger's _instances kept an OrderBy(UniqueName) from the flat <select>
era; InstanceTreeBuilder sorts areas and instances itself.
3. The deep-link test is joined by one where the instance sits two areas deep, so
the field text is pinned to resolve from the flat list with the panel never
opened.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Both Flow Debugger and Debug View enable the shared InstancePicker as soon as
_selectedSiteId lands, but Blazor renders at the site-change handler's first
await — at which point the picker is still holding the PREVIOUS site's Areas /
Instances lists. Typing into the field in that window (an operator, or
Playwright's FillAsync, which waits only for "enabled") was silently lost: the
picker compares both lists by reference, so the freshly-assigned lists read as
"the site changed" and it clears the field text and closes the panel.
Both pages now hold an _instancesLoading flag across the whole load — set before
the first await, cleared in a finally so a fault or a site-scope refusal cannot
leave the picker disabled forever — and fold it into the picker's Disabled
expression. InstancePicker itself is unchanged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
The script entry's flat instance <select> is replaced by the shared
InstancePicker combobox (design 2026-09-08 §3): the site's areas load
alongside its instances in LoadInstancesAsync and are held in fields, so the
picker sees one stable list reference per site and only closes its panel on a
real site change. Picking a row raises the id, which OnInstancePickedAsync
applies before running the unchanged OnInstanceChangedAsync — the deep link,
the localStorage restore and the site-scope gate are untouched.
Tests: the five instance-select .Change("7") call sites go through a
PickInstance helper (open the panel, click the data-instance-id row), plus a
new test that areas open collapsed and only reveal the instance once both
levels are expanded, and one that ?instanceId= shows the instance name in the
picker field.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Design D6 / §9 says a Live run is a Deployer act while Replay needs only
OperationalAudit, but the page and all three FlowDebug* commands were gated on
Deployer. The Audit Log and Execution Chain pages -- themselves OperationalAudit
-- show an "Open in Flow Debugger" drill-in that an auditor could not follow.
Implements the split:
- New `RequireFlowDebugger` policy over `FlowDebuggerAccessRoles`
{Deployer, Administrator, Viewer}; the page now carries it instead of
`RequireDeployment`.
- `FlowDebugReplayCommand` takes the same role set in the ManagementActor
matrix; `FlowDebugRunMethodCommand` / `FlowDebugRunValueChangeCommand` stay
DeployerOnly.
- The page resolves `_canLive` (Deployer) in OnInitializedAsync and, without it,
pins the mode to Replay, hides the entry-point and mode toggles, the Run
button and the Live pickers, honours only the `?executionId=` drill-in, and
leaves the parked-node Retry/Discard callbacks unset so those buttons never
render. `CanRun`, `SetMode(Live)` and `ActOnStepAsync` repeat the check so the
split does not rest on markup alone.
The NavMenu entry stays inside the Deployer-gated Deployment section -- auditors
arrive through the audit drill-ins, which is the point of the finding.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Found in a browser Live run on the rig: the run drew API, DB and Notify nodes from
its inline rows; the 5 s pending-refresh re-read the tree through Replay before the
site's cached-call telemetry (12 s) had reached central, swapped the graph wholesale,
and the resolved DB node vanished (7 -> 6 steps) until a manual refresh. Polling had
already stopped because nothing was Pending.
MergeRefreshedGraph now unions the re-read rows into the run's known rows by EventId
(fresh copy wins), stores the union back on _raw and rebuilds through
FlowGraphBuilder, so a refresh only ever adds nodes. The union is exact: the inline
rows are the same AuditEvent objects the site writer persists (FlowTraceCollector).
Tests: new PendingRefresh_KeepsStepsTheLiveRunAlreadyHad_WhenReplayLagsBehindTelemetry
(fails on the old code). Two existing fixtures were internally inconsistent and only
passed under the old replace semantics: ParkedThenResolved built its Resolved outcome
with the Parked raw rows, and OutboundOutcome minted fresh event/correlation ids per
call, so no row could ever match across live and replay. Both now share rows per run.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
The page wires FlowStepDetail's OnRetry/OnDiscard to IFlowDebugService.RetryOutboundAsync /
DiscardOutboundAsync behind the same site-scope re-check and confirm wording the Site Calls /
Notification report pages use, toasts the relay outcome, and on success re-polls Replay (same
5 s / 2 min loop) until the acted node leaves Parked. Also drops a duplicated ?correlationId=
test block that a concurrent index-only commit left in QueryStringDrillInTests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
After a successful Live run whose graph has Pending outbound steps the page
re-reads the tree through the existing Replay command every 5 s for up to
2 min (page constants), merging by replacing the graph and keeping the
selection by event id; never in Replay mode; cancelled by a new run, a mode
switch or Dispose. Status strip gains a Pending count, a 'Refresh outcomes'
button (both modes) and an 'outcomes still arriving' note while polling. The
run's own timing and the Completed chip are left alone — pending outbound
work is not a failed run. Plan 2026-09-06 D5.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
/deployment/flow-debugger (RequireDeployment): entry toggle (inbound method | value-change
trigger), method picker or Site → Instance → Attribute pickers (site-scope filtered), Live |
Replay mode, inputs form generated from the method's ParameterDefinitions via
InboundApiSchema (values coerced by declared type into the request JsonElement), status
strip (state chip, run #, start, total, steps/boundaries/writes, root ExecutionId link to
the Execution Chain page), the FlowGraphView with −/Fit/+ zoom, and FlowStepDetail (tabs
Input · Output · Writes · Timing, 'Where this ran' column, Open in Debug View when the
instance is known, Audit rows (n) → /audit/log?executionId=). State machine Idle →
Predicted → Running → Completed | Failed | TimedOut; STANDBY_NODE renders as an inline
warning alert with the server message verbatim; ?methodId= / ?instanceId=&attribute= /
?executionId= drill-ins (the last replays on first render); last entry + inputs persisted
per method in localStorage; 'site not traced' label when a run's route call came back with
no child execution and no Site-lane steps. NavMenu: Deployment → Flow Debugger.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Joseph Doherty