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Adds two helpers that the workshop dry runs kept writing by hand.

createPolicyDecider(policy, options)

From @statelyai/agent.

  • Runs a policy machine as a decide executor: each decision request starts one policy run, and that run's output event is the choice.
  • The input defaults to { facts: request.metadata.facts, options: offered events, system, prompt }, and the policy's input schema validates it. input: (request) => … overrides it.
  • executors answer the policy's own agent.decide calls. Every other runAgent option passes through (store, threadId, metadata, onTrace).
  • The result reports the policy's token usage, and leaves it out when the policy decided with a rule.
  • A run that doesn't end done with an event throws AgentError with code policy-not-done.

getDecisionRequests(trace, { name? })

From @statelyai/agent/testing.

  • Returns each decision's first-attempt request from a trace (live or serialized), with the states the run was in.
  • Serves as eval rows and as policy probe inputs, replacing the casting and first-attempt filtering each dry run hand-wrote.
  • It shares its state tracking with foldTraces, now moved to src/internal/trace-states.ts.

Docs and skills

  • New docs sections: "A policy as the decider" (decisions) and "Decision requests from traces" (evals). The environment-and-policy page links to the first.
  • policy.md's decider is now one line. add-evals and improve-machine use getDecisionRequests.

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An undefined value in a run's input silently disables that run's event log, and with it the token usage carried in the log. The default input here therefore omits absent keys. The silent failure itself is not changed in this PR.

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  • The updated policy.md snippet type-checks against this build.

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  • New Features
    • Added a way to use a policy as a decision executor, with customizable request inputs and policy-run options. Each decision can use its own policy thread. Decisions that do not finish successfully with a valid event now produce an error.
    • Added a testing utility to extract first-attempt decision requests and their active states from traces, with optional filtering by decision name.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance and examples for policy-based decisions and using traced requests in evaluations. Updated related policy and evaluation instructions.

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This change adds createPolicyDecider to run a policy machine for decision requests and getDecisionRequests to extract first-attempt requests and active states from traces. It adds exports, tests, documentation, and updated skill guidance for both APIs.

Changes: Policy-backed decisions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy-decider API and execution
src/policy-decider.ts, src/policy-decider.test.ts, src/index.ts
Adds createPolicyDecider and PolicyDeciderOptions. The factory maps request data to policy input, runs the policy, returns its output event and applicable token usage, and throws policy-not-done when the run does not produce a valid event. Tests cover default and custom inputs, model calls, usage, thread selection, and failure behavior.
Policy-decider documentation and adoption
docs/decisions.md, docs/environment-and-policy.md, skills/loop-to-machine/policy.md, skills/add-traces/SKILL.md, .changeset/policy-decider-helpers.md
Documents the factory and updates the policy example to use it instead of an inline runAgent adapter. The changeset describes both new APIs, and the skill guidance describes per-decision policy threads.

Decision requests from traces

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trace state and request extraction
src/internal/trace-states.ts, src/fold-traces.ts, src/decision-requests.ts, src/decision-requests.test.ts, src/testing/index.ts
Adds shared trace-state helpers and getDecisionRequests, which returns first-attempt requests with active state paths and supports filtering by request name. Tests cover live and serialized traces, including withheld choices.
Trace extraction guidance
docs/evals.md, skills/add-evals/SKILL.md, skills/improve-machine/SKILL.md
Documents using extracted requests for evaluations and probe inputs. Updates the related skill instructions to use getDecisionRequests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant createPolicyDecider
  participant PolicyMachine
  participant ModelExecutor
  Host->>createPolicyDecider: decision request
  createPolicyDecider->>PolicyMachine: run with mapped input and signal
  PolicyMachine->>ModelExecutor: nested decision request when needed
  ModelExecutor-->>PolicyMachine: selected event and usage
  PolicyMachine-->>createPolicyDecider: run status and output
  createPolicyDecider-->>Host: event and applicable usage
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  • statelyai/agent#174: Updates runAgent validation and thread-resume behavior used by policy runs.
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A stored policy decision can return a choice made for different request data. Strengthen the thread fingerprint before merging.

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