OpenAdapt

# OpenAdapt: review brief for openadapt-flow 2.3.0

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Source: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt

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# OpenAdapt

**Give your agent a program, not a mouse.**

The open-source, verified execution layer for computer-use agents.

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[What it can do](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/CAPABILITIES.md) · [Documentation](https://docs.openadapt.ai) · [Quickstart](https://docs.openadapt.ai/tutorials/quickstart/) · [Live demo](https://app.openadapt.ai/demo) · [Website](https://openadapt.ai) · [Discord](https://discord.gg/yF527cQbDG)

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A computer-use agent looks at the screen and chooses every click again, on
every run. OpenAdapt lets your agent, or a person, do a task once in any app:
web, Windows, macOS, Linux, RDP or Citrix. It compiles that run into a program,
and your agent calls the program as one tool. The program runs with no model
calls and sends no screenshots anywhere. It confirms the right record before
each save, reads the save back from the system of record after it, and returns
a plain outcome. When anything doesn't match, it stops and tells your agent
instead of guessing.

## Measured on OpenEMR

One new-patient referral in a test copy of OpenEMR, timed from a fresh
browser through sign-in, the entry and the saved record read back (median):

| Who does the entry | Time per referral | Saved correctly | Model cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent alone (Claude Sonnet 5.5 computer use) | `██████████████████` 36.5 s | 62 of 63 | about $0.08 |
| OpenAdapt program, screen steps | `███████████` 22.5 s | 18 of 18 | $0 |
| OpenAdapt program, API step | `██` 3.3 s | 18 of 18 | $0 |

The API step replaces the program's 41 screen steps with the one form
submission the app itself sends, then reads the record back. It covers single
HTML form saves like this one; other apps and request types are not yet
measured. In both program rows a
possible-duplicate referral stopped without saving, as it should. Both program
rows ran on 19 Oct on one copy of the app, interleaved, without the approval
gate and without resumable runs; the API step was admitted by the benchmark
harness, not by a person. The agent rows are the 14 to 15 Oct timing study, on
its own copy of the app.
[SCOREBOARD.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/scoreboard/SCOREBOARD.md#openemr-agent-screen-program-and-api-step)
has every run.

A screen can't show a save that went wrong behind it. On a test copy of
OpenEMR, with faults injected in its database (a field blanked, a value changed, a
duplicate chart, a chart removed, another chart deleted or edited), the agent
claimed success on all 30 bad saves. Reading the record back caught 25 of the
30 and confirmed all 5 clean saves, with no false alarms. It missed the 5 where
a different chart was edited. On MockMed, a test app
that shows a save as done before its server answers, the agent also claimed
all 30 bad saves, and the read-back caught all 30
([details below](#why-the-read-back-matters)).

## One harness, three modes

| Mode | What happens | Model calls |
|---|---|---|
| **Explore** | Your agent, or a person, does the task once while OpenAdapt records every action. The save is read back before anything compiles. | Your agent's, on your own key |
| **Run** | The compiled program repeats the task with new inputs. It checks the record before each save and reads it back after. | None |
| **Repair** | When the app changes, the run stops before saving. An agent shows the fix, the program tries it up to the save without saving, and a person approves it. | Only when something changed, on your own key |

## Why the read-back matters

A success screen is not proof of a save. We injected 8 kinds of bad save into
a test app (a save that never landed, landed partly, landed twice, went to the
wrong record, or changed another record), 9 runs each, alongside clean runs.
Each check below was asked whether those 72 bad saves had succeeded:

| How the save was checked | Bad saves reported as saved |
|---|---|
| The app's "Saved" message on screen | 54 of 72 |
| A read of the record over the app's REST API | 9 of 72 (all writes to a table it didn't read) |
| A read of every table in the database | 0 of 72 |

This is a coverage test over a small, hand-written set of faults, not a
real-world error rate. [EFFECT_E2E.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/effect_e2e/EFFECT_E2E.md)
has the method and raw results.

An agent working alone can't see these faults either. Claude Sonnet 5.5, using
computer use, did a task on a test app whose server broke the save in 6 ways,
5 times each. The agent reported all 30 bad saves as done. Given the agent's
run, `openadapt-flow verify-run` read each record back: it flagged all 30 and
confirmed all 10 clean saves, with no false alarms. The test app shows "saved"
before the server answers, so the screen gave the agent nothing to notice. That
gap is what the read-back closes.
[SCOREBOARD.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/scoreboard/SCOREBOARD.md#the-agents-claims-versus-the-read-back)
has the method, the raw runs and the cost.

## Try it in one command

```bash
uvx --python 3.12 openadapt quickstart --break-it
```

No account or API key. [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/)
fetches Python 3.12 if you need it; with Python 3.10 to 3.12 already installed,
`python -m pip install --upgrade openadapt` then `openadapt quickstart --break-it`
does the same.

### What it shows

The command runs a synthetic clinic task twice on your computer. The first run
saves an entry and confirms it through the app's read-only API. For the second
run, the test server is set up to reject the save, so it never reaches the
record. This is the output from `openadapt` 1.17.0, with the break-it lines in
the current wording:

```text
[1/5] Record the demonstration against a real persistence boundary
[2/5] Compile and propose a fixture-specific effect contract
[3/5] Certify against the clinical-write policy
[4/5] Admit and execute under the standard profile
      VERIFIED in 5.6s; 0 model calls; the system of record holds 1 record(s)
[5/5] Emit the local run receipt
...
--- break-it: the same certified bundle, with the save set to fail ---

  Injected fault:      'optimistic' -- the server rejects the write
  On screen:           every on-screen check passed, including the saved message
  The verifier found:  1/2 declared effect(s) REFUTED by an independent
                       read of the system of record, which holds 0 record(s)
  The engine did:      HALTED at the consequential step instead of claiming
                       success (transaction: RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED, billable: no)
  Result:              Check the record. A save may have gone through. A person checks the record before anything is retried.
```

The [quickstart tutorial](https://docs.openadapt.ai/tutorials/quickstart/) walks through every line.

## Build with it

### Compile your agent's run

Your agent (Claude or OpenAI computer use, or your own loop, on your own model
key) does the task once while OpenAdapt records it. A person reviews and admits
the draft program, or a registered agent admits it under a policy a person
signed. After that, the program runs instead of the agent.

```python
from openadapt_flow.jit import compile_agent

jit = compile_agent(my_agent, task=task, app=app, verifier=verifier,
                    policy="clinical-write", cache_dir="jit-cache", model_key=key)
jit.run(note="Follow up in two weeks")    # the agent does it; a DRAFT is saved
# a person reviews, runs the canary, and admits the draft
jit.run(note="Recheck knee in ten days")  # the program runs: 0 model calls, save read back
```

[Compile a computer-use agent's run](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT.md) has the full
example. The same path compiles an agent's run in web apps and in Windows,
macOS, Linux, RDP and Citrix apps.

### Call programs from your agent

```bash
claude mcp add openadapt -- uvx --python 3.12 openadapt-agent serve
```

Each compiled workflow becomes one tool call. The agent decides what to enter;
OpenAdapt makes the entry, checks it, and returns an outcome instead of the
agent driving the screen. With no bundles, the server offers a synthetic
sandbox workflow that returns every outcome. To serve your own workflows, run
`openadapt agent serve --mode production --bundles ./bundles`; without
`--mode production` the agent can list them but not run them.
`openadapt-agent emit-skill <bundle>` writes an Agent Skill for one workflow,
and `openadapt flow verify-run` judges a write made by any agent or script
against the system of record. [Connect an agent](https://docs.openadapt.ai/how-to/connect-an-agent/)
covers other clients.

### Record a task by hand

```bash
python -m pip install --upgrade openadapt
openadapt flow record --url https://staging.your-app.example --out rec
openadapt flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-first-workflow
openadapt flow replay bundle --url https://staging.your-app.example --run-dir run
```

`replay` drives the app at `--url` and performs every recorded action,
including saves you can't undo. It doesn't ask first and doesn't check the
saved record. Point it at a test or staging copy, never at production data.

A program that writes to a real system also needs record checks, a deployment
file, certification, qualification, and an admission; then `openadapt flow run`
runs it. By default each save waits for a person to approve it in OpenAdapt
Desktop or on a paired phone. [Your first workflow](https://docs.openadapt.ai/tutorials/first-workflow/)
walks through it. Several recordings of the same task can become one program
with branches and loops (`openadapt flow induce`).

To record a desktop app, install the recorder and your operating system's
adapter, for example `python -m pip install "openadapt[capture,windows]"`, or
use [OpenAdapt Desktop](https://openadapt.ai/download).

### Judge or train any agent

`openadapt flow verify-run` judges a write made by any agent or script against
the system of record. `openadapt-flow serve-reward` turns the same check into a
reward for training or evaluating computer-use agents
([REWARD_WORKER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/REWARD_WORKER.md)).

## An agent alone, and an OpenAdapt program

The same referral task on a local OpenEMR 8.0.0.3 test copy with synthetic
patients, 62 timed runs each (14 and 15 October 2026), judged by the same
database read-back:

| | Claude computer-use agent | OpenAdapt program |
|---|---|---|
| Model calls | On every step of every run | 0 |
| Screenshots sent to a model | Throughout every run | 0 |
| Model cost per referral | About $0.08 at list price | $0 |
| Path through the app | Chosen again each run | The same compiled steps |
| Median time | 36.5 s | 29.7 s |
| Referrals saved correctly | 62 of 63 | 62 of 63 |

Both were equally correct here, and the agent matched or beat OpenAdapt in
three other tests. [Every result](https://openadapt.ai/compare/computer-use-agents)
is published. That program was only about a fifth faster because it drove every
page, as the agent does; the API step compiled from the recording's network
traffic removes the page steps for single-form saves. OpenAdapt isn't
affiliated with the OpenEMR project.

## Every backend

The same record, compile, run and repair steps work on every surface. Where
the app exposes its structure, OpenAdapt uses it; on remote desktops it works
from pixels.

| Surface | What OpenAdapt reads | Tested so far |
|---|---|---|
| Web apps | The screen, plus the page's DOM | Required CI on every build, plus runs against OpenEMR |
| Windows apps | The screen, plus UI Automation | 3 of 3 saves in a WinForms test app |
| macOS apps | The screen, plus Accessibility | 3 of 3 saves in TextEdit |
| Linux apps (X11) | The screen, plus AT-SPI | A GTK3 app in CI |
| Remote desktop (RDP) | The screen | 3 of 3 trials into Windows 11 over a real network |
| Citrix | The screen | A stand-in app only; no run over a real Citrix session yet |

Each application on each surface needs its own qualification.
[Surfaces](https://docs.openadapt.ai/explanation/surfaces/) and [Limits](https://docs.openadapt.ai/explanation/limits/)
have the details.

## How it works

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    S["Record, or let an agent do it once"] --> C["Compile"] --> Q["Certify and qualify"] --> A["Admit"] --> R["Run with checks"]
    R -.->|"stopped: approve a fix"| C
```

For each step the compiler uses the most reliable layer the app offers: page
structure first (DOM, Windows UI Automation, macOS Accessibility, Linux
AT-SPI), a direct API call where one is bound, and pixels (template, text and
layout matching) only where nothing else exists, such as RDP and Citrix.
Qualification runs the program against normal and fault cases before an
admission lets that exact version run. At each save the program checks that
the right record is on screen, makes the entry, and reads the record back.

## How it compares

| | Computer-use agent | Agent with a replay cache | Traditional RPA | OpenAdapt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you define the task | A goal in plain language | One agent run | A script or flow built in a designer | A person's recording or an agent's run |
| What runs each time | A model chooses each step from the screen | The recorded steps; the agent takes over on a miss | The fixed script | A compiled program you can read |
| Model calls per run | At least one per step | None on a hit; the agent's calls on a miss | None | None with default settings |
| When the screen changes | The model tries to adapt | The agent improvises live | A selector stops matching, or matches the wrong control | The run stops before saving; a fix is proposed and a person approves it |
| Right record? | The model judges from the screen | Usually only that the screen looks as recorded | Whatever the developer scripted | Checked before every save |
| Did the save land? | The model judges from the screen | The screen | Whatever the developer scripted | Read back from the system of record |
| Strongest for | New or changing tasks | Repeated tasks where a wrong save is cheap | Stable processes with a team to maintain the scripts | The same entry many times, where a wrong save is costly |

## What it can do

- **Learns from any successful run**, a person's demonstration or a computer-use agent's verified run, and compiles it into a program that runs with no model calls.
- **Uses the most reliable layer the app allows**: page structure (DOM, UI Automation, Accessibility), direct API calls where one is bound, and pixels only for remote desktops.
- **Builds branching programs** from several demonstrations, repeated halts and background runs, and routes each item to the right verified variant.
- **Works across surfaces**: web, Windows, macOS, RDP and Citrix, in one workflow.
- **Confirms the right record before every write and reads the saved record back** from the system of record, never just the screen.
- **Stops instead of guessing**, never retries an uncertain save, and says what changed before a stop.
- **Binds each approval to exactly what will be saved**, with one-tap answers on a paired phone.
- **Repairs itself when the app changes**, probing a fix up to the save and asking a person to approve it.
- **Works as a safety layer under any agent**: MCP tools, a guarded save, Agent Skills and a CLI.
- **Runs locally**: no model calls on healthy runs, patient data redacted, signed receipts.

[CAPABILITIES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/CAPABILITIES.md) has the evidence and code for each.

## What your agent gets back

| You see | `transaction_outcome` | An agent gets | What happens next |
|---|---|---|---|
| Done and checked | `VERIFIED` | `done` | Nothing. Only this result gets a shareable receipt. |
| Stopped before saving | `HALTED_BEFORE_EFFECT` | `needs_review` | Fix the cause, or show the program the fix, and run again. |
| Check the record | `RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED` | `not_sure_if_saved` | A save may have gone through. A person checks the record before anything is retried. |
| Finished, not checked | `COMPLETED_UNVERIFIED` | `not_sure_if_saved` | Fine for testing; not a production success. |
| Saved, waiting for its check | `SAVED_AWAITING_CHECK` | `not_sure_if_saved` | The save's check is a later report (a claim acknowledgment, an export). Don't rerun it. `openadapt-flow deferred settle` counts it as done only when the report confirms it. |
| Didn't run | `REJECTED_POLICY`, `CANCELED`, `FAILED_PLATFORM` | `did_not_run` | Fix the gate or the environment and run again. |

The console's last line can read `HALTED` for both the second and third rows.
`transaction_outcome` in `report.json` tells them apart, so base every rerun on
it. [Run outcomes](https://docs.openadapt.ai/reference/outcomes/) lists every value.

## When to use something else

- **The app has an API for the task.** Call the API.
- **Every task is new.** Use a computer-use agent. OpenAdapt pays off when the
  same entry repeats.
- **There's no way to read the record back.** The record check needs read
  access to the system of record: an API, the database, FHIR, or a separate
  signed-in session. Without one, a run can only end as finished but not
  checked.


## Packages

`pip install openadapt` installs the `openadapt` command, the engine, and the
MCP server. The product packages live in this repository:

| Package (PyPI) | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|
| [`openadapt`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt/) | The `openadapt` command | [`openadapt/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/openadapt) |
| [`openadapt-flow`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-flow/) | The engine: record, compile, check, qualify, run, repair | [`packages/flow/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/flow) |
| [`openadapt-agent`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-agent/) | The MCP server and Agent Skills | [`packages/agent/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/agent) |
| [`openadapt-types`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-types/) | Shared request, result, and receipt models | [`packages/types/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/types) |
| [`openadapt-capture`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-capture/) | The desktop recorder: `openadapt[capture]` | [`packages/capture/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/capture) |
| [`openadapt-privacy`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-privacy/) | Finds and redacts personal and health data: `openadapt[privacy]` | [`packages/privacy/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/privacy) |
| [`openadapt-desktop`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-desktop/) | OpenAdapt Desktop ([download](https://openadapt.ai/download)) | [`packages/desktop/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/desktop) |
| [`openadapt-tray`](https://pypi.org/project/openadapt-tray/) | Menu-bar and system-tray controls and status for OpenAdapt Desktop | [`packages/tray/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/tray) |

Each package installs only what it imports. For example, `pip install openadapt-privacy` doesn't install the engine or the desktop app. CI checks each package's install size and dependency list ([install weight](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/docs/monorepo/INSTALL_WEIGHT.md)).

Research on GUI agents lives in separate repositories:
[openadapt-evals](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/openadapt-evals) (benchmarks)
and [openadapt-ml](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/openadapt-ml) (model
training). The [packages map](https://docs.openadapt.ai/reference/packages/) has the full list.

## Security and procurement

Screens, typed values, and recordings stay on the computer or runner that runs
OpenAdapt. The shareable receipt and the Cloud dashboard hold counts, digests,
and closed values. A sanitized copy leaves only after a person approves it, and
screenshots go to a model host only if you turn on model grounding.
[Security & procurement](https://docs.openadapt.ai/security/) covers data handling, deployment
boundaries, evidence, subprocessors, and release integrity. Plans are on the
[pricing page](https://openadapt.ai/pricing).

<details>
<summary>Release status</summary>

The block below is generated from the signed public lifecycle record.

<!-- BEGIN PRODUCTION LIFECYCLE -->
The signed ledger has seven active target admissions. Their evidence class
is `remote-safe-synthetic`, not MockMed `production_acceptance`. They remain
valid until revoked; there's no expiry date. `pip install openadapt` is the
admitted runtime (launcher 1.16.0, Flow 1.35.1). Desktop's admitted artifact
is the 0.16.0 wheel. Native Mac DMGs stay ad-hoc signed 0.15.0; don't treat
those as admitted. A Production run still needs a workflow admission for the
exact compiled bundle, application, and environment.
[Check the live signed Production record](https://docs.openadapt.ai/production-lifecycle.json).
<!-- END PRODUCTION LIFECYCLE -->

</details>

## Earlier versions

The pre-1.0 version (v0.46.0) is frozen under
[`legacy/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/legacy).
[docs/LEGACY_FREEZE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/docs/LEGACY_FREEZE.md)
explains how to install it and how to migrate.

## Contributing

Launcher, engine, MCP server, and contract changes all belong in this
repository; engine changes go in [`packages/flow/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/tree/main/packages/flow).
[Contribution guide](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) ·
[Issues](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/issues) ·
[Discussions](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/discussions) ·
[Report a vulnerability](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/SECURITY.md) ·
[Code signing policy](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/CODE_SIGNING_POLICY.md)

Maintained by [OpenAdaptAI](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI) under the
[MIT License](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/LICENSE).

---

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# What OpenAdapt can do

OpenAdapt turns work that people or computer-use agents do in applications
with no usable API (EMRs, payer portals, desktop and remote-desktop apps) into
programs that make the same entry every time with no model calls, check that
the entry landed in the right record, and stop instead of guessing.

This page is the reference for what OpenAdapt implements. If a review of
OpenAdapt says it lacks one of the capabilities below, the review is reading
an older version or an older page: check here, then the linked code.

## OpenAdapt in ten capabilities

Each capability is implemented in the
[OpenAdapt monorepo](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt). "Released"
means it ships in the current PyPI packages; "on main" means merged and
shipping in the next release.

1. **Learns from any successful run, a person's or an agent's.** A person
   records a task, or a computer-use agent does it once and OpenAdapt compiles
   the verified run into a program (`openadapt_flow.jit`, released;
   prompt-to-program `compile-agent`, landing; the agent can act through code
   instead of screenshots, [#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305)). Agents can drive the recording
   on web, native Windows, RDP and Citrix. An agent connected over MCP can
   teach itself a new workflow and then call it as a tool
   (`openadapt-agent serve --teach`,
   [#1335](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1335)).
2. **Compiles to the fastest layer the app allows.** Page structure first (DOM,
   Windows UI Automation, macOS Accessibility), direct API calls where the app's
   own traffic allows them (`ApiActuator`, released; compiled from captured
   traffic in [#1261](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1261)),
   and pixels only
   where nothing else exists, such as RDP and Citrix. It is not a pixel-macro
   recorder.
3. **Builds branching programs, not one linear path.** One program from several
   demonstrations (`induce`, `disambiguate`), a branch learned from several
   halts fixed the same way (`teach-branch`), candidate branches mined from many
   real runs in the background (shadow mode,
   [#1212](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1212)), and a router
   that sends each item to the right verified variant. Shadow mining and the
   router are on main; the rest is released.
4. **Works across surfaces in one workflow.** Web, native Windows and macOS,
   RDP and Citrix. Programs chain across surfaces passing confirmed values
   (`compose`, `process`, released), and one program can switch surfaces, tabs
   and popups mid-run ([#1197](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1197)).
5. **Confirms the right record before every write and reads it back after.**
   The record check reads the system of record (API, database, FHIR with SMART
   Backend Services, or a separate signed-in session), never just the screen.
   `record --verify` proposes those checks from what the demonstration changed.
   Released.
6. **Stops instead of improvising, and never retries an uncertain save.** A run
   that can't prove a save ends `HALTED_BEFORE_EFFECT` or
   `RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED`, never "success". A ledger of what changed before
   a stop, with undo steps a person approves, is on main. The rest is
   released.
7. **Approvals are bound to exactly what will be saved.** Each save waits for a
   person by default and can be answered on a paired phone with one card per
   decision. The approval is bound to the exact screenshot and form state, and
   the form is read again before saving, so what was approved is what is saved.
   Person-signed grants let named agents answer. Released.
8. **Repairs itself, with a person approving.** Governed repair (propose,
   review, campaign, canary, rollback), agent-demonstrated fixes for a halted
   run, and fleet drift patches shared with no patient data are released.
   Self-repair, where an agent proposes a fix and Flow probes it up to the save
   without saving, is on main, and so are fixes of up to three new steps.
9. **Is a safety layer underneath any agent.** An agent's MCP calls, a task
   ledger that keeps a long job's rules, items, questions and checked saves on
   the server ([#1332](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1332)), a guarded save around any agent's write
   ([#1258](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1258)), a guard for
   an agent you already run that holds its browser's saves with no change to
   the agent ([#1357](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1357)), `verify-run`
   to judge any executor's write from the system of record, and Agent Skills and
   a CLI for coding agents. Released except where a PR is named.
10. **Runs locally and keeps data private.** Healthy runs make no model calls
    and send nothing out. Personal and health data are redacted from text,
    screenshots and structure (scrub-by-default for anything that leaves the
    machine is on main); a strict no-outbound mode, an unattended on-prem
    service, and signed, timestamped receipts are released.

## Often missed

| What OpenAdapt does | Where |
| --- | --- |
| Learns branching programs from several demonstrations, from repeated halts, and from many background runs. | `induce`, `teach-branch`, [SHADOW_MINING.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/capture/docs/SHADOW_MINING.md), [LEARN_FROM_MANY_RUNS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/LEARN_FROM_MANY_RUNS.md) |
| Chains programs across surfaces, and one program can switch surfaces, tabs and popups mid-run. | `compose`, `process`, [#1197](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1197) |
| Uses page structure first on web, Windows, macOS and Linux, with pixels as the fallback for remote desktops. Benchmarks labelled "vision-only" ran a deliberately pixel-only arm. | [RESOLUTION_LADDER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/RESOLUTION_LADDER.md) |
| Replaces a single HTML form submission with the request the app itself sends, compiled from the network traffic captured while recording, then reads the record back. JSON or GraphQL requests, multi-step wizards and governed runs still use the screen steps. | `api`, [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md) |
| Builds the record check itself. After a save, the app usually reads the record back to show it; `scaffold-verifier` finds that read in the captured traffic or a read-only database, builds the check from it and tries to break it before a person reviews it. No API or SQL needs to be written by hand. | [EFFECT_KIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#a-record-check-built-from-the-apps-own-reads-scaffold-verifier) |
| Checks a save on desktop, RDP and Citrix apps with no API at all, by looking the record up in the app's own screens in a separate session. | [EFFECT_KIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#separate-session-desktop-read-back-desktop_readback) |
| Keeps pixel-path runs working across display scaling from 100% to 175% and font smoothing on or off, and stops rather than saves when the record changed. | [benchmark/pixel_scale](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/pixel_scale/README.md) |
| Lists every change made before a stop, and reverses them with undo steps a person approves. | `undo`, [AFTER_A_STOP.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/AFTER_A_STOP.md) |
| Repairs itself when the app changes: governed repair, agent-demonstrated fixes, fleet patches, and self-repair probed up to the save. | [REPAIR_LIFECYCLE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/REPAIR_LIFECYCLE.md) |
| Repairs a change that needs new steps, such as a new required dialog or a control moved into a menu: up to three new steps, each with its own record check, probed up to the save before one person approves. | [SELF_REPAIR.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SELF_REPAIR.md), [#1325](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1325) |
| Compiles a computer-use agent's verified run, with no human demonstration needed. | [JIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT.md) |
| The agent that does a task once can act through code, not a screenshot-and-click loop: it reads the page or accessibility tree, acts by role and name, keeps notes with a sandboxed read-only shell, and asks for a screenshot only when it needs one. It is arm 7 of the scoreboard; its figures are quoted from there once its rows are in. | `CODE_AS_ACTION.md` in [#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305) |
| Binds each approval to the exact screenshot and form state, and re-reads the form before saving. | [APPROVAL_MODES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/APPROVAL_MODES.md) |
| Has a written threat model for prompt injection against the agent that teaches or repairs a program, with tests. | [THREAT_MODEL.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THREAT_MODEL.md) |
| Fills inputs from a referral PDF, fax image or email, and holds back anything unclear for a person. | `intake`, [INTAKE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/INTAKE.md) |
| Ships as one monorepo with separately installable packages (flow, agent, types, capture, privacy, desktop and tray), each released from the monorepo. | [README](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/README.md) |
| Makes no model calls on healthy runs. Model training (openadapt-ml) is separate research. | [README](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/README.md) |

## The full map

Every capability, with its status, its evidence and where it lives.

Status:

- **Released**: in the current PyPI release (openadapt-flow 2.2.0).
- **On main**: merged; ships in the next release.

Evidence:

- **Real app**: run against a real third-party application, such as a local
  OpenEMR or openIMIS.
- **Synthetic**: run against OpenAdapt's own test apps (MockMed and fixtures).

All patient and claim data in every test and benchmark is synthetic.

## The core: a checked entry, every time

A person, or a computer-use agent once, shows a task. OpenAdapt compiles it
into a program that makes the same entry every time with no model calls. It
confirms the right record before acting, reads the saved record back from the
system of record instead of trusting the screen, and stops instead of
improvising or retrying when something is off.

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Compile one or more demonstrations into a deterministic program | Released | Real app (OpenEMR referral, 62 timed runs) | `openadapt-flow record`, `compile`; [packages/flow](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/README.md) |
| Classify common local edits without a person (select-all, Enter in a field or dropdown, an in-form tab, an informational dialog's dismiss), only when the recording's network capture shows no write and a runtime check confirms only the expected change | On main ([#1366](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1366)) | Synthetic; OpenEMR referral recording re-admitted offline (violations 12 to 1 under `permissive`) | [LOCAL_EDIT_CLASSIFICATION.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/design/LOCAL_EDIT_CLASSIFICATION.md), `compiler/local_edit.py` |
| Right-record check before any write (structure, then OCR, then pixels) | Released | Real app and synthetic | [RESOLUTION_LADDER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/RESOLUTION_LADDER.md), `runtime/identity.py` |
| Read the saved record back from the system of record (API, database, FHIR, separate session) | Released | Real app (OpenEMR 12 of 12 fields) | [VERIFICATION.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFICATION.md), `runtime/effects/` |
| Read values out of an app as a workflow step (READ), with a records format, a signed review queue and export to CSV or a database | On main ([#1229](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1229), [#1215](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1215), [#1218](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1218)–[#1224](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1224)) | Synthetic (mock desktop apps) | `openadapt_flow/interchange/` |
| Stop before the effect instead of improvising (`HALTED_BEFORE_EFFECT`) | Released | Real app and synthetic | `runtime/replayer.py` |
| Never retry an uncertain save (`RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED`) | Released | Synthetic (fault server) | [VERIFICATION.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFICATION.md) |
| One check-level scale, 0 to 5, from "unchecked" to "counterparty confirmed" | Released | Unit tests | `openadapt_flow/check_level.py` |
| Judge any executor's write, including an agent's or a script's, from the system of record | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow verify-run`, [VERIFY_RUN.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFY_RUN.md) |
| Prove that nothing outside the declared change moved (frame conditions), and attribute concurrent edits by other users through the app's audit log or a modified-by field; the receipt signs which parts were checked | On main | Synthetic (MockMed, SQLite audit log) | `verify-run`, [VERIFICATION_COVERAGE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFICATION_COVERAGE.md) |
| Admit a record check only after a fault suite written to a store copy shows it catches every fault it claims, and sign its coverage into the receipt | On main | Synthetic (in-memory REST store, SQLite copy) | `openadapt_flow/fault_gate.py`, `scaffold-verifier --fault-gate`, `verify-run` `admission:` |
| Check that the saved record matches its source document, not only the parameters: intake keeps each value's line, a second reading must agree before a guarded save, and a round trip compares the read-back with the document | On main | Synthetic (MockMed, text referral) | `openadapt_flow/provenance.py`, `intake`, `verify-run --provenance`, guarded save |
| Guarded save: a safety layer any agent wraps around one write (check the record, hold for approval, read back) | On main ([#1258](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1258)) | Synthetic | `GUARDED_SAVE.md` |
| Draft a record check from the demonstration's write steps (`scaffold-verifier`) | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow scaffold-verifier` (a person fills in the draft) |
| Build a working record check from the reads the app made while the person viewed the saved record, and test it against injected bad writes before anyone reviews it | On main ([#1284](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1284)) | Synthetic (MockMed, OpenEMR fixture) | `openadapt-flow scaffold-verifier` |
| Check a save on desktop, RDP or Citrix by looking the record up in a separate read-only session | On main ([#1280](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1280)) | Synthetic (WinForms, RDP and Citrix stand-ins) | `runtime/effects/` |
| Learn the record check from the recording, when the person looks the record up after saving | On main ([#1290](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1290)) | Synthetic | `record --verify` |
| Checked later: a save confirmed by a later report or acknowledgment, never counted as done until then | On main ([#1297](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1297)) | Synthetic | `SAVED_AWAITING_CHECK` |
| Keep the server's own answer to a save as lower-level evidence on the receipt | On main ([#1298](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1298)) | Synthetic | receipts |
| A ledger of what changed before a stop, a write-ordering lint, and undo steps a person approves | On main ([#1263](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1263)) | Synthetic (MockMed) | change ledger |
| Propose an undo for each saving step (another recording, captured traffic, or the old value), keep it only if a test copy shows every record restored, and offer it after a stop once a person approves it | On main ([#1346](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1346)) | Synthetic (MockMed, MockLoan, live browser) | `openadapt-flow undo propose`, `undo accept`; [AFTER_A_STOP.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/AFTER_A_STOP.md) |

## Approvals

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Each save waits for a person by default | Released | Synthetic | [APPROVAL_MODES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/APPROVAL_MODES.md) |
| Approve or decline a save on a paired phone, with one card per decision and swipe or tap | Released (Desktop) | Synthetic | openadapt-desktop `portal/shell` |
| Person-signed grants let named agents or systems answer saves | Released | Unit tests | `openadapt-flow approver-grant` |
| Admit once, then stop only on problems | On main ([#1212](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1212)), behind a readiness gate | Synthetic | [APPROVAL_MODES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/APPROVAL_MODES.md) |
| Show the field values a save writes on the phone | On main ([#1257](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1257)) | Unit tests | `console/save_approvals.py` |
| Show why an agent asked for a save: who asked, its own reason (as a quote), the screen text it saw, and any of that text that reads like an instruction to an agent | On main ([#1359](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1359)) | Unit tests, synthetic | `ApprovalProvenance` in `approval_mode/item_approval.py`; the phone card in openadapt-desktop `portal/shell` |

## Branching work, not one linear path

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Learn one program with branches from two or more recordings, or say which recordings are missing | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow induce`, `disambiguate`; [CAPABILITIES.md (flow)](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/CAPABILITIES.md) |
| Learn a guarded branch from several halts fixed the same way | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow teach-branch`, `learning/branch_teach.py` |
| Run a program over a worklist | Released | Real app | `openadapt-flow for-each` |
| Learn a worklist loop from recordings that search a record, open it, work it and go back to the list, even when the last row skips the return or rows differ (a field some rows lack, a write some rows get behind a screen check a person accepts). Each pass selects the row's own record by its values, verifies it, and checks that row's write. Certified and governed runs refuse it until qualification covers it | On main ([#1435](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1435)) | Synthetic (held-out rows run through the interpreter against an in-memory app) | `openadapt-flow induce`; `Step.target_param` |
| Score whether a program generalizes by running held-out items: each item runs through the replayer with its own inputs and record check, and an independent check the program never sees says whether the intended record got exactly the intended change (generalized, halted safely, silent wrong, wrong effect, unconfirmed write); a loop program runs each item as a one-row worklist. `induce --held-out` stays a structural shape check that runs nothing | On main ([#1527](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1527)) | Synthetic (an induced worklist loop scored on held-out rows against an in-memory chart app) | `openadapt_flow.validation.behavioral_generalization` |
| Typed business decisions inside a run | Released | Synthetic | `business_decision` states, `openadapt-flow business-decisions` |
| Watch many real runs in the background and mine candidate branches (shadow mode) | On main ([#1212](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1212)) | Synthetic | [SHADOW_MINING.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/capture/docs/SHADOW_MINING.md), [LEARN_FROM_MANY_RUNS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/LEARN_FROM_MANY_RUNS.md) |
| Fill a workflow's inputs from a referral PDF, fax image or email | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow intake`, [INTAKE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/INTAKE.md) |
| Use spoken narration while recording to propose the rule behind a branch | On main ([#1291](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1291)) | Synthetic (generated audio) | `openadapt-capture[audio,privacy]` |
| Settle a disagreement between recordings by trying both paths on a test copy of the app and reading the record back | On main ([#1276](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1276), [#1289](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1289)) | Synthetic (MockMed; desktop and remote test copies) | `induce --probe-on` |
| Route each item to the right verified variant of a program | On main ([#1264](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1264)) | Synthetic | `variants`, `route` |

## Surfaces

| Surface | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Web (Playwright, Chromium) | Released | Real app, every CI build | [SURFACES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SURFACES.md) |
| Native Windows (UI Automation) | Released, early | Synthetic (WinForms, 3 of 3 trials) | [SURFACES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SURFACES.md) |
| Native macOS (Accessibility) | Released, early | Synthetic (TextEdit, 3 of 3 trials) | [SURFACES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SURFACES.md) |
| RDP (pixels; Aardwolf or headless FreeRDP with a session pool) | Released, early | Real Windows 11 host, 3 of 3, plus a FreeRDP batch | [SURFACES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SURFACES.md), `backends/xfreerdp.py` |
| Citrix and other virtual desktops, with OpenAdapt installed inside the session (`in_session`): the same structure-first path as a local desktop | Released, early | Same evidence as the Windows path; no live Citrix session yet | [SURFACES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SURFACES.md) |
| Citrix from outside the session, pixels only (`remote_display`), the fallback when nothing can be installed inside | Exploratory | A no-DOM stand-in only; no real ICA/HDX session yet | [LIMITS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/LIMITS.md) |
| Chain programs across surfaces, passing confirmed values | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow compose`, `process`; [PROCESS_CONTRACT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PROCESS_CONTRACT.md) |
| One program that switches surfaces, tabs and popups mid-run | On main ([#1197](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1197)) | Real Chromium; Windows switch on a mock | [#1197](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1197) |
| Halt when a workflow qualified with page structure runs on a pixels-only surface | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow qualify` |
| Stop before acting when another shown row has the same identity; when the rows carry an app-owned record id (a `data-*` id, the row link), act on the row with the recorded id; on a surface that cannot count the rows, stop before any step that leads into a write | On main ([#1504](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1504)) | Real browser (headless Chromium worklist with identical rows) | `runtime/identity_census.py`; `PlaywrightBackend.identity_candidates_at` |
| Lift look-alike identity stops with a complete known-ID list | Released | Synthetic (rendered record list) | `openadapt-flow known-ids` |
| Take extra looks before stopping on a look-alike record ID: fresh frames, the known-ID list, and a select-and-copy of the ID where the surface allows it | On main ([#1333](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1333)) | Synthetic (dense record list in a browser) | `runtime.identity_copy_look` in deployment.yaml; [IDENTITY_LOOKS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/identity_looks/IDENTITY_LOOKS.md) |
| Check an icon-only click target's hover response (highlight, tooltip) before clicking on a pixel surface, and re-check the target and identity regions on a fresh frame right before every pixel click | On main ([#1334](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1334)) | Synthetic (in-process kiosk) | `Recorder(capture_hover=True)`; [hover_identity](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/hover_identity/README.md) |

## The fastest layer the app allows

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Page structure (DOM, UI Automation, Accessibility) first, then template, OCR and geometry | Released | Real app | [RESOLUTION_LADDER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/RESOLUTION_LADDER.md) |
| Run a step as a direct API call (`ApiActuator`, `ApiBinding`) | Released, hand-authored bindings | Synthetic benchmarks | `runtime/actuators/api.py` |
| Capture a recording's network traffic and compile a clean save into an API step, with the same record check | On main ([#1269](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1269)) | Synthetic patients on a local OpenEMR test copy | network capture, `ApiBinding` |
| Fall back from the API step to page structure when the API is unavailable, before anything is sent | On main ([#1269](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1269)) | Synthetic | [#1269](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1269) |
| Approve an API step's exact request under per-item approval: one digest binds the request bytes, the record and the record check, and a changed request is not sent | On main ([#1355](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1355)) | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#under-an-approval-mode) |
| Run an API step in a durable run: checkpoint the span after the save is sent, never resend or redo a save that may have landed, and reconcile it by reading the record back | On main ([#1358](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1358)) | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#in-a-durable-run) |
| Run an admitted API step under a governed run authorization and the Standard or Regulated profile: the authorization names the API step by digest, the person who admits it names the right-record parameter, and the outcome reads `VERIFIED` | On main ([#1361](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1361)) | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#under-governance) |
| Run an admitted API step under a managed (Cloud) dispatch whose authorization names it: the API step rows are inside the dispatch digest Cloud signs, and each send still needs Cloud's delivery permit | On main | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#under-governance) |
| Run an admitted API step under a signed production qualification admission when its qualified effect contract names the API path, and let a qualification case run the path its contract names | On main | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#under-governance) |
| Defer an API save's read-back with pipelined read-back, as for a GUI save, and keep self-repair's probes and resumed run on the repaired GUI step | On main ([#1362](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1362)) | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#with-parallel-workers-pipelined-read-back-and-self-repair) |
| Defer the last record check under durable and governed runs: the durable pause holds the check, so a crash re-runs only the check and never resends the save | On main | Synthetic | [THROUGHPUT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THROUGHPUT.md#under-durable-and-governed-runs) |
| Run an admitted API step inside a multi-surface program, bound to its one browser surface and that surface's origin; its folded steps record the surface | On main | Synthetic | [API_TIER.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/API_TIER.md#in-a-multi-surface-program) |
| Say, for every feature under every run profile, whether it works or is refused and why, checked against the runtime in CI | On main ([#1364](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1364)) | Synthetic | [COMPATIBILITY.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md) |
| Run a worklist on several workers at once, one signed-in session each, each item claimed once, with a stop on any worker stopping all | On main ([#1296](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1296)) | Synthetic patients on a local OpenEMR test copy | `--workers`, [THROUGHPUT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THROUGHPUT.md) |
| Read a save back while the next item runs (pipelined read-back, REST, FHIR, GraphQL or SQL record checks) | On main ([#1296](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1296)) | Synthetic | `--readback-window`, [THROUGHPUT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THROUGHPUT.md) |
| A faster speed profile that keeps every check (one insert per plain text field, shorter page-quiet wait) | On main ([#1296](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1296)) | Synthetic | `runtime.speed: fast`, [THROUGHPUT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THROUGHPUT.md) |
| Record where each step's time goes in every run report | On main ([#1296](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1296)) | Real app and synthetic | `timings` in `report.json` |

## When the app changes

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Governed repair: propose, review, campaigns, approval, staging, canary, rollback | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow repair`, [REPAIR_LIFECYCLE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/REPAIR_LIFECYCLE.md) |
| A calling agent demonstrates the fix for a halted run; the result is a repair candidate | Released (2.1.0) | Synthetic | `run --hold-on-halt`, `repair/agent_teach.py` |
| Font and layout drift halts with a named reason | Released | Synthetic | `runtime/layout_drift.py` |
| Self-repair: an agent proposes a fix for one halted click, Flow probes it up to the save without saving, a person approves | On main ([#1265](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1265)) | Synthetic (MockMed redesign) | `run --self-repair`, [#1265](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1265) |
| A scroll that never finds the next click's target halts on that click, so self-repair can take a relabelled control behind a scroll; the refusal for unreviewed-risk steps names them | On main ([#1337](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1337)) | Synthetic; openIMIS drift row checked offline on its recorded frames, not re-run | `runtime/replayer.py`, `qualify set-risk` |
| Self-repair across several new steps: a bridge of up to three actions for a new required dialog or a control moved into a menu, each new step armed with a record check and probed up to the save, one person approving | On main ([#1325](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1325)) | Synthetic (MockMed menu and provider drifts, scripted agent; a real one-shot agent repaired neither, see [benchmark/auto_repair](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/auto_repair/README.md)) | `run --self-repair`, [SELF_REPAIR.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SELF_REPAIR.md) |
| Keep pixel-path runs working across display scaling and font smoothing changes | On main ([#1286](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1286)) | Synthetic (in-process RDP and canvas renderings: 17 of 24 healthy runs across 100–175%, up from 3; 0 wrong saves) | [benchmark/pixel_scale](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/pixel_scale/README.md) |
| Pre-approved repairs: a signed policy lists low-risk changes that apply without a person, a test-record run before each queue, and one approval for every item halted the same way | On main ([#1294](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1294)) | Synthetic | standard changes |
| Repair a pinned bundle: the fix runs the pinned bundle's own qualification campaign on a test copy, keeps every write, effect, identity rule and record check, and is re-admitted with signed lineage (at most three repairs, no revoked key) that the pin verifies | On main | Synthetic | [SELF_REPAIR.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SELF_REPAIR.md#a-pinned-bundle-re-qualify-and-re-admit) |
| Repair by default: once a repair agent is configured, every stop that wrote nothing goes to it without anyone starting it; a stop after a possible write goes to reconciliation; every stop is a row in a ledger with the funnel from stop to resumed item | On main ([#1360](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1360)) | Synthetic (MockMed, 22 drift modes, real Claude agent: 6 of 21 repairable stops resumed and verified, 0 wrong saves in 66 runs); routing over recorded OpenEMR stops; live openIMIS relabel: 3 of 3 reached repair, 0 resumed; silent-saves 1.1.0 UI-change blocks: 18 of 28 items that always stopped now correct, 0 wrong | `run` (on by default, `--no-auto-repair`), `repair:` in `deploy.yaml`, [benchmark/auto_repair](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/auto_repair/README.md) |
| Repair a relabeled save button: prove from the recorded identity hash that only the label changed (same control id, kind and form), re-qualify the fix on the new release, and have a person admit the certified copy afresh, since a save button's identity is part of the record check | On main | Real app (local OpenEMR, synthetic data): after the save button was relabeled, the stopped item re-ran and saved once after 8.3 operator minutes and 763 s of re-qualification; 896 s from stop to done ([#1513](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1513)) | `openadapt_flow/repair/relabel.py`, [SELF_REPAIR.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SELF_REPAIR.md#a-relabeled-control-proof-that-only-the-label-changed) |
| A duplicate check that reads the app's match list (`no_duplicate_candidate`): stop only on a listed record with the item's last name or date of birth, fail closed on an unreadable or unloaded list | On main | Real app (local OpenEMR, synthetic data): false stops per 100 items 70.4 before, 16.4 after; 0 silent wrongs in 30 saves ([#1513](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1513)) | [DUPLICATE_CHECK.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/DUPLICATE_CHECK.md) |
| A switched-off `problems_only` gate asks a person before the save instead of stopping the item | On main | Synthetic; real app in [#1513](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1513) | [APPROVAL_MODES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/APPROVAL_MODES.md#when-the-mode-turns-itself-off) |
| Fleet drift patches: a verified fix with no patient data, shared across sites under policy | Released, local reference hub | Simulator | `openadapt-flow fleet`, [FLEET_DRIFT_PATCHES.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/FLEET_DRIFT_PATCHES.md) |

## Computer-use agents

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Compile a computer-use agent's successful run into a program (JIT); later runs make no model calls | Released | Synthetic (a recorded Claude run on MockMed) | `openadapt_flow.jit`, [JIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT.md) |
| Reuse a compiled program only for the record check and app environment it was admitted under (a changed record check or a new app version at the same origin is refused) | On main ([#1360](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1360)) | Unit tests | `TaskSignature(record_check=, environment=)`, `WebApp(environment_id=)`, [JIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT.md) |
| Code as action: the run-1 agent acts through one terminal tool (structure first, actions by role and name, a sandboxed read-only shell, screenshots on request); every action is a structured step checked against the compiled program | On main ([#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305)) | Real app (local OpenEMR) and synthetic | `ClaudeAgent(vision="code")`, `CODE_AS_ACTION.md` ([#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305)) |
| Admit a draft by a person, an admitter key, or an agent under a person-signed policy, including self-admission when the policy allows it | Released | Unit tests | [JIT_ADMISSION.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT_ADMISSION.md) |
| MCP server: your agent decides what to enter, OpenAdapt makes the entry and checks it | Released | Synthetic sandbox | `openadapt-agent`, [packages/agent](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/agent/README.md) |
| Teach over MCP: an agent does a new task once through OpenAdapt; the run is read back, compiled and admitted (a person confirms the record check; the agent admits only under a person-signed policy), and becomes a tool it calls with no model calls. Web, and Windows, macOS, Linux, RDP and Citrix with a person approving each save | On main ([#1335](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1335)) | Synthetic (MockMed over MCP, and through the real RDP and Citrix backends) | `openadapt-agent serve --teach`, [packages/agent](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/agent/README.md#teach-a-new-workflow-from-your-agent) |
| Turn a read-only browser task into a tool for the coding agent you already use: `openadapt setup` registers the MCP server and a skill in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI (idempotent, `--dry-run`, `--undo`); the agent does the task once through `teach_start`/`teach_act`/`teach_finish`, the task must end in a download, the file is checked (columns, a column between two inputs or equal to one, fewest rows), the compiled steps are replayed once with no model, and the agent gets a `taught_<name>` tool that downloads a checked file with new inputs. The browser sends no POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE and stays on one site; a compiled run stops when a control is missing, matches more than one element, or is relabelled | On main ([#1502](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1502)) | Real headless Chromium on the local example portal (scripted MCP client, in CI); a real Claude Code agent taught the export from the guide's prompt and called the tool with new dates (2026-10-24, one run) | `openadapt setup`, `openadapt-agent serve --teach-browser`, [FIRST_TOOL.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/FIRST_TOOL.md) |
| Guard an agent you already run: attach to its own Chromium over CDP (one added line), hold each save until the record on screen is the one the task names, block it and tell the agent why when it isn't, read the save back; a run that reads back correctly becomes a draft program with a record check from scaffold-verifier, which a person confirms and admits, then a `taught_*` tool with no model calls. `--observe-only` never blocks | On main ([#1357](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1357), stacked on [#1335](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1335)) | Synthetic (MockMed, scripted Playwright agent, `effect_e2e` faults) | `openadapt-flow guard`, [GUARD_AN_AGENT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/GUARD_AN_AGENT.md) |
| Task ledger per job: rules locked when the job opens and enforced on every run, item status set only from OpenAdapt's own results, and yes-or-no questions a person answers on the phone or in Desktop, including when a run stops | On main ([#1332](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1332)) | Synthetic (30-item MockMed worklist, scripted agent, no model calls) | MCP tools `open_job`, `get_job`, `add_items`, `record_evidence`, `ask_user`, `get_answer`, `change_constraint`, `close_job`; [Track a long job](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/agent/README.md#track-a-long-job) |
| Limit a teaching agent to the declared task on every teach path (`compile_agent`, `compile-agent`, teach over MCP, the airbag guard): typed text must be a declared value, links and browser requests to other origins are refused, writes are checked before they are sent, and the record is read back before a draft exists. Injected instructions in record notes, banners, tooltips, alt text and server responses are blocked or caught on MockMed through each path (scripted agent; a live-model mode is off by default). Self-repair refuses a control that leaves the app | On main ([#1359](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1359), [#1386](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1386)) | Synthetic | `openadapt_flow.teach_scope`, [THREAT_MODEL.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THREAT_MODEL.md) |
| Compile an agent's first verified run from a prompt (`compile-agent`), and a code-as-action authoring agent | On main ([#1277](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1277), [#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305)); the agent harness behind it runs on every backend, on main ([#1283](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1283)) | Synthetic | `compile-agent` |
| Score harness optimizers (Harness², Meta-Harness) on GUI tasks with the record read-back as the reward, with full trace export | On main ([#1299](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1299), [#1300](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1300), [#1301](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1301)) | Synthetic (scripted proposer) | `integrations/harness2/` |
| One scoreboard comparing the agent alone with OpenAdapt across tasks (correctness by read-back, cost, time, items per hour) | On main ([#1303](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1303)) | Synthetic and local OpenEMR and openIMIS test copies | `benchmark/scoreboard/` |

## Recording, privacy and proof

| Capability | Status | Evidence | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Record mouse, keyboard, screen video and accessibility trees on one clock (Windows, macOS, Linux X11) | Released (capture 1.3.0) | Real OS | [packages/capture](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/capture/README.md); Wayland is not supported |
| Find and redact personal and health data in text, screenshots and structure | Released (privacy 1.1.3) | Unit tests | [packages/privacy](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/privacy/README.md), [PRIVACY.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PRIVACY.md) |
| Scrub by default before anything leaves the machine | On main ([#1262](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1262)) | Unit tests | `openadapt-privacy` |
| Start and stop Desktop recordings from the menu bar or system tray, and see Desktop's state and how many cloud runs need a person | Released (tray 0.3.7) | Unit tests; CI runs the tray client against Desktop's socket server. The two haven't been run together from packaged installs | [packages/tray](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/tray/README.md) |
| Show in the menu bar when a recording started by `openadapt-flow record` or `capture record` is ready and when it ends, and start and stop `openadapt-flow record` from the macOS menu bar, without OpenAdapt Desktop | On main ([#1481](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1481)) | Unit tests with a stand-in control client; run once on one Mac with a real `openadapt-flow record --backend macos` window recording (ready 6.6 s after start, stop reported as saved). Not run on Windows or Linux | [packages/tray](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/tray/README.md#recording-without-openadapt-desktop) |
| Each package installs on its own within a size budget, checked in CI (privacy without desktop, capture without plotting) | On main ([#1270](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1270), [#1271](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1271), [#1279](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1279)) | CI | `.github/workflows/packages.yml` |
| See a compiled program as a map (every step, exact edge, loop and stop rule, with each step's checks) and play a recorded run over it; one React package that Desktop, app.openadapt.ai and openadapt.ai share | On main ([packages/program-graph](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/program-graph/README.md)) | Real compiled OpenEMR referral program and a recorded scoreboard run, both on synthetic data | `@openadapt/program-graph`; `openadapt-flow visualize --format json` |
| Named sections for every compiled program ("Who: title, first name, last name", "Contact", "Create New Patient"), found without a model from the save, the recorded form structure, the fields and any narration; a person can rename, merge or split them on the review screen | On main | Unit tests; the certified OpenEMR referral bundle and a real recording of it on a local test copy with made-up patients | `openadapt-flow sections`; [SECTIONS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SECTIONS.md) |
| Encrypt PHI at rest: every bundle file that can hold patient data under one sealed index (unknown files refused), web recordings from the first frame, and the run directories of sealed bundles; compile, induce, scaffold-verifier, qualify, admit, run, resume and undo read them in memory and refuse without the key | On main | Synthetic (no-plaintext audit-hook test over record, compile and a VERIFIED run; per-frame cost measured) | `openadapt-flow seal`, `record`; [phi_at_rest.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/phi_at_rest.md) |
| Signed receipts (Seals), countersigned and timestamped, offline by default | Released | Unit tests, real TSA tokens | `openadapt-flow seal`, `countersign`, `local-seal` |
| Offline Seals signed with a key the customer holds: a key file, the OS keychain, or a PKCS#11 token or HSM; pinned keys with rotation and revocation; no fallback to a generated key | On main ([#1392](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1392)) | Unit tests with synthetic data (keychain and PKCS#11 through stand-ins) | `openadapt-flow local-seal --key`, `local-seal key create`, `pin`, `revoke`; `openadapt seal verify FOLDER` checks every sealed run in a folder; [OFFLINE_SEALS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/OFFLINE_SEALS.md#customer-held-keys) |
| Anchor an offline Seal in the public Sigstore Rekor transparency log (opt-in; sends one digest and the public key), and verify the anchor offline from the stored inclusion proof | On main ([#1394](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1394)) | Unit tests against a simulated Rekor log; real public Rekor entries and Sigstore TSA tokens for the landing demo's referral runs, verified offline in tests; Ed25519ph matches the RFC 8032 test vector | `openadapt-flow local-seal anchor`, `local-seal verify --require-anchor`; [OFFLINE_SEALS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/OFFLINE_SEALS.md#optional-anchor-a-seal-in-a-public-transparency-log) |
| Run authorizations signed with the authorizer's GitHub SSH key (`ssh-keygen -Y sign`, after a summary of what it allows), naming the signing key and bound to the bundle digest, items, profile and Seal keys, and referenced by each Seal; the identity checked against github.com (`--live`) or pinned allowed signers; a pseudonymous operator profile counted from anchored Seals only | On main ([#1401](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1401)) | Unit tests with synthetic data; signatures checked against OpenSSH's `ssh-keygen` both ways | `openadapt-flow local-seal authorize`, `local-seal run --authorization`, `local-seal profile`; [OFFLINE_SEALS.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/OFFLINE_SEALS.md#run-authorizations-who-authorized-the-runs) |
| Run reports redacted before they are sealed: session and CSRF tokens, OAuth grants and credential headers become `<redacted>` and are listed in `redactions`; a Seal refuses a report that still holds one; per-app policy | On main ([#1407](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1407)) | Unit tests with generated tokens; 7,773 local reports scanned, only OpenEMR `token_main` matched | `openadapt-flow redact-report`, `local-seal run --allow-unredacted`; [REPORT_REDACTION.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/REPORT_REDACTION.md) |
| Strict no-outbound mode and an unattended on-prem service | Released | Synthetic | `openadapt-flow no-outbound`, `service`; [ON_PREM.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/ON_PREM.md) |

## Every command, by capability

Each `openadapt-flow` command, grouped by the capability it serves. Each
command has one file under
[`packages/flow/docs/commands/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/commands/): to add a
command, add `<group>/<verb>.md` and run `python scripts/build_command_map.py`.
A test fails when a command has no file or this list is out of date.

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**Record and build a program:**

- `compile-agent`: With `admit TASK_DIR`, a person confirms and admits a waiting draft, such as one an agent taught over MCP (`openadapt-agent serve --teach`).
- `compile`
- `compose`
- `demo-record`
- `disambiguate`
- `for-each`
- `induce`
- `intake`
- `narration`
- `process`
- `pull`
- `record`
- `route`
- `sections`: Show, rename, merge or split the named sections a program map folds
- `variants`
- `visualize`

**Check and admit:**

- `admit`
- `api`
- `approver-grant`
- `bind-record-checks`
- `certify`
- `check`
- `jit`
- `known-ids`
- `lint`
- `propose-qualification`
- `qualify`
- `scaffold-verifier`

**Run and answer:**

- `approve`
- `business-decisions`
- `console`
- `deferred`
- `explain`
- `item-approval`
- `replay`
- `resume`
- `run`
- `triage`

**Judge any executor's write:**

- `serve-reward`: Scores agent training episodes by reading the system of record.
- `verify-run`

**Repair and learn from halts:**

- `fleet`
- `repair`
- `teach-branch`
- `teach`
- `undo`: The undo steps a person approves after a stop; `undo propose` finds and verifies them on a test copy, `undo accept` is a person's one-time approval of a proposal.

**Give agents the program:**

- `emit-mcp`
- `emit-skill`
- `serve-execute`

**Proof:**

- `attach-seal`
- `countersign`
- `local-seal`: Offline Seals: customer-held keys, pinned verification, Rekor anchoring, run authorizations, operator profiles.
- `redact-report`: Strip session tokens from an existing run's report so it can be sealed again; the original stays local
- `seal`

**Run on premises:**

- `no-outbound`
- `service`

**Share safely with OpenAdapt Cloud:**

- `approve-sanitized`
- `connect`
- `connector`
- `login`
- `materialize-approved`
- `push`
- `report-break`
- `report-run`
- `review-sanitized`
- `sanitize`
- `validate-hosted`

**Try it and measure it:**

- `bench`
- `benchmark`
- `demo`
- `silent-saves`: Scores any GUI agent on injected bad saves, from the source checkout.
- `tutorial`

**Guard an agent you already run:**

- `guard`: Attaches to the agent's own Chromium over CDP, holds each save until the right record is on screen, reads it back, and hands a verified run to the teach dir.

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## Measured results

- **OpenEMR referral, 62 timed runs each, warm.** OpenAdapt took a median of
  29.7 s and a computer-use agent (Claude) 36.5 s. Both saved 62 of 63
  referrals correctly. OpenAdapt made no model calls; the agent cost about
  $0.08 per referral. The same task replayed without page-structure identity
  took 38.6 s, slower than the agent. Raw data and
  figures: [#1251](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1251)
  (`benchmark/openemr_referral_timing/` once merged).
- **Guard an agent you already run, MockMed.** A scripted Playwright agent
  in its own browser, 90 runs at a high shared load (median load average 29).
  Of the 8 `effect_e2e` faults that leave a wrong record, the agent alone
  reported 6 as saved; with the guard, the read-back caught 7 and 1 (a stray
  write to a table the REST read doesn't cover) got through; the compiled
  program caught all 8. The guard blocked the saves it can see: a save on the
  wrong patient and a second submit. Same-load pairs: the guarded agent took
  6.3 s (6 actions, each a model call for a real agent), the compiled tool
  4.4 s with no model calls:
  [GUARD_AN_AGENT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/GUARD_AN_AGENT.md#measured-on-mockmed).
- **Fault test.** We injected 8 kinds of bad save, 9 runs each, alongside
  clean runs: 72 runs left a wrong record behind. A check that trusts the screen's "Saved" banner reported 54 of those
  as success; reading the record back over the app's REST API missed 9; the
  complete database read path caught all 72. This is a coverage test over a
  small, hand-authored set of faults, not a real-world error rate:
  [EFFECT_E2E.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/effect_e2e/EFFECT_E2E.md).
- **OpenEMR referral: agent, screen program and API step.** Median wall time
  per referral, from a fresh browser through sign-in, the entry and the read-back:
  agent alone 36.5 s (62 of 63 correct, the 14 to 15 Oct study); compiled program
  on the screen 22.5 s (18 of 18); the same program with the API step 3.3 s
  (18 of 18). The program rows ran on 19 Oct, interleaved on one copy, without
  the approval gate or resumable runs, and the API step was admitted by the
  benchmark harness:
  [SCOREBOARD.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/scoreboard/SCOREBOARD.md#openemr-agent-screen-program-and-api-step).
- **An agent's claims versus the read-back, on OpenEMR.** With faults injected
  in the fixture's database (partial, wrong value, duplicate, not persisted,
  another chart deleted, another chart edited; 5 items each), Claude Sonnet 5.5
  computer use claimed success on all 30 bad saves. `verify-run` caught 25 and
  confirmed 5 of 5 clean saves with no false alarms. It missed all 5 edits to a
  different chart: its collateral check finds a removed record, not a changed
  one.:
  [SCOREBOARD.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/scoreboard/SCOREBOARD.md#the-agents-claims-versus-the-read-back).
- **An agent's claims versus the read-back.** Claude Sonnet 5.5 computer use,
  working alone on a test app whose server broke the save in 6 ways (5 items
  each), reported all 30 bad saves as done. `verify-run` flagged all 30 and
  confirmed all 10 clean saves, with no false alarms. The app shows "saved"
  before the server answers, so this measures what the screen can't show, not
  the agent's care:
  [SCOREBOARD.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/benchmark/scoreboard/SCOREBOARD.md#the-agents-claims-versus-the-read-back).

## Limits

- Published results use synthetic records on open-source systems and
  OpenAdapt's own test apps. Each workflow is qualified on the customer's own
  system before it touches a real record.
- Repair by default resumed 6 of 21 eligible stops on MockMed. On the
  recorded OpenEMR and openIMIS stops it stopped safely for a person instead:
  OpenEMR's came after "Create New Patient", which counts as a save, and on
  openIMIS the relabelled Save reached repair 3 of 3 with no fix passing the
  probe.
- Windows installers are unsigned, and macOS builds are ad-hoc signed.
- The Evidence column says which capabilities ran on a real app and which on
  OpenAdapt's synthetic apps.

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# Execution surfaces

OpenAdapt drives six execution surfaces through one governed runtime:
`web`, `windows`, `macos`, `linux`, `rdp`, and `citrix`. The browser is one
surface among six, not a privileged default.

[BACKEND_PARITY.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/BACKEND_PARITY.md) lists every command and Python entry
point against the six surfaces: tested, works, or refused with its reason.

## Surface selection is explicit in production

- Under `--profile standard` or `--profile regulated`, `record` and `run`
  REFUSE to proceed without an explicit target: pass `--backend` (one of
  `web`, `windows`, `macos`, `linux`, `rdp`, `citrix`) or set `backend.kind`
  in the deployment `--config`. There is no implicit browser default in
  production.
- Under `--profile demo` (or with no profile, the permissive pre-profile
  posture), an omitted `--backend` records capture on this OS (`macos`,
  `windows`, or `linux`) and prints a visible notice. Pass `--url` without
  `--backend` to record the browser. An explicit `--backend` still wins.
  With `--profile demo`, the CLI also remembers your last explicitly
  selected target in a per-user state file
  (`~/.openadapt/flow_cli.json`, override with `OPENADAPT_FLOW_CLI_STATE`)
  and offers it as the default next time when that target is this OS, again
  with a visible notice. This convenience is CLI state only; it is never
  written into a workflow bundle.

## Workflows are bound to their surface

The recorder stamps the surface into the recording (`meta.json` `surface`),
and `compile` seals it into the bundle (`workflow.json` `surface` plus the
implied `execution_mode`). A workflow recorded and qualified on one surface
refuses to `replay`/`run` on another:

```text
run REFUSED: this workflow is bound to surface 'windows', but the resolved
backend targets 'web'. ...
```

Pass `--allow-surface-override` to proceed anyway; the override is recorded in
the run report (`surface_override: true`, alongside `recorded_surface` and
`execution_target_kind`) as compatibility evidence, so a cross-surface run is
never silent. A surface-bound bundle also supplies its own default target: an
unqualified `replay bundle` selects the bound surface rather than the browser.
Bundles compiled before surface binding carry no `surface` and behave exactly
as before.

A composition does not merge surfaces. `openadapt-flow compose` copies each
child bundle into a parent artifact; `run` executes those children one at a
time against the surface sealed into that child. There is no backend switch
inside a recording, and no parent-level `--backend` that retargets every
child.

## Execution boundary and evidence, per surface

Every substrate runs on the same small `Backend` protocol and the same governed
runtime. Each surface keeps its own deployment and evidence boundary.

| Surface | Execution boundary | Required workflow evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Browser (web) | Local, customer-controlled, or managed browser runner | Exact browser, application, environment, identity, effect, and policy contracts |
| Native desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) | Local or customer-controlled | Exact host and application identity, native accessibility evidence, and an independent effect check |
| Remote display (RDP) | Local or customer-controlled | Exact client window or network session, remote-display identity, and an independent effect check |
| Citrix / VDI | Local or customer-controlled | Exact Workspace, server, application, display, identity, and effect contracts, with counted ICA/HDX trials |

Per-substrate engineering evidence is reported per the
[capability and qualification matrix](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PRODUCT_STATUS.md):

| Substrate | Selector | Evidence basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web / browser | `--backend web` | Required CI and bounded field evidence | Full lifecycle on every CI build, plus third-party OpenEMR evidence |
| Native macOS (AX) | `--backend macos` | Counted task acceptance | 3/3 fixed TextEdit trials with exact file-byte effects; refused a two-window ambiguity without changing either file |
| Native Windows (UIA) | `--backend windows` | Counted task acceptance | 3/3 fixed WinForms trials with independently confirmed SQLite effects; 3/3 refusal for both stale and ambiguous targets |
| Native Linux (AT-SPI) | `--backend linux` | Required CI and counted task acceptance | Required CI drives a real GTK3 workflow through an isolated X11 / session-D-Bus environment: three verified effects, plus three ambiguous-target and three stale-target refusals |
| RDP (remote display) | `--backend rdp` | Counted task acceptance | Real-network Aardwolf RDP into Windows 11 passed 3/3 fixed remote-input trials with independent guest-tools file verification; a separate real-FreeRDP batch covers record → compile → governed replay and refusal |
| Citrix / VDI (pixel ladder) | `--backend citrix` | Required CI and counted no-DOM stand-in | Dedicated exact-Workspace-window driver, readiness gate, durable resume, and 3 healthy + 3 drift-halt no-DOM trials; the retained artifact records `ica_hdx_accepted=false` until a counted ICA/HDX run is attached |

Every row is bounded to its stated evidence. Accepted application workflows are
qualified against their own controls, session/display policy, identity evidence,
and effect oracle; code-qualified Citrix deployments additionally attach the
counted ICA/HDX record for their exact Workspace/server/application matrix.
Details:
[`backends/RDP.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/backends/RDP.md),
[`desktop/LINUX_NATIVE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/desktop/LINUX_NATIVE.md),
[`desktop/CITRIX_PIXEL.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/desktop/CITRIX_PIXEL.md).

## What `record` observes

`record` opens the operator's real interface and watches what you do: real
clicks, typing, key presses, and scrolls, writing the same recording format
`compile` consumes. Perform the workflow, then press Ctrl-C (or close the
window) to finish. The `--backend` selector picks the substrate, and the same
selector is available on `replay` and `run`.

`--backend web` is browser-first (the app is a `--url`). For `windows`,
`macos`, `linux`, `rdp`, and `citrix`, the Capture component records local
screen, mouse, keyboard, timing, and available action-time structure.
`--macos-app` / `--macos-window-title` scope the macOS Capture window.
`--window` / `--window-title` scope a Windows-hosted local capture, and
`--rdp-window` / `--rdp-window-title` bind a local RDP or Citrix client window
to both capture and replay. `--task` records the operator's intent alongside
the demonstration. A compiled bundle is bound to the exact surface it was
recorded on.

`record` captures a person doing the task. An AI agent can show the task
instead, in a browser, a macOS, Linux, or native Windows app, or over RDP or
Citrix, through openadapt-agent's recording tools; see
[Recording on Windows, RDP and Citrix](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/RECORDING_ON_WINDOWS_RDP_CITRIX.md).

Install the Capture component together with the runtime for the surface that
will replay the workflow. Recorded parameter values become the defaults, and
`--param` overrides them at replay; see [`PARAMETERS.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PARAMETERS.md).

## First workflow, per surface

Each surface has an equivalent record -> compile -> replay path:

| Workflow surface | Exact install |
|---|---|
| Browser | `pip install 'openadapt-flow[browser]'` |
| Native Windows | `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture,windows]'` |
| Native macOS | `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture,macos]'` |
| Native Linux | `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture,linux]'` plus the AT-SPI system packages in [`desktop/LINUX_NATIVE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/desktop/LINUX_NATIVE.md) |
| Network RDP | Recorder: `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture]'` inside the demonstrated session; runner: `pip install 'openadapt-flow[rdp]'` |
| Local RDP/Citrix client window | macOS host: `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture,macos]'`; Windows host: `pip install 'openadapt-flow[capture,windows]'` |

```bash
# Browser (Playwright / Chromium)
openadapt-flow record --backend web --url https://your.app --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --url https://your.app

# Attach the same recorder to one existing signed-in local Chromium tab.
openadapt-flow record --backend web --url https://your.app \
  --browser-cdp-endpoint http://127.0.0.1:9222 --out rec

# Windows: Capture records the local window; the in-guest WAA agent replays it.
openadapt-flow record --backend windows --window "Target App" --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --agent-url http://localhost:5001

# macOS: the app and title scope the local Capture window.
openadapt-flow record --backend macos --macos-app TextEdit \
  --macos-window-title notes.txt --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --macos-app TextEdit \
  --macos-window-title notes.txt

# Linux: Capture records the local desktop; AT-SPI selects the replay target.
openadapt-flow record --backend linux --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --linux-app gedit \
  --linux-window-title "Untitled Document 1"

# Network RDP: run record inside the demonstrated remote session.
openadapt-flow record --backend rdp --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --rdp-host 10.0.0.5

# Citrix / VDI (one exact local Citrix Workspace window)
openadapt-flow record --backend citrix --window "Citrix Viewer" \
  --rdp-window "Citrix Viewer" --rdp-window-title "Ward A" \
  --rdp-readiness-text "Appointments" --out rec
openadapt-flow compile rec --out bundle --name my-task
openadapt-flow replay bundle --rdp-window "Citrix Viewer" \
  --rdp-window-title "Ward A" --rdp-readiness-text "Appointments"
```

The bound surface is the replay default, so `--backend` may be omitted on
`replay`/`run` for a bound bundle. During record, `--macos-app` /
`--macos-window-title` scope the macOS Capture window, and the local
RDP/Citrix flags `--rdp-window` / `--rdp-window-title` scope Capture and enter
the bundle's existing replay-binding metadata. `--agent-url`, `--linux-app`,
`--linux-window-title`, and `--rdp-host` are replay targets. The local Capture
session cannot control them, so `record` refuses them instead of accepting an
unused flag. Pass them to `replay`/`run`. Generate a draft with
`python -m openadapt_flow.cli_config init bundle --out deploy.yaml --backend rdp`
(or `citrix`, `macos`, `linux`, `windows`, `web`); fill `unresolved`, then
`run ... --config deploy.yaml --profile standard|regulated` wires the same
selection for a real deployment.

The browser attach mode keeps the Playwright-native recording contract. It
binds one same-origin tab and reuses the same event schema, DOM evidence,
before/after frames, secret redaction, compiler, and governed replay path as a
browser that Flow launches. Attach mode preserves a browser profile that has
already completed sign-in, SSO, or 2FA. The endpoint is local-loopback only, so
it refuses remote CDP endpoints. Flow refuses ambiguous same-origin tabs and
does not navigate or close the attached browser. You can resize the tab or move
its window between monitors: Flow waits for a stable CSS-pixel frame and binds
the next event to the new viewport. It refuses an action only if that action
overlaps the coordinate-space transition. See
[`BROWSER_RECORDING.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/BROWSER_RECORDING.md) for setup, exact tab selection,
secret handling, and the boundary with the Capture Chrome extension prototype.

## The two remote execution modes

Remote systems (a Windows guest, a virtual desktop, a published app) can be
driven in exactly two modes, and the difference is a policy and capability
decision, not an implementation detail:

- **In-session** (`execution_mode: in_session`): the driver runs INSIDE the
  session it automates and uses the platform's accessibility / structured
  layer (Windows UIA via the in-guest WAA agent, macOS AX, Linux AT-SPI, the
  browser DOM). Choose this when policy permits installing the agent in the
  remote session; it enables structural resolution and structured-text
  identity.
- **External** (`execution_mode: external`): the driver runs OUTSIDE the
  remote session and drives the LOCAL client window (RDP client, Citrix
  Workspace) via pixels, keyboard, and mouse. Zero install inside the remote
  session; resolution and identity use the pixel/OCR ladder, with the
  documented pixel-substrate limits (`docs/LIMITS.md`).

The mode is fixed by explicit capability negotiation at qualification time,
recorded in the bundle (`execution_mode`), and never silently switched at run
time: `rdp` and `citrix` recordings are `external`; `web`, `windows`,
`macos`, and `linux` recordings are `in_session`. Moving a workflow between
modes means re-recording or re-qualifying it on the other surface (or an
explicit, report-recorded `--allow-surface-override`).

## Lookup capabilities: structure or pixels

To find a step's target, Flow first looks it up in the page or
accessibility structure (the browser DOM, macOS AX, Windows UIA, Linux
AT-SPI) and falls back to pixels. Structure is much more reliable where it
exists: on a desktop drift benchmark it found 21 of 21 targets where pixels
alone found 6 of 21. It does not exist over an RDP or Citrix window viewed
from outside the session; Flow sees only pixels there. A workflow qualified
with structure lookups could pass qualification and then fail in
production on that surface, so Flow checks for this.

**Declare the surface.** Set `backend.deployment_surface` in
`deployment.yaml`:

| Value | Means | Structure lookups |
|---|---|---|
| `local` | Flow runs on the same machine as the application | Yes, where the backend reads structure |
| `remote_in_session` | Flow is installed inside the remote or virtual desktop session | Yes |
| `remote_display` | Flow is outside the session, looking at its client window | No, pixels only |
| `unknown` | Not known | No: read as `remote_display` |

If you leave it out, `rdp` and `citrix` are `remote_display` and every
other backend is `local`. An `rdp` or `citrix` backend declared `local` or
`remote_in_session` is refused, because those backends always view the
session from outside. To get structure inside a Citrix or RDP session,
install the Flow runtime in that session and use its own backend (for
example `windows`).

**What qualification records.** `openadapt-flow qualify` records which
lookups the signed cases actually used (`structure`, `pixels`, or both) and
the surface they ran for, in the bundle's qualification project
(`workflow.json`, `qualification.lookup`) and in
`qualification/lookup.json`. A certification binds that record, so it can't
be edited afterwards without losing the certification. In `verify.yaml`,
`app.surface` takes the same values as `deployment_surface` and defaults to
`local`.

**The pixels-only pass.** Every `qualify` also runs the cases with
structure lookups turned off and reports how many trials still behaved as
required:

- When `app.surface` is `remote_display` (or `unknown`), the campaign runs
  only with structure turned off. That pixels-only result is the
  qualification: any trial that doesn't behave as required fails it, and the
  bundle is recorded as qualified on pixels.
- Otherwise the signed cases run with structure, and a second, unsigned pass
  runs them again on pixels. Its pass rate is for information. A low rate
  means the workflow depends on structure and will need its own
  qualification before it can run on a remote display.

The pixels-only pass turns off the structure step of the lookup only. On a
browser test copy, the identity checks and the guarded clicks still read
the page as they normally do, so the pass doesn't reproduce every difference
a real remote display makes.

On a browser today, the pass mostly fails. Under the Standard profile Flow
delivers a browser click only through an action bound to the page element,
and a click that pixels found has no such binding. On the MockMed demo the
pixels-only pass ran 18 trials and passed 0, each stopping at the first
click with "production action lacks a closed runtime actuation path". So a
web workflow can't yet be qualified for a remote-display surface through
the browser: with `app.surface: remote_display` the campaign refuses at the
first trial. That needs a qualification campaign driven through the RDP or
Citrix backend, which `qualify` doesn't run yet (see the limits in
[Qualify a workflow](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/QUALIFY_A_WORKFLOW.md#limits)).

**At run time.** Before the first action, a run compares the surface it is
on with the qualified record. If the workflow was qualified with structure
and this surface offers pixels only, the run halts with
`HALTED_BEFORE_EFFECT`, writes nothing, and the report tells the operator to
requalify the workflow for this surface (`app.surface: remote_display`) or
run Flow inside the remote session. A workflow qualified on pixels runs on
any surface. Bundles qualified before this record existed carry none and
behave as before.

The remote-display evidence for this check is synthetic so far: the tests
simulate a pixel-only surface, and there is no counted run against a live
Citrix deployment yet.

---

<!-- Limits: packages/flow/docs/LIMITS.md -->

# Limits and guarantees

OpenAdapt compiles demonstrated GUI workflows into deterministic, locally
executable programs. Healthy runs make no model calls. When an interface
changes, OpenAdapt can re-resolve a target from retained evidence, ask an
explicitly enabled model for a proposal, or halt for an operator.

This page defines the boundary of those claims. It is written for people
deciding whether a workflow is suitable for evaluation or deployment. It is
not a compliance certification, a safety case for a specific workflow, an SLA,
or evidence that OpenAdapt is appropriate for unsupervised clinical use.

For the current evidence behind each capability claim, see
[`VERIFICATION.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFICATION.md). For the package-wide evidence map, see
[`PRODUCT_STATUS.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PRODUCT_STATUS.md).

## Product boundary

| Capability | Evidence basis | What the claim means | What it does not mean |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Browser record, compile, and replay | **Required CI and counted attach trials** | The launched-browser path runs end to end in automated and clean-environment tests. The attached-browser path reuses the same recorder and passes 3 real Chromium record-and-compile trials with secret exclusion and external-browser survival checks. A live resize case also compiles actions from two viewport and device-scale baselines. | It is not evidence for every site, browser extension, authentication flow, or long-running production workload. Attach mode requires a loopback CDP endpoint and one same-origin Chromium tab. An action that overlaps a resize is refused because its pre-action coordinate evidence is not exact. The custom Capture extension remains a prototype and is not a direct replay path. |
| Healthy replay with zero model calls | **Required CI** | A run that resolves from retained evidence can execute without a language or vision model; the run report counts model calls. | Zero model calls does not mean zero network traffic. The target application, hosted control plane, remote backend, or effect verifier may still use the network. |
| Deterministic re-resolution | **Required CI** | Bounded visual or structural drift can be resolved through non-model evidence and recorded as a reviewable change. | It is not general adaptation to a redesigned workflow, changed business rules, or missing evidence. |
| AI-assisted repair | **Required CI contracts; measured on synthetic apps; deployment evidence required** | An explicitly enabled model can propose a target or interpret a changed screen. Existing runtime checks still apply. Once a deployment names a repair agent, every stop that wrote nothing goes to it by default, and a person approves each fix unless a signed policy pre-approves its class. On MockMed's 22 drift modes, 6 of 21 stops that reached repair resumed and verified, with 0 wrong saves in 66 trials ([benchmark/auto_repair](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/auto_repair/README.md)). | A model proposal is not authorization, proof of identity, or proof that a business transaction succeeded. A stop after a possible write is never repaired automatically. The measured rate is for one agent on one synthetic app; it is not a field repair rate. |
| Human teaching and resume | **Required CI contracts; field evidence required** | A halt can produce evidence for an operator correction, guarded promotion, and durable resume. | Field recovery time, broad authoring UX, enterprise identity integration, and non-repudiation are not established. |
| Windows UI Automation | **Counted task acceptance** | The native UIA backend completed 3/3 exact WinForms effects and 3/3 refusals for both stale and ambiguous targets. | Acceptance is bound to the tested workflow and Windows environment; each application retains its own identity, effect, and version qualification. |
| Native macOS automation | **Counted task acceptance** | The AX/AppKit backend completed 3/3 exact TextEdit file effects and refused an ambiguous two-window target; structural record/locate/refuse behavior is covered separately. Known AX-only ` - Google Chrome` and ` - Google Chrome for Testing` window-title suffixes are accepted only for the corresponding exact CoreGraphics application owner; PID, unique-candidate, focused/main, and topmost-window checks remain mandatory. | Acceptance is bound to the tested host and application. Accessibility exposure and supported native actions vary by application. |
| Native Linux automation | **Counted task acceptance plus required CI** | Required current-main CI exercises AT-SPI against GTK3 with 3 exact effects, 3 ambiguity refusals, and 3 stale-target refusals. | The built-in path is X11. Wayland needs an operator-approved portal session, and each application retains its own qualification. |
| RDP automation | **Counted task acceptance plus required CI** | A real-network Aardwolf/Windows batch passed 3/3 with an independent guest-tools oracle; a separate real-FreeRDP batch covers record, compile, governed replay, and drift refusal. | The two records do not by themselves cover arbitrary applications, WAN conditions, display policy, or Citrix ICA/HDX. |
| Citrix / VDI pixel-window automation | **Required CI plus counted no-DOM stand-in** | The dedicated exact-Workspace-window backend, readiness gate, governed run, and durable resume passed 3 healthy effect-confirmed no-DOM trials plus 3 drift safe-halts. | The retained record explicitly has `ica_hdx_accepted=false`; live ICA/HDX acceptance stays bound to the exact deployment instead of being inferred from a stand-in or RDP. |
| Managed browser execution | **Separate product target and workflow admissions** | The hosted lane admits attested browser bundles; production mode requires a configured real runner and refuses silent mock fallback. | It does not extend the supported claim to Windows, RDP, Citrix, PHI-bearing shared-cloud execution, an SLA, or a regulated certification. |
| On-premises / customer-managed deployment | **Release and clean-machine evidence; site acceptance required** | Deployment configuration, local run gates, egress checks, and audit primitives are supplied. | OpenAdapt does not configure the customer's firewall, KMS, storage, identity provider, backups, retention, incident response, or legal compliance program. |
| Compose separately recorded bundles | **Required CI** | `openadapt-flow compose` writes a parent sequencer from named compiled children plus a handoff contract. Unit tests cover authoring validation, fail-closed missing-handoff HALT, and a two-child fixture whose second child is a local mock backend. | It does not merge two recordings into one backend, retarget a bundle onto a surface it was not recorded on, or introduce a process contract. Live Citrix, Production admission, and cross-application field campaigns are not claimed here. |

These evidence entries do not assign a product lifecycle state or accept risk.
An actively admitted release can still produce an unsafe workflow if the
demonstration, inferred checks, policy, or deployment configuration is
inadequate.

## Composing separately recorded bundles

`compose` sequences already-compiled children through the governed `run`
path. A child starts only after every predecessor ends `VERIFIED`, or a halt
class named with `--allow-halt`. A handoff copies an effect-bound parameter
from a confirmed receipt. Missing evidence HALTs. Subflows and worklists
stay inside each child, on that child's surface.

## Parallel worklists

`--workers N` runs a worklist's items on N signed-in sessions at once
([`THROUGHPUT.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THROUGHPUT.md)). Every item keeps every check. The run
refuses N above the deployment's `worklist.max_workers`, fewer accounts than
workers, two accounts for the same user, two workers sharing one session, a
program with steps outside its loop, and rows not declared
`items_independent`. It can't tell on its own whether two rows touch the same
record; that declaration is yours. A halt on any worker stops new items on
all of them, and an item claimed before a crash is never run again
automatically: it is marked `uncertain` for a person to check. The pipelined
read-back window applies only to an item's last save and only to read-backs
that don't use the screen; durable runs, which include the Standard and
Regulated profiles, always read back inline. Parallel RDP runs use the
FreeRDP session pool and have unit tests only. Throughput figures come from
one machine and a local OpenEMR test copy, not from a production EMR.

## Short parameter values

The right-record check binds a typed value into its expected text only when
the value has at least 4 characters. An item whose bound value is shorter,
such as the first name "Bo", halts at the identity check instead of saving.
This is deliberate: a short value matches too much unrelated text to identify
a record.

## Save triage

`openadapt-flow triage` orders verified saves for review under
`problems_only` and proposes one batch approval for clean ones. A batch
approval records that a person agreed with saves the engine already made and
checked; it authorizes nothing, and a stopped save is never batched. The v0
rule and the learned score see only what the record check compared and the
item's history, so a wrong value in a field the record check doesn't read,
or a value the source document got wrong, can look clean. The audit sample
estimates how often that happens. The learned score's miss bound assumes new
saves resemble the labelled ones; it doesn't survive an application,
clinic or form change. The only evaluation is on synthetic data. See
[`DECISION_TRIAGE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/DECISION_TRIAGE.md).

## What "deterministic" means

The compiled program fixes the action sequence, parameters, target evidence,
postconditions, and selected policy. The runtime applies a defined resolution
ladder to the live observations. It does not ask a general-purpose agent to
re-plan the task on every healthy run.

Deterministic does **not** mean:

- the application, OCR, network, or remote desktop will return identical
  observations;
- the same screen pixels prove the same database state;
- every run will take the same time or choose the same fallback rung;
- an action is idempotent or reversible; or
- a successful report proves the user's business intent was satisfied.

A "healthy" run is one that stays within the evidence and checks encoded in
the bundle. It is not a claim that the surrounding application is healthy.

Governed execution recomputes workflow semantics, snapshots verified sealed
assets, binds parameters and worklists, detects later plaintext asset
replacement at every consumer, and persists the same authorization across
durable resume.

## Repair has four distinct outcomes

"Self-healing" is shorthand and should not be read as unrestricted autonomy.
OpenAdapt distinguishes:

1. **Automatic deterministic re-resolution.** A non-model rung finds a target
   from retained structural, template, OCR, landmark, or geometric evidence.
2. **AI-assisted proposal.** An explicitly enabled model proposes a target or
   state interpretation. Identity, risk, postcondition, effect, and policy
   checks are not intentionally bypassed, but those checks have the limits
   described below.
3. **Human teaching.** An operator demonstrates or approves a correction after
   a halt. Promotion can be refused when the correction is underdetermined or
   weakens a guarded property.
4. **Unsupported drift.** Evidence is missing, ambiguous, or contradicted. The
   expected outcome is a halt and report, not a guessed continuation.

Target repair does not infer changed business intent. Adding a required step,
removing a business state, changing a transaction's meaning, or introducing a
new authorization rule requires a new or reviewed program.

Automatic repair is bounded the same way. It takes only a stop that wrote
nothing (`HALTED_BEFORE_EFFECT`). A stop after a step the run gate counts as a
save has acted is `RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED`, even when the app saved nothing,
and goes to reconciliation and a person. On the recorded OpenEMR referral
stops of 2026-10-19 that was every stop (8 of 8): the "Create New Patient"
click before the duplicate-check dialog counts as a save. Measured on MockMed,
the default loop repaired a renamed or moved control (6 of 6 stops) and did
not repair a control moved into a closed menu, a new interstitial, a new
required choice, or a pixel postcondition that failed after a font change
(0 of 15). On openIMIS's relabelled Save, once a person reviewed the two
steps whose risk was unclassified, the stop reached repair 3 of 3, but no fix
passed the probe: the replay sees the Save disabled where the fix was cropped
from the enabled one. On silent-saves 1.1.0's UI-change blocks (#1380), 18
of the 28 items that stopped every time now end correctly: a page zoom no
longer fails a correct screen's check, and a repaired agent-compiled program
keeps its admission. A What's New screen dismissed by "Continue to tasks" still
stops every item: "Continue" can submit, so a person must classify that
control first. A compiled program is also reused only for the record check and
app environment it was admitted under ([JIT.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/JIT.md)).

## The main incorrect-success risks

OpenAdapt is designed to halt on many ambiguous conditions. The following
classes can still produce a green run unless the workflow and deployment add
the named control.

### 1. Identity protection applies only where it is armed

The compiler records whether each applicable action has usable identity
evidence. Reports expose identity-armed coverage and list unarmed steps with a
reason. An **unarmed** click has no pre-action identity check. Reporting the gap
does not close it.

For an armed step:

- structured browser text can distinguish characters that OCR may collapse;
- a definitive mismatch halts before the action;
- OCR can be unable to distinguish identifiers such as `O` from `0` or `l`
  from `1` on a pixel-only display;
- the pixel comparison tier rejects a wrong record on a pixel-only display by
  comparing the recorded vs live identifier crop (the pixels keep the `O`/`0`
  and `l`/`1` distinction OCR collapses). It has three outcomes — mismatch
  (localized glyph change → halt), abstain (render drift or uncertainty → fall
  through), and, when enabled, verify (match). The positive **verify** path is
  jitter-robust (the crops are sub-pixel aligned before comparison, so
  cross-render jitter of the same value no longer looks like a glyph change) and
  proven zero-false-accept on a synthetic cross-render battery, but its default
  is **off** (`runtime.identity.PIXEL_VERIFY_ENABLED`, see below).
- the recorded identifier crop shows the demonstration's screen. When the
  identity band contains a workflow parameter and the run's value differs from
  the demonstrated one (for example, a first name typed earlier in the run),
  the pixel tier doesn't compare the crops, because the right record renders
  different pixels too. The OCR parameter check decides instead: it puts the
  run's value into the recorded band and requires the whole band to match. A
  band that rests on a glyph-confusable identifier keeps the pixel comparison.

On a pixel-only display, the OCR tier also stops the correct record whenever
its own identifier contains a look-alike glyph (`O`/`0`, `l`/`1`, `B`/`8`).
A deployment can remove most of that cost by giving the runtime a complete
list of the identifiers that exist in the target system
(`runtime.known_ids_path`, see `openadapt_flow/runtime/known_ids.py`). The
abstain is lifted only when the first read and a second read of a fresh
screenshot agree, every other identity check passed, and exactly one listed
identifier falls in the look-alike class OCR read. If a look-alike twin is
listed, the run still stops. The list must come from the system of record,
not from the screen being checked, and must be complete: a list that misses
a real look-alike record lets that record verify.

The list is a configured export of the system of record. Before it is used,
an operator runs `openadapt-flow known-ids confirm EXPORT --source ... --by
...` and confirms its source and completeness. The confirmation records who
confirmed, when, the source, the row count and the export's SHA-256. Replay
halts with a named reason when the confirmation is missing
(`known_ids_unconfirmed`), the export's hash no longer matches
(`known_ids_changed`), or the export is older than
`runtime.known_ids_max_age_hours` (`known_ids_stale`, default 24). Measured
before and after numbers are in
[`benchmark/known_ids/KNOWN_IDS.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/known_ids/KNOWN_IDS.md).

Before a step stops on a look-alike identifier, the replayer takes extra looks
that change nothing
([`openadapt_flow/runtime/identity_looks.py`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../openadapt_flow/runtime/identity_looks.py)):
the same read on two fresh screenshots, the 2x re-read, the known-ID list when
one is configured, and, where the surface allows it, a select-and-copy of the
identifier's text box (`runtime.identity_copy_look`). OCR looks can't settle
the record on their own, because a look-alike twin can read the same on every
frame and at every size. Only two looks can: the known-ID list, and a copied
identifier that equals a run parameter in the identity band. A look that names
another record stops the run. Each look is recorded on the step's identity
check.

The copy look has limits. It needs a surface where selecting the identifier
and copying it changes nothing, and a clipboard that reaches the machine Flow
runs on (RDP or Citrix clipboard redirection). It drags across only the one
text box that holds the identifier, and the run stops if the screen changes
anywhere else during the look. A canvas with no selectable text has no copy
look. A recording's own identifier is OCR text and can be a misread (the RDP
kiosk recorded `A1001` as `Alo01`), so in a workflow that always opens the
recorded record, the copy can stop a run but never confirm one. It confirms
only a record chosen by a run parameter. Governed and qualification runs never
take it. The check just before the click takes no input; it reuses the copy
only when the identifier's pixels are unchanged since the look. On a rendered
dense record list with the ID as a run parameter, false stops on the correct
row went from 232 to 24 of 288 with the copy look, and wrong-record accepts
stayed 0 of 288
([`benchmark/identity_looks/IDENTITY_LOOKS.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/identity_looks/IDENTITY_LOOKS.md)).
When the recording itself read the ID with a look-alike glyph, the band is not
linked to the run parameter and the copy cannot confirm the record; 22 of the
24 remaining stops were that case.

Permissive `replay` may proceed on an unreadable reversible target and reports
that condition. Governed `run` requires an affirmative live verdict for every
identity-required admitted step; mismatch, unreadable, or abstain halts before
action, and program exception edges cannot convert that safety halt into
success. Unarmed steps remain outside this guarantee and may be refused by the
selected policy.

No identity tier can distinguish two entities whose available evidence is
identical. Structured text avoids OCR glyph collapse, but it is only as unique
as the identifiers exposed by the application. A deployment that requires a
specific internal record must include that discriminator or verify it through
the system of record.

That last distinction makes correct risk classification important. Risk is
inferred from action text and metadata and can be overridden, but inference is
heuristic. A generic "OK" or an Enter key that submits a form can be
under-classified. A benign label containing a write-shaped word can be
over-classified and halt unnecessarily.

Icon-only controls get two compile-time rules. A single OCR glyph (a
floppy-disk Save icon reads as "日") is not a label, so the click needs
qualification review instead of passing as a labelled non-write. And when a
demonstration entered data and no later step declares a write, every icon-only
click after the last entry is presumed to commit that record: it compiles
irreversible, and qualification requires its record check. An icon-only click
that only navigates after data entry is therefore over-classified until an
operator reclassifies it.

On a pixel surface an icon-only click carries no text that names its control.
When the recorder can move the pointer without clicking
(`Recorder(capture_hover=True)` on a backend with `hover`), it rests the
pointer on each click target first and keeps that frame. For a click with no
other identity evidence, the compiler stores what changed near the target, such
as the control's highlight or tooltip, as the step's hover evidence
([`openadapt_flow/runtime/hover_evidence.py`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../openadapt_flow/runtime/hover_evidence.py)).
At replay, on the pixel rungs, the runtime rests the pointer on the resolved
target, waits the same 0.8 s, and compares. A different response, or a
response where the recording saw none, stops the run before the click. A
missing response, or one that can't be compared (another render with no
readable text), is recorded on the step and changes nothing. A tooltip that
opens later than the wait looks like a different response and stops the run.
Controls that don't answer the pointer, such as most text fields, get no
evidence this way. The browser, remote-display (Citrix and RDP client window)
and FreeRDP backends can hover. The Aardwolf RDP transport and the native
Windows, macOS and Linux backends can't move the pointer without a button
yet, so they take no hover look. On an in-process kiosk with two identical
icons that differ only by tooltip, swapped between recording and replay, the
look-alike icon was clicked in 2 of 3 runs before and 0 of 3 after
([`benchmark/hover_identity`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/hover_identity/README.md)).

A pixel step is checked on one frame and clicked a moment later. Consequential
identity-gated clicks were already bound to the exact checked frame. Every
other pixel click now gets a check-to-click guard (`Replayer._pixel_recheck`):
right before the click, the runtime takes a fresh frame and compares the
target region, the identity region and the hover response with the frame the
step was checked on. If one changed (a dialog opened, the list re-sorted), it
doesn't click. It re-resolves the target and re-runs the identity check on
the fresh frame, with no input, and clicks only when the next frame matches
that one. After two re-observations that still see a change, or when the
target or its identity can't be confirmed again, it refuses the click. Each
change is recorded on the step (`StepResult.check_to_click`). A change smaller
than 4 pixels, or under 24 levels per channel, doesn't count. Structured
targets are bound by element tokens instead and aren't rechecked.

A consequential click must be tied to a record before Flow delivers it. Inside
a table row, the row is that record. An icon-only Save that floats beside a
form (openIMIS's claim Save has no text, accessible name, or tooltip) has no
row, so the browser refuses it. When the browser recording shows how that
control relates to the fields the demonstration typed into, the compiler
records a **submit binding** (`Step.submit_binding`,
[`submit_binding.py`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../openadapt_flow/submit_binding.py)):

- form ownership: the control and the fields share one HTML form, or the
  fields share a form and the control sits outside every form, or nothing has
  a form;
- submit role: the form's submit button, another button of that form, or a
  button outside any form, plus the control's tag, type, role, and a digest of
  its icon geometry;
- position: the control follows every filled field in page order, sits in the
  same quadrant of their bounding box, and keeps the same tag path from the
  form or shared container down to it;
- uniqueness: it's the only rendered, unlabeled control after those fields.
  Controls in table rows and the adornments inside one field's own widget
  don't count.

A run recomputes the same observation for the element at the resolved point,
against the fields that run typed into, and clicks only when every recorded
value matches. The browser leases that observation until delivery, so a
second icon, a replaced field, or a moved control in between refuses the
click. The binding never relaxes another check: the resolution floor, the
identity band, and the delivery lease still apply.

The compiler doesn't bind the click when the demonstration was ambiguous, for
example when two unlabeled controls follow the filled fields, the control
belongs to another form, or the fields span two forms. It records why in
`Step.submit_binding_unbound_reason`, lint reports it as an error, and a run
refuses that click before any input. A pixel-only recording (RDP, Citrix)
carries no DOM structure, so it gets no binding, and a backend that can't read
the page structure refuses a bound click.

The binding ties the click to the entry the run made. It doesn't check that
the entry is right: the values typed come from the run's parameters, and only
a record check can confirm what the application saved.

For consequential or entity-sensitive workflows, require a policy that refuses
unarmed actions, review the inferred risk and tags, and test identity against
real near-match and same-name records. Pure-pixel substrates should expect more
safe halts because OCR ambiguity cannot always be resolved. The adversarial
identity evidence and measured over-halt tradeoff are documented in
[`IDENTITY_EVIDENCE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/validation/IDENTITY_EVIDENCE.md) and the generated claim registry
in [`VERIFICATION.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/VERIFICATION.md).

**Pixel-verify enable bar.** The pixel tier's positive **verify** path is built
and validated but ships **disabled by default** (`PIXEL_VERIFY_ENABLED = False`).
On the self-contained jitter battery (`benchmark/pixel_identity_aligned`:
rendered MRNs plus the committed real-browser crops, re-rendered under sub-pixel
jitter, JPEG q≤10, 105–150% DPI, and theme inversion) the sub-pixel-aligned
whole-crop distance separates same-record matching renders (worst window
0.0615, p95 0.0547) from every different record — glyph-collapse siblings and
wrong MRNs alike (closest 0.0705) — with the verify gate (0.040) below both,
giving **zero false-accept across the different-record trials**. The margin
between the worst same-record window and the closest different record is
**0.0090**, which is narrow; the numbers are `distance_stats` in
[`benchmark/pixel_identity_aligned/evidence.json`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/pixel_identity_aligned/evidence.json). That evidence is
**synthetic**; a pixel false-accept is a silent wrong record, the worst possible
outcome, and no real RDP/Citrix/HDX identifier corpus has been captured yet
(so the shipped pixel-verify default remains off). The exact bar to flip the default on: reproduce
`false_accept == 0` with a comparable gap on a **real captured remote-display
identifier corpus**. Until then, verify is reachable only when a caller opts in
per risk class (`verify_pixel_identity(..., enable_verify=True)`); mismatch and
abstain remain always-on and can only ever add a halt.

**Pixel tier and a different rasterizer.** Those thresholds hold only between
crops drawn by the same rasterizer. When ClearType was switched, the tier saw
glyph-sized differences at every edge and reported a different record for the
right one. It now abstains when the recorded and live crops differ in colour
fringing or anti-aliasing, and on a run replayed at another display scale. The
OCR tier then decides, and an identifier OCR cannot confirm, such as one with
1/l or 0/O, still halts. In the display-scaling sweep
([`benchmark/pixel_scale`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/pixel_scale/README.md)) the RDP
fixture's own IDs (`MRN A1001`) halted at the identity check at every render
other than the recorded one, before and after the extra identity looks: that
workflow always opens the recorded record, whose ID the recording read as
`MRN Alo01`, and the kiosk has no selectable text.

### 2. A postcondition verifies only what it observes

The compiler mines visual and, where available, structural changes from one
demonstration. A step can have no meaningful observable change, or the mined
assertion can describe incidental screen state rather than the intended
outcome. In those cases replay can accept a no-op or halt on harmless change.

Common examples include:

- an action whose before and after screens are effectively identical;
- a native control whose popup exists outside the captured browser surface;
- a stable-looking tenant-specific row, menu, counter, or banner frozen into
  the demonstration;
- a typed value that the application reformats or masks; and
- a target that moved after an earlier action but before a later check.

Typed-input read-back and structural postconditions reduce this risk but remain
same-surface observations. A visible value does not prove it was durably stored.
Masked input can prove that the field changed, not what secret value it now
contains.

`lint` reports vacuous postconditions and other coverage gaps. `certify`
enforces the selected policy. Neither command understands the application's
business semantics, and the permissive `replay` command does not require
certification. Runnable is not the same as certified for a particular policy.

### 3. The screen is not the system of record

A success banner can coexist with a rejected, duplicated, partial, stale, or
later-rolled-back write. Visual verification and a screen-reading model cannot
detect a backend fault when the interface itself displays success.

OpenAdapt can verify a declared effect against a configured REST, FHIR, or
document-store verifier. When no such structured verifier is configured, a
GUI-only recording gets an auto-derived on-screen **read-back** oracle (below);
absent even that, the governed `run` gate admits a GUI write only after explicit
`--approve-unverified-writes` and only when the step has a non-vacuous screen
postcondition. The resulting authorization is bound to the exact sealed bundle,
effective runtime inputs, step, and effect-contract hashes. Replay records
`effect_approved_unverified=true`, never `effect_verified=true`; approval is
not independent confirmation. Direct API writes still require a verifier and
refuse this fallback.

The remaining boundary is material:

- the compiler does not infer a structured system-of-record binding (which
  API / DB / record / idempotency key) from a demonstration that never observed
  one; it auto-derives only the on-screen read-back below, or a flagged
  placeholder that halts;
- the operator must author and bind a structured effect to the correct record
  and run parameters;
- the verifier's permissions, query, freshness window, and independence must
  be validated in the real deployment;
- operator approval is risk acceptance, not independent confirmation; and
- a screen read-back is useful but is not independent effect verification.

A bounded fault-model study demonstrates why this matters: the screen-only
oracle silently accepted several transactional fault classes that the configured
effect path refused. See
[`FAULT_MODEL.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/fault_model/FAULT_MODEL.md) and
[`EFFECT_VERIFIER.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/design/EFFECT_VERIFIER.md). This is evidence for the
mechanism, not proof that a customer-specific effect binding is correct.

#### On-screen read-back (the no-API default oracle) is a consistency signal, not transactional proof

For a GUI-only recording (Citrix / legacy EMR with no reachable read API), the
compiler auto-derives an on-screen read-back oracle from what the demonstration
already captured — the region where the saved value rendered and, when the
recording re-opened the record, the re-navigation to it. Two strengths, one
gate, measured in
[`benchmark/effect_readback/`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/effect_readback/RESULTS.md):

- **Different-path read-back is the default.** Before re-reading, it re-opens
  the record by a path independent of the write flow, forcing a real fetch;
  this defeats the "the form still shows what I typed but nothing persisted"
  phantom/optimistic class. Its measured false-CONFIRM rate is 0, so it is
  auto-wired with no connector and HALTs on any non-CONFIRMED verdict.
- **Same-surface read-back is NOT a default.** Re-reading the write's own
  surface cannot see a phantom/optimistic/partial save (the note is still
  painted there); its measured false-CONFIRM rate is > 0. It is wired only when
  an operator explicitly sets `effects.kind: onscreen`, and is a halt-inducing
  consistency signal, never an automatic pass.

Even a different-path read-back is **same-application**, not an independent
system of record. A read-back CONFIRMED means "the expected value is on screen
when the record is re-opened" — a consistency signal, NOT full transactional
proof. It cannot catch a partial save the app re-renders optimistically, a
duplicate / double-submit, a lost update by a concurrent writer, or a value
served from a stale cache/BFF (the `duplicate` and `stale` blind spots in the
study CONFIRM because the value is present while a separate structural fault is
not). Where a read API exists, the **structured system-of-record oracle**
(`record_written` count, `forbid_collateral_loss`, idempotency key) remains the
transactional guarantee. The ultimate safety net is never the read-back: it is
the **identity gate** (right record) plus **halt-on-ambiguity** (never guess a
target), with read-back as additive assurance on top.

A read-back taught by demonstration
([`EFFECT_KIT.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#a-read-back-taught-by-demonstration-now-show-how-youd-check-it-saved))
has three more limits. It must reset client state (a reload, a new search, a
reopened window) before it reads. Flow recognizes a reload key, a closed and
reopened window, and a submitted search from the recording; any other reset
is the person's declaration, and Flow records it as declared rather than
checked. On a pixel-only display, a read that differs from the expected
value only in `O`/`0` or `l`/`1` is `INDETERMINATE`: the check halts instead
of guessing. It confirms nothing until a person admits it. Its assurance
grade is `screen_readback`, never `independent_readback`.

**Without a read that is independent of the acting session, the run cannot
be `VERIFIED`.** That read is either a system-of-record read (REST, FHIR, SQL,
file; tier 1) or the application's own screens read in a separate signed-in
session (tier 2): a record page in a separate browser (`ui_readback`), a
relaunched desktop app or a second RDP session (`fresh_session`, tested on
mocks only), or a look-up in a separate desktop, RDP or Citrix session
(`desktop_readback`, tier 2 with its own RDP logon). None of them goes around
the application, so none is a system-of-record read, and each has its own
limits ([`EFFECT_KIT.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#separate-session-ui-read-back-ui_readback),
[`desktop_readback`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#separate-session-desktop-read-back-desktop_readback)).
If a person can look the record up, the check can too. A pixel-only Citrix or
RDP deployment that declares no such check is the remaining case. Reopening the
record in the acting session (tier 3) is reported as its own check level,
`reopened` ("Reopened in the same session"), and is not `VERIFIED`: a
confirmed reopen ends `COMPLETED_UNVERIFIED`, and the agent result says
`not_sure_if_saved` with `checked_below_minimum`
([`READBACK_LADDER.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/READBACK_LADDER.md)). A workflow's `minimum_readback`
can raise the floor to `system_of_record`, never lower it.
A save that only a later report can confirm (a claim acknowledgment, a
nightly export) ends `SAVED_AWAITING_CHECK` and becomes `VERIFIED` only when
that report accepts it ([`deferred_report`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/EFFECT_KIT.md#checked-later-deferred_report)). The on-screen
oracle can still halt when the region is unreadable or wrong. If a
consequential write may already have been delivered and the check did not
confirm it, the production `transaction_outcome` is `RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED`,
never `VERIFIED`. Halt-on-doubt is unchanged. This is not live Citrix
Production evidence; a live ICA/HDX session is a deployment-specific
qualification. Wire the independent read before paying a sprint for a
`VERIFIED` outcome.

The reopen itself has limits. It earns the `reopened` level only when its
navigation contains a recognized state reset; without one it is
`same_screen`. A read-only guard refuses any reopen step that presses a
delete key, or `s`, Enter, Return or Delete with a modifier held (any
spelling: `control+s`, `Meta+S`, `ctrl+shift+s`, `alt+s`, `shift+delete`).
It refuses a click on a control labelled with a commit word (Save, Submit,
Delete, Sign, Send, ...), a click where OCR reads no label (an icon-only
button may be Save), and a click whose label can't be read at all. It reads
labels by OCR, so a control drawn with text that doesn't say what it does
passes, Enter alone is allowed (a search needs it), and typed text is not
checked. A whole-word match can also refuse a harmless control ("Post-op
notes"); the check then halts. A reference number is read from one screen
region and must be the only match there; two different numbers, or none, halt
the check. A search by a run input (this run's patient) can open an older
record with the same value, and Flow can't read the record before the save
without leaving the form, so such a check confirms only when the reopened
record shows this save's reference number and no other; an application that
shows no reference number halts there.

### 4. Model assistance can convert a halt into a false pass

Model use is off by default. When configured, a grounding model can propose a
target and a state verifier can re-evaluate some failed visual postconditions.
Only an affirmative answer is eligible to rescue the supported state checks;
uncertainty or service failure keeps the halt.

The state verifier never re-evaluates a step that can change a record: a step
marked irreversible, a step that reads as a write (Save, Submit), a step that
declares a system-of-record effect, or a step still waiting for risk review.
On those steps the screen check is the only on-screen confirmation of the
write, so a failed check stays failed, exactly as it would with no state
verifier, and the run stops unless the workflow has its own handler for that
step. The action was already sent, so a stopped run's transaction outcome is
`RECONCILIATION_REQUIRED`: a person checks the record before anything is
retried. Navigation and read-only steps can still be
rescued. A wrong answer there lets the run go on to the next step, which still
runs its own identity, risk, and screen checks before it acts.

The model still reads the screen, can be wrong, and cannot prove a hidden
transactional effect. A model-assisted run is counted in the report and no
longer qualifies as a zero-model run. Dense lists, small identifiers, unusual
rendering, and in-progress states are known hard cases. Treat the model as an
availability aid, not a safety authority, and keep consequential actions behind
identity, effect, and policy controls that do not depend on the model's answer.

#### Configuring your own grounding model (bring your own)

The grounding model is operator-selectable. The `runtime.grounding_model`
section of a deployment config chooses which model backs the fallback rung:
`provider: anthropic` (the built-in Anthropic API path) or
`provider: openai_compatible` (any `{base_url}/chat/completions` vision
endpoint — OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, a Bedrock/OpenAI proxy, or a self-hosted
vLLM / Ollama / LM Studio). The API key is supplied by reference: `api_key_env`
names an environment variable; the key is never stored in the config.

Two boundaries are load-bearing:

- **Configuring a model does not enable egress.** `runtime.grounding_model`
  only names *which* model would be used. Whether any screenshot leaves the box
  is still governed entirely by `runtime.allow_model_grounding`, which defaults
  to off. An enabled model with egress off stays dormant and the run is fully
  local. The hosted managed runner refuses any profile that enables
  model-grounding egress at all.
- **PHI mode fails closed on egress.** When PHI mode is active
  (`OPENADAPT_FLOW_PHI_MODE`, or `OPENADAPT_FLOW_SCRUB=on`) a configured
  grounding endpoint is refused unless its host is on the admin-attested
  `runtime.phi_grounding_allowlist`; the run then stays fully local rather than
  egressing. Known public aggregators (`openrouter.ai`, `api.openai.com`,
  `api.anthropic.com`, `generativelanguage.googleapis.com`) stay blocked under
  PHI even when allowlisted, unless the operator sets
  `runtime.phi_egress_attested: true` to attest that a Business Associate
  Agreement (or equivalent) covers the destination. Ambiguity — an
  unresolvable host, an empty allowlist — always resolves to fully local.
  Non-PHI runs are unaffected: any configured endpoint works under the normal
  egress opt-in.

None of this changes the safety authority. A configured model, like the built-in
one, only *proposes* a point; the deterministic identity band and risk gate
still dispose before any click, and irreversible steps refuse a grounder
resolution and halt.

### 5. A halt is not a rollback

A run may halt after earlier steps have already changed the application or
system of record. OpenAdapt does not provide a general transaction spanning an
arbitrary GUI workflow, and it does not buffer writes until a workflow's checks
have all passed.

What it does provide ([`AFTER_A_STOP.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/AFTER_A_STOP.md)):

- Every run report has a change ledger: each step that could have changed the
  app, in order, with each declared effect marked confirmed, refuted or
  unknown. The halt message, `explain` and `REPORT.md` say what may need
  undoing.
- `lint` warns when a write comes before a right-record check or a halting
  precondition that the program could have done first. It suggests an order
  and never reorders the bundle.
- A bundle can declare an undo step for an effect. After a halt it is offered
  to a person, runs only after that person approves it, runs at most once,
  and counts as done only when an independent read of the system of record
  confirms its own declared effects.
- `undo propose` finds candidate undo steps for each saving step (another
  recording, captured traffic, or the field's old value) and tries each one
  on a declared test copy. It writes a candidate into the bundle, as a
  proposal, only when every record afterwards matches the read-back from
  before the save. A person approves a proposal once (`undo accept`), and
  each run still needs approval after the stop.

The limits of that:

- A step with no declared effect is `unknown` in the ledger. Flow can't say
  whether it changed anything.
- An undo exists only where someone declared it or approved a verified
  proposal. Flow never uses an undo no person approved.
- A proposal is verified once, on a test copy, with the bundle's parameters.
  It is evidence that the inverse path works on that copy, not a proof for
  every record in production.
- A proposal must restore every record exactly. An app that cancels by
  changing a status, or writes an audit row when a record is deleted, fails
  verification unless a person names those fields with `--ignore-field`.
- Flow builds API undo steps only from JSON requests. A browser form post, or
  a Delete control on the saved record's page, needs a recording of a person
  doing the undo.
- A proposal that finds its record (`locate`) or restores old values
  (`restore`) needs values the replayer keeps just before the save. They exist
  only for runs whose bundle already held the proposal, and only when the
  save's record check read the system of record before the save.
- An undo can fail or be refused. Then a person must repair the record by
  hand.
- No undo is offered for a workflow with a loop: the undo can't be bound to
  one iteration's record.
- The write-ordering check covers straight-line bundles only, and it can't
  tell whether a later check depends on an earlier write.
- Duplicate-write compensation (`effects.compensation`) is the only automatic
  repair, and only where a deployment has implemented and verified it.

Before resuming or teaching a halted consequential workflow, reconcile prior
effects, confirm the current entity and application state, and ensure the bundle
and approval still match the paused run. A report that accurately names the
halt does not prove earlier actions were harmless.

### 6. An agent that reads the app can be steered by it

When an agent does a task once so it can be compiled (teach), or proposes a
repair, it reads the live app. A record note, a banner, a tooltip, an image's
alt text or a server response can hold text written to steer it. Published
work on computer-use agents shows such text often works. OpenAdapt does not
rely on the agent ignoring it. The full analysis is in
[`THREAT_MODEL.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/THREAT_MODEL.md).

What is enforced:

- Every teach path runs under a teach scope declared before the agent reads
  the app: `compile_agent`, `compile-agent`, teach over MCP and the airbag
  guard. The agent can type only declared values, can't follow a link or submit a form to
  an undeclared origin, and can't make the browser reach an undeclared origin.
  With a write adapter for the app, a write to another record, an undeclared
  field or an undeclared value is aborted before it is sent. After the run,
  Flow reads the system of record and refuses the draft unless it shows
  exactly the declared write. On MockMed, every injected instruction in the
  test suite (5 places by 4 goals, and each goal through each path) is
  blocked or caught this way, with a scripted agent that obeys all of them.
  The airbag guard can't refuse keystrokes in the agent's own browser; it
  blocks requests and saves instead.
- Self-repair refuses a proposed control that leads to another origin.
- A save approval shows who asked, the agent's own reason (as a quote), the
  screen text it saw, and any of that text that reads like an instruction to
  an agent.

What is not:

- Over MCP without `--teach-tasks`, the agent declares the record at
  `teach_start`; after reading the app, a hijacked agent can start again with
  another record. The person confirming the record check sees it.
- The airbag guard sees requests, not keystrokes; without a write adapter, a
  save's values are judged by the read-back after it lands.
- A self-repair bridge may type text that the screen shows, so injected text
  can become a typed value in a proposed repair. The person approving sees it.
- A steered agent can still read other records in the same app and send what
  it read to its model provider (scrubbed where scrubbing is on).
- Without a write adapter, and on every surface other than the web, a wrong
  write lands first and is caught by the read-back afterwards; it then needs
  reconciliation.
- Values chosen by clicking (not typing), drag and drop, and WebSocket
  traffic are checked only by the write adapter or the read-back, if at all.
- The instruction detector on approval forms is a heuristic display aid.
- No live model has been run against these fixtures yet; the live-model test
  is off by default because it costs money.

## Interaction and environment limits

Qualification is strongest when the demonstration retains exact observations
and exposes independently verifiable outcomes.

| Condition | Current boundary |
| --- | --- |
| Zoom, DPI, font, layout, viewport, or monitor changes | Browser attach recording accepts a stable viewport or device-scale change between actions, starts a new exact geometry epoch, and refuses an action that overlaps the transition. Native offline conversion can normalize a stable source-window move, resize, monitor change, or scale change into one fixed output viewport when every timeline row carries valid mapping metadata. It refuses a malformed timeline or a changed output viewport. RDP and Citrix live backends can rebaseline geometry between actions and refuse a change during the exact-frame lease. On remote-desktop replays, a session redrawn at another display scale is detected at the first step: the runtime fits one scale from the recorded labels and continues on a view resampled to the recorded geometry, with every check unchanged. In the [display-scaling sweep](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/pixel_scale/README.md) (in-process renderings of the RDP and canvas kiosks, 100 to 175%, ClearType on and off) this took healthy runs from 3 of 24 to 17 of 24 with no wrong write. A reflowed layout, a font change without a scale change, a scale change during the run, and a changed pinned FreeRDP session profile still halt. Browser zoom on the web path still halts at the first step ([`cosmetic_drift`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/cosmetic_drift/COSMETIC_DRIFT.md)). Other rescale or reflow behavior remains workflow-specific. |
| Native select menus, file choosers, permission prompts, and secure desktops | OS or browser chrome may not appear in the captured surface and may be unrecordable or undrivable. Prefer an application-level or keyboard/API path. |
| New tabs and windows | A bundle recorded with `Recorder` can declare the popups and tabs a step opens, act in them after an explicit surface switch, and halt on any page it did not declare ([MULTI_SURFACE.md](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/MULTI_SURFACE.md)). Such bundles run governed, qualified, and durable. Resume re-binds surfaces by identity, and managed Cloud dispatch needs only the `surfaces:` map. A program (graph) resume is refused. `record --url` and attach mode (`--cdp`, only pages a followed page opened) capture popups and tabs, and `--surface NAME=KIND[:TARGET]` binds backend surfaces at replay. Native windows and JavaScript dialogs are screen states, not surfaces. A dialog is answered by the step that raises it (browser backend, scripted recorder), and a hidden native window is reached by an explicit focus step. |
| Drag and drop or gesture-heavy controls | Not a general supported primitive. Use a structured/API alternative or validate a purpose-built workflow. |
| Dates, locale-sensitive fields, and auto-formatting | The same keystrokes can produce different values across platforms or locales. Require an explicit read-back or system effect and test the deployment locale. |
| Slow or asynchronous applications | A state that outlasts configured waits can halt. Increasing a timeout does not establish correctness. |
| Transparent overlays or intercepted input | The action can be swallowed and detected only by a later check. If that check is vacuous, the no-op can be silent. |
| Parameterized entity selection | Replacing typed text does not automatically make recorded target evidence generalize to every entity. The resolved row still needs identity evidence for the runtime value. |
| Tenant, version, and dataset transfer | A demonstration can freeze tenant-specific state. Re-recording, recompilation, or reviewed program changes may be required. |

## Privacy, PHI, and sanitized artifacts

Compilation does **not** make a recording or bundle PHI-free. Recordings can
contain full screenshots, typed values, DOM or accessibility text, and
parameters. Bundles can retain target crops, labels, postconditions, identity
evidence, and example values. Machine-readable run reports and live frames can
contain data observed during execution.

OpenAdapt's outbound artifact path works on a copy:

1. transform supported text and still images under a named scrubber policy;
2. preserve and validate the recording or bundle's operational structure;
3. account for every file and refuse unsupported or unknown content;
4. rescan the derivative and expose remaining findings;
5. review it locally, including rendered images and text, before approval; and
6. freeze the exact approved archive and bind approval to its hash.

Changing the derivative invalidates approval. A changed executable bundle must
also pass separate runtime-semantics validation; privacy approval is not
executability proof. The safer authoring path is to review and approve a
sanitized recording derivative, then compile and validate the resulting bundle.

Scrubbing means **verified coverage under the configured detector, policy, and
review**, not a mathematical guarantee that no PHI remains. OCR and named-entity
recognition can miss unusual text, handwriting, images, or domain-specific
identifiers. Human review materially improves confidence but is still fallible;
regulated deployments must define reviewer identity, separation of duties,
acceptable residual risk, and incident handling.

A clean design-time derivative does not sanitize live execution. A runtime can
reintroduce PHI through the target application, parameters, screenshots,
postconditions, model requests, effect queries, logs, and reports. Keep those
observations inside the declared execution boundary and apply storage,
retention, access, and egress controls there.

See [`SANITIZED_ARTIFACTS.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/SANITIZED_ARTIFACTS.md) for the review and
exact-hash workflow, [`PRIVACY.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/PRIVACY.md) for the field-level data map,
and [`ENTERPRISE_ARCHITECTURE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/ENTERPRISE_ARCHITECTURE.md) for component
boundaries.

## Deployment responsibilities

### Managed browser lane

Only upload the exact artifact admitted by the destination's policy. An
approved sanitized derivative does not authorize PHI-bearing runtime data in a
shared managed runner. Do not use the managed lane for PHI unless the written
service scope, deployment architecture, retention controls, and applicable
agreements explicitly cover the complete runtime data flow.

### Customer-managed and on-premises lanes

Running in a customer boundary changes where data and execution live; it does
not improve target resolution or verification by itself. The operator remains
responsible for network allowlists, firewall enforcement, secrets and KMS,
host hardening, storage encryption, backups, retention, access control,
monitoring, effect-verifier integration, update validation, and disaster
recovery.

The repository supplies integrity manifests, optional encryption at rest for
bundles, web recordings and the run directories of sealed bundles, destination
policy, local egress checks, and audit primitives. Encryption at rest does not
cover data in process memory, the target application's own storage, file names
and sizes, desktop recordings, or commands outside the list in
[`phi_at_rest.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/phi_at_rest.md), which refuse sealed input; the key is a
passphrase in the environment, not a KMS. A content digest
proves byte identity, not publisher identity. A local hash chain is tamper
evident against ordinary changes, not tamper proof against an administrator who
can rewrite it. Local approvals record provenance but are not enterprise-IdP
signatures or non-repudiation.

OpenAdapt does not claim that this repository alone satisfies HIPAA, PHIPA,
PIPEDA, or another legal regime. It does not itself provide a BAA or independent
security certification. See [`ON_PREM.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/ON_PREM.md) and
[`COMPLIANCE.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../deploy/on-prem/COMPLIANCE.md).

## Reading the benchmark evidence

The reproducible MockMed comparison shows that, on one simple browser task,
compiled replay completed the tested runs with lower latency and no model calls
on healthy runs than the tested computer-use agent. Both arms passed the same
external success check in that sample. The result supports the cost-and-latency
mechanism; it does not establish a production reliability advantage, long-term
maintenance cost, or safety on a real clinical system. Full task, sample,
oracle, model, pricing assumptions, and artifacts are in
[`benchmark/BENCHMARK.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/BENCHMARK.md).

The OpenEMR public-demo comparison is a bounded field check against fake data
on a shared instance that resets. It is not exactly reproducible and is not
evidence of clinical production safety, real-patient operation, Citrix support,
or superior reliability. See
[`benchmark/openemr/BENCHMARK.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/packages/flow/docs/../benchmark/openemr/BENCHMARK.md).

When evaluating either result, include silent incorrect success and over-halt,
not only task success. Also account for demonstration and review time,
maintenance interventions, recovery time, effect-verifier integration, and the
cost of safe halts.

## Minimum deployment review

Before unattended execution of a consequential workflow, require evidence that:

- the exact bundle passes strict lint and the intended certification policy;
- every entity-sensitive and consequential action is identity-armed and tested
  against realistic near matches;
- risk classifications and tags have been reviewed by someone who understands
  the target application;
- every write declares the intended effect and a correctly scoped independent
  verifier is configured, or the lack of verification is explicitly accepted;
- every step has a meaningful postcondition and known same-surface limitations
  are accepted;
- the fail-closed `run --dry-run` gate admits the exact sealed bundle and
  compiler version intended for deployment;
- secrets, storage, screenshots, reports, checkpoints, logs, and retention are
  controlled inside the execution boundary;
- model egress is disabled or explicitly allowlisted and tested; and
- halt, reconciliation, approval, resume, rollback, and incident procedures
  have been exercised in the real environment.

Passing this review narrows known risks. It does not turn an application-level
automation into an independently certified transaction system.

---

<!-- Changelog: openadapt-flow 2.3.0 -->

## What changed in openadapt-flow 2.3.0

The shared contracts are back in `openadapt-types`, which depends only on Pydantic; this package requires `openadapt-types>=0.24.0,<0.25.0`, and `openadapt_flow.contracts` returns the same modules as `openadapt_types` ([#1270](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1270)).

### Features

- Offline Seals can be signed with a key the customer holds: a key file, the OS keychain, or a PKCS#11 token. `local-seal key` creates, pins and revokes keys, and a configured key that can't be used signs nothing ([#1392](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1392)).
- `local-seal anchor` records an offline Seal in Sigstore Rekor. Only a digest, the Seal key's public key and a signature leave the machine, and `local-seal verify --require-anchor` checks the stored inclusion proof offline ([#1394](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1394)).
- Run authorizations (`openadapt.run-authorization/v1`) are signed with the SSH key a person publishes on GitHub. `local-seal authorize sign` shows what is being authorized before it signs, verification runs offline, and `--live` re-reads the person's keys from GitHub. `local-seal run --authorization` seals only the items, profile and Seal keys the statement covers ([#1401](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1401)).
- `local-seal timestamp` adds an RFC 3161 timestamp from Sigstore's TSA (or `--tsa-url`) to a Seal or a run authorization, and `verify --require-timestamp` checks it offline against the bundled TSA root ([#1401](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1401)).
- `local-seal profile` writes an operator profile per Seal key: outcome counts, apps, programs and log times from anchored Seals, with no patient data. A report sealed again counts once ([#1401](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1401), [#1416](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1416)).
- Session tokens, credential headers and bearer tokens are redacted from run reports before they are written, so no Seal covers them. The Seal refuses an unredacted report, and `openadapt-flow redact-report` cleans runs written earlier ([#1407](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1407)).
- The compiler groups every program into named sections (`sections.json`) from the consequential write, the recorded form structure and the fields, with no model call ([#1405](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1405)). `openadapt_flow.visualize` projects a bundle into the program map that Desktop and openadapt.ai render ([#1387](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1387)).
- `openadapt-flow compile-agent` compiles an agent's first verified run into a program that replays with zero model calls, on browser, Windows, macOS, Linux, RDP and Citrix apps, with a code-as-action agent for run 1 ([#1277](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1277), [#1283](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1283), [#1305](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1305), [#1303](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1303)).
- Every teach path (JIT capture, compile-agent, teach over MCP and the guard) runs under the task's declared inputs, origins and writes, and a violation leaves no draft ([#1359](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1359), [#1386](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1386)). An approval shows who asked for a save, the agent's own reason, the screen text it saw, and any of it that reads like an instruction to an agent ([#1359](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1359)).
- The MCP server can teach a workflow and then call it with no model calls ([#1335](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1335)), keeps a task ledger and can ask the user ([#1332](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1332)), and pins authoring to the app a deployment file names ([#1287](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1287)).
- A guarded save wraps any agent's write: check the record, hold for approval, read back ([#1258](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1258)). A CDP commit guard covers an agent you already run ([#1357](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1357)).
- JIT: a person names the record check's idempotency key at `confirm_params` ([#1339](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1339)); a retyped input is lifted from the saved record, and distill drops a corrected save ([#1336](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1336)).
- API steps: a clean save in a recording's network capture compiles into an API step with the same record check, and falls back to page structure before anything is sent when the API is unavailable ([#1269](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1269)). API steps run in durable runs without ever resending a save ([#1358](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1358)), under governed runs and the Standard and Regulated profiles ([#1361](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1361)), and under per-item approval of the exact request ([#1355](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1355)); the read-back is pipelined ([#1362](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1362)).
- Self-repair: a halted run can be repaired under one person's approval ([#1265](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1265)), including with a short bridge of up to three new steps ([#1325](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1325)); repairs a person approved in advance apply as standard changes ([#1294](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1294)); and every stop that wrote nothing is repaired by default ([#1360](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1360)).
- After a stop: a change ledger, a write-ordering lint and declared undo steps ([#1263](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1263)). `openadapt-flow undo propose` proposes an undo for each save and keeps it only if a test copy shows every record restored; a person approves it once with `undo accept` ([#1346](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1346)).
- Record checks: `scaffold-verifier` builds a working check from the reads the app made while the person viewed the saved record ([#1284](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1284)); the recording teaches the check when the person looks the record up after saving ([#1290](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1290)); a desktop, RDP or Citrix save is checked by looking the record up in a separate read-only session ([#1280](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1280)), with a fresh session for desktop relaunch and a second RDP session ([#1241](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1241)); a check level per save, a learned reopen, a read-only guard and reference capture ([#1239](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1239)).
- A save confirmed by a later report or acknowledgment is `SAVED_AWAITING_CHECK` and never counts as done until then ([#1297](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1297)). The receipt keeps the server's own answer to a save, labelled `same_screen` ([#1298](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1298)), and signs `checked_how` ([#1240](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1240)). `verify-run` treats a changed non-target record as collateral, not only a vanished one ([#1375](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1375)).
- Identity: extra looks before stopping on a look-alike record ID (fresh frames, the known-ID list, a select-and-copy of the ID) ([#1333](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1333)); a hover check on icon-only targets and a fresh-frame re-check right before every pixel click ([#1334](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1334)); one re-observation before halting on an identity mismatch ([#1293](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1293)).
- Learning from many runs: shadow-mined episodes become candidate drafts, and a program admitted once stops only on problems ([#1212](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1212)); `induce --probe-on` settles a disagreement between recordings on a browser, desktop or remote test copy ([#1276](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1276)); a deterministic router sends each item to the right admitted variant ([#1264](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1264)); narration proposes branch rules that recordings, a probe or a person certify ([#1291](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1291)); common local edits are classified from the recording on strict evidence ([#1366](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1366)).
- One program switches tabs, popups and backends mid-run ([#1197](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1197)); lists and worktables are walked with focus and modal checks before each copy ([#1253](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1253)); worklists run in parallel with one session per worker ([#1296](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1296)).
- Records: READ is a workflow step ([#1229](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1229)), with a record and field schema ([#1214](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1214)), an interchange format ([#1215](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1215)), one read channel by default with an opt-in double read ([#1218](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1218)), a review queue with signed, write-once decisions ([#1219](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1219)), and export to CSV, DB-API databases and webhooks ([#1220](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1220)).
- Everything that leaves the machine is scrubbed by default ([#1262](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1262)), and every PHI file is encrypted at rest under one sealed index ([#1354](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1354)).
- The phone approval shows the values a save writes ([#1257](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1257)).
- A qualification project can bind to the generic web environment observer (`observe_web_environment`), whose digest is the one a governed browser run on the same machine observes ([#1353](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1353)).
- A compatibility matrix, checked against the runtime in CI ([#1364](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1364)).
- Harness²: a benchmark adapter scored by read-back, GUI rollouts on pixel-only surfaces, and a Meta-Harness-style trace export ([#1299](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1299), [#1301](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1301), [#1300](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1300), [#1304](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1304)).

### Performance

- Apple Vision identity reads match RapidOCR on the dense surface ([#1228](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1228)).

### Fixes

- In a governed run, an armed step whose identity is unreadable halts before acting, whether or not the authorization lists it ([#1397](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1397)).
- A scroll skipped because its target was already in view verifies instead of counting as undelivered ([#1395](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1395)).
- Bundles certified by earlier releases load and keep their workflow contract hash: an effect's `forbid_collateral_change` is serialized only when it is on ([#1406](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1406)).
- A bad `local-seal` input (missing, empty, not JSON, repeated keys, the wrong shape, or a saved web page) fails in one clear line with exit 2, never a traceback ([#1401](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1401)).
- Next-step hints repeat the `uvx` form when Flow runs from a uvx environment, so they reach the same version ([#1404](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1404)).
- API steps: secrets and tokens in JSON bodies and headers are withheld from network capture ([#1367](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1367)); fields bind by the step that typed them, not by equal values ([#1368](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1368)); record identifiers in URLs stay run parameters ([#1369](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1369)); a step whose span also wrote is refused ([#1370](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1370)); native form validation is enforced ([#1371](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1371)); an API step binds to the complete definition of the steps it replaces ([#1372](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1372)).
- A relabelled Save halts on the Save, not on the scroll before it ([#1337](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1337)); a self-closing popup click counts as delivered only when the step expects it ([#1321](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1321)).
- Pixel-path replays keep running across display scaling and ClearType ([#1286](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1286)); `emit`, `serve-execute`, bench and resume no longer assume a browser ([#1285](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1285)).
- The durable authority database is created owner-only before SQLite opens it ([#1363](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1363)).
- The agent CLI help states the approval-mode default and the agent approval tools ([#1238](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/1238)).