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What changed

  • Add per-role backend, model, reasoning-effort, and external MCP routing for the perf-analyze and perf-optimize workflows.
  • Add an A/B experiment switch for the optimization casebook. The casebook remains enabled by default; disabling it removes the casebook instructions and blocks both the bare and fully-qualified casebook skills for Claude Code and Codex sessions.
  • Keep the backend implementation aligned with the backend-independent tool and required-tool policy introduced by [None][feat] agent-flow: backend-independent tools and required-tool policy #19236.

Usage

Per-role backend routing

Add an optional top-level agents block to either workflow's task.yaml. Values under defaults apply to every role, while roles.<name> overrides individual fields:

agents:
  defaults:
    backend: claude-code
    model: claude-opus-5
    reasoning_effort: max
  roles:
    projector:
      backend: claude-code
      model: claude-fable-5-1
      reasoning_effort: ultracode
    analyzer:
      backend: claude-code
      model: claude-fable-5-1
      reasoning_effort: ultracode

Omitting agents preserves the historical backend/model assignment. On resume, the normalized task.yaml saved in the workspace remains authoritative.

Casebook experiment switch

The optimization casebook is enabled by default. For a control arm in an A/B experiment, disable it in task.yaml:

casebook:
  enabled: false

When disabled, the workflow omits casebook-specific instructions and prevents agents from invoking perf-optimization-casebook or trtllm-agent-toolkit:perf-optimization-casebook. Omit the block, or set enabled: true, for the treatment arm.

Validation

  • 609 focused agent-flow tests passed.
  • Commit-time pre-commit checks passed, including ruff, formatting, YAML/TOML validation, merge-conflict checks, and DCO validation.

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  • Adds per-role backend, model, reasoning-effort, and MCP routing to the perf-analyze and perf-optimize workflows.
  • Preserves historical assignments when agents is omitted. On resume, the checkpointed task.yaml remains authoritative.
  • Adds an enabled-by-default casebook switch. When disabled, workflows omit casebook guidance and block casebook skills in Claude Code and Codex.
  • Key verification areas include backend-specific model defaults, resume configuration, and skill blocking across roles.
  • Review finding counts are unavailable from the supplied evidence.

QA Engineer Review

  • Adds tests for routing, validation errors, backend defaults, casebook configuration, prompt behavior, workflow wiring, resume behavior, checkpoint handling, MCP settings, and disabled skills.
  • Updates progress-tool tests for direct YAML and text responses.
  • No changed test files or test-list entries were found in the integration CI or manual-QA lists.
  • The author reports that 609 focused agent-flow tests passed. Coverage verdict: sufficient based on the reported test scope.

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Source, documentation, and example configuration

  • agent-flow/agent_flow/agent_runtime.py: Verify role overrides, backend-specific model selection, MCP propagation, and validation errors.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/backends/__init__.py: Verify configured reasoning effort and disabled skills reach the selected backend.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/backends/claude_code.py: Verify reasoning effort and disabled skills reach SDK requests.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/backends/codex.py: Verify Codex skill-disable overrides and reasoning effort.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/config.py: Verify omitted reasoning effort and disabled-skill settings preserve historical defaults.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/README.md: Verify documented backend options and casebook default match runtime behavior.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py: Verify the task's casebook setting reaches prompt construction.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/prompts/__init__.py: Verify casebook guidance is added or omitted according to the setting.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/prompts/_common.py: Verify the disabled-casebook guidance clearly prohibits casebook use.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/roles.py: Verify the declared role set matches roles accepted by task validation.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/task.example.yaml: Verify example agent and casebook settings match runtime defaults.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/task_schema.py: Verify casebook defaults, casebook validation, and supported-role validation.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/workflow.py: Verify role setup, tool retention, and casebook settings across agents.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/README.md: Verify documented routing, resume behavior, and casebook defaults.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/cli.py: Verify the task's casebook setting reaches prompt construction.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/prompts/__init__.py: Verify casebook guidance is added or omitted for benchmarker, analyzer, and optimizer prompts.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/roles.py: Verify the declared role set matches task validation and runtime role use.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/task.example.yaml: Verify example agent and casebook settings match runtime defaults.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/task_schema.py: Verify all optimize roles remain valid through shared task validation.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/workflow.py: Verify role routing, resume configuration, checkpoint handling, and casebook settings across agents.

Test code

  • agent-flow/tests/test_agent_runtime.py: Covers role routing, backend model defaults, and invalid agent configuration. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/test_backends.py: Covers backend configuration propagation and Claude disabled-skill handling. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/test_codex_backend.py: Covers Codex skill-disable overrides and reasoning effort. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_progress.py: Covers direct progress-tool output. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_prompts.py: Covers disabled-casebook prompt guidance. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_task_schema.py: Covers casebook defaults and validation, plus supported and unsupported roles. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_workflow.py: Covers mixed-backend wiring, tool retention, and disabled skills. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_progress.py: Covers direct progress-tool output. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_prompts.py: Covers disabled-casebook guidance across optimizer workflow prompts. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_task_schema.py: Covers default casebook configuration and optimize-role validation. No integration test-list entry was found.
  • agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_workflow.py: Covers resume-time routing, checkpoint behavior, and disabled skills. No integration test-list entry was found.

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@GuanhuaWang2001 GuanhuaWang2001 changed the title [None][feat]agent flow: add per-role backend routing & casebook switch [None][feat] agent flow: add per-role backend routing & casebook switch Sep 22, 2026
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The PR adds per-role backend, model, reasoning, MCP-server, and disabled-skill configuration. It validates these settings for both workflows. It also adds casebook enablement controls, conditional prompts, lazy agent setup, resume handling, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Agent routing and backend controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime configuration and backend controls
agent-flow/agent_flow/agent_runtime.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/config.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/backends/*, agent-flow/tests/test_agent_runtime.py, agent-flow/tests/test_backends.py, agent-flow/tests/test_codex_backend.py
Adds validated role configuration resolution. Backend configuration carries reasoning effort and disabled skills. Claude Code and Codex apply these settings to SDK options, sessions, and skill restrictions.

Performance-analysis workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Task and prompt controls
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/task_schema.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/prompts/*, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/roles.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/README.md, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/task.example.yaml, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_task_schema.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_prompts.py
Adds role validation and normalized casebook.enabled defaults. Prompt builders add disabled-casebook guidance when requested.
Workflow agent setup
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/workflow.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_workflow.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_analyze/test_progress.py
Agents are configured after task initialization from resolved role settings. Casebook skills and prompt instructions are omitted when disabled. Progress tests inspect direct handler return values.

Performance-optimization workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Task and prompt controls
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/task_schema.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/prompts/*, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/cli.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/roles.py, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/task.example.yaml, agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/README.md, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_task_schema.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_prompts.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_progress.py
Passes the optimization roles to shared validation. Documents agent routing and casebook settings. Prompt builders conditionally add disabled-casebook guidance. Progress tests inspect direct handler results.
Workflow agent setup and resume behavior
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/workflow.py, agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_workflow.py
Creates workflow and per-item agents from resolved settings. Resume uses checkpointed task configuration, and completed checkpoints skip agent construction.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskYAML
  participant TaskSchema
  participant Workflow
  participant BackendFactory
  TaskYAML->>TaskSchema: Validate agent roles and casebook settings
  TaskSchema->>Workflow: Provide normalized task configuration
  Workflow->>Workflow: Resolve settings for each role
  Workflow->>BackendFactory: Create configured backend sessions
  BackendFactory->>Workflow: Return role agents
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LGTM. One thing to confirm is no overfitting in case that only the mentioned skills are disabled and no other skills are affected.

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🟠 Major · Build prompts from the authoritative task on resume. · cli.py:83

agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py:83
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Build prompts from the authoritative task on resume. Both CLIs derive include_casebook from --task, while their workflows configure skills from the checkpointed workspace/task.yaml. If those files differ, prompts can require a blocked skill or prohibit an enabled one.

  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py#L83-L83: read casebook state from the workspace task when resuming.
  • agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/cli.py#L144-L144: apply the same resume source selection before building prompts.
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In @agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py at line 83, When
resuming, derive casebook state from the checkpointed workspace task rather than
the potentially different --task input before building prompts. Apply this
source selection at both agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py
lines 83-83 and agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/cli.py lines
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🟠 Major · Remove casebook instructions from disabled prompts. · __init__.py:125

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Remove casebook instructions from disabled prompts.

When include_casebook is false, DEFAULT_PROMPTS still contains the casebook consultation instruction. This branch appends a conflicting instruction instead of omitting the original one. The same composition pattern appears in agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/prompts/__init__.py. Build both workflows' disabled prompts without the consultation text, then add the disabled guidance if needed.

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In @agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/prompts/__init__.py at line
125, Update the DEFAULT_PROMPTS composition in both perf_analyze and
perf_optimize so that when include_casebook is false, the casebook consultation
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- Line 83: When resuming, derive casebook state from the checkpointed workspace
task rather than the potentially different --task input before building prompts.
Apply this source selection at both
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/cli.py lines 83-83 and
agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/cli.py lines 144-144; retain the
existing task input source for new runs.

In @agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_analyze/prompts/__init__.py:
- Line 125: Update the DEFAULT_PROMPTS composition in both perf_analyze and
perf_optimize so that when include_casebook is false, the casebook consultation
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