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João Moura 01a156d738 feat(flow): synthesize the built-in conversational methods for declarations (#7033)
* test(flow): unskip the conversational end-to-end suite

The `conversational_graph_broken` marker parked 21 end-to-end conversational
tests with the reason "the definition-first start migration intentionally
stopped scanning inherited methods, so that graph no longer registers".

That is no longer true: `_iter_flow_methods` walks the MRO for
`__conversational_only__` methods (dsl/_utils.py:406-420), so a
`conversational = True` subclass does register `route_conversation`,
`converse_turn`, `end_conversation` and `answer_from_history_turn` — which
`test_flow_definition.py:391-407` already asserts.

Removing the marker takes the file from 47 passed / 21 skipped to 68 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): make conversational opt-in unmistakable

Opting a Flow into chat took two statements, and forgetting one failed
silently. With `@ConversationConfig(...)` but no `conversational = True`:
`FlowDefinition.conversational` came back `None`, the built-in graph never
registered, and `handle_turn()` returned `None` without appending a message
or raising — while `chat()` reported "only available on conversational flows"
on a class that was literally decorated with a conversational config.

Three changes:

- `ConversationConfig.__call__` now also sets `conversational = True`. Every
  field on the config is consumed only by the conversational graph, so a
  decorated non-conversational Flow could only ever discard it.
- `FlowConversationalDefinition.enabled` defaults to True. The block is absent
  on non-conversational flows, so declaring it is the opt-in; `enabled: false`
  remains an explicit opt-out.
- `handle_turn()` raises like `chat()` and `stream_turn()` already do instead
  of silently returning `None`.

Setting `conversational = True` by hand still works and is still the way to
opt in without a config.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): let a declaration drive conversational mode

`FlowDefinition.conversational` was written by the DSL projection and read by
nothing: every conversational gate resolved through `type(self).flow_definition()`
— the class projection — instead of `self._definition`, the declaration a flow
was actually built from. So `Flow.from_declaration()` on a definition with a
conversational block produced a flow that reported itself non-conversational,
dropped the user message, and never registered its declared routes.

Resolution rules, applied consistently:

- Structure (enabled, methods, route labels, builtin/internal routes) comes
  from `self._definition`, which is the loaded declaration for a declarative
  flow and the class projection otherwise. Both paths now agree.
- Behavior (`conversational_config`) still prefers the class attribute, which
  can hold live objects — a configured LLM, a custom BaseLLM, a response_format
  model class — that the serializable definition degrades to a config dict or a
  `module:qualname` ref. Reading the definition first would silently downgrade
  every decorated Python flow. A declaration-built flow has no class config, so
  `_config_from_definition` supplies one, cached for stable identity.
- A declared `state:` block is never replaced. `_create_default_extension_state`
  is consulted before `_create_definition_state`, so returning `ConversationState`
  there discarded every field the declaration asked for. It now yields to a
  declared state and only supplies the default when nothing else does.

The class-scoped `_is_conversational` / `_conversational_definition`
classmethods are gone; the existing instance-scoped `_is_conversational_enabled`
is the single gate.

A router `response_format` that survived serialization as a ref or schema dict
is dropped with a warning rather than handed to `llm.call()`, which needs a
real class.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(flow): synthesize the built-in conversational methods for declarations

A declaration carrying `conversational: {}` loaded clean and then ran zero
methods and returned `None`, because the four built-in graph handlers are
inherited from `_ConversationalMixin` and a declaration has nothing to inherit
from. Authors had to name `crewai.experimental.conversational_mixin:_Conversational
Mixin.route_conversation` and three siblings by hand.

`Flow._extend_definition` is a new runtime extension hook, called once
`_definition` is resolved and before methods are bound. The conversational
mixin overrides it to fill in `route_conversation`, `converse_turn`,
`end_conversation` and `answer_from_history_turn` when they are missing, using
the same code refs the DSL projection already emits so a declaration and a
class projection of the same flow produce identical method definitions.

Synthesis is deliberately a runtime concern, not a contract one:
`FlowDefinition` stays independent of the authoring layer and of the engine,
as `test_flow_definition_contract_is_dsl_agnostic` requires, and a loaded
declaration still serializes back to exactly what its author wrote.

Route descriptions are now carried by the contract. The DSL projects a handler
docstring's first line into `FlowMethodDefinition.description`, and the router
catalog reads that before falling back to the live docstring. This also fixes
a real defect: for a declarative flow `getattr(type(self), handler_name, None)`
is `None`, and the old code read `None.__doc__` — so the router LLM was told a
route's description was "The type of the None singleton."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(flow): let an agent or crew handler reply in a conversation (#7034)

`handle_turn` promotes a handler's return value to the assistant message when
the handler did not append one itself, but the check required `isinstance(result,
str)`. Declarative `agent` and `crew` actions return `LiteAgentOutput` and
`CrewOutput`, whose text lives on `.raw` — so the most natural declarative
handler was exactly the one whose reply never reached the transcript.

`_is_public_turn_result` now unwraps `.raw` before deciding, matching
`_stringify_result`, which already did. The routing-artefact guards are applied
to the unwrapped text, so an output echoing a route label or this turn's intent
is still not promoted.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(flow): keep privately recorded agent results out of the transcript

Unwrapping `.raw` in `_is_public_turn_result` made the end-of-turn fallback
promote `LiteAgentOutput` / `CrewOutput` objects that the handler had already
recorded via `append_agent_result` with the default private visibility. That
call does not set `_assistant_reply_appended`, so the fallback republished the
very object the handler asked to keep private — defeating
`visible_agent_outputs`.

Reproduced against `main` for contrast: no leak before the unwrap, leak after.

`append_agent_result` now remembers the object it recorded for the duration of
the turn, and the fallback skips anything already routed that way. The check is
identity-based on purpose: a handler that records scratch work privately and
then returns a user-facing summary still gets that summary promoted, which a
simple "handler already handled it" flag would have broken.

Found by Cursor Bugbot on #7033.

* feat(flow): mark a declarative chat flow conversational on the instance

A declaration enables chat through `conversational.enabled`, without the
`conversational = True` class attribute. Callers outside this package
capability-check that attribute -- the AG-UI serving guide states it as a
requirement -- so it disagreed with `_is_conversational_enabled()` and a
declarative conversational flow looked non-conversational from outside.

`_extend_definition` now sets it on the instance when the definition enables
chat. Instance-only on purpose: the DSL projection reads the attribute off the
*class* to decide whether to emit a conversational block, so setting it there
would make every later subclass look conversational.

Verified on a real declarative flow: `conversational` and `stream_turn` both
now satisfy the documented capability check, while `Flow.conversational` and
any later subclass stay False.

* refactor(flow): derive routing-artefact labels from the effective routes

`_is_public_turn_result` matched a literal set of route labels, duplicating
knowledge that `_effective_builtin_routes()` already owns. A declaration that
adds a builtin route was not covered, so a handler echoing that label could be
promoted into the transcript -- the same class of divergence already fixed for
`route_turn`.

Verified the derived set is byte-identical to the old literal one for a
class-based flow, so this is a pure generalization: `conversation` and
`route_to_flow` stay explicit because neither is a route.

Also replaces a tuple-index lambda in the chat REPL test with a named
`input_fn`; it relied on tuple evaluation order and on the list being mutated
before its length was read.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #7033.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: ViditOstwal <viditostwal@gmail.com>
2026-08-19 20:03:11 +05:30
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