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…generation Implements the `wfctl docs generate` command that produces Markdown documentation with embedded Mermaid diagrams from workflow configuration files. Generated documentation includes: - README.md: Application overview, required plugins, capabilities, sidecars - modules.md: Module inventory, type breakdown, config details, dependency graph - pipelines.md: Pipeline definitions, step tables, workflow diagrams, compensation - workflows.md: HTTP routes with route diagrams, messaging, state machine diagrams - plugins.md: External plugin details (when -plugin-dir is specified) - architecture.md: Layered system architecture and plugin architecture diagrams All Mermaid node names are properly quoted/escaped to pass validation. Includes example config with GoCodeAlone/workflow-plugin-authz external plugin reference, comprehensive tests, and WFCTL.md documentation. Co-authored-by: intel352 <77607+intel352@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Add documentation generation for workflows via wfctl
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wfctl docs generate command for Markdown + Mermaid documentation generation
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Pull request overview
Adds a new wfctl docs generate subcommand and a full example showing how to generate Markdown documentation (with Mermaid diagrams) from a workflow configuration, including optional documentation for external plugins discovered via plugin.json manifests.
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wfctl docs generateimplementation that renders README/modules/pipelines/workflows/plugins/architecture docs with Mermaid diagrams. - Wires the new
docscommand into wfctl’s CLI registry/config and updates CLI documentation (docs/WFCTL.md). - Adds an end-to-end example workflow + external plugin manifest fixture, plus unit tests covering doc generation output.
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| example/docs-with-plugins/workflow.yaml | New example workflow config used to demonstrate docs generation with modules/workflows/pipelines/sidecars and external plugins. |
| example/docs-with-plugins/README.md | Instructions for running wfctl docs generate and what files it produces. |
| example/docs-with-plugins/plugins/workflow-plugin-authz/plugin.json | Example external plugin manifest used by docs generation for plugins page content. |
| docs/WFCTL.md | Documents the new docs generate command and flags in the wfctl command reference. |
| cmd/wfctl/wfctl.yaml | Registers the docs command in the workflow-driven CLI config and adds the cmd-docs pipeline. |
| cmd/wfctl/main.go | Adds docs to the top-level command dispatch map. |
| cmd/wfctl/docs.go | New implementation of wfctl docs generate and the Markdown/Mermaid generator. |
| cmd/wfctl/docs_test.go | Adds coverage for docs generation behavior and content assertions. |
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loadPluginManifests silently skips invalid plugin.json files (it returns nil on parse errors). This can lead to incomplete plugin documentation with no indication to the user even when they explicitly pass -plugin-dir. Consider returning an error (possibly aggregating all invalid manifests) or at least emitting a warning listing skipped paths so misconfigurations aren’t hidden.
⏱ Benchmark Results✅ No significant performance regressions detected. benchstat comparison (baseline → PR)
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@copilot apply changes based on the comments in this thread Also fix the failing tests and failing config validation |
…move writeJSON to test, fix CI validation failure - loadPluginManifests now emits a warning to stderr when a plugin.json cannot be parsed, rather than silently skipping it - writeConfigYAML replaced with yaml.Marshal for valid, properly-quoted YAML output in configuration blocks - writeJSON helper moved from docs.go to docs_test.go (test-only code) - Fix CI: add JWT_SECRET to auth.jwt in example config, add authz.enforcer and authz.policy as extra module types in TestExampleConfigsValidate Co-authored-by: intel352 <77607+intel352@users.noreply.github.com>
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All three review items and the CI failure are addressed in commit
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@copilot Failing tests, failing config validation, still |
Add docs-with-plugins/workflow.yaml to the envIssues skip map in TestExampleConfigsBuildFromConfig since authz.enforcer requires the external GoCodeAlone/workflow-plugin-authz plugin not available in the test engine. Co-authored-by: intel352 <77607+intel352@users.noreply.github.com>
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Fixed in commit |
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Adds a
wfctl docs generatecommand that produces a full documentation site from workflow YAML configs, with Mermaid diagrams rendered natively on GitHub.Generated output
README.mdmodules.mdpipelines.mdgraph TD), compensation stepsworkflows.mdstateDiagram-v2)plugins.md-plugin-dir)architecture.mdFiles are conditionally emitted—no
pipelines.mdif no pipelines exist, noplugins.mdwithout-plugin-dir.Mermaid safety
mermaidQuote()wraps labels containing special characters in double-quotes (escaping internal quotes as#quot;).mermaidID()normalizes node identifiers to[a-zA-Z0-9_]. This prevents broken diagram rendering from YAML names likeauth-jwtorGET /api/orders/:id.Changes
cmd/wfctl/docs.go—docsGeneratorstruct producing all six document types from parsedWorkflowConfig+ optionalPluginManifestlistcmd/wfctl/docs_test.go— 20+ tests covering generation paths, mermaid quoting/ID generation, helpers, plugin manifest loadingcmd/wfctl/main.go/wfctl.yaml— Registerdocscommand and CLI pipelinedocs/WFCTL.md— Command reference fordocs generateexample/docs-with-plugins/— Full example config referencingGoCodeAlone/workflow-plugin-authzwith a realisticplugin.jsonmanifest🔒 GitHub Advanced Security automatically protects Copilot coding agent pull requests. You can protect all pull requests by enabling Advanced Security for your repositories. Learn more about Advanced Security.