v0.25.0

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title: "0.25.0"
description: "Typed workflow output reads, the POC UI apps removed in favor of the standalone UI repo, and a green CI plus a hardened release pipeline."

Smithers 0.25.0 gives workflow authors typed output reads, retires the in-repo proof-of-concept UI apps now that the product UI lives in its own repository, and brings the build, typecheck, and test gates back to green with a more robust release pipeline. The published library entry point (smithers-orchestrator) is unchanged.

Typed workflow output

ctx.output, ctx.outputMaybe, and ctx.latest now infer the row type from the table argument instead of returning an untyped row.

• Pass a registered table name (ctx.outputMaybe("research", { nodeId: "research" })) or the schema object (ctx.outputMaybe(outputs.research, ...)) and the result carries that schema's fields, so result.summary and result.findings typecheck.
• Drizzle tables resolve through $inferSelect; anything untyped still falls back to the previous untyped row, so existing call sites keep working.

Removed the POC UI apps

The product UI moved to a separate repository, so the local proof-of-concept UIs are gone: @smithers-orchestrator/smithers (the Cerebras chat PWA), @smithers-orchestrator/smithers-studio-2 (the studio shell), @smithers-orchestrator/smithers-demo, and @smithers-orchestrator/smithers-tui-demo. The custom workflow UI surface you build with bunx smithers-orchestrator ui (powered by gateway-react and components) is unaffected.

CI and release pipeline

• The CI workflow is green again: every per-package typecheck, the .smithers workflow pack typecheck, the examples and evals typechecks, and the full test suite pass. The browser app-e2e job, which required browsers and backend secrets a clean runner does not have, was removed.
• pnpm release now tolerates the non-deterministic import ordering that rollup-plugin-dts emits for large declaration files, so the build drift guard no longer blocks a release on cosmetic reordering while still catching genuinely stale generated artifacts.
• Regenerated the gateway openapi.yaml, the package declaration files, and the llms-*.txt bundles, and dropped redundant declaration builds from the packages that ship TypeScript sources directly.

Fixes

• The smithers gateway server keeps stdout clean and exits cleanly on shutdown instead of emitting a trailing completion frame.
• Imperative logs made inside an Effect now keep their run and node correlation without the AsyncLocalStorage bridge leaking across an Effect run boundary.

Upgrade

bunx smithers-orchestrator@0.25.0