What Flows just did
Based on your request to build Version Your Harness and Track Behavior, Flows created 4 implementation stages and 12 checks.
You asked for: Put the harness under behavioral version control: versioned prompt/tool/config artifacts, a behavior changelog, and a smoke eval that diffs behavior across versions.. Flows generated 4 stages because the application requires All behavior-bearing artifacts (prompts, tool descriptions, rules, routing) in version control as reviewable files; A harness version identifier stamped into logs and session records; A behavior changelog: every change entry says what behavior is expected to differ. Each stage tells your AI builder what to do, tests whether it actually worked, and gives a repair instruction when it fails. These checks are designed to catch: Prompts as unversioned strings buried in code, edited live; Changelogs listing file edits instead of behavior changes; No baseline eval, so behavioral drift is discovered by angry users.
Example failure
The form reported success, but no database record was created.
What Flows does
Flows detects the failure, generates a repair instruction, reruns the test, and stores the passing evidence.
Stages — Plan → Build → Test → Fix → Prove → Ship
4 stages · 12 checks · progressive disclosure — open a stage for details
Copy to external builder
Copies a prompt for Claude/Cursor/etc. Records prompt_copied only — not execution, commits, or checks.
Execute through Oort
Requires Sign in with Oort + a provider connection (BYOK). Keys stay on Oort. A model name in the dropdown is not the same as a live connection.
Next
Check off: Inventory covers all behavior-bearing strings
Add a proof note on each check — a checkbox alone is weak proof.
Probes & advanced tools are under “More verification tools”. Experience level: Settings.
Project (saved with proof)
Project binding: Unbound — complete project binding before trusting this run · missing repositoryUrl, repositoryStartCommit, environment, stack
More verification tools (probes, timeline, adapters)Show
App persistence (create → read → assert token)
Body template: {"probe":"{{token}}","title":"flows-probe-{{token}}"}. Needs CORS-readable public create/list endpoints (or inconclusive). Badge only when create→read→refresh finds the token (detects false success).
Two-account authorization (User B cannot see/change User A)
Authorization evidence source: Cross-account ownership test (trust level 5/6). These are not equivalent. Unauthenticated probe alone is weaker (source: unauthenticated API probe). Tokens stay in this browser session only — not uploaded to Flows servers.
Generated edge-case tests (review / approve)
- api_probe Logged-out users cannot open protected pages
- api_probe Protected API rejects requests without credentials
- api_probe Expired session cannot mutate data
- browser_automation Logout in one tab invalidates mutations from another
- cross_account_probe User B cannot see or change User A’s data
- cross_account_probe Participant cannot call coach/admin endpoints
- cross_account_probe URL/body ID tampering cannot cross tenant boundary
Generated from this route’s signals — you approve; you do not invent security tests.
Content probe (GET body contains text)
In-product content probe reads response text when CORS allows — not full DOM/click automation. Playwright script is optional and external.
Proof strength
thin · 0/100
Heuristic from notes + probes + gates — not a production certification.
Verification adapters
- ● Deploy URL probe · idle
- ● API path probe · idle
- ● Authz probe (unauth → 401/403) · idle
- ● Browser persistence · idle
- ● App persistence (create→read) · idle
- ● Content / body text probe · idle
- ○ In-product Playwright DOM · not embedded (download external script)
Filled circles = available here. Empty = not shipped. Probes are not a production audit. Adapter docs
Step 1 of 4
Not startedExtract behavior into versioned artifacts
You can only track what has an identity.
Flows keeps plan, checks, failures, and next steps connected
Your AI tool writes or changes the code
Repository grounds the plan only after inspect
Checks always carry a validation tier
How this plan was created
Plan from project details
Flows creates steps using the goal, requirements, stack, platform, and details you provide.
- Project description
- Selected template / route
- User-entered stack
- Constraints and notes
- Version Your Harness and Track Behavior
No repository inspection implied. Connect and inspect a codebase to ground steps in real files.
Codebase access
Checking GitHub…
Or paste a repository URL manually
Use these instructions in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Emergent, or another builder.
Extract every behavior-bearing artifact into versioned files. Inventory: system prompt sections, tool descriptions and schemas, permission/danger rules, routing tables, reminder templates, repair prompts, sub-agent prompts. Move each into a dedicated files structure (prompts/, tools/, rules/ or equivalent) loaded at startup - no behavioral string literals left in code. Define the harness version: a semver bumped on behavioral change, or the git SHA of the artifacts tree; implement version resolution at startup and stamp it into every session record and log line header. Verify by changing one file and seeing the new version in the next session's logs.
Project context
Copies the project goal, technical details, current step, previous progress, and checks so your AI tool understands what it is working on.
Expected after this step
Versioned artifact files with the harness version stamped into sessions.
Should not happen
- ✕Prompts as unversioned strings buried in code, edited live
- ✕Changelogs listing file edits instead of behavior changes
- ✕No baseline eval, so behavioral drift is discovered by angry users
- ✕Sessions unattributable to harness versions when debugging regressions
Verify gate — prove this step works before continuing
Do not move on until every check is true. Add proof notes — a checked box alone is weak proof. Checks are manual by default; deploy/API probes live under “More verification tools” and do not auto-check boxes.
Do not continue if…
- !Prompts as unversioned strings buried in code, edited live
- !Changelogs listing file edits instead of behavior changes
- !No baseline eval, so behavioral drift is discovered by angry users
- !Sessions unattributable to harness versions when debugging regressions
Repair path — if this step fails
Use the Repair Prompt when a verify gate fails. Loop: Detected → Diagnosed → Repair issued → Changed → Retested → Resolved
Show repair prompt textShow
Strings keep sneaking back into code. Add a lint/CI check greping for prompt-like literals in source (long strings near model calls) - make the easy path the compliant path.
Your notes for this step
Definition of Done
Final route-level requirements. Manual checks — separate from per-step verify gates. Completing step gates does not auto-check these. Route completion is not a production-ready claim.