fix(editor): fail closed when editor-owned instructions can't resolve - #21395
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Agents configured with `editor: { instructions: true }` are forbidden
from providing instructions in code, so they rely entirely on a
published Studio version. When no published version resolved — never
provisioned, draft-only, deleted, or a storage error — applyStoredOverrides
silently returned the agent unchanged, leaving it with empty instructions
while generation succeeded normally.
Now it throws a clear error in each of those cases instead. Code-owned
agents (no explicit editor.instructions: true) are unaffected since they
always carry real fallback instructions.
Fixes mastra-ai#21373
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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WalkthroughEditor-owned agents now throw descriptive errors when Studio cannot load published instructions. Code-owned agents retain fail-open behavior. Regression tests cover missing configurations, unpublished or instruction-less versions, storage failures, and valid code-owned overrides. ChangesEditor-owned instruction resolution
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In @.changeset/dull-bars-happen.md:
- Line 5: Add concise breaking-change migration guidance to the changeset:
explain the previous empty-instructions behavior and the new error behavior,
then provide Before and After instructions. Include a short public Agent example
using editor.instructions true that specifies either a published Studio
configuration or the supported draft-status alternative.
In `@packages/editor/src/apply-stored-overrides.test.ts`:
- Around line 467-538: Move the regression suite for
EditorAgentNamespace.applyStoredOverrides, including makeEditorOwnedAgent and
its four cases, from the current test file into a sibling test file under
namespaces beside agent.ts. Preserve all assertions and setup, and remove the
duplicated cases from the original suite.
In `@packages/editor/src/namespaces/agent.ts`:
- Around line 541-545: Update the stored-configuration handling in the agent
fork flow to treat null or undefined storedConfig.instructions as missing, call
failClosed for editor-owned agents before returning, and preserve the existing
return behavior otherwise. Add a regression test covering a published record
without instructions.
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Addresses CodeRabbit review on mastra-ai#21395: - A stored/published record can exist with no `instructions` field at all (e.g. published before any were written). applyStoredOverrides now fails closed for that case too, not just unresolved/draft-only records. - Moved the fail-closed regression tests to packages/editor/src/namespaces/agent.test.ts, colocated with the source they test. - Added a before/after example to the changeset. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Scope: Fail closed when editor: { instructions: true } agents can't resolve instructions from storage (fixes #21373).
Verified
- Correctness: All four silent-failure scenarios now throw with an actionable message (never provisioned, draft-only +
status: 'published', published record with no instructions, storage load failure). Agents withouteditorconfig are untouched and keep code-defined instructions. - Architecture: The Studio agent-list handler wraps
applyStoredOverridesin try/catch, so unprovisioned editor-owned agents still appear in Studio for provisioning — only execution paths fail closed. Right split. - Tests: 5 regression tests colocated with the namespace; full
packages/editorsuite passes locally (518 passed, 13 skipped) andtsc --noEmitis clean. - Review signal: All 3 CodeRabbit findings (changeset before/after example, test colocation, missing-instructions case) addressed and resolved; latest CodeRabbit pass on head has no actionable comments.
- Changeset:
@mastra/editorpatch with clear before/after and public API example.
Non-blocking note
EditorAgentNamespace.update() hydrates via applyStoredOverrides({ status: 'draft' }), so updating record-only fields (e.g. name) of an editor-owned agent whose draft version still has no instructions will now throw. This is consistent with the fail-closed intent, just flagging it as a behavior change in that flow.
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Problem
Agents configured with
editor: { instructions: true }are forbidden from providing instructions in code (the type system enforcesinstructions?: never), so they depend entirely on a published Studio version. When no published version resolves — the stored agent was never created, only a draft exists andstatus: 'published'is requested, the stored agent was deleted, or the storage adapter fails to load —applyStoredOverridessilently returns the code agent unchanged. Since the code agent has empty instructions in this case, the agent generates responses normally with no instructions at all, and nothing signals the failure.Fix
In
packages/editor/src/namespaces/agent.ts,applyStoredOverridesnow throws a clear, actionable error in each of the three fail-open branches (storage/lookup failure, no stored config, draft-only +publishedrequested) only when instructions are exclusively editor-owned (editor.instructions === true). Agents that omiteditorentirely are unaffected — they always carry real code-defined instructions as a fallback, so there's nothing to fail closed on.Scoped narrowly to instructions per the reported bug; the richer
onMissing/fallbackpolicy config discussed in the issue is left as a follow-up, and tools-ownership parity (editor.tools: true) is not addressed here.Reproduction
Confirmed via a temporary repro test (not included in this PR) exercising the exact scenarios from the issue:
status: 'published'→ agent generated successfully with an empty system prompt (no instructions sent to the model at all).status: 'published'requested → resolved to empty instructions even though a draft existed.Both are now covered by regression tests and throw instead.
Testing
apply-stored-overrides.test.tscovering: never-provisioned, draft-only + published request, storage adapter failure, and a sanity check that code-owned agents are unaffected.packages/editorfull test suite: 499 passed (1 pre-existing, unrelated failure ineditor-mcp-server.test.tsdue to a stale@mastra/mcpbuild in my local environment — not touched by this change).Fixes #21373
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ELI5
When an agent gets its instructions from the editor, it now stops with a clear error if those instructions cannot be found or loaded. Agents with instructions defined in code keep their existing behavior.
Changes
applyStoredOverridesto fail closed foreditor: { instructions: true }agents when:status: 'published'is requested.instructionsfield.packages/editor/src/namespaces/agent.test.ts.Testing
packages/editortest suite: 499 tests passed.