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Charles YaoandClaude Opus 5 6877532f8e fix(dify-builder): key the repeated-repair guard on the engine, not LLM prose
_repair_is_repeating could never fire in production. _note_repair_error
counted repeats by exact string equality on diagnosis.root_cause, which is
LLM prose regenerated on every diagnosis call. Observed live across four
turns of one session: same failure, reworded every time, one turn switching
to Chinese. Equality therefore never held, repair_attempts reset forever,
and the guard was unreachable -- that session burned 9 failed verify runs
and 8 repair approvals with the guard in place.

The call site's own comment reads "ESQ1-285 burned nine approvals this way,
ESQ1-290 six". The reproduction burned nine again.

Key on the ENGINE's output instead: _failure_signature(run) returns the
first failed node's id plus its error text (whitespace-collapsed), falling
back to the launch error, and "" when the run identifies nothing -- so two
unknown failures never compare equal.

Why the existing tests passed while production was broken: every one of them
fed _note_repair_error the SAME literal string twice, and StubAgent.diagnose
always returns one fixed root_cause. They encoded the premise that is false
in production. The new handler-level test drives three turns with an agent
that rewords its root_cause each call while the engine fails identically,
and fails against the old implementation with repair_attempts == 0.

last_repair_error now holds that signature rather than prose. It was never
displayed -- its only use was this comparison.

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

Setup and Run

Important

In the v1.3.0 release, poetry has been replaced with uv as the package manager for Dify API backend service.

uv and pnpm are required to run the setup and development commands below.

The scripts resolve paths relative to their location, so you can run them from anywhere.

  1. Run setup (copies env files and installs dependencies).

    ./dev/setup
    
  2. Review api/.env, web/.env.local, and docker/middleware.env values (see the SECRET_KEY note below).

  3. Start middleware (PostgreSQL/Redis/Weaviate).

    ./dev/start-docker-compose
    
  4. Start backend (runs migrations first).

    ./dev/start-api
    
  5. Start Dify web service.

    ./dev/start-web
    

    ./dev/setup and ./dev/start-web install JavaScript dependencies through the repository root workspace, so you do not need a separate cd web && pnpm install step.

  6. Set up your application by visiting http://localhost:3000.

  7. Start the worker service (async and scheduler tasks, runs from api).

    ./dev/start-worker
    
  8. Optional: start Celery Beat (scheduled tasks).

    ./dev/start-beat
    

Environment notes

Important

When the frontend and backend run on different subdomains, set COOKIE_DOMAIN to the site’s top-level domain (e.g., example.com). The frontend and backend must be under the same top-level domain in order to share authentication cookies.

  • Generate a SECRET_KEY in the .env file.

    bash for Linux

    sed -i "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 42)" .env
    

    bash for Mac

    secret_key=$(openssl rand -base64 42)
    sed -i '' "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\\
    SECRET_KEY=${secret_key}" .env
    

Testing

  1. Install dependencies for both the backend and the test environment

    cd api
    uv sync --group dev
    
  2. Run the tests locally with mocked system environment variables in tool.pytest_env section in pyproject.toml, more can check AGENTS.md

    Continue in the api directory from the previous step.

    uv run pytest                           # Run all tests
    uv run pytest tests/unit_tests/         # Unit tests only
    uv run pytest tests/integration_tests/  # Integration tests
    
    # Code quality
    ../dev/reformat              # Run all formatters and linters
    uv run ruff check --fix ./   # Fix linting issues
    uv run ruff format ./        # Format code
    uv run pyrefly check         # Type checking
    

Generate TS stub

uv run dev/generate_swagger_specs.py --output-dir openapi

use https://jsontotable.org/openapi-to-typescript to convert to typescript