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1 of 5. Stacked: this → #497 (file format) → #498 (demo) → #504 (TS SDK) → #505 (Python SDK). Review in order; each is independently reviewable.

Run several existing Deepnote notebooks as one pipeline from plain TypeScript control flow: fan out with Promise.all, gate on the results, decide.

import { runPipeline } from '@deepnote/pipelines'

const { value, graph } = await runPipeline(async ({ run, control, outputs }) => {
  const analyses = await Promise.all(
    REGIONS.map((r) => run({ id: r.name, notebookId: r.notebookId, inputs: { region: r.name } })),
  )
  const readings = analyses.map((s) => outputs.lastJson(s))
  const failing = await control(
    { id: 'quality-gate', kind: 'gate', dependsOn: analyses.map((s) => s.id) },
    () => readings.filter((r) => r.qualityScore < 0.95).map((r) => r.region),
  )
  return { checked: readings.length, failing }
}, { token, onEvent })

Deliberately an imperative API, not a workflow language. The callback's own control flow provides sequencing, concurrency, and conditionals; the library records what happened as a graph, an event stream, and normalized step results.

Where it lives

A new package, @deepnote/pipelines. Nothing reachable from runPipeline imports node:*, so the same pipeline runs in a script, in CI, and in a browser page (#498 proves that). A local, Python-backed runner was the wrong home for that, so the browser-safe half of @deepnote/local-runner (snapshot-view, input-info, output extraction) moved here and local-runner re-exports it. Nothing already published changes shape.

Notebooks are addressed by id and must already exist. Running a pipeline needs permission to run a notebook, not to create one, which is what lets a page do it with a viewer's short-lived token.

API

  • runPipeline(workflow, { token, concurrency?, onEvent? }): the pipeline API against Deepnote Cloud.
  • runPipelineWithExecutor(workflow, options, executor): same engine, runner left open. A caller with a local Python kernel supplies one here.
  • control() records a local decision as a graph node, so a gate is visible instead of happening invisibly between steps.
  • pipelineOutputs.lastJson / lastAgentText read results without depending on block ids, which Deepnote reassigns when it creates a notebook.
  • A failed notebook rejects with PipelineStepError carrying the result; allowFailure: true returns it instead, for every way a step can fail including timeouts and API errors. Every rejection carries partial: the steps that finished, the graph, and the timings.
  • concurrency (default 10) caps steps in flight, so a wide fan-out cannot flood the API.

Changes since the previous revision

  • allowFailure now covers a throwing executor. executeNode only honoured it when the executor returned success: false; a poll timeout, a transport or API error, or a missing snapshot was wrapped in PipelineStepError and rethrown, so one hung run in an allow_failure fan-out discarded every other step (seen live on 2 September: onboarding-brief[0] timed out after ten minutes and five finished steps were lost). The engine now synthesizes the failed result the executor could not return: success: false, status: 'timeout' for a RunTimeoutError and 'error' otherwise, the message as error, empty outputs, no snapshot, the runId when the error exposes one, and the timings. The graph node finishes as failed and step_failed carries that result. Without allowFailure nothing changes.
  • A failure no longer discards the run. runPipelineWithExecutor awaited the callback with no try/catch, so a failing step lost the results and graph it had accumulated. PipelineStepError gains partial (steps in start order, graph, startedAt, finishedAt, durationMs), and anything else the callback throws is wrapped in a new exported PipelineRunError with the same partial and the original as cause. The resolved shape is unchanged. The example runner writes whatever partial result it receives on failure.
  • The whole last output no longer has to be JSON. Jupyter merges consecutive prints into one stream chunk, so a summary line before the JSON made lastJson report no structured output. lastOutputJson and outputJson now fall back to the suffix starting at the last line beginning with { or [, scanning backwards so pretty-printed JSON parses too. When nothing parses, the error quotes the last 200 characters the block printed.
  • README: a "When a step fails" section, and lastJson documented as needing the last block's output to end with JSON, with earlier lines ignored.

Testing

Engine covered through a fake executor (graph, edges, control nodes, concurrency cap with an exact peak-in-flight assertion, duplicate/unknown id rejection, output helpers); the cloud binding with @deepnote/cloud mocked; abort-during-sleep in packages/cloud. Full suite (3135), typecheck, biome, prettier, cspell green.

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  • New Features

    • Added pipeline execution for concurrent notebook workflows, control nodes, result gates, graph metadata, and configurable concurrency limits.
    • Added cloud-backed execution with input validation, status updates, output extraction, diagnostics, and cancellation support.
    • Added input metadata helpers for sliders and select controls.
    • Added partial-result reporting when pipeline steps fail.
    • Added a script-based regional pipeline example with quality checks.
  • Documentation

    • Added installation, usage, browser compatibility, execution, and configuration guidance.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Pipeline polling now stops promptly when cancellation is requested.
    • Improved JSON output parsing and failure details.

Run several Deepnote notebooks as one pipeline: fan out, gate on the results,
decide. The callback's own control flow is the pipeline — await, Promise.all,
loops, branches — and the library records what happened: the graph, the events,
the normalized results.

It needs no server and no local kernel. Every step is an HTTP call to Deepnote,
so nothing reachable from orchestrate() imports node:*, and the same pipeline
runs in a script, in CI, and in a browser page. Notebooks are addressed by id and
must already exist: running a pipeline needs permission to run a notebook, not to
create one, which is what lets a page do it with a viewer's short-lived token.

- orchestrate(workflow, { token }) — the pipeline API.
- runOrchestration(workflow, options, executor) — the same engine with the runner
  left open, for callers that want to run steps somewhere else.
- control() records a local decision as a graph node, so a gate is visible rather
  than happening invisibly between steps.
- outputs.lastJson / lastAgentText read results without depending on block ids,
  which Deepnote reassigns when it creates a notebook.

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Added @deepnote/pipelines with graph-based notebook execution, Cloud execution, input coercion, cancellation, concurrency limits, snapshot parsing, and output extraction. Updated @deepnote/local-runner to consume shared pipeline exports. Added tests, documentation, packaging, and a regional fan-out example with a quality gate.

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The pipeline feature still has unresolved failure-lifecycle and output-handling behavior that can trigger unintended notebook executions or expose inconsistent results after a run fails, so it is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and operational issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Script
  participant runPipeline
  participant CloudExecutor
  participant DeepnoteAPI
  Script->>runPipeline: define regional notebook steps and quality gate
  runPipeline->>CloudExecutor: execute notebook steps concurrently
  CloudExecutor->>DeepnoteAPI: trigger and poll runs
  DeepnoteAPI-->>CloudExecutor: status and snapshot
  CloudExecutor-->>runPipeline: outputs and step status
  runPipeline-->>Script: gate result and graph metadata
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packages/local-runner/src/orchestrate.ts (1)

377-386: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Partial graph is lost when the pipeline throws.

runOrchestration returns graph and steps only on success. If workflow rejects, the caller receives OrchestrationStepError with one step result and no graph. The module states its purpose is to record what happened, so a failed pipeline is exactly when the graph matters most.

Consider attaching the recorded graph and steps to the thrown error, or exposing them through a caller-supplied sink.

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In `@packages/local-runner/src/orchestrate.ts` around lines 377 - 386, Update
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graph and ordered steps on the thrown OrchestrationStepError, while retaining
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Re-export the runtime-core types the orchestration surface exposes.

OrchestrationEvent carries IOutput and OrchestrationStepResult carries ExecutionSummary. Line 1 re-exports AgentStreamEvent but not these two. A consumer that narrows a block_output event must add a direct dependency on @deepnote/runtime-core.

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In `@packages/local-runner/src/index.ts` around lines 18 - 37, Update the package
exports near the orchestration type re-exports to also expose the runtime-core
types used by OrchestrationEvent and OrchestrationStepResult, specifically
IOutput and ExecutionSummary, so consumers can use the orchestration surface
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In `@examples/local-runner/orchestration/README.md`:
- Around line 19-20: Add the missing json import at the start of the Python
example so the json.dumps call can emit the gate payload without raising
NameError.

In `@examples/local-runner/orchestration/run.mjs`:
- Around line 3-4: Update examples/local-runner/orchestration/run.mjs lines 3-4
to limit the portability claim to the orchestration callback, acknowledging the
Node-specific bootstrap. Update examples/local-runner/orchestration/README.md
lines 10-12 to state that browser callers must replace the Node bootstrap and
provide configuration and the token through browser-compatible code.

In `@packages/local-runner/src/cloud-executor.ts`:
- Around line 112-118: Prevent malformed snapshot YAML from escaping the
executor and discarding the completed run result. Add a safe snapshot-reading
helper near the existing snapshot parsing logic that catches parsing failures
and returns empty outputs with a null snapshot, while preserving snapshotYaml;
use its result when constructing the step result alongside runId and error.
- Around line 89-95: Update the pollRunUntilComplete contract and its
PollOptions type to accept an optional signal, pass that signal to getRun and
polling waits, and replace the cast at the CloudExecutor call site with a
properly typed options object so CloudExecutorOptions.signal cancels polling.

In `@packages/local-runner/src/run-orchestration.test.ts`:
- Around line 202-217: Update the test named “reads the last agent block,
preferring the text it generated” so the markdown memo block has non-empty
content and the assertion verifies that content, exercising the preference
branch in lastAgentText. Add or retain a separate test case covering fallback to
the agent block’s own output when no generated markdown content is available.

---

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In `@packages/local-runner/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 18-37: Update the package exports near the orchestration type
re-exports to also expose the runtime-core types used by OrchestrationEvent and
OrchestrationStepResult, specifically IOutput and ExecutionSummary, so consumers
can use the orchestration surface without importing runtime-core directly.

In `@packages/local-runner/src/orchestrate.ts`:
- Around line 377-386: Update runOrchestration so workflow failures preserve and
expose the partially recorded graph and ordered steps on the thrown
OrchestrationStepError, while retaining the existing successful return shape and
ordering behavior.
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- Abort actually reaches polling. PollOptions had no signal field, so
  `signal: options.signal` was silently discarded by an `as PollOptions` cast:
  the documented abort never reached the poll loop, which is the long part of a
  run. Threaded through to getRun and the interval waits, and an abort is no
  longer retried as a transient failure.
- A malformed snapshot no longer destroys the step result. parseSnapshot and
  extractOutputs both throw on bad content; that escaped the executor and became
  an OrchestrationStepError, discarding the status, run id, and error — the very
  diagnostics the snapshot was fetched to preserve, and unreachable by
  allowFailure since a throw is not a failed result. It degrades to raw YAML now.
- The lastAgentText test asserted the fall-through, not the generated-block
  preference its comment described; the markdown block had no content so the
  branch was never exercised. Split into two tests that cover both paths.
- The orchestration example claimed nothing in it was Node-specific while using
  process.loadEnvFile/env/exit. The pipeline is portable; the bootstrap is not.
- Added the missing `import json` to the example's Python snippet.

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Comment thread packages/cloud/src/cloud-runs.ts
The engine imports no `node:*` by design, so a pipeline can run in a browser
tab. That made `@deepnote/local-runner` — a local, Python-backed runner — the
wrong home for it. Move it to its own package before the API is published, and
name it after what it does.

- `orchestrate` -> `runPipeline`, `runOrchestration` -> `runPipelineWithExecutor`,
  `Orchestration*` -> `Pipeline*`, `orchestrationOutputs` -> `pipelineOutputs`.
- Snapshot reading moves too: `snapshot-view.ts` and `input-info.ts` are the
  browser-safe half of local-runner and the pipeline needs them, so keeping them
  behind would have made the two packages depend on each other. `local-runner`
  re-exports them, and `local-runner/snapshot-reader` still bundles them, so
  nothing already published changes shape.
- `RunBlockOutput` moves alongside, with `ExecutionSummary` and
  `AgentStreamEvent` restated rather than imported: depending on
  `@deepnote/runtime-core` for two type aliases would pull a Python execution
  engine into a browser bundle. `pipeline-types.test.ts` fails to compile if the
  shapes drift.
- The example moves to `examples/pipelines/script`, run by `pnpm example:pipeline`.

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  --glob '!packages/pipelines/src/**' \
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Preserve the local-runner compatibility exports.

The previous index exported the orchestration types and helpers. The current index removes them, while @deepnote/pipelines provides the corresponding Pipeline*, runPipeline, and runPipelineWithExecutor APIs. Add compatibility aliases or wrappers so existing @deepnote/local-runner imports continue to compile.

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In `@packages/local-runner/src/index.ts` around lines 1 - 2, Update the
local-runner index exports to preserve compatibility with the previous
orchestration API by re-exporting or wrapping the corresponding Pipeline* types
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@jamesbhobbs jamesbhobbs changed the title feat(local-runner): orchestrate notebook pipelines feat(pipelines): compose Deepnote notebook runs into pipelines Aug 31, 2026
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Moved out of @deepnote/local-runner into a new @deepnote/pipelines

The engine imports no node:* by design, so a pipeline can run in a browser tab. That made a local, Python-backed runner the wrong home for it. Done now, while the API is unpublished, rather than as a deprecation shim later.

Renames: orchestrate → runPipeline, runOrchestration → runPipelineWithExecutor, Orchestration* → Pipeline*, orchestrationOutputs → pipelineOutputs, planOrchestration → planPipeline, orchestrateFile → runPipelineFile, planWorkflow → pipelineForPlan.

Two consequences worth knowing:

  • Snapshot reading moved too. snapshot-view.ts and input-info.ts are the browser-safe half of local-runner and the pipeline needs them; leaving them behind would have made the two packages depend on each other. @deepnote/local-runner re-exports them and still ships local-runner/snapshot-reader, so nothing already published changes shape.
  • ExecutionSummary and AgentStreamEvent are restated, not imported. Depending on @deepnote/runtime-core for two type aliases would pull a Python execution engine into a browser bundle. packages/local-runner/src/pipeline-types.test.ts fails to compile if the shapes drift.

Also in the stack: the browser bundle is now @deepnote/pipelines/browser (global DeepnotePipelines), the durable step is @deepnote/pipelines/workflows, the Python interpreter is packages/pipelines/python/deepnote_pipeline.py, and the examples live under examples/pipelines/.

Built on top, as separate PRs: #504 (an ergonomic TS client — awaitable runs, notebook handles, named outputs) and #505 (the Python SDK).

jamesbhobbs and others added 6 commits September 1, 2026 18:57
Stop exporting the engine's internals (finishResult, toRunInputs, the
standalone output helpers) from the package index; callers reach the
helpers through pipelineOutputs / context.outputs. Remove the fields and
event variants nothing ever set or emitted: viewUrl and summary on step
results and graph nodes, the block_output and agent_event events, the
'branch' control kind and the node-definition version. registerNode
already validates ids, so the second validateNodeId call goes too.

RunBlockOutput moves into extract-outputs.ts; block-output.ts only
existed to mirror runtime-core's AgentStreamEvent and ExecutionSummary
for the removed fields, so it and the local-runner test asserting that
mirror are deleted.

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Add `concurrency` to the pipeline options (default 10, a positive
integer) and gate the executor call in `run()` behind a counting
semaphore, so `Promise.all` over a large fan-out no longer starts every
notebook run at once. A step waits for a slot before it is registered,
so `step_started` and `startedAt` still describe a run that has begun.

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`pollRunUntilComplete` only checked its signal after the interval sleep
resolved, so an abort during a long interval sat unnoticed until the
timer fired. Use `abortableSleep` for the default sleep and race a
caller-provided one against the signal, as `waitForRunSnapshot` already
does.

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`toRunInputs` refused a `Date`, although that is what a date input block
stores. Serialize it with `toISOString()` and reject an invalid Date
with a clear message rather than sending "Invalid Date".

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…elines

The constant was defined in both packages. Pipelines is browser-safe
and already a dependency of local-runner, so it is the single source;
local-runner re-exports it for its own cloud entry points.

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snapshot-view.ts pointed at a `snapshot-viewer.ts` that does not exist;
the example claimed `examples/local-runner/run-app` uses the pipelines
API, which it does not; and the tsdown config listed
`@deepnote/runtime-core` as external although the package does not
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In `@packages/pipelines/src/pipeline.test.ts`:
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Comment on lines +160 to +165
it('refuses an invalid Date rather than sending "Invalid Date"', async () => {
await expect(
runPipeline(async ({ run }) => run({ id: 'a', notebookId: 'nb-a', inputs: { as_of: new Date('nope') } }), {
token: TOKEN,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that an invalid Date is not sent to Cloud.

The test verifies the rejection message only. A regression could send "Invalid Date" to triggerNotebookRun and still pass if the pipeline rejects later. Assert that cloudMock.triggerNotebookRun was not called.

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     ).rejects.toThrow('Input "as_of" is an invalid Date')
+    expect(cloudMock.triggerNotebookRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
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it('refuses an invalid Date rather than sending "Invalid Date"', async () => {
await expect(
runPipeline(async ({ run }) => run({ id: 'a', notebookId: 'nb-a', inputs: { as_of: new Date('nope') } }), {
token: TOKEN,
})
).rejects.toThrow('Input "as_of" is an invalid Date')
it('refuses an invalid Date rather than sending "Invalid Date"', async () => {
await expect(
runPipeline(async ({ run }) => run({ id: 'a', notebookId: 'nb-a', inputs: { as_of: new Date('nope') } }), {
token: TOKEN,
})
).rejects.toThrow('Input "as_of" is an invalid Date')
expect(cloudMock.triggerNotebookRun).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
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In `@packages/pipelines/src/pipeline.test.ts` around lines 160 - 165, Update the
invalid-Date test around runPipeline to also assert that
cloudMock.triggerNotebookRun was not called, while preserving the existing
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stop queued notebook steps after a fatal failure.

If a queued step fails without allowFailure, release() starts the next queued step even though runPipelineWithExecutor has already rejected. This can start extra cloud notebook runs after the pipeline reports failure.

Record a fatal pipeline error before releasing the slot. Reject queued run() calls before executeNode() starts them. Keep already-running steps unchanged.

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In `@packages/pipelines/src/pipeline.ts` at line 316, Update the fatal-failure
path in runPipelineWithExecutor so it records the pipeline error before calling
release(), and make queued run() calls reject before invoking executeNode() when
that error exists. Preserve already-running steps and their current behavior.

runPipelineWithExecutor awaited the workflow callback with no try/catch, so a
failing step or a throwing callback discarded the results and graph it had
accumulated. The rejection now carries them: PipelineStepError gains a
`partial` field with the steps in start order, the graph, and the timings,
and anything else the callback throws is wrapped in a new PipelineRunError
with the same field and the original error as `cause`. The resolved shape is
unchanged.

lastOutputJson and outputJson also parsed each output's whole text as JSON.
Jupyter merges consecutive prints into one stream chunk, so a summary line
followed by the JSON reported the step as producing no structured output.
Both now fall back to the suffix starting at the last line that begins with
`{` or `[`, scanning backwards so pretty-printed JSON still parses, and when
nothing parses the error quotes the last 200 characters the block printed.

The example runner writes whatever partial result it receives on failure
instead of only reporting a success.

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const finishedMs = Date.now()
return {
steps: results.sort((a, b) => (resultOrder.get(a.id) ?? 0) - (resultOrder.get(b.id) ?? 0)),
graph,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Freeze partial before rejection.

recorded() returns the live results array and graph. If another step is still running, its completion mutates error.partial after the caller catches the error. This violates the partial-result contract for in-flight steps.

Return copied steps, nodes, and edges.

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-      steps: results.sort((a, b) => (resultOrder.get(a.id) ?? 0) - (resultOrder.get(b.id) ?? 0)),
-      graph,
+      steps: [...results].sort((a, b) => (resultOrder.get(a.id) ?? 0) - (resultOrder.get(b.id) ?? 0)),
+      graph: {
+        ...graph,
+        nodes: graph.nodes.map(node => ({ ...node })),
+        edges: graph.edges.map(edge => ({ ...edge })),
+      },
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}
for (let candidate = lineStarts.length - 1; candidate >= 0; candidate -= 1) {
const suffix = trimmed.slice(lineStarts[candidate]).trimStart()
if (!suffix.startsWith('{') && !suffix.startsWith('[')) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Accept scalar JSON tails.

This guard rejects valid JSON values such as 42, true, null, and "ok" when they follow a summary line. lastJson documents a final JSON value, not only objects and arrays.

Try JSON.parse for every line-boundary suffix.

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In `@packages/pipelines/src/pipeline.ts` at line 651, Update the suffix validation
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suffix, including scalar values such as numbers, booleans, null, and strings.
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executeNode honoured step.allowFailure only when the executor returned a
result with success: false. When the executor threw — a poll timeout, a
transport or API error, a run that finished without a snapshot — the outer
catch wrapped it in PipelineStepError and rethrew, so one hung run in a
fan-out marked allow_failure discarded every other step's work.

When the step allows failure the engine now synthesizes the failed result
the executor could not return: success false, status 'timeout' for a
RunTimeoutError and 'error' otherwise, the message as error, empty outputs,
no snapshot, the runId when the error exposes one, and the timings. The
graph node finishes as failed and step_failed carries that result, exactly
as the finished-with-error path does. Without allowFailure the behaviour is
unchanged.

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391-391: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Graph node target stays undefined for synthesized failures.

The synthesized result uses target: 'unknown', but finishNode here receives no target, so the graph node keeps target: undefined. A renderer that reads node.target and step.target shows two different things for the same failure. Pass target: 'unknown' for consistency, or document the difference.

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-      finishNode(node, 'failed', startedMs, { runId, error: message })
+      finishNode(node, 'failed', startedMs, { target: step.allowFailure ? 'unknown' : undefined, runId, error: message })
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error, matching the synthesized result’s target value and ensuring the graph
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- Around line 74-78: Update the PipelineStepError documentation near the
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Comment on lines +74 to +78
do. `allowFailure` covers every way a step can fail — a notebook that finished with an error status,
a poll that timed out, a transport or API error, a run that produced no snapshot — and the returned
result's `status` and `error` say which: `status` is Deepnote's run status when the notebook
finished, `'timeout'` when the executor stopped waiting for it, and `'error'` otherwise. A timed-out
run may still be executing in Deepnote; its `runId` is on the result.

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Note when PipelineStepError.result is absent.

Line 83 states that PipelineStepError carries the failing step's own result. That holds only when the executor returned a failed result. When the executor throws on a step without allowFailure, pipeline.ts Line 394 constructs the error with no result, and the new test asserts it is undefined. Add one clause here so callers guard the field.

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