feat(pipelines): run a .deepnote pipeline on a schedule - #500
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Deepnote already schedules one notebook. Point that at a notebook that
interprets a manifest and a whole pipeline runs on a schedule: the run is an
ordinary Deepnote run — durable, retryable, visible in Deepnote's UI — while the
definition stays in a file. No workflow engine and no server of our own.
Scheduling the manifest itself does not work, and fails quietly rather than
loudly, which is why the scheduled artifact is a runner instead:
- Deepnote's block engine runs blocks strictly in order, serializing fan-out.
- It knows nothing about run_if / for_each / {{ }} — a conditional step would
run unconditionally and references would pass through as literal strings.
- notebook-function inputs are baked as a static JSON literal at authoring
time, so no value can flow from one step to the next.
Ships deepnote_pipeline.py (planner, condition and reference languages,
concurrent executor over the runs API) and a self-contained runner notebook that
embeds it. The CLI entry point is stripped when embedding: a notebook cell runs
with __name__ == __main__ and would otherwise parse argv.
The semantics now exist in two languages, which is a standing risk of quiet
divergence. test-fixtures/pipeline-conformance is the contract — both planners
must produce identical plans for every fixture. Verified the test has teeth by
introducing deliberate drift; the first fixture set did not catch it, which is
why condition-only-dependency.deepnote exists.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a standalone Python interpreter for planning and running Deepnote pipeline manifests. It supports references, conditions, dependency validation, fan-out execution, retries, timeouts, and exported JSON values. Adds a scheduled runner notebook, embedding tooling, package metadata, documentation, conformance fixtures, and TypeScript tests comparing Python and TypeScript plans. Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds scheduled execution for manifest-defined pipelines with conditionals, fan-out, and value substitution. The current head can still select the wrong conditional branch, fail dependent fan-outs, choose unintended indexed values, or delay failure reporting, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Manifest
participant PipelinePlanner
participant DeepnoteApi
participant ChildNotebooks
participant PipelineRunner
Manifest->>PipelinePlanner: load and validate manifest
PipelinePlanner->>PipelineRunner: create dependency plan
PipelineRunner->>DeepnoteApi: submit ready steps
DeepnoteApi->>ChildNotebooks: start and poll notebook runs
ChildNotebooks-->>DeepnoteApi: return statuses and snapshots
DeepnoteApi-->>PipelineRunner: return run outputs
PipelineRunner->>PipelineRunner: publish exports and release dependents
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31-36: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a drift check for the embedded pipeline copy.
The conformance test executes only
packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py. If that file changes,examples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnotecan retain old code. Add a test that extracts the embedded body and compares it with the source, excluding the__main__guard.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py`:
- Around line 636-691: Update run_plan in
packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py (lines 636-691) and the
embedded run_plan copy in
examples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnote (lines 670-726) to use
two-phase scheduling: submit futures for every admitted instance of all ready
steps before waiting on any future, then drain and publish each step’s results
while preserving notifications, failure handling, and settling behavior.
- Line 136: Resolve the null-coalescing behavior in _read by deciding whether ??
falls through when the current value is null, then implement that rule without
the constant-false and dead branch. Apply the same correction at
packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py lines 136-136 and
examples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnote lines 171-171; both
embedded copies must remain consistent.
- Around line 561-568: Update DeepnotePipeline.run_notebook to validate that the
POST response contains a non-empty runId or id before polling, raising the
established pipeline error otherwise; add a bounded polling deadline so
non-terminal runs fail instead of hanging, and retry transient URLError failures
during polling while preserving normal terminal-status handling.
In `@packages/local-runner/src/pipeline-conformance.test.ts`:
- Around line 62-75: The conformance tests only compare TypeScript and Python
outputs, so shared planning errors can pass unnoticed. Extend the fixture tests
around planOrchestration with independent expected normalized plans for each
valid fixture, and add fixtures/assertions for invalid conditions and unresolved
references that verify the expected errors.
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In `@examples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnote`:
- Around line 31-36: Add a drift test for the embedded pipeline body in
runner.deepnote by extracting its notebook-embedded Python content and comparing
it with packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py, omitting the CLI
__main__ guard from the comparison. Reuse the existing test/conformance
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- The Python scheduler serialized independent steps. It submitted one step's futures and immediately drained them before submitting the next, so only a fan-out's own elements overlapped — the opposite of the point, and a divergence from the TypeScript scheduler. Now submits every ready step before draining; verified with a fake API that peak concurrency is 3, not 1. - The poll loop had no deadline and no run-id check: a run that never reached a terminal status hung a scheduled notebook forever, and a missing id polled /v2/runs/None. It now fails with a reason, and retries transient network errors and 429/5xx instead of abandoning a run that is still going. - Removed a constant-false condition in _read that disabled its own null check. A published null is a real value and does not fall through a ?? chain, which is what the TypeScript resolver does. - Conformance only compared the two implementations to each other, so a mistake they both made would pass. Each fixture now has a committed expected plan, checked by hand, and both implementations are checked against the same bad manifests. - The interpreter embedded in runner.deepnote is now generated by a script and the test fails when the copy drifts from its source. Verified by introducing drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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226-230: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve strict equality across runners.
_compareuses Python equality, soTrue == 1evaluates as true. The TypeScript evaluator uses strict equality, except that absent values andnullare equivalent. This can select a differentrun_ifbranch and execute a scheduled step unexpectedly.Implement the TypeScript comparison contract in
packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py. Compare booleans separately from numbers and use identity for list and object values. Regenerateexamples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnoteand add regressions fortrue == 1andtrue != 1.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/local-runner/src/pipeline-conformance.test.ts`:
- Around line 101-114: Update the BAD-case test in the conformance loop to
deserialize each manifest separately and assert deserialization succeeds before
invoking planOrchestration. Ensure the noNotebook fixture reaches the planner
rule, then assert the planner-specific error using the equivalent Python error
output or error class rather than relying only on the process exit status.
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- Around line 226-230: Update _compare to match the TypeScript evaluator’s
strict comparison contract: keep absent values and null equivalent, prevent
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rather than Python structural equality. Regenerate the scheduled-pipeline runner
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Assert planner-specific rejection.
Line 112 accepts a deserialization error before planOrchestration processes the manifest. The noNotebook case uses function_notebook_id: null, so schema rejection can make this case pass without testing the planner rule.
Deserialize the manifest first. Assert that deserialization succeeds. Then assert the planner error. Check the equivalent Python error output or error class, not only its exit status.
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In `@packages/local-runner/src/pipeline-conformance.test.ts` around lines 101 -
114, Update the BAD-case test in the conformance loop to deserialize each
manifest separately and assert deserialization succeeds before invoking
planOrchestration. Ensure the noNotebook fixture reaches the planner rule, then
assert the planner-specific error using the equivalent Python error output or
error class rather than relying only on the process exit status.
- Removed a __pycache__/*.pyc that got committed from running the pipeline runner locally, and added it to .gitignore. - Restored pnpm-lock.yaml. It had grown by 3,043 lines because pnpm auto-installed the workflow peer dependency declared upstream; that declaration is now gone, so the lock matches its base exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified against api.deepnote.com. GET /v2/runs/{id} nests the run under a
`run` key while POST /v2/runs returns it flat, so reading status at the top
level meant the poll never saw a terminal status and would spin until the
one-hour deadline — the same bug as the run app, and for the same reason: this
runner speaks HTTP directly instead of going through @deepnote/cloud, which
already handled the envelope.
Confirmed end to end by running a three-notebook pipeline against the live API:
all three started before any finished, all succeeded, real run ids.
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738-764: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSettle an unavailable
for_eachas an empty fan-out.Line 739 resolves
for_eachbefore checking unresolved references. If a conditional upstream step skips an export used byfor_each,resolve_valuereturnsNoneand Line 740 fails the pipeline. Treat an unavailablefor_eachas no admitted instances so the fan-out publishes empty export lists, like the path at Lines 758-764. Update the canonical Python source, then regenerate this notebook.Proposed fix
if step.for_each is not None: - items = resolve_value(step.for_each, variables) + items = [] if unresolvable_groups(step.for_each, variables) else resolve_value( + step.for_each, variables + ) if not isinstance(items, list):🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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363-380: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject negative and fractional condition indexes.
The tokenizer accepts both forms, and
path.append(int(index[1]))converts them. Thereadbranch checks only the upper bound, soitems[-1]selects the last item anditems[1.5]selects item1. Validate non-negative integer indexes, then regenerate the notebook frompackages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…eduled The scheduled path follows the engine into @deepnote/pipelines: the Python interpreter, the embed script, the conformance test, and the scheduled example, which is now examples/pipelines/scheduled. The scheduling section of the README moves to the package that owns it, and `python` moves from local-runner's published files to pipelines'.
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272-272: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRuff flags these lambda assignments (E731).
If Ruff runs in CI with this rule enabled, the file fails lint. Convert the two nodes to inner functions. The default-argument binding must stay to avoid late binding.
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def _parse_or(self) -> Callable[[dict[str, Any]], Any]: node = self._parse_and() while self._eat("||"): left, right = node, self._parse_and() - node = lambda variables, a=left, b=right: bool(a(variables)) or bool(b(variables)) + + def node(variables: dict[str, Any], a: Any = left, b: Any = right) -> Any: + return bool(a(variables)) or bool(b(variables)) + return nodeAlso applies to: 279-279
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In `@packages/pipelines/python/deepnote_pipeline.py`:
- Around line 749-751: Update the ThreadPoolExecutor failure path around the
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A failing step delays the exit and hides sibling errors in both copies. The raise exits the with ThreadPoolExecutor(...) block, so shutdown(wait=True) waits for every already-submitted future. Each of those futures polls up to run_timeout_seconds (3600s by default), and their exceptions are never retrieved.
packages/pipelines/python/deepnote_pipeline.py#L749-L751: drain the remaining futures withfuture.cancel()and a bounded wait, log each drained exception, then re-raise.examples/pipelines/scheduled/runner.deepnote#L785-L787: regenerate this embedded cell withnode packages/pipelines/scripts/embed-pipeline-runner.mjsafter the source fix.
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In `@packages/pipelines/python/deepnote_pipeline.py` around lines 749 - 751,
Update the ThreadPoolExecutor failure path around the status check in
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Closing in favour of native scheduled execution in deepnote.com. Interpreting a manifest through a Python reimplementation embedded in a notebook creates a second implementation of the planner semantics, and it already diverges from the TypeScript one at execution time (barrier scheduling between waves, failure surfacing, comparison coercion). Two things from this PR carry forward: the conformance fixtures move into #497, re-encoded to the native input shape, and the "why not schedule the manifest directly" analysis (strict block ordering, no |
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5 of 5. Stacked on #499 → #498 → #497 → #496.
Deepnote already schedules one notebook. Point that at a notebook that interprets a manifest and a whole pipeline runs on a schedule — the run is an ordinary Deepnote run (durable, retryable, visible in Deepnote's own UI) while the definition stays in a file. No workflow engine, no server of ours, no Temporal.
Why not just schedule the manifest?
Because Deepnote's engine would do the wrong thing quietly, which is worse than failing:
run_if,for_each, or{{ }}— a conditional recovery step would run unconditionally, a fan-out would run once, and{{portfolio}}would arrive as that literal string.notebook-functioninputs are baked as a static JSON literal at authoring time (inputs=${JSON.stringify(inputs)}in the codegen), so no value can flow from one step into the next.So the scheduled artifact is a runner, not the definition.
What ships
packages/local-runner/python/deepnote_pipeline.py— planner, condition and reference languages, and a concurrent executor over the runs API. Stdlib + PyYAML.examples/local-runner/scheduled-pipeline/runner.deepnote— a self-contained notebook that embeds the interpreter, so it does not depend on this repo being in the project. Create it once and schedule it.--planprints the DAG and runs nothing, which is the fastest way to check a manifest.I verified the embedded cell actually executes and can plan a fixture from inside the notebook. That caught a real bug: a notebook cell runs with
__name__ == "__main__", so the CLI entry point had to be stripped when embedding or argparse would abort the cell.The thing I'd most want reviewed
The semantics now exist in two languages. That is a standing risk of quiet divergence, and it is the main cost of this PR.
The mitigation is
test-fixtures/pipeline-conformance: both planners must produce identical plans for every fixture, enforced bypipeline-conformance.test.ts. Changerun_if,for_each,{{ }}, or dependency derivation in one language and that test fails until it is changed in the other.I checked the test actually has teeth by breaking the Python planner on purpose — and the first fixture set did not catch it, because every condition variable also appeared in inputs, so conditions never contributed a unique dependency edge.
condition-only-dependency.deepnoteexists because of that experiment, and with it the drift fails as it should. Worth keeping that property in mind when adding fixtures.Python is skipped rather than failed when unavailable (
describe.skipIf), since it is not needed to build or use the package — so this needspython3+ PyYAML on CI runners to actually enforce anything. Worth confirming.Limits, stated in the example README
Steps run concurrently and the run is durable, but there is no resume: a failed run restarts from the beginning, and notebook runs are not automatically idempotent. For replay, per-step retries, and timers, #499's Workflow SDK integration is the right tool. These two are complementary — this one trades resume for needing no server at all.
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