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Summary

  • Replace the exhaustive task MCP prompt list with compact conditional discovery guidance.
  • Project canvas authoring instructions from the resolved task MCP capability across normal, prepared, direct-message, and workflow-reset launches.
  • Strengthen the localized canvas task preset and preserve exact canvas tool names in all catalogs.
  • Add backend, locale, desktop, and mobile regression coverage.

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  • Backend focused packages: 5,396 tests passed.
  • Backend lint: 0 issues.
  • Frontend TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, i18n checks, and i18n ratchet passed.
  • Desktop canvas creation E2E: 1 passed.
  • Mobile canvas creation E2E: 1 passed.

The E2E cases verify prompt delivery, editing, submitted-description retention, and viewport containment. They do not claim compliance by an external model.

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  • New Features

    • Added clearer MCP tool discovery guidance, including native search and catalog fallback instructions.
    • Canvas-capable task sessions now receive relevant authoring guidance automatically.
    • Improved canvas creation prompts with steps for drafting, building, publishing, validation, and reporting release status.
    • Updated desktop and mobile canvas workflows to retain edited descriptions and provide localized instructions.
  • Documentation

    • Added requirements, design guidance, and implementation plans covering MCP discovery and canvas authoring workflows.
  • Localization

    • Refined canvas, task, workspace, settings, and executor translations across supported locales.

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The change adds MCP tool discovery guidance, capability-aware canvas instructions, expanded localized canvas creation prompts, backend prompt wiring, frontend validation, and supporting plans and specifications.

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MCP discovery and prompt capability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prompt contract and conditional guidance
apps/backend/config/prompts/kandev-context.md, apps/backend/internal/sysprompt/*
The Kandev context now uses discovery-oriented tool guidance, compact workflow instructions, rich-output guidance, and optional canvas guidance.
Capability resolution and prompt injection
apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/*, apps/backend/internal/task/handlers/message_handlers.go, apps/backend/internal/backendapp/adapters.go
Task, workflow, prepared-session, and message prompts resolve canvas capability from the MCP profile before injecting guidance.
Canvas preset and end-to-end validation
apps/web/components/canvas/*, apps/web/e2e/tests/canvas/*, apps/web/e2e/helpers/api-client.ts, apps/web/scripts/generate-pseudo-locale.mjs
Canvas prompts now describe discovery, drafting, authoring, publishing, and release status. Unit and desktop/mobile tests validate localized content, submitted descriptions, and page layout.
Localized canvas and interface text
apps/web/src/locales/*
Canvas prompts and related interface translations were updated across English, Portuguese, Chinese, and pseudo-locales.
Plans and specifications
docs/plans/mcp-discovery-canvas-prompts/*, docs/specs/agents/*, docs/specs/canvases/*
Plans, requirements, system designs, and related-context indexes document the MCP discovery and canvas prompt changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f6410

Valid Office or passthrough launches can fail unnecessarily, and canvas publication outcomes may be reported inaccurately. These issues should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskLaunch as Task launch
  participant Orchestrator as orchestrator.Service
  participant Executor
  participant Sysprompt as sysprompt
  TaskLaunch->>Orchestrator: resolve canvas guidance
  Orchestrator->>Executor: resolve MCP profile
  Executor-->>Orchestrator: return profile capability
  Orchestrator-->>TaskLaunch: return includeCanvasGuidance
  TaskLaunch->>Sysprompt: inject Kandev context options
  Sysprompt-->>TaskLaunch: return rendered prompt
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the two primary changes: MCP discovery improvements and canvas authoring prompt improvements.
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Findings

Blocker (must fix before merge)

  1. Canvas guidance DB failure blocks message deliveryapps/backend/internal/task/handlers/message_handlers.go:613-619
    • Issue: When resolveCanvasGuidance fails (transient DB error in GetTaskSession or GetTask inside ResolveTaskSessionMCPProfile), wsAddMessage returns ws.ErrorCodeInternalError to the client, blocking the user's first-turn message send.
    • Why: Canvas guidance is prompt decoration — whether to append the canvas tool section. A failure to determine this capability should degrade to false (no canvas section), not prevent message delivery. All other wsAddMessage failure modes that return InternalError are for genuinely unrecoverable state (message creation failure, attachment claim failure). This check is a feature-flag lookup.
    • Fix: Log the warning and continue with includeCanvasGuidance = false rather than returning an error to the client. The startCreatedSession and startTask launch paths failing hard on this error are appropriate (launch paths should fail fast); the interactive message-delivery path should degrade gracefully.
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Suggestion (recommended, doesn't block)

  1. Unnecessary DB call for office tasks in resolveAutoStartPromptContextapps/backend/internal/orchestrator/event_handlers_workflow.go:4358-4363
    • Issue: taskSessionCanvasGuidanceEnabled is called before the isOfficeTask guard. For office tasks, withCanvasCapability returns false (canvas is only granted for SurfaceKanbanTask), so the returned value is always false. The extra GetTaskSession+GetTask reads on every office-task workflow auto-start are redundant.
    • Fix: Move taskSessionCanvasGuidanceEnabled after the isOfficeTask check and return a hard-coded false for the office path.

Summary

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Blocker 1
Suggestion 1

Verdict: Blocked — fix blockers first.

The overall design is well-executed: the compact MCP discovery guidance, capability-gated canvas section, three-layer wiring through wrapCreatedSessionPrompt / applyLaunchPromptContext / resolveAutoStartPromptContext, and the byte-size test enforcing the compaction target are all solid. The spec/system-design pair is thorough and the test coverage for the happy paths is good. The one reliability issue is in the interactive message-send path where degrading gracefully is the right call.

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This PR replaces the exhaustive task MCP catalog with conditional discovery guidance, adds capability-aware canvas authoring instructions across task launch paths, strengthens localized canvas presets, and expands backend and browser regression coverage.

  • Reuses the executor’s resolved MCP profile to gate canvas guidance.
  • Preserves exact canvas tool identifiers across supported locales and pseudo-localization.
  • Adds desktop and mobile checks for editable prompt delivery and submitted-description retention.
  • One task/session relationship validation gap remains in the direct-message capability lookup.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR should not merge until direct-message capability resolution validates that the supplied session belongs to the supplied task.

The new lookup can combine unrelated task and session records, causing the first-turn prompt to advertise the wrong canvas capability for a reachable mismatched request; the remaining capability projection and prompt changes are internally consistent.

Files Needing Attention: apps/backend/internal/task/handlers/message_handlers.go, apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/service.go

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
apps/backend/internal/task/handlers/message_handlers.go Adds direct-message canvas capability resolution but does not validate that the independently supplied task and session IDs belong together.
apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/service.go Exposes a narrow canvas-guidance query backed by the executor profile resolver; its public two-ID entry point lacks pair validation.
apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/task_operations.go Projects the resolved canvas capability into normal and prepared-session launch prompts.
apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/event_handlers_workflow.go Carries canvas guidance consistently into workflow auto-start and context-reset prompts.
apps/backend/internal/sysprompt/sysprompt.go Adds compact reusable canvas and rich-output sections with explicit capability gating.
apps/backend/config/prompts/kandev-context.md Replaces routine MCP inventory text with compact conditional discovery and essential workflow guidance.
apps/web/scripts/generate-pseudo-locale.mjs Preserves Markdown code spans so callable tool names remain exact in generated pseudo-locales.
apps/web/src/locales/en/canvases.json Strengthens the canvas task preset with discovery, draft creation, assigned-directory editing, publication, and accurate status reporting.
apps/web/e2e/tests/canvas/plugin-canvas.spec.ts Adds desktop coverage for localized preset delivery, editing, submission retention, and viewport containment.
apps/web/e2e/tests/canvas/mobile-plugin-canvas.spec.ts Extends mobile coverage to verify the real preset, retained edits, and viewport containment.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A[message.add request] --> B[Load task by taskID]
  A --> C[Load session by sessionID]
  B --> D[Resolve MCP profile]
  C --> D
  D --> E{Canvas capability}
  E -->|Enabled| F[Inject canvas authoring guidance]
  E -->|Disabled| G[Inject standard task guidance]
  F --> H[Persist and dispatch prompt]
  G --> H
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apps/web/src/locales/zh-tw/canvases.json-13-13 (1)

13-13: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a permission-review label here.

需要稽核權限 means that audit permission is required. The description states that the active release needs permission approval. Use 需要權限審核.

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-  "pendingPermission": "需要稽核權限",
+  "pendingPermission": "需要權限審核",
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In `@apps/web/src/locales/zh-tw/canvases.json` at line 13, Update the
pendingPermission translation to use the permission-review label 需要權限審核 instead
of 需要稽核權限, preserving the existing key and locale structure.
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docs/specs/agents/system-design/mcp-tool-discovery-guidance.md (1)

75-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Measure the rendered prompt sizes.

TestKandevContextTemplate_IsCompactEnoughForEveryTask checks only the raw template. Add tests that render FormatKandevContextWithOptions with IncludeCanvasGuidance set to false and true, then record and check both UTF-8 byte lengths.

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In `@docs/specs/agents/system-design/mcp-tool-discovery-guidance.md` around lines
75 - 77, Add coverage for FormatKandevContextWithOptions in
TestKandevContextTemplate_IsCompactEnoughForEveryTask, rendering once with
IncludeCanvasGuidance false and once with true. Measure each rendered prompt’s
UTF-8 byte length and assert both remain within the 2,800-byte limit, recording
the resulting sizes.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/task_operations.go`:
- Around line 739-741: Defer task-session canvas guidance resolution at all four
affected prompt, launch, message-context, and workflow auto-start sites until
the Kandev path requires it. Keep guidance false for passthrough and Office
branches, and resolve it immediately before
sysprompt.InjectKandevContextWithOptions; preserve existing error propagation
only for that branch. Use the existing taskSessionCanvasGuidanceEnabled and
sysprompt.InjectKandevContextWithOptions symbols to locate the changes.

In `@docs/specs/canvases/system-design/agent-authored-web-apps.md`:
- Line 267: Update the production canvases:createCanvasTaskPrompt preset and its
localized catalog values to explicitly report unsuccessful publish_canvas_kandev
results and prohibit claiming a publication succeeded after failure, while
retaining the existing active-release and permission-review reporting
requirements.

---

Other comments:
In `@apps/web/src/locales/zh-tw/canvases.json`:
- Line 13: Update the pendingPermission translation to use the permission-review
label 需要權限審核 instead of 需要稽核權限, preserving the existing key and locale
structure.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@docs/specs/agents/system-design/mcp-tool-discovery-guidance.md`:
- Around line 75-77: Add coverage for FormatKandevContextWithOptions in
TestKandevContextTemplate_IsCompactEnoughForEveryTask, rendering once with
IncludeCanvasGuidance false and once with true. Measure each rendered prompt’s
UTF-8 byte length and assert both remain within the 2,800-byte limit, recording
the resulting sizes.

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