AgentStepStartedPayload agent.step.started@1

Generated at from openvibe-contracts v0.419.0 and openvibe-sdk v0.161.0.

Version
1.0.0
Owner
actor
Visibility
first-party
Status
active
Compatibility
backward
Schema
https://openvibe.network/contracts/events/payloads/agent.step.started.v1.json

agent.step.started v1 (design 2026-11-07 §2). A step began: the mode started working on it. Envelope: source the mode that runs it (a first-party service), subject the person it is for, visibility internal, actor the person or the mode. The payload is common.agent-step@1: titles, outcomes and links only, never a prompt or a diff.

Fields

This schema has no named fields.

Examples

From the contract's own test fixtures: valid ones validate, rejected ones must fail.

Valid: codes-step
{
  "step_id": "tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "mode": "code",
  "product": "codes",
  "ref": "tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "title": "Running the checkout tests",
  "status": "running",
  "started_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z",
  "ended_at": null,
  "placement": {
    "where": "On your desktop",
    "why": "it needs your files and your Claude sign-in, and it is free"
  },
  "cost_usd": null,
  "link": "https://codes.openvibe.network/tasks/tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "reason": null,
  "transition": null,
  "approval": null
}
Rejected: with-prompt
{
  "step_id": "tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "mode": "code",
  "product": "codes",
  "ref": "tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "title": "Running the checkout tests",
  "status": "running",
  "started_at": "2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z",
  "ended_at": null,
  "placement": {
    "where": "On your desktop",
    "why": "it needs your files and your Claude sign-in, and it is free"
  },
  "cost_usd": null,
  "link": "https://codes.openvibe.network/tasks/tsk_01JAB2C3D4E5F6G7H8J9K0MNPS",
  "reason": null,
  "transition": null,
  "approval": null,
  "prompt": "the prompt the person typed"
}

Validate

const contracts = require('openvibe-contracts');
contracts.validate('agent.step.started@1', value);   // { valid, errors: [{ path, message }] }