CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased - One confirmation runs a set to its end; no card for a change the person may not make
+
+Design: `docs/one-card-for-a-set.md` (parts A and B). **A host changes nothing, unless its application hands runs of 500 records or fewer to a background job (see `UPGRADE.md`).**
+
+- **One confirmation for a set.** A confirmed `run_process` goes through the process's own `init` and `step` operations as the person and runs to its end. A screen of the process is passed for the person only when it shows nothing their card did not: a text or a form whose values are the card's; a review that counts exactly the records of the card and, with every record validated first, has no warning and no error. Anything else (other values, values to read, a list of records, a different count, a warning, an error, a line of a host's own process that the card did not say) stops the run with nothing more done; going on is a new card that shows the screen and why the run came back. Until now a run stopped at every later screen and at every review, and a table's own bulk edit or bulk delete needed two or three confirmations.
+- **The card shows the whole run.** What every screen of the process says, every input with the value it will have (given, or the field's default), and the records: how many, a few by name, and every one of them by name on the card itself (`records`, for the card to list and scroll). A record is named by its label; a primary key is written only when a record has no other name.
+- **The set is frozen by primary key and by version.** The records are read as the person when the run is proposed, and one digest over all of them is kept with the proposal. The confirmed run reads them again and does not start when one is gone, changed in any value or no longer readable. A proposal without that digest, and one whose card showed less (made before this version), is not run.
+- **A run keeps what its records were**, the way a change to one record does, bounded: how many, and a sample of 20 with their values after the exposure rules of `get_record` (`recordsBefore`). The outcome says how many records went well, failed and went with a warning (`counts`), beside the process's own lines.
+- **The assistant creates and starts no background job.** It no longer calls the operation that creates one. When the application itself hands the work to a durable job, the job is the confirming person's; the run waits for it and the card says how it ended (rows done, rows failed and why). A job the application created waiting is cancelled, as the person, and the card says the run did not happen and why: a card no longer says a run is done while its job waits, and no waiting job is left to count against the jobs the application lets the assistant have for a person. A job still working after the wait is reported as running, never as done.
+- **No card for what cannot happen.** `create_record`, `update_record`, `delete_record` and a table's own bulk edit and bulk delete ask the application, as the person, what it tells their own screens about the table. A person who may not make that kind of change is told so plainly and gets no card. The confirmed change is still decided by the UI API (a permission that goes between the card and the confirmation is refused there, with the application's own answer).
+- UI API extension `assistant` 1.11.0 (additive): `AssistantActionV1.recordCount`, `records`, `recordsBefore` for a run over a set.
+- Changed tests, each for the behaviour it now describes: a table's bulk edit runs on one confirmation; a later screen that only says something is on the card and is passed; a form whose value a step computed still comes back; the existing permission tests split into "refused before a card" and "refused on confirmation after the permission went". `chat-tools-before-registry.txt` changes in one description (`run_process`); the cached request prefix changes once.
+- New tests: `OneCardForASetTest` (29 of 34 records on one confirmation through a table's bulk delete and through a host's own process with a form and a review; an edit of 300 records; a set that changed between the card and the confirmation; a person without the permission; cancelling; the same card confirmed twice; an error, a host's informing line and a different count that come back; two cards of one stop; a proposal that does not say what its card showed), `ProcessJobPathTest` (a job the application started, created waiting, and still working).
+- Not in this change: the card of a run that was still working when the confirmation stopped waiting is not updated afterwards (`get_run_status` reads how it ended); a record lock of scope WRITE is not known before the card (core has no operation to ask; see the design note, section 7); the panel's scrolling list of `records`.
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+## Unreleased - render_widget follows the assistant's data access; no widget is rendered until a host allows it
+
+- **A widget is rendered only when the host allowed it by name.** `render_widget` asked the application to render any widget the person may see. A widget is code of the application and can show rows of any table, so it could show a model the rows of a table the assistant may not read (data access `NONE`, a table kept from AI by its metadata). The tool now applies the assistant's own rules before the application is asked: a widget that is not in `AssistantQBitConfig.withAllowedWidgetNames` is refused (the list is empty by default: no widget is renderable), and so is one in `withHiddenWidgetNames`. The README already said the list governs the tool; since the tool moved from the core tool kernel to the UI API it did not.
+- **A host says which tables a widget reads, and data access then decides.** New: `AssistantQBitConfig.withWidgetTables(widgetName, tableNames)`. An allowed widget with tables is rendered only while the assistant may read every one of them, so an administrator's `NONE` row, a pin in code and a table kept from AI each close the widget too. The refusal is one answer for every reason and does not say whether the widget exists.
+- The tool is still offered as before (its definition and the cached request prefix do not change); a call for a widget that is not allowed is a DENIED result with a log row. Not offering the tool at all while no widget is allowed is left for later: it changes the tool set of every request.
+- Tests: `RenderWidgetAccessTest` (the default is closed and the application is not asked; allowed; hidden wins; a widget whose table is closed by a pin, read-only, or missing).
 ## Unreleased - The assistant runs a process the signed-in person may run; four review findings closed
 
 Builds package A4 of the actions design (`docs/actions-and-mcp.md`, section 4), with four findings of an independent review, each described by the guarantee it gives. **One behaviour change needs a host's attention before deploying: a table's own bulk edit and bulk delete become runnable through the assistant, and any other process once the host lists it (see `UPGRADE.md`).**

CLAUDE.md

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   - A missing policy refuses; it never means "every tool".
   - Data tools run only through `UiApiToolbox` → `UiApiGateway` (spec'd `/qqq/v1` operations with the user's `sessionUUID`); never core data actions for user data. Only `navigate` and `search_help` use `AiToolKernel.execute`.
   - Data access (`DataAccessService`) and the policy only ever narrow what the UI API allows. The mode of a table or process is declared in versioned code: the default (`withDefaultTableAccess` / `withDefaultProcessAccess`, READ_WRITE) or a pin (`withTableAccess` / `withProcessAccess`). An administrator's `assistant_data_access` row narrows it and never raises it. A table whose AI exposure is NONE stays NONE, and so does every `assistant_*` table and every process of the QBit (`DataAccessService.isOwnTable`: a pin in code that no row and no host pin lifts). Rows that cannot be read and were never read mean NONE for everything, never the default.
+  - `render_widget` renders only a widget the host allowed by name in code (`withAllowedWidgetNames`; none by default), not hidden, and only while the assistant may read every table the host said it reads (`withWidgetTables`): a widget is code that can show rows of any table. The check is in `UiApiToolbox.renderWidget`, before the UI API is asked. Never render a widget on the person's permission alone.
   - READ_WRITE grants nothing: the write tools are offered to a person only when the UI API says that person may create, edit or delete records of some table (`UiApiToolFamily.writableTables`, asked as the person, once per offer, within `toolCallTimeoutSeconds`; no answer means no write tool). The person's permission for the change itself is decided by the UI API when the confirmed change runs, with its own message. Never materialise defaults as rows again: the retired "Add rows for every table" action is why `assistant-data-access-follow-user.changelog.sql` exists.
   - A write runs only after the owner confirms its pending action, with the confirming request's session, once; no policy or caller can turn confirmation off (`assistant_policy.writesRequireConfirmation` is no longer read). `ToolCallService.confirm` loads the stored action for that person, claims it, runs it and writes its row; whatever fails after the claim ends in FAILED with a row, never in RUNNING.
   - A pending action is decided once: confirming, cancelling and expiring all go through `AssistantStore.decidePendingAction` (final; `expirePendingAction` is a claim with the decision EXPIRED), which inserts the action's row into `assistant_pending_action_claim` (unique `pendingActionId`). Never decide an action with a status update alone, never expire one from a copy read earlier or a time a caller names (`ToolCallService.expiredIfDue` decides from the stored action and the runtime's clock), and never drop that unique key.
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   - Retention first ends pending actions left RUNNING for more than `ToolCallService.ABANDONED_AFTER` (one hour) as FAILED, with "outcome unknown, check the record" and a tool-call log row, then deletes decided and lapsed pending actions older than `approvalRetentionDays`, with or without a conversation. No action stays RUNNING for ever.
   - Process runs (`tools/process`): the assistant runs a process the signed-in person may run themselves, as that person, after they confirmed a `process_run` card. `list_processes` and `describe_process` answer from the person's own metadata (asked as them through the UI API): a process they may not run is never listed or described, and is refused by name in the words used for a process that does not exist. Never answer either from the instance's metadata alone.
   - What is never runnable through the assistant is decided in one place, `ProcessRunnability`, which the tools and the host's build-time review share: denied to the `assistant` channel (`withDeniedClients`, `ClientChannelsMetaData`, core's patterns), the assistant's own, data access not `READ_WRITE`, hidden (except a table's bulk edit and bulk delete), offered by no screen (no app, no table), on a table the assistant may not change, not on the host's reviewed list (except those two bulk actions; no list means only those two), or with a screen the assistant cannot present. It only narrows. The reviewed list is read from versioned code (`DataAccessService.reviewedProcesses`); never let a row, a setting or a default add a process to it.
-  - `run_process` only proposes: inputs are checked against the declared form fields before a card exists (unknown, wrong type, missing required), no value is ever invented, and the card shows the process, every input, what the first screen says, the records and the stops. An input is only a field a screen asks a person for: a field whose name the process keeps for its own working (`ProcessControlNames`: the inputs of its backend steps and the fixed `RESERVED` set, which `ProcessControlNamesTest` checks against the QQQ version built with) is never an input, at the proposal and again at the confirmation. The records of a run are fixed at the proposal by primary key (a filter is resolved then, at most `MAX_RECORD_IDS`); the confirmed run is sent those keys, never a filter, and refuses when one is gone.
-  - The assistant creates a durable job and never starts one: it calls only the launch operation, sends no `expectedRows` (so core's assistant auto-start never applies), and calls no job control. Core refuses a start from the `assistant` channel; do not route around that (no other channel, no in-process call). A process that may run as a job is never run through `init` instead: where the launch operation is not spec'd, it is refused.
-  - A confirmed run never keeps its pending action RUNNING for the run's duration: the action ends when the job is created or the run ended, stopped, failed or outlasted the wait (`ProcessTools.setWaitMillis`). `get_run_status` reads and never steps a run. A run stops at every screen that has something for the person which their card did not show (a review, a form, values to read, a text, a list of records); only a screen with nothing to show is passed (`ProcessTools.advance`). Going on is a new proposal and a new card that shows what the screen shows, as the server kept it (the in-memory run, keyed by a reference only its person can use), never what the model passed; the card carries the run's version and goes on only with the run as it stood then.
+  - `run_process` only proposes: inputs are checked against the declared form fields before a card exists (unknown, wrong type, missing required), no value is ever invented, and the card shows the process, what every screen says, every input with the value it will have (given, or the default), and the records. An input is only a field a screen asks a person for: a field whose name the process keeps for its own working (`ProcessControlNames`: the inputs of its backend steps and the fixed `RESERVED` set, which `ProcessControlNamesTest` checks against the QQQ version built with) is never an input, at the proposal and again at the confirmation. The records of a run are frozen at the proposal by primary key and by version (a filter is resolved then, at most `MAX_RECORD_IDS`; one digest over the records as the person read them, `setVersion`); the confirmed run is sent those keys, never a filter, and refuses when a record is gone, changed or unreadable. A proposal without the digest, or whose card showed less (`COVERS`), is not run. The card keeps what the records were, bounded (`MAX_BEFORE_SAMPLE`).
+  - One confirmation runs a process to its end (`docs/one-card-for-a-set.md`). A screen is passed for the person only when it shows nothing their card did not (`ProcessTools.screenDiffers`, `reviewDiffers`): a text or a form whose values are the card's; a review that counts exactly the card's records and, with every record validated first, has no warning and no error (a line that only informs passes for a table's bulk action only). Everything else stops the run, and going on is a new proposal and a new card that shows what the screen shows, as the server kept it (the in-memory run, keyed by a reference only its person can use), never what the model passed; the card carries the run's version and goes on only with the run as it stood then. Never pass a screen on anything but what the stored proposal's card showed, and never add a value to a step but the card's own and the review's `doFullValidation`.
+  - The confirmed run goes through the process's own `init` and `step` operations as the person, for every process: do not add another path. The assistant creates and starts no durable job (it does not call the launch operation). When core diverts the work to a job, the job is the confirming person's and core decides whether it starts (`assistantAutoStartMaxRows`); the assistant only reads it (`GET /jobs/{jobId}`), and cancels one that core created waiting, as the person, reporting the run as not done. Core refuses a start from the `assistant` channel; do not route around that (no other channel, no in-process call). A card never says "done" for work that waits or is still running.
+  - No card for what cannot happen: the record write tools and a table's bulk action ask the application, as the person, what it tells their screens about the table (`TablePermissions`) and refuse before a card when it says they may not. The check only refuses; the UI API still decides the confirmed change.
+  - A confirmed run never keeps its pending action RUNNING for the run's duration: the action ends when the run ended, stopped, failed or outlasted the wait (`ProcessTools.setWaitMillis`). `get_run_status` reads and never steps a run.
   - A run's result carries the process's summary lines, what a screen it stopped at shows (less every field the assistant may not see the values of) and the application's own message, all redacted. Text of the application reaches a model only inside the data envelope (`AiDataEnvelope`): in a result, in a card's lines, and in what a later request is told of a process step or a confirmed run (`ToolLabels.forModel`, `MessageParts.modelText`). Never concatenate such text into a tool's own words.
   - `RunnableProcessReview` is how a host notices drift in its build; it decides nothing at runtime. It evaluates `ProcessRunnability` with the code's data access (`DataAccessService.forProcessInCode` / `forTableInCode`, no administrator's row) and compares the reviewed file with what could be listed and with the registered list. Keep it free of a server and a database.
   - Panel API queries also filter `userId = me`, so an admin's all-access key never mixes other users' conversations into the panel.

README.md

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 | `retentionSchedulerName` | none | Runs `assistantRetention` daily on that scheduler. |
 | `ownerSecurityKeyType` | `assistant_user_id` | Key type of the owner record locks. |
 | `pricing` | Anthropic list prices, 2026-10 | USD per million tokens per model, used for cost and budgets. |
-| `allowedWidgetNames` | none | Dashboard widgets `render_widget` may render. The kernel denies every widget not on this list. This config list is the **only** way to allow a widget: QQQ widget meta-data has no supplemental hook, so there is no per-widget "assistant-safe" flag. Allow only widgets that render the same data for every user who can see them. |
+| `allowedWidgetNames` | none | Dashboard widgets `render_widget` may render. The tool refuses every widget that is not on this list, before the application is asked, so with the default (none) no widget is renderable. This list in code is the **only** way to allow a widget: QQQ widget meta-data has no supplemental hook, so there is no per-widget "assistant-safe" flag. A widget is code of the application and can show rows of any table, whatever the assistant's data access says of that table; allow only widgets that render the same data for every user who can see them, and say which tables each one reads with `withWidgetTables`. |
+| `withWidgetTables(widget, tables)` | none | The tables an allowed widget reads. The widget is rendered through the assistant only while the assistant may read every one of them (data access not `NONE`: the code default, a pin, an administrator's row, a table kept from AI by its metadata). A widget allowed without tables is rendered whatever the data access says. |
 | `hiddenWidgetNames` | none | Widgets that are never rendered, even when allowed. |
 | `customRedactionPatterns` | none | Extra regular expressions redacted from tool results and from the input kept in the tool-call log. |
 | `killSwitchPollMillis` | 2000 | How often a running turn re-checks the kill switch while it waits on the model. |
@@ -402,12 +403,19 @@ The list names; it grants nothing. A listed process is still never run when one
 
 **The confirmed run is the person's.** It is started through the UI API with the confirming request's session, so the application decides with the person's permissions as they are then (a permission revoked after the proposal refuses the run), and what it answers is what the person is told.
 
-**A run is over exactly the records its card counted.** The records are fixed when the run is proposed: the ones named, or the ones a filter finds for the person then, kept by primary key. A filter that finds more than 500 records is refused, for the person to narrow. The confirmed run is sent those primary keys, never the filter, and does not start when one of them is no longer there for the person.
+**A run is over exactly the records its card showed, as they were.** The records are frozen when the run is proposed: the ones named, or the ones a filter finds for the person then, read as the person and kept by primary key and by version (one digest over all of them as they were read). A filter that finds more than 500 records is refused, for the person to narrow. The confirmed run is sent those primary keys, never the filter, and does not start when one of them is gone, changed in any value, or no longer readable for the person. The card keeps what the records were: how many, and a sample of 20 with their values (`recordsBefore`), and lists the whole set by name (`records`).
 
-- *A durable job*, when the application says the process may run as one (`durableJobEligible`): the confirmed run creates the job (`POST /processes/{processName}/jobs`). Core creates a job launched from the `assistant` channel waiting for the person and refuses to start it from that channel, so the assistant never starts a job: the person starts it on its job record, from their own session. The assistant sends no expected row count, so core's "small assistant jobs start by themselves" setting never applies to a job it created. Where the application does not offer the operation that creates a job, such a process is not run through the assistant at all: it is never run on confirmation instead.
-- *Otherwise* the process's own `init` and `step` operations. The run goes on until it ends or reaches a screen with something for the person that the card they confirmed did not show: a review (nothing is stored yet), a form (also when no field is required: a step may have computed its values), values to read, a text such as "are you sure", or a list of records. It stops there. Going on is a new proposal and a new card (`run_process` with the run's reference) that shows what the screen shows: its text, its fields with their values, the first ten records of its list, less every field the assistant may not see the values of. What the card says about the run is what the server kept, never what the model passed. Only a screen with nothing to show is passed. The screen a run starts at is on the first card (its text, and the defaults the person did not replace). A card goes on only with the run as it stood when the card was made: once the run moved (another card went on with it, or validated it again), an older card is refused. A run that stops at a list of records the assistant cannot show does not go on through the assistant.
+**One confirmation runs it to its end.** The confirmed run goes through the process's own `init` and `step` operations, as the person: what the person's own screen calls, so whatever the application does to a person's own request for a process, it does to this one. A screen of the process is passed for the person when, and only when, it shows nothing their card did not:
 
-A confirmed run never keeps its pending action `RUNNING`: the action ends when the job is created, or when the run ended, stopped, failed, or was still working after the time the confirmation waits (15 seconds). Where a run stands after that is asked with `get_run_status`. A run that stopped or is still working is kept in the memory of the server that started it, for an hour, under a reference only its person can use; a restart loses it, as it loses the run. Long work belongs in a durable job.
+- a text, or a form whose every field has the value the card showed for it (the value given, or the field's default): passed. The card shows what every screen says and every input with the value it will have;
+- a review: passed when the card named a set, the process counts exactly that many records, every record was validated first (the assistant asks for the full validation the review offers, where the process can), no line has a warning or an error, and the lines that are fine count all of the records. A line that only informs is the card's own for a table's bulk edit and bulk delete, and something the card did not say for any other process;
+- values to read, a list of records, a form a step filled with other values than the card showed, a required field with no value, a review that says anything else: the run stops there, with nothing more done. Going on is a new proposal and a new card (`run_process` with the run's reference) that shows what the screen shows and why the run came back: its text, its fields with their values, the first ten records of its list, less every field the assistant may not see the values of. What the card says about the run is what the server kept, never what the model passed. A card goes on only with the run as it stood when the card was made.
+
+A run whose card named no records always stops at a review. A run that stops at a list of records the assistant cannot show does not go on through the assistant.
+
+**The assistant creates and starts no background job.** When the application itself hands the work to a durable job (core diverts the storing step of a large or always-durable streamed process), the job is created from the person's own request, so the person who confirmed the card is its owner. The run waits for it like any working step and reads it as the person; the card then says how it ended: rows done, rows failed and why (the job's summary lines; never its rows). Whether such a job starts by itself is the application's decision (core's `assistantAutoStartMaxRows`, 0 by default). A job the application created waiting is not what the person confirmed, and two of them would have core refuse the person's next run: the assistant cancels it, as the person, and the card says the run did not happen and why. With core's defaults no run through the assistant is diverted (a set is at most 500 records, under core's 1,000-row threshold).
+
+A confirmed run never keeps its pending action `RUNNING`: the action ends when the run ended, stopped, failed, or was still working after the time the confirmation waits (15 seconds). A run still working then is reported as running, never as done; where it stands after that is asked with `get_run_status`, and its card is not updated afterwards. A run that stopped or is still working is kept in the memory of the server that started it, for an hour, under a reference only its person can use; a restart loses it, as it loses the run.
 
 What a result carries: the process's own summary lines (status, count, message), what a screen the run stopped at shows, and the application's own message for a refusal or a failure. All of it is text of the application, which can repeat what a record says: it is redacted like every tool result, and a model reads it only inside the data envelope every tool result uses (`<qqq_data ... trust="untrusted">`). That holds for a result, for the lines of a card, for the summary a later request keeps of a process step, for what a later request is told became of a confirmed run, and for the thread's own message about it. A person reads the same words as they are.
 
@@ -515,7 +523,8 @@ The stream ends after `message.end`. Thinking is never streamed.
 
 A tool that changes something never changes it: it stores a pending action and the panel shows a card. Nothing runs until the user confirms the card, and no setting switches that off.
 
-- **What the card shows.** `actionKind` says what is proposed: `record_create`, `record_update`, `record_delete`, `process_run` (`changes` then holds the card's lines: the process, each input, the records, how it runs, where it stops; `processName` and `processLabel` name the process), or the name of the proposing tool (`save_analysis`, the bulk-load tools, a host's own). For a record change the card has the table and the record, and one line per field: an update shows the value before and after, a create the value, a delete what the record holds. The values before go through the same exposure rules as `get_record` (a hidden field is absent, a masked field is masked). `toolName` stays one of the three record tools for a record change, so a panel that only knows those still draws a working card.
+- **What the card shows.** `actionKind` says what is proposed: `record_create`, `record_update`, `record_delete`, `process_run` (`changes` then holds the card's lines: the process, what its screens say, each input, the records, how it runs; `processName` and `processLabel` name the process; for a run over a set, `recordCount`, `records` (every record of the set: id, label, href, for the card to list and scroll) and `recordsBefore` (what was kept of the records as they were: count, sampleCap, sample)), or the name of the proposing tool (`save_analysis`, the bulk-load tools, a host's own). For a record change the card has the table and the record, and one line per field: an update shows the value before and after, a create the value, a delete what the record holds. The values before go through the same exposure rules as `get_record` (a hidden field is absent, a masked field is masked). `toolName` stays one of the three record tools for a record change, so a panel that only knows those still draws a working card.
+- **No card for what cannot happen.** Before a change is proposed, the application is asked, as the person, what it tells their own screens about the table (`GET /metaData/table/{tableName}`: the insert, edit and delete permissions and the table's capabilities). When it says the person may not make that kind of change, nothing is proposed and the person is told so plainly. This holds for the three record tools and for a table's own bulk edit and bulk delete. It only ever refuses what the application says it will refuse; the confirmed change is still decided by the UI API. A record lock that lets a person read a record and not change it cannot be asked beforehand: that change is refused when it is confirmed (one record) or comes back at the review (a set).
 - **What was approved is what is written.** An update or a delete is proposed for the record as the user can read it at that moment; a record they cannot read is refused then, with the UI API's own answer, and no card is made. The proposal keeps a version of the record (a digest of the whole record, never its values). On confirmation the record is read again as the confirming user: if it is gone, may no longer be read, or changed in any field, the change is refused ("This record changed after the change was proposed. Nothing was changed.") and the record is left as it is. The UI API has no conditional write, so a change made in the instant between that read and the write is not detected.
 - **One decision.** A pending action is confirmed or cancelled once, by exactly one request, however many arrive together and on however many servers: the decision is a row in `assistant_pending_action_claim`, whose `pending_action_id` is unique. Keep that unique key.
 - **Expiry.** A proposal lapses after `pendingActionTtlSeconds`; expiry is evaluated when it is read and when it is decided. Expiry is itself a decision, made through the same claim: an action somebody confirmed is never marked expired afterwards, and is reported as what it is.

UPGRADE.md

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 # Upgrading qbit-assistant
 
+## One confirmation runs a set to its end (Unreleased, UI API extension assistant 1.11.0)
+
+**After this upgrade a person confirms a run over a set of records once, and it runs to its end: through a table's own bulk edit or bulk delete, or through a process on the host's reviewed list. It comes back to them only when the process would do something their card did not show.** Design and safety argument: `docs/one-card-for-a-set.md`.
+
+### What a host must change
+
+Nothing, for a host on core's defaults: no configuration, no schema change, no permission, no settings row.
+
+One case needs a setting in the host's code. **If the application hands runs of 500 records or fewer to a background job** (it lowered core's `durableThresholdRows` below the sets it wants the assistant to run, or marked a process the assistant may run `alwaysDurable`), core creates that job waiting unless the host lets jobs that came through the assistant start by themselves:
+
+```java
+DurableJobsMetaData.of(qInstance).withAssistantAutoStartMaxRows(500);   // the largest set the assistant runs is 500 records
+```
+
+Without it such a run ends on its card as "did not run": the assistant cancels the waiting job, as the person, instead of leaving it to wait (a waiting job needs a second action from the person, and two of them have core refuse the person's next run). With core's default threshold (1,000 rows) no run through the assistant is handed to a job, and nothing needs setting.
+
+### What changes for a person
+
+- One card for a set, and one confirmation. The card shows the process, what its screens say, every input with its value, and the records (how many, a few by name; the whole list is on the card for a panel that draws it).
+- A run comes back with a new card only when the process counts other records than the card, reports a warning or an error for a record, shows values or records that did not exist when the card was made, or (a host's own process) says something at its review that the card did not.
+- A person who may not make a change is told so, and is no longer offered a card that would be refused.
+- A card proposed before the upgrade and confirmed after it is refused with "propose it again" (cards live 15 minutes).
+
+### What changes for a host's own process on the reviewed list
+
+- It runs through its own `init` and `step` operations also when it may run as a durable job. The assistant no longer calls `POST /processes/{processName}/jobs`.
+- Its forms are filled with the values of the card and passed; its review is passed when it counts the records of the card and, after the full validation the review offers, has only lines that are fine. A line of status INFO at its review brings the run back to the person with a new card: put what a person must know before confirming into the process's help text or inputs (both are on the first card) if one confirmation should be enough.
+
+### API
+
+- UI API extension `assistant` 1.11.0 (additive): `AssistantActionV1` gains `recordCount`, `records` and `recordsBefore` for a run over a set. A panel that does not know them draws the card's lines as before.
+||||||| e327e67
+
+## render_widget renders only widgets the host allowed (Unreleased)
+
+**After this upgrade the assistant renders no dashboard widget until the application names it in code.** Until now `render_widget` rendered any widget the signed-in person may see, including one that shows rows of a table the assistant may not read.
+
+What a host changes, only if it wants the assistant to render widgets:
+
+```java
+new AssistantQBitConfig()
+   .withAllowedWidgetNames(Set.of("openOrdersByStatus"))                  // nothing else is renderable
+   .withWidgetTables("openOrdersByStatus", Set.of("order", "customer"));  // the tables its renderer reads
+```
+
+- Name the tables each allowed widget reads. The widget is then closed whenever the assistant may not read one of them (a `NONE` row of an administrator, a pin, a table kept from AI). A widget allowed without tables is rendered whatever the data access says: do that only for a widget that shows nothing of a table.
+- Allow only widgets that render the same data for every person who can see them.
+- No schema change, no permission change, no settings row.
 ## The assistant runs a process the signed-in person may run (Unreleased, UI API extension assistant 1.10.0)
 
 **After this upgrade, with nothing else changed, the assistant can run two kinds of process for a person who may run them themselves, once that person confirmed the run on a card: a table's own bulk edit and its bulk delete, on a table the assistant may already change for that person.** Every other process stays closed until the application's code names it on a reviewed list. No DDL changes.

docs/actions-and-mcp.md

@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Built so far in this repository (each entry says where the code differs from the
   - The assistant refuses to answer anybody for whom no spending limit is in force (owner decision of
     2026-11-12, not in this document): `BudgetService.limitInForce`.
 
+- One confirmation for a set, no card for what cannot happen, compact answers and the output ceiling: `docs/one-card-for-a-set.md`.
+  It changes what sections 2.3, 3.4, 4.4 and 4.5 below say (a run is confirmed once and goes to its end when its screens show what the
+  card showed; the assistant creates no job; several records are one card through a table's bulk action); its section 6 lists each change.
+
 Owner direction (2026-11-11): build all of it. The assistant in a QQQ application must be able to do
 everything the signed-in person can do, not only read, and the same abilities must be reachable from a
 person's own local agent over MCP.

docs/one-card-for-a-set.md

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+# One confirmation for a set, compact answers, and the output ceiling (design)
+
+Status: built. This note is the design the code follows; where they disagree, the code is right and this note is wrong. It changes
+decisions recorded in `docs/actions-and-mcp.md` (sections 2.3, 3.4, 4.4 and 4.5); section 6 lists them.
+
+## 1. What was wrong
+
+A person asked the assistant to delete 29 of 34 records of one table.
+
+1. **Three confirmations, or a job nobody could start.** Through a host's own process, the set was on one card, but the confirmed run
+   stopped at the process's own form and again at its review, and each stop needed a new card. Through a table's own bulk delete it was
+   one card and then a background job created waiting for the person to start it on its job record, which needs access most people do
+   not have. The card said the run was done while the job waited, and after two such jobs the application refused the person's next run.
+2. **Bloated answers.** Every tool call attached a full record card and a link, with no limit: 29 records, 29 cards.
+3. **Work dropped at the output ceiling.** A reply that stopped at the ceiling of one reply was not read for tool calls, so calls the
+   model had completely formed never ran, and the turn still ended `COMPLETE`. A row of data could lower the configured ceiling to anything.
+4. **A card for what cannot happen.** A change the person is not permitted to make was proposed and then refused on confirmation; and a
+   process run kept nothing of what its records were.
+
+## 2. What does not change
+
+- The signed-in person is the permission boundary. Every call the assistant makes for a run is a spec'd `/qqq/v1` operation, made as the
+  person with the confirming request's own session and the `assistant` channel. There is no internal path.
+- Every change is confirmed on a card, by the person who was shown it, once (`AssistantStore.decidePendingAction`). Nothing switches that
+  off, and no tool can confirm: only `AssistantApi.confirmAction`, the person's own request, reaches `ToolCallService.confirm`.
+- A process runs only when `ProcessRunnability` allows it (the host's reviewed list, or a table's own bulk edit and bulk delete).
+- No answer without a spending limit in force.
+
+## 3. Part A: one confirmation for a set
+
+### 3.1 The card
+
+`run_process` proposes one pending action. Its card shows:
+
+- the process;
+- what every screen of the process says (its help texts), not only the first;
+- every input of every form with the value it will have: the value given, or the field's default ("its default");
+- the records: how many, a few by name (five; by primary key only when a record has no other name), how they were chosen when by a
+  filter, and, on the card itself (`records`), every record of the set by name with a link, for the card to list and scroll;
+- "Runs: when you confirm, to its end", and that it comes back only if the process would do something the card does not show.
+
+The stored proposal keeps the set **frozen by primary key and by version**: the records are read as the person when the run is proposed
+(`POST /table/{tableName}/query`, at most 500), and one SHA-256 digest is kept over all of them as they were read (`setVersion`, also in
+the action's `recordVersion`). It also keeps what the records were, the way a change to one record does, bounded: the count, and a sample
+of the first **20** records with their values after the exposure rules of `get_record` (for a bulk edit: the fields that change).
+
+### 3.2 The confirmed run
+
+The run goes through the process's own `init` and `step` operations as the person: what the person's own screen calls, so whatever a
+host does to a person's own request for a process, it does to this one. Before `init`, the set is read again as the person and compared
+with the digest: a record gone, added to the keys, changed in any value, or no longer readable refuses the run with nothing done.
+
+Then each screen the process reaches is **passed for the person only when it shows nothing their card did not** (`ProcessTools.screenDiffers`,
+`reviewDiffers`):
+
+| The screen | Passed when | Otherwise |
+|---|---|---|
+| A text, a form | The card showed all of its text (a text longer than 2,000 characters is not all on a card), every field's value in the run is the value the card showed (given or default), no required field is empty, and no field the assistant cannot set holds a value | Stops; the new card shows the screen as the server read it and why it came back |
+| A form of fields to change (bulk edit form) | It is the step the run starts at, or the first screen of a table's own bulk edit | Stops |
+| Values to read, a list of records | Never: they did not exist when the card was made | Stops |
+| A review | The card named a set; the process counts exactly that many records; every record was validated first where the process can (the assistant asks for the full validation the review offers); no line has a warning or an error; the lines that are fine count all of the records; and a line that only informs is passed for a table's own bulk action (it repeats the card's values) but not for any other process | Stops, with nothing stored; the new card shows what the review says and why |
+
+A run whose card named no records always stops at a review: there is nothing on the card the review could be the same as. A card that
+validates every record ("validate fully") stops at the review again, as it says.
+
+The values sent are the card's and nothing else: `ProcessControlNames` still refuses any name the process keeps for itself, at the proposal
+and again at the confirmation; the review's own switch (`doFullValidation`) is the only value the assistant adds.
+
+### 3.3 Background jobs
+
+The assistant no longer creates a job (`POST /processes/{processName}/jobs` is not called), and still starts none. When the application
+itself hands the work to a durable job (core diverts the storing step of a streamed process over its threshold, 1,000 rows by default, or of
+an always-durable process), core creates that job from the person's own request: **the person who confirmed the card is its launcher and
+owner.** The run then waits for the job like any working step (15 seconds by default) and reads it as the person (`GET /jobs/{jobId}`):
+
+| The job | The card says | Action |
+|---|---|---|
+| Finished | "finished as background job N: R rows done" | `EXECUTED` |
+| Finished with errors | the same, "with errors", rows done and failed, and the summary's error lines (why) | `EXECUTED` |
+| Failed, cancelled | "failed" or "was cancelled", with rows and reasons | `FAILED` |
+| Still working after the wait | "was handed to background job N, which is running: R rows done" (never "finished") | `EXECUTED`; `get_run_status` with the job id reads how it ended |
+| Created waiting (`AWAITING_CONFIRMATION`) | "did not run", why, and that the job was cancelled and nothing changed | `FAILED` |
+
+Whether a job that came through the assistant starts by itself is core's decision, from the host's `assistantAutoStartMaxRows` (0 by
+default: never). A job created waiting is not what the person confirmed, and left waiting it counts against the jobs core lets the
+assistant have for a person (`assistantMaxActiveJobs`), so two of them block the person. The assistant therefore cancels it, as the person
+(`POST /jobs/{jobId}/cancel`, the one job control core allows from this channel, and only to the job's owner), and reports the run as not
+done. With core's defaults no run through the assistant is diverted at all: a set is at most 500 records, under the 1,000-row threshold.
+
+Of a job only its state, its counts and its summary lines (status, count, message, redacted, inside the data envelope) are passed on;
+never its rows.
+
+### 3.4 Safety argument
+
+The run does at most what the card showed, as the person, or it does nothing:
+
+1. **Who.** Only the person's own confirm request starts a run; the stored action is theirs, claimed once. Every operation is made with
+   that request's session, so the application decides each one with the person's permissions as they are then.
+2. **Which records.** The run is sent the primary keys of the card, never a filter. The digest over the records makes "the set changed"
+   a refusal before anything starts. A proposal without the digest is not run.
+3. **Which values.** Only inputs the card showed are sent; names the process keeps for itself are refused twice. A screen whose values
+   differ from the card stops the run.
+4. **What the process would do.** The review is passed only when it says what the card said, after full validation. Any difference
+   returns to the person with nothing stored.
+5. **What is passed.** Passing a screen never widens anything: the person's own screen would let them press the same button. The
+   assistant presses it only where the card already showed the person everything that button's screen shows.
+6. **What cannot be known.** A stored proposal whose card showed less (made before this version) is not run. A change between the last
+   read and the process's own write is not detected; the same holds for a change to one record (the UI API has no conditional write).
+
+What the model can do is unchanged: it can only propose. The reversal of "a process that may run as a job is never run through `init`"
+removes one defence in depth (core refusing to start an assistant-created job) for the runs a person confirmed; what stands in its place
+is that the confirmation is the person's own request and that core still refuses any job start from this channel.
+
+## 4. Part B: no card for what cannot happen
+
+Before a change is proposed, the application is asked, as the person, what it tells their own screens about the table
+(`GET /metaData/table/{tableName}`): `insertPermission`, `editPermission`, `deletePermission` and the table's capabilities
+(`TablePermissions`). When it says the person may not make that kind of change, nothing is proposed, there is no card, and the person is
+told so in plain words. That holds for `create_record`, `update_record`, `delete_record` and for a table's own bulk edit and bulk delete.
+A process the person may not run was already never proposed (`hasPermission` of their own process metadata). A record the person cannot
+read is refused when an update or a delete is proposed, as before.
+
+The check refuses only what the application says it will refuse. It grants nothing: the confirmed change is still decided by the UI API.
+
+**Not covered, and why.** A record lock of scope WRITE (a person may read the record and not change it) cannot be asked beforehand: core
+decides it from the stored record's lock values, which a person's view of the record may not hold, and no `/qqq/v1` operation answers "may
+this person change these records" without changing them. Such a change still gets a card and is refused on confirmation (a single
+record), or comes back at the review (a set: core validates locks when it validates the records). What core would need is in section 7.
+
+## 5. Parts C and D
+
+### 5.1 Compact output (C)
+
+- An answer shows a record once and at most `maxRecordCardsPerTurn` (3) cards of single records and `maxRecordChipsPerTurn` (8) record
+  links; further ones are left out, each step is still listed, and a list of records stays one table. A card that asks for a confirmation
+  is never left out. The first time something is left out, the model is told that the answer is full.
+- A set is named by label; a primary key is written only when a record has no other name.
+- The model's instructions say the same (rules 16 to 19 of the system prompt): one proposal for a set, how many and at most five by name,
+  never every record, no ids unless asked, no `get_record` per record of a set.
+- The full list is on the confirmation card (`records`), and the person can ask for it.
+
+### 5.2 The output ceiling (D)
+
+- A reply that stopped at the ceiling is read like any other. Its tool calls run, except the ones that cannot be known to be complete:
+  the call that is the reply's last part (the model was writing it when it was stopped; a provider can hand it over looking complete) and
+  any call whose input a provider could not read. Those never run: each gets an error result that says it was cut off and must be issued
+  again, so every call of the reply has its result, in order, and the provider's own state of the reply stays valid.
+- The turn then goes on with the next model call, at most `maxOutputContinuations` (2) times per answer. A reply cut off in its text is
+  given back to the model with an instruction to go on from where it stopped. Each is a model call like any other: the spending limit,
+  the kill switch and the answer's time limit apply.
+- When it may not go on, the answer ends `INCOMPLETE`, never `COMPLETE` (the complete calls of the last reply still ran): the person is
+  told how many steps were done, how many were cut off and not run, and to say "continue". The unfinished answer stays in the
+  conversation, so "continue" goes on from it.
+- The ceiling of one reply is what the host configured in code (`models.mainMaxOutputTokens`). A provider's row may lower it, never raise
+  it, and never below `minOutputTokensPerRequest` (4,096), or below the configured ceiling when that is lower.
+
+## 6. Decisions of `docs/actions-and-mcp.md` this changes
+
+| There | Now |
+|---|---|
+| 2.3: a process run is confirmed before it starts and again at a review step | Once, when the review says what the card said; again only when it does not |
+| 3.4: several records are one card each; a delete is one record at a time | One card for a set, through the table's bulk action; single-record tools unchanged |
+| 4.4 path A, 4.5: a durable-eligible process is created as a job that waits; never run through `init` | Every process runs through `init` and `step`; the assistant creates no job; a job core diverts to is waited for; a waiting one is cancelled |
+| 4.5: a run stops at every later screen that has something to show | Only at a screen that shows something the card did not |
+| 4.5: the records of a run are fixed by primary key | By primary key and by version |
+
+## 7. What is needed elsewhere
+
+- **Core, for part B:** a spec'd operation that answers, as the person and without writing, whether they may update or delete given
+  records (table permission and WRITE-scope record locks, evaluated on the stored records as `ValidateRecordSecurityLockHelper` does).
+  Until then a WRITE-scope lock is found at the confirmation or the review, not before the card.
+- **A host whose application diverts runs of 500 records or fewer to a job** (a lowered `durableThresholdRows`, or `alwaysDurable` on a
+  process the assistant may run): set `DurableJobsMetaData.withAssistantAutoStartMaxRows` to at least the size it wants to run on one
+  confirmation. Without it such a run ends as "did not run" (the waiting job is cancelled). No other host needs to change anything.
+- **The panel:** a released panel draws the card's lines. Listing `records` on the card (scrolling) and drawing `recordsBefore` is the
+  panel's to add; the data is sent.
+
+## 8. Not built
+
+- The card of a run that was still working when the confirmation stopped waiting says so and is not updated afterwards; how it ended is
+  read with `get_run_status` (the model is told to). Refreshing the stored card from the job when it is read again is left for later.
+- Not offering `run_process` for a set to a person whose WRITE-scope lock will refuse it (section 7).

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/AssistantQBitConfig.java

@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ public class AssistantQBitConfig implements QBitConfig
 
    private Set<String>               hiddenWidgetNames        = new LinkedHashSet<>();
    private Set<String>               allowedWidgetNames       = new LinkedHashSet<>();
+   private Map<String, Set<String>>  widgetTables             = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // tools sent with strict: true. Empty by default: Anthropic compiles all //
@@ -1644,7 +1645,10 @@ public class AssistantQBitConfig implements QBitConfig
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** Fluent setter for allowedWidgetNames
+    ** Fluent setter for allowedWidgetNames: the dashboard widgets render_widget
+    ** may render. A widget that is not named here is refused, whoever asks
+    ** (the list is empty by default, so no widget is renderable until a host
+    ** names one). Name the tables a widget reads with {@link #withWidgetTables}.
     *******************************************************************************/
    public AssistantQBitConfig withAllowedWidgetNames(Set<String> allowedWidgetNames)
    {
@@ -1654,6 +1658,49 @@ public class AssistantQBitConfig implements QBitConfig
 
 
 
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Getter for widgetTables
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public Map<String, Set<String>> getWidgetTables()
+   {
+      return (this.widgetTables);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Setter for widgetTables
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public void setWidgetTables(Map<String, Set<String>> widgetTables)
+   {
+      this.widgetTables = widgetTables;
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Declare the tables an allowed widget reads. The renderer of a widget is
+    ** code of the application: the assistant cannot see which tables it reads,
+    ** so the host says so here. The widget is then rendered through the
+    ** assistant only while the assistant may read every one of those tables
+    ** (their data access is not NONE: the code default, a pin, a row of an
+    ** administrator, a table kept from AI by its metadata, the tables of the
+    ** assistant itself). A widget allowed without tables is rendered whatever
+    ** the data access says: allow one that way only when it shows nothing of
+    ** a table.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public AssistantQBitConfig withWidgetTables(String widgetName, Set<String> tableNames)
+   {
+      if(this.widgetTables == null)
+      {
+         this.widgetTables = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+      }
+      this.widgetTables.put(widgetName, tableNames == null ? Set.of() : new LinkedHashSet<>(tableNames));
+      return (this);
+   }
+
+
+
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** Getter for customRedactionPatterns
     *******************************************************************************/

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/AssistantRuntime.java

@@ -196,12 +196,13 @@ public class AssistantRuntime
       this.toolbox = new UiApiToolbox(qInstance, dataAccessService, exposurePolicy, new AiRedactor(settings.getCustomRedactionPatterns()),
          config.getMaxCellChars() == null ? AiToolKernelSettings.DEFAULT_MAX_CELL_CHARS : config.getMaxCellChars());
       this.toolbox.withScheduledDeliveryCheck(config.getScheduledDeliveryCheck());
+      this.toolbox.withWidgetRules(() -> new UiApiToolbox.WidgetRules(config.getAllowedWidgetNames(), config.getHiddenWidgetNames(), config.getWidgetTables()));
       this.starterPrompts = new StarterPrompts(toolbox, clock);
       VectorStore vectors = config.getVectorStore() == null ? new InMemoryVectorStore() : config.getVectorStore();
       this.ragService = new RagService(this, vectors, uiApiGateway);
       this.knowledgeTool = new KnowledgeTool(this, ragService, vectors);
       this.bulkLoadTools = new BulkLoadTools(qInstance, dataAccessService, config.getBulkLoadRunner());
-      this.processTools = new ProcessTools(qInstance, dataAccessService, uiApiGateway, exposurePolicy, new AiRedactor(settings.getCustomRedactionPatterns()));
+      this.processTools = new ProcessTools(qInstance, dataAccessService, uiApiGateway, exposurePolicy, new AiRedactor(settings.getCustomRedactionPatterns()), toolbox);
       this.attachmentService = new AttachmentService(config.getAttachments(), new UploadRefSource());
       ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
       // every tool, registered once: the QBit's own families, named here, //

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/api/AssistantApi.java

@@ -1339,6 +1339,21 @@ public class AssistantApi
             map.put("processName", plan.get("process"));
             map.put("processLabel", plan.get("label"));
             map.put("changes", plan.get("card") instanceof List<?> card ? card : List.of());
+            if(plan.get("records") instanceof List<?> records && !records.isEmpty())
+            {
+               //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+               // a run over a set: every record of the set by name (the card  //
+               // lists them and scrolls), and what was kept of them as they   //
+               // were: how many, and a capped sample of their values           //
+               //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+               map.put("recordCount", plan.get("count"));
+               map.put("records", ActionKinds.recordLinks(action.getTableName(), records));
+               Map<String, Object> before = action.getBeforeJson() == null ? null : storedObject(action.getBeforeJson());
+               if(before != null)
+               {
+                  map.put("recordsBefore", before);
+               }
+            }
          }
          if(action.getTableName() != null && runtime.getQInstance().getTable(action.getTableName()) != null)
          {

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/api/specs/AssistantSpecs.java

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ import io.javalin.http.HttpStatus;
 public final class AssistantSpecs
 {
    public static final String EXTENSION_NAME    = "assistant";
-   public static final String EXTENSION_VERSION = "1.10.0";
+   public static final String EXTENSION_VERSION = "1.11.0";
    public static final String PREFIX            = "/assistant";
 
 
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ public final class AssistantSpecs
          "changes", array(freeObject("A record create or update, one per field written: field, label, value (after) and, for an update, before (the value when the change was proposed, as the user may see it). A process run (process_run), one per line of its card: field, label, value (the process, each input, the records it runs over, how it runs, where it stops for the user)."), null).withNullable(true),
          "processName", string("A process run: the process.").withNullable(true), "processLabel", string("A process run: the process's label.").withNullable(true),
          "before", array(freeObject("A record delete, one per field the user may see: field, label, value (when the delete was proposed)."), null).withNullable(true),
+         "recordCount", integer("A process run over a set of records: how many records.").withNullable(true),
+         "records", array(freeObject("A process run over a set of records, one per record, all of them: id, label, href. The card lists them and scrolls."), null).withNullable(true),
+         "recordsBefore", freeObject("A process run over a set of records, what was kept of them as they were when the run was proposed: count, sampleCap, and sample (one per record of the sample: "
+            + "id, label, values as the user may see them).").withNullable(true),
          "outcome", string("After a confirm: the tool outcome.").withNullable(true), "message", string("After a confirm: what happened.").withNullable(true),
          "href", string("After a confirm: the written record's /app link.").withNullable(true)));
       rs.put("AssistantActionListResponseV1", object("The user's own pending actions, newest first.",

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/TablePermissions.java

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2026 Kingsrook, LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools;
+
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ ** What a person may do to the records of a table, read from what the
+ ** application tells that person's own screens about the table (GET
+ ** /metaData/table/{tableName}, asked as the person).
+ **
+ ** It is used before a change is proposed, so that no card is offered for a
+ ** change the application will certainly refuse. It only ever answers "may
+ ** not" when the application says so itself; when the answer cannot be read it
+ ** answers "may", and the application decides when the change is confirmed.
+ ** It grants nothing: a confirmed change is decided by the UI API, as the
+ ** person, whatever was answered here.
+ *******************************************************************************/
+public final class TablePermissions
+{
+   public static final String PATH = "/metaData/table/{tableName}";
+
+   public static final String CHECK = "uiApi:GET " + PATH + ":";
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A kind of change to a table's records.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public enum Change
+   {
+      CREATE("insertPermission", "TABLE_INSERT", "create"),
+      EDIT("editPermission", "TABLE_UPDATE", "change"),
+      DELETE("deletePermission", "TABLE_DELETE", "delete");
+
+      private final String flag;
+      private final String capability;
+      private final String verb;
+
+
+
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       **
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      Change(String flag, String capability, String verb)
+      {
+         this.flag = flag;
+         this.capability = capability;
+         this.verb = verb;
+      }
+
+
+
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       ** The name of the permission flag in the person's table metadata.
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      public String flag()
+      {
+         return (flag);
+      }
+
+
+
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       ** The change as a verb: "create", "change", "delete".
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      public String verb()
+      {
+         return (verb);
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Utility class.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private TablePermissions()
+   {
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Whether the application says this person may not make this kind of
+    ** change to the table's records: it answered the flag as false, or the
+    ** table does not have the capability at all.
+    **
+    ** @param personsTable the table as the application described it to the
+    **                     person; an answer that carries no permission flags is
+    **                     no answer, and refuses nothing
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static boolean certainlyRefused(Map<String, Object> personsTable, Change change)
+   {
+      if(personsTable == null || !(personsTable.get(change.flag) instanceof Boolean allowed))
+      {
+         return (false);
+      }
+      if(!allowed)
+      {
+         return (true);
+      }
+      return (personsTable.get("capabilities") instanceof Collection<?> capabilities && !capabilities.contains(change.capability));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** What a person is told when they may not make a change: plain words, and
+    ** what the assistant should do with them.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static String refusal(String tableLabel, Change change)
+   {
+      return ("The user does not have permission to " + change.verb + " " + tableLabel + " records in this application, so nothing was proposed and there is no card. "
+         + "Tell the user that plainly, in one sentence. Do not propose this change again.");
+   }
+}

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/UiApiToolFamily.java

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class UiApiToolFamily implements ToolFamily
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.COUNT_RECORDS, EXPOSE_THEN_READ),
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.GET_RECORD, READ_THEN_EXPOSE),
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.SEARCH_RECORDS, EXPOSE_THEN_READ),
-      Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.RENDER_WIDGET, List.of(TOOL_SWITCH, SPECD_OPERATION, PERSON_PERMISSIONS)),
+      Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.RENDER_WIDGET, List.of(TOOL_SWITCH, SPECD_OPERATION, DATA_ACCESS, PERSON_PERMISSIONS)),
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.RECORD_HISTORY, READ_THEN_EXPOSE),
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD, PROPOSED_WRITE),
       Map.entry(UiApiToolbox.UPDATE_RECORD, PROPOSED_WRITE),

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/UiApiToolbox.java

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeMap;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.persistence.TranscriptRedactor;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.access.DataAccessMode;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.access.DataAccessService;
@@ -165,6 +166,8 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
    private final int               maxCellChars;
    private final AnalysisTools     analysis;
 
+   private Supplier<WidgetRules> widgetRules = () -> WidgetRules.NONE;
+
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
@@ -877,12 +880,40 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
 
 
 
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Which widgets render_widget may render, as the host declared it in code.
+    **
+    ** @param allowed the widgets a host allowed; a widget not named is refused
+    ** @param hidden  widgets a host took away again; one named here is refused
+    **                also when it is allowed
+    ** @param tables  for an allowed widget, the tables it reads: it is rendered
+    **                only while the assistant may read every one of them
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public record WidgetRules(Set<String> allowed, Set<String> hidden, Map<String, Set<String>> tables)
+   {
+      public static final WidgetRules NONE = new WidgetRules(Set.of(), Set.of(), Map.of());
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The widget rules of the host, read on every call. Without them no widget
+    ** is renderable.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public UiApiToolbox withWidgetRules(Supplier<WidgetRules> rules)
+   {
+      this.widgetRules = rules == null ? () -> WidgetRules.NONE : rules;
+      return (this);
+   }
+
+
+
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** The host's check of scheduled delivery (what is missing for a schedule to
     ** run and be emailed; empty when nothing is). Null: only what the instance
     ** itself shows is checked.
     *******************************************************************************/
-   public UiApiToolbox withScheduledDeliveryCheck(java.util.function.Supplier<List<String>> check)
+   public UiApiToolbox withScheduledDeliveryCheck(Supplier<List<String>> check)
    {
       analysis.setScheduledDeliveryCheck(check);
       return (this);
@@ -1495,10 +1526,46 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
 
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** POST /widget/{widgetName}.
+    **
+    ** The renderer of a widget is code of the application, and what it shows
+    ** can be rows of any table: the assistant cannot tell, and the UI API
+    ** decides only whether the person may see the widget. So the rules of the
+    ** assistant decide first, before the application is asked: a widget is
+    ** rendered only when the host allowed it by name (none is, by default),
+    ** did not hide it, and the assistant may read every table the host said
+    ** it reads. Everything else is refused with one answer, which does not
+    ** say whether the widget exists.
     *******************************************************************************/
    private void renderWidget(Context context, Outcome outcome, Map<String, Object> in) throws QException
    {
-      String name = requiredString(in, "name");
+      String      name  = requiredString(in, "name");
+      WidgetRules rules = widgetRules.get() == null ? WidgetRules.NONE : widgetRules.get();
+      String      check = null;
+      if(rules.allowed() == null || !rules.allowed().contains(name))
+      {
+         check = "widget:notAllowed";
+      }
+      else if(rules.hidden() != null && rules.hidden().contains(name))
+      {
+         check = "widget:hidden";
+      }
+      else
+      {
+         for(String tableName : rules.tables() == null || rules.tables().get(name) == null ? Set.<String>of() : rules.tables().get(name))
+         {
+            DataAccessService.Decision decision = dataAccess.forTable(tableName);
+            if(qInstance.getTable(tableName) == null || !decision.mode().allowsRead())
+            {
+               check = "dataAccess:table:" + decision.mode();
+               break;
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      if(check != null)
+      {
+         deny(outcome.result.withWidgetName(name), check, "The widget \"" + shortText(name) + "\" is not available to the assistant.");
+         return;
+      }
       if(qInstance.getWidget(name) == null)
       {
          throw (new AiToolException(AiToolOutcome.NOT_FOUND, "No widget named " + name + "."));
@@ -1538,9 +1605,11 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
 
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** create / update / delete: checked against data access, then proposed
-    ** (pending action). An update or a delete reads the record as the person
-    ** first, so a record they may not read is refused here with the UI API's
-    ** own answer. A write runs only from executeConfirmedWrite, once the person
+    ** (pending action). No card is made for a change the application will
+    ** certainly refuse: it is asked first, as the person, whether they may make
+    ** this kind of change to the table ({@link TablePermissions}), and an
+    ** update or a delete reads the record as the person, so a record they may
+    ** not read is refused here with the UI API's own answer. A write runs only from executeConfirmedWrite, once the person
     ** confirmed, as that person: the UI API decides with their permissions as
     ** they are then, and a person who may not make the change gets the answer
     ** the screen would give them.
@@ -1580,6 +1649,33 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
          }
       }
 
+      ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+      // no card for what cannot happen: the application is asked, as the  //
+      // person, whether they may make this kind of change to records of   //
+      // this table (what it tells their own screens). When they may not,  //
+      // they are told so and nothing is proposed. It refuses only what    //
+      // the application says it will refuse; the change itself is still   //
+      // decided by the application when the person confirms it            //
+      ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+      TablePermissions.Change change = CREATE_RECORD.equals(toolName) ? TablePermissions.Change.CREATE
+         : (UPDATE_RECORD.equals(toolName) ? TablePermissions.Change.EDIT : TablePermissions.Change.DELETE);
+      if(context.gateway().isInvocable("GET", TablePermissions.PATH))
+      {
+         String      proposing = outcome.operation;
+         UiApiResult asked     = call(context, outcome, new UiApiCall("GET", TablePermissions.PATH).withPathParam("tableName", tableName));
+         if(!asked.isSuccess())
+         {
+            return;
+         }
+         if(TablePermissions.certainlyRefused(asMap(asked.json()), change))
+         {
+            deny(outcome.result, TablePermissions.CHECK + change.flag(), TablePermissions.refusal(label(table), change));
+            return;
+         }
+         outcome.operation = proposing;
+         outcome.httpStatus = null;
+      }
+
       ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
       // an update or a delete is proposed for the record as the person can //
       // read it now. A record they cannot read is refused here, with the   //
@@ -1670,7 +1766,7 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
     ** nothing else: the values cannot be read back from it, since it covers
     ** the whole record and not one field.
     *******************************************************************************/
-   static String recordVersion(String tableName, String recordId, Map<String, Object> record) throws QException
+   public static String recordVersion(String tableName, String recordId, Map<String, Object> record) throws QException
    {
       try
       {
@@ -1916,6 +2012,36 @@ public class UiApiToolbox
 
 
 
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** What a card may show of a record the person read, for another tool family
+    ** of this QBit (a process run over a set keeps a sample of its records as
+    ** they were): the values after the exposure rules of get_record, masked,
+    ** redacted and noted for the stored transcript like every value a tool
+    ** shows. It reads nothing: the record is one the caller got from the UI API
+    ** as the person.
+    **
+    ** @param fields the fields wanted; null for every field the assistant may
+    **               see the values of
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public Map<String, Object> shownValues(Context context, QTableMetaData table, Map<String, Object> record, Set<String> fields, Set<String> redactions)
+   {
+      return (visibleValues(table, record, fields, context, redactions));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The name of a record the person read, as a card or an answer shows it:
+    ** its record label, redacted like every value, or its primary key when it
+    ** has none.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public String shownLabel(Context context, Map<String, Object> record, String id, Set<String> redactions)
+   {
+      return (sanitize(record.get("recordLabel") instanceof String label && StringUtils.hasContent(label) ? label : id, context, redactions));
+   }
+
+
+
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** Redact (when the policy says so) and truncate one value.
     *******************************************************************************/

qbit-assistant/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/registry/ActionKinds.java

@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
 package com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry;
 
 
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.ai.output.AiLinkBuilder;
 import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.fields.QFieldMetaData;
 import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.tables.QTableMetaData;
 
@@ -116,6 +118,37 @@ public final class ActionKinds
 
 
 
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The records of a proposed run over a set as its card lists them: each
+    ** with its name and a link into the application. The card lists all of
+    ** them (it scrolls); its lines name only a few.
+    **
+    ** @param stored the records as the proposal kept them: a list of objects
+    **               with an id and a label
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static List<Map<String, Object>> recordLinks(String tableName, Object stored)
+   {
+      List<Map<String, Object>> links = new ArrayList<>();
+      for(Object item : stored instanceof List<?> list ? list : List.of())
+      {
+         if(!(item instanceof Map<?, ?> one))
+         {
+            continue;
+         }
+         Map<String, Object> link = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+         link.put("id", one.get("id"));
+         link.put("label", one.get("label") == null ? one.get("id") : one.get("label"));
+         if(tableName != null && one.get("id") instanceof Serializable id)
+         {
+            link.put("href", AiLinkBuilder.recordHref(tableName, id));
+         }
+         links.add(link);
+      }
+      return (links);
+   }
+
+
+
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** A field's label, or its name when the table does not know it.
     *******************************************************************************/

qbit-assistant/src/main/resources/openapi/qqq-v1/assistant.yaml

@@ -101,6 +101,26 @@ components:
             type: "object"
           nullable: true
           type: "array"
+        recordCount:
+          description: "A process run over a set of records: how many records."
+          nullable: true
+          type: "integer"
+        records:
+          items:
+            additionalProperties: true
+            description: "A process run over a set of records, one per record, all\
+              \ of them: id, label, href. The card lists them and scrolls."
+            type: "object"
+          nullable: true
+          type: "array"
+        recordsBefore:
+          additionalProperties: true
+          description: "A process run over a set of records, what was kept of them\
+            \ as they were when the run was proposed: count, sampleCap, and sample\
+            \ (one per record of the sample: id, label, values as the user may see\
+            \ them)."
+          nullable: true
+          type: "object"
         outcome:
           description: "After a confirm: the tool outcome."
           nullable: true
@@ -552,7 +572,7 @@ info:
   description: "QQQ Assistant: conversations, streamed turns, feedback, pending actions\
     \ and data access explanations"
   title: "QQQ Middleware API extension: assistant"
-  version: "1.10.0"
+  version: "1.11.0"
 openapi: "3.0.3"
 paths:
   /qqq/v1/assistant/config:

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/engine/ToolCallChecksTest.java

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ class ToolCallChecksTest extends BaseAssistantTest
     *******************************************************************************/
    private static List<Map<String, String>> requestsFor(String tableName)
    {
-      return (UiApiTestServer.SCHEDULED_REQUESTS.stream().filter(request -> request.get("path").contains("/table/" + tableName)).toList());
+      return (UiApiTestServer.SCHEDULED_REQUESTS.stream().filter(request -> request.get("path").contains("/table/" + tableName) && !request.get("path").contains("/metaData/")).toList());
    }
 
 

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/engine/ToolCallServiceTest.java

@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ class ToolCallServiceTest extends BaseAssistantTest
     *******************************************************************************/
    private static List<Map<String, String>> requestsFor(String tableName)
    {
-      return (UiApiTestServer.SCHEDULED_REQUESTS.stream().filter(request -> request.get("path").contains("/table/" + tableName)).toList());
+      return (UiApiTestServer.SCHEDULED_REQUESTS.stream().filter(request -> request.get("path").contains("/table/" + tableName) && !request.get("path").contains("/metaData/")).toList());
    }
 
 

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/RenderWidgetAccessTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2026 Kingsrook, LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools;
+
+
+import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.access.DataAccessMode;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.AssistantTestFixture;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.BaseAssistantTest;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.ToolCalls;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry.ToolCallOutcome;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.ai.AiToolOutcome;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.dashboard.widgets.AbstractWidgetRenderer;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.exceptions.QException;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.widgets.RenderWidgetInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.widgets.RenderWidgetOutput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.dashboard.widgets.RawHTML;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.dashboard.widgets.WidgetType;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.QInstance;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.code.QCodeReference;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.dashboard.QWidgetMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.permissions.PermissionLevel;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.permissions.QPermissionRules;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import static com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ ** render_widget follows the assistant's own rules, not only the person's
+ ** permission to see the widget. A widget is code of the application that
+ ** can show rows of any table, so a table the assistant may not read could be
+ ** read through one: the widget is rendered only when the host allowed it by
+ ** name, and only while the assistant may read every table the host said it
+ ** reads.
+ **
+ ** The application has one widget, which anybody may see on a screen and
+ ** which shows a row of the blog posts.
+ *******************************************************************************/
+class RenderWidgetAccessTest extends BaseAssistantTest
+{
+   private static final String WIDGET = "latestPosts";
+   private static final String ROW    = "ROW_OF_A_TABLE_8c41";
+
+   private static final AtomicInteger RENDERED = new AtomicInteger();
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Override
+   protected AssistantTestFixture.InstanceCustomizer instanceCustomizer()
+   {
+      return (RenderWidgetAccessTest::customize);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static void customize(QInstance qInstance)
+   {
+      qInstance.addWidget(new QWidgetMetaData().withName(WIDGET).withLabel("Latest Posts").withType(WidgetType.HTML.getType()).withCodeReference(new QCodeReference(Renderer.class))
+         .withPermissionRules(new QPermissionRules().withLevel(PermissionLevel.NOT_PROTECTED)));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @BeforeEach
+   void reset()
+   {
+      RENDERED.set(0);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** No widget is renderable until the host names one: the default is closed.
+    ** The refusal is the assistant's own, before the application is asked, and
+    ** is the same for a widget that does not exist.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void noWidgetIsRenderedUntilTheHostAllowsIt() throws Exception
+   {
+      ToolCallOutcome refused = call(WIDGET);
+      assertThat(refused.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+      assertThat(refused.result().getPermissionCheck()).isEqualTo("widget:notAllowed");
+      assertThat(refused.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo("The widget \"" + WIDGET + "\" is not available to the assistant.").doesNotContain(ROW);
+      assertThat(refused.result().getRender()).isNull();
+      assertThat(RENDERED.get()).as("the application was not asked to render it").isZero();
+      assertThat(call("noSuchWidget").result().getModelContent()).as("and it does not say whether a widget exists").isEqualTo("The widget \"noSuchWidget\" is not available to the assistant.");
+
+      config.withAllowedWidgetNames(new LinkedHashSet<>(List.of(WIDGET)));
+      ToolCallOutcome rendered = call(WIDGET);
+      assertThat(rendered.result().getOutcome()).as(rendered.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      assertThat(rendered.result().getModelContent()).contains(ROW);
+      assertThat(RENDERED.get()).isEqualTo(1);
+
+      config.withHiddenWidgetNames(new LinkedHashSet<>(List.of(WIDGET)));
+      assertThat(call(WIDGET).result().getPermissionCheck()).as("a widget the host hid is refused also when it is allowed").isEqualTo("widget:hidden");
+      assertThat(RENDERED.get()).isEqualTo(1);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A widget the host allowed and said reads a table is rendered only while
+    ** the assistant may read that table: a pin in code, a table the host named
+    ** that does not exist, and an administrator's row each close it, and the
+    ** rows of the table do not reach the model through the widget.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aWidgetIsNotRenderedWhenTheAssistantMayNotReadATableItReads() throws Exception
+   {
+      config.withAllowedWidgetNames(new LinkedHashSet<>(List.of(WIDGET))).withWidgetTables(WIDGET, Set.of("blog_post", "page"));
+      assertThat(call(WIDGET).result().getOutcome()).as("both tables may be read").isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      assertThat(RENDERED.get()).isEqualTo(1);
+
+      config.withTableAccess("blog_post", DataAccessMode.NONE);
+      config.getRuntime().getDataAccessService().invalidate();
+      ToolCallOutcome closed = call(WIDGET);
+      assertThat(closed.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+      assertThat(closed.result().getPermissionCheck()).isEqualTo("dataAccess:table:NONE");
+      assertThat(closed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo("The widget \"" + WIDGET + "\" is not available to the assistant.").doesNotContain(ROW);
+      assertThat(RENDERED.get()).as("the application was not asked to render it").isEqualTo(1);
+
+      config.withTableAccess("blog_post", DataAccessMode.READ);
+      config.getRuntime().getDataAccessService().invalidate();
+      assertThat(call(WIDGET).result().getOutcome()).as("a table the assistant may only read is read").isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+
+      config.withWidgetTables(WIDGET, Set.of("page", "noSuchTable"));
+      assertThat(call(WIDGET).result().getOutcome()).as("a table that is not there is not readable").isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** One render_widget call of the fixture's editor, logged.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private ToolCallOutcome call(String widget) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (config.getRuntime().getToolCalls().executeAndLog(ToolCalls.call(config, EDITOR, UiApiToolbox.RENDER_WIDGET, Map.of("name", widget)), null, false));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The widget: it shows a row of a table.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static class Renderer extends AbstractWidgetRenderer
+   {
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       **
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      @Override
+      public RenderWidgetOutput render(RenderWidgetInput input) throws QException
+      {
+         RENDERED.incrementAndGet();
+         return (new RenderWidgetOutput(new RawHTML("Latest Posts", "<p>" + ROW + "</p>")));
+      }
+   }
+}

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/UiApiToolsSecurityTest.java

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
  *******************************************************************************/
 class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 {
+   private static final String OWNER = "author-owner";
+
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** Flat v1 metadata is described without exposing hidden or NONE fields.
     *******************************************************************************/
@@ -228,6 +230,22 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    private Map<String, Object> proposedThenConfirmed(String user, String toolName, Map<String, Object> in) throws Exception
    {
       UiApiToolbox.Outcome proposed = tool(user, null, toolName, in);
+      if(proposed.getResult().getOutcome() != AiToolOutcome.OK && !"GET /table/{tableName}/{primaryKey}".equals(proposed.getOperation()))
+      {
+         ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+         // no card for what cannot happen: the application told the person's //
+         // own screens that they may not make this kind of change to the     //
+         // table (or may not see the table at all), so nothing is proposed   //
+         ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+         assertThat(proposed.getPendingActionId()).as("a refused proposal makes no card").isNull();
+         assertThat(proposed.getOperation()).as("refused by what the application says of the table to this person").isEqualTo("GET " + TablePermissions.PATH);
+         Map<String, Object> refused = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+         refused.put("beforeACard", true);
+         refused.put("httpStatus", proposed.getHttpStatus());
+         refused.put("outcome", proposed.getResult().getOutcome().name());
+         refused.put("message", proposed.getResult().getModelContent());
+         return (refused);
+      }
       if(!UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD.equals(toolName) && proposed.getResult().getOutcome() != AiToolOutcome.OK)
       {
          ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -297,8 +315,12 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** No insert permission: even with data access READ_WRITE, the write the
-    ** person confirms gets the UI's 403.
+    ** No insert permission: even with data access READ_WRITE, a person the
+    ** UI refuses is refused by the assistant. Where the application says so
+    ** beforehand (what it tells that person's screens about the table), they
+    ** are told so and get no card; and a write that was proposed while they
+    ** had the permission and is confirmed after they lost it gets the UI's
+    ** own 403, with the UI's own message.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    void testWriteDeniedIsTheSameDenial() throws Exception
@@ -307,15 +329,29 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       HttpResponse<String> ui = ui("POST", "/table/blog_post", AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, "{\"title\":\"From the UI\"}");
       assertThat(ui.statusCode()).isEqualTo(403);
 
-      Map<String, Object> outcome = proposedThenConfirmed(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD,
-         input("table", "blog_post", "values", Map.of("title", "From the assistant")));
+      Map<String, Object> refused = proposedThenConfirmed(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD, input("table", "blog_post", "values", Map.of("title", "From the assistant")));
+      assertThat(refused).as("refused before a card").containsEntry("beforeACard", true).containsEntry("outcome", AiToolOutcome.DENIED.name());
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(refused.get("message"))).contains("does not have permission to create Blog Post records");
+      assertThat(proposedThenConfirmed(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, UiApiToolbox.DELETE_RECORD, input("table", "blog_post", "id", "1"))).containsEntry("beforeACard", true)
+         .containsEntry("outcome", AiToolOutcome.DENIED.name());
+      assertThat(ui("DELETE", "/table/blog_post/1", AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, null).statusCode()).as("as the UI refuses it").isEqualTo(403);
+
+      ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+      // the permission goes between the card and the confirmation: the    //
+      // confirmed write is the person's own request, and the UI decides   //
+      ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+      String               author   = "author-denied";
+      UiApiToolbox.Outcome proposed = tool(author, null, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD, input("table", "blog_post", "values", Map.of("title", "From the assistant")));
+      assertThat(proposed.getPendingActionId()).as("the author may create posts: a card").isNotNull();
+      AssistantTestFixture.revoke(author, "blog_post.insert");
+      HttpResponse<String> now = ui("POST", "/table/blog_post", author, "{\"title\":\"From the UI\"}");
+      assertThat(now.statusCode()).isEqualTo(403);
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(author));
+      Map<String, Object> outcome = new AssistantApi(config.getRuntime(), QContext.getQSession()).confirmAction(proposed.getPendingActionId());
       assertThat(outcome.get("httpStatus")).isEqualTo(403);
       assertThat(outcome.get("status")).isEqualTo(AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED);
       assertThat(outcome.get("outcome")).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED.name());
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(outcome.get("message"))).contains(new UiApiResult(ui.statusCode(), ui.body()).errorMessage());
-
-      assertThat(proposedThenConfirmed(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, UiApiToolbox.DELETE_RECORD, input("table", "blog_post", "id", "1")).get("httpStatus"))
-         .isEqualTo(ui("DELETE", "/table/blog_post/1", AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, null).statusCode());
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(outcome.get("message"))).contains(new UiApiResult(now.statusCode(), now.body()).errorMessage());
    }
 
 
@@ -402,7 +438,7 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    void testOnlyTheOwnerDecides() throws Exception
    {
       setAccess("blog_post", DataAccessMode.READ_WRITE);
-      UiApiToolbox.Outcome proposed = tool(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR, PolicyService.ToolPolicy.defaults(), UiApiToolbox.UPDATE_RECORD,
+      UiApiToolbox.Outcome proposed = tool(OWNER, PolicyService.ToolPolicy.defaults(), UiApiToolbox.UPDATE_RECORD,
          input("table", "blog_post", "id", "1", "values", Map.of("title", "Changed")));
       Integer actionId = proposed.getPendingActionId();
       assertThat(actionId).isNotNull();
@@ -412,7 +448,7 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       assertThatThrownBy(() -> other.confirmAction(actionId)).hasMessageContaining("not found");
       QContext.clear();
 
-      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(AssistantTestFixture.EDITOR));
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(OWNER));
       AssistantApi owner = new AssistantApi(config.getRuntime(), QContext.getQSession());
       assertThat(owner.rejectAction(actionId).get("status")).isEqualTo(AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_REJECTED);
       assertThatThrownBy(() -> owner.confirmAction(actionId)).hasMessageContaining("already");
@@ -514,9 +550,11 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
          Integer              httpStatus;
          String               outcome;
          String               content;
+         boolean              beforeACard = false;
          if(UiApiToolbox.WRITE_TOOLS.contains(toolName))
          {
             Map<String, Object> confirmed = proposedThenConfirmed(user, toolName, (Map<String, Object>) row[3]);
+            beforeACard = Boolean.TRUE.equals(confirmed.get("beforeACard"));
             httpStatus = (Integer) confirmed.get("httpStatus");
             outcome = (String) confirmed.get("outcome");
             content = String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message"));
@@ -529,8 +567,18 @@ class UiApiToolsSecurityTest extends BaseAssistantTest
             content = assistant.getResult().getModelContent();
          }
          assertThat(direct.statusCode()).as(row[0] + " via the UI").isBetween(400, 499);
-         assertThat(httpStatus).as(row[0] + " via the assistant").isEqualTo(direct.statusCode());
          assertThat(outcome).as(String.valueOf(row[0])).isIn(AiToolOutcome.DENIED.name(), AiToolOutcome.NOT_FOUND.name());
+         if(beforeACard)
+         {
+            /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+            // a write the application said beforehand it will refuse: the //
+            // person is refused without a card, by the application's own  //
+            // answer about the table (a 4xx, or its "may not" flag)       //
+            /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+            assertThat(httpStatus == 200 ? content : String.valueOf(httpStatus)).as(row[0] + " via the assistant").matches("(?s)4\\d\\d|.*does not have permission.*");
+            continue;
+         }
+         assertThat(httpStatus).as(row[0] + " via the assistant").isEqualTo(direct.statusCode());
          String message = new UiApiResult(direct.statusCode(), direct.body()).errorMessage();
          if(message != null)
          {

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/WritesFollowThePersonTest.java

@@ -218,10 +218,13 @@ class WritesFollowThePersonTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A person who may change some tables and not another is refused on that
-    ** one with the answer the screen gives them: the confirmed change is the
-    ** person's own request, and what the operation answers is what they are
-    ** told. list_tables says beforehand what they may do where.
+    ** A person who may change some tables and not another gets no card for
+    ** that one: list_tables says beforehand what they may do where, and a
+    ** change the application will certainly refuse is not proposed; they are
+    ** told so. A change that was proposed while they held the permission and
+    ** is confirmed after they lost it is refused with the answer the screen
+    ** gives them: the confirmed change is the person's own request, and what
+    ** the operation answers is what they are told.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    void aChangeThePersonMayNotMakeIsRefusedWithTheOperationsOwnAnswer() throws Exception
@@ -237,11 +240,19 @@ class WritesFollowThePersonTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       assertThat(tables.get("media")).containsEntry("canInsert", false).containsEntry("canEdit", false).containsEntry("canDelete", false);
       assertThat(tables.get("page")).containsEntry("canInsert", true).containsEntry("canEdit", true).containsEntry("canDelete", true);
 
-      AssistantToolCall proposed = outcome.toolCalls().get(1);
-      assertThat(proposed.getPendingActionId()).isNotNull();
-      Map<String, Object> confirmed = api(AUTHOR).confirmAction(proposed.getPendingActionId());
+      AssistantToolCall refused = outcome.toolCalls().get(1);
+      assertThat(refused.getPendingActionId()).as("no card for a change that will certainly be refused").isNull();
+      assertThat(refused.getOutcome()).isEqualTo("DENIED");
+      assertThat(refused.getPermissionCheck()).isEqualTo("uiApi:GET /metaData/table/{tableName}:insertPermission");
+      assertThat(refused.getResultJson()).contains("does not have permission to create Media records").contains("there is no card");
 
-      UiApiResult onScreen = RuntimeInternals.gateway(config.getRuntime()).invoke(new UiApiCall("POST", "/table/{tableName}").withPathParam("tableName", "media").withJsonBody(Map.of("fileName", "new.png"))
+      ToolCallOutcome card = config.getRuntime().getToolCalls().executeAndLog(ToolCalls.call(config, AUTHOR, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD,
+         input("table", "page", "values", Map.of("title", "Proposed while permitted"))), null, false);
+      assertThat(card.extras().getPendingActionId()).as("a change they may make gets its card").isNotNull();
+      AssistantTestFixture.revoke(AUTHOR, "page.insert");
+      Map<String, Object> confirmed = api(AUTHOR).confirmAction(card.extras().getPendingActionId());
+
+      UiApiResult onScreen = RuntimeInternals.gateway(config.getRuntime()).invoke(new UiApiCall("POST", "/table/{tableName}").withPathParam("tableName", "page").withJsonBody(Map.of("title", "On screen"))
          .withSessionUUID(AUTHOR));
       assertThat(onScreen.status()).isEqualTo(403);
       assertThat(confirmed).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED).containsEntry("outcome", "DENIED").containsEntry("httpStatus", 403);

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/process/OneCardForASetTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,906 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2026 Kingsrook, LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.process;
+
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.AssistantQBitConfig;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.api.AssistantApi;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.api.AssistantApiException;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.model.AssistantPendingAction;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.model.AssistantToolCall;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.AssistantTestFixture;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.BaseAssistantTest;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.ToolCalls;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.TurnRunner;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.UiApiTestServer;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.UiApiToolbox;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry.ActionKinds;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry.ToolCallOutcome;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.CoreUiApiGateway;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiCall;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiGateway;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiResult;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.ai.AiToolOutcome;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.customizers.AbstractPreDeleteCustomizer;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.customizers.TableCustomizers;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.tables.DeleteAction;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.tables.InsertAction;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.tables.QueryAction;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.tables.UpdateAction;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.context.QContext;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.exceptions.QException;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.processes.ProcessSummaryLine;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.processes.ProcessSummaryLineInterface;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.processes.RunBackendStepInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.processes.RunBackendStepOutput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.processes.Status;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.delete.DeleteInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.insert.InsertInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.query.QCriteriaOperator;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.query.QFilterCriteria;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.query.QQueryFilter;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.query.QueryInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.actions.tables.update.UpdateInput;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.data.QRecord;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.QInstance;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.code.QCodeReference;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.fields.QFieldMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.fields.QFieldType;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.permissions.PermissionLevel;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.permissions.QPermissionRules;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.processes.QBackendStepMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.processes.QComponentType;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.processes.QFrontendComponentMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.processes.QFrontendStepMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.metadata.processes.QProcessMetaData;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.model.statusmessages.BadInputStatusMessage;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.processes.implementations.etl.streamedwithfrontend.AbstractTransformStep;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.processes.implementations.etl.streamedwithfrontend.ExtractViaQueryStep;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.processes.implementations.etl.streamedwithfrontend.LoadViaUpdateStep;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.processes.implementations.etl.streamedwithfrontend.StreamedETLWithFrontendProcess;
+import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.utils.JsonUtils;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
+
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ ** One confirmation for a set: a person asks for the same change to many
+ ** records, sees ONE card that names the set and the change, and their one
+ ** confirmation runs it to its end. The run does exactly what the card
+ ** showed, to exactly the records it showed, as they were; anything else comes
+ ** back to the person. And nobody is offered a card for a change they may not
+ ** make.
+ **
+ ** The application has 34 pages of the scenario: 29 stale ones and 5 live
+ ** ones. Its pages can be deleted with the table's own bulk delete and changed
+ ** with its bulk edit (core's processes), and "retired" with a process of the
+ ** host's own, on its reviewed list, that has a form (a reason, an option) and
+ ** a review. A page whose title starts with "Locked" can be neither deleted
+ ** nor retired: the application says so when it validates.
+ **
+ ** The UI API of these tests is the fixture's own, with every call noted, and
+ ** with one thing a test can switch on: the count a review reports.
+ *******************************************************************************/
+class OneCardForASetTest extends BaseAssistantTest
+{
+   private static final String RUNNER = "author-runner";
+   private static final String OTHER  = "author-other";
+
+   private static final String BULK_DELETE = "page.bulkDelete";
+   private static final String BULK_EDIT   = "page.bulkEdit";
+   private static final String RETIRE      = "retirePages";
+   private static final String LONG_NOTICE = "longNotice";
+   private static final String LONG_TEXT   = "These are the terms of the change. ".repeat(80) + "The last sentence is the one that matters.";
+
+   static final List<Map<String, Object>> RETIRED = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
+
+   private final List<UiApiCall>          calls         = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
+   private final AtomicReference<Integer> reviewedCount = new AtomicReference<>();
+   private CoreUiApiGateway               core;
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The host's own process over pages, and the rule about locked pages.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Override
+   protected AssistantTestFixture.InstanceCustomizer instanceCustomizer()
+   {
+      return (OneCardForASetTest::customize);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static void customize(QInstance qInstance)
+   {
+      ProcessFixture.customize(qInstance);
+      StreamedETLWithFrontendProcess.Builder builder = StreamedETLWithFrontendProcess.processMetaDataBuilder();
+      builder.withSourceTable("page").withDestinationTable("page").withExtractStepClass(ExtractViaQueryStep.class).withTransformStepClass(RetireTransform.class)
+         .withLoadStepClass(LoadViaUpdateStep.class).withSupportsFullValidation(true);
+      QProcessMetaData retire = builder.getProcessMetaData().withName(RETIRE).withLabel("Retire Pages").withTableName("page").withMinInputRecords(1)
+         .withPermissionRules(new QPermissionRules().withLevel(PermissionLevel.HAS_ACCESS_PERMISSION));
+      retire.withStep(0, new QFrontendStepMetaData().withName("options").withLabel("Options")
+         .withComponent(new QFrontendComponentMetaData().withType(QComponentType.HELP_TEXT).withValue("text", "A retired page stays, marked as retired."))
+         .withComponent(new QFrontendComponentMetaData().withType(QComponentType.EDIT_FORM))
+         .withFormField(new QFieldMetaData("reason", QFieldType.STRING).withLabel("Reason").withIsRequired(true))
+         .withFormField(new QFieldMetaData("notify", QFieldType.BOOLEAN).withLabel("Notify Owners").withDefaultValue(false)));
+      qInstance.addProcess(retire);
+      QProcessMetaData notice = new QProcessMetaData().withName(LONG_NOTICE).withLabel("Long Notice").withPermissionRules(new QPermissionRules().withLevel(PermissionLevel.HAS_ACCESS_PERMISSION))
+         .withStep(new QBackendStepMetaData().withName("prepare").withCode(new QCodeReference(ProcessFixture.Work.class)))
+         .withStep(new QFrontendStepMetaData().withName("terms").withLabel("Terms").withComponent(new QFrontendComponentMetaData().withType(QComponentType.HELP_TEXT).withValue("text", LONG_TEXT)))
+         .withStep(new QBackendStepMetaData().withName("apply").withCode(new QCodeReference(ProcessFixture.Work.class)));
+      qInstance.addProcess(notice);
+      qInstance.getApp("content").withChild(notice);
+      qInstance.getTable("page").withCustomizer(TableCustomizers.PRE_DELETE_RECORD, new QCodeReference(NoLockedPages.class));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The reviewed list of this host, and its UI API, noted.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Override
+   protected void customizeConfig(AssistantQBitConfig config)
+   {
+      List<String> reviewed = new ArrayList<>(ProcessFixture.REVIEWED);
+      reviewed.add(RETIRE);
+      reviewed.add(LONG_NOTICE);
+      config.withReviewedProcesses(reviewed);
+      config.withUiApiGateway(new UiApiGateway()
+      {
+         /*******************************************************************************
+          **
+          *******************************************************************************/
+         @Override
+         public boolean isInvocable(String method, String pathTemplate)
+         {
+            return (core.isInvocable(method, pathTemplate));
+         }
+
+
+
+         /*******************************************************************************
+          **
+          *******************************************************************************/
+         @Override
+         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+         public UiApiResult invoke(UiApiCall call) throws QException
+         {
+            calls.add(call);
+            UiApiResult result = core.invoke(call);
+            if(reviewedCount.get() != null && result.isSuccess() && call.getPathTemplate().startsWith("/processes/") && result.json().get("values") instanceof Map<?, ?> values
+               && values.containsKey("recordCount"))
+            {
+               Map<String, Object> json = result.json();
+               ((Map<String, Object>) json.get("values")).put("recordCount", reviewedCount.get());
+               return (new UiApiResult(result.status(), JsonUtils.toJson(json)));
+            }
+            return (result);
+         }
+      });
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** 29 stale pages and 5 live ones, beside the fixture's own.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @BeforeEach
+   void pages() throws Exception
+   {
+      core = new CoreUiApiGateway(() -> UiApiTestServer.serve(qInstance, config), qInstance);
+      UiApiTestServer.serve(qInstance, config);
+      for(String person : List.of(RUNNER, OTHER))
+      {
+         ProcessFixture.grant(person);
+         AssistantTestFixture.grant(person, RETIRE + ".hasAccess");
+         AssistantTestFixture.grant(person, LONG_NOTICE + ".hasAccess");
+      }
+      List<QRecord> pages = new ArrayList<>();
+      for(int i = 1; i <= 29; i++)
+      {
+         pages.add(new QRecord().withValue("title", "Stale page " + i).withValue("metaDescription", "Old " + i));
+      }
+      for(int i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
+      {
+         pages.add(new QRecord().withValue("title", "Live page " + i).withValue("metaDescription", "Current " + i));
+      }
+      insert(pages);
+      ProcessFixture.RAN.clear();
+      RETIRED.clear();
+      calls.clear();
+      reviewedCount.set(null);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The scenario, end to end, through the table's own bulk delete: the
+    ** person asks, the model proposes ONE run over the 29 pages, the person
+    ** sees one card that names the set, and one confirmation deletes exactly
+    ** those 29. The card keeps what the pages were: how many, and a capped
+    ** sample. A second confirmation of the same card runs nothing.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+   void twentyNineOfThirtyFourAreDeletedOnOneConfirmationThroughTheTablesBulkDelete() throws Exception
+   {
+      provider.thenToolUse(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()))
+         .thenText("I will delete the 29 stale pages (Stale page 1, Stale page 2 and 27 more). Please confirm the card.");
+      TurnRunner.Outcome turn = runner.run(RUNNER, "Delete the pages that are stale.");
+      assertThat(turn.end()).containsEntry("status", "COMPLETE");
+
+      List<AssistantPendingAction> pending = pendingActions(RUNNER);
+      assertThat(pending).as("ONE card for the whole set").hasSize(1);
+      AssistantPendingAction action = pending.get(0);
+      assertThat(action.getActionKind()).isEqualTo(ActionKinds.PROCESS_RUN);
+      assertThat(action.getSummary()).isEqualTo("Run Page Bulk Delete on 29 Page records");
+      assertThat(action.getRecordVersion()).as("the set is frozen by a digest of its records as they were").hasSize(64);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("nothing is deleted before the person confirms").hasSize(29);
+
+      Map<String, Object> card = api(RUNNER).getAction(action.getId());
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) card.get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
+         .contains("Process=Page Bulk Delete", "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.")
+         .anyMatch(line -> line.startsWith("Records=29 Page records: Stale page 1, Stale page 2, Stale page 3, Stale page 4, Stale page 5 and 24 more (where Title starts with Stale)"));
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) card.get("records")).as("the card lists the whole set, by name, with links").hasSize(29)
+         .allSatisfy(record -> assertThat(String.valueOf(record.get("href"))).startsWith("/app/")).extracting(record -> record.get("label")).contains("Stale page 1", "Stale page 29");
+      Map<String, Object> before = (Map<String, Object>) card.get("recordsBefore");
+      assertThat(before).containsEntry("count", 29).containsEntry("sampleCap", ProcessTools.MAX_BEFORE_SAMPLE);
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) before.get("sample")).as("a capped sample of what the pages were").hasSize(ProcessTools.MAX_BEFORE_SAMPLE)
+         .first().satisfies(one -> assertThat((Map<String, Object>) one.get("values")).containsEntry("title", "Stale page 1").containsEntry("metaDescription", "Old 1"));
+
+      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(action.getId());
+      assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED).containsEntry("outcome", "OK");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(done.get("resultSummary"))).isEqualTo("Page Bulk Delete finished: 29 Page records were deleted.");
+      assertThat((Map<String, Object>) json(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).get("counts")).containsEntry("ok", 29).containsEntry("failed", 0);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("all 29 are gone").isEmpty();
+      assertThat(titles("Live")).as("and nothing else").hasSize(5);
+      assertThat(pendingActions(RUNNER)).as("no second card").hasSize(1);
+
+      assertThatThrownBy(() -> api(RUNNER).confirmAction(action.getId())).as("the same card a second time").isInstanceOf(AssistantApiException.class).hasMessageContaining("already");
+      assertThat(calls.stream().filter(call -> call.operation().equals("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH)).toList()).as("it ran once").hasSize(1);
+      assertThat(calls).as("as the person, and nothing was asked of a job").allSatisfy(call -> assertThat(call.getSessionUUID()).isEqualTo(RUNNER))
+         .noneMatch(call -> call.getPathTemplate().contains("/jobs"));
+      assertThat(toolCalls(RUNNER)).filteredOn(row -> action.getId().equals(row.getPendingActionId())).extracting(AssistantToolCall::getOutcome).containsExactly("OK", "OK");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The same scenario through a process of the host's own, on its reviewed
+    ** list, which has a form of its own and a review: the card shows what its
+    ** form says and asks for (the reason given, the option at its default) and
+    ** the 29 pages, and the one confirmation takes the run through the form
+    ** and the review to its end. What the process is sent is what the card
+    ** showed: the 29 primary keys and the values of the card.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+   void twentyNineOfThirtyFourAreRetiredOnOneConfirmationThroughAProcessOfTheHostsWithAFormAndAReview() throws Exception
+   {
+      assertThat(call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", RETIRE, "filter", stale())).result().getModelContent()).as("a required input is never invented")
+         .contains("\"Reason\" (reason) is required and has no value");
+
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", RETIRE, "values", Map.of("reason", "No visits this year"), "filter", stale()));
+      assertThat(lines(proposed)).startsWith("Process=Retire Pages", "Says=A retired page stays, marked as retired.", "Reason=No visits this year", "Notify Owners=false (its default)")
+         .anyMatch(line -> line.startsWith("Records=29 Page records: Stale page 1,")).contains("Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
+      assertThat(RETIRED).as("proposing runs nothing").isEmpty();
+      calls.clear();
+
+      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED).containsEntry("outcome", "OK");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(done.get("resultSummary"))).isEqualTo("Retire Pages finished: pages were retired.");
+      assertThat(RETIRED).as("stored once, for the 29, as the person, with the reason of the card").hasSize(29)
+         .allSatisfy(ran -> assertThat(ran).containsEntry("user", RUNNER).containsEntry("reason", "No visits this year"));
+      assertThat(descriptions("Stale")).containsOnly("Retired: No visits this year");
+      assertThat(descriptions("Live")).as("a page that was not on the card").noneMatch(text -> text.startsWith("Retired"));
+
+      UiApiCall init = calls.stream().filter(call -> call.operation().equals("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH)).findFirst().orElseThrow();
+      assertThat(init.getFormParams()).containsEntry("recordsParam", "recordIds").doesNotContainKey("filterJSON");
+      assertThat(init.getFormParams().get("recordIds").split(",")).as("the primary keys of the card, never the filter").hasSize(29);
+      for(UiApiCall step : calls.stream().filter(call -> call.getPathTemplate().startsWith("/processes/") && call.getFormParams().get("values") != null).toList())
+      {
+         Map<String, Object> values = new ObjectMapper().readValue(step.getFormParams().get("values"), Map.class);
+         assertThat(values.keySet()).as(step.operation() + ": only what the card showed, and the review's own switch").allMatch(name -> List.of("reason", "doFullValidation").contains(name));
+      }
+      assertThat(calls.stream().filter(call -> call.operation().equals("POST " + ProcessTools.STEP_PATH)).map(call -> call.getPathParams().get("stepName")).toList())
+         .as("the form, the review with every record validated first, the review").containsExactly("options", "review", "review");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** An edit of several hundred records is one card and one confirmation. The
+    ** card keeps a sample of what the records were, capped, and says how many
+    ** they are; only the field the card named changes.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+   void anEditOfSeveralHundredRecordsIsOneCardAndOneConfirmation() throws Exception
+   {
+      List<QRecord> pages = new ArrayList<>();
+      for(int i = 1; i <= 300; i++)
+      {
+         pages.add(new QRecord().withValue("title", "Bulk page " + i).withValue("metaDescription", "Before " + i).withValue("content", "Body " + i));
+      }
+      insert(pages);
+
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_EDIT, "values", Map.of("metaDescription", "Reviewed"), "filter", startsWith("Bulk page")));
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getRender()).containsEntry("summary", "Run Page Bulk Edit on 300 Page records").containsEntry("recordCount", 300);
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) proposed.result().getRender().get("records")).hasSize(300);
+      Map<String, Object> before = (Map<String, Object>) proposed.result().getRender().get("recordsBefore");
+      assertThat(before).containsEntry("count", 300);
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) before.get("sample")).hasSize(ProcessTools.MAX_BEFORE_SAMPLE)
+         .first().satisfies(one -> assertThat((Map<String, Object>) one.get("values")).as("the field that changes, as it was").containsEntry("metaDescription", "Before 1").doesNotContainKey("content"));
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getModelContent()).as("the model is told of a few by name, never of all 300").contains("Bulk page 1").doesNotContain("Bulk page 250");
+      assertThat(pendingActions(RUNNER)).hasSize(1);
+
+      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat((Map<String, Object>) json(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).get("counts")).containsEntry("ok", 300).containsEntry("failed", 0);
+      assertThat(descriptions("Bulk page")).hasSize(300).containsOnly("Reviewed");
+      assertThat(descriptions("Stale")).as("pages that were not on the card").noneMatch("Reviewed"::equals);
+      assertThat(values("Bulk page", "content")).as("a field the card did not name").noneMatch(text -> text == null || !text.startsWith("Body"));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The set is frozen when the card is made, by primary key and by version.
+    ** A record of the card that somebody changed, one that is gone, and the
+    ** set as a whole when a record joined what the filter finds: the first two
+    ** refuse the run with nothing done, the third is not part of it.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aSetThatChangedBetweenTheCardAndTheConfirmationIsNotRun() throws Exception
+   {
+      ToolCallOutcome edited = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      update(new QRecord().withValue("id", idOf("Stale page 7")).withValue("metaDescription", "Somebody needs this page after all"));
+      Map<String, Object> stale = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(edited.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(stale).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED).containsEntry("outcome", "INVALID_INPUT");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(stale.get("message"))).contains("one or more of the 29 records were changed").contains("Nothing ran").contains("the user confirms a new card");
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("nothing was deleted").hasSize(29);
+      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).as("the process was not started").doesNotContain("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH);
+
+      ToolCallOutcome gone = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      delete(idOf("Stale page 9"));
+      Map<String, Object> fewer = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(gone.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(fewer).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED);
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(fewer.get("message"))).contains("29 then, 28 of them now").contains("Nothing ran");
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).hasSize(28);
+
+      ToolCallOutcome joined = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      insert(List.of(new QRecord().withValue("title", "Stale page that came later")));
+      assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(joined.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("the record the filter finds only now was not on the card").containsExactly("Stale page that came later");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** No card for what cannot happen. A person who may read pages and not
+    ** delete them is told so, plainly, when a delete is asked for: by the
+    ** table's bulk delete and by delete_record alike. Nothing is proposed, so
+    ** there is nothing to confirm and be refused.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aPersonWhoMayNotMakeTheChangeIsToldSoAndGetsNoCard() throws Exception
+   {
+      AssistantTestFixture.revoke(OTHER, "page.delete");
+      ToolCallOutcome set = call(OTHER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      assertThat(set.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+      assertThat(set.extras().getPendingActionId()).isNull();
+
+      String          id  = String.valueOf(idOf("Stale page 1"));
+      ToolCallOutcome one = call(OTHER, UiApiToolbox.DELETE_RECORD, Map.of("table", "page", "id", id));
+      assertThat(one.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+      assertThat(one.result().getPermissionCheck()).isEqualTo("uiApi:GET /metaData/table/{tableName}:deletePermission");
+      assertThat(one.result().getModelContent()).contains("does not have permission to delete Page records").contains("there is no card").contains("Tell the user that plainly");
+      assertThat(one.extras().getPendingActionId()).isNull();
+
+      ToolCallOutcome edit = call(OTHER, UiApiToolbox.UPDATE_RECORD, Map.of("table", "page", "id", id, "values", Map.of("metaDescription", "Mine")));
+      assertThat(edit.result().getOutcome()).as("the change they may make still gets its card").isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      assertThat(pendingActions(OTHER)).as("one card: the edit").hasSize(1);
+
+      AssistantTestFixture.revoke(OTHER, "page.edit");
+      AssistantTestFixture.revoke(OTHER, "page.insert");
+      assertThat(call(OTHER, UiApiToolbox.UPDATE_RECORD, Map.of("table", "page", "id", id, "values", Map.of("metaDescription", "Mine"))).result().getModelContent())
+         .contains("does not have permission to change Page records");
+      assertThat(call(OTHER, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD, Map.of("table", "page", "values", Map.of("title", "New"))).result().getModelContent())
+         .contains("does not have permission to create Page records");
+      assertThat(call(OTHER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_EDIT, "values", Map.of("metaDescription", "Mine"), "filter", stale())).result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
+      assertThat(pendingActions(OTHER)).as("still the one card").hasSize(1);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).hasSize(29);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Cancelling the card runs nothing, and a cancelled card cannot be
+    ** confirmed afterwards. Another person cannot confirm or read the card.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aCancelledCardRunsNothingAndACardIsItsPersonsOnly() throws Exception
+   {
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      Integer         actionId = proposed.extras().getPendingActionId();
+      assertThatThrownBy(() -> api(OTHER).confirmAction(actionId)).as("another person").isInstanceOf(AssistantApiException.class);
+      assertThatThrownBy(() -> api(OTHER).getAction(actionId)).isInstanceOf(AssistantApiException.class);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).hasSize(29);
+
+      assertThat(api(RUNNER).rejectAction(actionId)).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_REJECTED);
+      assertThatThrownBy(() -> api(RUNNER).confirmAction(actionId)).isInstanceOf(AssistantApiException.class);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("nothing ran").hasSize(29);
+      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).doesNotContain("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** When the application would do something the card did not show, the run
+    ** comes back to the person with nothing stored. Here one page of the set
+    ** is locked: every record is validated before the review is passed, the
+    ** application reports an error for one of them, and the run stops at the
+    ** review. Going on is a new card that shows what the review says and why
+    ** the run came back; confirming it deletes the pages that can be deleted.
+    ** Two cards made at the same stop: only the one confirmed first goes on.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aWarningOrAnErrorTheCardDidNotShowComesBackToThePersonWithNothingStored() throws Exception
+   {
+      update(new QRecord().withValue("id", idOf("Stale page 3")).withValue("title", "Locked stale page"));
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", startsWithEither("Stale", "Locked")));
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getRender()).containsEntry("summary", "Run Page Bulk Delete on 29 Page records");
+
+      Map<String, Object> confirmed = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      Map<String, Object> stopped   = json(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message")));
+      assertThat(stopped).as(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("canValidateFully", false)
+         .containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "The review has an error.");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(stopped.get("review"))).contains("28 Page records will be deleted.").contains("This page is locked.");
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("nothing is stored").hasSize(28);
+      assertThat(titles("Locked")).hasSize(1);
+
+      String          run   = String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"));
+      ToolCallOutcome first = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("run", run));
+      ToolCallOutcome other = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("run", run));
+      assertThat(lines(first)).contains("Why it came back=The review has an error.").anyMatch(line -> line.startsWith("Review=29 records.") && line.contains("This page is locked."));
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("proposing to go on stores nothing").hasSize(28);
+
+      assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(other.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("the 28 that can be deleted").isEmpty();
+      assertThat(titles("Locked")).as("the locked one stays").hasSize(1);
+      Map<String, Object> late = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(first.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(late).as("the other card of the same stop").containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED);
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(late.get("message"))).as("the run ended under the other card").contains("That run is not known here");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The same for the host's own process: an error for a record, and a line
+    ** of its review that only informs, are both things the card did not show.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aReviewOfAHostsProcessThatSaysMoreThanTheCardComesBack() throws Exception
+   {
+      update(new QRecord().withValue("id", idOf("Stale page 3")).withValue("title", "Locked stale page"));
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", RETIRE, "values", Map.of("reason", "Old"), "filter", startsWithEither("Stale", "Locked")));
+      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "The review has an error for 1 record.");
+      assertThat(RETIRED).as("nothing is stored").isEmpty();
+
+      ToolCallOutcome informed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", RETIRE, "values", Map.of("reason", "Tell me more"), "filter", stale()));
+      Map<String, Object> more = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(informed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      assertThat(more).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "The review says something the card did not.");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(more.get("review"))).contains("Linked menus will be rebuilt.");
+      assertThat(RETIRED).isEmpty();
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A review that counts other records than the card comes back before
+    ** every record is validated; the person can have them validated on a card
+    ** of its own, and a card made before that no longer goes on.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aReviewThatCountsOtherRecordsThanTheCardComesBack() throws Exception
+   {
+      reviewedCount.set(31);
+      ToolCallOutcome     proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_DELETE, "filter", stale()));
+      Map<String, Object> stopped  = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("canValidateFully", true)
+         .containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "The process counts 31 records; the card counted 29.");
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("nothing is stored").hasSize(29);
+      reviewedCount.set(null);
+
+      String          run      = String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"));
+      ToolCallOutcome store    = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("run", run));
+      ToolCallOutcome validate = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("run", run, "validateFully", true));
+      Map<String, Object> validated = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(validate.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(json(String.valueOf(validated.get("message")))).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("canValidateFully", false).containsEntry("run", run);
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).as("validating stores nothing").hasSize(29);
+      Map<String, Object> early = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(store.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(early).as("the card made before the run was validated").containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED);
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(early.get("message"))).contains("no longer waiting where this card showed it");
+      assertThat(titles("Stale")).hasSize(29);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A screen is passed only when the card showed all of it. A screen that
+    ** says more than a card shows (its card has the start of the text) is not
+    ** passed: the run stops there, before the step after it.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aScreenThatSaysMoreThanACardShowsIsNotPassed() throws Exception
+   {
+      assertThat(LONG_TEXT.length()).isGreaterThan(ProcessTools.MAX_CARD_TEXT);
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", LONG_NOTICE));
+      assertThat(lines(proposed)).anyMatch(line -> line.startsWith("Says=These are the terms of the change.") && line.endsWith("...") && !line.contains("the one that matters"));
+
+      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "WAITING").containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "It says more than a card shows.");
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).as("nothing after the screen ran").containsExactly("prepare");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** None of this lets the assistant act beyond the card or beyond the
+    ** person: a stored proposal whose card showed less (made before this
+    ** version) is not run, a proposal without the version of its set is not
+    ** run, and a value the card could not have shown stops the run before it
+    ** starts.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aProposalThatDoesNotSayWhatItsCardShowedIsNeverRun() throws Exception
+   {
+      for(String tampering : List.of("covers", "setVersion", "reserved"))
+      {
+         ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", BULK_EDIT, "values", Map.of("metaDescription", "X"), "filter", stale()));
+         Integer         actionId = proposed.extras().getPendingActionId();
+         QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.ownerSession(RUNNER, config));
+         AssistantPendingAction stored = config.getRuntime().getStore().getPendingAction(RUNNER, actionId);
+         Map<String, Object>    plan   = new LinkedHashMap<>(json(stored.getParamsJson()));
+         switch(tampering)
+         {
+            case "covers" -> plan.remove("covers");
+            case "setVersion" -> plan.remove("setVersion");
+            default -> plan.put("values", Map.of("metaDescription", "X", "destinationTable", "blog_post"));
+         }
+         config.getRuntime().getStore().updateFields(AssistantPendingAction.TABLE_NAME, new QRecord().withValue("id", actionId).withValue("paramsJson", JsonUtils.toJson(plan)));
+         QContext.clear();
+
+         Map<String, Object> refused = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(actionId);
+         assertThat(refused).as(tampering).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED).containsEntry("outcome", "INVALID_INPUT");
+         assertThat(String.valueOf(refused.get("message"))).as(tampering).containsAnyOf("nothing ran", "Nothing ran");
+      }
+      assertThat(descriptions("Stale")).as("nothing changed").noneMatch("X"::equals);
+      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).as("no run was started").doesNotContain("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The host's process: it marks a page as retired, with the reason. A locked
+    ** page cannot be retired, and a reason that asks for more makes its review
+    ** say more.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static class RetireTransform extends AbstractTransformStep
+   {
+      private int     fine;
+      private int     locked;
+      private boolean informs;
+
+
+
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       **
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      @Override
+      public void runOnePage(RunBackendStepInput input, RunBackendStepOutput output) throws QException
+      {
+         boolean storing = StreamedETLWithFrontendProcess.STEP_NAME_EXECUTE.equals(input.getStepName());
+         informs = "Tell me more".equals(input.getValueString("reason"));
+         for(QRecord record : input.getRecords())
+         {
+            if(String.valueOf(record.getValueString("title")).startsWith("Locked"))
+            {
+               locked++;
+               continue;
+            }
+            fine++;
+            record.setValue("metaDescription", "Retired: " + input.getValueString("reason"));
+            output.addRecord(record);
+            if(storing)
+            {
+               Map<String, Object> ran = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+               ran.put("id", record.getValue("id"));
+               ran.put("user", QContext.getQSession().getUser().getIdReference());
+               ran.put("reason", input.getValueString("reason"));
+               RETIRED.add(ran);
+            }
+         }
+      }
+
+
+
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       **
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      @Override
+      public ArrayList<ProcessSummaryLineInterface> getProcessSummary(RunBackendStepOutput output, boolean isForResultScreen)
+      {
+         ArrayList<ProcessSummaryLineInterface> lines = new ArrayList<>();
+         lines.add(new ProcessSummaryLine(Status.OK, fine, isForResultScreen ? "pages were retired." : "pages will be retired."));
+         if(locked > 0)
+         {
+            lines.add(new ProcessSummaryLine(Status.ERROR, locked, "pages are locked and cannot be retired."));
+         }
+         if(informs)
+         {
+            lines.add(new ProcessSummaryLine(Status.INFO, null, "Linked menus will be rebuilt."));
+         }
+         return (lines);
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The application's rule: a locked page is not deleted.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   public static class NoLockedPages extends AbstractPreDeleteCustomizer
+   {
+      /*******************************************************************************
+       **
+       *******************************************************************************/
+      @Override
+      public List<QRecord> apply(List<QRecord> records)
+      {
+         for(QRecord record : records)
+         {
+            if(String.valueOf(record.getValueString("title")).startsWith("Locked"))
+            {
+               record.addError(new BadInputStatusMessage("This page is locked."));
+            }
+         }
+         return (records);
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The filter of the scenario: the stale pages.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static Map<String, Object> stale()
+   {
+      return (startsWith("Stale"));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static Map<String, Object> startsWith(String title)
+   {
+      return (Map.of("booleanOperator", "AND", "criteria", List.of(Map.of("field", "title", "operator", "STARTS_WITH", "values", List.of(title)))));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static Map<String, Object> startsWithEither(String one, String other)
+   {
+      return (Map.of("booleanOperator", "OR", "criteria", List.of(Map.of("field", "title", "operator", "STARTS_WITH", "values", List.of(one)),
+         Map.of("field", "title", "operator", "STARTS_WITH", "values", List.of(other)))));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** One tool call of a person with no chat around it, logged.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private ToolCallOutcome call(String person, String tool, Map<String, Object> input) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (config.getRuntime().getToolCalls().executeAndLog(ToolCalls.call(config, person, tool, input), null, false));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The assistant API for a person, as a request of theirs.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private AssistantApi api(String person)
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(person));
+      return (new AssistantApi(config.getRuntime(), QContext.getQSession()));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The lines of a proposal's card, as "label=value".
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+   private static List<String> lines(ToolCallOutcome proposed)
+   {
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      return (((List<Map<String, Object>>) proposed.result().getRender().get("changes")).stream().map(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value")).toList());
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The JSON object in a text.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+   private static Map<String, Object> json(String text) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (new ObjectMapper().readValue(text.substring(text.indexOf('{'), text.lastIndexOf('}') + 1), Map.class));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A person's pending actions.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<AssistantPendingAction> pendingActions(String person) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.ownerSession(person, config));
+      try
+      {
+         return (config.getRuntime().getStore().listOwnPendingActions(person, null, null, 100));
+      }
+      finally
+      {
+         QContext.clear();
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A person's tool-call log rows, oldest first.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<AssistantToolCall> toolCalls(String person) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.ownerSession(AssistantTestFixture.ADMIN, config));
+      try
+      {
+         return (config.getRuntime().getStore().query(AssistantToolCall.TABLE_NAME, new QQueryFilter(), AssistantToolCall.class).stream()
+            .filter(row -> person.equals(row.getUserId())).sorted((a, b) -> a.getId().compareTo(b.getId())).toList());
+      }
+      finally
+      {
+         QContext.clear();
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** The pages whose title starts with a text, as the application holds them.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<QRecord> pagesStartingWith(String title) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor("seeder-0"));
+      try
+      {
+         return (new QueryAction().execute(new QueryInput("page").withFilter(new QQueryFilter(new QFilterCriteria("title", QCriteriaOperator.STARTS_WITH, title)))).getRecords());
+      }
+      finally
+      {
+         QContext.clear();
+      }
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<String> titles(String startingWith) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (values(startingWith, "title"));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<String> descriptions(String startingWith) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (values(startingWith, "metaDescription"));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private List<String> values(String startingWith, String field) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (pagesStartingWith(startingWith).stream().map(record -> record.getValueString(field)).toList());
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private Serializable idOf(String title) throws Exception
+   {
+      return (pagesStartingWith(title).get(0).getValue("id"));
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private void insert(List<QRecord> pages) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor("seeder-0"));
+      new InsertAction().execute(new InsertInput("page").withRecords(new ArrayList<>(pages)));
+      QContext.clear();
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private void update(QRecord page) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor("seeder-0"));
+      new UpdateAction().execute(new UpdateInput("page").withRecords(new ArrayList<>(List.of(page))));
+      QContext.clear();
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    **
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private void delete(Serializable id) throws Exception
+   {
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor("seeder-0"));
+      new DeleteAction().execute(new DeleteInput("page").withPrimaryKeys(new ArrayList<>(List.of(id))));
+      QContext.clear();
+   }
+}

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/process/ProcessJobPathTest.java

@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ package com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.process;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.AssistantQBitConfig;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.RuntimeInternals;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.api.AssistantApi;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.model.AssistantPendingAction;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.AssistantTestFixture;
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.BaseAssistantTest;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.ToolCalls;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.testing.UiApiTestServer;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry.ToolCallOutcome;
+import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.tools.registry.ToolFamily;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.CoreUiApiGateway;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiCall;
 import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiGateway;
@@ -36,29 +38,35 @@ import com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.uiapi.UiApiResult;
 import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.actions.ai.AiToolOutcome;
 import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.context.QContext;
 import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.exceptions.QException;
-import com.kingsrook.qqq.backend.core.utils.JsonUtils;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
 
 /*******************************************************************************
- ** A process the application says may run as a durable job is run as one:
- ** the confirmed run creates the job, and never starts it. Core creates a job
- ** launched from the assistant channel waiting for the person and refuses to
- ** start it from that channel; the assistant sends nothing that would make
- ** core start it, and calls no operation that starts one.
+ ** When the application hands the work of a confirmed run to a background
+ ** job (core diverts the storing step of a large or always-durable process to
+ ** a durable job), the job is the confirming person's, the assistant starts
+ ** nothing and controls nothing, and the run's outcome is the job's: rows
+ ** done, rows failed and why.
  **
  ** The application here is the fixture's own UI API with two things in front
- ** of it: backgroundSync is reported as eligible to run as a job, and the job
- ** operations answer as core answers the assistant channel (the fixture has
- ** no durable jobs tables). Every other call goes to the real UI API.
+ ** of it, as a host with durable jobs answers (the fixture has no durable
+ ** jobs tables): the init of backgroundSync answers as core's diverted step
+ ** does (the process ended, with the id of the job it became), and the job is
+ ** read as its owner reads it, state by state. Every other call goes to the
+ ** real UI API.
  *******************************************************************************/
 class ProcessJobPathTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 {
    private static final String RUNNER = "author-runner";
 
+   private static final String DIVERTED = "{\"type\":\"COMPLETE\",\"processUUID\":\"p-41\",\"values\":{\"durableJobId\":41,\"processResults\":[{\"status\":\"INFO\","
+      + "\"message\":\"This is running as a background job (job 41) over 3 rows. You can leave this page.\"}]}}";
+
    private final List<UiApiCall> jobCalls = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
+   private final List<String>    states   = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();
+   private final AtomicInteger   reads    = new AtomicInteger();
    private CoreUiApiGateway      core;
 
 
@@ -89,7 +97,7 @@ class ProcessJobPathTest extends BaseAssistantTest
          @Override
          public boolean isInvocable(String method, String pathTemplate)
          {
-            return (pathTemplate.equals(ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH) || pathTemplate.startsWith("/jobs") || core.isInvocable(method, pathTemplate));
+            return (pathTemplate.startsWith("/jobs") || core.isInvocable(method, pathTemplate));
          }
 
 
@@ -98,29 +106,18 @@ class ProcessJobPathTest extends BaseAssistantTest
           **
           *******************************************************************************/
          @Override
-         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
          public UiApiResult invoke(UiApiCall call) throws QException
          {
-            if(call.getPathTemplate().equals(ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH) || call.getPathTemplate().startsWith("/jobs"))
+            if(call.getPathTemplate().contains("/jobs"))
             {
                jobCalls.add(call);
-               return (new UiApiResult(200, call.getPathTemplate().equals(ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH) ? "{\"jobId\":41,\"status\":\"AWAITING_CONFIRMATION\"}"
-                  : "{\"id\":41,\"status\":\"AWAITING_CONFIRMATION\",\"statusReason\":\"Waiting for you to confirm it in the app.\",\"label\":\"Background Sync (assistant)\","
-                     + "\"progress\":{\"percent\":0,\"note\":\"a text\"},\"summary\":{\"rows\":[\"RECORD_DATA\"]}}"));
+               return (new UiApiResult(200, states.get(Math.min(reads.getAndIncrement(), states.size() - 1))));
             }
-            UiApiResult result = core.invoke(call);
-            if(result.isSuccess() && call.getPathTemplate().startsWith("/metaData"))
+            if(call.getPathTemplate().equals(ProcessTools.INIT_PATH) && "backgroundSync".equals(call.getPathParams().get("processName")))
             {
-               Map<String, Object> json = result.json();
-               Object              one  = call.getPathTemplate().equals("/metaData") ? ((Map<String, Object>) json.getOrDefault("processes", Map.of())).get("backgroundSync")
-                  : ("backgroundSync".equals(call.getPathParams().get("processName")) ? json : null);
-               if(one instanceof Map<?, ?> process)
-               {
-                  ((Map<String, Object>) process).put("durableJobEligible", true);
-                  return (new UiApiResult(result.status(), JsonUtils.toJson(json)));
-               }
+               return (new UiApiResult(200, DIVERTED));
             }
-            return (result);
+            return (core.invoke(call));
          }
       });
    }
@@ -137,50 +134,121 @@ class ProcessJobPathTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       UiApiTestServer.serve(qInstance, config);
       ProcessFixture.grant(RUNNER);
       ProcessFixture.RAN.clear();
+      jobCalls.clear();
+      states.clear();
+      reads.set(0);
    }
 
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** The card says the run is a background job that the person starts; the
-    ** confirmed run creates the job with the values and records of the card,
-    ** sends no expected row count, starts nothing, and ends its action. The
-    ** job's state is then read with get_run_status, without its result rows.
+    ** A job the application started by itself is waited for like any step, and
+    ** its outcome is on the card: how many rows were done, how many failed and
+    ** why. The reasons are the lines of the job's summary; nothing else of the
+    ** job (its rows) is passed on. The assistant only ever read the job, as
+    ** the person.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
-   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-   void aDurableJobIsCreatedForThePersonToStartAndNeverStartedByTheAssistant() throws Exception
+   void aJobTheApplicationStartedIsWaitedForAndItsOutcomeIsOnTheCard() throws Exception
    {
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(json(call(ProcessTools.DESCRIBE, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync")).result().getModelContent()).get("runs")))
-         .isEqualTo("as a background job the user starts on its job record");
+      states.add(job("RUNNING", 1, 0, null));
+      states.add(job("COMPLETED_WITH_ERRORS", 3, 1, "[{\"status\":\"OK\",\"count\":2,\"message\":\"2 posts were synced.\"},"
+         + "{\"status\":\"ERROR\",\"count\":1,\"message\":\"1 post could not be synced: it is locked.\"},{\"rows\":[\"RECORD_DATA\"]}]"));
 
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync", "recordIds", List.of("1", "2", "3")));
       assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
-      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) proposed.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
-         .containsExactly("Process=Background Sync", "Records=3 Blog Post records: ids 1, 2, 3",
-            "Runs=As a background job. It is created waiting, and starts when you start it on its job record.");
-      assertThat(jobCalls).as("nothing is created before the person confirms").isEmpty();
+      assertThat(jobCalls).as("nothing is asked of a job before the person confirms").isEmpty();
 
-      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(RUNNER));
-      Map<String, Object> confirmed = new AssistantApi(config.getRuntime(), QContext.getQSession()).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      Map<String, Object> confirmed = confirm(proposed);
       assertThat(confirmed).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED).containsEntry("outcome", "OK");
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("resultSummary"))).isEqualTo("Job 41 for Background Sync is created and waits for you: open it and start it. The assistant cannot start a job.");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("resultSummary")))
+         .isEqualTo("Background Sync finished as background job 41 with errors: 3 rows done, 1 failed. 1 post could not be synced: it is locked.");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message"))).contains("\"rowsFailed\":1").contains("2 posts were synced.").doesNotContain("RECORD_DATA");
       assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("href"))).startsWith("/app/");
-
-      assertThat(jobCalls).as("one call: the launch. Nothing starts the job").singleElement().satisfies(launch ->
+      assertThat(jobCalls).as("the job was read, as the person, and nothing else was asked of it").hasSize(2).allSatisfy(read ->
       {
-         assertThat(launch.operation()).isEqualTo("POST " + ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH);
-         assertThat(launch.getPathParams()).containsEntry("processName", "backgroundSync");
-         assertThat(launch.getSessionUUID()).as("as the person").isEqualTo(RUNNER);
-         Map<String, Object> body = (Map<String, Object>) launch.getJsonBody();
-         assertThat(body).containsEntry("recordIds", List.of("1", "2", "3")).doesNotContainKey("expectedRows").doesNotContainKey("filter");
+         assertThat(read.operation()).isEqualTo("GET " + ProcessTools.JOB_PATH);
+         assertThat(read.getSessionUUID()).isEqualTo(RUNNER);
       });
-      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("the process itself did not run").isEmpty();
+   }
 
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** An application that does not let a job that came through the assistant
+    ** start by itself (core's default) creates it waiting for a second action.
+    ** That is not what the person confirmed. The assistant starts nothing: it
+    ** cancels the job, as the person, so that none is left waiting (two of
+    ** them would have the application refuse the person's next run), and the
+    ** card says the run did not happen and why. It never says "done".
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aJobTheApplicationCreatedWaitingIsCancelledAndTheCardSaysItDidNotRun() throws Exception
+   {
+      states.add(job("AWAITING_CONFIRMATION", 0, 0, null));
+
+      Map<String, Object> confirmed = confirm(call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync", "recordIds", List.of("1", "2", "3"))));
+      assertThat(confirmed).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED).containsEntry("outcome", "ERROR");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("resultSummary"))).startsWith("Background Sync did not run: this application hands a run of this size to a background job")
+         .contains("The job (41) was cancelled and nothing changed.").doesNotContain("finished");
+      assertThat(jobCalls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).as("read, then cancelled; nothing starts the job").containsExactly("GET " + ProcessTools.JOB_PATH, "POST " + ProcessTools.JOB_CANCEL_PATH);
+      assertThat(jobCalls).allSatisfy(asked -> assertThat(asked.getSessionUUID()).as("as the person").isEqualTo(RUNNER));
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("the process itself did not run").isEmpty();
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A job that is still working when the confirmation has waited as long as
+    ** it waits ends the action as running in the background, never as done;
+    ** how it ended is read with get_run_status, with its counts and reasons.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   @Test
+   void aJobThatOutlastsTheWaitIsReportedAsRunningAndReadLater() throws Exception
+   {
+      for(ToolFamily family : RuntimeInternals.ownToolFamilies(config.getRuntime()))
+      {
+         if(family instanceof ProcessToolFamily processes)
+         {
+            processes.processTools().setWaitMillis(120);
+         }
+      }
+      states.add(job("RUNNING", 1, 0, null));
+
+      Map<String, Object> confirmed = confirm(call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync", "recordIds", List.of("1", "2", "3"))));
+      assertThat(confirmed).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED).containsEntry("outcome", "OK");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("resultSummary"))).isEqualTo("Background Sync was handed to background job 41, which is running: 1 row done.");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message"))).contains("never say it finished");
+
+      states.clear();
+      states.add(job("FAILED", 2, 2, "[{\"status\":\"ERROR\",\"count\":2,\"message\":\"2 posts are locked.\"}]"));
       ToolCallOutcome status = call(ProcessTools.STATUS, Map.of("jobId", 41));
-      assertThat(status.result().getSummary()).isEqualTo("Job 41 is awaiting confirmation");
-      assertThat(status.result().getModelContent()).contains("\"percent\":0").doesNotContain("RECORD_DATA").doesNotContain("a text");
-      assertThat(jobCalls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).containsExactly("POST " + ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH, "GET " + ProcessTools.JOB_PATH);
+      assertThat(status.result().getSummary()).isEqualTo("Job 41 is failed");
+      assertThat(status.result().getModelContent()).contains("\"rowsFailed\":2").contains("2 posts are locked.").contains("\"percent\":50").doesNotContain("a text");
+      assertThat(jobCalls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).as("only reads").containsOnly("GET " + ProcessTools.JOB_PATH);
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** A job as the application shows it to its owner.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private static String job(String status, int done, int failed, String summary)
+   {
+      return ("{\"jobId\":41,\"status\":\"" + status + "\",\"label\":\"Background Sync\",\"rowsTotal\":3,\"rowsDone\":" + done + ",\"rowsFailed\":" + failed
+         + ",\"progress\":{\"percent\":50,\"note\":\"a text\"}" + (summary == null ? "" : ",\"summary\":" + summary) + "}");
+   }
+
+
+
+   /*******************************************************************************
+    ** Confirm a proposal as the person.
+    *******************************************************************************/
+   private Map<String, Object> confirm(ToolCallOutcome proposed) throws Exception
+   {
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor(RUNNER));
+      return (new AssistantApi(config.getRuntime(), QContext.getQSession()).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()));
    }
 
 
@@ -192,15 +260,4 @@ class ProcessJobPathTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    {
       return (config.getRuntime().getToolCalls().executeAndLog(ToolCalls.call(config, RUNNER, tool, input), null, false));
    }
-
-
-
-   /*******************************************************************************
-    ** The JSON object in a text.
-    *******************************************************************************/
-   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-   private static Map<String, Object> json(String text) throws Exception
-   {
-      return (new ObjectMapper().readValue(text.substring(text.indexOf('{'), text.lastIndexOf('}') + 1), Map.class));
-   }
 }

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/process/ProcessRequestsTest.java

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
  ** What the process tools send to the application, call by call.
  **
  ** The application here is the fixture's own UI API with every call noted on
- ** its way. It offers no operation that creates a durable job, and reports
- ** backgroundSync as a process that may run as one.
+ ** its way. It reports backgroundSync as a process that may run as a durable
+ ** job.
  *******************************************************************************/
 class ProcessRequestsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 {
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class ProcessRequestsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** The UI API, noted; without the operation that creates a job.
+    ** The UI API, noted.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Override
    protected void customizeConfig(AssistantQBitConfig config)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class ProcessRequestsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
          @Override
          public boolean isInvocable(String method, String pathTemplate)
          {
-            return (!pathTemplate.equals(ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH) && core.isInvocable(method, pathTemplate));
+            return (core.isInvocable(method, pathTemplate));
          }
 
 
@@ -157,10 +157,9 @@ class ProcessRequestsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "media.bulkEdit", "values", Map.of("mimeType", "image/webp"), "recordIds", List.of("1")));
       assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
-      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(confirm(proposed).get("message")));
-      assertThat(stopped).as("the process runs for its other fields").containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW");
-      Map<String, Object> done = confirm(call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("run", String.valueOf(stopped.get("run")))));
+      Map<String, Object> done = confirm(proposed);
       assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(done.get("resultSummary"))).as("the process runs for its other fields, to its end").startsWith("Media Bulk Edit finished");
 
       List<UiApiCall> runs = calls.stream().filter(call -> call.getPathTemplate().startsWith("/processes/")).toList();
       assertThat(runs).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).contains("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH, "POST " + ProcessTools.STEP_PATH);
@@ -198,23 +197,27 @@ class ProcessRequestsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A process that may run as a durable job is created as a job that waits
-    ** for the person, or it is not run. Where the application does not offer
-    ** the operation that creates a job, nothing is proposed, and nothing runs
-    ** on a confirmation.
+    ** A process that may run as a durable job is run like every other: through
+    ** its own init and step operations, as the person, when they confirm. The
+    ** assistant calls no operation that creates, starts or controls a job: if
+    ** work goes to a job, it is the application that sends it there.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
-   void aProcessThatMayRunAsAJobIsNeverRunOnConfirmationInstead() throws Exception
+   void aProcessThatMayRunAsAJobRunsThroughItsOwnOperationsAndNoJobOperationIsCalled() throws Exception
    {
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(json(call(ProcessTools.DESCRIBE, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync")).result().getModelContent()).get("runs"))).isEqualTo("as a background job the user starts on its job record");
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(json(call(ProcessTools.DESCRIBE, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync")).result().getModelContent()).get("runs")))
+         .isEqualTo("when the user confirms, to its end on that one confirmation (the application may hand a large run to a background job of the user's)");
 
-      ToolCallOutcome refused = call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync", "recordIds", List.of("1", "2")));
-      assertThat(refused.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.DENIED);
-      assertThat(refused.result().getPermissionCheck()).isEqualTo("uiApi:notSpecd");
-      assertThat(refused.result().getModelContent()).contains("runs as a background job").contains("it is not run through the assistant").contains("/app/");
-      assertThat(refused.extras().getPendingActionId()).as("no card").isNull();
-      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).doesNotContain("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH, "POST " + ProcessTools.LAUNCH_PATH);
-      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("the process did not run").isEmpty();
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(ProcessTools.RUN, Map.of("process", "backgroundSync", "recordIds", List.of("1", "2")));
+      assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("nothing runs before the person confirms").isEmpty();
+      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).doesNotContain("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH);
+
+      Map<String, Object> done = confirm(proposed);
+      assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).singleElement().satisfies(ran -> assertThat(ran).containsEntry("process", "backgroundSync").containsEntry("records", 2).containsEntry("user", RUNNER));
+      assertThat(calls).extracting(UiApiCall::operation).contains("POST " + ProcessTools.INIT_PATH);
+      assertThat(calls).as("no operation on a job, and none that creates one").noneMatch(call -> call.getPathTemplate().contains("/jobs"));
    }
 
 

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/process/ProcessToolsTest.java

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    void aProcessIsDescribedWithItsInputsAndItsStops() throws Exception
    {
       Map<String, Object> digest = data(call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.DESCRIBE, input("process", "sendDigest")));
-      assertThat(digest).containsEntry("label", "Send Digest").containsEntry("runs", "when the user confirms");
+      assertThat(digest).containsEntry("label", "Send Digest").containsEntry("runs", "when the user confirms, to its end on that one confirmation");
       List<Map<String, Object>> inputs = (List<Map<String, Object>>) ((List<Map<String, Object>>) digest.get("steps")).get(0).get("inputs");
       assertThat(inputs).extracting(field -> field.get("name")).containsExactly("note", "copies", "sendOn", "urgent");
       assertThat(inputs.get(0)).containsEntry("required", true).containsEntry("type", "STRING");
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
          .containsEntry("processLabel", "Send Digest").containsEntry("summary", "Run Send Digest");
       List<Map<String, Object>> card = (List<Map<String, Object>>) render.get("changes");
       assertThat(card).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
-         .containsExactly("Process=Send Digest", "Note=Monthly numbers", "Copies=3", "Send On=2026-12-01", "Urgent=true", "Runs=When you confirm.");
+         .containsExactly("Process=Send Digest", "Note=Monthly numbers", "Copies=3", "Send On=2026-12-01", "Urgent=true", "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
 
       AssistantPendingAction pending = pendingActions(RUNNER).get(0);
       assertThat(pending.getStatus()).isEqualTo(AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_PENDING);
@@ -369,10 +369,11 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A run stops at a review, before anything is stored. Going on is a new
-    ** proposal with a card of its own, whose review text is what the server
-    ** kept of the run; confirming it stores. Only the run's person can go on
-    ** with it.
+    ** A run whose card named no records stops at a review, before anything is
+    ** stored: there is nothing on the card the review could be the same as.
+    ** Going on is a new proposal with a card of its own, whose review text is
+    ** what the server kept of the run; confirming it stores. Only the run's
+    ** person can go on with it.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    {
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "archivePosts"));
       assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) proposed.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
-         .contains("Stops for you=At \"Review\", before anything is stored. You confirm again to go on.");
+         .contains("Stops for you=At its review, before anything is stored. You confirm again to go on.");
       Map<String, Object> confirmed = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
       assertThat(confirmed).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
       Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(confirmed.get("message")));
@@ -447,7 +448,7 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    {
       ToolCallOutcome byId = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "publishPosts", "recordIds", List.of("5", "6")));
       assertThat(byId.result().getRender()).containsEntry("summary", "Run Publish Posts on 2 Blog Post records").containsEntry("tableLabel", "Blog Post");
-      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) byId.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value")).contains("Records=2 Blog Post records: ids 5, 6");
+      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) byId.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value")).contains("Records=2 Blog Post records: Draft: GitOps, Draft: Backups");
       assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(byId.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).singleElement().satisfies(ran -> assertThat(ran).containsEntry("records", 2).containsEntry("user", RUNNER));
 
@@ -458,7 +459,7 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       ProcessFixture.RAN.clear();
       ToolCallOutcome byFilter = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "publishPosts", "filter", filter("AND", "status", "EQUALS", List.of("DRAFT"))));
       assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) byFilter.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
-         .contains("Records=2 Blog Post records: where Status equals DRAFT");
+         .contains("Records=2 Blog Post records: Draft: GitOps, Draft: Backups (where Status equals DRAFT)");
       QContext.init(qInstance, AssistantTestFixture.sessionFor("seeder-0"));
       new InsertAction().execute(new InsertInput("blog_post").withRecords(new ArrayList<>(List.of(new QRecord().withValue("title", "Another draft").withValue("status", "DRAFT")))));
       QContext.clear();
@@ -519,12 +520,13 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** A table's own bulk edit (core's process, hidden, offered by the record
     ** list) is run the same way: only fields the assistant may see can be
-    ** set, the run stops at core's review with nothing stored, and the records
-    ** change only after the second card.
+    ** set, and the one confirmation takes it through core's form and review
+    ** to its end, because both say what the card said: these records, these
+    ** values, every record validated and none with a warning or an error.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-   void aTablesBulkEditRunsOverTheRecordsOnlyAfterItsReview() throws Exception
+   void aTablesBulkEditRunsOverItsRecordsOnOneConfirmation() throws Exception
    {
       assertThat(names(call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.LIST, Map.of()))).contains("blog_post.bulkEdit", "blog_post.bulkDelete").doesNotContain("blog_post.bulkInsert");
       String described = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.DESCRIBE, input("process", "blog_post.bulkEdit")).result().getModelContent();
@@ -535,17 +537,13 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "blog_post.bulkEdit", "values", Map.of("status", "ARCHIVED"), "recordIds", List.of("5", "6")));
       assertThat(proposed.result().getOutcome()).as(proposed.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
       assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) proposed.result().getRender().get("changes")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value"))
-         .contains("Status=ARCHIVED", "Records=2 Blog Post records: ids 5, 6");
+         .contains("Status=ARCHIVED", "Records=2 Blog Post records: Draft: GitOps, Draft: Backups");
+      assertThat(status("5")).as("nothing is stored before the person confirms").isEqualTo("DRAFT");
 
-      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
-      assertThat(stopped).as(String.valueOf(stopped)).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW");
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(stopped.get("review"))).startsWith("2 records.");
-      assertThat(status("5")).as("nothing is stored at the review").isEqualTo("DRAFT");
-
-      ToolCallOutcome goingOn = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"))));
-      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(goingOn.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
       assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
       assertThat(String.valueOf(done.get("resultSummary"))).startsWith("Blog Post Bulk Edit finished");
+      assertThat((Map<String, Object>) json(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).get("counts")).containsEntry("ok", 2).containsEntry("failed", 0);
       assertThat(status("5")).isEqualTo("ARCHIVED");
       assertThat(status("6")).isEqualTo("ARCHIVED");
       assertThat(status("1")).as("a record that was not on the card").isEqualTo("PUBLISHED");
@@ -744,51 +742,53 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A run stops at a later screen that says something ("are you sure"): the
-    ** card the person confirmed did not show it, so nothing after it runs
-    ** until a second card that shows the text is confirmed.
+    ** A later screen that only says something ("are you sure") is on the card
+    ** the person confirms: the card shows its text, so the run passes it for
+    ** them and goes to its end on that one confirmation.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
-   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-   void aRunStopsAtALaterScreenWithATextUntilACardShowedIt() throws Exception
+   void aLaterScreenThatOnlySaysSomethingIsOnTheCardAndIsPassed() throws Exception
    {
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "confirmClose"));
-      assertThat(lines(proposed)).contains("Stops to show you=\"Are You Sure\". You confirm again to go on.");
-      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
-      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "WAITING").containsEntry("step", "Are You Sure");
-      assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) stopped.get("shows")).extracting(line -> line.get("label") + "=" + line.get("value")).containsExactly("Says=" + ProcessFixture.SURE_TEXT);
-      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).as("nothing after the screen ran").containsExactly("prepare");
-
-      ToolCallOutcome goingOn = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"))));
-      assertThat(lines(goingOn)).containsExactly("Process=Confirm Close", "Goes on from=Are You Sure", "Says=" + ProcessFixture.SURE_TEXT, "Then=The run goes on.");
-      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("proposing to go on runs nothing").hasSize(1);
-      assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(goingOn.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(lines(proposed)).containsExactly("Process=Confirm Close", "Says=" + ProcessFixture.SURE_TEXT, "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).as("proposing runs nothing").isEmpty();
+      Map<String, Object> done = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId());
+      assertThat(done).as(String.valueOf(done.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
+      assertThat(String.valueOf(done.get("resultSummary"))).startsWith("Confirm Close finished");
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("prepare", "apply");
    }
 
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A run stops at a later form, also when none of its fields is required:
-    ** a step may have computed its values, and the person sees them on the
-    ** second card, where they keep or change them.
+    ** A run stops at a later form when a step computed a value for one of its
+    ** fields that the card did not show, also when none of its fields is
+    ** required: the person sees the value on the second card, where they keep
+    ** or change it. A value the person gave on the first card does not make
+    ** the screen theirs when the process has another one.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    void aRunStopsAtALaterFormWhoseValuesAStepComputed() throws Exception
    {
+      ToolCallOutcome given = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "adjustTotals", "values", Map.of("amount", 50)));
+      assertThat(lines(given)).containsExactly("Process=Adjust Totals", "Amount=50", "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
+      Map<String, Object> other = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(given.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      assertThat(other).as("the process computed 42, the card said 50").containsEntry("status", "WAITING").containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "\"Amount\" has a value the card did not show.");
+      assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).as("nothing after the form ran").containsExactly("compute");
+      ProcessFixture.RAN.clear();
+
       ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "adjustTotals"));
-      assertThat(lines(proposed)).contains("Stops to show you=\"Adjust\". You confirm again to go on.");
       Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
-      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "WAITING");
+      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "WAITING").containsEntry("whyItCameBack", "\"Amount\" has a value the card did not show.");
       assertThat((List<Map<String, Object>>) stopped.get("inputs")).extracting(field -> field.get("name")).containsExactly("amount");
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("compute");
 
       String          run  = String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"));
       ToolCallOutcome kept = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", run));
-      assertThat(lines(kept)).containsExactly("Process=Adjust Totals", "Goes on from=Adjust", "Amount=42", "Then=The run goes on.");
+      assertThat(lines(kept)).containsExactly("Process=Adjust Totals", "Goes on from=Adjust", "Why it came back=\"Amount\" has a value the card did not show.", "Amount=42", "Then=The run goes on.");
       ToolCallOutcome changed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", run, "values", Map.of("amount", 50)));
-      assertThat(lines(changed)).containsExactly("Process=Adjust Totals", "Goes on from=Adjust", "Amount=50", "Then=The run goes on.");
+      assertThat(lines(changed)).containsExactly("Process=Adjust Totals", "Goes on from=Adjust", "Why it came back=\"Amount\" has a value the card did not show.", "Amount=50", "Then=The run goes on.");
 
       assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(changed.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("compute", "apply");
@@ -806,13 +806,15 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
    @Test
    void aRunStopsAtALaterScreenWithValuesToRead() throws Exception
    {
-      ToolCallOutcome     proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "readTotals"));
-      Map<String, Object> stopped  = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
+      ToolCallOutcome proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "readTotals"));
+      assertThat(lines(proposed)).as("the card says so").contains("Stops to show you=\"Totals\". You confirm again to go on.");
+      Map<String, Object> stopped = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
       assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "WAITING");
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("compute");
 
       ToolCallOutcome goingOn = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"))));
-      assertThat(lines(goingOn)).containsExactly("Process=Read Totals", "Goes on from=Totals", "Total=1,234.00", "Then=The run goes on.");
+      assertThat(lines(goingOn)).containsExactly("Process=Read Totals", "Goes on from=Totals", "Why it came back=It shows values to read that were not known when the card was made.", "Total=1,234.00",
+         "Then=The run goes on.");
       assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(goingOn.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("compute", "apply");
    }
@@ -835,7 +837,8 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("load");
 
       ToolCallOutcome goingOn = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"))));
-      assertThat(lines(goingOn)).hasSize(ProcessTools.MAX_SHOWN_ROWS + 5).startsWith("Process=List Changes", "Goes on from=Changes", "Lists=12 records", "Record 1=Title: Post 1; Status: DRAFT")
+      assertThat(lines(goingOn)).hasSize(ProcessTools.MAX_SHOWN_ROWS + 6)
+         .startsWith("Process=List Changes", "Goes on from=Changes", "Why it came back=It lists records that were not known when the card was made.", "Lists=12 records", "Record 1=Title: Post 1; Status: DRAFT")
          .endsWith("Record 10=Title: Post 10; Status: DRAFT", "And=2 more, not shown here", "Then=The run goes on.");
       assertThat(String.valueOf(goingOn.result().getRender())).doesNotContain(ProcessFixture.SECRET);
       assertThat(goingOn.result().getModelContent()).doesNotContain(ProcessFixture.SECRET);
@@ -846,62 +849,27 @@ class ProcessToolsTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 
 
    /*******************************************************************************
-    ** Only a screen with nothing to show is passed. And the screen a run
-    ** starts at is on the first card: its text, and a field's default the
-    ** person did not replace.
+    ** A screen with nothing to show is passed. And what a screen says and
+    ** asks for is on the card: its text, and a field's default the person did
+    ** not replace.
     *******************************************************************************/
    @Test
    void aScreenWithNothingToShowIsPassedAndTheFirstScreenIsOnTheFirstCard() throws Exception
    {
       ToolCallOutcome through = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "passThrough"));
-      assertThat(lines(through)).containsExactly("Process=Pass Through", "Runs=When you confirm.");
+      assertThat(lines(through)).containsExactly("Process=Pass Through", "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
       assertThat(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(through.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("resultSummary"))).startsWith("Pass Through finished");
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("prepare", "apply");
 
       ProcessFixture.RAN.clear();
       ToolCallOutcome notice = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "noticeFirst"));
-      assertThat(lines(notice)).containsExactly("Process=Notice First", "Says=" + ProcessFixture.NOTICE_TEXT, "Copies=2 (its default)", "Runs=When you confirm.");
+      assertThat(lines(notice)).containsExactly("Process=Notice First", "Says=" + ProcessFixture.NOTICE_TEXT, "Copies=2 (its default)", "Runs=When you confirm, to its end.");
       assertThat(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(notice.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("resultSummary"))).startsWith("Notice First finished");
       assertThat(ProcessFixture.RAN).extracting(ran -> ran.get("step")).containsExactly("send");
    }
 
 
 
-   /*******************************************************************************
-    ** A card goes on only with the run as it stood when the card was made: two
-    ** cards at one review, and the run validated again under the second, do
-    ** not let the first store under a review the person no longer has.
-    *******************************************************************************/
-   @Test
-   void aCardGoesOnOnlyWithTheRunAsItStoodWhenTheCardWasMade() throws Exception
-   {
-      ToolCallOutcome     proposed = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("process", "blog_post.bulkEdit", "values", Map.of("status", "ARCHIVED"), "recordIds", List.of("5", "6")));
-      Map<String, Object> stopped  = json(String.valueOf(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(proposed.extras().getPendingActionId()).get("message")));
-      assertThat(stopped).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("canValidateFully", true);
-      String run = String.valueOf(stopped.get("run"));
-
-      ToolCallOutcome store    = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", run));
-      ToolCallOutcome validate = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", run, "validateFully", true));
-      assertThat(store.result().getOutcome()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
-      assertThat(validate.result().getOutcome()).as(validate.result().getModelContent()).isEqualTo(AiToolOutcome.OK);
-
-      Map<String, Object> validated = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(validate.extras().getPendingActionId());
-      assertThat(json(String.valueOf(validated.get("message")))).as(String.valueOf(validated.get("message"))).containsEntry("status", "STOPPED_FOR_REVIEW").containsEntry("canValidateFully", false)
-         .containsEntry("run", run);
-      assertThat(status("5")).as("validating stores nothing").isEqualTo("DRAFT");
-
-      Map<String, Object> stale = api(RUNNER).confirmAction(store.extras().getPendingActionId());
-      assertThat(stale).as("the card made before the run was validated again").containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_FAILED).containsEntry("outcome", "INVALID_INPUT");
-      assertThat(String.valueOf(stale.get("message"))).contains("no longer waiting where this card showed it").contains("nothing went on");
-      assertThat(status("5")).isEqualTo("DRAFT");
-
-      ToolCallOutcome fresh = call(RUNNER, ProcessTools.RUN, input("run", run));
-      assertThat(api(RUNNER).confirmAction(fresh.extras().getPendingActionId())).containsEntry("status", AssistantPendingAction.STATUS_EXECUTED);
-      assertThat(status("5")).isEqualTo("ARCHIVED");
-   }
-
-
-
    /*******************************************************************************
     ** What the application or a process said reaches a model only as data,
     ** inside the envelope every tool result uses: in a result, on a card, in

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/registry/ChatToolSetTest.java

@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
  *******************************************************************************/
 class ChatToolSetTest extends BaseAssistantTest
 {
+   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+   // The file changed a third time, with "one confirmation for a set", and //
+   // the cached request prefix changes once with it. It differs from the   //
+   // file before in exactly one way: the description of run_process, in    //
+   // each of the three scenarios that offer it, now says that the user     //
+   // confirms ONE card and the run then goes to its end, and that the same //
+   // change to several records is one call of the table's own bulk action. //
+   // The replacement was made in the file as text; nothing was generated.  //
+   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
    private static final String EXPECTED = "/tool-registry/chat-tools-before-registry.txt";
 
    private static final Set<String> RESTRICTED = Set.of(UiApiToolbox.LIST_TABLES, UiApiToolbox.QUERY_RECORDS, UiApiToolbox.CREATE_RECORD, "navigate",

qbit-assistant/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qbits/assistant/tools/registry/ToolCallArchitectureTest.java

@@ -325,9 +325,10 @@ class ToolCallArchitectureTest
       if(origin.equals(AssistantRuntime.class.getName()) || origin.startsWith(AssistantRuntime.class.getName() + "$"))
       {
          ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-         // the runtime builds the toolboxes and their families          //
+         // the runtime builds the toolboxes and their families, and     //
+         // hands the record tools the host's rules for widgets          //
          ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-         return ("<init>".equals(name) || "withScheduledDeliveryCheck".equals(name));
+         return ("<init>".equals(name) || "withScheduledDeliveryCheck".equals(name) || "withWidgetRules".equals(name));
       }
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