---
id: KONT-WP-0008
type: workplan
title: "Traceable Transformations And Workflow Jobs"
domain: markitect
repo: kontextual-engine
status: todo
owner: codex
topic_slug: markitect
planning_priority: high
planning_order: 8
created: "2026-05-05"
updated: "2026-05-05"
state_hub_workstream_id: "1b7a6b04-7879-4862-bb3e-817f7f20fc59"
---

# KONT-WP-0008: Traceable Transformations And Workflow Jobs

## Purpose

Implement the operations layer that turns knowledge assets into traceable
outputs: transformation operations, derived artifacts, workflow templates,
workflow runs, job execution state, retries, cancellation, review gates,
exception queues, and operation audit.

## Requirement Coverage

Primary: FR-080 to FR-090 and FR-100 to FR-110.

Supporting: FR-083 to FR-085, FR-106, FR-144 to FR-145, FR-165,
FR-200 to FR-202.

## Architecture Constraint

Implement transformations and workflows through operation registries, workflow
services, repository ports, event ports, policy checks, and audit events
described in `docs/architecture-blueprint.md`. Execution may start embedded,
but contracts must allow later queue or workflow-engine adapters.

## O8.1 - Implement transformation operation registry

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T001
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "ee2471b1-fab3-48f5-8b2d-d8f624abfc35"
```

Create a registry for transformation operations such as summarize, extract,
classify, compose, validate, generate report, and produce structured view.

Acceptance:

- Operations declare inputs, outputs, parameters, required permissions, and
  supported asset types.
- Provider-specific LLM behavior remains behind adapters.
- Unsupported operations return structured capability errors.

## O8.2 - Implement transformation runs with parameters actors and policy context

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T002
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "1eac7b47-8cff-4736-9f7d-599123218bad"
```

Represent each transformation as a run with source assets, source versions,
operation type, parameters, actor, policy context, timestamps, and status.

Acceptance:

- Transformations can be queued, run, completed, failed, retried, or canceled.
- Transformation permissions are checked before reading sources or writing
  outputs.
- Parameters needed to interpret or reproduce the run are preserved.

## O8.3 - Persist derived artifacts and source lineage

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T003
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "837ad793-2e9a-41f0-bce6-0a75815b5c15"
```

Persist summaries, extracts, reports, structured representations, generated
artifacts, and composed outputs as governed derived artifacts.

Acceptance:

- Derived artifacts have stable identity and lineage to source assets.
- Lineage includes transformation run, source versions, actor, parameters,
  policy context, and output representation.
- Re-runs create new traceable records rather than silently overwriting outputs.

## O8.4 - Implement workflow templates steps dependencies and preconditions

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T004
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "2c55c5dd-f07b-466b-85a5-f229e41fd124"
```

Define reusable workflow templates containing steps, dependencies, inputs,
outputs, preconditions, policy checks, and failure behavior.

Acceptance:

- Templates can be created and invoked programmatically.
- Step dependencies prevent unsafe or premature execution.
- Workflow inputs can be assets, collections, queries, source events, or
  submitted payloads.

## O8.5 - Implement job runner status retry resume and cancel behavior

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T005
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "5f4d6c88-904d-4369-90d5-eaa4d27e3010"
```

Implement a simple MVP job runner for workflows and transformations.

Acceptance:

- Runs expose queued, running, waiting, completed, failed, retried, canceled,
  and partially completed states.
- Safe retry, resume, and cancellation behavior is defined per operation.
- Recovery actions do not require direct storage edits.

## O8.6 - Implement review gates human tasks and exception queues

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T006
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "5fae9005-4d64-4fca-8c51-a19405512377"
```

Add workflow primitives for review, approval, correction, rejection,
low-confidence handling, policy conflicts, and blocked exceptions.

Acceptance:

- Sensitive or high-impact outputs can pause for human review.
- Exception queues expose failed, blocked, low-confidence, policy-conflicted,
  or review-required items.
- Review decisions continue, reject, correct, retry, or escalate runs.

## O8.7 - Audit workflow and transformation operations

```task
id: KONT-WP-0008-T007
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "9e06aa46-3988-4389-99ec-0a934c68af1b"
```

Audit template changes, run starts, step executions, retries, cancellations,
approvals, failures, outputs, and derived artifact changes.

Acceptance:

- A workflow run can be reconstructed from run records and audit events.
- Audit records include actor, operation, target, outcome, correlation ID, and
  policy context.
- Derived artifact audit events connect to source lineage.

## Definition Of Done

- Transformations and workflows produce inspectable run records and audit
  events.
- Derived artifacts are persistent, governed, and lineage-linked.
- Transformation and workflow run models follow
  `docs/architecture-blueprint.md`.
- `python3 -m pytest` passes.