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@internal/dashboard-agent

The in-dashboard agent, built on chat.agent and deployed as its own Trigger project. This is the launch-week dogfood: we run our own product on the primitive we ship.

Why a separate package (not inside apps/webapp)

The agent has no access to the main database, ClickHouse, or webapp internals — it reads everything via the API. Living in a standalone package that doesn't depend on the webapp makes that firewall structural: the package physically cannot import webapp server code. It also keeps the webapp a pure Remix app instead of a dual Remix-app-and-Trigger-project, and gives the agent a small, fast, independently deployable + testable build context.

It writes conversation state to its own datastore via @internal/dashboard-agent-db (the same package the webapp reads from for the History tab). It never touches Prisma.

Deploy / dev

This is a Trigger project with its own trigger.config.ts. The project ref is read from TRIGGER_DASHBOARD_AGENT_PROJECT_REF (never hardcoded — public repo).

cd internal-packages/dashboard-agent
TRIGGER_DASHBOARD_AGENT_PROJECT_REF=<your-project> pnpm run dev      # trigger dev
TRIGGER_DASHBOARD_AGENT_PROJECT_REF=<your-project> pnpm run deploy   # trigger deploy

Runtime env the deployed task needs: DASHBOARD_AGENT_DATABASE_URL (the agent datastore) and OBJECT_STORE_* (chat.agent's built-in conversation snapshot).

Consumed by the webapp

The webapp imports only the task type for transport type-safety:

import type { dashboardAgent } from "@internal/dashboard-agent";

Never a value import (see src/index.ts).

What a call costs

Two numbers decide the bill: the cacheable prefix every call pays for, and the conversation that rides on top of it.

• The prefix (system prompt + tool schemas) is measured in src/prompt-prefix.ts and budgeted in src/prompt-prefix.test.ts: explicit ceilings per mode, plus a committed snapshot of prompt chars/tokens, tool-schema chars/tokens, tool count and the fingerprints. A change that grows the prefix past a ceiling must move that ceiling in the same PR and accept the snapshot diff (vitest -u) — that is the whole point of the numbers.
• The conversation is compacted in src/compaction.ts: above 60k tokens of conversation (on top of the ~21k prefix) the older part becomes a Haiku-written summary. The UI transcript is never compacted, and an open investigation is pinned back onto the model's history verbatim, so a summary can never cost the agent the investigationId it has to keep revising.

Turn evals

A sampled fraction of turns is scored by an LLM judge (dashboard-agent-eval-turn), which writes one chat_turn_evals row. The rules live in one file, src/eval-policy.ts:

• Sampling. DASHBOARD_AGENT_EVAL_SAMPLE_RATE, default 0.1 — the judge is a full model call per turn and nothing reads the rows yet. Golden / CI runs are a separate lane: DASHBOARD_AGENT_EVAL_SAMPLE_RATE_CI (default 1) applies only when DASHBOARD_AGENT_EVAL_CONTEXT=ci, so neither lane can change the other's rate.
• Redaction. Run payloads and outputs, query result rows, file contents and span attributes are replaced by their shape before the turn leaves the agent. The row keeps the judge's derived verdict only — never the question, the answer, or any tool data.
• Code mode. A turn that called a source tool is not judged at all.
• Opt-out. Per-org, via the dashboardAgentTurnEvalsEnabled feature flag. The agent asks the API before every judged turn and judges only on an explicit yes.
• Retention. Rows are dropped after 30 days by the webapp's dashboard-agent sweep.

When a document and the code disagree about any of the above, the code is the fact and the document is the bug: fix the document in the same change.