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feat: zulip progress tracking#853

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business goals:

  • Intermittent errors cause internal users to lose trust
  • dev team doesn't see the errors fast enough
  • internal users don't see progress

alternatives considered:

  • standard error reporting - we have it anyways, it works and is good alternative, isn't as fast and obvious to check the specific class of errors at glance
  • in-ui progress - we should and will have it, it's just much more design-heavy goal than printing text into chatbot

changes

  • progress print generic module, hatchet workflow structure-independently prints current progress into .md, flattening the graph into text
  • zulip update module, printing the current progresses / updating the messages on progress into set up zulip channel

env vars

Variable Description Example
ZULIP_DAG_STREAM Zulip stream where DAG status messages are posted general
ZULIP_DAG_TOPIC Topic within the stream for DAG status messages dag-status
ZULIP_HOST_HEADER Override Host header for Zulip API requests (needed when Docker internal hostname differs from Zulip's ALLOWED_HOSTS) zulip.localhost
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feat: add CLI tool to render Hatchet workflow runs as text DAG
42e7c0b 
Cherry-picked from feat/hatchet-run-renderer branch.
@dearlordylord
feat: post Hatchet DAG status to Zulip with live updates
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Post a rendered DAG status message to a configurable Zulip stream/topic
when a Hatchet workflow is dispatched. Update it after each task
completes (success or failure), and delete it when post_zulip runs
so the final transcript notification replaces it.

On pipeline failure, appends an error banner (:cross_mark:) with the
failing step name and error message.

New settings: ZULIP_DAG_STREAM, ZULIP_DAG_TOPIC, ZULIP_HOST_HEADER.
New module: reflector/hatchet/dag_zulip.py (create/update/delete).
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