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Summary

  • treat WorkflowDefinitionsStorage as the authority when a storage-backed dynamic workflow creates a new run, so independent replicas converge without an invalidation bus
  • materialize an independent root-plus-nested dynamic definition closure for each revision
  • persist that exact closure in native workflow run snapshots and restore it for resume/restart
  • fail closed for legacy dynamic runs whose snapshots do not contain a pinned definition revision
  • document the boundary: code-defined nested workflows still follow the host deployment

Verification

  • dynamic workflow revision tests: 5 passed, including two stale replicas, pre-update in-flight pinning, suspended resume after restart, legacy fail-closed, and nested child pinning
  • combined dynamic workflow suites: 4 files, 70 tests passed, no type errors
  • @mastra/core check: passed
  • @mastra/core build: passed
  • changed-file oxfmt, oxlint, and git diff check: passed

Boundary

This guarantees storage-backed dynamic definition coherence and pinning. It does not snapshot arbitrary code-defined nested workflow implementations; those must remain resume-compatible across host deployments.

ELI5

New workflow runs use the latest stored workflow definition. Existing runs keep the exact root and nested definitions used when they started, even after updates or restarts.

Changes

  • Use WorkflowDefinitionsStorage as the authority for storage-backed dynamic workflow runs.
  • Pin root and nested dynamic workflow definitions to each run.
  • Persist pinned definitions in workflow run snapshots.
  • Restore pinned definitions during resume and restart.
  • Fail closed for legacy runs without a pinned revision.
  • Keep code-defined nested workflows tied to the host deployment.
  • Detect missing, inactive, and circular nested definitions.
  • Serialize concurrent dynamic workflow resumes.
  • Share revision-pinned runs by run ID.
  • Classify dynamic revision and unsafe resume failures with stable MastraError instances.
  • Update documentation and add a @mastra/core patch changeset.
  • Add comprehensive regression coverage for revision refresh, pinning, restart, resume, and nested workflows.

Validation

  • Dynamic workflow revision tests
  • Combined dynamic workflow suites
  • Type checking
  • Build validation
  • Formatting
  • Linting
  • Diff checks

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Storage-backed dynamic workflows now refresh definitions for new runs and persist exact root and nested definition closures in snapshots. Existing runs remain pinned across resume and restart. Rehydration resolves nested definitions from pinned revisions.

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Dynamic workflow revisions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revision metadata and snapshot contracts
packages/core/src/workflows/execution-engine.ts, packages/core/src/workflows/types.ts, packages/core/src/workflows/handlers/entry.ts, packages/core/src/workflows/workflow.ts
Workflow and execution snapshots now carry cloned dynamic workflow-definition closures.
Definition closure materialization
packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts, packages/core/src/workflows/dynamic/rehydrate.ts
Stored definitions are materialized in dependency order. Nested definitions use the optional revision resolver.
Refresh and pinned run resolution
packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts, packages/core/src/workflows/workflow.ts
New runs reload active definitions from storage. Resumed runs use pinned closures and reject legacy unpinned snapshots.
Revision behavior validation and documentation
packages/core/src/mastra/dynamic-workflow-run-revisions.test.ts, docs/src/content/en/docs/workflows/dynamic-workflows.mdx, docs/src/content/en/reference/core/addDynamicWorkflow.mdx, .changeset/quiet-ravens-pin.md
Tests cover refresh, restart, suspension, nested closures, concurrency, and legacy snapshots. Documentation and release metadata describe the behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 79eff

The PR pins dynamic workflow definitions for consistent resume and restart behavior, but definition-closure failures still lose their stable error identity and exception tracking when surfaced as generic errors. This is a bounded mergeable risk that should receive explicit owner follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

  • mastra-ai/mastra#21287: Both changes modify dynamic workflow registration and rehydration. This change adds revision pinning.
  • mastra-ai/mastra#21394: Both changes modify workflow resume handling to prevent concurrent resumes.

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Inline comments:
In @.changeset/quiet-ravens-pin.md:
- Line 5: Update the changeset entry to use concise bullets separating refresh
behavior, snapshot revision pinning, and code-defined nested workflow
compatibility; explicitly state that pre-upgrade dynamic runs without a pinned
revision now fail closed when resumed or restarted, and include short
before/after guidance for affected developers.

In `@docs/src/content/en/docs/workflows/dynamic-workflows.mdx`:
- Around line 122-126: Update the dynamic workflows documentation near the
pinned definition closure discussion to state that any custom pruneSnapshot hook
must preserve the dynamicWorkflowDefinitions pinned closure, or dynamic workflow
runs may fail closed on resume. Keep the addition to one sentence and validate
the prose change with the repository’s prose lint command.

In `@packages/core/src/mastra/dynamic-workflow-run-revisions.test.ts`:
- Around line 147-174: Add tests covering workflow-definition precedence and
serialized snapshots: verify a code-registered workflow with the same ID as an
active stored definition remains the registry entry after refresh when used by a
storage-backed dynamic root, and verify createRun accepts a stored run whose
snapshot is a raw JSON string when it contains a pinned definition revision.
Anchor both cases near the existing fail-closed test using Mastra,
valueWorkflow, persistWorkflowSnapshot, and createRun.

In `@packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts`:
- Around line 4857-4869: Update the snapshot handling in getWorkflowRunById to
parse string snapshots with JSON.parse before checking
dynamicWorkflowDefinitions, while preserving object snapshots as-is. Apply the
existing fail-closed error only when the parsed snapshot lacks a pinned dynamic
workflow definition revision, and continue passing the resolved definitions to
`#materializeDynamicWorkflowRevision`.
- Around line 4795-4823: Update `#materializeDynamicWorkflowRevision` and
__resolveDynamicWorkflowForRun so run creation materializes only the requested
root and its dependency closure, while other registry members are created lazily
when they become run roots. Cache the materialized revision using the closure
definitions’ identity, including updatedAt values, and reuse it for unchanged
definitions; rebuild it when any closure member changes.
- Around line 4872-4877: Update the refresh loop in `#loadDynamicWorkflows` to
skip `#replaceDynamicWorkflow` for ids already owned by code-registered workflows
in `#workflows`. Ensure nested dynamic references resolve through the existing
registry entry rather than replacing it with the storage-derived member, while
preserving storage-backed replacement for unowned ids.
- Around line 4825-4837: Scope `#withDynamicWorkflowRefresh` to a queue keyed by
root workflow id instead of the single instance-wide
`#dynamicWorkflowRefreshQueue`, so unrelated dynamic workflow creations proceed
independently while preserving serialized execution and release in finally. Add
a debug log and ownership note only if the surrounding API provides the
necessary root workflow identifier and logging convention.

In `@packages/core/src/workflows/dynamic/rehydrate.ts`:
- Around line 53-60: Define a shared strict resolver type using the repository’s
concrete workflow type with an explicit undefined result, then reuse it for
resolveWorkflow in RehydrateDynamicWorkflowOptions, rehydrateMapConfig, and
assertWorkflowExists. Remove the repeated any-based signatures so TypeScript
validates resolver call sites.

In `@packages/core/src/workflows/handlers/entry.ts`:
- Around line 211-213: Remove the redundant structuredClone call when
snapshotting dynamic workflow definitions, using
Array.from(engine.dynamicWorkflowDefinitions) in
packages/core/src/workflows/handlers/entry.ts lines 211-213 and
Array.from(this.dynamicWorkflowDefinitions) in
packages/core/src/workflows/workflow.ts lines 2636-2638; keep the existing
undefined handling and serialization behavior unchanged.

In `@packages/core/src/workflows/workflow.ts`:
- Around line 2537-2543: Update the dynamic workflow resume path around
__resolveDynamicWorkflowForRun and __createRunPinned to serialize concurrent
resumes using a lock keyed by the resolved workflowId and runId. Ensure requests
for the same pair share or await one pinned Run instance, while different
workflow/run pairs remain independent.
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In `@packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts`:
- Around line 4775-4801: Replace the plain Error throws in the nested-workflow
closure validation—circular dependency, inactive or missing stored workflow,
missing root definition, and the related resume failure—with MastraError
instances using the class’s established stable id, domain, category, and status
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Parse persisted JSON snapshots, preserve code-owned workflow precedence, and materialize cached root-local revisions with per-root refresh queues.

Share revision-pinned dynamic runs across concurrent resumes, document snapshot retention, and cover the review cases with focused tests.
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4780-4805: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Raise MastraError for the definition-closure failures.

These throw sites use a plain Error. Every other failure path in this class raises a MastraError with a stable id, domain, category, and details.status, then calls this.#logger?.trackException(error). Server handlers read details.status to map the HTTP response code. With a plain Error, callers cannot branch on an error id, the failure never reaches exception tracking, and the response code falls back to 500.

The same applies to the resume throws at Line 4884 and Line 4898.

♻️ Proposed change for the circular-dependency throw
       if (visiting.has(id)) {
-        throw new Error(`Dynamic workflow revision has a circular nested-workflow dependency at "${id}".`);
+        const error = new MastraError({
+          id: 'MASTRA_DYNAMIC_WORKFLOW_REVISION_CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY',
+          domain: ErrorDomain.MASTRA,
+          category: ErrorCategory.USER,
+          text: `Dynamic workflow revision has a circular nested-workflow dependency at "${id}".`,
+          details: { status: 400, rootId, workflowId: id },
+        });
+        this.#logger?.trackException(error);
+        throw error;
       }
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In `@packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts` around lines 4780 - 4805, Replace the
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In `@packages/core/src/mastra/index.ts`:
- Around line 4780-4805: Replace the plain Error throws in the dynamic workflow
definition-closure validation and resume paths, including the circular
dependency, missing stored workflow, unavailable definition, and resume
failures, with MastraError instances. Assign each failure a stable id, domain,
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Raise and track stable MastraError instances for dynamic revision closure and unsafe resume failures.
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