zu-shadow 0.1.13

Zu Shadow: author a production agent by demonstration — record a human session, redact at capture, synthesize an agent + rail (§2.8)

zu-shadow — author an agent by demonstration (§2.8)

A Shadow recording is the event bus run over a human session: the human is the policy for that one run, so recording costs almost nothing architecturally. You drive the task once, by hand; Shadow folds your clicks, types, navigations and the page/network metadata into data.shadow.* events on the same append-only log everything else in Zu uses, then synthesizes a production agent + a rail from it.

record (human session) ─▶ redact-at-capture ─▶ data.shadow.* on the log
                                                     │
                              synthesize (a Zu agent, ScriptedProvider offline)
                                                     │
                       agent spec + induced Fsm + Invariants + self-writing egress
                                                     │
                      verification-replay GATE (reuses zu-cli offline.py/build.py)
                                                     │
                          promote only if the recorded outcome reproduces

Four load-bearing disciplines

• Redaction is DEFAULT-ON and runs BEFORE append (redaction.py). Passwords, Authorization/Cookie/Set-Cookie headers, token/API-key shapes, and consumer-configured PII are stripped — including the "why" intent text — before any event reaches EventSink.append. The secret is gone before the event is hashed into the audit chain. This is conformance requirement ZU-AUDIT-4.
• Capture is SEMANTIC (capture.py). Every action is named by its target's {role, name, label} (the core zu_core.surface currency, shared with the §4 locator and §5 SurfaceView) — never a CSS selector or pixel coordinate, so the synthesized agent re-resolves on a changed page instead of breaking.
• The synthesizer is a Zu agent (synthesizer.py). It is driven by a ModelProvider (offline-tested with ScriptedProvider). The model writes only the policy prompt + goal; the egress allowlist, the induced Fsm, and the Invariants are derived deterministically from the log — the egress allowlist writes itself from the recorded network.response hosts. No new FSM/invariant types: it emits zu_core.reachability.Fsm and zu_core.invariants.Invariant.
• Promotion is GATED by reproduced outcome (replay_gate.py). A synthesized agent does not run on real data until it reproduces the recorded outcome, reusing zu-cli's offline.py/build.py. The "why" resolutions are surfaced for review, never auto-promoted.

The honest scope

Robustness comes from the runtime machinery — semantic re-resolution, detectors, replay, the rail — not from a single recording. On a structurally different site the honest behaviour is to escalate, not silently err. The live human recorder (real Chromium + a real human over CDP) is demo/manual, behind the live extra and a manual entrypoint (live.py); the offline core is fully tested against a synthetic input/CDP stream at $0.

CLI

zu shadow record   <stream.json> --site <url> -o recording.json   # synthetic/live stream → recording
zu shadow synthesize <recording.json> --instruction "…"           # recording → agent + rail proposal
zu shadow scale    <agent> --rows rows.csv --var <name>           # one governed run per CSV row