# metaflow - Doramagic AI Context Pack

> Purpose: pre-work context for the user's host AI. This pack does not prove that the project has been installed, run, or validated.

## Project

- canonical_name: `Netflix/metaflow`
- capability: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems
- expected_user_outcome: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

## Operating Boundaries

- Do not claim that the project has been installed, run, called through an API, or used on local files unless separate evidence proves it.
- Project facts must come from repo evidence, Claim Graph, or explicit source references.
- When a capability is not verified, mark it as unverified instead of completing it as fact.
- publish_status: `publishable`
- blocking_gaps: none

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## Doramagic Context Augmentation

The following sections strengthen the repository context for a host AI. Human Manual data is a reading route, and pitfall notes become operating constraints.

## Human Manual Outline

Usage rule: this is only a reading route and salience signal, not factual authority. Concrete claims must still return to repo evidence or Claim Graph.

Host AI hard rules:
- Do not treat page titles, section order, summaries, or importance values as factual project evidence.
- When explaining the Human Manual outline, state that it is only a reading route or salience signal.
- Capability, installation, compatibility, runtime state, and risk claims must cite repo evidence, source paths, or Claim Graph.

- **Framework Overview and Core Concepts**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: metaflow/flowspec.py, metaflow/runtime.py, metaflow/task.py, metaflow/decorators.py, metaflow/parameters.py
- **Datastore, Metadata, and Storage Backends**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: metaflow/datastore/flow_datastore.py, metaflow/datastore/task_datastore.py, metaflow/datastore/content_addressed_store.py, metaflow/datastore/datastore_storage.py, metaflow/datastore/artifacts/serializer.py
- **Production Orchestration, Schedulers, and Cloud Execution**: importance `high`
  - source_paths: metaflow/plugins/argo/argo_workflows.py, metaflow/plugins/argo/argo_workflows_decorator.py, metaflow/plugins/argo/argo_workflows_deployer.py, metaflow/plugins/aws/step_functions/step_functions.py, metaflow/plugins/aws/step_functions/step_functions_decorator.py
- **Secrets, Cards, Extensions, and Ecosystem Integrations**: importance `medium`
  - source_paths: metaflow/plugins/secrets/secrets_decorator.py, metaflow/plugins/secrets/secrets_spec.py, metaflow/plugins/aws/secrets_manager/aws_secrets_manager_secrets_provider.py, metaflow/plugins/azure/azure_secret_manager_secrets_provider.py, metaflow/plugins/gcp/gcp_secret_manager_secrets_provider.py

## Repo Inspection Evidence

- repo_clone_verified: true
- repo_inspection_verified: true
- repo_commit: `5cdcc708e8d69d61a9ab73f8002c4596105b0278`
- inspected_files: `README.md`, `docs/Environment escape.md`, `docs/cards.md`, `docs/concurrency.md`, `docs/datastore.md`, `docs/sidecars.md`

Host AI hard rules:
- Without repo_clone_verified=true, do not claim that the source code has been read.
- Without repo_inspection_verified=true, do not write README, docs, or package-file conclusions as facts.
- Without quick_start_verified=true, do not claim that the Quick Start path has run successfully.

## Doramagic Pitfall Constraints

These rules come from Doramagic discovery, validation, or compilation findings. The host AI must treat them as operating constraints, not background notes.

### Constraint 1: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/issues/3275
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 2: Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Trigger: README/documentation is current enough for a first validation pass.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: capability.assumptions | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 3: Runtime risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/issues/3258
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 4: Maintenance risk requires verification

- Trigger: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 5: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: no_demo
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: downstream_validation.risk_items | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 6: Security or permission risk requires verification

- Trigger: no_demo
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: risks.scoring_risks | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 7: Maintenance risk requires verification

- Trigger: issue_or_pr_quality=unknown。
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.

### Constraint 8: Maintenance risk requires verification

- Trigger: release_recency=unknown。
- Host AI rule: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
- Why it matters: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow
- Hard boundary: Do not present this pitfall as solved, verified, or ignorable unless later evidence explicitly closes it.
