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Noor ul ain 77ebd5fcea fix(workflows): fail while/do-while steps on non-list steps instead of crashing (#3519)
`WhileStep.validate()` and `DoWhileStep.validate()` already reject a
non-list `steps` body, but the engine's `execute()` path does not
auto-validate (see `WorkflowEngine.load_workflow`, whose docstring notes
the definition is "not yet validated"). On an unvalidated run the body
is returned as `next_steps`, and the engine feeds it straight into
`_execute_steps`, which iterates it as step mappings. A non-list `steps`
— a single mapping or scalar authoring mistake — was iterated
element-wise (a dict yields its string keys, a str its characters) and
raised `AttributeError` on `.get()`, taking down the whole run; the
engine invokes `step_impl.execute()` with no surrounding try/except.

Guard both `execute` paths to return a FAILED StepResult naming the type
error instead, mirroring the if/switch non-list-branch and fan-out
non-list `items` handling. The do-while body always dispatches on the
first call, so its guard is unconditional; the while body only
dispatches when the condition is truthy, so its guard fires only then —
a false condition leaves a non-list `steps` benign and the step
completes, unchanged. The condition/expression is still evaluated first,
so its result is surfaced in the step output for downstream context.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 15:16:36 -05:00
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