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Summary

Closes dagucloud/dagu#3616 and dagucloud/dagu#3617.

The reference pages behind the Agent Loops guides were missing three things that real agent runs turned up.

• Model output in shell commands (quoting page): which run positions are unsafe, with env as the fix, and what dagu validate now warns about.
• Agent configuration on the host (harness page): agent CLIs load the personal config of the account running Dagu. It covers a dedicated account, setting_sources, and CODEX_HOME, and warns that Claude Code's bare flag cannot use a subscription login, per claude --help.
• Push-back on a first run (human-in-the-loop, harness, and outer-loop pages): a step first running after a push-back keeps its prompt, and reads the feedback only from its environment.

The inner-loop page also gains a line on the repeat count in dagu status.

Merge order

This describes behaviour in dagucloud/dagu#3619, #3620, and #3621, so it should merge after them.

Verification

• pnpm validate:examples with a build of those branches, and pnpm build.
• The unsafe run table was tested with a stub agent, for each position and payload.
• CODEX_HOME was tested with a real Codex run, with auth.json linked into a separate directory. setting_sources was tested with a real Claude Code run. The harness page states only that it leaves out user settings, because I could not confirm that it also excludes a global CLAUDE.md.

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Summary by cubic

Documents three gaps real agent runs surfaced in the agent loop reference pages, and follows two product changes.

Changes

• Quoting page: no way of quoting model output in run is safe; pass it through env and read it per context — "$SUMMARY" only in a local POSIX/Nix shell, printenv in containers, and the language API under other interpreters. NUL bytes cannot go through env, and dagu validate warns on model output in shell commands, except for validation-limited fields. Links the loop pages to this guidance.
• Harness page: agent CLIs load the personal config of the account running Dagu; narrow it with setting_sources or CODEX_HOME, and note Claude Code's bare flag can't use a subscription login.
• Loop pages and human-in-the-loop: a step first running after a push-back keeps its prompt and reads feedback only from its environment; reference it in the prompt when the model needs it.
• Inner-loop page: dagu status shows the repeat count.

This describes behavior in dagucloud/dagu#3619, #3620, and #3621, so it should merge after them.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified how dagu status reports repeat-step attempts and how push-back feedback is provided to steps that run afterward.
  • Added guidance on configuring built-in CLI agents, including which settings and authentication methods they use.
  • Expanded shell-safety guidance for model-generated output, with an example using environment variables. Documented when dagu validate warns about model-generated values used in shell commands.

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Walkthrough

The documentation updates cover repeating-step status counts, push-back feedback context, built-in CLI provider configuration, and safe handling of model-generated output in shell commands.

Changes: Repeating-step status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document repeating-step counts ai/loops/inner-loop.md	The guide adds an example showing dagu status reporting five runs for a repeating step.

Push-back feedback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document feedback and prompt context ai/loops/outer-loop.md, step-types/harness/index.md, writing-workflows/human-in-the-loop.md	The guides clarify that a first-run AI step keeps its prompt and can read feedback from its environment. The outer-loop guide also says that implement receives the revised plan.md and can read $feedback.

Host agent configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document host configuration controls step-types/harness/index.md	The guide describes host-level agent configuration for built-in CLI providers, including dedicated-account guidance and configuration controls for Claude Code and Codex. It also documents the authentication and configuration-loading limits of Claude Code’s bare flag.

Shell command output handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document shell output handling writing-workflows/quoting-and-escaping.md	The guide warns that model-generated text inserted into shell commands can cause command failures or execute code. It shows passing output through an environment variable and documents dagu validate warning conditions and schema exemptions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review a5921

Correct the shell-safety guidance before merging: users following the example with fish can still execute model-supplied commands. Smaller clarifications are also needed for feedback delivery, Codex authentication, and environment-variable limits.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[#3616] writing-workflows/quoting-and-escaping.md explains the shell injection risk and shows how to pass model output through env. It also documents a dagu validate warning. The reviewed eviden…	Provide reviewable Dagu implementation and automated test evidence for the harness.run and chat.completion validation warning.
Out of Scope Changes check		[#3616] The shell safety guidance is in scope. The host configuration, push-back, and repeat-count changes have no established connection to #3616. The PR description also says it closes #3617, but th…	Provide #3617's issue details and status to assess whether the remaining changes are in scope.

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[#3616] writing-workflows/quoting-and-escaping.md explains the shell injection risk and shows how to pass model output through env. It also documents a dagu validate warning. The reviewed evidence does not establish that the warning and its automated tests exist in Dagu. The PR description references other branches but does not establish their contents.

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Review comments at @step-types/harness/index.md:
- Line 191: Update the Codex row’s authentication description to state that
`CODEX_API_KEY` can authenticate without an `auth.json` file, while a stored
login is the alternative; do not imply that `CODEX_HOME` must contain
`auth.json` when using the API key.

Review comments at @writing-workflows/human-in-the-loop.md:
- Line 108: Update the `chat.completion` description to clarify that a step
running for the first time after push-back does not automatically pass feedback
to the model, which cannot read the step environment directly. State that
workflows must include the feedback in the prompt or messages when the model
needs it; leave the existing behavior for steps with prior conversation
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Review comments at @writing-workflows/quoting-and-escaping.md:
- Line 174: Update the table entry for the double-quoted
`${triage.output.summary}` interpolation to classify it as potentially
executable in the affected shell context, rather than staying text; preserve the
other context classifications.
- Line 196: Update the page step containing `run: ./page.sh "$SUMMARY"` to
explicitly select a POSIX shell and state that this step requires one, so
variable expansion occurs after shell parsing rather than being substituted
beforehand.
- Line 177: Update the environment-variable guidance in the “Pass it through
env” paragraph to qualify that environment variables cannot carry NUL bytes, so
a summary containing \u0000 may prevent the page step from starting. Remove the
unconditional “whatever it contains” guarantee and direct readers to use a file
or another encoded transport for data that may include NUL bytes.
- Line 199: Update the `dagu validate` guidance for `output_schema` so it
clarifies that enum values may contain shell metacharacters and are not
inherently safe when used in `run`; state that enum outputs still require the
`env` handling shown above. Preserve any separate guidance for boolean, integer,
and number fields.

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