feat: XState adapter — createGraphFromMachine (@statelyai/graph/xstate) - #39
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One machine→graph path for mbt, viz, and PBT (STA-6445 steps 1–2). Events come from the machine's own descriptors; node/edge ids match xstate/graph defaults so coverage targets are stable and diffable. Edges carry guard text (hypothesized), actions, and selected transitions. xstate v5 is an optional peer.
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participant Caller
participant createGraphFromMachine
participant XStateMachine
participant DirectedGraph
Caller->>createGraphFromMachine: machine and options
createGraphFromMachine->>XStateMachine: initialize snapshot
createGraphFromMachine->>XStateMachine: apply event to snapshot
XStateMachine-->>createGraphFromMachine: next snapshot and transition data
createGraphFromMachine->>DirectedGraph: add serialized node and edge
DirectedGraph-->>Caller: return MachineGraph
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The guide can mislead users about edge guard metadata for parallel transitions. This is a bounded documentation issue, so merge risk is low. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The adapter is opt-in and keeps XState separate from existing core consumers. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Machine guards and callbacks still execute, graph output retains context and event data, and exploration is unlimited by default; security-sensitive integrations must account for these boundaries. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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| (snapshot as AnyMachineSnapshot).status === 'active' | ||
| ? machine.getTransitionData(snapshot as any, event) | ||
| : []; | ||
| const [next] = transitionLogic(machine, snapshot, event) as [TSnapshot, unknown]; |
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🔴 Fresh actor identity creates endless states
When machine logic reads self, transitionLogic creates a new inert actor for every explored event. Stable actor-local transitions become new snapshots repeatedly, producing a false unbounded graph or exhausting limit.
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XState's standalone transition helper creates a fresh inert actor scope on every call. A running machine instead keeps one actor scope, so self, spawned actor identities, and system-generated identifiers remain stable across events. This traversal calls the helper separately for every edge, making actor-dependent context diverge from real machine behavior. The default serializer then treats each generated context as a new state, so traversal can continue until memory is exhausted or limit throws.
Example: A self-loop assigns context.actorId = self.sessionId. A real actor keeps the same actorId, but successive explored transitions produce illustrative values x:1, x:2, and x:3. The adapter creates a new node for every value instead of one self-loop.
Recommended fix: Create one inert actor scope for the traversal and reuse it for both initial snapshot creation and every machine.transition call. Verify actor-scope-dependent built-ins such as spawning against XState's traversal implementation, and add a regression test whose context reads self.sessionId.
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Fixed in 48e9b77: one inert actor scope (createEmptyActor) is created per traversal and reused for the initial snapshot and every machine.transition call, matching xstate/graph. Regression test 'keeps one actor identity across the traversal' assigns self.sessionId on a self-loop and asserts 2 nodes.
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| (snapshot as AnyMachineSnapshot).status === 'active' | ||
| ? machine.getTransitionData(snapshot as any, event) | ||
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| const [next] = transitionLogic(machine, snapshot, event) as [TSnapshot, unknown]; |
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🟡 Completed states retain outgoing edges
When a completed snapshot inherits event descriptors, transitionLogic still processes them despite status !== 'active'. The graph adds impossible edges from an actor that already stopped.
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Final machine snapshots can retain descriptors declared on ancestor states. Directly applying XState's transition logic to such a snapshot can produce another snapshot, but a completed actor no longer accepts events. The adapter therefore models behavior unavailable to an actual machine actor.
Example: A root RESET transition and a child final state leave RESET visible after completion. The adapter emits final --RESET--> initial; a running actor ignores RESET after reaching the final state.
Recommended fix: Skip all event exploration unless the source snapshot has status === 'active'. Keep the completed node itself so paths can still terminate there.
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| (snapshot as AnyMachineSnapshot).status === 'active' | |
| ? machine.getTransitionData(snapshot as any, event) | |
| : []; | |
| const [next] = transitionLogic(machine, snapshot, event) as [TSnapshot, unknown]; | |
| if ((snapshot as AnyMachineSnapshot).status !== 'active') continue; | |
| const selected: AnyTransitionDefinition[] = machine.getTransitionData( | |
| snapshot as any, | |
| event, | |
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| const [next] = transitionLogic(machine, snapshot, event) as [TSnapshot, unknown]; |
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Fixed in 48e9b77: snapshots with status !== 'active' are kept as nodes but never expanded. Test 'does not expand completed snapshots even if ancestors handle events' uses a root-level RESET.
| return __unsafe_getAllOwnEventDescriptors(snapshot).flatMap((type) => { | ||
| const matching = supplied.filter((event) => event.type === type); | ||
| return matching.length ? matching : [{ type } as TEvent]; | ||
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🟡 Wildcard payload events are ignored
When a state uses user.*, getEvents rejects a supplied user.login event because their types differ. It sends { type: 'user.*' }, so payload guards and actions explore the wrong transition.
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XState event descriptors can be exact names, *, or prefix wildcards such as user.*. The supplied events represent concrete event objects, so matching them with string equality only works for exact descriptors. Falling back to the descriptor as the event type also removes the payload that wildcard guards and actions require.
Example: The machine handles user.* with a guard requiring event.user === 'alice', and options supply { type: 'user.login', user: 'alice' }. Exact comparison rejects that event and sends { type: 'user.*' }; the guard fails and the reachable login state is absent.
Recommended fix: Match supplied event types with XState descriptor semantics, including global and suffix wildcards. Only synthesize a bare event for exact descriptors; wildcard descriptors need a caller-supplied concrete event because no single concrete event can represent them.
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Fixed in 48e9b77: supplied events are matched against descriptors with exact / '' / 'prefix.' semantics and deduped by serialized event; wildcard descriptors without a supplied match still fall back to the bare descriptor (same as xstate/graph). Test 'matches supplied events against wildcard descriptors'.
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| (snapshot as AnyMachineSnapshot).status === 'active' | ||
| ? machine.getTransitionData(snapshot as any, event) | ||
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| const [next] = transitionLogic(machine, snapshot, event) as [TSnapshot, unknown]; | ||
| const targetId = serializeState(next); | ||
| if (!visited.has(targetId)) { | ||
| addNode(targetId, next); | ||
| queue.push(next); | ||
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| const edgeId = `${sourceId}|${serializeEvent(event)}|${targetId}`; | ||
| if (edgeIds.has(edgeId)) continue; | ||
| edgeIds.add(edgeId); | ||
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| const transitions = selected.map((t) => getTransitionData(t, includeGuards)); |
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🟡 Eventless transitions vanish from edge data
When an event triggers subsequent always transitions, getTransitionData records only the first event transition. The edge reaches the final snapshot but omits later transitions and actions.
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An XState macrostep can contain the event-selected transition followed by automatic always transitions until the machine stabilizes. machine.getTransitionData(snapshot, event) describes only the transition selected for the supplied event. The standalone transition call returns the stabilized snapshot and executable actions from the full macrostep, so the edge endpoint and metadata describe different portions of the same step.
Example: a --GO--> b and b --always/notify--> c produce an edge from a to c. Its metadata lists only a -> b, and notify is absent from actions.
Recommended fix: Use XState's microstep API or equivalent traversal to collect every selected transition and executable action in the macrostep. Build the target snapshot and edge metadata from the same collected sequence, including eventless transitions.
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Not changed. getMicrosteps only yields snapshots, not transition definitions, so always-transition metadata isn't available from public xstate APIs without re-implementing macrostep selection. Documented instead: edge transitions/actions describe the event-selected transitions; always transitions and entry/exit actions are folded into the target node (JSDoc + docs 'Data boundary').
| return { | ||
| value: snapshot.value, | ||
| context: Object.keys(context ?? {}).length ? context : undefined, | ||
| stateIds: nodes.map((node) => node.id), | ||
| statePaths: nodes | ||
| .filter((node) => node.type === 'atomic' || node.type === 'final') | ||
| .map((node) => node.path.join('.')), | ||
| tags: [...snapshot.tags], | ||
| status: snapshot.status, |
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🔍 Machine values bypass JSON boundaries
Context and events enter graph data unchanged, although XState permits non-JSON values. Define validation or projection to preserve the package’s JSON contract.
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Documented rather than enforced (docs 'Data boundary'): context/events must be JSON-serializable, and serializeState/serializeEvent are the projection hooks. The default ids already JSON.stringify these values, so a non-JSON context fails loudly at id generation.
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| transition as transitionLogic, | ||
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🔍 Public adapter depends on internals
The adapter exposes data derived from __unsafe_getAllOwnEventDescriptors and private _nodes. Verify both across the declared XState peer range.
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Verified: _nodes and __unsafe_getAllOwnEventDescriptors exist across xstate 5.x; the adapter now uses machine.getInitialSnapshot/machine.transition with an explicit scope instead of the 5.19+ transition() helper. Peer stays ^5.19.0 as the tested floor (smoke test runs against 5.32).
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In `@docs/from-xstate-machine.md`:
- Line 34: Update the event-enumeration documentation around the adapter
behavior to state that events are sent as bare { type } objects by default and
payload-dependent transitions require matching payload-bearing entries in
options.events; retain the existing explanation of automatic event discovery and
XState-managed transitions.
In `@src/xstate/index.ts`:
- Line 120: The XState adapter must enforce JSON-safe representations before
generating IDs or storing graph data: update the serialization/projection flow
around the default state and event serializers and the value parameter
serialization to handle or reject bigint, cyclic, function, symbol, and
class-instance values consistently. Preserve raw snapshot.context and event
values for XState evaluation, but use the same safe representation for IDs and
MachineNodeData/MachineEdgeData; add regression coverage for context, events,
and guard/action parameters.
- Around line 245-246: Move the iteration limit check in the traversal loop
after the options.stopWhen callback and its continue path, so stopped snapshots
do not consume limit; retain the existing limit error for snapshots whose
outgoing events are actually expanded.
- Line 267: Update the guard assignment in the transition-selection logic to use
the guard from the first selected transition, even when that guard is undefined;
do not search later transitions for a guarded value. Preserve the existing
MachineEdgeData construction and reference the selected transitions collection
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Enforce the adapter’s JSON-safe data boundary.
MachineNodeData and MachineEdgeData are documented as serializable, but the adapter stores raw snapshot.context and event values. The default state and event serializers call JSON.stringify, so reachable bigint or cyclic values throw during graph construction. Functions and symbols are silently dropped, and class instances lose their prototype data when serialized. Parameterized guards and actions have the same failure through JSON.stringify(value.params).
Keep original values for XState evaluation, but project or reject unsupported values before ID generation and graph-data construction. Use the same safe representation for IDs and stored data. Add regression tests for context, events, and guard/action parameters.
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In `@src/xstate/index.ts` at line 120, The XState adapter must enforce JSON-safe
representations before generating IDs or storing graph data: update the
serialization/projection flow around the default state and event serializers and
the value parameter serialization to handle or reject bigint, cyclic, function,
symbol, and class-instance values consistently. Preserve raw snapshot.context
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IDs and MachineNodeData/MachineEdgeData; add regression coverage for context,
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Documented in 48e9b77 ('Data boundary' section) rather than adding a projector: default ids already JSON.stringify context/events, and serializeState/serializeEvent are the hooks for non-JSON machines.
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@davidkpiano, the new section documents the default ID constraint. It does not fully address the finding.
serializeState and serializeEvent only change IDs. The adapter still stores raw snapshot.context and event in MachineNodeData and MachineEdgeData. A caller cannot use these hooks to project those stored values.
Also, getParameterizedText() still calls JSON.stringify(value.params). It can throw for bigint and cyclic guard or action parameters, and it has no serializer hook.
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- change the public contracts and documentation to state that graph
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…, wildcard event matching, limit after stopWhen - one inert actor scope for the whole traversal (stable self/sessionId) - completed snapshots are kept but not expanded - supplied events match descriptors with '*' / 'prefix.*' semantics, deduped - limit counts only expanded snapshots - docs: payload requirement, JSON data boundary, eventless/entry actions note
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🟡 Minor · Align the guard row with the revised MachineEdgeData.guard… · from-xstate-machine.md:56
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAlign the
guardrow with the revisedMachineEdgeData.guardcontract.The JSDoc at
src/xstate/index.tsLine 67 now says the guard comes from the first guarded selected transition. The table still says "first selected transition". For parallel-region events, the code picks a later transition when the first one has no guard. The table then describes the wrong transition.Proposed fix
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Closes graph-side scope of STA-6445 (steps 1–2).
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@statelyai/graph/xstateexportingcreateGraphFromMachine(machine, options?),getSerializedSnapshot, and theMachineNodeData/MachineEdgeData/MachineTransitionDatatypes.eventsoption supplies payloads.{ value, context }, edge id =source|event|target— identical defaults toxstate/graph, so ids are stable andgetCoverageTargetsyields diffable state / transition / transition-pair targets.event,eventType,sourceNodeId,guard({ text, hypothesized: true }),actions, selectedtransitions(source/targets/reenter). Node data:value,context,stateIds,statePaths,tags,status(viz maps paths back to editor nodes via state ids/paths).xstate^5.19 as optional peer; wired into tsdown, exports, conventions check, and package smoke test.docs/from-xstate-machine.md(first how-to), README peer row + highlight. Changeset: minor.Verification
xstate/graphgetShortestPaths/getSimplePathsequal ours (after stripping core's syntheticxstate.initstep).pnpm verifygreen: typecheck, conventions, 1906 tests, build, publint + tarball smoke consumer with xstate installed.Not in this PR (other repos)
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