Add Ask AI to the agent and action editors

[Paul Lizer (paullizer)]

Summary

Building an agent and wiring up its actions takes a lot of manual form work. This adds the Ask AI side panel, which the workflow editor already has, to the V2 agent and action editors.

• Works in the agent and action editors for personal, group and global scopes. Proposed changes go into the unsaved draft, are highlighted, and can be undone one turn at a time. It never saves and never handles credentials.
• The agent assistant can draft up to 3 new actions inline. They are created only when the agent is saved. A drafted action that still needs input (for example an endpoint) blocks the save until it is finished in the action editor, and the saved action then replaces the draft in the agent.
• New admin toggles enable_agent_ai_assistant and enable_action_ai_assistant, both on by default. They only apply while Enable Agents is on.
• Built as a shared editor-assist framework (functions_editor_assist.py, editorAssist.ts plus the components/editorAssist/* components) with per-editor adapters, so other editors can reuse it.

Review note: an in-memory store (workspaceEditorDrafts.ts) now passes the drafted action to the action editor and back to the agent. The first version stored this handoff in a React state update that never ran, because the agent editor closed when it navigated to the action editor. It is now recorded immediately and in a separate area for each workspace.

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Release Notes & Latest Features

• New Feature
• Bug Fix
• UI Enhancement
• Breaking Change
• Internal only

Is this visible to end users?

• Yes
• No

Is this admin-facing (Admin Settings, governance, deployment, config)?

• Yes
• No

Should this become a Latest Feature card?

• Yes
• No
• Already added

Screenshot needed for the card?

• Yes
• No
• Attached

Version bump

• application/single_app/config.py VERSION third segment bumped (0.261.277 -> 0.261.282, one bump per phase)
• deployers/version.txt bumped, or not needed because deployers/ was not changed

Testing / validation

• python functional_tests/test_editor_assist_core.py: passed (26 passed under pytest).
• The .mjs logic tests for the editor-assist adapters: passed.
• python -m pytest ui_tests/test_v2_agent_action_ask_ai.py: 5 passed.
• Related UI suites (agent and action Ask AI, group actions and agents, draft navigation, workspace authoring, workflow Ask AI): 161 of 164 passed.
• The 3 failures, in ui_tests/test_v2_workspace_authoring.py, were already failing before this change. They expect raw action names that Hide GUIDs and internal IDs in the shared agent editor #1684 now shows as "Unavailable action N".
• test_v2_workspace_action_authoring_logic.mjs has one failure (m365_calendar_plugin) that was also there before this change.
• python functional_tests/test_docs_app_surface_coverage.py: 7/7 passed.
• python functional_tests/test_docs_site_quality.py: 6/6 passed.
• npx tsc -b --noEmit and npm run build in application/v2_ui: clean.

Documentation

• Release notes updated, or not needed
• Feature documentation updated, or not needed (docs/explanation/features/AGENT_ACTION_AI_ASSISTANT.md, plus the admin page and the create-an-agent and create-an-action guides)
• Fix documentation updated, or not needed

Security checklist

• New Flask routes include @swagger_route(security=get_auth_security()) (POST /api/agents/assist and POST /api/actions/assist, each checked per workspace and rate-limited)
• Settings sent to non-admin frontends use sanitize_settings_for_user()
• Browser JavaScript is served from local SimpleChat static assets only; no CDN-hosted JS
• No secrets, keys, connection strings, or local-only artifacts are included