The Ansible Schedules form only offered a free-form extra-vars textarea,
unlike the browse/host run forms which auto-populate a field per declared
playbook variable (vars:/vars_prompt:) plus the playbook description. Wire
the schedule form to the same shared `_playbook_vars.html` partial:
- Playbook <select> now loads /ansible/playbook-vars?schedule=1 on change
into a #sch-playbook-vars container (mirrors the host detail form).
- Edit mode pre-renders the saved playbook's variables server-side with
their stored values; the extra-vars textarea keeps only leftover
(non-declared) vars.
- Partial gains optional `values` (prefill) and `schedule` flags. In the
schedule context secret vars render disabled ("secrets can't be
scheduled") since they're dropped downstream, and the destructive-confirm
gate is shown but not required.
Backend already parsed var__* fields for schedules, so this is the
front-end/partial parity fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extend the playbook metadata convention with a namespaced `# steward:<key>:`
comment block:
- steward:category — free-text grouping label, shown as a badge in the browse
list and on the run form.
- steward:confirm — true/yes/1/on marks a playbook destructive; the run form
then requires a confirmation tick (required checkbox in the shared vars
fragment) before it can launch.
sources.discover_playbook_meta() parses description + category + confirm (first
match per key; `# description:` still primary, `# steward:description:` alias).
discover_playbook_description() now delegates to it. The browse list reads
per-playbook meta to show category badges + descriptions; the run-form and
playbook-vars fragments render the badge + confirm gate.
Bundled playbooks tagged: docker_prune → category maintenance + confirm true;
provision/install/update → category host-agent.
Docs: docs/reference/playbook-authoring.md updated (keys now implemented) and a
quick reference added next to the code at steward/ansible/PLAYBOOK_CONVENTIONS.md.
Tests added for category/confirm/alias parsing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Playbooks can ship a human description Steward reads and shows when one is
selected. Convention: a `# description: <text>` magic comment (Ansible rejects
unknown play keys, so a comment is the portable place — works for third-party
playbooks too); falls back to the first play's name:. sources
.discover_playbook_description().
Surfaced at the top of the shared _playbook_vars.html partial, which loads on
playbook selection in the host run form, schedules form, and browse run form.
All four bundled playbooks (provision/install/update/docker_prune) now carry a
description line. Unit tests added.
Scribe #900.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stop making operators type playbook paths and guess extra-var names.
- Reusable infra: shared ansible/_playbook_vars.html (the discovered-variable
fields) + ansible/_playbook_options.html; two HTMX endpoints —
/ansible/playbook-options (a source's playbooks, optional ?selected for edit)
and /ansible/playbook-vars (a playbook's vars:/vars_prompt: as fill-in
fields). browse _run_form.html refactored to include the shared partial.
- Host "Run a playbook against this host": source dropdown → playbook dropdown
→ variable fields, all chained via HTMX. Handler reuses _parse_run_params so
var__/secret__ fields flow through extra_vars_map + the unpersisted
secret_vars channel.
- Schedules: playbook free-text+datalist → source-dependent dropdown; fixed the
extra-vars edit pre-fill to read extra_vars_map (stale list key after the
earlier JSON-extra-vars change).
Scribe #895.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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