generate_inventory() emits Ansible's dynamic --list shape (all.hosts is a
LIST, vars under _meta) — valid only as an executable inventory script's
stdout. We were writing it to a static file and passing -i, so Ansible's yaml
plugin rejected it ("Invalid 'hosts' entry for 'all' group, requires a
dictionary, found ...list...") and fell back to implicit localhost → "no hosts
matched". Affected every steward:* scope run; surfaced on the first real
provision.
- New inventory_to_yaml(inv): convert the --list dict → a valid static YAML
inventory (all.hosts dict keyed by host, groups under all.children, group
vars preserved, injected per-host vars like steward_token retained).
- Wire it into runner.trigger_run, host_agent deploy + provision.
- executor writes the file as inventory.yml so the yaml plugin's extension
check reliably claims it.
- generate_inventory unchanged (still the --list dict); conversion happens at
write time. Unit tests added.
Scribe issue #885.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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