Inspect work, sessions, and memory

Read connection.md first. These recipes assume FACTORY_URL is the user's verified target and PROJECT_ID came from that target's Factory project list. Preserve the target and any deployment-specific auth/prefix options on every call. Never substitute a platform deployment ID for PROJECT_ID.

Find work related to the user

For platform authentication, use mastra auth whoami to identify the current user ID without reading credentials. For other auth providers, establish the actual Factory user identity with the user; don't assume a platform user ID applies. Set USER_ID to that verified identity.

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" factory work-item list "$PROJECT_ID" \
  | jq --arg user "$USER_ID" '.data | {
      runningSessionIds, parkedSessionIds,
      workItems: [.workItems[] | select(
        .createdBy == $user or any(.sessions[]?; .startedBy == $user)
      ) | {id, title, board, stages, revision, sessions, updatedAt}]
    }'

This finds creator/starter relationships, not every assignment, mention, or contribution. Say what was matched. Confirm the actual envelope and pagination before claiming complete coverage; use leaf schema to discover server-side filters rather than guessing them.

A stage such as execute or review is not proof a model is running. Correlate runningSessionIds, session bindings, current decisions, recent messages, timestamps, and health findings. A stale running-session entry is not proof of recent progress. board: null can represent a Slack/chat item rather than a card on the work board; report it separately and don't automatically restart it as pipeline work.

Follow a work item into its thread

1. Select the item and inspect its returned sessions entries. Roles can share a thread: deduplicate thread IDs.
2. Use the returned threadId, not a work-item ID or an invented session/thread convention. Set THREAD_ID to that value.
3. Discover the installed runtime commands. Factory does not currently have a read-session leaf; use thread and memory at the same target.

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread --help
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread list --schema
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread get "$THREAD_ID" \
  | jq '.data | {id, resourceId, title, createdAt, updatedAt}'
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread messages --schema \
  | jq '{positionals, input: .input.schema}'
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread messages "$THREAD_ID" '{"page":0,"perPage":10}' \
  | jq '{page, messages: [.data[] | {id, role, createdAt, parts: .content.parts}]}'

Use thread list with schema-supported filters when no thread binding is available; don't enumerate unrelated users' memory. Runtime --schema discovery can require a reachable, authenticated target even though Factory contracts are bundled. Follow .page.hasMore, incrementing page from zero; select ordering supported by the schema if looking for the newest messages. Limit displayed text/parts and stop once the question is answered. Report the pages/time range inspected and any gaps.

Open a session in the Factory UI

The hosted Factory UI serves a session at /factories/<factory-project-id>/workspaces/<sessionId>/threads/<threadId> on the same origin as $FACTORY_URL. Build the URL from the item's returned sessions values and hand it to the user's browser (open on macOS, xdg-open on Linux):

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" factory work-item list "$PROJECT_ID" \
  | jq -r --arg id "$WORK_ITEM_ID" --arg base "$FACTORY_URL" --arg project "$PROJECT_ID" '
      (.data.workItems // .data)[] | select(.id == $id)
      | .sessions | to_entries[]
      | "\($base)/factories/\($project)/workspaces/\(.value.sessionId)/threads/\(.value.threadId)"' \
  | sort -u
# then: open "<url>"   (macOS)  /  xdg-open "<url>"  (Linux)

Unauthenticated fetches of that URL return 401; the user's browser login is what renders it. Do not scrape the page in place of the API.

Read content.parts for text, tool calls/results, signals, and OM events. A transcript can contain tool calls without stored results. Separate user intent, attempted actions, observed results, agent claims, and independently verified outcomes. “Tests passed” in assistant text is weaker evidence than a test result. “Implemented” does not prove committed, pushed, or merged: report those states as unknown without repository/PR evidence.

Observational memory (OM)

Discover commands before assuming support:

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" memory --help
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" memory status --schema \
  | jq '{positionals, input: .input.schema}'
mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" agent list \
  | jq '.data[] | {id, name}'

Set AGENT_ID to the session's actual memory-owning agent, confirmed from deployment/session metadata (ask if ambiguous). Do not assume a universal agent ID. Set RESOURCE_ID from the thread's returned resourceId; resource, thread, session, and project IDs are not generally interchangeable.

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" memory status \
  "$(jq -nc --arg agent "$AGENT_ID" --arg resource "$RESOURCE_ID" --arg thread "$THREAD_ID" \
    '{agentId:$agent,resourceId:$resource,threadId:$thread}')" \
  | jq '.data.observationalMemory'

Status can expose enabled, hasRecord, lastObservedAt, observationTokenCount, and observing/reflecting flags. It is not the observation text. A missing status block is not proof of an empty memory: verify the agent and resource first. A record with zero observation tokens is not evidence that observation succeeded.

In the verified CLI surface (Mastra 1.30.0), memory exposes search, current, and status, not a dedicated OM-content command. The server's authenticated GET /memory/observational-memory returns {record, history} (under the runtime API prefix), but route metadata alone does not make it a CLI command. Do not extract saved tokens or invent a passthrough command to call it. If authoritative current OM is needed, use a supported authenticated UI/client or report the CLI limitation. Do not call the buffer-status POST as a substitute for a read.

Historical observation text can also be present in stored message parts. This is a version-dependent diagnostic fallback, not a reconstruction of the authoritative current record:

mastra api --url "$FACTORY_URL" thread messages "$THREAD_ID" '{"page":0,"perPage":10}' \
  | jq '{page, events: [.data[] | .content.parts[]? |
      select(.type | startswith("data-om-")) |
      {type, data: (.data | {cycleId, observations, error, tokensAttempted})}]}'

• data-om-activation, data-om-buffering-end, or observation-end events may carry data.observations.
• Buffered observations are not necessarily activated. Events can overlap or repeat; don't sum them as the current token count or concatenate them into a claimed current memory.
• Failure markers can expose provider/auth errors and failed cycles. Correlate by cycleId so one failure reported twice isn't counted as two attempts.
• Start-only events do not prove a hard kill; persistence may be partial. Likewise an OM error near a stopped run is evidence, not proof of causation.
• remembered/pinned-knowledge signals are distinct from the full OM record. Missing markers don't prove that OM never ran.

Interpret supervisor findings before suggesting repairs

A seat is an active run binding assigning an agent role to a work item, not a paid-user license. Stage-to-role mapping depends on the board and deployment; use returned evidence rather than deriving the role from a stage label.

Report only findings actually returned by the deployment. Proposals awaiting approval are not the same as a failed dispatch. The health thresholds command describes queue-age buckets; it is not the configuration of supervisor decision/start/lease timeouts. Use supervisor evidence for those findings, not a queue-aging cutoff.

A suggested repair is not authorization. Apply the supervisor reference's mutation protocol and durable-session requirements; a completed task may need reconciliation rather than rerunning expensive work. Never use the supervisor session as a replacement work session.

Pagination and compatibility failures

• Attention collections may cap requested limit (a cap of 50 was observed). Follow returned hasMore and nextCursor using before, preserving the opaque cursor exactly. Never manufacture or decode/rebuild a cursor.
• Some deployed versions rejected schema-advertised attention kind filters with HTTP 400 invalid_attention_kind. If encountered, omit that filter, use supported search/view filters, and filter returned items locally. Don't generalize one deployment's failure to every version.
• If pagination yields an empty page with contradictory continuation state, repeats a cursor, or returns malformed JSON, stop and report partial coverage. Preserve the error for diagnosis; don't silently drop broken pages or claim no matching work exists.
• Narrow projections before raising page sizes. Don't pipe raw JSON through head and then try to parse the truncated result.