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Summary

The greet sample in README.md copies the shipped greet prompt of runvil-harness. That prompt now declares its one argument, a required string name, under args: and reads args.name, because a prompt's arguments are one JSON object. The sample follows it.

What changed

  • The sample's frontmatter has the args: declaration, and its Lua reads args.name.
  • The sentence after the sample gives the arguments of the run as {"name":"Ada"} and says what the args: key declares.
  • The sample's result is the same.

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The Engine change is in cppalliance/runvil-harness: "Make a prompt's arguments one checked JSON object".

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    • Updated the README example to pass name as a required string argument and show it as a named input object.

A prompt's arguments are one JSON object that the `args:` key declares, and the shipped `greet` prompt declares a required string `name` and reads `args.name`. The `greet` sample in `README.md` now matches it.

- The sentence after the sample gives the arguments of the run as `{"name":"Ada"}` and says what the `args:` key declares.
- The sample's result is the same.

Plan: runvil-harness/plan/2026-11-13-3-json-args.plan.md
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The README sample prompt now declares a required string argument named name. Its Lua example reads args.name, and its sample input uses {"name":"Ada"}.

Changes: Prompt example

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declare and use the name argument
README.md
The sample prompt declares a required string property named name. The Lua example reads args.name, and the sample input uses a JSON object.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Suggested reviewers: gregjkal

Merge Risk: Low · up to 003be

The updated README example reads args.name, but the Engine passes args as a raw string, so a user running the sample would hit a Lua error. Change the sample to read argv.name before merging. No runtime code is affected.

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The title "Declare the name argument in the greet sample" matches the main change in the changeset. The README's greet sample now declares a required string name argument under args:, reads it as args.name in Lua, and the example input changes to {"name":"Ada"}. The title is specific, concise, and names the primary change.

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[Low impact] This documentation-only change appears safe to merge.

Summary

Updates the README.md greeting example to match the new prompt argument format.

  • The greet example takes its name from a required argument field.

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Review comments at @README.md:
- Line 59: Update the greeting expression to read the parsed name from argv.name
instead of args.name, preserving the existing concatenation and greeting output.
- Around line 47-51: Update the README argument declaration so args maps
argument names directly to their declarations: place name under args and remove
the type: object wrapper and required list, since arguments are required by
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Comment thread README.md
Comment on lines +47 to +51
args:
type: object
properties:
name: { type: string, description: The name to greet }
required: [name]

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Use the Engine’s argument declaration format.

The pinned Engine expects args to map argument names directly to declarations. It rejects type: object here before the prompt can run. Declare name: { type: string, description: The name to greet } directly under args; arguments are required by default. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 47 - 51:
Update the README argument declaration so args maps argument names directly to their declarations: place name under args and remove the type: object wrapper and required list, since arguments are required by default.

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Comment thread README.md

```lua
var.greeting = "Hello, " .. args .. "!"
var.greeting = "Hello, " .. args.name .. "!"

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Read the parsed argument from argv.

The pinned Engine installs args as the raw input string and argv as its parsed value. Even after fixing the declaration, args.name is nil for the sample input, so concatenation fails. Use argv.name. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @README.md at line 59:
Update the greeting expression to read the parsed name from argv.name instead of args.name, preserving the existing concatenation and greeting output.

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