Make Task manifests fully immutable once created, removing `UpdateTask`
in favor of `CreateTask` and driving lifecycle transitions (suspend,
resume, delete) through dedicated RPCs and event stream processing.
- Proto: Replace `UpdateTask` with `CreateTask` in AX service.
- Proto: Remove mutable `suspend` field from `TaskSpec` and reserve field 2.
- API / Server: Implement `CreateTask` with duplicate name rejection
(`codes.AlreadyExists`). Update `SuspendTask`, `ResumeTask`, and `DeleteTask`
to transition status phase and publish lifecycle events.
- Store: Remove redundant `SetTaskSuspended` and `MarkTaskDeleting` methods;
standardize on `CreateTask`, `UpdateTaskStatus`, `DeleteTask`, and
`PublishEvent`.
- Controller: Decouple spec reconciliation from task suspension; introduce
`ReconcileSuspend` to handle checkpointing and pausing actors on Substrate.
- CLI: Update `ax apply` to submit tasks via `CreateTask`.
- Docs: Update design docs and specifications to reflect task immutability.
AX is undergoing a significant redesign, moving away from a single CLI with
an embedded Python harness toward a general-purpose orchestration layer for
agentic tasks. The repository is reorganized around three binaries: ax-server
exposes a gRPC API for submitting Task manifests, ax-controller runs as a
horizontally scaled reconciler that consumes work from Redis Streams, and
ax-task-runner executes tasks inside sandboxed workers. Task state now lives
in Redis rather than Kubernetes CRDs so the system can handle millions of
short-lived tasks without straining etcd. The legacy Python harness, ATE
client, SQL event log, and skill examples are removed, and new design,
concepts, manifest, networking, runner, and sandbox docs plus Kubernetes
deploy manifests describe the new architecture.
Jaana Dogan