feat: ability to manage sub recipes in desktop ui by Abhijay007 · Pull Request #6360 · block/goose

Abhijay007 · 2026-01-06T18:27:34Z

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This PR adds the ability to manage sub-recipes in the desktop UI. Sub-recipes are recipes that can be called as tools during recipe execution, enabling multi-step workflows and reusable components.

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Added schema definition for sub-recipes with validation
Created modal and editor components for managing sub-recipes, both updating and adding by browsing
Integrated sub-recipe management into the recipe creation/editing workflow

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This PR adds the ability to manage sub-recipes in the desktop UI, addressing issue #6083. Sub-recipes are recipes that can be called as tools during recipe execution, enabling multi-step workflows and reusable components.

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Added schema definition for sub-recipes with validation
Created modal and editor components for managing sub-recipes
Integrated sub-recipe management into the recipe creation/editing workflow

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`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/recipeFormSchema.ts`	Added Zod schema for SubRecipe type with validation rules matching the API
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/SubRecipeModal.tsx`	New modal component for adding/editing individual sub-recipes with form fields
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/SubRecipeEditor.tsx`	New editor component for managing the list of sub-recipes in a recipe
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/RecipeFormFields.tsx`	Integrated SubRecipeEditor into the main recipe form
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/CreateEditRecipeModal.tsx`	Added sub-recipe handling when creating/editing recipes
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/CreateRecipeFromSessionModal.tsx`	Initialized empty sub-recipes array in form data
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/__tests__/recipeFormSchema.test.ts`	Updated test data to include empty subRecipes array
`ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/__tests__/RecipeFormFields.test.tsx`	Updated test data across multiple test cases to include subRecipes field
`ui/desktop/package-lock.json`	Dependency tree reorganization from npm install

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zanesq · 2026-01-07T19:27:10Z

Tested it out looks great!

zanesq · 2026-01-07T19:30:07Z

Only feedback is it would be nice for the user to be able to define the entire subrecipe on the fly also rather than have it predefined and a path etc.. or if they could at least browse for the file that would help for now and we can come back to the subrecipe creation ui later.

lifeizhou-ap · 2026-01-07T22:00:53Z

@Abhijay007 Abhijay007 Thanks for your contributions! It looks great!

I have 2 small feedback on the UI.

1. "Edit Subrecipe" Screen

The title Edit Subrecipe and the button label Update Subrecipe might be confusing to the users as this screen only modifies the sub recipe configuration in the recipe instead of the subrecipe. Maybe we could change to Configure Subrecipe as title and Apply as the button label?

2. Recipe without subrecipe

The section No subrecipes configured with the "Add Your First Subrecipe" button" looks like that we can drag and drop the file into this section but actually not. Maybe we can remove this section as we already have the Add Subrecipe button?

WDYT?

cc: @zanesq

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ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/CreateSubRecipeInline.tsx

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lifeizhou-ap · 2026-01-28T07:42:33Z

Hi @Abhijay007,

Thank you so much for your contribution! The PR looks good!

I checked this PR out and did some testing, and found 2 bugs:

The value section for sub recipe are not persisted. This happens for both Add existing subrecipe and Create new subrecipe
When I create a new subrecipe, the subreicpe does appear in the recipe list. but in the main recipe, the path seems to be recipe id (3aff786da32b03de.yaml):

- name: my another recipe
  path: 3aff786da32b03de.yaml
  values: null
  sequential_when_repeated: false
  description: my another recipe  description

It took me a while to connect this with the new sub recipe, and it seems does not work when I start a new session to run the subrecipe. I feel we need to fix this so that user won't be confused.

Minor UI polish (not a bug). Since you have added the subrecipe configuration, it would be great if we add "subrecip" here to let users' know this new feature.

Abhijay007 · 2026-01-28T09:24:11Z

Hi @Abhijay007,

Thank you so much for your contribution! The PR looks good!

I checked this PR out and did some testing, and found 2 bugs:

The value section for sub recipe are not persisted. This happens for both Add existing subrecipe and Create new subrecipe

When I create a new subrecipe, the subreicpe does appear in the recipe list. but in the main recipe, the path seems to be recipe id (3aff786da32b03de.yaml):
- name: my another recipe
  path: 3aff786da32b03de.yaml
  values: null
  sequential_when_repeated: false
  description: my another recipe  description
It took me a while to connect this with the new sub recipe, and it seems does not work when I start a new session to run the subrecipe. I feel we need to fix this so that user won't be confused.

Minor UI polish (not a bug). Since you have added the subrecipe configuration, it would be great if we add "subrecip" here to let users' know this new feature.

Thanks @lifeizhou-ap for the review I will surely fix it today

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ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/CreateSubRecipeInline.tsx

ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/RecipeFormFields.tsx

katzdave · 2026-02-05T17:24:58Z

@lifeizhou-ap can you take another look?

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jh-block · 2026-03-19T10:22:53Z

Thanks @Abhijay007 this looks good to me, the two Codex review comments above look like genuine issues to resolve though.

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ui/desktop/src/components/recipes/shared/CreateSubRecipeInline.tsx

+            disabled={
+              !name.trim() ||
+              !form.state.values.title.trim() ||
+              !form.state.values.description.trim() ||
+              !form.state.values.instructions.trim() ||


Subscribe form state before gating subrecipe save button

The create button is disabled from form.state.values even though this component never subscribes to the form store, so these reads are not guaranteed to re-render with field edits. In practice, if the user enters name first and then fills title/description/instructions, the button can remain disabled until an unrelated local-state change happens, blocking the normal top-to-bottom flow. Drive this disabled state from form.Subscribe (or mirrored component state) so it updates whenever those form fields change.

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* origin/main: fix: handle reasoning content blocks in OpenAI-compat streaming parser (#8078) chore(acp): build native packages on latest mac (#8075) Display delegate sub agents logs in UI (#7519) Update tar version to avoid CVE-2026-33056 (#8073) refactor: consolidate duplicated dependencies into workspace (#8041) tui: set up for publishing via github actions (#8020) feat: feature-gate local inference dependencies (#7976) feat: ability to manage sub recipes in desktop ui (#6360)

* main: (37 commits) fix: handle reasoning content blocks in OpenAI-compat streaming parser (#8078) chore(acp): build native packages on latest mac (#8075) Display delegate sub agents logs in UI (#7519) Update tar version to avoid CVE-2026-33056 (#8073) refactor: consolidate duplicated dependencies into workspace (#8041) tui: set up for publishing via github actions (#8020) feat: feature-gate local inference dependencies (#7976) feat: ability to manage sub recipes in desktop ui (#6360) Tweak the release process: no more merge to main (#7994) fix: gemini models via databricks (#8042) feat(apps): Pass toolInfo to MCP Apps via hostContext (#7506) fix: remove configured marker when deleting oauth provider configuration (#7887) docs: add vmware-aiops MCP extension documentation (#8055) Show setup instructions for ACP providers in settings modal (#8065) deps: replace sigstore-verification with sigstore-verify to kill vulns (#8064) feat(acp): add session/set_config and stabilize list, delete and close (#7984) docs: Correct `gosoe` typo to `goose` (#8062) fix: use default provider and model when provider in session no longer exists (#8035) feat: add GOOSE_SHELL env var to configure preferred shell (#7909) fix(desktop): fullscreen header bar + always-visible close controls (#8033) ...

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