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Utilities

Internal tools for testing, building, and managing your pipeline.

1.Echo — echo

Internal test graph that echoes an input message and optional sleep delay. Used for debugging pipelines.

Inputs

Field

Required

Description

message

✅

Message to echo

sleep

—

Delay in seconds

Outputs

Field

What you get

message

Original input message

reply

Echoed reply string

sleep

Echoed delay

errors

Any issues that came up

🔗 Chain it: echo → toolcall

2.Tool Call — toolcall

Internal interrupt graph to request a tool execution and resume with the result.

Inputs

Field

Required

Description

tool

✅

Tool name

args

—

Tool arguments object

Outputs

Field

What you get

tool_call_id

Interrupt call ID

tool_status

Completed or failed

tool_result

Tool result payload

tool_error

Tool error string

errors

Any issues that came up

🔗 Chain it: toolcall → orb_ai / ask_orb

3.Create Entity — create_entity

Queues entity creation via interrupt handler for Mission Control processing.

Inputs

Field

Required

Description

entity_type

✅

Entity type (e.g. company, person)

entity_data

✅

List of entity payload objects

custom_entity_uuid

—

Optional custom entity ID

flowset_info

—

Optional flowset metadata

Outputs

Field

What you get

status

Queue or result status

entity_count

Number of entities queued or created

entity_uuids

Result entity IDs

errors

Any issues that came up

🔗 Chain it: icp_score / ask_orb → create_entity

4.Stress Test — stress_test

Internal load and testing graph that executes operation sequences and summarizes outcomes.

Inputs

Field

Required

Description

operations

✅

Ordered operation list (min 1)

Outputs

Field

What you get

total

Total operations run

succeeded

Count succeeded

failed

Count failed

results

Per-operation result entries

summary

Aggregated latency and error stats

errors

Any issues that came up

🔗 Chain it: stress_test → toolcall