Hi Friends, When i perform a preview with a plan= export from the Automation API the format of the resultant json is different to

pulumi preview --json

How can i get the same output from the Automation API?

preview --json is just the summary diff displayed as json a plan export is a much richer data structure that includes far more than a preview diff to allow the engine to constraint later updates to do the same thing as the preview

How can i get just the summary diff in json from the Automation API?

I don't think this is exposed by automation api at the moment

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It's come up a few times, something we need to look into. I do have a plan for a whole overhaul of automation api, but it's big work and hard to find time to do it

I understand

That will give you a stack that's deployed, not a preview result

For now i’m breaking out into a shell command to do what i need instead of using automation api… fine for a prototype but definitely very interested in seeing the Automation API overhaul!