Follow-up to #7152. ## Why Auto Rotate was already selectable as a pipeline step — `getExecutableTools` lists any registry tool with an `operationConfig` and an endpoint resolvable from defaults, which it has. But once added, the settings pane showed *"Displaying these tool params for editing is not supported yet"* and the step card read *"Runs with default settings"*. Both come from the same cause. `classifyToolStepSupport` keys off the operation config's mappers: ```js const hasMappers = Boolean(config?.toApiParams && config?.fromApiParams); if (!hasMappers) return "unsupported"; return entry.automationSettings ? "editable" : "noSettings"; ``` Auto Rotate had `automationSettings` but no mappers, because its custom processor builds its own FormData and never needed them — so it classified as `unsupported`. The more consequential half is `serializeToolStep`, which emits `parameters: {}` for a mapper-less tool. A composed pipeline therefore ran Auto Rotate on server defaults with no way to change that. "Runs with default settings" was literal. ## What Declares `toApiParams` / `fromApiParams` on `autoRotateOperationConfig`, mapping `detectionMode`, `confidenceThreshold` and `inferUndetected`. That flips the step to `editable`, so the composer reuses the existing `AutoRotateAutomationSettings` panel, and the chosen settings now reach the backend. **No backend change.** Policy steps already serialise `parameters` as form fields and the endpoint already accepts these three — verified against a running server while working on #7152. ## Testing - New round-trip test in `toolAutomation.test.ts`: the step serialises to `{detectionMode, confidenceThreshold, inferUndetected}` and deserialises back with `support: "editable"`, using the real operation config. - `core/hooks/tools/shared` + `portal/components/pipelines` suites: 63 tests pass. - Typecheck across build variants, ESLint, Prettier. The composer UI itself was not clicked: the portal is not served by the editor dev server locally, so the verification is the unit test plus the render path (`PipelineStepSettings` renders `entry.automationSettings` when support is `editable`, and the registry entry supplies it). Worth a click-through on the preview deploy. ## Note for maintainers While tracing this I found `PIPELINE_OPERATIONS` in `portal/components/pipelines/pipelineOperations.ts` is exported but never imported — the composer builds its list from the tool registry instead. `humanizeOperation` in the same file *is* still used as a label fallback. Left alone here as it is out of scope, but it looks like dead code worth deleting separately. Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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