A structured inventory of [Agent Client Protocol](https://agentclientprotocol.com) (ACP) features and where the harness's ACP bridge ([`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp`](README.md)) stands on each. The bridge exposes the harness agent as an ACP **server** (the agent side of an editor↔agent connection), so "supported" below means *the bridge implements the agent's half* — answering an agent method, advertising a capability, or calling a client method.
This tracks the **stable** ACP v1 surface (schema `1.14.0`, `schema/v1/schema.json`) PLUS the **unstable/draft** features that the two reference adapters — [`claude-agent-acp`](https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp) (Claude Code) and [`codex-acp`](https://github.com/zed-industries/codex-acp) (OpenAI Codex) — actually ship. A purely-unstable feature that neither reference adapter uses is omitted (see [Out of scope](#out-of-scope)).
Legend: ✅ supported · ⚠️ partial / fallback · ❌ not yet · — n/a. The **Stable** column marks whether the feature is in the released v1 schema (S) or only the unstable schema (U). The **Claude** / **Codex** columns record whether each reference adapter ships it, as a maturity signal.
The bridge implements the **core prompt-turn loop** for N concurrent sessions: initialize, session new/load, prompt, cancel, streamed assistant/thought chunks, tool-call rendering (including Zed terminal cards), resumable session replay, slash commands, one-shot permission prompts, per-session model selection, and permission presets. The largest **unbuilt** areas are **MCP passthrough** and **agent plans**, plus the client **filesystem** and **terminal** method families (which the adapters mostly do NOT drive either — see rows 43-49). See [Gap summary](#gap-summary).
| `session/close` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | No `session/close` handler — the SDK dispatch returns `method_not_found`. The bridge tears sessions down on client disconnect / Cordis disposal (cross-cutting, see [§8](#8-cross-cutting)), but that is not the on-demand per-session method. |
| `session/prompt` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | A flattened prompt beginning with `/` dispatches through `ctx.commands` without a model request; ordinary input maps to `agent.send`. One request is in flight per session. |
| `session/cancel` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Aborts the exact direct command, or applies queue-aware `agent.cancel` and settles its prompt `cancelled`, scoped to one session. |
| `session/set_mode` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Session modes deliberately skipped: config options are the spec's replacement and modes are slated for removal in ACP v2 (see [§6](#6-session-modes--config-options--models)). |
| `session/set_config_option` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | A provider/model select is present for a complete registered target; one `permission` select is added when `ctx.permission` is composed. Every response carries the complete refreshed state. |
| model selection | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | No distinct stable `session/set_model` — model is the `model`-category `session/set_config_option`. Values preserve the provider/model pair, catalogs come from `ctx.llm`, selection is per session, and `session/load` restores the last requested pair. Codex also supports the legacy `unstable_setSessionModel` ext method. |
| `session/list` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Gated by `sessionCapabilities.list`. The harness HAS `sessionPersistence.list()` (used internally for load-cwd validation) but does not expose it over ACP. |
| `session/delete` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Gated by `sessionCapabilities.delete`. |
| `session/fork` | U | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | Claude ships `unstable_forkSession`; Codex does not. |
## 2. Client methods the agent CALLS (agent → client)
These are capabilities the bridge would *drive* on the editor. The harness runs tools in-process (its own `dsh-bash` executor, direct file I/O), so it does not yet delegate to the editor for any of these.
| `session/request_permission` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | The bridge answers the [`ctx.approval`](../user-approval/README.md) seam for the agents it owns: an `ask` from a hook/plugin becomes an editor prompt attached to the streamed tool call, one-shot `allow_once`/`reject_once` options only. Whether a call asks is policy (nothing asks by default); `allow_always` is deferred (grant storage). |
| `fs/read_text_file` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | The harness reads files directly (it does not see the editor's unsaved buffer state). Claude delegates; Codex does not. |
| `fs/write_text_file` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | Same — direct writes, no editor delegation. |
| `terminal/create` | S | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Neither reference adapter drives the client terminal API either — both, like the bridge, render shell output as tool-call content + a `_meta` channel (see [§5 Terminal](#terminal-rendering)). |
| `terminal/output` | S | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | As above. |
| `terminal/wait_for_exit` | S | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | As above. |
| `terminal/kill` | S | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | As above. |
| `terminal/release` | S | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | As above. |
| `elicitation/create` · `elicitation/complete` | U | ⚠️ | ✅ | ⚠️ | The bridge drives `unstable_createElicitation` for `ask_user_question` form prompts (session-scoped, no URL-mode flow yet). Claude calls the `unstable_*` elicitation methods for MCP server elicitations; Codex maps elicitations onto `session/request_permission`. |
| `tool_call_update` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | From appended `tool/result` via `presentResult`; replacement results rewrite model context and do not duplicate or overwrite execution presentation. |
| `available_commands_update` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Full effective snapshot after create/load and registry changes; names, descriptions, and unstructured-input hints come from `ctx.commands`. |
| `config_option_update` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Config options exist (advertised in `session/new`/`session/load`, switched via `session/set_config_option`), but the bridge never pushes agent-initiated changes — an operator default drift is narrated to the MODEL, not echoed to the editor. Future work in the [sandbox Agent Note § Per-session mode switching](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md). |
Tool-call presentation is **owned by each tool** (`presentCall` / `presentResult` on the `dsh-tools` definition), not special-cased in the bridge — see the [terminal-and-tool-rendering Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md).
| `diff` content | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | The `write`/`edit` tools declare a `diff` render intent: `presentCall` → a call-time `{ card: 'diff' }` snippet, and `presentResult` → a result-time `{ card: 'diff' }`. For an edit or an overwrite it carries the applied hunk(s) with surrounding context (one per `replace_all` site), computed from the before/after text and persisted on the `tool/result` event as `meta`; for a create (no before-image) it is an args-derived whole-file diff. The bridge emits `{ type: 'diff', path, oldText, newText }` content blocks; a successful mutation ALWAYS returns the result diff (an ACP `tool_call_update.content` replaces the call's content, so the result diff — not the model-facing text — is what survives). |
| `rawInput` | S | ✅ | ⚠️ | ✅ | Parsed tool args surfaced as `rawInput`. |
| `rawOutput` | S | ❌ | ⚠️ | ✅ | Not emitted. |
### Terminal rendering
⚠️ Implemented via the **Zed `_meta` convention** (`terminal_info` / `terminal_output` / `terminal_exit`), gated on the client advertising `_meta.terminal_output` — NOT the spec's `terminal/create` sub-protocol (which would make the editor execute the command, bypassing `dsh-bash`'s sandbox / env-scrub / ownership / cwd). Both reference adapters take the same `_meta` approach. Live incremental streaming (`terminal_output_delta`, which Codex negotiates) is a follow-up — the bridge currently sends the full captured output once on the result.
Config options ✅: the bridge advertises a `model` select from the advisory LLM provider/model catalog, preserving each provider/model pair in an opaque value and grouping multiple providers. A selected pair is isolated to one session, snapshotted with the prompt for each step, applied through `agent/request`, and restored from the logged request header on load. When `ctx.permission` is composed, the bridge also advertises one `permission` select whose values come from the deployment preset table and whose current value derives from the session log; idle permission switches anchor at the next `agent/prompt-submit` inside its open turn. Session modes stay deliberately unmodeled because config options replace them in ACP v2. See the [model-catalog Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) and [sandbox Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md).
The bridge rejects unsupported prompt blocks rather than silently dropping them (`promptHasUnsupportedContent`), per the "explicit over implicit" convention.
## 8. Cross-cutting
| Feature | Stable | Bridge | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `StopReason` mapping | S | ✅ | `turnEndToStopReason` is total over harness turn-end reasons → `end_turn`/`max_tokens`/`cancelled`. |
| Multi-session (N per connection) | S | ✅ | Strict per-session demux; concurrent streams never interleave. See the [multi-session Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md). |
3.**MCP passthrough** (`mcpServers` on `session/new` + `mcpCapabilities`).
4.**Richer prompt content** — image / embedded `resource` blocks (needs a multimodal model path).
5.**Usage reporting** (`usage_update`) — the harness already records token usage internally (on `assistant/message`).
6.**Editor filesystem delegation** (`fs/read_text_file` / `fs/write_text_file`) — lets the agent see unsaved buffers; lower priority since the harness has direct disk access.
Unstable/draft ACP features that **neither** reference adapter ships are not tracked above: `providers/*` (LLM provider selection), `mcp/connect`·`mcp/message`·`mcp/disconnect` (client-side MCP passthrough), `nes/*` (Next Edit Suggestion), `document/did*` (LSP-style document sync), the v2 plan model (`plan_update` / `plan_removed`), boolean config options, `$/cancel_request`, and the draft Streamable-HTTP transport. They can be added if a target editor adopts them.
## Sources
- Stable spec: `schema/v1/schema.json` (schema `1.14.0`) and `docs/protocol/v1/*.mdx` in the [agent-client-protocol](https://github.com/agentclientprotocol/agent-client-protocol) repo.
- Reference adapters: [`claude-agent-acp`](https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp) and [`codex-acp`](https://github.com/zed-industries/codex-acp).
- Bridge: [`README.md`](README.md), [`src/index.ts`](src/index.ts), and the ACP Agent Notes under [`.agents/notes/`](../../../.agents/notes/README.md).
