refactor(events): document event-domain semantics, drop step-boundary mirror emits

Pin the three-domain rule (session = durable fact log, agent = live runtime
surface, tools = registry/exec): a durable replayable fact is a SessionEvent; a
live interception or transient/live-object signal is an agent/tools Cordis
event. A boundary that is both is mirrored as an agent/* emit ONLY where a live
consumer needs the Agent handle.

Apply it to the boundary twins: drop agent/step-start and agent/step-end (no
production consumer needs the live Agent at a step boundary — consumers read the
durable step/start/step/end session events). Keep agent/turn-start/turn-end (the
stdio UI labels output by agent.id). Tests that observed step boundaries via the
removed emits now observe the durable session events; the pinned behavior is
unchanged.

Conservative subset of the proposed "remove boundary mirror events"
simplification; foundation for the Hooks subsystem's canonical event surface.
This commit is contained in:
Tianyi Cui
2026-06-30 10:32:55 +08:00
parent 3f85f522ea
commit 05b75abbca
9 changed files with 176 additions and 151 deletions
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@@ -46,15 +46,21 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
const ctx = await harness(adapter)
const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
// Turn boundaries are live agent/* emits; step boundaries are durable
// session events only (no agent/* mirror). Interleave both feeds in fire
// order to assert the full boundary nesting.
const order: string[] = []
for (const name of ['agent/turn-start', 'agent/step-start', 'agent/step-end', 'agent/turn-end'] as const) {
for (const name of ['agent/turn-start', 'agent/turn-end'] as const) {
ctx.on(name, () => void order.push(name))
}
ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => {
if (event.type === 'step/start' || event.type === 'step/end') order.push(event.type)
})
send(agent, 'hi')
await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
expect(order).toEqual(['agent/turn-start', 'agent/step-start', 'agent/step-end', 'agent/turn-end'])
expect(order).toEqual(['agent/turn-start', 'step/start', 'step/end', 'agent/turn-end'])
const types = agent.session.events.map(e => e.type)
// turn/start opens the turn, THEN the queued user message is recorded inside
@@ -269,7 +275,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
let steps = 0
ctx.on('agent/step-end', () => void steps++)
ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => { if (event.type === 'step/end') steps++ })
ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (_agent, _turn, _defaultDecision, next) => {
if (steps < 3) return true
return next()
@@ -371,7 +377,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
let steps = 0
ctx.on('agent/step-end', () => void steps++)
ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => { if (event.type === 'step/end') steps++ })
// Force exactly one continuation (step 1 → step 2), then defer to default
// (step 2 is a plain stop with no tool calls → stops).
ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (_agent, _turn, _defaultDecision, next) => {
@@ -536,7 +542,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
])
})
it('stops the turn when agent/step-end listener failure has recorded an error', async () => {
it('stops the turn when a step/end session-event listener failure has recorded an error', async () => {
const adapter = new MockAdapter([
toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', { text: 'x' }),
textResponse('should not run'),
@@ -552,8 +558,11 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
}))
const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
let threw = false
ctx.on('agent/step-end', () => {
if (!threw) { threw = true; throw new Error('bad step-end listener') }
// A throwing step/end session-event listener is the surviving boundary-listener
// failure path (step boundaries have no agent/* mirror): closeStep contains it
// and surfaces it as a turn error rather than stranding the turn open.
ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => {
if (event.type === 'step/end' && !threw) { threw = true; throw new Error('bad step/end listener') }
})
send(agent, 'go')