test(acp): derive the replay config from the live config

examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml is a 26-line declarative
overlay: one entry mounts @cordisjs/plugin-include on ./cordis.yml with
patches that disable the llm-deepseek entry by id and insert
llm-replay. Every other entry is the live tree loaded through the
include, so the replay tier exercises exactly what ships and an
app-shape change lands once — the silent-drift class the hand-mirrored
125-line twin invited is structurally gone. The bin is untouched;
recording still boots cordis.yml; assertEntriesLoaded tolerates the
disabled entry by design. All snapshot scenarios pass unchanged,
byte-identical goldens included; the include applies patches at load
time only, which a one-shot replay boot is exactly.

Implements docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md
(moved from proposed/ and amended); the acp-snapshot-tests and
hook-snapshot-matrix RFCs' replay-config facts are amended in the same
change.
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Tianyi Cui
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Replay is positional: the Nth `stream()` call serves the Nth `ReplayEntry`. This
Recording runs the scenario with the real `llm-deepseek` adapter and the JSONL persistence backend, then copies the produced `.jsonl` into the scenario dir. Per-event appends are durable, but the harness shuts the subprocess down gracefully (close stdin → `await ctx.dispose()`) before harvesting so the final events are flushed. `llm-replay` itself does no recording — it is replay-only.
The ACP server app loads `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`, whose `apply` throws when no API key is present ([packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts)). So replay cannot reuse the normal config — it uses a dedicated `examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml` that installs `llm-replay` in place of the adapter. The rest of the tree is not duplicated: both the normal `examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml` and the replay config load the same `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent` app entry (which bundles the agent-core spine + JSONL persistence + the ACP bridge), differing only in the LLM backend (`llm-deepseek` vs `llm-replay`) and the bash executor line. Recording reuses the normal `cordis.yml` (real adapter) — its persistence root reads `$DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT` when the harness sets it — so there is no separate record config. The `dsh-acp-agent` bin selects `cordis.snapshot.yml` for `DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay` and skips `.env` loading in that mode so a stray key cannot trigger a live call.
The ACP server app loads `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`, whose `apply` throws when no API key is present ([packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts)). So replay cannot boot the normal config as-is — `examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml` is an include-overlay of `cordis.yml` that disables the `llm-deepseek` entry by id and inserts `llm-replay` (see [single-source the acp-agent replay config](2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md)); every other entry IS the live tree, loaded through the include. Recording reuses the normal `cordis.yml` (real adapter) — its persistence root reads `$DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT` when the harness sets it — so there is no separate record config. The `dsh-acp-agent` bin selects `cordis.snapshot.yml` for `DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay` and skips `.env` loading in that mode so a stray key cannot trigger a live call.
### Two surfaces: normalize, then compare
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Two coupled changes, in one PR:
It is safe because a bridge whose config file is absent is a **silent no-op**: `apply()` catches the read failure, logs through `ctx.logger`, and registers nothing — zero listeners, zero session events. The `acp-agent` app ships no stdout logger, so the warning cannot reach the ACP JSON-RPC channel. A scenario (or a real project) that wants only Claude hooks ships only `hooks.json`; the Codex bridge sees no `codex-hooks.json` and vanishes. This was verified empirically: with both bridges loaded, all pre-existing snapshots (none of which ship a `codex-hooks.json`) are byte-identical.
Loading both is the minimum that lets the snapshot tier exercise each dialect against the same real app the product ships. Recording (which boots `cordis.yml`) must load both too, so a recorded Codex scenario captures the transcript with its hook genuinely active — hence the symmetric edit to both configs.
Loading both is the minimum that lets the snapshot tier exercise each dialect against the same real app the product ships. Recording (which boots `cordis.yml`) loads both by construction, and replay inherits them the same way: `cordis.snapshot.yml` is an include-overlay of `cordis.yml` that swaps only the llm entry (see [single-source the acp-agent replay config](2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md)), so a bridge added to the live tree is in the replay tree with no second edit.
### 2. A snapshot scenario per hook point × its headline outcome, both dialects
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
# RFC: Single-source the acp-agent replay config
Status: implemented
## Problem
`examples/acp-agent` shipped two hand-maintained configs: `cordis.yml` (the live tree) and a `cordis.snapshot.yml` that mirrored it entry-for-entry with only the llm backend swapped — stripped of comments, the entire difference was the eight-line `llm-deepseek` stanza versus the two-line `llm-replay` stanza. Every app-shape change had to be made twice, and nothing gated the symmetry: if the copies drifted, the snapshot tier would silently exercise a different app than the one that ships — the ["green units, broken product" class of gap](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) the snapshot tier exists to close, reintroduced one level up, with reviewer vigilance as the only defense.
## Decision
`cordis.snapshot.yml` is a declarative overlay, not a copy: its single entry mounts `@cordisjs/plugin-include` on `./cordis.yml` with `patches` that disable the `llm-deepseek` entry by id and insert the `llm-replay` entry ([the vendored include plugin](../../../../vendor/include/src/index.ts)'s patch mechanism: by-id overrides with a name-assertion guard, plus top-level inserts). Every other entry — the app, the bash executor, the fs/subagent/todo tools, both hook bridges, the system prompt — is the live tree itself, loaded through the include, so replay exercises exactly what ships and an app-shape change lands once. The `dsh-acp-agent` bin is untouched (it still just selects this file for `DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay`); recording still boots `cordis.yml` directly; the bin's `assertEntriesLoaded` guard tolerates the disabled entry by design (a disabled entry is the one legitimate fiber-less state).
One vendored-plugin fact the overlay depends on, deliberately: the include applies `patches` when it loads the file — its `refresh()`/`internal/update` paths re-read without re-patching — which is exactly enough for a one-shot replay boot (the replay app loads no `hmr` and nothing rewrites the config mid-run). The snapshot suite is the proof: all scenarios pass unchanged on the overlay, byte-identical goldens included.
## Why not the alternatives?
Keeping the full twin with a symmetry verify-gate was the recorded fallback — it would have removed the silent-drift class but kept a 125-line near-copy whose only content was one entry's difference, growing with every plugin the app gains. A bin-side swap (parse the config, replace the entry, delete the file) would have put YAML surgery inside a published artifact and moved the replay delta out of sight; the overlay keeps the delta declarative, readable, and next to the base config — the teaching value the twin's defenders actually wanted.
## Consequences
- A plugin added to `cordis.yml` is in the replay tree with no second edit; the drift class is structurally gone rather than gated.
- The overlay depends on entries carrying stable `id:`s — which the live config already does, and which the include's name-assertion patch guard makes checkable.
- If a future replay tree needs a second divergence (another backend swapped), it is one more patch line, not a second fork of the file.