docs(rfc): classify RFCs by kind via path-encoded subdirectories

Add a second axis to every RFC — its class (feature, bug-fix,
simplification, architecture, process, testing) — encoded in the path
as docs/rfc/{lifecycle}/{class}/file.md. The folder is the label, so
the closed set is enforced by structure rather than a parsed field.

Two new doc-sync gates back it:
- verify-rfc-classification: every RFC sits in a valid class folder and
  the README index lists it under the matching lifecycle→class heading.
- verify-doc-refs: every docs/*.md path cited in a packages|examples TS
  comment resolves — closes a drift class verify-md-links can't see, and
  catches the four comment refs this reorg moved.

The README gains a Classification section explaining the taxonomy and
per-class index sub-sections. A self-referential process RFC records why
the scheme is path-encoded and gated.
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# RFC: Make the shared example base providerless
Status: proposed
## Problem
The examples have two shared base files: [examples/base-core.yml](../../../examples/base-core.yml) is providerless, while [examples/base.yml](../../../examples/base.yml) includes that core plus the real `llm-deepseek` adapter. Snapshot replay needs the providerless core with `llm-replay`, because loading the real adapter without a key throws. The normal demos need the real adapter. The result is a naming inversion: the file named `base.yml` is not the reusable base for all examples, while the true base is `base-core.yml`.
The split is understandable, but it makes every config explanation longer. It also leads to awkward test setup like a keyless smoke test carrying a dummy API key so an adapter can boot even though the model is not called.
## Proposal
Rename the providerless core to [examples/base.yml](../../../examples/base.yml) and make adapter selection explicit in each concrete example. The coding and ACP real configs add a tiny `llm-deepseek` include or local block; snapshot config adds `llm-replay`. Delete [examples/base-core.yml](../../../examples/base-core.yml).
The shared base should contain only provider-neutral services and tools: `llm`, sessions, system prompt, tools, agents, invariants, bash executor, and bash tool schemas. Anything that chooses a model provider belongs at the leaf config.
## Acceptance criteria
- [examples/base.yml](../../../examples/base.yml) is providerless.
- [examples/base-core.yml](../../../examples/base-core.yml) is deleted.
- Real demo configs explicitly add the DeepSeek adapter.
- Snapshot replay config includes the same providerless base and its replay adapter.
- The [examples README](../../../examples/README.md), example-specific READMEs, and RFC references stop explaining "base = base-core plus adapter".
## What we give up
Real demos lose one layer of convenience: each must opt into the adapter. That is the right default for examples, because adapter choice is the variable part and providerless wiring is the shared product core.
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# RFC: Prune dead methods from the persistence and bash capability seams
Status: proposed
## Problem
Two capability seams ([interface / implementation / consumer](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)) carry abstract methods that no consumer calls. The seam exists to let implementations and consumers evolve independently — but a method no consumer programs against is not a seam, it is speculative surface every implementation must still implement and test.
### `SessionPersistence.has()` and `.delete()`
The abstract service declares four operations beyond create/append: `load`, `list`, `has`, `delete` ([packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts:142-151](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts)). Production consumers of `ctx.sessionPersistence` use only two of them: the agent-loop resume path calls `load()` ([packages/agent-loop/src/index.ts:176-194](../../../packages/agent-loop/src/index.ts)), and the ACP bridge calls `list()` for `session/list` ([packages/acp/src/index.ts](../../../packages/acp/src/index.ts)). Grepping every `sessionPersistence.*` / `persistence.*` use across `packages/*/src` and `examples/` finds no `has(` and no `delete(` on the service. The `.has(`/`.delete(` calls in `packages/acp/src/index.ts` are on the in-memory `SessionStore` and a local `Set` of loading ids, not persistence. The only callers of `has`/`delete` are the contract suites and per-backend specs.
`has()` is not just unused — it is the most intricate branch in the shared coordinator: a tracked-vs-untracked dual-probe (`loadLive(id, cwd)` for a live-tracked session vs `loadStored(id)` for an untracked one) with a multi-line rationale ([packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts:298-310](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)). `delete()` drags the `deleteStored` backend hook ([coordinator.ts:99](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts), [coordinator.ts:313-319](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)) that every backend must implement. This is the [drop-mutable-session-summary](../implemented/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern: a contract test exercises both, but no shipping code asks "is this session persisted?" or removes one.
### `BashExecutor.get()` and `.list()`
The bash seam declares `get(id)` ("look up a background task by id") and `list()` ("all tracked background tasks") ([packages/bash/src/index.ts:88-107](../../../packages/bash/src/index.ts)), both implemented by `LocalBashExecutor` ([packages/bash-local/src/index.ts:179-191](../../../packages/bash-local/src/index.ts)). The sole production consumer — `dsh-tool-bash` — drives tasks via `ownerOf`, `onTaskDone`, `start`, `readOutput`, `kill`, `resolve`, `run`; it never calls `get`/`list` in shipping code, and there is no `bash_list` tool exposing a task roster to the model. So both are dead production seam surface. They are used by tests, more broadly than a single idiom: the bash seam/executor specs assert them directly ([packages/bash/tests/service.spec.ts](../../../packages/bash/tests/service.spec.ts), [packages/bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts](../../../packages/bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts) both call `get()`/`list()`), and several `dsh-tool-bash` tests reach through `ctx.bash.get(id)` to await a task's `done`, read its `status`, or inspect task fields ([packages/tool-bash/tests/tools.spec.ts](../../../packages/tool-bash/tests/tools.spec.ts), [packages/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts](../../../packages/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts)). These are test-harness conveniences, not shipping consumers — but they are real test code an implementing PR must migrate or delete.
## Proposal
Remove the methods nothing consumes, from the abstract seam, the implementation, and the contract/spec suites that exist only to exercise them:
- `SessionPersistence.has()` / `.delete()`: delete the abstract declarations, the coordinator's `has`/`delete`/`deleteCore`, and the `PersistenceBackend.deleteStored` hook. Remove the `has`/`delete` rows from the contract suite and the per-backend specs (jsonl + sqlite each implement `deleteStored` only to satisfy the hook — that implementation goes too). The backends are the [dual-backend](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) design and otherwise out of scope, but removing a hook they implement for no consumer is part of removing the hook, not a backend redesign.
- `BashExecutor.get()` / `.list()`: delete the abstract declarations and the `LocalBashExecutor` impls. The seam/executor specs that assert `get()`/`list()` directly (`bash/tests/service.spec.ts`, `bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts`) lose those assertions (the behavior is being removed). The `dsh-tool-bash` tests that reach through `ctx.bash.get(id)` to await `done`, read `status`, or inspect task fields switch to the public completion/status seam they should use — `onTaskDone` (or the `done` promise and status the `start()` return already exposes) — keeping their coverage without the removed lookup method.
- Update every doc and source-comment reference to the removed methods — not only literal `has(`/`delete(`/`get(`/`list(`/`deleteStored` call spellings, but also `{@link has}`/`{@link delete}` JSDoc links and prose that counts the methods (removing 2 of the persistence service's 6 public methods makes any "six public methods" phrasing wrong). The implementing PR greps `has`/`delete`/`get`/`list`/`deleteStored`/`{@link `/`six ` across `docs/`, `packages/*/README.md`, and source comments, and fixes each. The known doc sites: the seam READMEs ([packages/session-persistence/README.md](../../../packages/session-persistence/README.md)'s `has(id)`/`delete(id)` API row and its "delegates its six public service methods" prose → four, [packages/bash/README.md](../../../packages/bash/README.md)'s `get(id)`/`list()` row), the backend READMEs that describe `has`/`list` semantics ([packages/session-persistence-sqlite/README.md](../../../packages/session-persistence-sqlite/README.md), [packages/session-persistence-jsonl/README.md](../../../packages/session-persistence-jsonl/README.md) — reword "absent from `has()`/`list()`" to just `list()`), the service-map / seam docs in [docs/architecture.md](../../../docs/architecture.md), and the persistence prose in the [session-persistence RFC](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) and [shared write-coordinator RFC](../implemented/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md). The known source-comment sites: the abstract `create()` JSDoc's `{@link has}/{@link list}` link ([packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts) — drop the `has` link), the coordinator's "six public methods"/"six public service methods" module + class JSDoc and its lazy-materialization JSDoc justifying the `materialized` flag by "the signal `has`/`list` rely on" ([packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts](../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)), the JSONL backend's `loadStored`/`deleteStored` comment, and the SQLite backend's `schema.ts` and `index.ts` comments that mention "absent from `has`/`list`" — all reworded to the surviving four-method, `list()`-only contract.
## Why not keep them as "the seam should be complete"?
The instinct that a persistence seam "should" offer delete, or a task executor "should" offer enumeration, is real — and it is exactly the speculative-completeness the pre-release stance warns against ([AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md): optimize for the correct foundation, not for hypothetical callers you do not have). Each of these is one method to re-add the day a consumer needs it:
- A session-management UI that deletes old sessions will want `delete()` — add it then, designed against that UI's real needs (soft-delete? cascade? confirmation?), not guessed now.
- A `bash_list` tool that shows the model its running tasks will want `list()` — add it with the tool.
Re-adding a seam method with a live consumer is cheap and better-designed than the speculative version, because the consumer pins the contract. Carrying it unused means every implementation (and every future backend) must implement and test a method that does nothing.
## Acceptance criteria
- `has`/`delete`/`deleteStored` and `get`/`list` are gone from their seams, impls, and contract suites; `pnpm run knip` reports no new dead exports.
- The remaining seam operations (`create`/`append`/`load`/`list` for persistence; `run`/`start`/`ownerOf`/`onTaskDone`/`readOutput`/`kill`/`resolve` for bash) are untouched; ACP `session/list`, bash tool flows, and crash-recovery behave identically.
- `pnpm run test:coverage` stays 100% per-file (the contract/spec rows for the removed methods are deleted with them).
- Seam READMEs and `docs/architecture.md` no longer list the removed methods.
## Risks
- **`delete()` is the kind of operation a product eventually wants.** True — but "eventually" is the point. Deleting it now and re-adding it against a real consumer is strictly better than shipping a guessed contract. The dual backends each shed a `deleteStored` impl, which is a bounded edit in otherwise-out-of-scope packages.
- **`list()` on the bash seam is the natural seed for a future `bash_list`.** Acknowledged in the [pre-release foundation stance](../../../AGENTS.md): add the seed when the tool lands. The executor still tracks tasks internally (the `tasks` map backs `ownerOf`/`readOutput`/`kill`); exposing an enumeration is a one-line re-add.
- **Low coupling.** Both removals are confined to their seam + impl + tests; no cross-package consumer references the removed methods, so there is no ripple beyond the docs.
Modest size, but it converts two seams from "what an implementation must provide for nobody" back to "exactly what a consumer uses."
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## Problem
The harness models its core vocabulary — content blocks, message sources, finish reasons, turn triggers, turn-end reasons, and session events — as **merge-extensible maps**: a TypeScript `interface` (e.g. `SessionEventMap`, `ContentBlockMap`) that plugins augment via declaration merging, with the public union derived as `Map[keyof Map]`. This is the repo's universal extension pattern, documented in [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md) ("The same merge-extensible-map pattern is used for `MessageSource`, `FinishReason`, `TurnTrigger`, and `TurnEndReason`") and relied on by the `defineTool` `InferArgs` DSL and the `assertNever` exhaustiveness convention.
The harness models its core vocabulary — content blocks, message sources, finish reasons, turn triggers, turn-end reasons, and session events — as **merge-extensible maps**: a TypeScript `interface` (e.g. `SessionEventMap`, `ContentBlockMap`) that plugins augment via declaration merging, with the public union derived as `Map[keyof Map]`. This is the repo's universal extension pattern, documented in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) ("The same merge-extensible-map pattern is used for `MessageSource`, `FinishReason`, `TurnTrigger`, and `TurnEndReason`") and relied on by the `defineTool` `InferArgs` DSL and the `assertNever` exhaustiveness convention.
The pattern is **compile-time only**. The types vanish at runtime: there is no schema object to validate an incoming value against, parse untrusted input with, or enumerate at runtime. Two concrete consequences surfaced in review of [the session-persistence work](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) (#33):
The pattern is **compile-time only**. The types vanish at runtime: there is no schema object to validate an incoming value against, parse untrusted input with, or enumerate at runtime. Two concrete consequences surfaced in review of [the session-persistence work](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) (#33):
1. **Persistence treats `event.data` as opaque JSON.** The JSONL/SQLite backends `JSON.stringify`/`JSON.parse` each event verbatim; the only runtime guard is `isJsonValue` (round-trip serializability — rejects BigInt, functions, cycles, non-finite numbers, …), NOT structural validation. A corrupted-but-still-JSON event datum (wrong field types, missing fields) round-trips silently and is only caught later, if at all, by a consumer's `switch`.
2. **No runtime contract for plugin-added variants.** A plugin that declaration-merges a new `SessionEventMap` key gets compile-time typing for its own code, but nothing validates that the values it produces match the shape it declared — at the producer, at the persistence boundary, or on reload.
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- **The event producers** — 16 `session.append(...)` call sites in the loop — unchanged in shape but now validated at the boundary.
- **~7 switch-consumers** that branch on these unions: `deriveMessages` (`dsh-session`), `BlockAssembler` (`dsh-llm`), the `dsh-invariants` plugin, both LLM adapters (`dsh-llm-deepseek`, `dsh-llm-pi-ai`), and the tool schema layer (`dsh-tools`). The `assertNever`-on-closed-unions vs fall-through-on-extensible-unions convention (a documented lint rule) would need rethinking — runtime variants are not statically exhaustive.
- **The `defineTool` `InferArgs` DSL** (`dsh-tools`), which derives zero-cast `execute` arg types from a compile-time schema spec — the showcase of the current approach.
- **Docs**: architecture.md (the pattern is described as foundational), [dev-mode invariants](../implemented/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md), and any RFC that references the pattern.
- **Docs**: architecture.md (the pattern is described as foundational), [dev-mode invariants](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md), and any RFC that references the pattern.
This is a HUGE change. It is not in scope for the RFC-009 session-persistence work and must not be smuggled in through it.
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The bash capability seam supports both foreground commands and long-running background tasks. Background support is large: the abstract executor exposes `start`, `get`, `ownerOf`, `list`, `readOutput`, `kill`, and `onTaskDone`; the local executor tracks tasks, incremental reads, owner tokens, process cleanup, and completion listeners; the model sees three tools (`bash`, `bash_output`, `bash_kill`); the tool plugin injects completion notices back into the owning agent's session. The local executor fences task access behind owner tokens because predictable global task ids are a cross-session read/kill hazard.
The [tool cookbook](../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) already points at the real design smell: background bash is really generic long-running-tool infrastructure living inside one tool. If future tools need background execution, polling, kill, ownership, and completion notices, those semantics should not be hidden in `dsh-bash`.
The [tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) already points at the real design smell: background bash is really generic long-running-tool infrastructure living inside one tool. If future tools need background execution, polling, kill, ownership, and completion notices, those semantics should not be hidden in `dsh-bash`.
## Proposal
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- A shared long-running-task service or tool layer owns those semantics and is documented as the path for any future background-capable tool.
- Bash background behavior remains available through the shared layer, with tests proving cross-session isolation still holds.
- ACP and snapshot fixtures render background bash through the shared task vocabulary, not through bash-only lifecycle semantics.
- The [tool cookbook](../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) points long-running tools at the shared runtime instead of telling each tool to invent its own task protocol.
- The [tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) points long-running tools at the shared runtime instead of telling each tool to invent its own task protocol.
## What we give up
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## Problem
`packages/` is flat. Core product packages, provider integrations, capability seams, example UI support, and snapshot-only replay support all sit at the same level and look equally foundational. The [package README](../../../packages/README.md) already has a `FIXME(package-hierarchy)` noting that `ui-stdio` and `llm-replay` were extracted from examples mostly for reuse and coverage. The flat layout makes support packages appear more product-shaped than they are and forces publish/lint/doc scripts to encode intent through comments or static lists.
`packages/` is flat. Core product packages, provider integrations, capability seams, example UI support, and snapshot-only replay support all sit at the same level and look equally foundational. The [package README](../../../../packages/README.md) already has a `FIXME(package-hierarchy)` noting that `ui-stdio` and `llm-replay` were extracted from examples mostly for reuse and coverage. The flat layout makes support packages appear more product-shaped than they are and forces publish/lint/doc scripts to encode intent through comments or static lists.
This is not just cosmetic. A package's location currently says little about whether it is core API, a swappable capability, an adapter integration, an example harness helper, or test infrastructure. That makes future removal harder because every top-level package looks like part of the same public surface.
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# RFC: Make the shared example base providerless
Status: proposed
## Problem
The examples have two shared base files: [examples/base-core.yml](../../../../examples/base-core.yml) is providerless, while [examples/base.yml](../../../../examples/base.yml) includes that core plus the real `llm-deepseek` adapter. Snapshot replay needs the providerless core with `llm-replay`, because loading the real adapter without a key throws. The normal demos need the real adapter. The result is a naming inversion: the file named `base.yml` is not the reusable base for all examples, while the true base is `base-core.yml`.
The split is understandable, but it makes every config explanation longer. It also leads to awkward test setup like a keyless smoke test carrying a dummy API key so an adapter can boot even though the model is not called.
## Proposal
Rename the providerless core to [examples/base.yml](../../../../examples/base.yml) and make adapter selection explicit in each concrete example. The coding and ACP real configs add a tiny `llm-deepseek` include or local block; snapshot config adds `llm-replay`. Delete [examples/base-core.yml](../../../../examples/base-core.yml).
The shared base should contain only provider-neutral services and tools: `llm`, sessions, system prompt, tools, agents, invariants, bash executor, and bash tool schemas. Anything that chooses a model provider belongs at the leaf config.
## Acceptance criteria
- [examples/base.yml](../../../../examples/base.yml) is providerless.
- [examples/base-core.yml](../../../../examples/base-core.yml) is deleted.
- Real demo configs explicitly add the DeepSeek adapter.
- Snapshot replay config includes the same providerless base and its replay adapter.
- The [examples README](../../../../examples/README.md), example-specific READMEs, and RFC references stop explaining "base = base-core plus adapter".
## What we give up
Real demos lose one layer of convenience: each must opt into the adapter. That is the right default for examples, because adapter choice is the variable part and providerless wiring is the shared product core.
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ The coding agent is reachable only through the readline `stdio-chat` plugin: it
Editors are converging on the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), which Zed and others speak: JSON-RPC 2.0 over newline-delimited stdio, modeled on the Language Server Protocol. An editor boots the agent as a subprocess and exchanges `initialize` / `session/new` / `session/prompt`, rendering streamed `session/update` notifications and `session/request_permission` prompts. The goal is for the agent to be a drop-in ACP server — implement the protocol once and run in any ACP client, with no per-editor glue.
This RFC has a hard prerequisite on [session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md): it assumes durable session persistence (the `SessionPersistence` service and the async `AgentLoop.resume` seam) is implemented, so resuming a session via `session/load` is in scope. None of those APIs exist yet — `AgentLoop` currently exposes only the synchronous `create` — so ACP must land after, or in the same change as, [session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md), and pins to its `resume(agentId, resumeSessionId)` contract. Session persistence persists every `SessionEvent` verbatim (including `assistant/chunk`), so a loaded session has the stream chunks needed to replay turns to the client.
This RFC has a hard prerequisite on [session persistence](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md): it assumes durable session persistence (the `SessionPersistence` service and the async `AgentLoop.resume` seam) is implemented, so resuming a session via `session/load` is in scope. None of those APIs exist yet — `AgentLoop` currently exposes only the synchronous `create` — so ACP must land after, or in the same change as, [session persistence](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md), and pins to its `resume(agentId, resumeSessionId)` contract. Session persistence persists every `SessionEvent` verbatim (including `assistant/chunk`), so a loaded session has the stream chunks needed to replay turns to the client.
## Proposal
A new plugin package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` — a client-driver / UI plugin, the structured analogue of `stdio-chat`. It is NOT a change to the loop and NOT an [capability seams](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) interface/implementation/consumer capability split; it consumes the existing `agent/*` event taxonomy and the `tools/execute` waterfall.
A new plugin package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` — a client-driver / UI plugin, the structured analogue of `stdio-chat`. It is NOT a change to the loop and NOT an [capability seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) interface/implementation/consumer capability split; it consumes the existing `agent/*` event taxonomy and the `tools/execute` waterfall.
It depends on the official `@agentclientprotocol/sdk` (the `AgentSideConnection` class) — Apache-2.0, actively versioned. The SDK declares a `zod` peer dependency and imports `zod/v4` at runtime, so `packages/acp` must declare `zod` itself (per the workspace dependency constraints). This is the renamed successor to `@zed-industries/agent-client-protocol`, which is now deprecated on npm.
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|---|---|---|
| `initialize` | static handler | negotiate `protocolVersion` (echo the supported version, else error); advertise text-only `promptCapabilities` and `loadSession: true`; report agent name/version |
| `session/new {cwd, mcpServers, additionalDirectories}``{sessionId}` | the `dsh-agent` create factory (see Dependency note + Plan) | the seam must accept `{ sessionId, meta }` so the ACP-generated `sessionId` becomes the live/persisted session id and the validated `cwd` is attached as the `SessionHeader` (today `AgentLoop.create(id)` hardcodes `${id}-session` and takes no metadata); reject a 2nd session (single-session MVP, see [ACP multi-session](2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md)); `cwd` validated (require absolute) — any absolute cwd is honored: it becomes the session's `SessionHeader.cwd` and the default bash workdir (per-session cwd, see § Deferred → RESOLVED), so the server need not launch in the workspace; non-empty `mcpServers` and `additionalDirectories` are rejected for the MVP because silently ignoring requested servers/roots would desync the client's tool and filesystem-scope UI |
| `session/load {sessionId, cwd, mcpServers, additionalDirectories}` | the `dsh-agent` resume factory ([session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) + Dependency note) | load `{ meta, events }`, seed the session, re-derive history via `deriveMessages()`, replay prior turns to the client as `session/update` per the ACP load contract; `mcpServers` and `additionalDirectories` rejected as in `session/new` |
| `session/load {sessionId, cwd, mcpServers, additionalDirectories}` | the `dsh-agent` resume factory ([session persistence](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) + Dependency note) | load `{ meta, events }`, seed the session, re-derive history via `deriveMessages()`, replay prior turns to the client as `session/update` per the ACP load contract; `mcpServers` and `additionalDirectories` rejected as in `session/new` |
| `session/prompt {prompt}` | `agent.send()` (idle) | text blocks → `TextBlock`; reject image/audio per advertised capabilities; one in-flight prompt per session |
| resolve `session/prompt``{stopReason}` | `agent/turn-end` (extended, see Plan) | map the harness kebab `TurnEndReason` to the ACP snake_case `StopReason` wire enum: `completed``end_turn`, `max-tokens``max_tokens`, `aborted`(cancel)→`cancelled`, plus `refusal`/`max_turn_requests` when applicable; honor the batch-into-one-turn and send-not-synchronously-running settle semantics |
| `session/update: agent_message_chunk` | `agent/stream-chunk` `text-delta` only | do NOT also emit on `block-end(TextBlock)` — it carries the fully-assembled block and would duplicate the streamed text |
@@ -35,37 +35,37 @@ The mapping between ACP and existing harness seams — each row names the seam a
| `session/request_permission {sessionId, toolCall, options}` | prepended `tools/execute` listener | no-op unless `exec.agent` is ACP-owned; await the outcome; `selected/allow_*``next()`; `reject_*`/`cancelled` → veto `ToolExecutionResult{isError}` |
| `session/cancel` (notification) | `agent.cancel(reason)` | the queue-aware cancel (abort running step, clear queued + steering, drop an about-to-start turn); settle the in-flight prompt as `cancelled`; resolve any pending permission as `cancelled` exactly once |
The permission gate is the first real consumer of the `tools/execute` veto seam (the documented "single veto/sandbox/permission seam" plus the deferred "Permission system" TODO in [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md)). It is a single global listener registered with `prepend: true` so it runs before any other tool wrapper. `ToolExecution.agent` is optional and the `Agent` interface carries no origin marker, so the bridge tracks ownership itself: it records each agent it creates in a `WeakMap<Agent, sessionId>` and the gate no-ops (calls `next()` immediately) for any `exec.agent` it does not own — non-ACP agents and the no-agent case pass straight through. For an owned agent it resolves the session, issues `session/request_permission`, and stores the pending resolver on that session's record so the outcome — or a `session/cancel`/connection-close — settles it exactly once.
The permission gate is the first real consumer of the `tools/execute` veto seam (the documented "single veto/sandbox/permission seam" plus the deferred "Permission system" TODO in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)). It is a single global listener registered with `prepend: true` so it runs before any other tool wrapper. `ToolExecution.agent` is optional and the `Agent` interface carries no origin marker, so the bridge tracks ownership itself: it records each agent it creates in a `WeakMap<Agent, sessionId>` and the gate no-ops (calls `next()` immediately) for any `exec.agent` it does not own — non-ACP agents and the no-agent case pass straight through. For an owned agent it resolves the session, issues `session/request_permission`, and stores the pending resolver on that session's record so the outcome — or a `session/cancel`/connection-close — settles it exactly once.
Lifecycle and disposal: the connection, listeners, and in-flight permission promises register via `ctx.effect`/`ctx.on`; teardown is async and awaits quiescence — close the connection, settle/reject pending permissions, `agent.abort()`, and wait for the agent to settle. The disposal-settle signal must come from the `dsh-agent` interface, not the loop: `agent.done` exists only on the concrete `ReactLoopAgent`, so the bridge instead observes `agent/status` reaching `idle`/`disposed` (or the RFC lifts a quiescence promise onto the `Agent` interface). Every listener contains its `send()` exceptions (log, never reject the turn) because stream chunks are emitted inside the model step, so a throwing listener would corrupt the turn.
**Dependency note (architecture rule).** [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md) states "plugins depend on interface packages, never on `dsh-agent-loop`." Creating and resuming agents is currently only on the concrete `AgentLoop` (`ctx.agentLoop`), so this RFC proposes adding an **abstract create/resume factory** to the `dsh-agent` interface (registry-level `create({ sessionId, meta })` / `resume(...)`), implemented by the loop, so `dsh-acp` injects only `agents` (the interface) and the dependency rule holds. The alternative — injecting the concrete `agentLoop` and recording a documented exception in the architecture doc — is explicitly the non-preferred fallback.
**Dependency note (architecture rule).** [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) states "plugins depend on interface packages, never on `dsh-agent-loop`." Creating and resuming agents is currently only on the concrete `AgentLoop` (`ctx.agentLoop`), so this RFC proposes adding an **abstract create/resume factory** to the `dsh-agent` interface (registry-level `create({ sessionId, meta })` / `resume(...)`), implemented by the loop, so `dsh-acp` injects only `agents` (the interface) and the dependency rule holds. The alternative — injecting the concrete `agentLoop` and recording a documented exception in the architecture doc — is explicitly the non-preferred fallback.
## Plan
1. Package scaffold `packages/acp/` per [the cookbook](../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md); add `@agentclientprotocol/sdk` and `zod`. Add the abstract create/resume factory to `dsh-agent` (the interface) so the bridge can `inject: ['agents', 'sessions', 'tools', 'sessionPersistence']` without depending on the concrete loop; `sessionPersistence` is required because `session/load` advertises `loadSession: true`. (Fallback only if the factory is judged not worth it: inject `agentLoop` directly and record the architecture-rule exception in `docs/architecture.md`.)
1. Package scaffold `packages/acp/` per [the cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md); add `@agentclientprotocol/sdk` and `zod`. Add the abstract create/resume factory to `dsh-agent` (the interface) so the bridge can `inject: ['agents', 'sessions', 'tools', 'sessionPersistence']` without depending on the concrete loop; `sessionPersistence` is required because `session/load` advertises `loadSession: true`. (Fallback only if the factory is judged not worth it: inject `agentLoop` directly and record the architecture-rule exception in `docs/architecture.md`.)
2. Connection plus `initialize`/`session/new`: wire `AgentSideConnection` to stdin/stdout; protocolVersion negotiation; the single-session guard; create the live session through the new `{ sessionId, meta }` factory seam (so the ACP `sessionId` and validated `cwd` become the session's id and header); the `sessionId↔agent` and `Session↔sessionId` maps.
3. Internal edit — turn-end reason fidelity (sanctioned: edit internals to fit ACP). Extend `TurnEndReasonMap` in the proper places: (a) declaration-merge a `max-tokens` variant in the owning package (`packages/session/src/types.ts`, alongside `completed|aborted|error|disposed`) — add `max-tokens` because `FinishReasonMap` produces it (DeepSeek maps `length``max-tokens`); do not add `refusal`, since no current adapter produces it (unknown DeepSeek finish reasons collapse to `error`), but leave a comment in `TurnEndReasonMap` noting `refusal` should be added when an adapter first emits it (`FinishReasonMap` is merge-extensible); (b) make `agent-loop`'s `loop.ts` populate the reason from the model `finish` chunk — `assembler.finish` lives inside `runStep`, so `runStep` must return it up to `runTurn`, and the rule is "the last step's finish reason wins, but any `max-tokens` in the turn surfaces as `max-tokens`"; (c) no consumer exhaustively switches over `TurnEndReason` today (the invariants plugin switches on `SessionEventType`, and `deriveMessages` ignores `turn/end`), so adding `max-tokens` is a non-breaking extension — but recheck before landing; (d) update [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md) (the CI-verified loop-lifecycle/event-taxonomy doc) and the affected package READMEs/JSDoc (`dsh-session`, `dsh-agent`, `dsh-agent-loop`) per the repo doc-sync policy. This replaces a fragile "observe the finish chunk in the bridge" hack with a real, documented contract.
3. Internal edit — turn-end reason fidelity (sanctioned: edit internals to fit ACP). Extend `TurnEndReasonMap` in the proper places: (a) declaration-merge a `max-tokens` variant in the owning package (`packages/session/src/types.ts`, alongside `completed|aborted|error|disposed`) — add `max-tokens` because `FinishReasonMap` produces it (DeepSeek maps `length``max-tokens`); do not add `refusal`, since no current adapter produces it (unknown DeepSeek finish reasons collapse to `error`), but leave a comment in `TurnEndReasonMap` noting `refusal` should be added when an adapter first emits it (`FinishReasonMap` is merge-extensible); (b) make `agent-loop`'s `loop.ts` populate the reason from the model `finish` chunk — `assembler.finish` lives inside `runStep`, so `runStep` must return it up to `runTurn`, and the rule is "the last step's finish reason wins, but any `max-tokens` in the turn surfaces as `max-tokens`"; (c) no consumer exhaustively switches over `TurnEndReason` today (the invariants plugin switches on `SessionEventType`, and `deriveMessages` ignores `turn/end`), so adding `max-tokens` is a non-breaking extension — but recheck before landing; (d) update [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) (the CI-verified loop-lifecycle/event-taxonomy doc) and the affected package READMEs/JSDoc (`dsh-session`, `dsh-agent`, `dsh-agent-loop`) per the repo doc-sync policy. This replaces a fragile "observe the finish chunk in the bridge" hack with a real, documented contract.
4. Prompt-turn streaming plus load: translate `agent/stream-chunk` and `session/event` into `session/update`; resolve `session/prompt` on settle, mapping the harness `TurnEndReason` to the ACP `StopReason` wire enum (`completed``end_turn`, `max-tokens``max_tokens`, `aborted``cancelled`) — a small total function with a test asserting the exact wire strings, since the SDK rejects an unknown `stopReason`. Concrete correlation, since the loop batches queued messages into one turn and `send()` does not synchronously flip to running: install listeners before `send()`; gate on an observed `agent/turn-start` (confirms work was accepted) then resolve on the next `agent/turn-end`; reject an empty/whitespace prompt up front rather than calling `send()` (no turn would ever start, so the RPC would hang). Implement `session/load` on the session-persistence resume seam.
5. Permission gate: a single `tools/execute` listener registered with `prepend: true`, owning a `WeakMap<Agent, sessionId>` of bridge-created agents; no-op (`next()`) for unowned/no-agent calls; for owned calls → `session/request_permission` → allow (`next()`) / veto; settle the stored resolver exactly once on outcome, cancel, or connection close.
6. Example wiring (extract a shared base). `@cordisjs/plugin-include` is itself a plugin entry that resets `ctx.baseUrl` and loads a path, so a child `cordis.yml` can nest-include a shared base; the extraction is safe because every dependent plugin declares `inject` (loader groups initialize via `Promise.all`, so YAML order is NOT the dependency mechanism — never rely on it). Extract the provider/tool core (`llm, sessions, system-prompt, tools, agents, invariants, llm-deepseek, bash-local, tool-bash`) into `examples/base.yml`; have both `coding-agent` and a new `examples/acp-agent/` include it and add their own UI plugin plus logger. Keep `agent-loop` per-example (NOT in the base): `AgentLoop` creates its configured agents in its constructor, and the two examples disagree — `coding-agent` needs a pre-created `main` (its `stdio-chat` calls `ctx.agents.get('main')`), while `acp-agent` must pre-create none (ACP `session/new` creates agents). So `coding-agent` declares `agent-loop` with `agents: [{ id: main, … }]` and `acp-agent` with `agents: []`. `acp-agent` loads `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` (from [session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) — required for `session/load`), omits the stdout logger (see Risks), and adds `pnpm run demo:acp` plus the Zed `agent_servers` snippet.
7. Tests (the repo cares a lot here): a property-based test for the protocol shape (precedent: [property-based testing](../implemented/2026-06-11-property-based-testing.md)) — fuzz arbitrary harness event sequences and assert ACP-stream invariants (never a `tool_call_update` before its `tool_call`; exactly one `session/prompt` resolution per prompt; monotonic, well-formed ordering; `stopReason` in the legal set); codec unit tests over an in-memory `Duplex` pair (drive `AgentSideConnection` without a subprocess; assert exact frames for `initialize`, `session/new`, a full prompt turn); the mandatory HMR-safety test (dispose the fiber; assert the connection closed, all `ctx.on` listeners gone, any in-flight `request_permission` settled); failure-path tests (connection closes mid-stream; closes with a permission pending; a notification `send()` rejects but the turn survives; `finish{kind:'error'|'aborted'}`; a `tools/execute` throw with no `tool/result`; a second `session/new` rejected; a `session/prompt` while one is in flight; an empty prompt rejected without hanging; a `session/load` re-derives identical history and replays it); and an e2e (`*.e2e.ts`, self-skips without `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`) that boots `examples/acp-agent`, connects a `ClientSideConnection`, sends a real prompt, owns and disposes the harness in `afterEach`, and verifies the world (files on disk), not the agent's self-report.
8. Docs: module/JSDoc plus a package README; extend [the extension cookbook](../../cookbook/extension-cookbook.md) with the client-driver pattern. Flip Status to `implemented` on landing; record a decision in this RFC only if it proves durable, contested, and surprising (candidates: the `tools/execute` permission-ownership rule, the npm-dependency choice) — not auto-required.
6. Example wiring (extract a shared base). `@cordisjs/plugin-include` is itself a plugin entry that resets `ctx.baseUrl` and loads a path, so a child `cordis.yml` can nest-include a shared base; the extraction is safe because every dependent plugin declares `inject` (loader groups initialize via `Promise.all`, so YAML order is NOT the dependency mechanism — never rely on it). Extract the provider/tool core (`llm, sessions, system-prompt, tools, agents, invariants, llm-deepseek, bash-local, tool-bash`) into `examples/base.yml`; have both `coding-agent` and a new `examples/acp-agent/` include it and add their own UI plugin plus logger. Keep `agent-loop` per-example (NOT in the base): `AgentLoop` creates its configured agents in its constructor, and the two examples disagree — `coding-agent` needs a pre-created `main` (its `stdio-chat` calls `ctx.agents.get('main')`), while `acp-agent` must pre-create none (ACP `session/new` creates agents). So `coding-agent` declares `agent-loop` with `agents: [{ id: main, … }]` and `acp-agent` with `agents: []`. `acp-agent` loads `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` (from [session persistence](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) — required for `session/load`), omits the stdout logger (see Risks), and adds `pnpm run demo:acp` plus the Zed `agent_servers` snippet.
7. Tests (the repo cares a lot here): a property-based test for the protocol shape (precedent: [property-based testing](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-11-property-based-testing.md)) — fuzz arbitrary harness event sequences and assert ACP-stream invariants (never a `tool_call_update` before its `tool_call`; exactly one `session/prompt` resolution per prompt; monotonic, well-formed ordering; `stopReason` in the legal set); codec unit tests over an in-memory `Duplex` pair (drive `AgentSideConnection` without a subprocess; assert exact frames for `initialize`, `session/new`, a full prompt turn); the mandatory HMR-safety test (dispose the fiber; assert the connection closed, all `ctx.on` listeners gone, any in-flight `request_permission` settled); failure-path tests (connection closes mid-stream; closes with a permission pending; a notification `send()` rejects but the turn survives; `finish{kind:'error'|'aborted'}`; a `tools/execute` throw with no `tool/result`; a second `session/new` rejected; a `session/prompt` while one is in flight; an empty prompt rejected without hanging; a `session/load` re-derives identical history and replays it); and an e2e (`*.e2e.ts`, self-skips without `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`) that boots `examples/acp-agent`, connects a `ClientSideConnection`, sends a real prompt, owns and disposes the harness in `afterEach`, and verifies the world (files on disk), not the agent's self-report.
8. Docs: module/JSDoc plus a package README; extend [the extension cookbook](../../../cookbook/extension-cookbook.md) with the client-driver pattern. Flip Status to `implemented` on landing; record a decision in this RFC only if it proves durable, contested, and surprising (candidates: the `tools/execute` permission-ownership rule, the npm-dependency choice) — not auto-required.
Deferred (each names its owning future work):
- Multiplexing concurrent sessions → [ACP multi-session](2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md).
- ~~`cwd` honoring.~~ **RESOLVED.** Originally there was no path from `session/new.cwd` to the bash workdir (`tool-bash` forwarded only an explicit `args.workdir`; `LocalBashExecutor.resolve` defaulted to its own config or `process.cwd()`), so the MVP validated `cwd` (require absolute) AND required the server to launch in the workspace root, erroring on a mismatch. This is now lifted: the validated `cwd` is stored as `SessionHeader.cwd`, and `dsh-tool-bash` defaults the bash workdir to the calling agent's `session.header.cwd` (an explicit model `workdir` still wins; a relative one resolves against it). Any absolute `cwd` is honored — the server need not launch in the workspace, and N sessions can each target a different directory. Widening scope beyond the single cwd (`additionalDirectories`) remains deferred.
- Client `terminal/*` proxying (a live editor terminal) and `fs/*` (editor-rendered diffs) — a future `BashExecutor` over the [capability seams](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) bash seam, gated on `clientCapabilities.terminal`.
- Client `terminal/*` proxying (a live editor terminal) and `fs/*` (editor-rendered diffs) — a future `BashExecutor` over the [capability seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) bash seam, gated on `clientCapabilities.terminal`.
- Image/audio prompts (blocked on the DeepSeek adapter, which skips `image` blocks today), modes, auth, `available_commands`/slash-commands, `plan`, and `usage_update`.
## Risks
stdout is the protocol — guaranteed by config, not by monkey-patching. The console logger writes through `console.log` to stdout, so any stdout UI/logger plugin corrupts JSON-RPC. The guarantee is config-only: the `acp-agent` example loads no stdout plugin (no console logger, no `stdio-chat`) and, if logging is wanted, uses a stderr exporter. A defensive process-wide `process.stdout.write`/`console.log` hijack inside `dsh-acp` is explicitly rejected — it lives outside Cordis' effect-scoped, HMR-friendly plugin model, races the connection's own stdout handoff, and fights the logger. A test asserts the example emits only framed JSON-RPC on stdout.
New third-party runtime dependency plus protocol drift: `@agentclientprotocol/sdk` is young (0.25.x, recently renamed) and evolving. Pin the version and isolate churn to the one bridge package. This is not a vendoring-policy violation — [vendoring Cordis as source](../implemented/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md) vendors the framework; genuine third-party deps already live on npm (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`).
New third-party runtime dependency plus protocol drift: `@agentclientprotocol/sdk` is young (0.25.x, recently renamed) and evolving. Pin the version and isolate churn to the one bridge package. This is not a vendoring-policy violation — [vendoring Cordis as source](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md) vendors the framework; genuine third-party deps already live on npm (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`).
Turn-settle and prompt-correlation hazards: honor "queued messages batch into one turn" and "`send()` does not synchronously flip to running" (see `stdio-chat.ts` and the defensive-patterns section of [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md)); gate resolution on an observed running→idle transition and handle the empty-prompt / no-work branch so an RPC can't hang.
Turn-settle and prompt-correlation hazards: honor "queued messages batch into one turn" and "`send()` does not synchronously flip to running" (see `stdio-chat.ts` and the defensive-patterns section of [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)); gate resolution on an observed running→idle transition and handle the empty-prompt / no-work branch so an RPC can't hang.
Permission-await and disposal hangs: a pending `request_permission` whose connection closes or whose turn aborts must settle exactly once; disposal must reach quiescence (observe the interface-level settle signal — `agent/status` reaching `idle`/`disposed`, since `agent.done` is `ReactLoopAgent`-only), not orphan awaits on a closed pipe.
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
Status: proposed
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> **Implementation status:** the multi-session bridge (steps 1, 3, 4) and the bash task-ownership isolation are implemented in `packages/acp` + `packages/tool-bash`. **Per-session *permission* ownership is deferred** — it depends on [the ACP support permission gate](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) (`TODO(rfc010-permission-gate)`), which is itself deferred; the `agent→sessionId` reverse map the gate will route through is in place. Step 2's per-session disposer scope is now implemented (see [agent lifecycle & ownership seams](../implemented/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md)): the factory returns a per-agent `AgentHandle` whose `dispose()` stops the loop, awaits quiescence, unregisters the agent, and removes its session, so a bare client disconnect leaves no registered agent or session-store entry. Status stays `proposed` until per-session permission ownership lands.
> **Implementation status:** the multi-session bridge (steps 1, 3, 4) and the bash task-ownership isolation are implemented in `packages/acp` + `packages/tool-bash`. **Per-session *permission* ownership is deferred** — it depends on [the ACP support permission gate](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) (`TODO(rfc010-permission-gate)`), which is itself deferred; the `agent→sessionId` reverse map the gate will route through is in place. Step 2's per-session disposer scope is now implemented (see [agent lifecycle & ownership seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md)): the factory returns a per-agent `AgentHandle` whose `dispose()` stops the loop, awaits quiescence, unregisters the agent, and removes its session, so a bare client disconnect leaves no registered agent or session-store entry. Status stays `proposed` until per-session permission ownership lands.
> **Target-client note:** Zed is the current target ACP client, and its ACP client maintains a `HashMap<SessionId, AcpSession>` plus `pending_sessions` for concurrent `session/load` calls. The competing simplification to return to one live session per connection was rejected after checking that target-client shape; this RFC remains the path for finishing multiplexing and per-session permission ownership. See [the rejected simplification](../rejected/2026-06-20-single-session-acp-bridge.md).
> **Target-client note:** Zed is the current target ACP client, and its ACP client maintains a `HashMap<SessionId, AcpSession>` plus `pending_sessions` for concurrent `session/load` calls. The competing simplification to return to one live session per connection was rejected after checking that target-client shape; this RFC remains the path for finishing multiplexing and per-session permission ownership. See [the rejected simplification](../../rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-single-session-acp-bridge.md).
## Problem
[ACP support](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) ships with a single active session per connection: a second `session/new` is rejected. Editors expect to run several conversations over one agent subprocess — a user opens multiple threads, or a client pre-warms sessions. The single-session guard is a deliberate MVP scope cut, not an architectural limit; this RFC lifts it.
This paragraph is historical: the multi-session bridge has landed. The remaining proposed work is per-session permission ownership plus the lifecycle seams now tracked in [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../implemented/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md).
This paragraph is historical: the multi-session bridge has landed. The remaining proposed work is per-session permission ownership plus the lifecycle seams now tracked in [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md).
## Proposal
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## Problem
Today the agent loop advertises every registered tool to the model as a native JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` feeds its schemas into `ctx.systemPrompt`, the loop puts them on `GenerateOptions.tools`, and the adapter serializes them to the provider's function-calling wire format. The model then invokes one `tool-call` block per step, the loop dispatches each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution is an explicit open TODO in `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md)), and **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-enters the model's context on the next request.
Today the agent loop advertises every registered tool to the model as a native JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` feeds its schemas into `ctx.systemPrompt`, the loop puts them on `GenerateOptions.tools`, and the adapter serializes them to the provider's function-calling wire format. The model then invokes one `tool-call` block per step, the loop dispatches each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution is an explicit open TODO in `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)), and **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-enters the model's context on the next request.
For multi-step tool work this is token-heavy and serial. The model cannot compose tools — loop over a result set, branch on an intermediate value, fan out, post-process — without a full model round-trip per call, and each of those round-trips drags the entire intermediate result back into context whether the model needs it or not.
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ This RFC proposes an **optional** Code Mode for the DeepSeek Harness, covering *
## Proposal
The design follows the codebase's capability-seam pattern ([capability seams](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), the `bash` template) as a three-package split, plus one consumer plugin. Nothing in `dsh-session`, `dsh-agent`, `dsh-agent-loop`, `dsh-llm`, `dsh-tools`, or `dsh-system-prompt` changes.
The design follows the codebase's capability-seam pattern ([capability seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), the `bash` template) as a three-package split, plus one consumer plugin. Nothing in `dsh-session`, `dsh-agent`, `dsh-agent-loop`, `dsh-llm`, `dsh-tools`, or `dsh-system-prompt` changes.
**Prior art.** `@cloudflare/codemode` validates this shape directly and several of its decisions are adopted below. Its `Executor` interface is deliberately tiny — `execute(code, fns) → { result, error?, logs? }` — with a production `DynamicWorkerExecutor` (isolated Workers) and a six-line `NodeVMExecutor` example as two implementations behind it: exactly the interface/implementation split [the capability-seam pattern](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) prescribes. It generates TypeScript type definitions from tools for the model's context and runs the generated JavaScript in a sandbox, capturing console output alongside the return value. It normalizes model output into an async arrow function via AST parsing (acorn) and sanitizes tool names into valid JS identifiers (`my-tool``my_tool`, `delete``delete_`). It blocks outbound network by default. The transferable lessons — minimal executor contract, host-side type derivation, capture-output-and-return-value, name sanitization, AST-normalize the code, isolate by default — are folded into the design below. What does **not** transfer is the substrate: Cloudflare's isolation is Workers-specific; our equivalent hardened substrate is the deferred follow-up.
**Prior art.** `@cloudflare/codemode` validates this shape directly and several of its decisions are adopted below. Its `Executor` interface is deliberately tiny — `execute(code, fns) → { result, error?, logs? }` — with a production `DynamicWorkerExecutor` (isolated Workers) and a six-line `NodeVMExecutor` example as two implementations behind it: exactly the interface/implementation split [the capability-seam pattern](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) prescribes. It generates TypeScript type definitions from tools for the model's context and runs the generated JavaScript in a sandbox, capturing console output alongside the return value. It normalizes model output into an async arrow function via AST parsing (acorn) and sanitizes tool names into valid JS identifiers (`my-tool``my_tool`, `delete``delete_`). It blocks outbound network by default. The transferable lessons — minimal executor contract, host-side type derivation, capture-output-and-return-value, name sanitization, AST-normalize the code, isolate by default — are folded into the design below. What does **not** transfer is the substrate: Cloudflare's isolation is Workers-specific; our equivalent hardened substrate is the deferred follow-up.
**Prompt-budget tradeoff (Code Mode is not unconditionally cheaper).** Deriving the SDK types host-side costs no extra *discovery* round-trip, but the generated `.d.ts` is injected into the system prompt (§3a), so the type definitions themselves **do** consume context — and for an all-tools SDK that cost scales with every registered tool and can be comparable to, or larger than, the native JSON schemas it replaces. Code Mode's saving is on the **output/result** side (the model curates what comes back; intermediate results never re-enter context) and on **round-trips** (compose many calls in one program), not on the input-side tool description. The net win is workload-dependent: it pays off for multi-call, large-intermediate-result workflows and can cost *more* for a single call against a large tool surface. The `.d.ts` section is a prefix-stable prompt prefix, so prompt caching amortizes its per-turn cost across a session; the RFC notes that caching is what keeps the injected SDK affordable, and that a deployment with a very large tool surface should weigh the SDK size against native schemas rather than assume Code Mode is strictly cheaper.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The design follows the codebase's capability-seam pattern ([capability seams](..
- a readonly `safe: boolean` on the `CodeRuntime` service — `false` for an unsandboxed stub, `true` only for a real isolating substrate; consumers gate on it (§2).
- `SdkBinding = { namespace: string; fns: Record<string, (args: unknown) => Promise<unknown>> }`
Per the "explicit > implicit at seams" convention, the request spells out every field the runtime acts on; defaulting (e.g. an output cap, a timeout derived from `signal`) is the implementation's explicit job, not a hidden `?? default` inside `run()`. The split into interface + implementation is justified under [the capability-seam pattern](../implemented/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) because there is **genuinely more than one planned implementation** — the node:vm stub *and* the hardened substrate (a real isolate, or the generated program run as a sandboxed process through the existing `ctx.bash` seam) that is scheduled follow-up work, not speculative optionality. The capability-seam pattern warns against splitting preemptively when only one implementation is conceivable; here a second is not just conceivable but required before any untrusted use, so the seam earns its keep.
Per the "explicit > implicit at seams" convention, the request spells out every field the runtime acts on; defaulting (e.g. an output cap, a timeout derived from `signal`) is the implementation's explicit job, not a hidden `?? default` inside `run()`. The split into interface + implementation is justified under [the capability-seam pattern](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) because there is **genuinely more than one planned implementation** — the node:vm stub *and* the hardened substrate (a real isolate, or the generated program run as a sandboxed process through the existing `ctx.bash` seam) that is scheduled follow-up work, not speculative optionality. The capability-seam pattern warns against splitting preemptively when only one implementation is conceivable; here a second is not just conceivable but required before any untrusted use, so the seam earns its keep.
**Backends can differ by language/runtime, not only by trust level.** The two implementations above (unsafe stub vs. hardened substrate) differ along the *trust* axis while staying TypeScript/JS, but nothing in the `CodeRuntime` contract — a program string plus a set of named async SDK bindings in, and a `{ result, logs, error? }` out — is bound to one source language. The same seam can host backends that differ along the *language* axis, executing a program written in something other than TypeScript. Two illustrative directions:
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Per the "explicit > implicit at seams" convention, the request spells out every
These are illustrations of the seam's reach, **not commitments** — the MVP ships only the TypeScript path. The honest caveat is that the *execution* contract is language-agnostic but the *presentation* is not: the SDK-generation pipeline below (§3a and the `jsonSchemaToTs` codegen, which emits a TypeScript `.d.ts`) is TypeScript-specific, so a non-TS backend pairs the shared `CodeRuntime` contract with its own language-appropriate SDK generator and system-prompt section (a `.pyi` stub and Python usage instructions for the Python backend, AssemblyScript-flavored types for that one). The runtime seam is reused as-is; only the codegen/prompt half is per-language.
**2. Implementation package `packages/code-runtime-vm/`** — a new package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-vm`, the `node:vm` reference stub. It type-erases the model's TypeScript via the compiler's `transpileModule` (or sucrase) — the types exist only to guide the model; the runtime is plain JS — then wraps the body in an async IIFE for top-level `await` (Cloudflare's `NodeVMExecutor` does literally `new AsyncFunction("codemode", "return await (${code})()")`), runs it in a `vm.Context` whose globals are a capturing `console` and the SDK namespace objects, awaits the IIFE, and captures the return value, the buffered logs, and any thrown error (as `error: string`). It applies an **output cap** (truncate captured logs) and a **timeout tied to `request.signal`**. These caps limit blast radius; **they are not a security boundary**. node:vm is **not** isolation: withholding `require`/`process` does not contain anything (code escapes via `constructor`/prototype reflection), and per [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) the harness must never hand model output the ambient environment.
**2. Implementation package `packages/code-runtime-vm/`** — a new package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-vm`, the `node:vm` reference stub. It type-erases the model's TypeScript via the compiler's `transpileModule` (or sucrase) — the types exist only to guide the model; the runtime is plain JS — then wraps the body in an async IIFE for top-level `await` (Cloudflare's `NodeVMExecutor` does literally `new AsyncFunction("codemode", "return await (${code})()")`), runs it in a `vm.Context` whose globals are a capturing `console` and the SDK namespace objects, awaits the IIFE, and captures the return value, the buffered logs, and any thrown error (as `error: string`). It applies an **output cap** (truncate captured logs) and a **timeout tied to `request.signal`**. These caps limit blast radius; **they are not a security boundary**. node:vm is **not** isolation: withholding `require`/`process` does not contain anything (code escapes via `constructor`/prototype reflection), and per [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) the harness must never hand model output the ambient environment.
**The unsafe-runtime guard is enforceable, not a README warning.** Because a README caveat is not a control — and AGENTS.md's "never hand model output ambient authority" is a hard rule, not advice — the design makes the danger refuse to run by construction. Two layers:
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ These are illustrations of the seam's reach, **not commitments** — the MVP shi
**Sub-call CallIds.** Real tool calls dispatched from inside `run_code` need ids, but `CallId` is normally provider-issued (a branded string for correlating a call with its result — only brand-wrapped via `CallId()`, with no generator and no documented session-global-uniqueness guarantee). The plugin mints deterministic sub-ids scoped to the parent: `` `${exec.callId}:code:${n}` `` with a per-run counter `n`. These are unique within one `run_code` run (assuming the parent `callId` is unique, which the provider guarantees per turn); the `code/dispatch` event additionally carries the session log's `seq` so the UI and persistence can order and disambiguate globally without relying on the id alone. `ToolExecution.agent` is optional; the normal loop always supplies it (and with it `exec.agent.session`, the log `code/dispatch` appends to). A `run_code` execution arriving without `exec.agent` still runs (sub-calls propagate `agent: undefined`, exactly as the loop's own contract allows) but **skips session-log observability** — with no session to append to, those direct runs are simply not logged.
**Observability without context cost.** Each sub-dispatch emits a session event **declared by the `dsh-code-mode` plugin itself** via `SessionEventMap` declaration merging (the map is merge-extensible precisely so plugins can add events without touching `dsh-session`). Shape: `code/dispatch` with `{ parentCallId, subCallId, name, arguments (or redacted), isError, summary }`, ordered by the session log's own `seq`. `deriveMessages()` does **not** translate it into a model message — an unknown event type falls through its `default`, per the merge-extensible-union convention — so the UI and persistence ([session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)) can render every sub-call while the model's context only ever receives the single `run_code` tool-result. Because the event lives in the plugin, this adds no core change.
**Observability without context cost.** Each sub-dispatch emits a session event **declared by the `dsh-code-mode` plugin itself** via `SessionEventMap` declaration merging (the map is merge-extensible precisely so plugins can add events without touching `dsh-session`). Shape: `code/dispatch` with `{ parentCallId, subCallId, name, arguments (or redacted), isError, summary }`, ordered by the session log's own `seq`. `deriveMessages()` does **not** translate it into a model message — an unknown event type falls through its `default`, per the merge-extensible-union convention — so the UI and persistence ([session persistence](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)) can render every sub-call while the model's context only ever receives the single `run_code` tool-result. Because the event lives in the plugin, this adds no core change.
**SDK codegen.** A pure `jsonSchemaToTs(schema)` in `code-mode` maps the JSON-schema subset the `defineTool` DSL produces (object/string/number/boolean/array, `properties`, `required[]`, `enum` → string-literal union, nested objects, array `items`) to a TS type literal. It is **total**: any unsupported construct (`$ref`, `oneOf`/`anyOf`, `integer`, `null`, `additionalProperties`, or any raw MCP shape it does not recognize) degrades to `unknown` without throwing — it never crashes codegen. Typing is best-effort, not a guarantee, because MCP tools accept arbitrary JSON Schema and `ToolSchema.parameters` is typed only as `Record<string, unknown>`. Because `ToolSchema.name` is an arbitrary string (not necessarily a valid TS identifier), the SDK is generated as a **namespace with quoted access** (e.g. `tools["some-mcp-tool"](args)`) plus safe camelCase aliases where the name is a clean identifier; alias collisions and TS reserved words fall back to quoted-only access (no duplicate alias emitted). This mirrors Cloudflare's `sanitizeToolName`. `run_code` itself is filtered out of the SDK. The MVP surfaces text content only; image and other block types in sub-results are deferred (noted as a limitation).
**Concurrency — serialized by default (the binding must enforce it).** The SDK functions are async, so a model writing `await Promise.all([tools.a(...), tools.b(...)])` would *start both* immediately, and each would call `ctx.tools.execute` right away — i.e. the binding shape makes concurrent dispatch the **default**, not an opt-in. Because the tool contract carries **no concurrency-safety metadata today** (parallel tool execution and a concurrency-safety hint are an open TODO in both `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md): "phase 1 executes tool calls sequentially"), concurrent dispatch through a not-yet-hardened tool may race. So a prose "may serialize" is not sufficient. **Decision: the MVP SDK bindings enforce serialization** — each `run_code` invocation owns a per-run dispatch queue, and every `invoke()` chains onto it (`tail = tail.then(() => ctx.tools.execute(...))`), so even `Promise.all` over SDK calls executes them one at a time in submission order. This is a hard acceptance criterion, with a test that issues `Promise.all([...])` from a program and asserts the underlying `ctx.tools.execute` calls did **not** overlap (e.g. a probe tool records enter/exit and the test asserts no interleaving). The `.d.ts` may *describe* the model-visible functions as async (they are), but the implementation guarantees serial execution. Lifting serialization is deferred: only once a tool can declare itself read-only / concurrency-safe does the binding allow those specific tools to overlap. The same per-run queue is where the before/after abort checks (§3c) live, so an aborted run drains no further queued dispatches.
**Concurrency — serialized by default (the binding must enforce it).** The SDK functions are async, so a model writing `await Promise.all([tools.a(...), tools.b(...)])` would *start both* immediately, and each would call `ctx.tools.execute` right away — i.e. the binding shape makes concurrent dispatch the **default**, not an opt-in. Because the tool contract carries **no concurrency-safety metadata today** (parallel tool execution and a concurrency-safety hint are an open TODO in both `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md): "phase 1 executes tool calls sequentially"), concurrent dispatch through a not-yet-hardened tool may race. So a prose "may serialize" is not sufficient. **Decision: the MVP SDK bindings enforce serialization** — each `run_code` invocation owns a per-run dispatch queue, and every `invoke()` chains onto it (`tail = tail.then(() => ctx.tools.execute(...))`), so even `Promise.all` over SDK calls executes them one at a time in submission order. This is a hard acceptance criterion, with a test that issues `Promise.all([...])` from a program and asserts the underlying `ctx.tools.execute` calls did **not** overlap (e.g. a probe tool records enter/exit and the test asserts no interleaving). The `.d.ts` may *describe* the model-visible functions as async (they are), but the implementation guarantees serial execution. Lifting serialization is deferred: only once a tool can declare itself read-only / concurrency-safe does the binding allow those specific tools to overlap. The same per-run queue is where the before/after abort checks (§3c) live, so an aborted run drains no further queued dispatches.
**Tool visibility tiers (design intentionally skipped).** A natural extension is to mark each tool with a *visibility tier*: some tools "direct-call eligible" (still offered as native wire tools alongside `run_code`), some "code-mode only" (reachable solely from within a `run_code` program, never on the wire), and the default "both." This would let a deployment keep a few high-frequency or approval-gated tools as direct calls while routing the long tail through Code Mode, or hide composition-only primitives from the native surface entirely. This RFC notes the possibility but **intentionally skips the detailed design** — the per-tool metadata, how it interacts with the `agent/request` enforcement in 3b, and the presentation split in 3a are left to a follow-up. The MVP is the simple two-state model: Code Mode on (everything via `run_code`) or off (everything native).
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ These are illustrations of the seam's reach, **not commitments** — the MVP shi
## Alternatives
**Result elision / summarization over native tool-calling (the narrower route).** The Problem has two halves — context bloat (every intermediate `tool-result` re-enters context) and serial composition (one tool call per round-trip). The context-bloat half can be addressed *without* any code-execution runtime: keep provider tool-calling exactly as it is, and add a plugin on the `agent/request` waterfall (or a compaction pass akin to [the session-persistence work](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)) that elides or summarizes older `tool-result` blocks before they re-enter the model's context — drop them past a window, replace large payloads with a digest, or keep only the blocks the model still references. This is strictly less invasive than Code Mode: no new runtime seam, no model-written programs, no new safety surface. It is the right tool if context growth is the only pain.
**Result elision / summarization over native tool-calling (the narrower route).** The Problem has two halves — context bloat (every intermediate `tool-result` re-enters context) and serial composition (one tool call per round-trip). The context-bloat half can be addressed *without* any code-execution runtime: keep provider tool-calling exactly as it is, and add a plugin on the `agent/request` waterfall (or a compaction pass akin to [the session-persistence work](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)) that elides or summarizes older `tool-result` blocks before they re-enter the model's context — drop them past a window, replace large payloads with a digest, or keep only the blocks the model still references. This is strictly less invasive than Code Mode: no new runtime seam, no model-written programs, no new safety surface. It is the right tool if context growth is the only pain.
It is insufficient for the **composition / round-trip** half, which is the decisive reason this RFC does not stop there. Elision still pays one model round-trip per tool call: a loop over N items is N turns, a branch on an intermediate value is a turn to fetch then a turn to act, and post-processing (filter, join, reduce) either happens in the model's head over full payloads or not at all. Code Mode collapses all of that into one program — the loop, the branch, the join run in the runtime, and only the curated result returns. Elision also cannot express fan-out or data-dependent control flow; it only shrinks what comes back. So the two are complementary, not competing: elision could even layer *under* Code Mode for the residual native-tool paths. The RFC chooses Code Mode because the round-trip/composition cost is the larger structural limit, and accepts the new code-execution surface as the price — which is exactly why the execution substrate is gated behind the enforceable safety guard (§2) and the hardened backend is a hard prerequisite for untrusted use.
@@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ It is insufficient for the **composition / round-trip** half, which is the decis
## Plan
1. Scaffold the interface package `packages/code-runtime/` per [the cookbook](../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md): abstract `CodeRuntime extends Service` (`super(ctx, 'codeRuntime')`) with a readonly `safe: boolean`, the `declare module 'cordis'` ctx key, the `CodeRunRequest`/`CodeRunResult`/`SdkBinding` vocabulary, method contracts documented in JSDoc (what `run` captures, abort semantics, that an error is a result field not a throw, what `safe` means). HMR-safety test (dispose the contributing fiber, assert `ctx.codeRuntime` is gone).
1. Scaffold the interface package `packages/code-runtime/` per [the cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md): abstract `CodeRuntime extends Service` (`super(ctx, 'codeRuntime')`) with a readonly `safe: boolean`, the `declare module 'cordis'` ctx key, the `CodeRunRequest`/`CodeRunResult`/`SdkBinding` vocabulary, method contracts documented in JSDoc (what `run` captures, abort semantics, that an error is a result field not a throw, what `safe` means). HMR-safety test (dispose the contributing fiber, assert `ctx.codeRuntime` is gone).
2. Scaffold the implementation package `packages/code-runtime-vm/`: the node:vm stub — `safe = false`, a constructor that **throws unless given `{ unsafe: true }`**, transpile/type-erase, async-IIFE wrap, capturing `console`, SDK globals, return-value/logs/error capture, output cap, signal-tied timeout. Tests for output capture, return value, error-as-field, abort, the constructor refusal without `unsafe`, and a README documenting the "not a sandbox, trusted-only" caveat prominently.
3. Scaffold the consumer plugin `packages/code-mode/`: `jsonSchemaToTs` codegen with namespace/quoted-access + alias handling (unit tests, including non-identifier MCP names and unsupported-shape → `unknown`); the registered lazy `ctx.systemPrompt.section()` carrying the SDK `.d.ts`; the `agent/request` listener (`prepend: true`) collapsing `request.tools` to `[run_code]` after `await next()`; the **unsafe-runtime gate** (refuse to register `run_code` when `ctx.codeRuntime.safe === false` unless `allowUnsafeRuntime` is set); the `run_code` tool with the dispatch bridge (per-run serialization queue, deterministic sub-call ids, before/after abort checks, `CodeRunError` on error results); and the `code/dispatch` event declared here via `SessionEventMap` merge. Declare `inject = ['tools', 'systemPrompt', 'codeRuntime']`.
4. Tests: HMR-safety (dispose removes the tool, the section, and the listener); a waterfall test that the wire tool list is exactly `[run_code]` (spy adapter, asserting via `agent/request` and optionally `llm/stream`); an integration test that a program calling two tools returns only its printed/returned output (verify the world, not the self-report); a **serialization test** that `Promise.all([...])` over SDK calls does not overlap the underlying `ctx.tools.execute` invocations (a probe tool records enter/exit; assert no interleaving); `deriveMessages()` ignores `code/dispatch`; abort mid-program stops further dispatches; `CodeRunError` surfaces as `isError: true`; and the **unsafe-runtime refusal test** (§3, the VM-guard): with the unsafe flag unset, a non-mock agent's `run_code` is refused; with it set, the program runs.
5. Wire an example: `examples/coding-agent-code-mode` (or a config flag on the existing example) loading the trio. Running it against the node:vm stub requires both opt-ins (`VmCodeRuntime({ unsafe: true })` and `code-mode`'s `allowUnsafeRuntime`); the example sets them explicitly and comments why, or uses a mock model — a real model never reaches the unsandboxed stub without those deliberate flags. Add a `pnpm run demo:*` entry.
6. Docs: update [docs/architecture.md](../../architecture.md) (a `ctx.codeRuntime` row in the service map, a Code Mode note under the tool pipeline / capability seams sections); add a [cookbook](../../cookbook/) note on writing a `CodeRuntime` backend; and **file the follow-up RFC for the hardened execution substrate** (the isolate/sandboxed-process design, the additional-language backends sketched in §1 — AssemblyScript/WASM, Python — with their per-language SDK generators, plus the tool-visibility-tier design skipped here). On landing, move this file to `implemented/` and update its row in [the RFC index](../README.md).
6. Docs: update [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) (a `ctx.codeRuntime` row in the service map, a Code Mode note under the tool pipeline / capability seams sections); add a [cookbook](../../../cookbook) note on writing a `CodeRuntime` backend; and **file the follow-up RFC for the hardened execution substrate** (the isolate/sandboxed-process design, the additional-language backends sketched in §1 — AssemblyScript/WASM, Python — with their per-language SDK generators, plus the tool-visibility-tier design skipped here). On landing, move this file to `implemented/` and update its row in [the RFC index](../../README.md).
## Risks
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<!-- XXX: legacy ADR/RFC body format, not yet normalized to a unified RFC template. -->
> Split out from the original "Doc-sync and API reports" RFC (2026-06-11). Parts 1-2 (doc-block typechecking, event-taxonomy verification) shipped — see [doc-sync enforcement](../implemented/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md). This is the deferred part 3, kept as a standalone proposal.
> Split out from the original "Doc-sync and API reports" RFC (2026-06-11). Parts 1-2 (doc-block typechecking, event-taxonomy verification) shipped — see [doc-sync enforcement](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md). This is the deferred part 3, kept as a standalone proposal.
## Problem
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: proposed
## Problem
Two architectural guarantees currently live only in prose: (1) nothing depends on the concrete loop package ([the microkernel promise](../implemented/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md)), and (2) every LlmAdapter speaks the chunk protocol correctly. Both should be mechanical ([the quality-gates principle](../implemented/2026-06-11-quality-gates.md)).
Two architectural guarantees currently live only in prose: (1) nothing depends on the concrete loop package ([the microkernel promise](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md)), and (2) every LlmAdapter speaks the chunk protocol correctly. Both should be mechanical ([the quality-gates principle](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-quality-gates.md)).
## Proposal
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Two architectural guarantees currently live only in prose: (1) nothing depends o
- `vendor/*` must not import from `packages/*`.
- Layering: dsh-llm imports nothing from other dsh packages; dsh-session only dsh-llm; etc. (the dependency table in packages/README.md, enforced).
**Adapter conformance kit** in dsh-llm (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm/conformance`): a reusable vitest suite parameterized by an adapter factory, asserting the chunk-protocol contract — index monotonicity per block, no deltas after `block-end` for an index, exactly one `finish`, usage at most once, every `tool-call-delta` carries the call id, abort honored promptly. Run it against the mocks now; the DeepSeek V4 adapter inherits it on day one. Optionally a dev-mode `strictAdapter()` wrapper enforcing the same at runtime behind a debug flag (pairs with [the dev-mode invariants](../implemented/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md)).
**Adapter conformance kit** in dsh-llm (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm/conformance`): a reusable vitest suite parameterized by an adapter factory, asserting the chunk-protocol contract — index monotonicity per block, no deltas after `block-end` for an index, exactly one `finish`, usage at most once, every `tool-call-delta` carries the call id, abort honored promptly. Run it against the mocks now; the DeepSeek V4 adapter inherits it on day one. Optionally a dev-mode `strictAdapter()` wrapper enforcing the same at runtime behind a debug flag (pairs with [the dev-mode invariants](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md)).
## Plan
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## Problem
The vendor manifest ([the vendoring decision](../implemented/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md)) is enforced at commit time in the *forward* direction (vendored change ⇒ manifest update) but nothing verifies the manifest's *claims*: that vendor/ actually equals upstream-at-SHA plus exactly the logged modifications. And the handful of true npm dependencies have no advisory monitoring or update cadence.
The vendor manifest ([the vendoring decision](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md)) is enforced at commit time in the *forward* direction (vendored change ⇒ manifest update) but nothing verifies the manifest's *claims*: that vendor/ actually equals upstream-at-SHA plus exactly the logged modifications. And the handful of true npm dependencies have no advisory monitoring or update cadence.
## Proposal
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Status: proposed
## Problem
Package and gate inventories are repeated by hand. [scripts/publint-all.ts](../../../scripts/publint-all.ts) has a static list of publishable packages. The [package cookbook](../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md) tells authors to update several files. The [package README](../../../packages/README.md) carries a hand-written dependency graph. [CI](../../../.github/workflows/ci.yml) and [development docs](../../development.md) can drift from the actual `doc-sync` subcommands when new gates are added. These lists are small today, but every new package or gate creates another manual synchronization point.
Package and gate inventories are repeated by hand. [scripts/publint-all.ts](../../../../scripts/publint-all.ts) has a static list of publishable packages. The [package cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md) tells authors to update several files. The [package README](../../../../packages/README.md) carries a hand-written dependency graph. [CI](../../../../.github/workflows/ci.yml) and [development docs](../../../development.md) can drift from the actual `doc-sync` subcommands when new gates are added. These lists are small today, but every new package or gate creates another manual synchronization point.
Static lists are appropriate when they encode policy; they are needless friction when they duplicate manifest data or layout facts that already exist in `package.json`, workspace globs, or the package hierarchy.
## Proposal
Make package/gate inventories discoverable. Publishability should come from the deliberate [package hierarchy](2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md) plus package manifests, not from a static array in a script or the npm `private` flag. Module graph generation should read package manifests. `doc-sync` should be the one command that defines and prints its sub-gates, with docs linking to that command rather than restating a second list.
Make package/gate inventories discoverable. Publishability should come from the deliberate [package hierarchy](../architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md) plus package manifests, not from a static array in a script or the npm `private` flag. Module graph generation should read package manifests. `doc-sync` should be the one command that defines and prints its sub-gates, with docs linking to that command rather than restating a second list.
The hierarchy does not need to encode every fact about a package, but it should encode the broad maintenance policy: core/product packages, integrations, capability seams, and support/test/example packages should not all require a hand-maintained exception list before scripts can tell them apart.
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Status: proposed
## Problem
`LlmService.registerAdapter()` emits `llm/adapter-change` on registration and disposal ([packages/llm/src/index.ts](../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)). Grepping `llm/adapter-change` across `packages/*/src` and `examples/*/src` finds only the declaration, emit sites, docs, and tests; no production listener subscribes to it.
`LlmService.registerAdapter()` emits `llm/adapter-change` on registration and disposal ([packages/llm/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)). Grepping `llm/adapter-change` across `packages/*/src` and `examples/*/src` finds only the declaration, emit sites, docs, and tests; no production listener subscribes to it.
This differs from `tools/change` and `system-prompt/change`. Those two events are also unconsumed today, but they are plausible registry-change signals for future live tool/prompt UIs. LLM adapter registration is more of a boot-time implementation detail: adapters are not a user-visible palette and the real model-call interception seam is `llm/stream`. Keeping an adapter-change event with no listener repeats the [drop-the-dead-summary](../implemented/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern at a smaller scale.
This differs from `tools/change` and `system-prompt/change`. Those two events are also unconsumed today, but they are plausible registry-change signals for future live tool/prompt UIs. LLM adapter registration is more of a boot-time implementation detail: adapters are not a user-visible palette and the real model-call interception seam is `llm/stream`. Keeping an adapter-change event with no listener repeats the [drop-the-dead-summary](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern at a smaller scale.
The event is not free. `registerAdapter()` yields its rollback disposer before emitting `llm/adapter-change` so a throwing listener unwinds the mutation instead of leaking an adapter entry, and the package carries tests for that listener-throw path. That defensive ordering protects a failure mode only tests can trigger.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Remove only `llm/adapter-change`:
- Simplify `registerAdapter()`'s effect generator: keep the mutation and rollback disposer for HMR/disposal, but drop the listener-throw rollback ordering that exists only for the removed event.
- Remove the "Emits `llm/adapter-change` on registration and disposal" sentence from `LlmService.registerAdapter`'s JSDoc.
- Rewrite the adapter-disposer test to assert the returned disposer removes the adapter without subscribing to `llm/adapter-change`; delete the listener-throw rollback test that exists solely for the removed event.
- Update the event taxonomy table in [docs/architecture.md](../../../docs/architecture.md) and [packages/llm/README.md](../../../packages/llm/README.md). The [doc-sync-enforcement RFC](../implemented/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md) should avoid using `llm/adapter-change` as an example once the event is gone.
- Update the event taxonomy table in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) and [packages/llm/README.md](../../../../packages/llm/README.md). The [doc-sync-enforcement RFC](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md) should avoid using `llm/adapter-change` as an example once the event is gone.
## Why not remove every registry change event?
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ Status: proposed
## Problem
`LlmService` ([packages/llm/src/index.ts](../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)) exposes three call surfaces over a model:
`LlmService` ([packages/llm/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)) exposes three call surfaces over a model:
- `stream()` — raw `StreamChunk`s, dispatched through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
- `streamBlocks()` — a "convenience view" that runs the chunks through a `BlockAssembler` and yields completed `ContentBlock`s in stream order ([index.ts:137-144](../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)).
- `generate()` — one fully-assembled `GenerateResult`, dispatched through a second `llm/generate` waterfall ([index.ts:151-157](../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)).
- `streamBlocks()` — a "convenience view" that runs the chunks through a `BlockAssembler` and yields completed `ContentBlock`s in stream order ([index.ts:137-144](../../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)).
- `generate()` — one fully-assembled `GenerateResult`, dispatched through a second `llm/generate` waterfall ([index.ts:151-157](../../../../packages/llm/src/index.ts)).
The only production consumer of the LLM service is the agent loop, and it uses `stream()` exclusively — feeding raw chunks through its own `BlockAssembler` so it can log chunks for replay fidelity while assembling in parallel ([packages/agent-loop/src/loop.ts](../../../packages/agent-loop/src/loop.ts), the `ctx.llm.stream(req)` step). Grepping `streamBlocks` and `ctx.llm.generate` across `packages/*/src` and `examples/*/src` finds no production callers. The references are the service methods, docs, and tests; adapter tests use `generate()` as a convenient driver, but they can hand-drain `stream()` through the same assembler helper without preserving a public production API.
The only production consumer of the LLM service is the agent loop, and it uses `stream()` exclusively — feeding raw chunks through its own `BlockAssembler` so it can log chunks for replay fidelity while assembling in parallel ([packages/agent-loop/src/loop.ts](../../../../packages/agent-loop/src/loop.ts), the `ctx.llm.stream(req)` step). Grepping `streamBlocks` and `ctx.llm.generate` across `packages/*/src` and `examples/*/src` finds no production callers. The references are the service methods, docs, and tests; adapter tests use `generate()` as a convenient driver, but they can hand-drain `stream()` through the same assembler helper without preserving a public production API.
This is the [drop-mutable-session-summary](../implemented/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern: assembled-view APIs with tested contracts, consumed by tests rather than production. They were built speculatively for consumers that do not care about token-level deltas, but the one real consumer cares about deltas precisely so it can persist high-fidelity replay data.
This is the [drop-mutable-session-summary](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern: assembled-view APIs with tested contracts, consumed by tests rather than production. They were built speculatively for consumers that do not care about token-level deltas, but the one real consumer cares about deltas precisely so it can persist high-fidelity replay data.
`streamBlocks()` drags a dedicated slice of `BlockAssembler` behind it: `flushReady()` and `flushRemaining()` ([packages/llm/src/assembler.ts:138-168](../../../packages/llm/src/assembler.ts)) plus the `flushed` cursor field exist only to support incremental in-order yield. `generate()` drags `GenerateResult`, `BlockAssembler.result()`, and the `llm/generate` waterfall as a second interception surface over the same underlying stream. The loop's assembler usage is `push()` / `message()` / `usage` / `finish` — not streaming flush or one-shot service assembly.
`streamBlocks()` drags a dedicated slice of `BlockAssembler` behind it: `flushReady()` and `flushRemaining()` ([packages/llm/src/assembler.ts:138-168](../../../../packages/llm/src/assembler.ts)) plus the `flushed` cursor field exist only to support incremental in-order yield. `generate()` drags `GenerateResult`, `BlockAssembler.result()`, and the `llm/generate` waterfall as a second interception surface over the same underlying stream. The loop's assembler usage is `push()` / `message()` / `usage` / `finish` — not streaming flush or one-shot service assembly.
## Proposal
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ Make `stream()` the only public LLM call surface:
- Remove `LlmService.generate()`, the `llm/generate` waterfall event, and `GenerateResult` if no surviving API needs that named result shape.
- Remove `BlockAssembler.flushReady()`, `BlockAssembler.flushRemaining()`, and the `flushed` cursor field.
- Remove `BlockAssembler.result()` if it is only a helper for the deleted `generate()` service path and tests.
- Replace adapter-test use of `ctx.llm.generate()` with a small test helper that calls `ctx.llm.stream()`, pushes chunks into `BlockAssembler`, and returns the assembled message, usage, and finish reason needed by that test. That keeps the [twin-adapter design](../implemented/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) intact while avoiding a public method whose only callers are tests.
- Replace adapter-test use of `ctx.llm.generate()` with a small test helper that calls `ctx.llm.stream()`, pushes chunks into `BlockAssembler`, and returns the assembled message, usage, and finish reason needed by that test. That keeps the [twin-adapter design](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) intact while avoiding a public method whose only callers are tests.
- Remove or rework the `flushReady`/`flushRemaining`-dependent tests. Keep assembler invariants that still apply to `push()` / `blocks()` / `message()`; delete behavior that only pins the removed flush API.
- Update every doc/comment reference to `streamBlocks`, `generate`, `GenerateResult`, and `llm/generate` across `docs/`, package READMEs, and source comments. The `ctx.llm` service-map row in [docs/architecture.md](../../../docs/architecture.md) becomes `stream()` only, the event taxonomy drops `llm/generate`, and the [property-based-testing RFC](../implemented/2026-06-11-property-based-testing.md) names block-assembly invariants without referring to removed convenience methods.
- Update every doc/comment reference to `streamBlocks`, `generate`, `GenerateResult`, and `llm/generate` across `docs/`, package READMEs, and source comments. The `ctx.llm` service-map row in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) becomes `stream()` only, the event taxonomy drops `llm/generate`, and the [property-based-testing RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-11-property-based-testing.md) names block-assembly invariants without referring to removed convenience methods.
## Acceptance criteria
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ Make `stream()` the only public LLM call surface:
- `pnpm run test:coverage` stays at 100% per-file (the deleted methods take their dedicated tests with them; no remaining line goes uncovered).
- Adapter tests still exercise both real adapters through `stream()` and the shared assembler, not through a test-only public shortcut.
- The loop behaves identically — verified by unchanged ACP snapshot goldens.
- `packages/llm/README.md`, [docs/architecture.md](../../../docs/architecture.md), and module docs no longer mention the removed convenience surfaces.
- `packages/llm/README.md`, [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md), and module docs no longer mention the removed convenience surfaces.
## Risks
- **It removes public methods from a core vocabulary package.** A future plugin that wants assembled blocks without deltas would need to call `stream()` and use `BlockAssembler` directly or reintroduce a focused helper with a real consumer. Given the pre-release "foundation over speculative future" stance ([AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md)), this is the right time to cut test-only public shape.
- **It removes public methods from a core vocabulary package.** A future plugin that wants assembled blocks without deltas would need to call `stream()` and use `BlockAssembler` directly or reintroduce a focused helper with a real consumer. Given the pre-release "foundation over speculative future" stance ([AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md)), this is the right time to cut test-only public shape.
- **Adapter tests get a little more explicit.** They lose the ergonomic `generate()` wrapper, but that is useful pressure: tests exercise the same streaming path production uses.
- **Waterfall users lose `llm/generate`.** No production listener exists. Any future caching/retry/logging plugin should wrap `llm/stream`, which remains the single provider call path.
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
# RFC: Prune dead methods from the persistence and bash capability seams
Status: proposed
## Problem
Two capability seams ([interface / implementation / consumer](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)) carry abstract methods that no consumer calls. The seam exists to let implementations and consumers evolve independently — but a method no consumer programs against is not a seam, it is speculative surface every implementation must still implement and test.
### `SessionPersistence.has()` and `.delete()`
The abstract service declares four operations beyond create/append: `load`, `list`, `has`, `delete` ([packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts:142-151](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts)). Production consumers of `ctx.sessionPersistence` use only two of them: the agent-loop resume path calls `load()` ([packages/agent-loop/src/index.ts:176-194](../../../../packages/agent-loop/src/index.ts)), and the ACP bridge calls `list()` for `session/list` ([packages/acp/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/acp/src/index.ts)). Grepping every `sessionPersistence.*` / `persistence.*` use across `packages/*/src` and `examples/` finds no `has(` and no `delete(` on the service. The `.has(`/`.delete(` calls in `packages/acp/src/index.ts` are on the in-memory `SessionStore` and a local `Set` of loading ids, not persistence. The only callers of `has`/`delete` are the contract suites and per-backend specs.
`has()` is not just unused — it is the most intricate branch in the shared coordinator: a tracked-vs-untracked dual-probe (`loadLive(id, cwd)` for a live-tracked session vs `loadStored(id)` for an untracked one) with a multi-line rationale ([packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts:298-310](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)). `delete()` drags the `deleteStored` backend hook ([coordinator.ts:99](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts), [coordinator.ts:313-319](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)) that every backend must implement. This is the [drop-mutable-session-summary](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) pattern: a contract test exercises both, but no shipping code asks "is this session persisted?" or removes one.
### `BashExecutor.get()` and `.list()`
The bash seam declares `get(id)` ("look up a background task by id") and `list()` ("all tracked background tasks") ([packages/bash/src/index.ts:88-107](../../../../packages/bash/src/index.ts)), both implemented by `LocalBashExecutor` ([packages/bash-local/src/index.ts:179-191](../../../../packages/bash-local/src/index.ts)). The sole production consumer — `dsh-tool-bash` — drives tasks via `ownerOf`, `onTaskDone`, `start`, `readOutput`, `kill`, `resolve`, `run`; it never calls `get`/`list` in shipping code, and there is no `bash_list` tool exposing a task roster to the model. So both are dead production seam surface. They are used by tests, more broadly than a single idiom: the bash seam/executor specs assert them directly ([packages/bash/tests/service.spec.ts](../../../../packages/bash/tests/service.spec.ts), [packages/bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts](../../../../packages/bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts) both call `get()`/`list()`), and several `dsh-tool-bash` tests reach through `ctx.bash.get(id)` to await a task's `done`, read its `status`, or inspect task fields ([packages/tool-bash/tests/tools.spec.ts](../../../../packages/tool-bash/tests/tools.spec.ts), [packages/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts](../../../../packages/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts)). These are test-harness conveniences, not shipping consumers — but they are real test code an implementing PR must migrate or delete.
## Proposal
Remove the methods nothing consumes, from the abstract seam, the implementation, and the contract/spec suites that exist only to exercise them:
- `SessionPersistence.has()` / `.delete()`: delete the abstract declarations, the coordinator's `has`/`delete`/`deleteCore`, and the `PersistenceBackend.deleteStored` hook. Remove the `has`/`delete` rows from the contract suite and the per-backend specs (jsonl + sqlite each implement `deleteStored` only to satisfy the hook — that implementation goes too). The backends are the [dual-backend](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) design and otherwise out of scope, but removing a hook they implement for no consumer is part of removing the hook, not a backend redesign.
- `BashExecutor.get()` / `.list()`: delete the abstract declarations and the `LocalBashExecutor` impls. The seam/executor specs that assert `get()`/`list()` directly (`bash/tests/service.spec.ts`, `bash-local/tests/executor.spec.ts`) lose those assertions (the behavior is being removed). The `dsh-tool-bash` tests that reach through `ctx.bash.get(id)` to await `done`, read `status`, or inspect task fields switch to the public completion/status seam they should use — `onTaskDone` (or the `done` promise and status the `start()` return already exposes) — keeping their coverage without the removed lookup method.
- Update every doc and source-comment reference to the removed methods — not only literal `has(`/`delete(`/`get(`/`list(`/`deleteStored` call spellings, but also `{@link has}`/`{@link delete}` JSDoc links and prose that counts the methods (removing 2 of the persistence service's 6 public methods makes any "six public methods" phrasing wrong). The implementing PR greps `has`/`delete`/`get`/`list`/`deleteStored`/`{@link `/`six ` across `docs/`, `packages/*/README.md`, and source comments, and fixes each. The known doc sites: the seam READMEs ([packages/session-persistence/README.md](../../../../packages/session-persistence/README.md)'s `has(id)`/`delete(id)` API row and its "delegates its six public service methods" prose → four, [packages/bash/README.md](../../../../packages/bash/README.md)'s `get(id)`/`list()` row), the backend READMEs that describe `has`/`list` semantics ([packages/session-persistence-sqlite/README.md](../../../../packages/session-persistence-sqlite/README.md), [packages/session-persistence-jsonl/README.md](../../../../packages/session-persistence-jsonl/README.md) — reword "absent from `has()`/`list()`" to just `list()`), the service-map / seam docs in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md), and the persistence prose in the [session-persistence RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) and [shared write-coordinator RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md). The known source-comment sites: the abstract `create()` JSDoc's `{@link has}/{@link list}` link ([packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/index.ts) — drop the `has` link), the coordinator's "six public methods"/"six public service methods" module + class JSDoc and its lazy-materialization JSDoc justifying the `materialized` flag by "the signal `has`/`list` rely on" ([packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts](../../../../packages/session-persistence/src/coordinator.ts)), the JSONL backend's `loadStored`/`deleteStored` comment, and the SQLite backend's `schema.ts` and `index.ts` comments that mention "absent from `has`/`list`" — all reworded to the surviving four-method, `list()`-only contract.
## Why not keep them as "the seam should be complete"?
The instinct that a persistence seam "should" offer delete, or a task executor "should" offer enumeration, is real — and it is exactly the speculative-completeness the pre-release stance warns against ([AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md): optimize for the correct foundation, not for hypothetical callers you do not have). Each of these is one method to re-add the day a consumer needs it:
- A session-management UI that deletes old sessions will want `delete()` — add it then, designed against that UI's real needs (soft-delete? cascade? confirmation?), not guessed now.
- A `bash_list` tool that shows the model its running tasks will want `list()` — add it with the tool.
Re-adding a seam method with a live consumer is cheap and better-designed than the speculative version, because the consumer pins the contract. Carrying it unused means every implementation (and every future backend) must implement and test a method that does nothing.
## Acceptance criteria
- `has`/`delete`/`deleteStored` and `get`/`list` are gone from their seams, impls, and contract suites; `pnpm run knip` reports no new dead exports.
- The remaining seam operations (`create`/`append`/`load`/`list` for persistence; `run`/`start`/`ownerOf`/`onTaskDone`/`readOutput`/`kill`/`resolve` for bash) are untouched; ACP `session/list`, bash tool flows, and crash-recovery behave identically.
- `pnpm run test:coverage` stays 100% per-file (the contract/spec rows for the removed methods are deleted with them).
- Seam READMEs and `docs/architecture.md` no longer list the removed methods.
## Risks
- **`delete()` is the kind of operation a product eventually wants.** True — but "eventually" is the point. Deleting it now and re-adding it against a real consumer is strictly better than shipping a guessed contract. The dual backends each shed a `deleteStored` impl, which is a bounded edit in otherwise-out-of-scope packages.
- **`list()` on the bash seam is the natural seed for a future `bash_list`.** Acknowledged in the [pre-release foundation stance](../../../../AGENTS.md): add the seed when the tool lands. The executor still tracks tasks internally (the `tasks` map backs `ownerOf`/`readOutput`/`kill`); exposing an enumeration is a one-line re-add.
- **Low coupling.** Both removals are confined to their seam + impl + tests; no cross-package consumer references the removed methods, so there is no ripple beyond the docs.
Modest size, but it converts two seams from "what an implementation must provide for nobody" back to "exactly what a consumer uses."
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The agent factory carries TWO ids for what is, in every live consumer, one thing
Everywhere a live consumer actually looks an agent up — the **ACP bridge, the only production path** — the two are already unified: `agentId === sessionId === <uuid>`.
The separation is **latent generality no consumer exercises**: nothing reads a *stable* `agentId` back across runs (each process starts fresh, and persistence keys off the session id, never the agent id). The config path's "stable agentId, fresh sessionId" buys nothing concrete — it is cosmetic. And the `agentId !== sessionId` case is precisely what opens the bash owner-token alias hole: the bash completion-notice routes by `session.header.id`, but the registry enforces uniqueness only on `agentId`, so a programmatic caller registering two agents with different agent ids but the SAME session id can mis-route a notice (see [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../implemented/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md) § Seam precondition). The current code documents this as a precondition rather than guaranteeing it.
The separation is **latent generality no consumer exercises**: nothing reads a *stable* `agentId` back across runs (each process starts fresh, and persistence keys off the session id, never the agent id). The config path's "stable agentId, fresh sessionId" buys nothing concrete — it is cosmetic. And the `agentId !== sessionId` case is precisely what opens the bash owner-token alias hole: the bash completion-notice routes by `session.header.id`, but the registry enforces uniqueness only on `agentId`, so a programmatic caller registering two agents with different agent ids but the SAME session id can mis-route a notice (see [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md) § Seam precondition). The current code documents this as a precondition rather than guaranteeing it.
## Proposal
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: proposed
## Problem
The per-file 100% coverage gate ([the quality-gates decision](../implemented/2026-06-11-quality-gates.md)) proves every line *executes* under test — not that any assertion would notice if the line were wrong. Under agent-written tests, coverage pressure can produce execution-without-assertion. Mutation testing measures what coverage cannot: whether the suite *kills* deliberately injected bugs.
The per-file 100% coverage gate ([the quality-gates decision](../../implemented/process/2026-06-11-quality-gates.md)) proves every line *executes* under test — not that any assertion would notice if the line were wrong. Under agent-written tests, coverage pressure can produce execution-without-assertion. Mutation testing measures what coverage cannot: whether the suite *kills* deliberately injected bugs.
## Proposal
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Stdout goldens remain unchanged; they are the editor-facing projection and are n
- The snapshot test derives the expected session log from `session.jsonl` for every model scenario.
- Authored sidecar scenarios commit their expected produced log in `session.jsonl`; `replay.override.json` remains the model-behavior override.
- Orphan-fixture guards understand which files are required by scenario kind.
- The [ACP snapshot tests RFC](../implemented/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) is updated to describe the reduced fixture set.
- The [ACP snapshot tests RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) is updated to describe the reduced fixture set.
## What we give up