Add in-process subagent backends: spawn (fresh) and fork (seeded)

The second PR of the subagent seam: the two in-process backends that run a
child agent on the same cordis context, reusing the agent factory's quiescent
AgentHandle teardown. Both register on ctx.subagents (PR1's named-provider
registry) and share one run driver.

- dsh-subagent-spawn: a FRESH child via ctx.agents.create — own session, the
  parent's model by default (overridable), zero inherited conversation. Also
  exports the shared in-process run driver (startInProcessRun): mint ids, stamp
  cwd/parentSession-lineage/depth, drive the one-shot (send → whenIdle), read
  the last assistant/message + turn/end reason, dispose to quiescence.
- dsh-subagent-fork: a child SEEDED with the parent's balanced completed-turn
  prefix (the log up to and including its last turn/end), so the child inherits
  context. The in-flight unbalanced turn is excluded — a raw seed would fail the
  invariants replay. Proven: a regression test goes red if the boundary seeds
  the open turn.
- Seam extension: CreateAgentOptions.seed, threaded through AgentLoop.createAgent
  → ctx.sessions.prepare({ seed }) (the primitive resume already used). This is
  the fork-lineage path the TODO(sub-agents) markers anticipated.
- Depth: a merge-extensible AgentOptions.subagentDepth (0 top-level, parent+1 for
  a child); the depthLimit capability refuses a spawn past request.maxDepth.

Tests: real-loop unit tests for both backends (mock MODEL only, real loop +
invariants), a multi-subagent test (one parent drives a fork AND a spawn child
then keeps working), and a with-key e2e (a real parent delegates via the
`subagent` tool to a real child that writes a file on disk — world-verified).
100% per-file coverage. The coding-agent demo wires the spawn backend + tool.

Snapshot coverage of nested agents is deferred to a stacked follow-up
(TODO(subagent-snapshots)): dsh-llm-replay is a single global positional cursor
that cannot route calls to a parent vs. a child on one context. Recorded in the
RFC's deferrals and a new AGENTS.md rule: designing a subsystem must design its
test infrastructure END TO END up front, verifying the snapshot/e2e harness can
express the new shape — a gap this plan hit.
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/**
* The in-process FORK subagent backend: registers a {@link SubagentProvider} on
* `ctx.subagents` that runs each child as a child {@link Agent} SEEDED with a
* prefix of the parent's session log — so the child inherits the parent's
* conversation context instead of starting fresh. Shares the run driver with
* `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-spawn`; the only difference is the seed.
*
* The seed boundary is the crux: at the moment a subagent tool's `execute`
* runs, the parent's CURRENT turn is open and unbalanced (it holds the
* `assistant/message` with this spawn's tool-call, plus the dangling `tool/call`
* with no `tool/result`). Seeding that raw prefix gives the child an open turn
* the session constructor and the dev-mode invariants replay REJECT. So the
* fork seeds only the **balanced completed-turn prefix**: the parent's log up
* to and including its last `turn/end`, excluding the in-flight turn entirely.
*
* Plugin export shape: named `name`/`inject`/`Config`/`apply`, NO default.
*
* @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-fork
*/
import type { Context } from 'cordis'
import z from 'schemastery'
import type { SessionEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
import type { Agent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
import type { SubagentCapabilities, SubagentProvider, SubagentStartRequest } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent'
import { startInProcessRun } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-spawn'
export const name = 'subagent-fork'
export const inject = ['subagents', 'agents']
/** Config: the registry name to register the provider under. */
export interface Config {
/** Provider name on `ctx.subagents` (default `fork`). */
providerName: string
}
export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
providerName: z.string().default('fork'),
})
/**
* The balanced completed-turn prefix of `parent`'s log: every event up to and
* including the last `turn/end`. Empty if the parent has never completed a turn
* (the in-flight turn is excluded, so a parent on its very first turn forks an
* empty — i.e. fresh — child). The result is contiguous from seq 0 (the live
* log keeps `seq === index`), so it is a valid session seed; the in-flight,
* unbalanced turn is dropped so the invariants replay accepts it.
*/
export function completedTurnPrefix(parent: Agent): SessionEvent[] {
const events = parent.session.events
const lastEnd = events.findLast(e => e.type === 'turn/end')
if (lastEnd === undefined) return []
// seq === array index (the append contract), so slice up to and including it.
return events.slice(0, lastEnd.seq + 1)
}
/**
* The fork provider. Supports `depthLimit`; NOT `outputSchema`/`toolFilter` this
* cut (the service rejects a request needing either before `start` runs).
*/
class ForkProvider implements SubagentProvider {
readonly capabilities: SubagentCapabilities = { outputSchema: false, depthLimit: true, toolFilter: false }
constructor(readonly name: string, private readonly ctx: Context) {}
start(request: SubagentStartRequest) {
const seed = completedTurnPrefix(request.parent)
return startInProcessRun(this.ctx, request, {
providerName: this.name,
// Only pass a seed when there's a completed turn to inherit; an empty seed
// is equivalent to a fresh child, so omit it to keep the session unseeded.
...seed.length > 0 ? { seed } : {},
})
}
}
export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
ctx.subagents.registerProvider(new ForkProvider(config.providerName, ctx))
}