docs(rfc): revise the batch for the hooks-stack base; add three post-stack RFCs
The branch now bases on the hooks stack (PR #138's head), so every 'in-flight' reference to stack content became a current-state fact. Audited all nine RFCs + three supplements claim-by-claim against the merged tree (none invalidated; several strengthened): - prune-dead-core-spine-surface: describe the landed tools/pre-execute → dispatch → tools/post-execute pipeline — listeners return Decisions, the registry builds every result and snapshots it to protect callId, and a second (mutation-guard) test pins the field; drop the resolved wait-for-interception hedge; scope the additionalContext ferry out. - prune-producerless-vocabulary-variants: the ui-stdio fixture migrated off the continuation trigger (llm-replay is the sole writer now); the stack's own additions (rejected, prompt/blocked, hook/invoked+result) all arrived with producers — the admission policy demonstrated live. - prune-unimplemented-subagent-vocabulary: enrichment landed as lastAssistantMessage only (agentType was dropped in the stack's own review — the same judgment this RFC extends); the seam RFC now names tools/pre-execute deny, which exists, sharpening the re-add path. - drop-inert-request-knobs / drop-image-content-block / trim-acp-bridge-unreachable-surface: current-state rewordings (shipped bridges set no request fields; only compact-basic has explicit image arms; 13 hook goldens also pin agentInfo). - generic-long-running-tool-runtime census: second production seam consumer (hook-protocol runHook: resolve+run, stdin/env, foreground only — background machinery stays single-consumer); scrub-duplication blast radius. - discover-package-inventory: identical 54-entry tsconfig reference sets; the comparesLog scenario knob (fixture-derivable, like recorded). - unify-agent-and-session-id: third divergence site (in-process subagent children mint two UUIDs), the hooks bridge id-lookups, and ui-stdio's labelBySession map as a consumer that deletes under unification. New RFCs from the post-stack survey: - remove-agent-steering-mirror: the last mirror-of-durable event; zero production listeners; both retention RFCs deferred its fate, and the 'no durable twin' rationale is contradicted by the adjacent append. - tighten-hook-protocol-contract: producer-less 'native' dialect, parsed-and-discarded suppressOutput, and hook/result semantics (truncation + decision-string) defined twice in the bridges instead of the lib that owns the event. - single-source-acp-replay-config: cordis.yml/cordis.snapshot.yml differ by exactly one plugin entry, with no gate on the forced symmetry.
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# RFC: Single-source the acp-agent replay config
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Status: proposed
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## Problem
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`examples/acp-agent` ships two hand-maintained configs: `cordis.yml` (the live tree) and `cordis.snapshot.yml` (the keyless replay tree). Stripped of comments and blanks, their entire difference is ONE plugin entry — the eight-line `llm-deepseek` stanza (with its `!!js` env keys and model list) versus the two-line `llm-replay` stanza. Every other entry is byte-identical, including the multi-line system prompt and both hook-bridge stanzas. Every app-shape change must therefore be made twice, and the [hook-snapshot-matrix RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md) records paying exactly that tax: "hence the symmetric edit to both configs".
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Nothing gates the symmetry. If the copies drift, the snapshot tier silently exercises a different app than the one that ships — the ["green units, broken product" class of gap](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) the snapshot tier exists to close, reintroduced one level up, with reviewer vigilance as the only defense.
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## Proposal
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Make the replay tree derive from the live tree instead of mirroring it. Preferred endpoint: a single source — either `cordis.snapshot.yml` becomes a thin overlay that includes `cordis.yml` and swaps only the llm entry (if the vendored loader/include config supports entry-level override), or the acp-agent bin's existing `DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay` branch performs the one-entry swap on the parsed config and `cordis.snapshot.yml` is deleted. Fallback endpoint, if single-sourcing is judged too magical for a teaching example: keep both files and add a boring verify gate (in the `doc-sync`/`hygiene` family) asserting the two configs' entry sets are equal modulo the llm entry. The implementing PR picks after checking the loader's include/override capability, updates the recording docs, and amends the snapshot RFCs' facts per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
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## Why not keep the twin?
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An explicit replay file is transparently readable and teaches replay semantics — the strongest counterargument, and the reason the fallback keeps the file and adds only the gate. YAML surgery inside the published bin is real complexity in a shipping artifact, and an include-overlay depends on loader capability that may not exist. But the status quo — a 125-line hand-maintained near-copy of a 141-line file whose one meaningful difference is two lines, defended by nothing — is the one option with a silent failure mode, and it grows with every plugin the app gains (the hooks stack just added twin stanzas to both).
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## Acceptance criteria
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- Either one config file plus a mechanical llm-entry swap exercised by the snapshot suite itself, or two files plus a symmetry gate that fails CI on any non-llm divergence.
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- All snapshot scenarios (hook matrix included) pass unchanged; `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` still boots the live tree.
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## Risks
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The include-overlay shape may be unsupported by the vendored loader — then the bin-side swap or the gate. `echo-agent`/`coding-agent` are unaffected (no snapshot twin). If the gate route is chosen, it is one more bespoke verify script — the cost the repo's gate-friendly policy explicitly accepts for encoding an invariant no human reliably remembers.
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