feat(events): interception seams — the typed-Decision surface for hooks
Reshape the agent's interception surface so every seam returns a small, typed
Decision union, and the set covers the hook points a CC/Codex bridge (and a
native plugin) needs. "Native hooks" are not a package — a native hook is just a
cordis plugin on these canonical events; the bridges (a later PR) only translate
an external protocol onto the same surface.
dsh-agent:
- NEW agent/session-start(agent, source) emit (once before turn 1; SessionStartSource
startup|resume|clear|compact) — a pure notification, seeds context via inject().
- NEW agent/prompt-submit waterfall → PromptDecision (allow, optionally rewriting the
prompt or attaching additionalContext, or block).
- RESHAPE agent/turn-continuation boolean → ContinuationDecision ({action:'stop'} |
{action:'continue', reason?}; a continue reason is recorded as next-step steering).
- New HookContext envelope (required source — inject() would mislabel a missing one).
dsh-tools: split the single tools/execute waterfall into tools/pre-execute
(PreToolDecision allow/deny/ask gate) and tools/post-execute (PostToolDecision
accept/block, optionally replacing content or attaching additionalContext). Core
dispatch sits between as plain code; the tool body keeps its inner try/catch so a
thrown tool still reaches post-execute as an isError. ToolExecutionResult gains
additionalContext (ferried to the loop's per-step buffer). Input rewrite is
deliberately NOT offered (a proposed RFC designs it consistently).
dsh-session: new `rejected` TurnEndReason — a turn whose whole prompt batch was
blocked by prompt-submit.
agent-loop firing points: session-start emitted at create (source threaded —
startup for create/fork, resume for resume()); prompt-submit per drained message
with the always-open-turn rule (a fully-blocked batch is a zero-step rejected
turn); the continuation reshape; post-tool additionalContext buffered and appended
after all tool/results (adjacency). ACP codec maps rejected→cancelled.
A worked native-plugin example (interception.spec.ts) proves all four seams compose
end-to-end through the real loop with NO hook/* events (those belong to the bridge
lib). All existing tools/execute + turn-continuation tests migrated. The
tool-subagent abort test now aborts after a microtask so it still exercises the
live onAbort bridge (execute() awaits pre-execute before the body runs).
RFCs: implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md (the reshape) +
proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md (the deferred rewrite design).
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| [Multiplex concurrent ACP sessions over one connection](proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md) | 2026-06-14 |
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| [Optional Code Mode — model writes TypeScript against an SDK of all tools](proposed/feature/2026-06-15-optional-code-mode.md) | 2026-06-15 |
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| [Compaction as a capability seam (abstract contract + basic backend)](proposed/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-18 |
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| [Pre-tool input rewrite — a consistent design](proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md) | 2026-06-30 |
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### Simplification
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| [Subagent capability seam](implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-21 |
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| [ACP subagent backend (out-of-process delegation)](implemented/feature/2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md) | 2026-06-22 |
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| [The `todo_write` tool — model task list as event-sourced session state](implemented/feature/2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md) | 2026-06-29 |
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| [Interception seams — the typed-Decision surface a hook programs against](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) | 2026-06-30 |
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### Simplification
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# RFC: Interception seams — the typed-Decision surface a hook programs against
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Status: implemented (accepted 2026-06-30)
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<!-- XXX: legacy ADR/RFC body format, not yet normalized to a unified RFC template. -->
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## Context
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The harness needs a hooks subsystem: users extend or gate the agent at lifecycle points the way Claude Code (CC) and Codex do. The key reframe driving this design is that **"native hooks" are not a package** — a native hook is just an ordinary Cordis plugin subscribing to the canonical lifecycle events. So the real product is a *powerful, well-typed canonical event surface*; the CC/Codex bridges (a later stack PR) are merely translators that map an external shell-hook protocol onto that same surface. Anything a bridge can do, a plain plugin can do directly — more powerfully (no serialization boundary, full `ctx`, typed returns).
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Before this change the interception surface was incomplete and inconsistent for that goal: there was no per-prompt seam (CC's `UserPromptSubmit`), no session-start signal (CC's `SessionStart`), the single `tools/execute` waterfall conflated the pre-gate and post-inspect phases (CC splits `PreToolUse`/`PostToolUse`), and `agent/turn-continuation` returned a bare `boolean` with no room for a force-continue *reason*. The [event-domain-semantics RFC](../architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md) (the stack's first change) pinned down the three-domain rule and the typed-Decision idiom as the interception convention; this RFC builds the actual seams on top of it.
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## Decision
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Add/reshape the interception seams so every one returns a small, seam-specific **typed Decision union**, and the set covers the hook points in scope (`session-start`, `prompt-submit`, `pre-tool`, `post-tool`, `stop`-via-continuation).
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**New `agent/*` events** (`dsh-agent`):
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- `agent/session-start(agent, source)` — emit, once before turn 1, carrying a `SessionStartSource` (`startup` for a fresh/forked create, `resume` for a reloaded persisted session; `clear`/`compact` reserved). A pure notification — it CANNOT block startup (a deliberate gap: a bridge logs/injects, it does not gate startup). A listener seeds context via `agent.inject()`.
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- `agent/prompt-submit(agent, content, source, next) → PromptDecision` — waterfall, fired per drained queued message inside the open turn, before the `user/message` append. `allow` (optionally rewriting the prompt `content` or attaching `additionalContext`) or `block`.
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**Reshaped** `agent/turn-continuation` from `(…, defaultDecision: boolean) → boolean` to `(…, defaultDecision: ContinuationDecision) → ContinuationDecision`. A `{action:'continue', reason?}` may carry model-facing context recorded as next-step steering in the same turn — the typed twin of the existing `/goal` step-end-steer pattern.
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**Split** the single `tools/execute` waterfall into `tools/pre-execute` (→ `PreToolDecision` allow/deny/ask gate) and `tools/post-execute` (→ `PostToolDecision` accept/block, optionally replacing content or attaching `additionalContext`). Core dispatch sits between them as plain code inside `ToolRegistry.execute`'s outer try/catch, and the tool body keeps its own inner try/catch so a thrown tool still becomes an `isError` result that `post-execute` listeners can inspect.
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**New `TurnEndReason` variant** `rejected` (`dsh-session`): a turn whose entire prompt batch was blocked by `prompt-submit`.
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### Three load-bearing loop decisions
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1. **Always open the turn first; a fully-blocked batch is a zero-step `rejected` turn.** `prompt-submit` fires AFTER `turn/start`, per message. A batch whose every prompt is blocked does NOT skip the turn — it opens a zero-step turn that closes with `rejected`. This one move resolves three problems at once: (1) turn-enclosure holds (every event has an open turn to live in); (2) `agent/turn-end` fires and the ACP bridge settles normally (mapping `rejected`→`cancelled`) instead of hanging; (3) the block reason is a durable in-turn fact. An `allow`'s `additionalContext` is `inject()`ed into this now-open turn.
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2. **Post-tool `additionalContext` is buffered and appended AFTER all `tool/result`s.** `content`/`feedback` shape the result `execute()` returns, but `additionalContext` is a SEPARATE `context/message`, and a single step can carry multiple tool calls. Appending context right after each result would interleave `result(c1) → context → result(c2)` and break tool-call/result adjacency. So `execute()` surfaces `additionalContext` on its `ToolExecutionResult`, and the loop buffers every per-call context for the step and appends them as `context/message`(s) only after every `tool/result` is appended.
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3. **A forced `continue` `reason` is enqueued through the steering channel**, so the next step's top-of-loop drain records it as steering for the continued turn — next-*step* steering within the SAME turn, not a next-*turn* prompt (matching the existing `hasSteering` force-continue override).
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### Pre-tool INPUT rewrite is DEFERRED (the over-reach signal)
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`PreToolDecision` is allow/deny/ask only — **no `arguments` rewrite**. Output replacement (`PostToolDecision.accept.content`) is safe because `tool/result` is logged AFTER execution (one source of truth). Input rewrite is NOT safe today: `assistant/message` (the model-history source) and `tool/call` (the audit record) are both logged BEFORE execution, and live consumers READ `tool/call.arguments` for presentation (the ACP bridge remembers them for `presentResult`; `dsh-tool-bash` derives the title/cwd/terminal-vs-background from them). A rewrite that changed only execution would make the UI show one command while another RAN. Designing that consistently (rewriting the audit + history + presentation as one unit) is a real consistency-design problem CC itself warns is racy — so it gets its own [proposed RFC](../../proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md), and `TODO(pre-tool-input-rewrite)` anchors it at the loop's pre-execute call site. This does not regress any production consumer (no production `tools/execute` listener mutated `exec.arguments`). The low-level capability to mutate `exec` in a `pre-execute` listener still exists (unadvertised — a test shim uses it to thread a generated id), but it is not a first-class advertised contract.
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### What this PR does NOT do
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It does **not** declare `hook/*` SessionEvents (the durable hook-invocation log) — those belong to the `dsh-hook-protocol` library (a later stack PR), because a native plugin can already use the typed Decisions without a durable hook log. A worked native-plugin example/test in this PR (`packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts`) proves all the seams compose end-to-end through the REAL loop with NO `hook/*` involved — the concrete proof that "native hooks are just a plugin". Compaction (`PreCompact`/`PostCompact`), the Notification hook, Codex `PermissionRequest`, the permission/`ask` system, and the Stop loop-guard remain deferred (`FIXME(permissions)` marks the `ask`→deny degrade).
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## Consequences
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The canonical interception surface is now complete and uniformly typed: a native plugin returns typed decisions directly, and a CC/Codex bridge maps its protocol fields onto the same unions. The loop gained four firing points (session-start emit, prompt-submit waterfall, the post-tool context buffer, the continuation reshape) and the `dsh-tools` registry runs a two-waterfall pipeline; both are documented in [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) and the package READMEs, and the decision types in [core-data-structures](../../../core-data-structures/core.md#interception-decisions) + [tools.md](../../../core-data-structures/tools.md). All existing `tools/execute` and `turn-continuation` listeners (tests, docs) migrated to the new seams. The ACP bridge maps the new `rejected` reason to `cancelled` (its codec). A pure internal change with no editor-visible transcript shift for the existing scenarios — the new behavior only fires when a hook is registered — so the snapshot goldens are unchanged; a hook-driven snapshot scenario lands with the bridges (the PR that makes a hook observable end-to-end through ACP).
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# RFC: Pre-tool input rewrite — a consistent design (proposed)
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Status: proposed (2026-06-30)
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## Context
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The [interception-seams RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) added `tools/pre-execute` returning a `PreToolDecision` (allow/deny/ask) — but deliberately NOT input rewrite (a hook changing a tool call's `arguments` before it runs). Claude Code's `PreToolUse` hook offers an `updatedInput`, so a faithful CC bridge wants the same. This RFC designs that, separately, because doing it consistently is a real problem — not a field to bolt onto the allow decision.
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## The problem: three readers of pre-execution arguments
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In the loop, a tool call's arguments are committed to the log and read by live consumers BEFORE the tool executes:
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1. **`assistant/message`** is appended before tool dispatch — it is the model-history source `deriveMessages()` replays, so it carries the tool-call arguments the model itself emitted.
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2. **`tool/call`** is the durable AUDIT record, appended before `ctx.tools.execute()`.
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3. **Live presentation reads `tool/call.arguments`**: the ACP bridge remembers them and passes them to `presentResult`; `dsh-tool-bash` derives the card title, the rawInput, the cwd, and the terminal-vs-background treatment from them.
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So an "input rewrite" that changes ONLY what executes would make the UI show one command while another RAN, and render result state against the wrong arguments — a real inconsistency, not a documentable gap. (The existing low-level capability to mutate `exec.arguments` in a listener has exactly this latent inconsistency; it is unadvertised precisely because of this.)
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## Proposed design (sketch — to validate against the code when built)
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Treat input rewrite as a consistency unit: when a `pre-execute` hook supplies `updatedInput`, the rewrite must be reflected in ALL three readers, atomically, before execution:
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- The `tool/call` audit event records the REWRITTEN arguments (with the original retained in a sidecar field for the audit trail — a hook changed the call, and both the original and the effective arguments are facts worth keeping).
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- The `assistant/message` in derived history must agree with what executed — options to evaluate: rewrite the assistant message's tool-call block in place (changes what the model "sees it said"), or record a separate correction the next request carries. The CC model is that the model sees the rewrite took effect.
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- Presentation (`presentCall`/`presentResult`) reads the rewritten arguments, so the UI shows what actually ran.
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The shape would extend `PreToolDecision` with an allow-variant `arguments` (or a dedicated `{kind:'rewrite', arguments}`), and the loop would thread the rewrite through the three readers above rather than only into `ctx.tools.execute()`.
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## Why not now
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The interception-seams RFC notes input rewrite "fought the code across two review rounds" — the signal AGENTS.md names for an over-reaching change. Shipping allow/deny/ask first keeps the seam honest (no advertised contract that silently desyncs the UI), and a CC/Codex bridge that receives an `updatedInput` logs it and surfaces a faithful-but-degraded warning (like `ask`→deny) until this lands. This RFC is the home for the consistent design; `TODO(pre-tool-input-rewrite)` in the loop's pre-execute call site anchors it.
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## Open questions
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- Does rewriting the `assistant/message` tool-call block corrupt any provider's expectation on replay, or is a separate correction safer?
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- Should the original arguments be preserved on the `tool/call` event (audit) and, if so, under what field?
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- How does this interact with a future permission `ask` flow (a user approving a rewritten call)?
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