docs(rfc): align scoped runtime contracts

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Tianyi Cui
2026-07-12 22:49:46 +08:00
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@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ A new package group `packages/subagent/`:
| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-mock` | support: a scripted provider for testing the seam through the real load path |
| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-subagent` | consumer: the model-facing `subagent` tool over `ctx.subagents` |
### The primitive: `start → SubagentRun`
### The primitive: async `start → SubagentRun`
A provider exposes `start(request) → SubagentRun`. The run carries `started` (the provider's publication/readiness promise), `result` (the terminal `SubagentResult`), `cancel()`, and `dispose()`. The transport-neutral verb is **`start`**; "spawn" is reserved for the in-process `dsh-subagent-spawn` backend's identity, not the service verb. The service's `start(name, request)` resolves the named provider, validates capabilities, delegates, and waits for `started` before emitting the paired `subagent/start` / `subagent/end`; an attempt that never establishes a child emits neither lifecycle event. For an in-process backend, readiness means the child is published in `ctx.agents`; for ACP it means the remote session exists.
A provider exposes `start(request) → Promise<SubagentRun>`. Promise fulfillment is the publication/readiness and provider-to-caller ownership boundary: for an in-process backend the child is already published in `ctx.agents`, and for ACP the remote session already exists. `SubagentStartRequest.signal` is the single cancellation channel before and after readiness; `SubagentRun` carries the terminal `result` and a `dispose()` method that cancels remaining work and awaits quiescence. The transport-neutral verb is **`start`**; "spawn" is reserved for the in-process `dsh-subagent-spawn` backend's identity, not the service verb. A rejected start cleans provider-owned partial resources and emits neither subagent lifecycle event.
### Two kinds of optional capability, discovered two ways
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Each subagent runs in its **own `Session`** (own id, `parentSession` lineage), p
### Synchronous collect (first cut)
The `dsh-tool-subagent` consumer awaits `run.result` and returns the child's final output as the tool result, blocking the parent's turn until the child finishes. It does so inside a `try/finally` that always `dispose()`s the run (no leaked idle child/session on any path), bridges `exec.signal` to `run.cancel()`, and maps a non-`completed` stop reason to an `isError` result rather than returning partial output as success. Steering (`sendMessage`) is part of the contract but **intentionally unused** this cut.
The `dsh-tool-subagent` consumer passes its execution signal into the start request, awaits the ready run's `result`, and returns the child's final output as the tool result, blocking the parent's turn until the child finishes. A `try/finally` always `dispose()`s the run, so no success, failure, or cancellation path leaks an idle child/session. A non-`completed` stop reason maps to an `isError` result rather than returning partial output as success. Steering (`sendMessage`) is part of the contract but intentionally unused in this consumer.
### Provider selection is config, not model-facing
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The seam is tested through the real cordis Loader / export path, not a hand-buil
## Consequences
- **Recursion.** Without a guard, an in-process child inherits the spawn tool and can spawn unboundedly. Depth-limit is an optional capability (the in-process backends enforce it; ACP advertises it off and rejects a `maxDepth` request); tool-filtering is likewise optional. Tool-filtering, when implemented, needs a `tools/pre-execute` deny in the child context — schema filtering alone is insufficient because a model can hallucinate a denied tool name.
- **Recursion.** Without a bound, an in-process child can see the delegation tool and recurse. The in-process backends implement the optional absolute depth limit and scoped live-global `toolFilter`; ACP advertises both capabilities off and rejects such a request. The [subagent composition-controls RFC](2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns their exact semantics and security limits.
- **Blocking the parent turn.** Synchronous collect holds the parent's `runStep` open for the child's full duration. This is acceptable for the first cut; **background / poll / spill semantics are deferred to a future redesign that unifies long-running-tool handling across subagents AND bash** (a sub-agent and a long `bash` background task pose the same "the model started something slow, how does it collect later" problem, and should share one mechanism rather than each inventing its own).
- **Live progress.** This cut surfaces only lifecycle + final result; a per-chunk child→parent update stream is deferred with the background redesign.
- **ACP client surface.** Proxying `fs`/`terminal` from the ACP child back to the parent (a shared-workspace mode) is future work; the first cut advertises neither, so the child self-serves in its own process.