interrupt_agent(agent_id) passes the calling agent as the ancestor
authority for ctx.subagents.interrupt(); the service verifies live
registry identity and recorded lineage, so a direct child or deeper
descendant stops with the same generic parameter while send_message keeps
its exact-direct-parent authority.
Discovery: list_agents gains an optional scope. descendants walks the new
SubagentService.listDescendants() — one lineage trace flattened in stable
pre-order across ordinary and one-shot intermediates, each entry carrying
its verified parentId and depth — and every status now comes from the
live Agent registry (running/idle/complete).
Refs #1535
ctx.subagents.interrupt() stops one live continuable child's current turn
via Agent.cancel(cause, { keepInbox: true }) under either a human durable
parent address or an exact live ancestor Agent. Fire-and-return: admission
is synchronous, quiescence is not awaited. Pending inbox work, the
Activation, and published descendants are preserved; only a later waking
send resumes the parked FIFO queue. Absent, one-shot, and disposing
targets are accepted no-ops.
The new Host RPC subagent.interrupt calls only that primitive with user
authority — no catalog, history, persistence, or parent-registry lookup —
so a live child stays stoppable while its parent Agent is offline.
Refs #1535
- subagents.history computes its projections best-effort on both arms
(a hostile unit's fold rejection serves the page without the block,
matching the session-list precedent) with dual-arm coverage
- the lifecycle-witness spec probes every field of the seven-key
witness, protecting the key list itself
- list-children's own module docs catch up with the seq-gate contract,
and the design note records the rung-two later-event window as an
accepted, self-healing deviation of the corruption class
- the cached-identity rung gains a finality gate: the identity value
carries its descriptor seq and a cached row is served only when that
seq lands in the child's own suffix, so a fork seed's replayed
ancestor identity can never outrank the authoritative refold
(stateVersion bumped for the state-shape change)
- the cold preparation validates the inspected header against the
enumerated candidate's lifecycle witness; a republished id degrades to
that child's corrupt diagnostic instead of leaking the new owner's log
- the new projection registration proves HMR disposal; companion notes
qualify the superseded decision text and record the deliberate
error-face asymmetry
- the subagent projection's empty state becomes a serializable null
sentinel (undefined fields vanish in JSON push frames, leaving stale
identities in clients); consumers treat null and a missing key alike,
and cached sentinels defer to the authoritative refold
- the tool catalog generator mounts the projection registry for
list_agents; the shared unavailable-error copy goes catalog-neutral
- the design note's verification section records the new
subagent-diagnostic snapshot honestly, the 2026-07-22 note's test
inventory is rewritten to the current mechanism, and the session-store
error code is documented
Cold children consult the optional session-projection-cache checkpoint
before paying a preparation recompute: the identity is immutable once
appended, so a cached value is definitive regardless of its watermark.
The cache stays a read-only accelerator (absent service or any rung-two
fault falls through silently; verdicts stay with the authoritative
refold), and the note plus core-data-structures pages describe the
three-rung ladder.
- listChildren contains per-child projection faults on both ladder rungs
(any registered unit's fold/schema rejection maps to that child's corrupt
diagnostic) and pins the whole-enumeration listing-failure rethrow
- the base bundle mounts session-projection (web-app's own insert retired
to avoid the double mount); stale composition comment updated
- the shared projections-unavailable wire face is pinned across
list/history/prompt; retired session-query arms removed from the catalog
paths
- the design note records the unknown-parent semantics shift and the
fold-fault isolation rule
- listChildren reads the session store via strict ctx.get (property proxy
is caller-scoped), orders candidates branchlessly, narrows the cold-read
return type, and pins the cost model and store/registry composition gaps
with tests; per-file coverage restored
- acp-agent and headless-agent compositions mount session-projection; a
keyless snapshot pins the descriptor-less diagnostic row
- api-proxy cold spec pins header-origin ownership and the legacy
descriptor-only opt-out
- design note ships as implemented with its English pairing; companion
notes and core-data-structures pages synced
All agent/* and agent-loop/config-start-failed events take one payload
object carrying the agent subject; waterfall/serial payloads require a
signal and keep next as the final argument. PreStepContext and
RequestFailureContext are unfolded into payloads and retired.
goal/changed follows the same shape so agentEvents keeps its listener
error containment. ReactLoopAgent builds its scope carrier once in the
constructor. Regenerates scope resolvers, tool-cordis api catalog, and
docs catalogs; updates all affected listeners, tests, and the
core-data-structures docs (en + zh).
Agent setup may await while a mutable contribution registry changes. The previous subagent path validated and committed its provisioning batch inside the setup callback. A revocation queued after that callback returned therefore treated the installation as resident and released it, even though AgentLoop had not published the child yet. AgentLoop could then admit and announce a child whose required capability had already disappeared.
Introduce AgentSetupCommit as the optional synchronous result of create and resume setup. AgentLoop now awaits setup, invokes that commit with no intervening asynchronous boundary, and only then enters the Session and Agent registries. A commit failure follows the existing private-transaction rollback, so neither identity is published and the caller can reuse the id.
Keep continuable-subagent installations provisional until this publication commit. Contribution removal still releases every installation immediately, but now marks an unpublished batch invalid so its commit rejects with ACTIVATION_SETUP_REVOKED. Once the commit succeeds, later removal remains ordinary live revocation.
Cover create and resume ordering, resume commit rejection and identity reuse, and an assembled microtask revocation that leaves only the parent Agent and Session. Update the public JSDoc, architecture flow, package contracts, current Agent Notes, Chinese counterparts, pairing records, and generated Cordis API to describe the new boundary.
Validated with the four focused Agent/subagent test files (91 tests), the isolated assembled regression, targeted TypeScript project builds, generated Cordis API freshness, export JSDoc verification, scoped translation pairing, Markdown wrapping, and Mermaid parsing.
Recheck the listing cancellation signal after each child inspection settles:
a per-child read failing with a diagnostic-mapped code during an abort
previously bypassed the inspection's own checkpoints, letting a cancelled
single-child scan return a successful result.
- listChildren() takes an optional AbortSignal and rechecks it after every
un-signalled session-query await (the cold-resume cooperative-cancellation
boundary); list_agents forwards exec.signal so the registry's drain of
started tool bodies cannot block on a slow or large catalog.
- The list_agents description now presents running/complete as a stored-record
snapshot and defers deliverability to send_message, matching the ownership-
conflict semantics the service tests pin.
Implements the durable-subagent-catalog RFC: SubagentControlService.listChildren()
enumerates a parent's direct continuable children from one sessionQuery trace,
validates each child's sole subagent/descriptor event (now carrying the durable
creation label), and returns one ordered SubagentListEntry[] with per-child
corrupt/unsupported/unavailable diagnostics. The list_agents tool ships as a
separately loadable plugin of dsh-tool-subagent-control requiring sessionQuery
at load; send_message stays usable without it.
Remove the host-user continuation capability and the public residency query,
then separate the seam's public event payloads from its internal lifecycle
control interfaces.
`followup()` now takes the exact live direct parent `Agent` instead of a
`SubagentAuthority` union. No production adapter ever supplied user authority,
so the `UserAuthorityGrant` brand token existed only to stop a forged
discriminant from bypassing the direct-parent check — deleting the branch
retires the token, its mint method, and that attack surface together.
Narrowing `parent` from `Agent | undefined` to `Agent` removes three special
cases, including the path where a parentless epoch dispatched its lifecycle
events unscoped. Scoped-versus-global dispatch is now decided by the event, not
by whether a caller happened to have a parent.
`activationState()` had no caller; `ActivationState`, `ActivationObserver`, and
`ContinuationHost` are package-private.
New `src/lifecycle.ts` owns the contained emitter, the one-shot run observer,
and the Activation observer, while `SubagentRunInfo`/`SubagentRunEndInfo` move
to `src/types.ts` beside the other consumer-facing contracts. Those payloads are
public API — dsh-jsonrpc, hooks-claude, and the package invariant all consume
them — whereas the observer is a contract between two in-package collaborators,
so they no longer share a home merely for both being lifecycle-shaped. The
service keeps ownership of the scope carrier: `scopeTarget()` composes the
service's own context filter, so a narrowed stand-in would silently change
scope filtering.
Also drops now-unused dsh-tasks-local and dsh-tool-tasks dev dependencies, and
corrects the README claim that a pre-residency failure emits a terminal edge —
that path only ever rethrew.
- Make host-user authority unforgeable. `{ kind: 'user' }` was a bare
discriminant, so any plugin holding `ctx.subagents` — including
model-generated cordis_mount code, which the advanced ACP composition ships
alongside continuable subagents — could construct it and skip the
direct-parent check for any known child id. It now carries an opaque grant
that only SubagentService.userAuthority() mints, which composition hands to
trusted host adapters; a model-facing tool uses parent authority from its own
execution context.
- Reconcile a delivery discarded inside its own admission window. An enqueue
listener that cancels fires the discard before followup() returns, so the
discard listener could not clear an id it had not seen; submit() retained it
and residency stayed `running` until an explicit drain.
- Recheck the caller signal after materialization. An abort landing between
publication and inbox acceptance still submitted the prompt and returned both
ids; it now rolls the child back.
- Stop promising the model transcript access that no shipped continuable config
mounts. The tools now state only that a background child does not report back.
- Restate the implemented note as shipped state rather than a proposal, so it
works as current authority.
Round 1 traded one teardown ordering problem for another. The observer now
splits capture from emission, which satisfies both consumers at once:
- Terminal facts are captured while the child is still registered, so consumers
that resolve it for the child's log and scope still work.
- The edge is emitted only after handle disposal settles, so a rejecting scoped
cleanup is reported as a failed epoch instead of a successful one.
Also:
- Keep the Activation in the map until disposal settles. Removing it first let a
racing followup() see no Activation and cold-resume into the still-registered
agent, and let a concurrent forest drain skip a still-disposing child and
release its parent first.
- Derive terminal telemetry from this epoch's event suffix rather than the whole
session, so a cold resume whose prompt is blocked no longer reports the
previous epoch's answer and turn reason.
- Cancel the ACP bridge's own prompts before awaiting the descendant drain: a
drain can block on persistence, and the top-level agents must not keep running
model and tool work for its whole duration.
All five findings were real:
- The terminal lifecycle edge derived its stop reason from teardown success, so a
child that errored, hit its token ceiling, or was cancelled reported as
completed once its checkpoint and disposal succeeded. It now reads the child's
own last message turn/end, which is authoritative.
- Live delivery never rechecked the caller signal after authorization yielded, so
an abort that won before acceptance still enqueued the message and returned an
id. Admission now re-checks at the boundary that owns the decision.
- Drain flushed before cancelling, letting a running turn keep appending events
the checkpoint could not cover and letting model work continue through a slow
flush. It now cancels to quiescence first.
- subagent/end fired after AgentHandle.dispose() unregistered the child, so the
hooks bridge could not resolve it for the child's cwd and scope. The edge now
publishes while the child is still registered.
- activationState() read Agent.status alone, which stays idle between an accepted
waking send and the microtask that admits it, so a synchronous inbox observer
could see settled with a queued turn. Residency now also counts messages this
manager admitted but has not seen leave the inbox.
Adds coverage for the fork-seeded descriptor turn numbering, omitted and declared
descriptor composition fields, a routeless cold resume, and the drain no-op.
Splits materialize's create-versus-resume inputs so the impossible
create-without-meta case disappears, drops the observer's unreachable
pre-residency guard, and annotates the three remaining paths that only a
non-deterministic send-versus-dispose race can reach.
Restores the one-shot settleRun coverage in its own file beside the helper,
covers fork's seed contribution, the post-transfer rollback, the descriptor
model route on cold resume, manager-unload drain, and a failing teardown branch.
Removes three redundant checks the surrounding contracts already own: the
duplicate-Activation and live-id pre-checks (AgentRegistry.enter is the
authoritative collision boundary) and a rollback lifecycle edge that could never
publish because the epoch had no start edge.
Deletes the in-process durability, resume, and steering tests whose premises the
seam no longer has, keeping a one-shot analogue for agent-option resolution, and
covers both a false and a rejecting final checkpoint in the manager spec.
The continuable path has no Task, so send_message reports a queued next turn
and continuable delegation returns only the durable child id. Pins that a
follow-up queues behind an open turn rather than steering it, and that a
non-parent caller is rejected.
Also makes startContinuable/followup reject rather than throw synchronously
when continuation services are absent, so callers have one failure mode.
Covers the inbox-acceptance return boundary, pre-acceptance rollback,
caller-signal ownership on both sides of acceptance, residency-only routing,
single-inbox FIFO ordering across parent and user origins, waiting wakeup with
a retained handle, cold resume without the historical parent, ownership
registration and release, child-first disposal, send-versus-dispose races,
durability failure without an ownership leak, per-epoch lifecycle pairing, and
the absence of cancellation, steering, and report surfaces.
Hypatia May