Drain idle injection flushes before agent teardown, snapshot approval and subagent provider inputs, and gate subagent lifecycle events on real child readiness. Align the RFCs and generated contracts with the hardened behavior.
Define the in-file RFC contract in docs/rfc/README.md § The file format:
the header block (`# RFC: <title>` plus a dateless Status enum
cross-checked against the lifecycle folder), the per-lifecycle body
skeleton (a Problem opener everywhere; Proposal/Alternatives considered/
Acceptance criteria/Risks in proposed/; present-tense Decision/
Consequences with proposal-era headings banned in implemented/; the
frozen proposal shape in rejected/), and a mandatory Alternatives
considered section with a date-fenced grandfather comment for pre-format
RFCs whose alternatives are not reconstructible from the record.
Enforce it with a new doc-sync gate, scripts/verify-rfc-format.ts, and
normalize all 112 RFCs to it: ~15 Status-line spellings collapse to the
enum, 29 Context openers become Problem, the 39 legacy-format XXX debt
markers are resolved and banned from reappearing, proposal-era sections
in implemented RFCs are rewritten to shipped reality (including the
web/fs/subagent seam RFCs' migration plans and test checklists, closing
the doc-tiers deferred-work item on the web seam), every RFC gains an
Alternatives considered section or the grandfather comment, and the
bilingual pair is re-mirrored and re-recorded.
Move the generated index tables out of README.md into a fully generated
docs/rfc/INDEX.md — gen-rfc-index now writes the whole file, and
verify-rfc-classification checks its freshness and rejects index-shaped
rows in the curated README — which makes room for the format contract to
live in the README front door instead of a separate FORMAT.md.
The decision record, and the first RFC written in the new format, is
docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-05-uniform-rfc-format.md.
Address review: `agentType` was a Claude-Code concept (`subagent_type`) that
does not fit our own subagent seam — nothing in the harness interprets it, and
its only consumer was the CC-dialect hook bridge. Rather than let a foreign
concept sit on the core seam, remove it:
- `SubagentStartRequest`, `SubagentRunInfo`, `SubagentRunEndInfo`: drop the
`agentType` field; the `subagent/start`/`subagent/end` payloads now carry
`provider`/`id` (+ end `stopReason`/`lastAssistantMessage`) only.
- `dsh-tool-subagent`: drop `Config.agentType` and its request plumbing.
- Tests: keep the lastAssistantMessage / clone-containment / reject-path
coverage (rewritten to not assert agentType); delete the two tool-subagent
tests that only exercised agentType forwarding (dead behavior).
- Docs: retitle + rewrite the subagent-observe-enrich RFC to the one shipped
enrichment (lastAssistantMessage), with a note on why agentType was dropped;
update rfc/README index title, both subagent READMEs, and the
core-data-structures/subagent.md type-equiv block + prose; regenerate catalog.
The CC bridge (PR-F) will feed Claude Code's own default matcher value
"general-purpose" for its SubagentStart/Stop agent_type matcher instead.
Codex review caught an observe-only violation: the subagent/end emit fires from a
detached `.then` registered BEFORE start() returns — so before the caller's own
`await run.result` continuation runs. Carrying `result.output` by reference let a
mutating subagent/end listener corrupt the SubagentResult.output the caller/tool
then consumes. structuredClone() makes the event a read-only snapshot. Added a
regression test that mutates the event's array and asserts the caller's result is
untouched; proven to fail red without the clone. Updated the RFC + READMEs to note
the clone is load-bearing for the observe-only guarantee.
A hooks bridge translating SubagentStart/SubagentStop needs to know WHICH kind of
subagent ran and WHAT it produced — Claude Code's hooks carry subagent_type and the
child's final message. Enrich the existing lifecycle emits to match, observe-only:
- agentType: an optional caller-supplied subagent-kind label (CC's subagent_type),
added to SubagentStartRequest and carried VERBATIM onto both subagent/start
(SubagentRunInfo) and subagent/end (SubagentRunEndInfo). The seam never interprets
it. dsh-tool-subagent threads it from a new optional Config.agentType, so a
deployment exposing multiple subagent kinds (one tool load per kind) labels each.
- lastAssistantMessage: the child's final output (SubagentResult.output), added to
SubagentRunEndInfo on the settle path so an observer sees what the subagent
produced without holding the run. Absent on the reject path (no result produced).
Strictly observe-only: both events stay plain emits (subagent/end fires from a
detached .then and awaits no listener). A control-flow subagent/end (awaited
waterfall returning a decision) would need the emit→waterfall reshape, awaiting
listeners before settling, and a provider resume capability — deferred to the
background/steering redesign (FIXME(subagent-continuation) anchors it). RFC:
implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md.
Tianyi Cui