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context/message previously defaulted to a <context source="…">…</context> wrapper. No model is trained on a <context> tag either, and message framing does not belong on the session surface: the surface projects the durable log, and a caller that wants a frame formats its own content — which the one heavy producer (workspace-context) already does with its own <system-reminder> frame, opting out via 'raw'. The tag only added machinery — ContextEnvelope plus an envelope field threaded through InjectOptions, HookContext, the context/message event, and the agent-loop inject/additionalContexts plumbing. context/message now projects its content verbatim as a user-role message, sharing one deriveEventMessage case with user/message and steering/message. ContextEnvelope and every envelope field are removed; context/message.meta still carries durable, model-hidden JSON state. Regenerated catalogs and website API; refreshed the three affected keyless snapshots (envelope field only; timestamps unchanged). Broadens and renames the steering Agent Note to cover both envelope removals as one decision. Agent Note: .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md
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# Agent Note: Provider-neutral content-block vocabulary owned by dsh-llm
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Status: implemented
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## Problem
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The harness needs one internal language for messages that the loop, session log, and all plugins speak.
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## Decision
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Own the vocabulary: messages are arrays of typed content blocks (`text`, `reasoning`, `tool-call`, `tool-result`), with the union derived from the merge-extensible `ContentBlockMap` so plugins add block types via declaration merging. The same merge-extensible-map pattern types every "stringly" field (`MessageSource`, `FinishReason`, `TurnTrigger`, `TurnEndReason`). Streaming is a raw chunk protocol; `BlockAssembler` is the single shared assembly implementation. Adapters translate to provider wire formats — mapping cost lives in adapters, where it belongs.
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In-session context injection (`context/message`) and mid-turn steering (`steering/message`) originally rendered as tagged user-role envelopes (the system-reminder pattern) rather than a new role, so adapters carry zero burden. Both now project as plain user content with no wrapper; see [the injected-content-envelope Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md). Live-adapter validation confirms this rendering for current DeepSeek behavior; a future provider-specific mismatch belongs in that adapter rather than a new canonical role.
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## Alternatives considered
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- **Mirror the DeepSeek/OpenAI chat-completions shape** — zero mapping cost for the first provider, but awkward for rich content (reasoning, tool results as structured blocks).
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- **Adopt Anthropic's Messages block structure verbatim** — battle-tested, but the canonical types would mirror a third-party API the harness does not target first.
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## Consequences
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- Reasoning has a core home without provider-specific shapes.
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- Multimodal blocks return only with coordinated adapter, UI, and compaction support; see [the drop-image Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md).
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- Cache hints and assistant prefill remain absent until a shipping adapter can honor them; see the [producer-less variants](../simplification/2026-07-04-prune-producerless-vocabulary-variants.md) and [inert request knobs](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-inert-request-knobs.md) Agent Notes.
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- Every adapter pays a translation cost; the first real adapters have since validated the streaming protocol, and new adapters should continue proving their provider-specific mapping in adapter-local tests.
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- IDs that cross package boundaries are branded (`CallId`, the shared agent/session `SessionId`) — nominal typing at zero runtime cost.
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