Tianyi Cui
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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.
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# RFC: Custom typed tool-schema DSL instead of schemastery
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Status: implemented
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## Problem
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Tool parameters must reach the model as standard JSON Schema (the wire format), and tool authors deserve typed `execute(args)` without casts. The repo already vendors schemastery (used for plugin Config), so reusing it was the obvious candidate. The user also explicitly preferred per-property `required: true` booleans over JSON Schema's separate `required` array.
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## Decision
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A small custom DSL in dsh-tools: `SchemaSpec` (per-property specs with `required: true` booleans), type-level `InferArgs<S>` mapping a spec to the argument type (required keys non-optional, others genuinely optional via `?`), a runtime `schemaSpecToJsonSchema()` converter, and `defineTool()` tying them together. Raw JSON-Schema `ToolDefinition`s remain accepted by `ToolRegistry.register()` — that's how MCP-sourced tools arrive.
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## Alternatives considered
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**Schemastery** (already vendored, used for plugin Config) was evaluated and rejected for this use: it targets validation / transformation against StandardSchema, not JSON Schema *generation*, so it would add indirection without producing the wire format cleanly.
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## Consequences
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- First-party tool authors get zero-cast typed args; the type gymnastics cost stays inside the core package (sanctioned by the AGENTS.md type-safety policy).
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- The DSL is deliberately small (string/number/boolean/object/array, enum, default, nested properties/items). Gaps vs full JSON Schema (unions, formats, constraints) are accepted until real tools demand them.
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- The InferArgs mapping is regression-tested at the type level (expectTypeOf) after an early optionality bug shipped and was caught by review.
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