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# RFCs
One kind of design doc lives here. An **RFC** records a decision or proposal that shapes this codebase — the *why* and *what we gave up*, the parts code and docs can't carry. (Earlier this split into separate "ADR" and "RFC" trees; they were unified, since most ADRs were simply implemented RFCs.)
One kind of design doc lives here. An **RFC** records a decision or proposal that shapes this codebase — the *why* and *what we gave up*, the parts code and docs can't carry.
## Layout and naming
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## Classification
Each RFC is filed under exactly one **class** — the kind of decision it records. The class is encoded in the path (the folder *is* the label, so a file's location declares its class) and the set is **closed**: `scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts` rejects any folder outside the set and asserts this index lists every RFC under the heading matching its path. Adding a new class means amending that gate and this section, not just dropping a new folder. See [the classification RFC](implemented/process/2026-06-20-rfc-classification.md) for why the taxonomy is path-encoded and gated.
Each RFC is filed under exactly one **class** — the kind of decision it records. The class is encoded in the path (the folder *is* the label, so a file's location declares its class) and the set is **closed**: `scripts/rfc-index.ts` owns the canonical set, `scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts` rejects any folder outside it, and the index tables below are **generated** from the tree (`pnpm run gen-rfc-index` rewrites the marker-delimited regions from each RFC's path, H1 title, and filename date; the gate fails when they are stale). Adding a new class means amending that `const` and this section, not just dropping a new folder. See [the classification RFC](implemented/process/2026-06-20-rfc-classification.md) for why the taxonomy is path-encoded and gated, and [the index-generation RFC](implemented/process/2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md) for why the tables are generated while this prose stays curated.
| Class | What it covers |
|---|---|
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## Proposed
<!-- gen-rfc-index:begin proposed -->
### Feature
| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support for external editors](proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) | 2026-06-14 |
| [Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support — drive the coding agent from external editors](proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) | 2026-06-14 |
| [Multiplex concurrent ACP sessions over one connection](proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md) | 2026-06-14 |
| [Optional Code Mode — model writes TypeScript against an SDK of all tools](proposed/feature/2026-06-15-optional-code-mode.md) | 2026-06-15 |
| [Pre-tool input rewrite — a consistent design](proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md) | 2026-06-30 |
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| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Unify the agent id and the session id](proposed/simplification/2026-06-20-unify-agent-and-session-id.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Drop the `image` content block until a path can honor it](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Drop `GenerateOptions.prefill` and `ToolSchema.strict` — request knobs with no working end-to-end path](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-drop-inert-request-knobs.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Drop the unconsumed web observation surface — the `providers-change` event and the status methods](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-drop-unconsumed-web-observation-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Fold the stdio UI helper into the stdio app](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-fold-stdio-ui-helper.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Prune dead core-spine surface — `SurfaceManager.invalidate()`, the loop-internal exports, `ToolExecutionResult.callId`](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-dead-core-spine-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Prune producer-less vocabulary variants (block cache hints, the `agent` message source, the `continuation` turn trigger)](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-producerless-vocabulary-variants.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Prune write-only fields and a dead routing knob from the fs seam](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-write-only-fs-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Remove the `agent/steering` mirror emit](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-remove-agent-steering-mirror.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Share the app bins' boot glue instead of maintaining twin copies](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-share-app-bin-boot-glue.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Tighten the hook-protocol contract — dialect, discarded fields, double defaults, and lib-owned `hook/result` semantics](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-tighten-hook-protocol-contract.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Trim unreachable ACP bridge surface — the branding knobs and the kind-sniffing fallback](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-trim-acp-bridge-unreachable-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
### Architecture
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| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Architectural conformance — dependency rules and the adapter kit](proposed/process/2026-06-11-architectural-conformance.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [API extractor reports](proposed/process/2026-06-11-api-extractor-reports.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Architectural conformance — dependency rules and the adapter kit](proposed/process/2026-06-11-architectural-conformance.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Supply chain checks and vendor drift verification](proposed/process/2026-06-11-supply-chain-and-vendor-drift.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Discover package inventories instead of maintaining static lists](proposed/process/2026-06-20-discover-package-inventory.md) | 2026-06-20 |
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| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Mutation testing as the coverage counterweight](proposed/testing/2026-06-11-mutation-testing.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Deterministic tests, the replay invariant fixture, and race stress](proposed/testing/2026-06-11-deterministic-and-stress-testing.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Mutation testing as the coverage counterweight](proposed/testing/2026-06-11-mutation-testing.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Single-source the acp-agent replay config](proposed/testing/2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md) | 2026-07-04 |
<!-- gen-rfc-index:end proposed -->
## Implemented
<!-- gen-rfc-index:begin implemented -->
### Feature
| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Filesystem tool schemas — model-facing read/write/edit shapes](implemented/feature/2026-06-17-filesystem-tool-schemas.md) | 2026-06-17 |
| [Rich ACP bash rendering — the terminal card (`_meta`) and command classification](implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Rich ACP bash rendering — the terminal card via the `_meta` convention](implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Compaction as a capability seam (abstract contract + basic backend)](implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Subagent capability seam](implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-21 |
| [ACP subagent backend (out-of-process delegation)](implemented/feature/2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md) | 2026-06-22 |
| [The `todo_write` tool — model task list as event-sourced session state](implemented/feature/2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md) | 2026-06-29 |
| [dsh-hooks-claude + dsh-hooks-codex — the Claude Code / Codex hook bridges](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [dsh-hook-protocol — the shared Claude Code / Codex hook wire-protocol core](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [Interception seams — the typed-Decision surface a hook programs against](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [Subagent lifecycle enrichment — lastAssistantMessage (observe-only)](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [dsh-hook-protocol — the shared Claude Code / Codex hook wire-protocol core](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [dsh-hooks-claude + dsh-hooks-codex — the Claude Code / Codex hook bridges](implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) | 2026-06-30 |
### Simplification
| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Drop the mutable session summary](implemented/simplification/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) | 2026-06-19 |
| [Drop unconsumed assembled LLM convenience surfaces](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-assembled-surfaces.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Fold trace-only session facts into load-bearing events](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-collapse-trace-only-session-events.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Drop the unconsumed `llm/adapter-change` event](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-adapter-change-event.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Drop unconsumed assembled LLM convenience surfaces](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-assembled-surfaces.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Prune dead methods from the persistence seam](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-prune-dead-seam-methods.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Keep one public stop primitive](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-public-agent-stop-surface.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Fold trace-only session facts into load-bearing events](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-collapse-trace-only-session-events.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Stop mirroring durable boundaries as agent events](implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Split the filesystem seam — provider text mutations plus the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin](implemented/simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) | 2026-06-26 |
| [Stop mirroring the token stream as an agent event](implemented/simplification/2026-07-02-remove-stream-chunk-mirror.md) | 2026-07-02 |
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| Title | First proposed |
|---|---|
| [Microkernel: extension via Cordis event taxonomy, one concrete loop](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Event-sourced sessions with derived message history](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Provider-neutral content-block vocabulary owned by dsh-llm](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Custom typed tool-schema DSL instead of schemastery](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-custom-schema-dsl.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Tool schemas are part of the system-prompt assembly](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-tool-schemas-in-prompt-assembly.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Runtime arg validation at the model boundary](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-runtime-arg-validation.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Dev-mode invariants over compile-time deep-readonly](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Event-sourced sessions with derived message history](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Microkernel — extension via Cordis event taxonomy, one concrete loop](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Runtime arg validation at the model boundary](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-runtime-arg-validation.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Structured error taxonomy](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-structured-error-taxonomy.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Tool schemas are part of the system-prompt assembly](implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-tool-schemas-in-prompt-assembly.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Capability seams — interface / implementation / consumer split](implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) | 2026-06-13 |
| [Two LLM adapters as a design-verification twin](implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) | 2026-06-13 |
| [Session persistence as an abstract service over `SessionEvent`](implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) | 2026-06-14 |
| [Session persistence as an abstract service over the existing `SessionEvent`](implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) | 2026-06-14 |
| [Every session event is enclosed in a turn](implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md) | 2026-06-15 |
| [Filesystem capability seam — ctx.fs, local backend, and model-facing filesystem tools](implemented/architecture/2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-17 |
| [Shared persistence write coordinator](implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Agent lifecycle and ownership seams](implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Session surface — a linked list over the event log for LLM message derivation](implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Reorganize packages into a modular hierarchy](implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Shared persistence write coordinator](implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Branded IDs everywhere they belong](implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-branded-ids.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Extract example apps into packages](implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-extract-example-app-packages.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Web capability seam — provider registry and model-facing web tools](implemented/architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-24 |
| [Reorganize packages into a modular hierarchy](implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Web capability seam - stable tools over multiple providers](implemented/architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md) | 2026-06-24 |
| [Make `dsh-fs-policy` an event-gate plugin, not a method interface](implemented/architecture/2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md) | 2026-06-26 |
| [Event-domain semantics — session is the fact log, agent is the live surface](implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [stdin + extra env on the bash seam](implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-bash-stdin-env-trusted-plugin-surface.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [Event-domain semantics — session is the fact log, agent is the live surface](implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md) | 2026-06-30 |
| [Resolve filesystem paths against the caller's session cwd](implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-fs-per-session-cwd.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Tagged render-intent union for tool-call presentation](implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Result-time applied-hunk diffs for file mutations](implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-result-time-applied-hunk-diffs.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Tagged render-intent union for tool-call presentation](implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Add direct directory listing to the filesystem seam](implemented/architecture/2026-07-03-filesystem-directory-listing-seam.md) | 2026-07-03 |
### Process
| Title | First proposed |
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| [Vendor Cordis as source, not npm dependencies](implemented/process/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Doc-sync enforcement](implemented/process/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Mechanical quality gates over prose guidelines](implemented/process/2026-06-11-quality-gates.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [tsdown for JS bundling instead of dumble](implemented/process/2026-06-11-tsdown-over-dumble.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Doc-sync enforcement](implemented/process/2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Vendor Cordis as source, not npm dependencies](implemented/process/2026-06-11-vendor-cordis-as-source.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [pnpm as the package manager instead of Yarn 4](implemented/process/2026-06-16-pnpm-over-yarn.md) | 2026-06-16 |
| [TSC-first build and one tsconfig](implemented/process/2026-06-17-ts-build-config.md) | 2026-06-17 |
| [Markdown cross-link validity linting](implemented/process/2026-06-18-markdown-cross-link-lint.md) | 2026-06-18 |
| [Core-data-structures catalog and the `ts type-equiv` drift gate](implemented/process/2026-06-20-core-data-structures-catalog.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Generated cordis events + services catalog](implemented/process/2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Classify RFCs by kind via path-encoded subdirectories](implemented/process/2026-06-20-rfc-classification.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Generated tool-schema catalog (boot-and-harvest)](implemented/process/2026-07-02-tool-schema-catalog.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Bilingual documentation via paired sibling files and a pairing gate](implemented/process/2026-07-02-bilingual-docs-and-pairing-gate.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Generated tool-schema catalog (boot-and-harvest)](implemented/process/2026-07-02-tool-schema-catalog.md) | 2026-07-02 |
| [Documentation graph atlas for maintainers and SDK users](implemented/process/2026-07-03-documentation-graph-atlas.md) | 2026-07-03 |
| [JSDoc completeness gate for the cordis surface](implemented/process/2026-07-04-cordis-jsdoc-completeness-gate.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate](implemented/process/2026-07-04-doc-tiers-and-budgets.md) | 2026-07-04 |
| [Generate the RFC index tables](implemented/process/2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md) | 2026-07-04 |
### Testing
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| [ACP snapshot tests — record-once / replay-deterministic](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) | 2026-06-19 |
| [Real-API e2e in CI against the external DeepSeek API](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-real-api-e2e-ci.md) | 2026-06-19 |
| [Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact](implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-goldens.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md) | 2026-06-22 |
| [Persist the seed boundary so fork-child replay routes correctly](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-fork-child-replay-seed-boundary.md) | 2026-06-22 |
| [Record fork and mixed spawn+fork snapshot scenarios](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-fork-snapshot-scenarios.md) | 2026-06-22 |
| [Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md) | 2026-06-22 |
| [Hook snapshot matrix — end-to-end goldens for both bridges](implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md) | 2026-07-04 |
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## Rejected
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### Simplification
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| [Retire mid-turn steering](rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-retire-mid-turn-steering.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Return the ACP bridge to one live session per connection](rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-single-session-acp-bridge.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Truncate interrupted final turns on load](rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-truncate-interrupted-turns.md) | 2026-06-20 |
| [Prune the unimplemented subagent seam vocabulary](rejected/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-unimplemented-subagent-vocabulary.md) | 2026-07-04 |
### Architecture
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|---|---|
| [Deep-readonly public surfaces](rejected/architecture/2026-06-11-immutable-public-surfaces.md) | 2026-06-11 |
| [Make the shared example base providerless](rejected/architecture/2026-06-20-providerless-example-base.md) | 2026-06-20 |
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# AGENTS.md — Implemented RFCs
These are RFCs whose decision has **shipped**. The repo-wide and docs-wide rules still apply ([root AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) § "Type Safety and Documentation", [docs/AGENTS.md](../../AGENTS.md)); this file adds one rule specific to this folder.
These are RFCs whose decision has **shipped**. The repo-wide and docs-wide rules still apply ([root AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) § "Type safety and documentation", [docs/AGENTS.md](../../AGENTS.md)); this file adds one rule specific to this folder.
## Keep an implemented RFC current with what actually shipped

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## Consequences
- Every MVP feature maps to a listener (the "plugin sanity checklist" in docs/architecture.md is the proof obligation, kept current).
- Every MVP feature maps to a listener (the [feature → mechanism map](../../../cookbook/extension-cookbook.md#the-feature--mechanism-map) is the proof obligation, kept current).
- HMR and disposal come free: listeners and registrations are Cordis effects.
- Waterfall semantics (call `next()` or short-circuit) are non-obvious and must be taught — documented in AGENTS.md and covered by composition tests.
- The loop must be defensive: plugin exceptions are contained at turn level, steering from any seam is never stranded (regression-tested).

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- `query`: required string.
`max_results` is NOT exposed to the model in the first version. It is a `dsh-tool-web`-layer decision: the tool sets the result bound — a default of `8` (aligning with OpenCode's Exa default), as an exported constant mirroring `dsh-tool-fs`'s `READ_LIMIT` / `GREP_LIMIT` — and passes it to the seam as `maxResults` on the `WebSearchRequest`. Keeping it off the model schema means the model just asks a question and the product controls how much context comes back; the field can be promoted to a model-facing argument later without breaking the seam.
`max_results` is NOT exposed to the model in the first version. It is a `dsh-tool-web`-layer decision: the tool sets the result bound — the `searchMaxResults` plugin config, default `8` (aligning with OpenCode's Exa default), mirroring `dsh-tool-fs`'s `readLimit` — and passes it to the seam as `maxResults` on the `WebSearchRequest`. Keeping it off the model schema means the model just asks a question and the product controls how much context comes back; the field can be promoted to a model-facing argument later without breaking the seam.
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The hooks subsystem runs external hook commands the way Claude Code and Codex do: a hook is a shell command that receives its event payload as **JSON on stdin** and reads context from a handful of **environment variables** (`CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR`, `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`, `PLUGIN_ROOT`, …). The harness already has a perfectly good command runner behind the `ctx.bash` capability seam ([dsh-bash](../../../../packages/bash/bash) → [dsh-bash-local](../../../../packages/bash/bash-local)), with process-group kills, output truncation/spill, and a credential scrub. Reusing it for hook execution means a hook bridge does not re-implement subprocess plumbing — but the seam had no way to write stdin or set extra env. This RFC adds those two inputs.
**These fields are NOT a new security boundary.** It is tempting to frame arbitrary-stdin / arbitrary-env as "dangerous, so gate who may use them" — but that framing is wrong, because a model driving the `bash` tool **already** has equivalent power through ordinary shell syntax: `FOO=bar cmd` sets an env var, a heredoc or `printf … | cmd` feeds arbitrary stdin. Adding `env`/`stdin` as seam fields grants the model no capability it lacks. In particular they cannot exfiltrate the harness's ambient credentials: the real control for that is the **credential scrub** in [dsh-bash-local](../../../../packages/bash/bash-local)'s `childEnv()`, which strips `*KEY*`/`*SECRET*`/`*TOKEN*` from `process.env` before the child sees it (see [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) § Defensive patterns, "Never hand untrusted/model output the ambient environment or predictable paths"). The scrub works regardless of these fields — a model cannot read a value that is not in the environment, and tool-call arguments are static JSON, never shell-evaluated, so a model cannot write `env: {LEAK: $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY}` and have it expand. So the security question is already answered by the scrub; this RFC is only about giving trusted in-process callers a clean way to pass a JSON payload + `CLAUDE_*` vars without routing them through model-visible shell text.
**These fields are NOT a new security boundary.** It is tempting to frame arbitrary-stdin / arbitrary-env as "dangerous, so gate who may use them" — but that framing is wrong, because a model driving the `bash` tool **already** has equivalent power through ordinary shell syntax: `FOO=bar cmd` sets an env var, a heredoc or `printf … | cmd` feeds arbitrary stdin. Adding `env`/`stdin` as seam fields grants the model no capability it lacks. In particular they cannot exfiltrate the harness's ambient credentials: the real control for that is the **credential scrub** in [dsh-bash-local](../../../../packages/bash/bash-local)'s `childEnv()`, which strips `*KEY*`/`*SECRET*`/`*TOKEN*` from `process.env` before the child sees it (see [docs/defensive-patterns.md](../../../defensive-patterns.md) § "Never hand untrusted output the ambient environment or predictable paths"). The scrub works regardless of these fields — a model cannot read a value that is not in the environment, and tool-call arguments are static JSON, never shell-evaluated, so a model cannot write `env: {LEAK: $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY}` and have it expand. So the security question is already answered by the scrub; this RFC is only about giving trusted in-process callers a clean way to pass a JSON payload + `CLAUDE_*` vars without routing them through model-visible shell text.
## Decision
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## Scope: configurable scrub pattern is NOT included
An earlier sketch of this work also proposed making `SENSITIVE_ENV_PATTERN` configurable. Validating against the code, that is **speculative and already subsumed**: `run.ts` documents a configurable whitelist as future work, and the new explicit `env` field — merged after the scrub — already gives a caller full control, including over credential-shaped vars. There is no current caller that needs to *broaden* the ambient scrub (the hazard runs the other way). Adding a config knob now would be a feature with no consumer, against [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) § "Don't add features beyond what the task requires". If a real workflow ever needs to forward a specific ambient credential, the explicit `env` field is the supported path; a configurable scrub can be reconsidered then.
An earlier sketch of this work also proposed making `SENSITIVE_ENV_PATTERN` configurable. Validating against the code, that is **speculative and already subsumed**: `run.ts` documents a configurable whitelist as future work, and the new explicit `env` field — merged after the scrub — already gives a caller full control, including over credential-shaped vars. There is no current caller that needs to *broaden* the ambient scrub (the hazard runs the other way). Adding a config knob now would be a speculative surface with no consumer. If a real workflow ever needs to forward a specific ambient credential, the explicit `env` field is the supported path; a configurable scrub can be reconsidered then.
## Consequences

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Per the [capability-seams RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), compaction ships as separate packages so the contract, the algorithm, and (later) the consumer surface evolve independently:
1. **Interface** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact`: an abstract `CompactService` owning the `ctx.compact` key, the `CompactionResult` vocabulary, and the `compact/*` session events. It declares `compactIfNeeded()` and `compactRegion()` as **abstract** — the contract states *what* compaction does, not *how*.
2. **Implementation** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact-basic`: a concrete `BasicCompactService` that owns the entire algorithm — token estimation (char/4 + per-block overhead), the tail→head retention walk, summarization via `ctx.llm.stream()`, the surface replacement, the lock, and the `agent/pre-step` auto-compaction listener. A tokenizer-based or template-based backend is a sibling package (or a subclass overriding the two protected estimation/summarization hooks).
2. **Implementation** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact-basic`: a concrete `BasicCompactService` that owns the entire algorithm — token estimation (chars per token — the `charsPerToken` config, default 4 — + per-block overhead), the tail→head retention walk, summarization via `ctx.llm.stream()`, the surface replacement, the lock, and the `agent/pre-step` auto-compaction listener. A tokenizer-based or template-based backend is a sibling package (or a subclass overriding the two protected estimation/summarization hooks).
3. **Consumer** — deferred. A `/compact` tool and slash command will `inject: ['compact']` and call the contract; they are intentionally out of scope here so the seam settles first.
### The contract depends on `dsh-session` and `dsh-llm` — a deliberate deviation

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## Testing
Designed at every tier the backend touches, per the AGENTS.md "design test infrastructure up front" rule:
Designed at every tier the backend touches, per the root AGENTS.md rule that a new capability shape names its coverage at every tier at plan time:
- **Keyless unit/integration** (`subagent-acp.spec.ts`): spawns a scripted mock ACP server subprocess (`tests/mock-acp-server.ts`) and drives it through the real backend over real ACP stdio. Covers: the prompt round-trip + output accumulation; every StopReason mapping; cancellation via `run.cancel()` and via the request signal; the already-aborted-before-start case; the cancel-races-ahead-of-newSession case; a torn-pipe-after-cancel (child crashes on cancel) settling `aborted`; permission auto-answer under both policies (including the allow-policy-no-allow-option fallback); a non-message update consumed but not accumulated; a nonexistent-command spawn failure settling `error`; HMR provider cleanup; and the namespace export shape. 100% per-file coverage.
- **With-key e2e** (`subagent-acp.e2e.ts`): the harness drives ITSELF — the backend spawns the real `acp-agent` example process and a real model in that child answers a prompt (PONG) and does real file work (writes `proof.txt`, verified on disk). Self-skips without `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`. This is the "talk to our own process" smoke and the out-of-process analogue of the in-process spawn e2e.

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Both run via a shared `doc-sync` package.json script that the lefthook pre-push hook and CI both invoke ([mechanical quality gates](2026-06-11-quality-gates.md): hooks and CI call the same scripts, so the gate fires locally before a push — not only after it). They run after `pnpm run typecheck`, which validates the package/vendor build graph that doc-typecheck references. API-extractor golden reports ([the deferred API-extractor-reports proposal](../../proposed/process/2026-06-11-api-extractor-reports.md)) were deliberately **deferred** — low value for an internal monorepo where reviewers already see the source diff, and a heavy, finicky dependency.
**Amendment (2026-06-17):** a third gate, **`verify-md-wrap`**, was later folded into `doc-sync`. It parses each in-scope Markdown file (`README.md`, `docs/**`, `packages/*/README.md`, plus `AGENTS.md` / `packages/AGENTS.md`) with `mdast-util-from-markdown` + GFM and fails on any `paragraph` node spanning more than one source line, enforcing the AGENTS.md "Markdown is not hard-wrapped" convention. Same verify-don't-generate principle: it reports hard-wraps and never rewrites, so it adds no formatting churn. `doc-sync` is now three gates.
**Amendment (2026-06-17):** a third gate, **`verify-md-wrap`**, was later folded into `doc-sync`. It parses each in-scope Markdown file (`README.md`, `docs/**`, `packages/*/README.md`, plus `AGENTS.md` / `packages/AGENTS.md`) with `mdast-util-from-markdown` + GFM and fails on any `paragraph` node spanning more than one source line, enforcing the docs/AGENTS.md "one physical line per paragraph" writing rule. Same verify-don't-generate principle: it reports hard-wraps and never rewrites, so it adds no formatting churn. `doc-sync` is now three gates.
## Consequences

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Both are `doc-sync` members, in the `verify-md-wrap` style (tsx ESM, verify-don't-generate, exit non-zero on the first violation):
- **`scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts`** — the closed set and index completeness. It asserts every file under a lifecycle folder lives in a class folder from the canonical set (a loose `.md` at a lifecycle root, or an unknown class folder, fails), and that `README.md` lists every RFC exactly once under the `###` heading matching its `{lifecycle}/{class}` path. The canonical class set lives as a `const` in this script — the machine source of truth — and [the index](../../README.md) documents it in prose; the two are kept in sync by hand (the README's completeness is gated, its class *descriptions* are not). This mirrors `verify-event-taxonomy`, which checks a doc table against source.
- **`scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts`** — the closed set and index freshness. It asserts every file under a lifecycle folder lives in a class folder from the canonical set (a loose `.md` at a lifecycle root, or an unknown class folder, fails), and that the README's marker-delimited index regions byte-match a fresh render from the tree (see [generate the RFC index tables](2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md)). The canonical class set lives as a `const` in `scripts/rfc-index.ts` — the machine source of truth shared with the generator — and [the index](../../README.md) documents it in prose; the README's class *descriptions* stay hand-written, its tables are generated.
- **`scripts/verify-doc-refs.ts`** — source comments that cite docs. RFC paths are referenced not only from Markdown but from TypeScript doc comments (root-relative prose like `docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md`). `verify-md-links` never saw those, so the reorg could have silently orphaned them. This gate scans repo-authored `.ts` under `packages/**` and `examples/**` (excluding built `lib/` and `vendor/`) for `docs/….md` tokens, resolves each root-relative, and asserts it exists. It requires the `.md` extension so extensionless prose (`docs/postmortem/0001`, `docs/architecture.md § plugin checklist`) is left alone.
### Rejected alternatives
- **A `Classification:` prose line** in each file (next to `Status:`), parsed by the gate. Workable, but it duplicates into the file a fact the path can already carry, and a line can disagree with its folder. Path-encoding makes the label and its storage the same thing — there is nothing to keep in sync.
- **A `refactor` class.** It overlaps `simplification` almost entirely; the only discriminator anyone reached for was "does observable behavior change?", which `simplification` already encodes (it does not). One class, not two.
- **Auto-generating the README index** from the filesystem. Rejected to keep the index hand-written like every other doc here; the completeness gate gives the same drift-protection without generated Markdown in a curated file.
- **Auto-generating the README index** from the filesystem. Rejected here to keep the index hand-written; superseded by [generate the RFC index tables](2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md) once stacked proposal waves made the hand-written tables the repo's most conflict-prone docs region — the tables are now generated between markers while the surrounding prose stays curated.
## Consequences
- Every RFC now sits under a class folder, and the index groups by class within each lifecycle. A reader scans one heading to see all simplifications, or all testing decisions.
- Two more fast tsx scripts in the `doc-sync` chain; no new dependency (the mdast/GFM stack was already present for `verify-md-wrap`/`verify-md-links`).
- Adding a class is a deliberate act: amend the `const` in `verify-rfc-classification.ts` and the [Classification section](../../README.md#classification), not just `mkdir` a folder. The gate rejects an unknown folder, so an ad-hoc class can't slip in.
- Adding a class is a deliberate act: amend the `const` in `scripts/rfc-index.ts` and the [Classification section](../../README.md#classification), not just `mkdir` a folder. The gate rejects an unknown folder, so an ad-hoc class can't slip in.
- Source-comment doc references are now gated too — a moved or renamed doc that a `.ts` comment cites fails the pre-push hook, closing a drift class `verify-md-links` structurally could not see.

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- `tool-subagent`'s tool name is `config.toolName ?? 'subagent'` — chosen at load, not a literal.
- An MCP plugin can register **raw JSON Schema** directly via `ctx.tools.register()` without `defineTool` at all, so enumerating `defineTool(` call sites structurally under-counts.
The only faithful source of truth is the schema the registry actually holds after the plugin loads. Booting is the [unit-test discipline](../../../../AGENTS.md) "verify the world, not a synthetic stand-in" applied to a doc generator: read the shipped artifact, not a re-derivation of it.
The only faithful source of truth is the schema the registry actually holds after the plugin loads. Booting is the [testing-policy discipline](../../../testing.md) "verify the world, not the self-report" applied to a doc generator: read the shipped artifact, not a re-derivation of it.
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# RFC: JSDoc completeness gate for the cordis surface
Status: implemented (accepted 2026-07-04)
## Context
The [generated cordis catalog](2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md) already walks every harness `interface Events` member and every `ctx.<key>` service class with the TypeScript compiler API, and already hard-errors on a missing `@mode` tag — a forcing function that made dispatch modes impossible to leave undocumented. Nothing equivalent guarded the rest of the JSDoc: a service method could ship with no doc at all, and no event or method documented its parameters or return value individually. A survey at adoption found 5 public service methods with no JSDoc and roughly 139 missing `@param`/`@returns` entries across 15 files — on the product API spine (`ctx.bash`, `ctx.fs`, `ctx.sessions`, …) and the cross-plugin event payload contracts, exactly the surface where "what does this argument mean" is the question a plugin author asks the IDE.
The AGENTS.md rule ("every export has a JSDoc explaining semantics") is prose-checkable only by review; the repo's stated preference is to encode invariants in mechanical gates. The scope "cordis service functions and events" has a precise machine definition that only the catalog generator knows: events are the `interface Events` members inside `declare module 'cordis'`, and the service surface is the public methods of the class each `interface Context` key names. An ESLint rule cannot see that mapping; the generator computes it on every run.
## Decision
Extend `scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts` — the same walk, the same `@mode` precedent — to enforce JSDoc COMPLETENESS on everything it catalogs. `verify-cordis-catalog` runs inside `doc-sync`, which both CI and the lefthook pre-push hook already execute, so the gate needs zero new wiring (quality-gates principle: one source of truth).
The contract:
- **Events** need description prose plus a non-empty `@param` for every **payload parameter**. A payload parameter is a signature parameter that carries event data; the `this` receiver annotation and the trailing waterfall `next` are exempt — `next` is dispatch machinery whose semantics the `@mode waterfall` tag (and its structural cross-check) already owns, so restating it per event would be boilerplate. Documenting an exempt parameter anyway is allowed; only absence is checked.
- **Service classes** need class-level JSDoc, and every public method needs description prose, a non-empty `@param` per parameter, and a non-empty `@returns` unless the annotated return type is `void`/`Promise<void>` (where `@returns` stays optional — resolution timing can be worth documenting — but is never required).
- **Stale tags error**: an `@param` naming no real parameter is a violation, mirroring the `@mode`-contradicts-signature check. Tag descriptions must be non-empty; their semantic quality beyond that is review's job.
- **Explicitness the walk can check**: the gate is a pure-AST pass (no type checker), so a service method must annotate its return type (an inferred return cannot be classified) and surface parameters must be simple identifiers (a binding pattern has no name for `@param` to match).
- **Violations aggregate** into one error listing every offender — a remediation pass sees the whole list at once. The previously fail-fast `@mode` checks moved into the same aggregated report, with their message texts unchanged.
The tags are **enforcement-only**: `parseJsDoc` now ends description prose at the first block tag (standard JSDoc semantics, which also stops multi-line tag descriptions from leaking into the catalog as prose), so `@param`/`@returns` never change the rendered catalog. Rendering them — restructuring the services section into per-method entries — was considered and deliberately deferred: source JSDoc plus IDE hover is where method docs are consumed, and the catalog stays an index. No escape-hatch tag exists; the surface is small and curated (12 services, 57 methods, 27 events at adoption), and the point is that the check cannot be waved off.
Negative-path tests in `packages/core/agent/tests/gen-cordis-catalog.spec.ts` drive `collectEvents`/`collectServices` against synthetic fixtures to prove each guard fires and that the exemptions hold. The authoring rule lives in the root [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) conventions bullet alongside the `@mode` rule.
## Consequences
- A new event or service method cannot land with an undocumented parameter or result: the generator refuses to regenerate and `verify-cordis-catalog` fails pre-push and in CI. The ~139 gaps found at adoption were filled in the same change, so the gate landed green.
- The service surface must annotate return types explicitly and use identifier parameters. Neither constraint bound at adoption (every method already annotated; no destructured seam parameters existed); both are now load-bearing requirements a violating change will discover mechanically.
- The general AGENTS.md JSDoc rule ("one-liners when one line suffices") acquires a stricter carve-out on this surface: a one-line summary still suffices only when the method has no parameters and a void result.
- `@param` on `next` or `this` stays legal but unchecked — a deliberate asymmetry: the gate enforces the payload contract and refuses to demand boilerplate.
- The rendered catalog is unchanged by the tags (prose stops at the first block tag). If method-level rendering is wanted later, that is a catalog-design decision to take separately, not a gap in this gate.

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# Documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate
## Context
The repo's standing docs accrete. Root `AGENTS.md` reached 8,130 words through 50 commits in two and a half weeks — each PR appending its own lesson, none displacing anything — until the same rule was stated two or three times inside one file (the pushed-branch rewrite ban ~600 words across two sections; the with-key e2e policy ~400 words across two), an incident already recorded in [postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) was retold inline at ~750 words, and the per-package one-liner map existed in five places. [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) grew the same way: paragraph walls re-narrating RFCs it already links, plus implementation-status annotations that were stale the week after they were written. The writing rules that forbid this (document current state, never history) predate the drift and sat in the very file violating them — prose rules alone do not hold against accretion pressure. The repo's standing answer to an invariant of this kind is a mechanical check ([quality gates](2026-06-11-quality-gates.md), [doc-sync enforcement](2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md)).
## Decision
- **A tier taxonomy with one home per fact.** [docs/AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) is the documentation standard: it assigns every Markdown tier a single job (standing orders, system map, type catalog, decision records, incident stories, how-tos, per-package contracts, generated catalogs, workflows), forbids restating a fact outside its home tier (link instead), and carries the slop checklist used when writing or reviewing any doc.
- **A narrow, hard budget gate.** [scripts/verify-doc-budgets.ts](../../../../scripts/verify-doc-budgets.ts) joins `doc-sync`: every doc listed in [scripts/doc-budgets.manifest.json](../../../../scripts/doc-budgets.manifest.json) must stay under its word ceiling (`wc -w` semantics, whole file), and a budgeted file that is missing fails the gate so a rename cannot silently orphan its budget. Scope is deliberately only the accretion-prone standing docs — the root and subtree `AGENTS.md` files, `architecture.md`, `packages/README.md`, and the standing policy docs they evict content into (`docs/testing.md`, `docs/defensive-patterns.md`). Reference docs, RFCs, and package READMEs are unbudgeted: length is legitimate there when every row is a fact, and review plus the slop checklist govern them.
- **Ceilings are an enforcement frontier that ratchets.** A ceiling sits at least 5% above the doc's current size — working headroom, so routine wording edits pass while real growth still trips the gate — and ratchets down, keeping that margin, as the doc is brought to its target budget (root `AGENTS.md` ≤ 1,500 words; `architecture.md` ≤ 1,800; subtree `AGENTS.md` ≤ 600; `packages/README.md` ≤ 600) — the same rollout mechanism as the [translation-pairing `required` list](2026-07-02-bilingual-docs-and-pairing-gate.md). When the gate goes red the fix is to relocate or condense per the taxonomy; raising a ceiling is permitted only with explicit justification in the PR description, the manifest diff being the reviewable act.
- **A thin workflow skill, contracts in docs.** [.agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards](../../../../.agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards/SKILL.md) carries the placement/audit/red-gate workflow and defers to the standard as its source of truth, the same split as [dsh-translate-docs](../../../../.agents/skills/dsh-translate-docs/SKILL.md) over the i18n contract.
## Alternatives considered
- **Skill and review discipline without a gate** — rejected: the accretion above happened while the current-state rule and reviewer attention already existed; a prose rule with no mechanical backstop demonstrably does not hold here, and this repo's own [quality-gates stance](2026-06-11-quality-gates.md) says invariants worth keeping are worth encoding.
- **A broad gate over every doc tier** — rejected: a blanket ceiling punishes exactly the right kind of long doc (a feature matrix or type catalog where every row is a fact, e.g. `packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md`) and generates per-file override churn that trains contributors to rubber-stamp raises.
- **Housing the standard inside the skill** — rejected: contracts live in docs and workflows in skills; a standard packed into SKILL.md is invisible to an agent that edits docs without invoking the skill, and `docs/AGENTS.md` already loads as subtree instructions for anyone working under `docs/`.
## Consequences
- Adding to a budgeted doc now requires displacement: relocate the addition to its taxonomy home with a pointer, or condense existing prose to pay for it. Growth without pruning fails CI.
- The bring-under-target rewrites land as stacked follow-ups that ratchet the manifest down as they merge; until each lands, its doc's frozen ceiling only prevents further growth.
- Word count is a crude proxy accepted deliberately: it cannot judge quality, but it forces the relocation decision at exactly the moment content is being added, which is when the author has the context to place it correctly.
## Deferred work
The first audit cycle under the standard, in rough priority order (evidence gathered in the survey that motivated this RFC):
- Package README trims where generated catalogs or JSDoc are restated or history is narrated: `packages/ui/acp`, `packages/core/tools`, `packages/bash/tool-bash`, `packages/core/session`, `packages/compact/compact-basic`, `packages/session-persistence/session-persistence`.
- [The web capability seam RFC](../architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md) converted from spec-speak to shipped reality (drop the migration plan and test enumeration, "should" → "is").
- `docs/core-data-structures/core.md`: drop the JSDoc walls from the `Agent`/`GenerateOptions` type-equiv pastes per that page's own stated rule.
- [Postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md): merge the overlapping Executive summary and Summary sections.

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# RFC: Generate the RFC index tables
Status: implemented
## Problem
`docs/rfc/README.md`'s per-lifecycle/per-class tables list facts that are fully derivable: an RFC's path encodes lifecycle and class, its filename encodes the first-proposed date, and its H1 carries the title. A hand-maintained copy of those facts is also the repo's highest-contention docs hotspot: every proposal wave appends rows to the same few lines, so concurrent RFC branches conflict precisely there while agreeing everywhere else, and each conflict is resolved by hand-merging rows whose content the filesystem already knows. [The classification RFC](2026-06-20-rfc-classification.md) originally kept the index hand-written for curation's sake — but the curated part of the README is the prose, and the prose never conflicts; only the mechanical tables do.
## Decision
Keep the curated prose; generate the tables. [`scripts/rfc-index.ts`](../../../../scripts/rfc-index.ts) is the shared source of truth — the tree walker (owning the closed lifecycle/class sets and the structure rules, including a parseable-H1 requirement) and the renderer (rows from H1 title with any `RFC: ` prefix stripped, plus the filename date, sorted by date then filename, grouped as `### {Class}` sections in canonical class order). Two thin consumers share it:
- [`scripts/gen-rfc-index.ts`](../../../../scripts/gen-rfc-index.ts) (`pnpm run gen-rfc-index`) rewrites the three marker-delimited regions in the README (`<!-- gen-rfc-index:begin {lifecycle} -->` … `end`), one per `## {Lifecycle}` section, leaving everything outside the markers untouched.
- [`scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts`](../../../../scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts) (a `doc-sync` member) checks structure and asserts the committed regions byte-match a fresh render — the `gen-cordis-catalog`/`verify-cordis-catalog` pattern. Freshness subsumes the index-completeness check: a generated-from-disk table is definitionally complete and correctly headed.
Adding, moving, or deleting an RFC means editing only the RFC file and running the generator; the classification RFC's rejected-alternatives record carries the supersession cross-link.
## Why not the verifier-only model?
It catches mistakes but still makes every proposal edit a shared hotspot, and a failed verifier is strictly more annoying than a generator for a purely mechanical row: the author has already named and placed the file; the index copy adds no information. This is the same hand-list-versus-derivation judgment the [package-inventory proposal](../../proposed/process/2026-06-20-discover-package-inventory.md) applies to tsconfig references and knip stanzas — applied to the one list that demonstrably conflicts.
## Consequences
- The generated regions are explicit: marker comments make script ownership obvious to reviewers, and the generator refuses to run on a structurally invalid tree.
- A malformed or missing H1 is a hard error in both the generator and the gate — the H1 is now load-bearing as the index title source.
- Concurrent RFC branches resolve index conflicts by rerunning the generator, never by hand-merging rows.

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Status: implemented (proposed 2026-06-20; accepted in amended form — `whenIdle()` retained)
> **Implementation note (scope narrowed from the original proposal).** This RFC proposed removing BOTH `abort()` and `whenIdle()` from the public `Agent` handle. Only `abort()` was removed. Validating the premise against the code ([AGENTS.md "RFCs are proposals, not golden truth"](../../../../AGENTS.md)) found `whenIdle()` to be a **load-bearing quiescence primitive**, not dead surface: it is the settle signal in several ACP tests (`packages/ui/acp/tests/{edges,turns,dispose}.spec.ts`) and is backed by a deliberate loop contract (settle waiters without a status transition; handle the replacement-turn race). The RFC's suggested migration — have consumers observe the `running`→`idle` transition by hand — is exactly the brittle hand-rolled path [AGENTS.md § Defensive patterns](../../../../AGENTS.md) warns against ("Async state is not synchronous state"). Deleting a clean primitive to push every consumer onto that is a net loss, so `whenIdle()` stays. `abort()` was genuinely dead public surface (no production caller; the loop aborts its own `AbortController` directly), so it was removed as proposed. The text below is amended to describe what shipped.
> **Implementation note (scope narrowed from the original proposal).** This RFC proposed removing BOTH `abort()` and `whenIdle()` from the public `Agent` handle. Only `abort()` was removed. Validating the premise against the code ([AGENTS.md "RFCs are proposals, not golden truth"](../../../../AGENTS.md)) found `whenIdle()` to be a **load-bearing quiescence primitive**, not dead surface: it is the settle signal in several ACP tests (`packages/ui/acp/tests/{edges,turns,dispose}.spec.ts`) and is backed by a deliberate loop contract (settle waiters without a status transition; handle the replacement-turn race). The RFC's suggested migration — have consumers observe the `running`→`idle` transition by hand — is exactly the brittle hand-rolled path [the defensive patterns](../../../defensive-patterns.md) warns against ("Async state is not synchronous state"). Deleting a clean primitive to push every consumer onto that is a net loss, so `whenIdle()` stays. `abort()` was genuinely dead public surface (no production caller; the loop aborts its own `AbortController` directly), so it was removed as proposed. The text below is amended to describe what shipped.
## Problem

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## Context
The harness leans hard on real-API tests by policy: AGENTS.md § Secrets argues that a no-key suite proves the plumbing but not the product, and the [ACP inject postmortem](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) is the standing proof — 178 keyless tests stayed green while a real editor session crashed instantly. The real-API e2e suite (`pnpm run test:e2e`, the `*.e2e.ts` files) exists precisely to close that gap: it drives the agent against the live DeepSeek API — real model calls, real bash tools, multi-turn, resume, ACP-over-stdio.
The harness leans hard on real-API tests by policy: [docs/testing.md](../../../testing.md) argues that a no-key suite proves the plumbing but not the product, and the [ACP inject postmortem](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) is the standing proof — 178 keyless tests stayed green while a real editor session crashed instantly. The real-API e2e suite (`pnpm run test:e2e`, the `*.e2e.ts` files) exists precisely to close that gap: it drives the agent against the live DeepSeek API — real model calls, real bash tools, multi-turn, resume, ACP-over-stdio.
But until this change **nothing in CI ran it**. The default gate ([.github/workflows/ci.yml](../../../../.github/workflows/ci.yml)) is deliberately keyless — it carries no secret, runs on every push and PR including from forks, and stays green for any contributor. `test:e2e` self-skips without a key (`describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)`), so even if ci.yml invoked it, a keyless runner would skip it green. The real-API safety net therefore only fired when a developer happened to run it locally with a key in their environment — i.e. unreliably, and never as a merge gate.
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### Cost is not the constraint; reliability is
The usual reason to ration real-API CI — token cost — does not apply here: we are DeepSeek and internal inference is effectively free. So the design optimizes for *coverage and signal*, not for minimizing calls. The suite runs in full (all six `*.e2e.ts` files), on multiple triggers, on every trusted PR. This is the CI embodiment of the AGENTS.md "lean on with-key e2e tests" policy.
The usual reason to ration real-API CI — token cost — does not apply here: we are DeepSeek and internal inference is effectively free. So the design optimizes for *coverage and signal*, not for minimizing calls. The suite runs in full (all six `*.e2e.ts` files), on multiple triggers, on every trusted PR. This is the CI embodiment of the [docs/testing.md](../../../testing.md) with-key policy.
### Triggers: trusted events only

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## Problem
The hook bridges — [`dsh-hooks-claude`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-claude) (7 Claude Code hook points) and [`dsh-hooks-codex`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) (5 Codex points) — map external hook commands onto the harness interception seams. They carry deep unit and coverage-spec coverage (every decision arm, every payload dialect, driven against a mocked seam) plus one key-gated e2e (`hooks.e2e.ts`, a live `PreToolUse` block). But the full-transcript snapshot tier — the one net that boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session keyless, and diffs the normalized ACP stdout + re-persisted log against committed goldens — covered exactly ONE hook: a Claude `UserPromptSubmit` block (`hook-prompt-block`).
The hook bridges — [`dsh-hooks-claude`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-claude) (7 Claude Code hook points) and [`dsh-hooks-codex`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) (5 Codex points) — map external hook commands onto the harness interception seams. They carry deep unit and coverage-spec coverage (every decision arm, every payload dialect, driven against a mocked seam) plus one key-gated e2e (`hooks.e2e.ts`, a live `PreToolUse` block). But the full-transcript snapshot tier — the one net that boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session keyless, and diffs the normalized ACP stdout + re-persisted log against committed goldens — covered exactly ONE hook: a Claude `UserPromptSubmit` block (`hook-cc-promptsubmit-block`).
That is the tier a mocked unit test structurally cannot be: it exercises the REAL bridge translating a REAL hook process's outcome into the REAL seam decision, then the REAL loop's reaction, rendered exactly as an editor sees it. A bridge-translation or loop-structure regression that left every unit green would still escape it for every hook point but one — and for the Codex bridge, the ACP example did not even LOAD it, so no Codex hook could fire end-to-end at all.

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`dsh-bash` then keeps the bash-specific execution contract: resolve a request into a command spec, run a foreground command, or start a process and hand its streams/process handle to the generic runtime. `dsh-tool-bash` keeps the model-facing command tool, but the follow-up operations become generic long-running-tool operations or a shared utility that bash registers with, rather than bespoke `bash_output`/`bash_kill` plumbing.
## Current seam consumption
A consumer census of the surface the runtime would carve up. Production has two seam consumers: `packages/bash/tool-bash/src/index.ts` consumes `resolve`, `run`, `start`, `ownerOf`, `readOutput`, `kill`, and `onTaskDone`; and the hook bridges — via `dsh-hook-protocol`'s `runHook` (`packages/hooks/hook-protocol/src/runner.ts`) — consume `resolve` + `run` only, a foreground-only trusted-plugin caller that sets the seam's `stdin`/`env` fields, so the background machinery stays single-consumer (which sharpens the extraction premise). `get()`/`list()` have test-harness consumers only — they were removed once and reverted on the merits (the implementation note in [prune dead methods from the persistence seam](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-prune-dead-seam-methods.md) records the test-migration cost dwarfing the surface removed). The per-task `BashTask.done` promise has no consumer through the public seam either (`dsh-tool-bash` completes via `onTaskDone`), but it is production-load-bearing INSIDE the implementation: `dsh-bash-local`'s disposal awaits it to reach quiescence. The seam therefore exposes two public completion representations — the per-task promise and the global `onTaskDone` listener registry — and the shipped consumers use only the latter: the runtime should pick exactly one public completion surface and record which. Two shape facts for the split to dissolve or preserve deliberately: `BashExecSpec.timeoutMs` is required but ignored by `start()` (documented in the seam JSDoc itself), and `stdin`/`env` ride the shared spec for the foreground trusted-plugin path — the carve-up must keep a plain in-process foreground `resolve`+`run` path carrying them, so hook execution is never forced through the long-running runtime. Adjacent blast radius: the credential scrub is duplicated between the two production spawn sites (`packages/bash/bash-local/src/run.ts` and `packages/subagent/subagent-acp/src/run.ts`); if the runtime absorbs spawn-env policy, collapsing that duplication is its work too.
## Acceptance criteria
- The bash-specific packages no longer define the generic task registry, owner-token authorization, polling, cancellation, or completion-notification machinery.

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# RFC: Pre-tool input rewrite — a consistent design (proposed)
# RFC: Pre-tool input rewrite — a consistent design
Status: proposed (2026-06-30)
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2. **`tool/call`** is the durable AUDIT record, appended before `ctx.tools.execute()`.
3. **Live presentation reads `tool/call.arguments`**: the ACP bridge remembers them and passes them to `presentResult`; `dsh-tool-bash` derives the card title, the rawInput, the cwd, and the terminal-vs-background treatment from them.
So an "input rewrite" that changes ONLY what executes would make the UI show one command while another RAN, and render result state against the wrong arguments — a real inconsistency, not a documentable gap. (The existing low-level capability to mutate `exec.arguments` in a listener has exactly this latent inconsistency; it is unadvertised precisely because of this.)
So an "input rewrite" that changes ONLY what executes would make the UI show one command while another RAN, and render result state against the wrong arguments — a real inconsistency, not a documentable gap. (The existing low-level capability to mutate `exec.arguments` in a listener has exactly this latent inconsistency; it is unadvertised precisely because of this — yet not unused: a tool-bash integration test rewrites a scripted call's arguments through it (`packages/bash/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts`), so this design must either sanction that path with the consistency unit below or seal it — `readonly` arguments at the seam, with the test shim moved onto a behavior-level helper.)
## Proposed design (sketch — to validate against the code when built)

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## Problem
Package and gate inventories are repeated by hand. The [package cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md) tells authors to update several files. The [package README](../../../../packages/README.md) carries a hand-written dependency graph. [CI](../../../../.github/workflows/ci.yml) and [development docs](../../../development.md) can drift from the actual `doc-sync` subcommands when new gates are added. `tsconfig.build.json` lists all 18 packages as explicit project `references`. These lists are small today, but every new package or gate creates another manual synchronization point.
Package and gate inventories are repeated by hand. The [package cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md) tells authors to update several files. The [package README](../../../../packages/README.md) carries a hand-written dependency graph. [CI](../../../../.github/workflows/ci.yml) and [development docs](../../../development.md) can drift from the actual `doc-sync` subcommands when new gates are added. `tsconfig.build.json` and the root `tsconfig.json` each hand-list every package as explicit project `references` — two identical sets that grow in lockstep, so a single generator can emit both — and `tsconfig.base.json`'s paths map hand-lists the per-group glob fan-out. `knip.json` restates a per-package `entry` stanza for each package that gains an `*.e2e.ts` suite — byte-identical overrides that exist only because the shared `packages/*/*` stanza omits the e2e glob (an entry glob matching no files is inert, so the default stanza could carry it for every package). The ACP snapshot suite's scenario table (`examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts`) hand-maintains a `childSessions` count per scenario that duplicates the number of `session.<n>.jsonl` fixture siblings on disk. These lists are small today, but every new package or scenario class creates another manual synchronization point.
The [package hierarchy](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md) already removed several of these by hand: `scripts/publint-all.ts` now derives its list from the `packages/<group>/<pkg>` layout, and the two `tsconfig` `paths` maps collapsed to one `@deepseek-ai/dsh-*` wildcard. What remains is the inventory that cannot be globbed away — chiefly `tsconfig.build.json`'s project `references`, which TypeScript requires as an explicit array (no wildcard form).
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The hierarchy does not need to encode every fact about a package, but it should encode the broad maintenance policy: core/product packages, integrations, capability seams, and support/test/example packages should not all require a hand-maintained exception list before scripts can tell them apart.
Two of the cataloged items need no generator at all: folding the e2e entry glob into knip's default stanza deletes the per-package restatements outright, and `childSessions` can be discovered from each scenario's fixture directory, leaving the scenario table to declare only policy (`recorded`, `hasModelTurn`, `comparesLog`) — and even those track fixture-derivable facts today (`comparesLog` ⟺ the committed log has entries beyond its header line; `recorded` ⟺ `hasModelTurn` with no `replay.override.json` sibling), so each new scenario class keeps adding knobs the fixture directory already answers.
## Acceptance criteria
- `tsconfig.build.json` project `references` are generated from the hierarchy (a generator emits them; a `--check` gate fails when the committed copy is stale), rather than hand-maintained.
- Adding a package does not require editing a static package list for any gate.
- Docs describe the source of truth rather than repeating generated inventories.
- CI invokes the aggregate commands and lets those commands own their sub-gate lists.
- `knip.json` carries a per-package override only where it encodes real information (an extra entry file, an ignored dependency), never a restatement of the default stanza.
- Snapshot scenarios declare policy, not facts discoverable from their fixture directories.
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- `agentId` — the `AgentRegistry` handle (the actor identity; the registry rejects a duplicate).
- `sessionId` — the event-sourced session / persisted-log identity (`session.header.id`).
`CreateAgentOptions` takes both separately; `ResumeAgentOptions` takes an `agentId` plus a `resumeSessionId`. They diverge in exactly two places:
`CreateAgentOptions` takes both separately; `ResumeAgentOptions` takes an `agentId` plus a `resumeSessionId`. They diverge in exactly three places:
- **Config-driven create** (`AgentLoop.create`): a stable `agentId` (e.g. `"echo"`) with a fresh per-run `sessionId` (`${id}-session-<uuid>`).
- **Resume**: a caller-supplied `agentId` (e.g. `"main"`) on a persisted `resumeSessionId`.
- **In-process subagent children**: the backend mints the child's `agentId` and `sessionId` as two independent UUIDs (`packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts`) that nothing distinguishes — `parentSession` records lineage independently.
Everywhere a live consumer actually looks an agent up — the **ACP bridge, the only production path** — the two are already unified: `agentId === sessionId === <uuid>`.
Where a live consumer looks an agent up, no lookup needs an id translation: the ACP bridge — the primary production path — already unifies the two (`agentId === sessionId === <uuid>`; both factory call sites brand `AgentId(sessionId)` directly, and its reverse lookup keys on the `Agent` object itself), and the CC hooks bridge resolves subagent children directly by the `agentId` its lifecycle event carries. The one production population whose two ids actually DIVERGE is the in-process subagent children — the same cosmetic separation as the config path, and the same one-field simplification under unification. One consumer already pays the two-id tax: ui-stdio keeps a `labelBySession` map (seeded from the registry, maintained by `agent/created`/`agent/disposed` listeners) solely to translate `session.header.id` back to an agent id for its turn labels — machinery that deletes outright when the ids unify. And the CC hooks bridge stamps `session_id: agent.session.header.id` into every hook payload, so under unification a subagent hook's `session_id` and `agent_id` become the same string — one less identity for a hook author to reconcile.
The separation is **latent generality no consumer exercises**: nothing reads a *stable* `agentId` back across runs (each process starts fresh, and persistence keys off the session id, never the agent id). The config path's "stable agentId, fresh sessionId" buys nothing concrete — it is cosmetic. And the `agentId !== sessionId` case is precisely what opens the bash owner-token alias hole: the bash completion-notice routes by `session.header.id`, but the registry enforces uniqueness only on `agentId`, so a programmatic caller registering two agents with different agent ids but the SAME session id can mis-route a notice (see [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md) § Seam precondition). The current code documents this as a precondition rather than guaranteeing it.
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## Risks
This touches public factory interfaces (`CreateAgentOptions`, `ResumeAgentOptions`, `AgentFactory`) and the config-agent id scheme, so it is a deliberate cross-package change, not a local patch — it ships as its own PR (converged with Codex), stacked on the bash owner-token work that surfaced the precondition.
This touches public factory interfaces (`CreateAgentOptions`, `ResumeAgentOptions`, `AgentFactory`) and the config-agent id scheme, so it is a deliberate cross-package change, not a local patch — it ships as its own PR (converged with Codex); the bash owner-token precondition it closes is documented in [agent lifecycle and ownership seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md).
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# RFC: Drop the `image` content block until a path can honor it
Status: proposed
## Problem
`ImageBlock` (`packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts`) has no production producer, and every consumer on every path DROPS it: the deepseek adapter's serializer skips image blocks (a documented MVP limitation), the pi-ai converter skips them as unrepresentable, the ACP codec neither advertises image prompt capability nor forwards image blocks outbound and REJECTS image prompt content inbound, and the compaction estimator charges a flat token constant and renders `[image]`. An `ImageBlock` constructed today would silently vanish from the wire — the vocabulary advertises a capability no path honors, which is the silent-data-loss shape AGENTS.md's defensive patterns warn against. The only constructors anywhere are tests pinning the skip/drop/estimate branches.
## Proposal
Remove `ImageBlock`, its `ContentBlockMap` entry, the explicit `image` estimate/placeholder arms in compact-basic, and the image-naming comments in the deepseek serializer's, pi-ai converter's, and ACP codec's default arms — those default arms already absorb the case the way they absorb any unknown block type. Update the vocabulary line in [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md), the block list in `packages/llm/llm/README.md`, the deepseek README's image-skip row, the pi-ai README's images-not-representable row, the compact-basic README's image-estimation and `[image]`-placeholder rows, the pastes in [core.md](../../../core-data-structures/core.md) and [llm-streaming.md](../../../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md), and the type-equiv manifest; amend the [content-block vocabulary RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md)'s block list and multimodal-home consequence per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md); drop or retarget the tests that construct image blocks to exercise the removed branches. The ACP codec's inbound rejection of image PROMPT content is unaffected — that guard is about protocol content a client can send regardless of our vocabulary, and it stays.
## Why not keep it?
This is the most contested cut in the batch. Multimodal input (screenshots) is a plausible near-term coding-agent feature, and the [content-block vocabulary RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md) reserved the slot deliberately. Two responses. First, `ContentBlockMap` is merge-extensible by design: a real multimodal feature reintroduces `image` in core in the same coordinated change that maps it in the adapters, advertises and renders it in ACP, and prices it in compaction — the producer and its consumers arrive together, which is how the map is meant to grow. Second, the middle option — keep the type but make adapters throw UNSUPPORTED instead of silently dropping — converts this into exactly the shape the [request-knobs RFC](2026-07-04-drop-inert-request-knobs.md) argues against: surface whose only implementation is rejection. Absence (a compile error at the would-be producer) is strictly clearer than either silent loss or universal throw.
If review lands on keeping the slot, the fallback this RFC records is: keep `ImageBlock` but replace every silent skip with a loud rejection, and document that policy in the vocabulary — the current silent drop is the one state with no defender.
## Acceptance criteria
- No `ImageBlock` / harness `type: 'image'` block construction outside this RFC; the codec's inbound ACP-image rejection still passes its tests.
- Adapter/codec/compaction switches handle the case through their unknown-block default arms (pinned by the existing plugin-added-block tests where present).
- Doc pastes, the manifest, and the architecture vocabulary list updated; `pnpm run doc-sync` green.
## Risks
Re-adding a core vocabulary type later touches several packages at once — but that coordinated change is the shape a real multimodal feature needs anyway (adapter mapping, ACP advertisement, compaction pricing), and none of it exists today to preserve.

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# RFC: Drop `GenerateOptions.prefill` and `ToolSchema.strict` — request knobs with no working end-to-end path
Status: proposed
## Problem
Two request-contract knobs ride the whole request pipeline, yet neither can do anything today:
- **`prefill`** (`packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts`) has no production setter — the loop assembles `model`/`system`/`tools`/`messages` plus `sessionId`/`signal`, and the compaction backend adds only `maxTokens` — and BOTH adapters reject it: `packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/serialize.ts` and `packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts` each throw `LlmError('UNSUPPORTED')` on a non-undefined `prefill`. The field's entire observable behavior is two throws, each pinned by one adapter test. DeepSeek's chat-prefix completion is a Beta feature on a base URL neither adapter targets.
- **`strict`** (`ToolSchema`, same file) is threaded through `DefineToolOptions`/`defineTool` (`packages/core/tools/src/schema.ts`), the registry's `schemas()` allowlist (`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts`), the deepseek wire mapping (`packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/serialize.ts`, whose wire-type note records that strict mode requires the `/beta` base URL the adapter does not use), and a per-tool payload-patching pass in `packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts`. No shipped tool sets it — `rg` across every `tool-*` package src and `examples/` finds zero `strict:` producers; the only setters are dsh-tools unit tests.
Both knobs are adapter-symmetric, so removal sheds them from both twins together — the [twin-adapter design](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) is untouched.
## Proposal
- Remove `prefill` from `GenerateOptions`, both adapters' UNSUPPORTED guards, the tests pinning the throws, the paste lines in [core.md](../../../core-data-structures/core.md), the adapter README rows documenting the rejection, and the cookbook line using prefill as the UNSUPPORTED example ([adding-an-llm-adapter.md](../../../cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.md)); amend the [content-block vocabulary RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md)'s consequence line naming prefill as having a home, per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
- Remove `strict` from `ToolSchema`, `DefineToolOptions`, `defineTool`, and the `schemas()` allowlist; drop the deepseek serializer branch; simplify the pi-ai payload fixup to the unconditional scrub of pi-ai's own strict default (that half exists for wire parity with the hand-rolled twin and survives); drop the setter tests and the core.md paste line.
This RFC deliberately does NOT touch `temperature`, `stop`, or `maxTokens`: those are honored end-to-end by both adapters and are the natural first targets of a request-mutating hook plugin on `agent/request`.
## Why not keep them?
"An explicit UNSUPPORTED throw is honest contract behavior" — but a knob whose only implementation across both twins is rejection promises nothing, and deleting it upgrades the failure mode: an accidental setter becomes a compile error instead of a runtime throw. "Strict schema adherence is an officially documented provider feature with complete plumbing" — but a knob is not product surface until a shipped tool sets it AND an endpoint honors it; today neither is true. Each returns with its first real producer: `prefill` together with an adapter that implements chat-prefix completion (and a stated policy for adapters that do not), `strict` together with a tool that wants it and a beta-endpoint story.
## Acceptance criteria
- `rg prefill` and a tool-schema-scoped `rg strict` return only this RFC (and unrelated prose such as `strictEqual`).
- Both adapters compile and their contract tests pass without the guards; the pi-ai fixup still scrubs the library's strict default (wire parity pinned by its serializer tests).
- Doc pastes and the type-equiv manifest in sync; `pnpm run doc-sync` green.
## Risks
The shipped hook bridges set no request fields at all, and a request-mutating plugin (an `agent/request` waterfall listener) would reach for `temperature`/`stop` (kept, working), not a field adapters reject. If chat-prefix completion or strict mode become product features, the re-add lands with the adapter/endpoint work, where the contract can say what actually happens rather than "everyone throws".

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# RFC: Drop the unconsumed web observation surface — the `providers-change` event and the status methods
Status: proposed
## Problem
`WebService` exposes an observation surface no production code observes:
- **`web/providers-change`** (`packages/web/web/src/index.ts`) is declared and emitted on every provider registration and disposal, and each registration effect's rollback yield is ordered BEFORE the emit solely so a throwing change listener unwinds the registration. No listener exists outside the package's own two unit tests (one of which exists to pin that rollback ordering).
- **`searchStatus()` / `fetchStatus()` and the `WebCapabilityStatus` union** (same package) have zero production callers: `dsh-tool-web` executes directly through `ctx.web.search()`/`fetch()` and surfaces unavailability as the structured `WebError` codes the seam throws at execution time (`packages/web/tool-web/src/search.ts`, `packages/web/tool-web/src/fetch.ts`); the only status callers are the web packages' own tests. The prose in `packages/web/tool-web/README.md` and [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) still claims the tool "reads only the aggregated `searchStatus()`/`fetchStatus()`" — drift that survives only because nothing checks prose against call sites.
The seam's own design starves both surfaces of consumers: tool registration follows product ENABLEMENT, not provider availability (`packages/web/tool-web/src/index.ts`), and provider selection resolves at execution time, never cached — so there is no cache to invalidate, no registration set to recompute, and no caller that needs an availability probe distinct from executing and routing the structured error. HMR cleanup is carried by the effect disposers themselves.
This mirrors [drop the unconsumed `llm/adapter-change` event](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-adapter-change-event.md), which removed the same notification shape, the same rollback-before-emit machinery, and the same listener-throw test from `LlmService`. That RFC's keep/cut criterion — keep `tools/change` for its plausible user-facing tool-list consumer, cut the boot-time backend-registry signal — puts a web-provider registry squarely on the cut side; the status methods are the same judgment applied to a pull surface instead of a push one.
## Proposal
Delete the event declaration, both emits, and the rollback-before-emit ordering (the plain `ctx.effect` disposer keeps HMR cleanup). Delete `searchStatus()`/`fetchStatus()`/`WebCapabilityStatus` — the provider-private `status()` stays, since it feeds execution-time selection. Delete the two event tests and rewrite the status-based test assertions onto the behavior a real caller observes (a successful `search()`/`fetch()`, or the structured `WebError` codes for unavailable/ambiguous/misconfigured provider sets). Run `pnpm run gen-cordis-catalog`; update `packages/web/web/README.md`, `packages/web/tool-web/README.md` (the drifted reads-status sentence), [web.md](../../../core-data-structures/web.md), and the web paragraph in [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md). The implementing PR amends the [web capability seam RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md)'s facts (it specifies the event and the status aggregation) per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
## Why not keep it?
The web seam RFC specified both deliberately — the event as a minimal HMR-visibility signal, the status methods as the tool's aggregated diagnostics — and a future provider-status panel is imaginable. But the same RFC's other choices starved them: derived-on-call selection and enablement-based registration leave no consumer that CAN need either, the shipped tool demonstrates the real pattern (execute and route the structured error), and the drifted README sentence shows the promised consumer never materialized. Per AGENTS.md "RFCs are proposals, not golden truth", these are the parts of that proposal the code has since shown to over-reach; a future observer reintroduces the smallest signal or query it actually consumes, shaped by that consumer.
## Acceptance criteria
- No `providers-change`, `searchStatus`, `fetchStatus`, or `WebCapabilityStatus` spelling outside RFC history; the catalog is regenerated and fresh (`verify-cordis-catalog` green).
- Registration/disposal HMR-safety tests prove cleanup through execution behavior rather than the removed surfaces.
- `packages/web/tool-web/README.md` and the architecture paragraph describe the execution-time error-routing contract the tool actually has.
## Risks
A future provider-picker UI or diagnostics panel wants change notifications or a status query — it re-adds the smallest surface it consumes; the identical judgment, and its reversal condition, is already recorded on the llm precedent.

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# RFC: Fold the stdio UI helper into the stdio app
Status: proposed
## Problem
`@deepseek-ai/dsh-ui-stdio` is a whole package whose only runtime importer is the app package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent` (`packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/index.ts`). The examples reach the readline UI by loading the app, never by composing the helper themselves; every other repo reference is mechanical or descriptive surface that exists BECAUSE the package boundary exists — manifest and tsconfig entries, generated module-graph rows, dependency-graph and README rows, and doc comments naming the package. [The ui group README](../../../../packages/ui/README.md) records the placement rationale — the helper "exists chiefly for the examples and the coverage gate — `ui/` is reserved for surfaces shipped as product" — which leaves a standing tension: a shipped product app depends on a support package documented as NOT product surface.
The boundary buys package metadata, workspace and tsconfig references, module-graph rows, README entries, and publint surface for a helper that is not independently swappable: the stdio app's front-door cluster always includes the readline UI, and nothing else can meaningfully consume it.
## Proposal
Fold the helper into `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent`: move `createStdioChat`, its `StdioRuntime` test seam, and its unit tests into `packages/ui/stdio-agent`; delete the `packages/support/ui-stdio` package with its manifest, references, module-graph rows, and README rows; update every reference that names the package (the example e2e module docs, `packages/README.md`, the support and todo README rows, the stdio-agent README, the ui group README, tsconfig references, the generated module graph). Keep the runtime seam so EOF handling, rendering, disposal, and piped-vs-TTY behavior stay unit-covered without hijacking process globals; the keyless Loader-path smokes keep guarding the export shape end-to-end.
## Why not promote it to `ui/` instead?
Promotion would resolve the support-vs-product mismatch while keeping the boundary — the right call only if the readline UI were an independently swappable integration or had a second composer, and the consumer census says neither. The structured ACP bridge stays its own package because it is the product protocol surface with its own contract and snapshot tiers; the readline helper is scaffolding for one app's front door. Re-extraction stays cheap pre-release: if a second product app wants the readline UI, split it back out then, with that consumer shaping the package contract.
## Acceptance criteria
- `packages/support/ui-stdio` no longer exists; the helper and its tests live in `packages/ui/stdio-agent`; no reference to the deleted package remains outside RFC history.
- The stdio app still renders transcript events, handles stdin lines and EOF, renders todo checklists, and disposes readline listeners under HMR; the echo/coding keyless smokes still boot through the real Loader path and guard the export shape.
- Manifests, tsconfig references, the generated module graph, and docs are updated; `pnpm run test:coverage`, `pnpm run test:snapshot`, `pnpm run doc-sync`, `pnpm run build`, and `pnpm run hygiene` pass.
## Risks
A future standalone terminal UI may want the helper as a package again — reintroduce it with that second consumer rather than keeping the boundary for hypothetical reuse. Moving tests risks blurring app-composition tests with UI-rendering tests; keeping the runtime seam and the colocated unit tests avoids that.

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# RFC: Prune dead core-spine surface — `SurfaceManager.invalidate()`, the loop-internal exports, `ToolExecutionResult.callId`
Status: proposed
## Problem
Three pieces of public spine surface share one defect class: their only possible role is to be ignored, or their trigger is unreachable.
1. **`SurfaceManager.invalidate()`** (`packages/core/session/src/surface.ts`). Its documented trigger — "the log has been replaced wholesale (e.g. after Session seed)" — is structurally unreachable: seeding happens inside the `Session` constructor, `_surface` is created lazily on first access, and the log reference is never reassigned afterward, so no constructed `SurfaceManager` ever observes a wholesale replacement. Sole caller: its own unit test. A rollback primitive protecting a scenario the implementation cannot produce.
2. **The `runLoop`, `Inbox`, and `InboxMessage` exports** (`packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts`). `runLoop` has no importer outside the package — the only callers are the package's own internals (the agent constructs its loop with it), so the public re-export has zero consumers; `Inbox`/`InboxMessage` likewise reach outside code only through the package's own inbox spec (switchable to the source module). The exports contradict the package's own docs — the inbox module doc says the public surface is `Agent.send()`/`Agent.steer()` — and the [architecture dependency rule](../../../architecture.md): nothing programs against `dsh-agent-loop`; a replacement loop is a different bundle built on `dsh-agent`, not a consumer of this package's internals. `ReactLoopAgent` stays exported (cross-package tests construct it by package name).
3. **`ToolExecutionResult.callId`** (`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts`; the *input* `ToolExecution.callId` stays). Zero readers — and no listener can even construct a result: `tools/pre-execute`/`tools/post-execute` listeners return Decisions, the registry builds every result itself and always sets `callId` to the input `exec.callId`, and the post-execute dispatch snapshots the outcome before the waterfall precisely so a listener mutating the shared result reference cannot corrupt the id. The loop independently ignores `result.callId` in favor of its own `call.id`, and two regression tests exist solely to prove the field cannot matter (the loop's ignores-result-callId test and the registry's mutation guard). A field that is by construction a copy of its input, defended by snapshot machinery, and pinned by tests proving it is ignored is pure liability surface; the ACP bridge correlates via the session event's `data.callId`, never via the execution result.
## Proposal
Delete the method and its test; delete the three export lines and their `packages/core/agent-loop/README.md` rows, pointing the inbox spec at the source module; drop the result field from the type, the registry's construction sites (the deny result, the dispatch result, `toolErrorResult`, and the post-execute snapshot's `callId` leg), the loop's ignore-comment, the proves-ignored regression test, and the mutation guard's `callId` assertions — the hazard they all pin disappears with the field, while the result's `additionalContext` ferry (a consumed post-execute channel) stays untouched. Update the `ToolExecutionResult` paste in [tools.md](../../../core-data-structures/tools.md) (and its `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` row) and the result-shape row in `packages/core/tools/README.md`; for the `invalidate()` removal, amend the [session-surface RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md)'s full-rebuild-after-wholesale-replacement sentence per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
Sequencing: the in-flight surface-cache work (tool-pairing balance caching) neither uses nor touches `invalidate`, so that removal lands after or alongside it mechanically. The execute pipeline is `tools/pre-execute` → dispatch → `tools/post-execute`, and post-execute listeners receive the execution object alongside the result — nothing needs the result's own id.
## Why not keep them?
A future consumer that swaps a session's log in place would want a reset primitive — it re-adds `invalidate` with itself. A replacement-loop author might want to reuse the inbox or the driver — the architecture already answers that a replacement loop is a different bundle. An isolated result-logging listener might want self-contained correlation on the result — the execution object is in scope at every listener, and a field that exists only to be ignored is worse than absent: it invites exactly the orphaned-pairing bug the loop comment warns about.
## Acceptance criteria
- `invalidate()` and the result `callId` appear only in this RFC; `runLoop`/`Inbox`/`InboxMessage` remain package-internal only — no re-export from the package index and no outside-package importer; the agent-loop README lists only the consumed public surface; the inbox spec imports the source module.
- The pre-/post-execute pipeline contract tests pass with the shrunk result type; the mutation-guard and proves-ignored tests shed their `callId` legs with the hazard they pin.
## Risks
All three are compile-visible removals with no runtime behavior change on any shipped path.

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# RFC: Prune producer-less vocabulary variants (block cache hints, the `agent` message source, the `continuation` turn trigger)
Status: proposed
## Problem
The merge-extensible vocabulary maps are designed to grow by declaration merging, and the codebase already states the admission policy on `TurnEndReasonMap` (`packages/core/session/src/types.ts`): a variant like `refusal` is "deliberately omitted until" an adapter or loop first emits it. Three declared vocabulary items violate that policy — each has no producer and no consumer, and two have not even a test:
- **`CacheHint` and the three `cache?: CacheHint` fields** on `TextBlock`/`ToolResultBlock`/`ImageBlock` (`packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts`). Nothing constructs a block with `cache:` anywhere — src, tests, and doc pastes all come up empty — and neither adapter reads `.cache`: DeepSeek prompt caching is automatic, so the adapters map `prompt_cache_hit_tokens` OUT of responses without ever sending a hint IN. This is Anthropic-style `cache_control` surface with no provider that can honor it.
- **`MessageSourceMap.agent`** (`{ kind: 'agent'; agentId: string }`, same file). Zero constructors, tests included. Its intended producer shipped without it: the subagent backends send the parent's prompt to the child with no `source`, so it logs as `{ kind: 'user' }`, and the generic envelope renderer interpolates `source.kind` without ever routing on it. The variant is pasted into [core.md](../../../core-data-structures/core.md).
- **`TurnTriggerMap.continuation`** (`packages/core/session/src/types.ts`). The loop structurally cannot emit it — continuation happens *within* a turn as further steps, never as a new turn — and it constructs only `message` and `injection` triggers. The only writer is one hand-built test fixture that needs an arbitrary non-message trigger (`packages/support/llm-replay/tests/llm-replay.spec.ts`); the only production trigger reader, the ACP bridge, filters on `kind === 'message'`. The variant is pasted into [session.md](../../../core-data-structures/session.md).
## Proposal
Delete `CacheHint` with its three `cache?` fields, the `agent` message-source variant, and the `continuation` turn-trigger variant. Switch the llm-replay fixture to an `injection` trigger (any non-`message` trigger serves its purpose). Update the type-equiv pastes in [core.md](../../../core-data-structures/core.md) and [session.md](../../../core-data-structures/session.md) (and `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` where block identity shifts) in the same change, and amend the [content-block vocabulary RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md)'s consequence line naming cache hints as having a home, per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
Each variant returns the day it gains a real producer, exactly as the maps are designed to grow: a caching feature re-adds `cache` together with the adapter that transmits it; subagent attribution re-adds `agent` together with the backend that stamps it and a consumer that routes on it; an auto-continue feature that genuinely starts new turns re-adds `continuation` with the plugin that emits it.
## Why not keep them?
The [content-block vocabulary RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md) lists "cache hints … have a home" as a design consequence, and reserved slots do advertise intent. But an empty slot is contract surface every implementation and consumer must consider (must my adapter honor `cache`? must my renderer route `agent` sources?), and the sibling map's own JSDoc already rejects reservation-without-emitter — `refusal` and `max_turn_requests` are named as variants to add *when something first emits them*, not declared in advance. Holding already-declared dead variants to the same standard makes the vocabulary mean something: if it is in the map, something produces it.
## Acceptance criteria
- `rg` for `CacheHint`, the `agent` message-source spelling, and the `continuation` trigger spelling returns only this RFC.
- The core-data-structures pastes and the type-equiv manifest are in sync (`pnpm run doc-sync` green).
- The fixture asserts the same replay behavior with an `injection` trigger; the suite is green.
## Risks
None operational — nothing can construct these values today. The mirror-event removals (recorded in [the boundary-mirror RFC](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md) and [the stream-chunk RFC](../../implemented/simplification/2026-07-02-remove-stream-chunk-mirror.md)) touch only transient `agent/*` events, never the durable vocabulary, so there is no collision. Elsewhere in the vocabulary the admission policy already holds: `rejected`, `prompt/blocked`, and `hook/invoked`/`hook/result` each have live producers — this RFC extends the same bar to the three variants that lack one. If the [image-block RFC](2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md) ships first, one of the three `cache?` fields leaves with it; the two proposals are independent and compose in either order.

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# RFC: Prune write-only fields and a dead routing knob from the fs seam
Status: proposed
## Problem
The [fs seam split](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) moved read routing and policy out of the backend into `dsh-tool-fs` and `dsh-fs-policy`. Four pieces of surface kept the pre-split shape — populated on every call, read by nobody:
1. **`STREAM_MIN_SIZE` + `FsIoInternals.streamMinSize` in `dsh-fs-local`** — *already removed by the no-hardcoded-tunables audit (the routing bound became `dsh-tool-fs`'s `readStreamMinSize` config); listed here for the record of the full prune, no work remains.* Originally (`packages/fs/fs-local/src/fsio.ts`, re-exported from `packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts`): zero readers anywhere, including fs-local's own source and tests. The backend has no read routing — `readWholeText`/`streamWholeText` are separate primitives the caller chooses between — and the real routing constant lives in the consumer (`packages/fs/tool-fs/src/read.ts`, compared against `info.size`). Two mirrors of the 10 MiB fact; the backend's is dead, and the knob's JSDoc claims a "read routing" override that does not exist.
2. **`FsTarget.inputPath`** (`packages/fs/fs/src/types.ts`): every backend and every test fake must fabricate a "diagnostics only" value with zero production readers — the policy plugin and every error message use `targetKey`/`displayPath`. The `listDir` producer exposes the semantic wobble: directory children get the bare entry name, which was nobody's "input".
3. **`FsEditOutcome.replacements` + `.replaceAll`** (`packages/fs/fs/src/types.ts`): `replacements` has zero production readers (the single-match policy itself stays — it is enforced by the `FS_AMBIGUOUS_EDIT`/`FS_EDIT_NOT_FOUND` throws inside the backend, whose error message keeps the internal count); `replaceAll` is read only by `formatEditOutput` in `packages/fs/tool-fs/src/edit.ts` — as an echo of the `replace_all` argument the tool already holds. Shrunk, `FsEditOutcome` becomes `{ version, before, after }`, parallel to `FsWriteOutcome`'s genuinely backend-discovered fields.
4. **`FileReadOutcome.limit` + `.version`** (`packages/fs/tool-fs/src/read-render.ts`): populated by the read tool, but `formatReadOutput` renders `offset`/`lines`/`totalLines`/`truncatedByBytes` only, and the `fs/observed` emit uses `info.version` directly rather than the outcome copy.
## Proposal
Delete the fs-local constant, its re-export, and the `streamMinSize` knob (the remaining `FsIoInternals` knobs are genuinely used by the atomic-write tests); drop `inputPath` from `FsTarget`; shrink `FsEditOutcome` to `{ version, before, after }` and pass `replaceAll` to `formatEditOutput` from the parsed args; drop `limit`/`version` from `FileReadOutcome`. Update the [filesystem.md](../../../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) pastes, the type-equiv manifest, `packages/fs/fs/README.md`, and the test fakes that currently must fabricate the removed fields.
## Why not keep them?
A future permission/containment layer might want the pre-resolution path for error text — but it would want the *request*, which every call site still holds. "N occurrences replaced" might become model-facing text — a behavior change to design when wanted, and the backend-internal count survives for its error message. A read footer might display `limit` — everything the footer shows already derives from `lines`/`totalLines`. Meanwhile every current and future backend (remote, native) must fabricate wire fields nobody consumes, and every test fake must satisfy them.
## Acceptance criteria
- The removed surfaces are gone — `STREAM_MIN_SIZE`/`streamMinSize` in `dsh-fs-local`, `FsTarget.inputPath`, `FsEditOutcome.replacements`/`.replaceAll`, and `FileReadOutcome.limit`/`.version` — while the request-side `replaceAll` (`FsEditSpec`) and the version fields on the other outcome types are untouched; doc pastes and the manifest in sync; the suite is green with the shrunk fakes.
- `formatEditOutput`'s emitted text is unchanged for both `replace_all` branches, so no snapshot golden churns.
## Risks
The in-flight fs discovery work (glob/grep tools) touches the same `dsh-fs` type files — a textual, not design, conflict; land in either order and reconcile mechanically. Backends gain no new obligations; they shed four.

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# RFC: Remove the `agent/steering` mirror emit
Status: proposed
## Problem
`agent/steering` is the last remaining transient mirror of a durable session event. The loop's steering drain appends the durable `steering/message { turn, content, source }` and, on the very next line, emits `agent/steering(agent, turn, content, source)` — the identical fact as a fire-and-forget event (`packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts`, `drainSteering`). It has zero production listeners: the only subscriber anywhere is a loop regression test asserting the emit carries `source` — the same fact the durable event already records one line above.
Both mirror-removal RFCs retained it while explicitly deferring the decision this RFC now makes. The [boundary-mirror removal](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md) kept it as "a live control signal, not a boundary"; the [stream-chunk removal](../../implemented/simplification/2026-07-02-remove-stream-chunk-mirror.md) kept it as "a live control signal with no durable twin, retained (its fate is a separate future decision)". The second rationale does not survive the code: the durable twin is `steering/message`, appended immediately before the emit with the same payload. The mirrored-vs-live-only line the taxonomy actually draws puts it on the mirror side: `agent/queued` is genuinely live-only (it fires at enqueue time, before any durable event exists, and already carries a `steering: boolean` flag — cancelled queued work never enters the log), while `agent/steering` fires at the exact moment its durable twin lands, carrying nothing the log does not.
Steering carries real production traffic — the hook bridges' turn-continuation decisions inject their reasons through `inbox.steer()`, landing as durable `steering/message` events that the hook-matrix goldens pin — and every one of those consumers observes the durable event. Nothing observes the mirror.
## Proposal
Remove the `agent/steering` declaration from `packages/core/agent/src/types.ts` (and its mention in the live-events JSDoc list there), the emit in `drainSteering` (whose `ctx` parameter becomes unused and goes too), the row in `packages/core/agent/README.md`, and the emit line in the loop-pseudocode blocks (`packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts` module doc and [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)); run `pnpm run gen-cordis-catalog`. Retarget the one regression test at the durable `steering/message` event — the source-preservation fact it pins lives on the log. The implementing PR amends the two retaining RFCs' scope lines per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md): the boundary RFC's retained-list entry and the stream-chunk RFC's "no durable twin" clause.
## Why not keep it?
"It is a control signal, not a boundary" — but the taxonomy's operative distinction is mirrored-vs-live-only, not control-vs-boundary, and this event mirrors. A consumer that wants enqueue-time notification has `agent/queued` (with its steering flag); a consumer that wants drain-time notification is by definition asking for the moment `steering/message` is appended, which `session/event` delivers with the same payload plus durability. The rejected [retire-mid-turn-steering RFC](../../rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-retire-mid-turn-steering.md) defended the steering *capability* — `steer()`, the durable event, continuation forcing — all of which this removal keeps untouched.
## Acceptance criteria
- No `agent/steering` spelling outside this RFC and the two amended RFCs; the catalog is regenerated and fresh.
- The retargeted test pins source preservation on `steering/message`; the suite is green.
## Risks
None known: zero production listeners exist to migrate, and both live-notification needs (enqueue, drain) have surviving homes (`agent/queued`, `session/event`).

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# RFC: Share the app bins' boot glue instead of maintaining twin copies
Status: proposed
## Problem
`packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts` and `packages/ui/acp-agent/src/bin.ts` carry four near-twin helpers — `loadEnv`, `installFailLoud`, `assertEntriesLoaded`, `boot` — whose bodies differ essentially in the diagnostic prefix, plus two copies of the hardest-won boot lore in the repo: the `Promise.allSettled` swallow inside `loader.await()`, the silent-exit-0 import-failure guard, and the `--expose-internals` resolution note (the failure classes behind AGENTS.md's "real entry path means the published artifact" pattern). Drift has already begun: `boot(configPath)` resolves the path internally in one bin but requires a pre-resolved absolute path in the other, and the twin JSDoc prose has forked.
The duplication is aggravated by a coverage hole: all of this logic sits OUTSIDE the per-file 100% gate — `vitest.config.ts` excludes `packages/*/*/src/bin.ts` because importing a self-executing bin (top-level `await main()`) runs it — which also makes the `export` keywords on these helpers decorative: no spec can import them, so the only exercisers are the subprocess smokes, and the two `built-bin.e2e.ts` suites duplicate their temp-node_modules scaffolding as well. The genuinely per-app pieces are small and real: the ACP bin owns snapshot-mode config selection (`resolveConfigPath`), replay-mode env skipping, the stdin-EOF dispose lifecycle, and stdout purity; the stdio bin owns nothing extra.
## Proposal
Extract the four helpers, parameterized by the bin's diagnostic prefix, into an importable non-bin module shared by both apps — a small published package in the `ui` group (the bins are published artifacts, so their runtime dependency must be published too, not `support/`). Each `bin.ts` becomes a thin self-executing `main()` plus its app-specific glue. The shared module gains unit tests and falls under the coverage gate; the loader-failure lore gets one home; the subprocess smokes remain the artifact-level guard — the published-bin smoke is NOT replaced by unit tests, per the "real entry path" defensive pattern. The implementing PR amends the [extract example app packages RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-extract-example-app-packages.md)'s facts ("boot glue moved into that bin, owned by the app" is the sentence that changes).
## Why not keep the duplication?
The bins were framed as independently-owned published artifacts, and a new package carries fixed overhead (manifest, README, tsconfig reference, publint surface) that rivals the deduplicated line count. But app-vs-app sharing was never weighed by that RFC — it consolidated three example `start.ts` copies INTO the bins and stopped there; the drift is now observed fact rather than speculation; and the coverage-gap argument is independent of the dedup argument: this is the only nontrivial runtime logic in the repo exempt from the per-file 100% gate. The alternative of a copy-by-convention shared source file is the current state with extra steps.
## Acceptance criteria
- The four helpers exist once, unit-tested, under the coverage gate; both bins are thin mains plus app-specific glue.
- Both built-bin smokes still pass under plain node in the node_modules-shaped temp dir, including the missing-config non-zero exit.
- The app-packages RFC's facts are amended in the same change.
## Risks
Churn in two published bins and one new package boundary; the shared module must stay dependency-light (cordis plus the loader). If the implementing PR finds the package overhead genuinely exceeds the dedup — the honest failure mode of this proposal — the fallback that still pays is extracting only the coverage-exempt pure logic (`assertEntriesLoaded`, `resolveConfigPath`) into an importable module within each app package, ending the coverage exemption without a new package.

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# RFC: Tighten the hook-protocol contract — dialect, discarded fields, double defaults, and lib-owned `hook/result` semantics
Status: proposed
## Problem
Five pieces of the `dsh-hook-protocol`/bridge contract miss the discipline the [subagent-observe-enrich RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md) records — it dropped an `agentType` lifecycle field for lacking a consumer, and these fail the same test:
1. **`HookDialect`'s `'native'` variant** (`packages/hooks/hook-protocol/src/types.ts`) has zero producers — the bridges stamp `'claude'` and `'codex'`; the only `'native'` constructor anywhere is the lib's own unit test. The field's own JSDoc defines `dialect` as "the bridge that ran it", and native is not a bridge: the [interception-seams RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) records that native hooks are not a package and that "a native plugin can already use the typed Decisions" without the durable hook log, and the flagship native-plugin worked example asserts exactly that (no `hook/*` events at all).
2. **`HookOutput.suppressOutput`** (same file) is parsed by the codec and discarded on every path: no bridge branch, no merge fold, no warn, no deferred-list row — uniquely among its parsed-but-unhonored siblings, each of which carries a stated deferral (`updatedInput` → a logged warn plus the [pre-tool-input-rewrite proposal](../feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md); `systemMessage` → a logged warn plus a README deferred row; `continue`/`stopReason` → a `TODO(hook-continue-false)` anchor plus the `'stop'` decision record). Structurally there is nothing to suppress: hook stdout never enters any transcript (context flows only via `additionalContext`; the log records only `decision`/`stderrSummary`), so a hook author setting `suppressOutput: true` gets silent nothing with no warn.
3. **`hook/result.durationMs`** is durable timing telemetry with no reader. Both bridges write it, and the ACP snapshot normalizer scrubs it to `0` because wall-clock hook runtime is replay noise (`examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshot-normalize.ts`); the remaining consumers are tests and the goldens that exist because the field exists. Deterministic provenance fields (`point`, `matcher`, `turn`, `handlerId`) earn their durability as audit facts; a nondeterministic field that replay must erase and nothing reads earns neither its bytes nor its special-case scrub.
4. **`defaultTimeoutMs` is double-defaulted in both bridge configs** — a schema `.default(600_000)` AND a `?? 600_000` fallback (`packages/hooks/hooks-claude/src/index.ts`, `packages/hooks/hooks-codex/src/index.ts`) — the same two-homes-for-one-literal shape the ACP bridge's `TODO(double-default)` flags, for a knob no shipped config sets; the per-hook `timeoutSec` is the real timeout surface.
5. **The `hook/result` semantics live in the bridges, twice, not in the lib that owns the event.** `summarize()` — the 500-character stderr truncation rule — is byte-identical in `packages/hooks/hooks-claude/src/index.ts` and `packages/hooks/hooks-codex/src/index.ts`, and so is the decision-string rule `output.decision ?? (output.continue === false ? 'stop' : 'pass')`; yet `dsh-hook-protocol` declares `hook/result`, documents `stderrSummary` as "truncated" without owning the truncation, and documents the decision values without owning the mapping. If one bridge drifts (a different cap, a different fallback), the shared durable event's semantics fork silently.
## Proposal
Narrow `HookDialect` to `'claude' | 'codex'` and fix its JSDoc; retarget the lib's one `'native'` test. Drop `suppressOutput` from `HookOutput`, the codec's parse lines, its codec-test assertions, and the parsed-superset lists in the lib README and [hook-protocol-lib RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md) (amended per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md)). Drop `durationMs` from `HookResultRecord`, `RunHookResult`, the `hook/result` event, the bridge appends, the docs/catalog, and the snapshot normalizer's special-case scrub (retiring `runHook`'s injected clock if nothing else needs it); the hook goldens refresh mechanically as the scrubbed field disappears. Replace the bridges' `defaultTimeoutMs` config knob with one shared reference-default constant in `dsh-hook-protocol` (per-hook `timeoutSec` stays the override surface). Move the `hook/result` semantics into the lib: `appendHookResult` (or a helper it exposes) derives `stderrSummary` and the decision string from the `HookOutput` + exit outcome, and both bridges delete their private copies. Rider: un-export `BLOCKING_EXIT_CODE` (zero importers; even the codec tests spell the literal `2`).
## Why not keep them?
The [hook-protocol-lib RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md) deliberately records "parses the full CC superset" — the strongest counterargument is that this proposal re-litigates decisions that RFC records. But parsing a field whose value can never influence anything is not protocol faithfulness, it is a reader trap; a dialect variant that the design's own thesis says will never be stamped is vocabulary without an interpreter; and durable telemetry that replay must scrub is a cost with no buyer. Each returns trivially with its first real consumer (a transcript surface with hook stdout to suppress; a native-provenance feature that logs hook events; a trace viewer that reads timings — as live diagnostics or a deliberately durable telemetry event designed for it). On item 5, the lib RFC chose per-bridge explicitness over a parameterized engine — but that choice governed payload construction and Decision mapping; the semantics of the SHARED durable event are precisely the "primitives where duplication would actually be dangerous" that the same RFC assigns to the lib.
## Acceptance criteria
- `HookDialect` is two-valued; `rg "'native'"` in the hooks packages returns only this RFC's amended references.
- `suppressOutput` and `durationMs` appear nowhere in source, parsed-field doc lists, the catalog, or the normalizer; the hook goldens are re-recorded or refreshed without the field.
- Both bridge configs lose `defaultTimeoutMs`; the reference default lives once, in the lib; per-hook `timeoutSec` still overrides it.
- One definition each of the truncation rule and the decision-string rule, in `dsh-hook-protocol`, exercised by both bridges' suites.
## Risks
The `dialect`, `suppressOutput`, `defaultTimeoutMs`, and semantics changes are invisible on the wire and in the goldens; the `durationMs` removal churns the hook goldens once (a mechanical refresh — the field was already normalized to a constant). The cost is churn in `dsh-hook-protocol` and both bridges — cheap under the pre-release stance, and cheaper than letting two copies of a durable event's semantics age apart.

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# RFC: Trim unreachable ACP bridge surface — the branding knobs and the kind-sniffing fallback
Status: proposed
## Problem
Two pieces of `dsh-acp` surface are unreachable from any shipped configuration:
1. **`AcpConfig.agentName` / `agentVersion`** (`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts`). The shipped app package hands the bridge only `{ model, systemPrompt }` (`packages/ui/acp-agent/src/index.ts`), so no leaf `cordis.yml` — the only production config surface — can set the knobs at all; they are settable solely by direct-mounting the bridge, which only a unit test does. Every snapshot golden — the hook-matrix scenarios included — pins the schema defaults (`deepseek-harness-acp` / `0.0.1`). The pair also carries a live `TODO(double-default)`: the literals exist twice (schema `.default(...)` plus `??` fallbacks), with the TODO asking to pick one home.
2. **The `toolKindFor` name heuristic** (same file) special-cases `bash*`/`read*`/`write`/`edit*` tool names in the generic-fallback path. Since the [render-intent union](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md), every first-party tool those arms match ships its own `presentCall` carrying its kind, and the presenter-less production tools (`subagent`, `subagent_fork`) fall through to `other` anyway. The arms are production-reachable only when a tool's `presentCall` THROWS (the containment fallback) — and the bridge's own module doc states the design rule the heuristic violates: "the bridge never special-cases tool names".
## Proposal
Hardcode `agentInfo` at the `initialize` site (`{ name: 'deepseek-harness-acp', version: '0.0.1' }`), deleting the two config fields, their schema defaults, the `??` fallbacks, and the `TODO(double-default)` whose subject vanishes; drop the knob half of the direct-mount config test, the two rows in `packages/ui/acp/README.md`, and the `packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md` cell that cites the knobs. Zero golden churn — the emitted wire value is unchanged. Replace `toolKindFor` with the constant `'other'` in both fallback sites (the presenter fallback and `nullToolPresenter`) and delete the heuristic with its test rows.
## Why not keep them?
`agentInfo` is client-visible branding a deployment will eventually want configurable — but a knob no shipped config can reach is not configurability, it is drift surface (the double-default TODO is its symptom), and the honest re-add must include the `dsh-acp-agent` plumb-through that does not exist today either; both arrive together with the deployment that needs them. For the heuristic: a hypothetical third-party presenter-less tool named `read_docs` would lose its inferred `read` icon — but inferring kinds from unknown plugins' names is exactly the special-casing the render-intent design rejected. The behavior delta on shipped paths is confined to the presenter-throw fallback, where rendering kind `other` makes the client show the raw input instead of a masquerading first-party card — strictly better diagnostics for a broken presenter.
## Acceptance criteria
- `agentName`/`agentVersion` and `toolKindFor` appear only in this RFC; snapshot goldens are byte-identical; bridge tests are green with the constant fallback.
- The `initialize` handshake continues to report `deepseek-harness-acp`/`0.0.1` (pinned by the handshake snapshot).
## Risks
None beyond the presenter-throw rendering delta described above — an error path whose new behavior is more diagnosable than the old.

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# RFC: Single-source the acp-agent replay config
Status: proposed
## Problem
`examples/acp-agent` ships two hand-maintained configs: `cordis.yml` (the live tree) and `cordis.snapshot.yml` (the keyless replay tree). Stripped of comments and blanks, their entire difference is ONE plugin entry — the eight-line `llm-deepseek` stanza (with its `!!js` env keys and model list) versus the two-line `llm-replay` stanza. Every other entry is byte-identical, including the multi-line system prompt and both hook-bridge stanzas. Every app-shape change must therefore be made twice, and the [hook-snapshot-matrix RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md) records paying exactly that tax: "hence the symmetric edit to both configs".
Nothing gates the symmetry. If the copies drift, the snapshot tier silently exercises a different app than the one that ships — the ["green units, broken product" class of gap](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md) the snapshot tier exists to close, reintroduced one level up, with reviewer vigilance as the only defense.
## Proposal
Make the replay tree derive from the live tree instead of mirroring it. Preferred endpoint: a single source — either `cordis.snapshot.yml` becomes a thin overlay that includes `cordis.yml` and swaps only the llm entry (if the vendored loader/include config supports entry-level override), or the acp-agent bin's existing `DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay` branch performs the one-entry swap on the parsed config and `cordis.snapshot.yml` is deleted. Fallback endpoint, if single-sourcing is judged too magical for a teaching example: keep both files and add a boring verify gate (in the `doc-sync`/`hygiene` family) asserting the two configs' entry sets are equal modulo the llm entry. The implementing PR picks after checking the loader's include/override capability, updates the recording docs, and amends the snapshot RFCs' facts per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
## Why not keep the twin?
An explicit replay file is transparently readable and teaches replay semantics — the strongest counterargument, and the reason the fallback keeps the file and adds only the gate. YAML surgery inside the published bin is real complexity in a shipping artifact, and an include-overlay depends on loader capability that may not exist. But the status quo — a 125-line hand-maintained near-copy of a 141-line file whose one meaningful difference is two lines, defended by nothing — is the one option with a silent failure mode, and it grows with every plugin the app gains (the hook-bridge stanzas are twins in both files).
## Acceptance criteria
- Either one config file plus a mechanical llm-entry swap exercised by the snapshot suite itself, or two files plus a symmetry gate that fails CI on any non-llm divergence.
- All snapshot scenarios (hook matrix included) pass unchanged; `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` still boots the live tree.
## Risks
The include-overlay shape may be unsupported by the vendored loader — then the bin-side swap or the gate. `echo-agent`/`coding-agent` are unaffected (no snapshot twin). If the gate route is chosen, it is one more bespoke verify script — the cost the repo's gate-friendly policy explicitly accepts for encoding an invariant no human reliably remembers.

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- `OutputCollector` keeps bounded buffers only and deletes the temp-file machinery.
- `renderResult()` reports truncation without a filesystem path.
- Tests cover tail truncation and no longer assert full-output file contents.
- Security guidance in [root AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) stops treating private spill files as a model-visible interface.
- Security guidance in [docs/defensive-patterns.md](../../../defensive-patterns.md) stops treating private spill files as a model-visible interface.
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# RFC: Prune the unimplemented subagent seam vocabulary
Status: rejected — the deferred capability vocabulary (`outputSchema`/`structured`, `toolFilter`, `sendMessage`/`resume`) is intentionally reserved surface: the seam advertises the full intended contract ahead of its implementations by design, so providers and consumers grow into a stable shape rather than re-negotiating it per capability. The consumer-evidence analysis below stands as the record of what is currently unimplemented.
## Problem
The [subagent seam](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) shipped a two-tier capability design: start-time capability flags checked by the service, and optional runtime methods on `SubagentRun`. Three start-time features and both optional runtime methods have zero implementations and zero callers:
- **`outputSchema`/`structured` and `toolFilter`** (`SubagentCapabilities`, `SubagentStartRequest`, `SubagentResult` in `packages/subagent/subagent/src/types.ts`): every real provider declares `outputSchema: false, toolFilter: false` (`packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/src/index.ts`, `packages/subagent/subagent-fork/src/index.ts`, `packages/subagent/subagent-acp/src/index.ts`); the sole production `ctx.subagents.start` caller (`packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts`) builds `{ prompt, parent, signal?, agentOptions? }` and structurally cannot set either; `structured` is produced only by the test mock (`packages/support/subagent-mock`) for its own spec. The service's capability check carries two assert rows whose only exercisers are the rejection tests.
- **`SubagentRun.sendMessage` / `SubagentRun.resume`** (same file): implemented by NO provider — not even the mock; the spawn spec asserts their *absence*.
The only reason `dsh-subagent` depends on `dsh-tools` at all is `outputSchema`'s `SchemaSpec` type. Three subsequent subagent workstreams (per-session snapshot replay, the fork seed boundary, the ACP backend) landed around this surface without growing a single consumer.
## Proposal
Remove `outputSchema`/`structured`, `toolFilter`, `sendMessage`, and `resume` from the seam; shrink `SubagentCapabilities` to `{ depthLimit }`; drop the two capability-assert rows, the all-false flags on the three providers, the mock's structured branch and its `capabilities`/`structured` config knobs, and the tests that exist to pin the removed surface (the two rejection rows, the spawn absence test, the mock structured specs). Drop the `dsh-tools` peer/dev dependency from `packages/subagent/subagent/package.json`. Update the [subagent.md](../../../core-data-structures/subagent.md) pastes and the type-equiv manifest, and the README rows in `packages/subagent/subagent`, `packages/subagent/subagent-spawn`, `packages/subagent/subagent-fork`, and `packages/support/subagent-mock`. The implementing PR amends the seam RFC's capability catalog per [implemented/AGENTS.md](../../implemented/AGENTS.md).
**Keep** `depthLimit`/`maxDepth` and the capability-check mechanism itself — with eyes open about its current reach. The in-process backend genuinely enforces the cap (`SubagentDepthError` in `packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts`), but no production request sets `maxDepth` (`tool-subagent` exposes no knob for it), so on the shipped tool path the guard is dormant and recursion is uncapped. The alternative — remove the depth machinery too, on the argument that a dormant guard reads like a safety property while providing none — was considered and rejected: recursion is the seam RFC's named risk, the enforcement is real working code rather than vocabulary awaiting an implementation, and the honest completion is wiring a default cap through `tool-subagent` (a few-line feature) rather than deleting the only existing guard. One live capability row also keeps the two-tier design demonstrated rather than merely remembered.
Adjacent surface examined and deliberately left alone: `SubagentService.getProvider()`/`list()` have test-harness consumers only, but the [prune-dead-seam-methods implementation note](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-prune-dead-seam-methods.md) records precisely this shape being removed from the bash executor and reverted — a test harness IS a consumer for a one-line accessor over an already-tracked map. `SubagentRunEndInfo.lastAssistantMessage` is a recorded keep (the [subagent-observe-enrich RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md)'s review dropped `agentType` and kept it deliberately, as the only final-message channel for out-of-process children); its currently-unwired bridge forwarding is a gap to close or a consumer to document, not surface for this RFC to cut.
This is the seam-vocabulary echo of [prune dead methods from the persistence seam](../../implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-prune-dead-seam-methods.md): members every implementation must declare for nobody — weaker even, since here zero implementations exist.
## Why not keep it?
The two-kinds-of-capability design is the seam RFC's headline, and re-adding `outputSchema` later touches several files. But the design survives with `depthLimit` as its live example and the RFCs as its record, and the seam RFC itself concedes the shipped `toolFilter` shape is wrong (real enforcement needs a `tools/pre-execute` deny in the child's context, not schema filtering) — that deny primitive exists on the interception seams, so re-adding against a real implementing provider will pin a better contract than the current speculative one.
## Acceptance criteria
- The removed spellings appear only in this RFC and the amended seam RFCs; `SubagentCapabilities` is `{ depthLimit: boolean }`; the `dsh-tools` dependency edge is gone (`hygiene` green).
- Depth-enforcement tests are unchanged and green.
## Risks
The subagent lifecycle events carry `lastAssistantMessage` on the end payload — that enrichment lives in the service module, not the seam vocabulary this RFC shrinks, and the observe-enrich RFC records dropping an `agentType` sibling for lacking a consumer: the judgment this RFC extends. The CC hooks bridge, the first outside consumer of those lifecycle events, reads only the event payloads and touches none of the surface removed here; the observe-enrich RFC's deferred control-flow redesign names implementing `resume` as its own future work — exactly the re-add trigger this RFC's pattern anticipates.