The background-task change repeated its lifecycle design across implemented RFCs, package READMEs, JSDoc, test commentary, and model-visible schemas. That repetition obscured the contracts that maintainers must preserve and added avoidable prompt tokens.
Rewrite the implemented RFCs around the current design, keep authorization, exact-owner cleanup, wait/abort ordering, producer quiescence, and teardown-failure guarantees at their owning surfaces, and remove peer surveys, review history, control-flow narration, and emphatic restatement.
Shorten the task and subagent schema wording, synchronize the bilingual tool cookbook, and regenerate the config, service, RFC, tool, and replay snapshot derivatives. Runtime behavior is unchanged; test edits update prose-only assertions and descriptions.
Move the agent-spine bundle and the stdio/ACP/JSON-RPC app packages out of
core/ and ui/ into a new packages/examples/ group, renamed with a -demo
suffix so the npm name marks them as non-product surface:
core/agent-core -> examples/agent-spine-demo (dsh-agent-spine-demo)
ui/stdio-agent -> examples/stdio-demo (dsh-stdio-demo)
ui/acp-agent -> examples/acp-demo (dsh-acp-demo)
ui/jsonrpc-agent -> examples/jsonrpc-demo (dsh-jsonrpc-demo)
Update every code/config/test reference and reference-only doc mentions, and
regenerate module-graph, config-catalog, and doc-graphs. The jsonrpc bin
(dsh-jsonrpc-agent) and single-file exe (dsh-jsonrpc-agent-pkg) keep their
names; the SDK runtime-startup surface is reconciled separately.
The executable golden proves the packaged VFS and Python SDK boundary, but it does not pin the editor-facing ACP updates, and the existing ACP scenarios exercised Code Mode, subagents, and workflows only as separate stories.
Add a dedicated both-mode replay composition that mounts a Cordis marker, inspects it through a real Code Mode worker dispatch, runs a direct spawn child and a workflow-owned spawn child, then unmounts the marker. Commit normalized ACP frames, parent and child logs, and the composition-specific request-header pin.
Use cordis_inspect as the Code Mode sub-dispatch instead of registering another dynamic tool: the executable snapshot already owns tool-set mutation and header-delta coverage, while this keeps the ACP header contract stable and focuses the new golden on transport presentation and cross-feature composition.
A preset names a bundle of the two mechanism knobs — request =
workspace-write + ask, yolo = danger-full-access + never — so the editor
shows ONE 'Permissions' select where the sandbox-mode and approval-policy
tiers stay orthogonal capabilities (the Codex /approvals shape: presets over
two dials). ctx.permission (dsh-permission) owns the config-defined table,
validates the default preset's bundle against the composed knob defaults at
load (fails loud), and writes a switch THROUGH: one log-only
permission/preset event (the audit fact reverse-mapping cannot recover —
the planned 'agent' preset shares request's knob values and differs only in
composed policy) plus each knob event via its own setter, deduped — a
net-zero switch appends nothing. Every knob consumer keeps reading its own
fold, untouched.
The current preset DERIVES from the effective knob values — the fold breaks
bundle ties, a knob state outside the table is the reserved 'custom' value
(a state, not an error: shown while it holds, switchable FROM, never a
target), and defaultPreset disappears (zero-event state reverse-maps from
the composition defaults).
The ACP bridge drops the two per-knob selects for the one preset select
(advertised only when ctx.permission is composed); pending/anchor/no-op
semantics carry over unchanged, with the no-op echo acknowledged before
vocabulary validation so a client re-pushing a derived 'custom' current
never errors. The sandbox variant example composes the
service with a workspace-write default; the permission-switching,
escalation-approved and escalation-rejected scenarios are re-recorded under
it (escalations now target an outside-workspace /tmp path under
danger-full-access, self-cleaning) and config-options is re-authored on the
single-select wire.
sandbox-acp-agent's whole surface moves into examples/acp-agent following
the example's existing multi-variant shape (the code-mode/both-mode
overlays): sandbox.cordis.yml + its replay overlay, the four snapshot
scenarios (config-options / mode-switching / escalation-approved /
escalation-rejected) as a 'sandbox' header class over per-scenario
configPath — goldens byte-identical, zero re-recording — and
escalation.e2e.ts unchanged apart from the config path. One ACP example
remains; demo:sandbox-acp keeps its name and boots the variant. References
(both RFCs, group/package READMEs, the examples table and test map, the
e2e workflow comment) now point at the variant.
The keyless Loader-path smokes killed the child 10s after spawn, but a
loaded CI e2e runner routinely needs longer just to boot the unbuilt tsx
tree: on this branch's run the coding-agent smoke burned both retries and
failed at 30s wall-clock, and the sibling smokes passed only on retry x2
(master's latest run shows the same near-misses). The budget guards
against a HANG, not slowness — raise kill to 30s and the vitest test
timeout to 45s so a slow boot no longer masquerades as one.
