Supersedes the add-on-plugin + node:vm-stub draft in place (still proposed/):
code mode becomes a first-class ToolRegistry presentation mode
('native' | 'code' | 'both'), execution goes behind a new ctx.codeRuntime
capability seam whose shipped backend is one fresh Node worker thread per
run (type-strip, empty env, resource limits, hard terminate), at
bash-equivalent trust with no unsafe-flag ceremony. Renames the file to
2026-06-15-code-mode.md and regenerates the RFC index.
Connects to an external MCP server and registers its tools on
ctx.tools. Supports stdio (child process) and Streamable HTTP
transports. Credential-shaped env vars are scrubbed before forwarding
to child processes.
- Plugin lifecycle: connect, sync tools, re-sync on ToolListChanged,
dispose unregisters and closes
- Full JSDoc on all exports (@param/@returns on functions)
- 100% per-file coverage (apply lifecycle, args coercion, env scrubbing)
- Config catalog regenerated
The tool-order feature canonicalizes the model-facing list (alphabetical
absent a configured toolOrder), so the header-pinning text-turn fixture is
re-recorded on the stacked tree — every other fixture stores the header as
scrubbed tokens and needed nothing. AGENTS.md condensed back under its
ceiling after the merge union.
Master's verify-export-jsdoc landed mid-stack; complete the six missing
@param/@returns on the workflow trio's public surface (and the services
catalog they regenerate into).
The previous commit rewrote the whole file through a JSON pretty-printer,
reformatting every existing entry; restore the established compact style with
the four new entries appended to the tools.md group.
The Codex simplification concern plus the duplication comment on the spawn
apply, resolved by deletion: the backend-lifetime holds are gone, so the
runtime registers at the first structured run and disposes when the last
settles — a deployment that never passes outputSchema carries no always-on
global state, and there is no per-backend acquisition block left to extract.
The driver spec now drives an INLINE spawn-shaped provider over
startInProcessRun, which removes the spawn/fork devDependencies (the
test-only workspace cycle); plugin-level structured coverage moves to the
backends' own specs (capture through the shipped plugin, mid-run backend
unload, seeded fork capture). tools.md, the driver README, and both backend
READMEs describe the run-scoped lifetime; the module-graph regenerates
without the cycle edges.
The cross-seam blocker: structured_output recorded its value in the tool
BODY, before tools/post-execute could block the call — a PostToolUse hook's
block turned the logged result into isError while readResult still returned
structured success and the continuation veto ended the turn.
Two-phase commit: the body validates and STAGES (RunState.pending); a fourth
runtime listener on tools/post-execute — prepend, so await next() returns the
composed final decision — promotes the stage to captured only on an accepted
call, and clears it on every path. A block now yields a consistent pair: the
model and log see the isError feedback, the run settles error with no
structured value, and the turn continues so the model can react. Regressions:
block denies the capture end-to-end; accept-with-replacement still commits.
Three Codex findings on json-schema.ts, one discipline:
- required-declared and every value check now use Object.hasOwn — 'in' let
inherited names (toString) satisfy required, dodge additionalProperties:
false, and validate a declared property against the value's prototype
member instead of a carried one
- isObjectLike now means PLAIN JSON object (proto chain of at most one link,
realm-agnostic): a Date annotation or a Map-as-properties no longer passes
structurally and serializes lossily — they fail loud as subset violations
- startInProcessRun asserts BEFORE the defensive structuredClone, so a
hostile schema fails as OutputSchemaError, never a raw DataCloneError
Also the type-equiv catalog gap: tools.md gains the structured-output subset
vocabulary (4 blocks) with matching manifest entries. The driver index also
drops the runtime internals from its public re-export (runs acquire it
internally; no external consumer remains — see the following commit).
Review follow-up (#196): a listed name with no registered tool was silently
ignored; misconfiguration must block work instead. The check lives in the
assembly — the earliest moment the registered tool set exists (tool plugins
register after the service constructs) and the only universal one (cordis has
no "all plugins loaded" event; registrations change at any time). assemble()
is now async so the throw surfaces as a rejection rather than a synchronous
escape from a Promise-returning method.
Blast radius, pinned by a loop-level test: the rejection reaches the turn's
outer catch — the turn closes balanced with an `error` reason, agent/error
mirrors it, no step opens, no request/header is logged, no request reaches
the adapter, and the agent returns to idle; every turn fails identically
until the config is fixed. A boot-time validation pass was considered and
rejected (recorded in the RFC). The general principle — misconfiguration
fails loud, never a silent skip — is added to AGENTS.md.
A three-dot rest entry reads as elision in a cordis.yml; the spelled-out
sentinel says what lands there. The literal now appears once in code (the
constant) and once in the value-pinning test; every other reference — the
forwarding tests included — imports TOOL_ORDER_REST, which adds the
dsh-system-prompt devDependency to the two app packages.
Review follow-up on #196.
- run-gates.ts docSyncLeafGates() gains verify-export-jsdoc — CI lanes
and the pre-push hook execute this leaf list, not the doc-sync npm
script, so the gate was previously unenforced there (proven by
SessionForkErrorCode landing undocumented via a master merge while
checks stayed green; now documented). Same wiring gap fixed for
master's verify-config-catalog, which was also missing from the list.
- The heritage exemption now recovers the base's return surface: a void
base return carried no @returns duty, so an override returning a
concrete result documents it itself (annotated overrides run the
standard check; unannotated ones are classified by the checker so
faithful void overrides need no boilerplate annotation). Three new
negative-path tests pin it; RFC and module doc updated.
- AGENTS.md states each principle inline instead of citing RFCs (eight
citations removed; high-level doc links kept) and the editing section
now carries the self-containedness rule.
- Generated catalogs/graphs regenerated for the shifted line pointers.
A new waterfall near request construction lets plugins contribute
request-ONLY messages framing the derived history: RequestMessages
{ before, after } with a frozen empty seed, fired inside the open step
after the agent/request config waterfall, so the step/start boundary
snapshot and its same-sync-frame invariant are untouched. The request
becomes messagePrefix + boundary snapshot + messageSuffix.
Contributions never enter session history — deriveMessages() is
unchanged — so the request header is their durable record:
EpochHeader gains messagePrefix/messageSuffix (canonical absence for
empty arrays), request/header-delta replaces either array whole with
an empty array encoding the transition back to absence, and the
dev-mode reconstruction cross-check now expects the folded header's
framing around the boundary derivation.
This is the seam for per-request advisory context that must be
model-visible now without becoming durable history (a skills catalog,
an environment reminder), keeping the base system prompt
workspace-independent and provider prefix caches stable. The docs
carry the channel cost model: session-frozen content belongs in
before, low-frequency change notices belong in durable history via
inject() (paid once, prefix-cached thereafter), and after is reserved
for small frequently-refreshed state snapshots re-paid on every
request they ride. No shipped producer yet, so ACP snapshot fixtures
are byte-identical.
Out-of-process delegation to external coding agents as two new subagent
seam backends, exposed as subagent_claude_code / subagent_codex tools.
Verified against @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.3.202 and codex CLI
0.142.5 via keyless spikes; includes the dsh-subagent-process extraction
plan, isolation/permission stances, and tiered test coverage.
A name resolved through an export list (or a default-export identifier)
mapped back to its whole VariableStatement, and checkDecl walked every
declarator — so a private sibling sharing the statement with an exported
const was wrongly required to carry JSDoc.
The scope dispatch is now two-phase: requests accumulate per statement
(null = whole statement for a direct export modifier or ambient scope;
name sets union across lists, so two lists naming different declarators
of one statement both count), then each surfaced statement is checked
once with the declarator filter. Regressions pin the private-sibling
skip, the cross-list union, and the default-export sibling.
