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deepseek-harness/packages/core/agent-loop/README.md
Tianyi Cui 2093a8898b loop: every request is built from the log — boundary snapshot, header events, config-only waterfall
The loop is now transmission-stateless; a request is a pure function of
(session log, this step's rendered assembly, current AgentOptions):

- The reconstruction boundary is step/start: the messages snapshot is
  taken in the same synchronous frame immediately before the step/start
  append, so the request's messages are exactly the derivation over
  events[0..stepStartSeq) — an inject() from an agent/request listener
  (or any concurrent task) lands after the boundary and joins the NEXT
  request. This changes behavior for a synchronous step/start
  session/event listener that appends content (master derived after the
  append, so such a listener could reach the current request):
  agent/pre-step is the sanctioned seam for current-request content.
- agent/request is re-typed to config-only: (agent, turn, step,
  config: LlmCallConfig, next) → LlmCallConfig. The frozen seed comes
  from AgentOptions on a loop instance's first request (explicit options
  beat the logged baseline — fork overrides and resume reconfiguration
  stay correct) and from the log's folded header afterwards; listeners
  return a replacement to switch. Content shaping through the request is
  no longer expressible — model-visible content flows through the log
  channels.
- recordRequestHeader appends whatever header event the request owes the
  log before dispatch: an 'initial'/'resume' snapshot anchoring each
  loop instance, a round-trip-verified delta on change, a 'fallback'
  snapshot when the encoding cannot express it. Session.requestHeader()
  is the log's incrementally-folded baseline.
- Requests are deep-frozen before dispatch (deepFreeze exempts the
  AbortSignal — freezing one breaks AbortController.abort() outright);
  frozen + sessionId is the loop-built marker the dev invariant keys on.

Ported from #162 and re-anchored on the log: the append-extension /
frozen-end-to-end / compaction-resend / prompt-change property tests,
plus new specs for the boundary semantics, resume anchoring, and the
end-to-end theorem (every recorded request rebuilds byte-equal from the
log alone). Live cache-hit e2e (request-cache.e2e.ts) verified against
the real DeepSeek API. Snapshot goldens intentionally stale until the
single re-record after the compact/summary envelope lands.
2026-07-06 03:07:34 +08:00

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# dsh-agent-loop
THE concrete agent plugin: `ReactLoopAgent` and the loop driver. Implements the `Agent` interface and drives the session/turn/step lifecycle.
This is the only package in the harness that contains concrete loop logic. Everything else is an abstract service or a plugin against extension seams — new behavior goes into plugins, not here.
## Service: `AgentLoop` (ctx key: `agentLoop`)
### Public API
- `ctx.agentLoop.create(id: string, options?: AgentOptions): ReactLoopAgent` — config-driven create: an agent on a fresh per-run session id `${id}-session-<uuid>` (no cwd). Used for `cordis.yml`-configured agents. The per-run uuid avoids colliding with the on-disk log a prior run materialized once a durable persistence backend is loaded; each run is a new session (a deliberate demo simplification — a real resume-or-create policy is a TODO). Disposed with the calling fiber.
`AgentLoop` also implements the `AgentFactory` seam and registers itself via `ctx.agents.setFactory(this)`, so plugins create/resume agents through `ctx.agents` (the interface):
- `ctx.agents.create({ agentId, sessionId, meta?, seed?, agentOptions? }): AgentHandle` — programmatic create on a caller-supplied `sessionId` (e.g. an ACP-generated id), NOT `${id}-session`; `meta` carries cwd/lineage/seed-boundary metadata and `seed` reconstructs a forked child prefix. Returns an [`AgentHandle`](../agent/README.md) — the owner disposes it to tear down exactly this agent (stop loop + await quiescence + unregister + remove session).
- `ctx.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId, agentOptions? }): Promise<AgentHandle>` — load a persisted session via `ctx.sessionPersistence` ([session persistence](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)) and resume an agent on it. The live session id is the resumed id; turn numbering and derived history continue from the loaded log. Requires a session-persistence backend (NOT hard-injected — non-persistent demos still work; `resume` rejects with a clear error when persistence is absent). Returns an `AgentHandle`.
The config-driven `ctx.agentLoop.create()` path keeps its agent owned by the loop fiber (it discards the handle) — only the programmatic factory callers (the ACP bridge and in-process subagent backends) hold a handle and own per-agent teardown.
### Injected services
`agents`, `sessions`, `llm`, `tools`, `systemPrompt` — all five interface services.
### Configuration (schemastery)
```ts
interface Config {
agents: Array<{
id: string // required
model?: string
}>
}
```
Agents listed in config are auto-created at startup. (There is no per-agent persona: the deployment persona is `dsh-system-prompt`'s own `persona` config, shared by every agent in the context.) The plugin registers the built-in `model`/`cwd` prompt variables on `ctx.systemPrompt`, resolved per step from the `assemble({ agent })` context — runtime facts of the agents THIS loop drives, unlike the `harness:identity`/`deployment:persona` sections, which live on `dsh-system-prompt` so they survive a swapped loop plugin.
### Classes
- `ReactLoopAgent` — the concrete `Agent` implementation. Owns the inbox (`Inbox`), the per-step `AbortController`, and the loop driver. Everything observable happens through session events and the `agent/*` event taxonomy.
- `Inbox` — per-agent queued + steering FIFOs (`enqueue`, `steer`, `drainQueued`, `drainSteering`, `waitForQueued`).
### Loop lifecycle (`loop.ts`)
One invocation of `runLoop()` drives one agent for its whole lifetime:
```
create agent → emit agent/session-start(source) ⟵ once, before turn 1
forever:
wait for queued messages (idle)
TURN (error-contained):
'turn/start'
each queued: waterfall agent/prompt-submit → allow (→ session('user/message'),
inject additionalContext) | block (→ session('prompt/blocked'), drop)
if every prompt blocked: 'turn/end'(rejected), no step ⟵ zero-step turn
STEP loop:
drain steering
assembly = systemPrompt.assemble({agent}) ⟵ renderPrompt(assembly) IS the full prompt
await serial agent/pre-step ⟵ surface mutation (compaction) outside the step
boundary = session.deriveMessages() ⟵ reconstruction boundary: same sync frame,
session('step/start') strictly before step/start
config = waterfall agent/request ⟵ frozen seed; return a replacement to switch
session('request/header'[-delta]) ⟵ the header event this request owes the log
stream llm.stream(freeze({header..., messages: boundary})) → session('assistant/chunk')
message = waterfall agent/step-result
session('assistant/message')
each tool-call: session('tool/call')
→ tools.execute() [waterfall tools/pre-execute → dispatch → tools/post-execute]
→ session('tool/result')
append buffered post-execute additionalContext as session('context/message')(s)
drain steering → session('steering/message')
cont = waterfall agent/turn-continuation → ContinuationDecision
({action:'continue', reason?} records reason as next-step steering)
if action==stop (and no pending steering): break
session('turn/end')
await session/flush
re-enqueue leftover steering as queued
idle unless more queued
```
Error containment: a throwing plugin ends the **turn**, never the loop. Dispose mid-turn emits `agent/status('disposed')` and ends with reason `disposed`. A step that hits the model's output-token ceiling makes the turn end `max-tokens` (the rule: any `max-tokens` step in the turn surfaces as `max-tokens`; `disposed`/`aborted`/`error` still take precedence) — distinct from a clean `completed` stop.
Cancellation: `agent.cancel()` is the single public stop primitive — it clears the queued + steering FIFOs, aborts the in-flight step, and drives a turn-scoped marker the driver checks at every point a turn could start or continue (right after the idle wait, after the `running` flip, before each step, and at the continuation gate) so a turn about to start is dropped. A cancelled turn ends `aborted`; a queued-but-not-started prompt never runs and cannot be batched into the cancelled turn. The marker is reset once per loop iteration, so a cancel governs exactly one turn and never leaks onto a later prompt. (The loop still aborts its own per-step `AbortController` directly on disposal and from `cancel()`; that controller is loop-internal, not a public verb.)
### What is NOT here
Everything that goes beyond "call the model, run the tools, repeat" belongs to plugins listening on the event taxonomy:
- Hooks: `agent/session-start`, `agent/prompt-submit`, `agent/pre-step`, `agent/request`, `agent/step-result`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `agent/turn-continuation`
- Compaction: `agent/pre-step`
- Sandbox, permission, plan mode: `tools/pre-execute` (deny/ask gate), `tools/post-execute`
- Sub-agents: implemented outside the loop as `ctx.subagents` providers; in-process providers use `ctx.agents.create()` and owned `AgentHandle` teardown, while child streaming/progress and background/poll collection remain deferred.
- Persistence: `session/event` + `session/flush`
- UI: `session/event` (assistant token stream, boundaries, tool activity) + `agent/*` control events (`agent/status`, `agent/created`/`agent/disposed`)