The with-key recording session the RFC deferred. plan-mode is the 'plan' header class's pinning scenario and necessarily carries BOTH header shapes verbatim: the plan-shaped initial snapshot and the widened fallback snapshot the approved exit produces mid-turn — so the suite factory's pin guards relax from exactly-one to at-least-one header (the classmates' uniformity anchor is the pin's FIRST header; transition headers are legal only in the pin, matching the sandbox stack's precedent). plan-mode-reject pins the keep-planning branch: the corrective isError carries the reviewer's free-text feedback verbatim and the session stays in plan mode, one header, uniform with the pin. Recording notes, encoded in the prompts: the model is pinned to RELATIVE paths (a recorded absolute temp path neither replays on another host nor normalizes — the normalizers scrub the run's own cwd, not the recording's), and the recorded model never calls a filtered tool, so the gate's deny path stays pinned at the unit tier — that refusal is the behavior the soft layer exists to produce. The gen-tool-catalog meta-test pins exit_plan_mode in the harvested schema list.
core/ — product API spine
The packages every harness build is assembled from: the session log, the system-prompt assembly, the tool registry, the agent vocabulary, and the one concrete loop that drives them. These are product packages — the stable surface plugins and consumers build against.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
session/ |
Event-sourced session log + in-memory store | ctx.sessions |
system-prompt/ |
Prompt-section + tool-schema assembly registry | ctx.systemPrompt |
tools/ |
Tool registry + tools/pre-execute/tools/post-execute pipeline |
ctx.tools |
agent/ |
Agent interface, registry, agent/* event vocabulary |
ctx.agents |
agent-loop/ |
The concrete loop plugin: ReactLoopAgent + the loop driver |
ctx.agentLoop |
agent-core/ |
Bundle plugin: the providerless/executor-less/UI-less spine as code | (loads the spine) |
agent-loop is the one concrete implementation of the agent seam and lives here because it is the harness's default product loop; everything else in core/ is interface/vocabulary. Plugins depend on the agent vocabulary, never on agent-loop directly, so the loop stays swappable.
agent-core is the composition counterpart: one bundle plugin that loads the whole providerless spine (timer + llm + sessions + system-prompt + tools + agents + invariants + tool-bash + agent-loop) and forwards agent-loop's agents list as its own config. App packages (ui/stdio-agent, ui/acp-agent) consume it and add only a front door; a leaf adds the swappable backends plus any optional product tools it wants to expose. It lives in core/ because it composes exclusively core/ + interface packages and ships no provider, executor, or UI of its own.