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Tianyi Cui 42ee4e22de fix(subagent): validate setup transactions before agent publication
`materialize` ran `setupTransaction.assertIntact()` only after
`ctx.agents.create()/resume()` resolved — but the factory publishes
`session/created` (and the persistence backend writes the descriptor seed)
inside that call, and `rollbackUnpublished()` only disposes the live
handle; the persistence seam has no delete. A setup contribution revoked
during construction therefore left a durable ghost: `startContinuable()`
rejected with `ACTIVATION_SETUP_REVOKED` and returned no child id, yet
`list_agents` surfaced a persisted `continuable` child whose log carries a
valid descriptor — so a later `send_message` could cold-resume a child the
deployment had explicitly refused to establish.

Move the validation into the creation callback, before the factory can
publish: `assertIntact()` then rejects the create/resume call itself, so
no session is ever persisted for a rejected child. Commit the batch in the
same callback so a later contribution removal releases the installation
instead of invalidating a child already being established (live
revocation, matching the resident semantics).

Pins the rollback regression test to assert that no `session/created` is
ever announced for the rejected child (the parent is created before the
listener registers), in addition to the existing registry assertion.
2026-08-02 14:05:36 +08:00
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subagent/ — subagent capability family

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The subagent seam: an agent delegating work to a child agent. Like the bash and llm families this is a capability seam (see capability seams) — but with one defining difference: multiple provider implementations coexist in one context, registered by name, rather than the single-implementation bash shape. The registry mirrors the LLM adapter registry.

Package Role ctx key
subagent/ Subagent service: named-provider registry, vocabulary, durable descriptor, and continuable-child orchestration ctx.subagents
subagent-inprocess/ Shared in-process run driver (no provider; one cleanup effect per run)
subagent-spawn/ In-process backend: a fresh child agent, with cold resume (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-fork/ In-process backend: a child seeded with the parent's completed-turn prefix, with cold resume (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-acp/ Out-of-process backend: a child agent in a spawned subprocess, driven over ACP (one-shot) (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-dsh-sdk/ Out-of-process backend: a child harness runtime in a spawned subprocess, driven over stdio JSON-RPC through the TypeScript SDK client (registers on ctx.subagents)
tool-subagent/ Model-facing subagent delegation tool over ctx.subagents (registers on ctx.tools)
tool-subagent-control/ The optional, globally named send_message and list_agents tools over ctx.subagents (registers on ctx.tools)
tool-subagent-report/ Child-scoped report return channel for continuable in-process children (registers in each child scope)

The interface and continuation orchestration live at subagent/subagent/. One-shot provider start dispatch stays independent of persistence; an internal continuation manager owns each durable continuable child as one Session plus at most one process-local Activation, binding no Task, and exists only while the Agent service is present, resolving persistence per continuation operation. The in-process subagent-spawn / subagent-fork backends share the subagent-inprocess driver (a library with no provider of its own — both depend on it, neither on the other), and the out-of-process subagent-acp / subagent-dsh-sdk backends spawn their children through the subprocess/ seam (the shared credential scrub, tree-scoped teardown, and dispose ladder). Tests replace only the child boundary with package-local fixtures.

The design rationale: .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md, .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-21-continuable-background-subagents.md, and .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-26-merge-subagent-control-service.md.