The stack rebases onto a moved master through its base branch. Beyond mechanical unions (both branches' demo scripts, example rows, service roles, tool lists, acp deps, doc budgets — each side fit alone, the union needs the higher ceilings), three semantic reconciliations: - The ACP bridge now carries BOTH per-session surfaces: the sandbox stack's config options + approval answerer and this branch's session modes; session/new and session/load advertise modes AND configOptions side by side. - The feature matrix supersedes the sandbox stance per the RFC's second-lander rule: session/set_mode and current_mode_update flip to shipped-by-dsh-mode, config-option rows stay as #169 wrote them, and §6 records both landed features under the picker-to-modes / knobs-to-config-options division. - The snapshot pin grammar (#254: one header snapshot + declared deltas + a Markdown prompt golden) gains a symmetric declaration for what a delta cannot express: expectedHeaderSnapshots — a plan-mode flip resorts the canonical tool list, so its widening lands as a second full snapshot, now its own Markdown section. The pin-less-class and model-turn-only-pin amendments carry over; new fixtures cover the extended writer paths, and the plan-acp-agent scenarios re-recorded under the merged composition (the app now bundles the skill tool) with the suite's refresh mode wired through.
core/ — product API spine
The session log, system-prompt assembly, tool registry, agent vocabulary, and concrete loop that form the harness's default control spine. 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 default 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 control spine plus selected default capabilities (timer + llm + sessions + system-prompt + tools + agents + invariants + the local skill family + 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 the shared control spine while leaving executors, LLM adapters, alternate skill providers, and UI front doors outside the bundle.