Beyond the mechanical conflicts (provider capability lines vs master's new inheritsParentContext field; generated catalogs regenerated rather than hand-merged; knip/lockfile), three master-side reworks required semantic adaptation of this branch: - The persona rework removed AgentOptions.systemPrompt, which was the structured-output instruction's channel. The instruction now rides the SAME final-request enforcement listener that injects the schema'd tool: appended per request to final.system (per-request wire state, not agent prompt state). Tests assert the wire request (adapter.requests) instead of child.options; the bare-direct-dispatch test pins the no-system arm. - Tool guidance moved out of deployment prompts into per-tool prompt sections; the examples' workflow paragraph became a tool:<toolName> section contributed by dsh-tool-workflow (explicit-ask-only policy), and both example personas resolve to master's minimal identity+behavior form. tool-workflow gains inject: systemPrompt (+ peer dep, tsconfig ref); the export-shape guard updated. - The uniform-RFC-format gate: the dynamic-workflows RFC restructured to the implemented/ skeleton (bare Status line; Proposal -> Decision; What-was-rejected -> Alternatives considered; new Consequences), and the overall-run-timeout deferral is now recorded in the RFC's Deferred list. The doc-graphs atlas classification gains the workflows seam (workflow-vm implementation, tool-workflow consumer). Master's harness-identity section made "empty assembled prompt" states unreachable through the loop, so the instruction-append is a plain undefined-ternary and the structured tests assert append-not-replace. All snapshot goldens (including workflow-run) replay unchanged. Full local CI-equivalent gate sequence green on the merged tree.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-fork
The in-process fork subagent backend: a SubagentProvider that runs each child as a child Agent seeded with a prefix of the parent's session log — so the child inherits the parent's conversation context instead of starting fresh. Shares the run driver (startInProcessRun) with dsh-subagent-spawn; the only difference is the seed.
The seed boundary (the crux)
At the moment a subagent tool's execute runs, the parent's CURRENT turn is open and unbalanced: the log holds the assistant/message carrying this spawn's tool-call and the dangling tool/call with no tool/result yet. Seeding that raw prefix would give the child an open turn that the session constructor and the dev-mode invariants replay reject.
So the fork seeds only the balanced completed-turn prefix — the parent's log up to and including its last turn/end, excluding the in-flight turn entirely (completedTurnPrefix). Because the live log keeps seq === index, the slice is contiguous-from-0 and a valid seed. A parent on its very first (not-yet-complete) turn forks an empty seed — i.e. effectively a fresh child.
The seam this rides on: CreateAgentOptions.seed (added on dsh-agent, threaded through AgentLoop.createAgent → ctx.sessions.prepare({ seed })), the same primitive resume uses.
Capabilities
{ outputSchema: true, depthLimit: true, toolFilter: false } — identical to spawn (the depth/model/structured-output behavior is the shared driver's).
Config
| Key | Meaning |
|---|---|
providerName |
Registry name on ctx.subagents (default fork). |
structuredNudgeRetries |
How many times a structured run re-prompts a child that finished cleanly without calling structured_output (default 1). |
See dsh-subagent-spawn for the run lifecycle, model inheritance, and depth tracking — all shared.