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deepseek-harness/packages/subagent
Tianyi Cui 43d81b67ce fix(subprocess): consumers with one mixed env map split DSH_* onto the managed channel
Codex review of the acp-only fix found lsp-local carries the identical
defect: its server config's unrestricted env merges into the connection's
ordinary spawn channel, so a configured DSH_* fact crashed the spawn with
the reserved-namespace rejection. The partition now lives on the seam as
splitEnvChannels() beside the scrub it complements; the ACP run and the
LSP connection both use it, and each proves child delivery end-to-end
(MOCK_ECHO_ENV / LSP_FAKE_ECHO_ENV fixture knobs). Seam + consumer README
rows updated (en+zh, re-recorded). bash-local is already two-channel;
mcp/pty/sdk bypass the seam and only share the scrub.
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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/ Abstract subagent seam: named-provider registry + vocabulary 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 (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-fork/ In-process backend: a child seeded with the parent's completed-turn prefix (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-acp/ Out-of-process backend: a child agent in a spawned subprocess, driven over ACP (registers on ctx.subagents)
tool-subagent/ Model-facing subagent delegation tool over ctx.subagents (registers on ctx.tools)

The interface lives at subagent/subagent/. 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 backend spawns its child 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 proposal and design rationale: .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md.