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.agents/notes/AGENTS.md

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+# AGENTS.md — Agent Notes
+
+Agent Notes are effectively RFCs written by agents: durable proposals and decision records that preserve rationale, alternatives, consequences, and verification contracts. Follow the [documentation standard](../../docs/AGENTS.md) and the [Agent Note contract](README.md).

.agents/notes/README.md

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+# Agent Notes
+
+One kind of design doc lives here. An **Agent Note** records a decision or proposal that shapes this codebase — the *why* and *what we gave up*, the parts code and docs can't carry. This file is the front door and contract: where Agent Notes live, when to write one, and [the in-file format](#the-file-format).
+
+## Layout and naming
+
+Every Agent Note has two axes, both encoded in its **path** — `{lifecycle}/{class}/yyyy-mm-dd-topic-title.md`:
+
+- **Lifecycle** (the top-level folder) is the Agent Note's status, and an Agent Note moves between folders as that status changes:
+  - **`proposed/`** — proposals reviewed before implementation; not yet built (or only partly).
+  - **`implemented/`** — the decision shipped. The file records what was decided and what was rejected, and is **kept current with what actually shipped**: when the code later moves a file, renames a package, or changes a key/default, the Agent Note is updated in the same change to match (facts only — paths, names, structure — not the decision itself). See [implemented/AGENTS.md](implemented/AGENTS.md).
+  - **`rejected/`** — the proposal was considered and declined. Kept for the record so the rejection isn't re-litigated.
+- **Class** (the nested folder) is the *kind* of decision — see [Classification](#classification) below.
+
+The date in the filename is when the topic was **first proposed** (per git history). Cross-references between Agent Notes use relative markdown links (`[topic](../../implemented/architecture/2026-…-….md)`) — never bare prose or numbers — so they are mechanically checkable and survive moves between folders.
+
+The tree is the inventory: browse its lifecycle/class folders or search the repository. Do not add a centralized `INDEX.md`; the [no-index Agent Note](implemented/process/2026-07-19-remove-generated-agent-note-index.md) owns the rationale.
+
+## Classification
+
+Each Agent Note belongs to one path-encoded class from the closed set in `scripts/agent-note-tree.ts`; the classification gate rejects other folders. Adding a class requires updating the canonical set and this section. See the [classification Agent Note](implemented/process/2026-06-20-agent-note-classification.md).
+
+| Class | What it covers |
+|---|---|
+| `feature` | A new user- or model-facing capability. |
+| `bug-fix` | Corrects a defect or closes a gap a postmortem surfaced. |
+| `simplification` | Removes code, behavior, or surface area without adding a capability. |
+| `architecture` | A structural decision about the **shipped source** — how packages relate, what the runtime vocabulary is. |
+| `process` | Tooling, policy, or workflow **around** the code — gates, the package manager, vendoring — not runtime behavior. |
+| `testing` | Test infrastructure and strategy. |
+
+The `architecture` / `process` line: **architecture** is about the source we ship; **process** is the surrounding tooling and workflow. (`refactor` is deliberately absent — it overlaps `simplification`, whose discriminator, "does observable behavior change?", already covers it.)
+
+## When to write one
+
+Every non-trivial change MUST add or update at least one Agent Note in the same PR. A change is non-trivial when it alters behavior, architecture, a cross-file or cross-package contract, process or tooling, testing strategy, an on-disk, wire, or configuration format, or another decision a maintainer may reasonably revisit. A proposal for substantial future work starts in `proposed/`; a decision already made starts in `implemented/`. Pick the class folder that matches the decision (see [Classification](#classification)).
+
+Updating the Agent Note that already owns the decision satisfies the rule; do not create a duplicate. Only a purely mechanical or local edit with no behavioral, contractual, structural, process, or rationale change is exempt. An Agent Note is never edited into a *different decision*: supersede it with a new one and cross-link. Editing an `implemented/` Agent Note to track where its existing decision lives is required, not forbidden; see [implemented/AGENTS.md](implemented/AGENTS.md).
+
+## The file format
+
+Every Agent Note follows one in-file format, enforced by `pnpm run verify-agent-note-format` ([scripts/verify-agent-note-format.ts](../../scripts/verify-agent-note-format.ts), part of `doc-sync`); the rationale for the format — and the alternatives it rejected — is [the uniform-format Agent Note](implemented/process/2026-07-05-uniform-agent-note-format.md).
+
+### The header block
+
+The first three lines of every Agent Note are exactly:
+
+```markdown
+# Agent Note: <title>
+
+Status: <status>
+```
+
+followed by a blank line. The `Status:` value is one of three forms, and must agree with the lifecycle folder the file sits in — the gate cross-checks them:
+
+- `Status: proposed`
+- `Status: implemented`
+- `Status: rejected — <why, in one line>`
+
+The status carries no dates and no parentheticals: the filename holds the first-proposed date, git holds everything else, and an "accepted in amended form" note is body content (state the amendment where the decision is stated). The rejection reason is the one status with content, because a rejected Agent Note's verdict is the fact readers come for.
+
+### The body skeleton
+
+Every Agent Note opens its body with `## Problem` — the motivation, written to stand without the solution. What follows depends on the lifecycle; recurring sections use these canonical names and nothing else, while genuinely bespoke technical sections (package topology, wire contracts, schemas) remain free-form between the required ones.
+
+#### `proposed/`
+
+```markdown
+## Problem
+## Proposal
+…bespoke sections…
+## Alternatives considered
+## Acceptance criteria
+## Risks
+```
+
+`## Proposal` is the intended change and may legitimately speak in the future tense — plans, migration steps, and open questions belong here while the work is unbuilt. `## Acceptance criteria` says what observable state means done. `## Risks` covers both what could go wrong and what the change knowingly gives up.
+
+#### `implemented/`
+
+```markdown
+## Problem
+## Decision
+…bespoke sections…
+## Alternatives considered
+## Consequences
+```
+
+`## Decision` describes shipped reality in the present tense, and the whole file is kept current with it per [implemented/AGENTS.md](implemented/AGENTS.md). `## Consequences` records what the trade-off cost **and** bought. Proposal-era headings are spec-speak here and the gate rejects them: `## Proposal`, `## Plan`, `## Migration plan`, and `## Acceptance criteria` may not appear in an implemented Agent Note (the [slop checklist](../../docs/AGENTS.md) names why). A `## Testing`, `## Deferred`, or `## Related` section is fine where it states present-tense fact.
+
+#### `rejected/`
+
+A rejected Agent Note is the proposal, frozen: it keeps whatever proposal-time sections it had (including `## Acceptance criteria` or `## Plan`), and the verdict lives on the `Status:` line. Only the header block, the `## Problem` opener, a `## Proposal` section, and the Alternatives-considered mandate below apply.
+
+### Alternatives considered — mandatory
+
+Every Agent Note carries an `## Alternatives considered` section: each genuine alternative and why it lost, one bold-led paragraph per alternative or a `### Why not <X>?` subsection per contested one. A decision recorded without what it beat invites re-litigation — the failure Agent Notes exist to prevent.
+
+Alternatives are recorded, never invented. An Agent Note dated before 2026-07-05 whose alternatives are not reconstructible from the record carries this exact comment in place of the section, which the gate accepts for pre-format files only:
+
+```markdown
+<!-- agent-note-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format Agent Note) -->
+```
+
+### Moving between lifecycles
+
+Moving a file between lifecycle folders means updating the `Status:` line and re-satisfying that folder's skeleton in the same change — the gate fails the move otherwise. Concretely, `proposed/` → `implemented/` rewrites `## Proposal` into a present-tense `## Decision`, folds `## Acceptance criteria` and `## Risks` into `## Consequences` (or a present-tense `## Testing`/`## Verification` section for what now pins the behavior), and drops plans in favor of what shipped — the rewrite [implemented/AGENTS.md](implemented/AGENTS.md) requires, made mechanical. `proposed/` → `rejected/` only adds the reason to the `Status:` line and freezes the file.
+
+### Chinese counterparts
+
+A `.zh.md` counterpart mirrors its English sibling's structure section-for-section under the [i18n contract](../../docs/i18n/README.md); the machine-checked header tokens (`# Agent Note: ` and the `Status:` line) stay in English verbatim. The format gate skips `.zh.md` files — the pairing gate owns their consistency.

.agents/notes/implemented/AGENTS.md

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+# AGENTS.md — Implemented Agent Notes
+
+These Agent Notes describe shipped decisions. Follow the [root instructions](../../../AGENTS.md), [documentation standard](../../../docs/AGENTS.md), and [Agent Note format](../README.md#the-file-format); `verify-agent-note-format` gates the lifecycle-specific structure.
+
+## Keep an implemented Agent Note current with what actually shipped
+
+Keep paths, symbols, defaults, and mechanisms current in the same change that alters them. Rewrite stale facts in place; do not append change history.
+
+### This is not a license to rewrite the *decision*
+
+Update factual realization in place. A reversal of the decision or its rationale requires a new Agent Note and cross-link; see the [Agent Note contract](../README.md).

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Provider-neutral content-block vocabulary owned by dsh-llm
+# Agent Note: Provider-neutral content-block vocabulary owned by dsh-llm
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ In-session context injection (`context/message`, `steering/message`) renders as
 ## Consequences
 
 - Reasoning has a core home without provider-specific shapes.
-- Multimodal blocks return only with coordinated adapter, UI, and compaction support; see [the drop-image RFC](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md).
-- Cache hints and assistant prefill remain absent until a shipping adapter can honor them; see the [producer-less variants](../simplification/2026-07-04-prune-producerless-vocabulary-variants.md) and [inert request knobs](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-inert-request-knobs.md) RFCs.
+- Multimodal blocks return only with coordinated adapter, UI, and compaction support; see [the drop-image Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md).
+- Cache hints and assistant prefill remain absent until a shipping adapter can honor them; see the [producer-less variants](../simplification/2026-07-04-prune-producerless-vocabulary-variants.md) and [inert request knobs](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-inert-request-knobs.md) Agent Notes.
 - Every adapter pays a translation cost; the first real adapters have since validated the streaming protocol, and new adapters should continue proving their provider-specific mapping in adapter-local tests.
-- IDs that cross package boundaries are branded (`CallId`, `SessionId`, `AgentId`) — nominal typing at zero runtime cost.
+- IDs that cross package boundaries are branded (`CallId`, the shared agent/session `SessionId`) — nominal typing at zero runtime cost.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-custom-schema-dsl.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-custom-schema-dsl.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Custom typed tool-schema DSL instead of schemastery
+# Agent Note: Custom typed tool-schema DSL instead of schemastery
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-dev-invariants-over-deep-readonly.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Source-owned session immutability and dev-mode invariants
+# Agent Note: Source-owned session immutability and dev-mode invariants
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Event-sourced sessions with derived message history
+# Agent Note: Event-sourced sessions with derived message history
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Microkernel — extension via Cordis event taxonomy, one concrete loop
+# Agent Note: Microkernel — extension via Cordis event taxonomy, one concrete loop
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ The product principle is "everything is a plugin": hooks, /goal, /loop, dynamic
 
 Pure Cordis event taxonomy. The loop's extension seams are typed events with deliberate dispatch modes:
 
-- **waterfall** (around-middleware) where plugins transform, veto, or wrap: `agent/prompt-submit`, `agent/request`, `agent/step-result`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `llm/stream`, `system-prompt/assemble`.
-- **serial** (awaited in listener order; a bail value stops later listeners) for ordered checkpoints: every `agent/pre-step` listener runs when all abstain, while the first stop returned from `agent/turn-stop` makes the terminal decision final.
+- **waterfall** (around-middleware) where plugins transform, veto, recover, or wrap: `agent/prompt-submit`, `agent/request`, `agent/request-error`, `agent/step-result`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `llm/stream`, `system-prompt/assemble`.
+- **serial** (awaited in listener order; a bail value stops later listeners) for ordered checkpoints: every `agent/pre-step` and `agent/post-step` listener runs when all abstain, while the first stop returned from `agent/turn-stop` makes the terminal decision final.
 - **parallel** (awaited fan-out) where every listener must get an independent chance: the `session/flush` durability checkpoint.
 - **emit** (synchronous fire-and-forget) for notifications: turn/step boundaries, stream chunks, lifecycle, errors, and the contained immutable `tools/result` observation.
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The event vocabulary lives in interface packages (dsh-agent declares the agent/*
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- Every MVP feature maps to a listener (the [feature → mechanism map](../../../cookbook/extension-cookbook.md#the-feature--mechanism-map) is the proof obligation, kept current).
+- Every MVP feature maps to a listener (the [feature → mechanism map](../../../../docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md#the-feature--mechanism-map) is the proof obligation, kept current).
 - HMR and disposal come free: listeners and registrations are Cordis effects.
 - Waterfall semantics (call `next()` or short-circuit) are non-obvious and must be taught — documented in AGENTS.md and covered by composition tests.
 - The loop must be defensive: plugin exceptions are contained at turn level, steering from any seam is never stranded (regression-tested).

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-runtime-arg-validation.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-runtime-arg-validation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Runtime arg validation at the model boundary
+# Agent Note: Runtime arg validation at the model boundary
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ The validator mirrors `schemaSpecToJsonSchema` semantics exactly — same struct
 - `ToolArgsError` is a plain `Error` with a `code` field for now; if a harness-wide error taxonomy lands it becomes a subclass without changing callers that read `.message`.
 - Validation cost is negligible next to a model call.
 
-<!-- rfc-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format RFC) -->
+<!-- agent-note-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format Agent Note) -->

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-structured-error-taxonomy.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-structured-error-taxonomy.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Structured error taxonomy
+# Agent Note: Structured error taxonomy
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ A single `HarnessError extends Error` base in `dsh-llm` (the leaf package every
 - `deriveMessages` does not surface `error` into model history — the model still sees the text block; the structured field is for code and replay.
 - Argument validation and dev invariants retain their existing codes and behavior; the shared base adds cross-seam routing metadata without changing model-facing text.
 
-<!-- rfc-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format RFC) -->
+<!-- agent-note-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format Agent Note) -->

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-tool-schemas-in-prompt-assembly.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-11-tool-schemas-in-prompt-assembly.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Tool schemas are part of the system-prompt assembly
+# Agent Note: Tool schemas are part of the system-prompt assembly
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Capability seams — interface / implementation / consumer split
+# Agent Note: Capability seams — interface / implementation / consumer split
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 The harness has swappable capabilities — bash execution today, sandboxed/remote executors and alternative model providers tomorrow. A capability has three concerns that change at different rates and for different reasons: the *contract* (what the capability is), the *implementation* (how it runs), and the *consumer surface* (what the model and other plugins program against). Bundling them in one package couples those rates of change — swapping a local executor for a sandboxed one would churn the tool schemas the model sees, even though the model-facing contract never changed.
 
-This is distinct from "who provides vs. needs a capability at runtime", which Cordis already answers with services + `inject` (a provider registers `ctx.bash`; a consumer declares `inject: ['bash']` and its fiber pends until the service exists). That mechanism is necessary but doesn't dictate package boundaries; this RFC does.
+This is distinct from "who provides vs. needs a capability at runtime", which Cordis already answers with services + `inject` (a provider registers `ctx.bash`; a consumer declares `inject: ['bash']` and its fiber pends until the service exists). That mechanism is necessary but doesn't dictate package boundaries; this Agent Note does.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ The split is not mandatory when the parts are genuinely one concern: the LLM sea
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **One combined package** — rejected because it recouples the three rates of change the split exists to separate (the whole point).
-- **`@cordisjs/plugin-capability`** — a different axis entirely: it is a permission/capability-*security* service (named permissions with inheritance, tested against a session via `ctx.capability.test`), a candidate for the deferred permissions/sandbox work on the `tools/pre-execute` deny/ask seam, NOT a mechanism for swapping implementations. Confusing the two ("capability") is the trap this RFC names.
+- **`@cordisjs/plugin-capability`** — a different axis entirely: it is a permission/capability-*security* service (named permissions with inheritance, tested against a session via `ctx.capability.test`), a candidate for the deferred permissions/sandbox work on the `tools/pre-execute` deny/ask seam, NOT a mechanism for swapping implementations. Confusing the two ("capability") is the trap this Agent Note names.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-More packages and more boilerplate per capability (a `package.json`/`tsconfig`/README trio, the inject wiring). Bought: implementations and consumers ship and version independently, and a new backend never risks the model-facing contract. The rule is documented in [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) § Conventions ("Capability seams are three packages") and [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) § "Capability seams"; the bash trio is the reference template. When to fold vs. split is a judgment call the architecture doc spells out — this RFC records *why* the default is to split.
+More packages and more boilerplate per capability (a `package.json`/`tsconfig`/README trio, the inject wiring). Bought: implementations and consumers ship and version independently, and a new backend never risks the model-facing contract. The rule is documented in [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md) § Conventions ("Capability seams are three packages") and [architecture.md](../../../../docs/architecture.md) § "Capability seams"; the bash trio is the reference template. When to fold vs. split is a judgment call the architecture doc spells out — this Agent Note records *why* the default is to split.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Two LLM adapters as a design-verification twin
+# Agent Note: Two LLM adapters as a design-verification twin
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ The rule they enforce: **anything the StreamChunk vocabulary cannot express for
 
 ## Consequences
 
-The twin doubles adapter and key-gated e2e maintenance—both cover V4 Flash and Pro across representative reasoning modes—in exchange for continuous seam-neutrality validation and a second implementation example. Both use `apiKey`, `baseURL`, and `models`; the hand-rolled adapter exposes `thinking`/`reasoningEffort`, while pi-ai exposes one `reasoning` level. A future conformance suite could justify retiring one adapter through a superseding RFC.
+The twin doubles adapter and key-gated e2e maintenance—both cover V4 Flash and Pro across representative reasoning modes—in exchange for continuous seam-neutrality validation and a second implementation example. Both use `apiKey`, `baseURL`, and `models`; the hand-rolled adapter exposes `thinking`/`reasoningEffort`, while pi-ai exposes one `reasoning` level. A future conformance suite could justify retiring one adapter through a superseding Agent Note.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Session persistence as an abstract service over the existing `SessionEvent`
+# Agent Note: Session persistence as an abstract service over the existing `SessionEvent`
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-Sessions lived only in memory. The example `session-jsonl.ts` plugin (duplicated byte-for-byte in both examples) was write-only telemetry: it buffered `session/event` and appended JSON lines, with no read/replay path, no crash-safety (no fsync, no atomic write, a fire-and-forget dispose drain), no listing, and no format versioning. Nothing could rehydrate a past session from disk into a live agent, so durable resume ("continue yesterday's task"), durable forking, and the ACP `session/load` method ([ACP support](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md)) were all impossible.
+Sessions lived only in memory. The example `session-jsonl.ts` plugin (duplicated byte-for-byte in both examples) was write-only telemetry: it buffered `session/event` and appended JSON lines, with no read/replay path, no crash-safety (no fsync, no atomic write, a fire-and-forget dispose drain), no listing, and no format versioning. Nothing could rehydrate a past session from disk into a live agent, so durable resume ("continue yesterday's task"), durable forking, and the ACP `session/load` method ([ACP support](../feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md)) were all impossible.
 
 The [event-sourced model](2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md) makes the append-only log the single source of truth and derives LLM history from it. Persistence had to stay faithful to that: persist the existing `SessionEvent` directly, with no parallel "persisted message" type that the log is converted to and from. The backend also had to be swappable — a file store now, a database store later — behind one interface.
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Key choices recorded here because they are durable, contested, and surprising:
 - **Append-only; a crashed turn is closed, never truncated.** Events through a flushed `turn/end` are never rewritten, and the loop flushes only at turn end. Because one interrupted turn may contain substantial valid work, `load` preserves its contiguous, parseable events and appends error results for unanswered tool calls, a missing `step/end`, and `turn/end` with `{ kind: 'interrupted' }`. The synthetic results keep resumed provider transcripts valid. Only an incomplete final record is discarded; a parse error or sequence gap at or before the last real `turn/end` is corruption and makes the session unloadable.
 - **File backend canonical, DB backend a proven drop-in.** `SessionEvent` maps 1:1 onto a row `(session_id, seq, type, time, data)` — `append` is INSERT (in a transaction asserting the contiguous-seq contract), `load` is SELECT … ORDER BY seq. `dsh-session-persistence-sqlite` is exactly this: a `SessionPersistence` subclass with no interface change (opencode runs this exact shape on SQLite/WAL), and it passes the same `runPersistenceContract` suite as the JSONL backend — so the contract holds both backends to identical semantics (lazy materialization, interrupted-turn close on load, contiguous-seq), expressed once over file bytes and once over rows.
 - **Metadata is out-of-log.** Format version, cwd, and lineage are storage concerns, not replayable conversation state, so they live in a `SessionHeader` owned by `dsh-session` and attached to a `Session` via a new readonly `session.header` — never in `SessionEventMap`, never reaching `deriveMessages()`. The alternative (a merge-extensible `session/meta` event as log line 0) was rejected: an in-log event would ride along with a seeded/forked session for free, but metadata is not replayable state, so the explicit out-of-log header seam is the cleaner cost. (The header was originally split into an immutable `SessionHeader` plus a mutable `SessionSummary` whose union was `SessionMeta`; the mutable summary was later removed as dead state — see [Drop the mutable session summary](../simplification/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md).)
-- **`ctx.agents.create()` and `ctx.agents.resume()` are async factories; resume additionally crosses the persistence boundary.** `ctx.agents.resume({ resumeSessionId })` awaits `ctx.sessionPersistence.load`, recreates the live session with the loaded events (so `lastTurnNumber`/`deriveMessages` continue), and starts a fresh agent on the resumed id (NOT `${agentId}-session`). The agent-loop does NOT hard-inject `sessionPersistence` (that would pend non-persistent demos forever); `resume` rejects with a clear error when it is absent.
+- **`ctx.agents.create()` and `ctx.agents.resume()` are async factories; resume additionally crosses the persistence boundary.** `ctx.agents.resume({ resumeSessionId })` awaits `ctx.sessionPersistence.load`, recreates the live session with the loaded events (so `lastTurnNumber`/`deriveMessages` continue), and registers the fresh agent under the exact resumed id. The agent-loop does NOT hard-inject `sessionPersistence` (that would pend non-persistent demos forever); `resume` rejects with a clear error when it is absent.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ Format versioning: the header carries a `version`; `load` rejects any non-curren
 
 ## Consequences
 
-Two new packages and the metadata seam in `dsh-session` (`session.header`, the `create(id?, options?)` signature). Bought: durable resume/fork, a read/replay path, crash tolerance, and the foundation the ACP `session/load` ([ACP support](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md)) needs — all over the existing event-sourced log, with the backend swappable behind one interface. The reusable `runPersistenceContract` suite holds every backend to the same append-only, contiguous-seq, lazy-materialization, and serializability semantics. Persisting the full log also settles event fidelity: `assistant/chunk` remains verbatim.
+Two new packages and the metadata seam in `dsh-session` (`session.header`, the `create(id?, options?)` signature). Bought: durable resume/fork, a read/replay path, crash tolerance, and the foundation the ACP `session/load` ([ACP support](../feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md)) needs — all over the existing event-sourced log, with the backend swappable behind one interface. The reusable `runPersistenceContract` suite holds every backend to the same append-only, contiguous-seq, lazy-materialization, and serializability semantics. Persisting the full log also settles event fidelity: `assistant/chunk` remains verbatim.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Every session event is enclosed in a turn
+# Agent Note: Every session event is enclosed in a turn
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ In case 2, if the injected `context/message` is the last event before a flush/di
 **Every session event lives inside a turn** — between a `turn/start` and its matching `turn/end`. Concretely:
 
 - The loop appends queued `user/message` events **after** `turn/start` (inside the turn), not before it. `turn/end` is therefore owed the moment those messages are recorded, and the existing finalizer guarantees it.
-- An `agent.inject()` made while the agent is **running** appends its `context/message` into the already-open turn (unchanged).
+- An `agent.inject()` made while the agent is **running** joins the already-open turn. While the current step executes assistant tool calls, accepted context waits in arrival order until that batch settles, then appends after every recorded result and before the turn closes even when execution is interrupted.
 - An `agent.inject()` made while **idle** wraps its `context/message` in a one-shot turn: `turn/start{trigger:{kind:'injection'}}` → `context/message` → `turn/end{completed}`. A new `injection` variant joins the merge-extensible `TurnTriggerMap`.
 - The loop derives the next turn number from the log each iteration (`lastTurnNumber(session) + 1`) instead of keeping a private counter, so an idle injection's one-shot turn cannot collide with the next real turn's number.
 - The `dsh-invariants` plugin **enforces** the invariant in dev: a `user/message` / `context/message` / `steering/message` appended while no turn is open throws an `InvariantError`.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Filesystem capability seam — ctx.fs, local backend, and model-facing filesystem tools
+# Agent Note: Filesystem capability seam — ctx.fs, local backend, and model-facing filesystem tools
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ We need the filesystem tools to land in the same capability-seam shape as bash b
 
 ## Decision
 
-Filesystem access is a first-class capability seam following [the capability-seam RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md):
+Filesystem access is a first-class capability seam following [the capability-seam Agent Note](2026-06-13-capability-seams.md):
 
 1. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs` (`packages/fs/fs`) owns the abstract `ctx.fs` service, the filesystem vocabulary types, and the `fs/*` policy event vocabulary.
 2. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-local` (`packages/fs/fs-local`) provides the first implementation, backed by the local filesystem.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Filesystem access is a first-class capability seam following [the capability-sea
 
 The consumer package depends only on the interface package, never on `dsh-fs-local`. A deployment that wants a different backend loads a different provider for `ctx.fs` without changing the tool schemas or model-facing prompt guidance.
 
-The read-before-write/edit and observed-state policy is a fourth package, `@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-policy` (`packages/fs/fs-policy`), contributed through the `fs/*` event gate rather than living on `ctx.fs`; a deployment loading `dsh-tool-fs` also loads `dsh-fs-policy` to get read-before-write/edit. This RFC established the three-package seam; the split of policy off the provider base class is decided by [the split-fs-seam RFC](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md), and its realization as an event-gate plugin (not a method service) by [the event-gate RFC](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md). This document is updated to describe that landed four-package shape.
+The read-before-write/edit and observed-state policy is a fourth package, `@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-policy` (`packages/fs/fs-policy`), contributed through the `fs/*` event gate rather than living on `ctx.fs`; a deployment loading `dsh-tool-fs` also loads `dsh-fs-policy` to get read-before-write/edit. This Agent Note established the three-package seam; the split of policy off the provider base class is decided by [the split-fs-seam Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md), and its realization as an event-gate plugin (not a method service) by [the event-gate Agent Note](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md). This document is updated to describe that landed four-package shape.
 
 The first backend is deliberately local-only: `dsh-fs-local` implements `ctx.fs` against the host filesystem. Future sibling backends can provide sandboxed, remote, virtual, or project-scoped filesystems behind the same interface.
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The first consumer is deliberately text-file-only: `dsh-tool-fs` exposes model-f
 
 Filesystem permissions and sandboxing are not implied by this split. The local backend resolves relative paths from its configured base directory, but containment policy is a separate decision: either a stricter `ctx.fs` implementation enforces it, or a permission/sandbox plugin wraps `tools/execute` and vetoes calls before they reach the consumer.
 
-Read-before-write/edit and observed state belong to `dsh-fs-policy`, not `ctx.fs`. Through the `fs/*` event gate, the policy records versions per opaque actor and supplies optional mutation expectations; the provider enforces freshness atomically. `dsh-tool-fs` emits the events without depending on the policy. See the [split-seam](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [event-gate](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md) RFCs.
+Read-before-write/edit and observed state belong to `dsh-fs-policy`, not `ctx.fs`. Through the `fs/*` event gate, the policy records versions per opaque actor and supplies optional mutation expectations; the provider enforces freshness atomically. `dsh-tool-fs` emits the events without depending on the policy. See the [split-seam](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [event-gate](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md) Agent Notes.
 
 ## Package topology
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The provider seam also carries the freshness hooks that policy builds on — but
 - `writeText`/`editText` take an OPTIONAL version expectation: omit it for an unconditional bare-provider mutation, or supply it to guard the mutation inside the backend's atomic critical section.
 - The `dsh-fs-policy` plugin decides that expectation on `fs/write-intent`/`fs/edit-intent` and records observed versions on `fs/observed`, keyed by an owner it derives from the opaque event actor (normally `exec.agent.session`).
 
-Authorization is version freshness, not a full/partial view distinction: any read records the target's version, and a later write/edit is authorized as long as the file is still at that version — so a windowed read of lines 100-150 authorizes an edit of line 120. The observed-state store is a `WeakMap<owner, Map<targetKey, version>>` inside `dsh-fs-policy`; `dsh-fs` holds none of it and treats the actor as opaque. (This RFC first modeled a `FileState` cache with `full`/`partial` views on `ctx.fs`; the split-fs-seam and event-gate RFCs replaced that with the freshness-based policy plugin described here.)
+Authorization is version freshness, not a full/partial view distinction: any read records the target's version, and a later write/edit is authorized as long as the file is still at that version — so a windowed read of lines 100-150 authorizes an edit of line 120. The observed-state store is a `WeakMap<owner, Map<targetKey, version>>` inside `dsh-fs-policy`; `dsh-fs` holds none of it and treats the actor as opaque. (This Agent Note first modeled a `FileState` cache with `full`/`partial` views on `ctx.fs`; the split-fs-seam and event-gate Agent Notes replaced that with the freshness-based policy plugin described here.)
 
 Path resolution is explicit and allowed to be async. Local resolution may only normalize a path, but sandboxed/remote/project-scoped backends may need I/O to resolve a user-supplied path into a stable target identity.
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ The defensive-pattern classes this repo has been bitten by are pinned directly:
 
 - **Model-facing tools directly over `node:fs`** — the tool package would own execution policy, path resolution, atomic writes, text decoding, and edit semantics at once, coupling the three independently-changing concerns the Problem names and churning schemas on any backend swap.
 - **One combined `dsh-fs-tools` package** — the pre-seam shape; rejected for the same interface/implementation/consumer split as bash, and the combined name never became public surface.
-- **Observed-state on `ctx.fs`** — the shape this RFC first landed; superseded by [the split-fs-seam RFC](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [the event-gate RFC](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md): a sandboxed/remote backend must not inherit model-facing observation policy, so the provider keeps only the version token and the optional version-guarded mutation.
+- **Observed-state on `ctx.fs`** — the shape this Agent Note first landed; superseded by [the split-fs-seam Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [the event-gate Agent Note](2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md): a sandboxed/remote backend must not inherit model-facing observation policy, so the provider keeps only the version token and the optional version-guarded mutation.
 
 ## Consequences
 
@@ -143,11 +143,11 @@ The defensive-pattern classes this repo has been bitten by are pinned directly:
 
 **The interface can become too local.** Returning fields such as `absolutePath` from `ctx.fs` would make remote, sandboxed, or virtual backends awkward. The contract should expose display metadata without requiring consumers to understand host paths.
 
-**The interface can become too thin.** If `ctx.fs` only mirrors `node:fs` primitives, `tool-fs` will reimplement binary detection, pagination, atomic writes, and edit semantics. That recreates the coupling this RFC is trying to avoid.
+**The interface can become too thin.** If `ctx.fs` only mirrors `node:fs` primitives, `tool-fs` will reimplement binary detection, pagination, atomic writes, and edit semantics. That recreates the coupling this Agent Note is trying to avoid.
 
 **Edit semantics are race-prone by nature.** Literal edit is a read-modify-write operation; the guard is the backend's atomic mutation critical section plus the optional version expectation, so concurrent edits settle deterministically — one wins, the other gets `FS_STALE_VERSION`.
 
-**Observed state does not belong on `ctx.fs`.** Recording what an execution context has seen is workflow policy, not raw filesystem I/O. This RFC first placed it inside the filesystem seam; the split-fs-seam RFC then established that a sandboxed/remote backend should not inherit model-facing observation policy, and moved it into the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin. The provider seam keeps only what write/edit safety genuinely needs at the storage layer — a backend-minted version token and an optional version-guarded mutation — while the policy plugin owns owner derivation, observed-state, and read-before-edit gating over the `fs/*` events.
+**Observed state does not belong on `ctx.fs`.** Recording what an execution context has seen is workflow policy, not raw filesystem I/O. This Agent Note first placed it inside the filesystem seam; the split-fs-seam Agent Note then established that a sandboxed/remote backend should not inherit model-facing observation policy, and moved it into the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin. The provider seam keeps only what write/edit safety genuinely needs at the storage layer — a backend-minted version token and an optional version-guarded mutation — while the policy plugin owns owner derivation, observed-state, and read-before-edit gating over the `fs/*` events.
 
 **The `resolve`-then-operate shape costs an extra round-trip per call.** Each tool may resolve a path to an `FsTarget` and then issue the read/write/edit as a separate `ctx.fs` call. For the local backend this is negligible (resolution is in-memory path normalization), but a remote/sandboxed backend may turn each step into its own request, so a single `read` can become two network round-trips. Backends where the round-trip matters can cache or fold resolution internally while preserving the observable contract.
 

.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Agent Note: Agent lifecycle and ownership seams
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+Several ACP and tool-bash limitations were symptoms of the same missing seam: plugins could create or resume agents through `ctx.agents`, but they could not own and dispose one agent independently, and long-running bash tasks carried no stable owner in the executor itself. ACP aborted and awaited agents on disconnect but could not unregister just that session's agent; `session/cancel` could not cancel queued-but-not-yet-started work; and `tool-bash` kept task ownership in a plugin-local `Map`, so an HMR reload could make an old task look unowned.
+
+## Decision
+
+Three seams: the queue-aware cancel, the `AgentHandle` disposer, and the bash owner token.
+
+### 1. Queue-aware `Agent.cancel(reason?)`
+
+A new `cancel()` verb on the `Agent` interface — the single public stop primitive. (It originally shipped alongside a narrower step-only `abort()`; that verb was later removed as unused, leaving `cancel()` the only public way to stop work.) It clears the inbox's queued + steering FIFOs, aborts the in-flight step if any, and drives a **turn-scoped cancellation marker** the driver loop checks at every turn-decision point — so a prompt that is queued-but-not-yet-started never runs, a cancel landing in the pre-step / continuation window drops the about-to-run turn (ending it `aborted`), and a later prompt cannot be batched into the cancelled turn. `whenIdle()` reaches post-cancel quiescence. ACP `session/cancel` maps to `cancel()`. The marker is armed ONLY when there is something to cancel, so an idle no-op cancel cannot strand the next prompt.
+
+### 2. `AgentHandle` async disposer
+
+`ctx.agents.create`/`resume` (and the `AgentFactory` interface) return `AgentHandle = { agent: Agent; dispose(): Promise<void> }`. The disposer is a **consumer capability** — a registry observer holding only the bare `Agent` cannot tear it down. The caller fiber and registered factory provider are structural co-owners: caller unload enforces structured ownership, while provider unload must stop old instances whose scoped dependency surface resolves through that provider. All three paths reach the same memoized teardown: stop the loop, await its exit and idle flushes (true quiescence, not just the `disposed` status flip), detach the agent, detach its session, and unwind its scope. Each public ID becomes reusable when its exact registry entry detaches; there is no separate reservation-release phase. Config-created agents are already owned by the `AgentLoop` fiber (the handle is discarded). ACP holds each session's disposer in its `SessionRecord` and runs it on disconnect/teardown, so a bare client disconnect leaves no registered agent and no session-store entry — even when `session/load` races teardown (the just-resumed handle is disposed before the closed-guard throw).
+
+**Teardown ORDER is load-bearing for durability**, and the implementation folds the session lifecycle into the agent's SINGLE composite cordis effect (`SessionStore.prepare`/`enter`/`announce`, replacing a sibling-effect split). A fiber unload disposes sibling effects concurrently (`Promise.all`), which would race removing the session store's append publication hooks against the loop's closing `session/flush` and drop the closing `turn/end`; inside one effect the disposers run as an ordered LIFO chain (loop stopped + `await agent.done` BEFORE the session detaches), so the loop's final flush is captured on BOTH the handle's `dispose()` and a fiber unload. The contained `agent/disposed` and `session/disposed` notifications cannot reject the chain or skip later teardown.
+
+### 3. Bash owner token in the seam
+
+Background-task ownership moved from a `tool-bash` plugin-local `Map<string, Agent>` into the executor. `BashExecRequest` gains an optional `owner?: string`; the resolved `BashExecSpec` carries it as required-but-nullable `owner: string | undefined` (a forgotten owner is a visible `undefined`, never a silently-absent property). The executor stores the token on its task and exposes it via a new `BashExecutor.ownerOf(id): string | undefined` seam (NOT on the public `BashTask` — one read path, no redundant API). `tool-bash` deletes its `Map` entirely: it stamps `exec.agent?.id` (the shared registry/session id) as the owner at `start`, and `bash_output`/`bash_kill` compare `ctx.bash.ownerOf(id)` to the caller's token with `!== undefined` semantics (an empty-string token is still a real owner). The completion notice finds the live agent by scanning `ctx.get('agents')?.list()` for `agent.id === ownerToken` (read via `ctx.get` — `onTaskDone` runs on the bash fiber, a foreign fiber, where the `ctx.agents` proxy would throw). Because ownership now lives on the task in the executor (disposed with the `dsh-bash` fiber), it SURVIVES a `tool-bash` HMR reload — closing the old `XXX(tool-bash-owner-hmr)` gap. (The `onTaskDone` listener is still effect-scoped to `tool-bash`'s `apply`, so a completion landing during the reload gap still drops its one notice — the pre-existing reload-gap drop — but the ownership fence itself is HMR-proof.)
+
+## Verification
+
+These invariants hold and are pinned by tests:
+
+- ACP disconnect/session close leaves no registered agent AND no session-store entry for that session, even when `session/load` races teardown.
+- `session/cancel` before a queued prompt starts prevents that prompt from running and cannot batch the next prompt into the cancelled turn.
+- A `tool-bash` HMR reload does NOT make an existing background task readable or killable by a different session (ownership survives on the executor).
+- Existing non-ACP demos still work without managing handles explicitly; config-created agents remain owned by the `AgentLoop` plugin fiber.
+
+## Session owner tokens are unique among live agents
+
+The bash owner-token comparison relies on the shared `Agent.id`/`SessionId` being unique among live agents. Concurrent same-ID operations may both prepare privately, but publication enters the session and agent in order; `SessionStore.enter()` rejects a duplicate live session id, and every losing transaction rolls its private state back. A programmatic caller therefore cannot publish two live agents with one session token. The access *policy* (token comparison) stays in `tool-bash` (the consumer); the bash seam stores only an opaque `owner` string and never interprets it — the correct interface/implementation/consumer split.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **A public `BashTask.owner` field** instead of the `BashExecutor.ownerOf(id)` seam — rejected: one read path, no redundant API.
+- **Sibling cordis effects for the agent's session lifecycle** — rejected: a fiber unload disposes sibling effects concurrently (`Promise.all`), racing removal of the store-owned append publication hooks against the loop's closing `session/flush`; the single composite effect's ordered LIFO chain is what captures the closing `turn/end` on both disposal paths.
+- **A separate step-only `abort()` beside `cancel()`** — shipped originally, then removed as unused; `cancel()` is the single public stop primitive ([the public-stop-surface Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-20-public-agent-stop-surface.md)).
+
+## Consequences
+
+This touched public interfaces (`Agent`, `AgentFactory`, the bash seam) deliberately, not as a local ACP patch. The simple synchronous `Agent.send()` ergonomics were preserved; the async lifecycle path is additive, for owners that need it.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Session surface — a linked list over the event log for LLM message derivation
+# Agent Note: Session surface — an ordered projection over the event log
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ The event log is authoritative, but history manipulation had no durable shared m
 
 ## Decision
 
-Add a **surface** — a derived, cached linked list of "surface nodes" (the subset of events that produce LLM messages) — maintained by `surfaceOp` markers in the event log.
+Add a **surface** — a derived, cached order of event sequences (the subset of events that produce LLM messages) — maintained by `surfaceOp` markers in the event log.
 
 ### Two new top-level fields on `SessionEvent`
 
 Every `SessionEvent` gains two optional fields (structural metadata, like `seq`/`time`):
 
-- **`sourceEventSeqs?: number[]`** — seq numbers of events that are provenance sources (e.g., the `assistant/chunk` seqs that built an `assistant/message`, or the surface nodes shadowed by a compaction marker). Provenance is a core design principle; without it, the replace-range operation cannot be validated on replay.
+- **`sourceEventSeqs?: number[]`** — seq numbers of events that are provenance sources (e.g., the `assistant/chunk` seqs that built an `assistant/message`, or the surface nodes shadowed by a compaction marker). A present `[]` is valid only on `assistant/message` and records a known empty provider stream; omission there means legacy or otherwise unrecorded provenance. Other surface events require a non-empty list when the field is present. Provenance is a core design principle; without it, the replace-range operation cannot be validated on replay.
 - **`surfaceOp?: SurfaceOp`** — how this event entered the surface. Absent for non-surface events.
 
 ### SurfaceOp: two operations
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ export type SurfaceOp =
   | { op: 'replace'; start: number; end: number }  // shadow [start, end] inclusive
 ```
 
-1. **Append** — add a new node to the tail. Used by `user/message`, `assistant/message`, `tool/result`, `context/message`, `steering/message`. The loop passes `surfaceOp: 'append'` on all such appends, and `sourceEventSeqs` where applicable (e.g., `assistant/message` records its `assistant/chunk` sources; `tool/result` records its `tool/call` source).
+1. **Append** — add the new event seq to the tail. Used by `user/message`, `assistant/message`, `tool/result`, `context/message`, `steering/message`. The loop passes `surfaceOp: 'append'` on all such appends and records `sourceEventSeqs` where applicable: every successful `assistant/message` records its complete `assistant/chunk` source set, including `[]`, while `tool/result` records its `tool/call` source.
 
-2. **Replace** — remove nodes from `start` through `end` (both inclusive) and insert a new node in their place. Both `start` and `end` must be valid surface node seqs in the current surface; `start === end` replaces a single node. The node's `sourceEventSeqs` must contain every shadowed surface node. The shadowed events remain in the log but are no longer on the surface.
+2. **Replace** — remove entries from `start` through `end` (both inclusive) and insert the new event seq in their place. Both `start` and `end` must be present in the current surface; `start === end` replaces one entry. The event's `sourceEventSeqs` must contain every shadowed surface seq. The shadowed events remain in the log but are no longer on the surface.
 
 ### SurfaceManager: delta-based, not full rebuild
 
-A `SurfaceManager` class (private to `Session`) maintains the cached linked list. It tracks `_lastProcessedSeq` and processes only the **delta** (new events since the last access) rather than rescanning the entire log. Because the log is append-only, prior events never change; a seeded log is simply the initial delta folded on first access.
+A `Session` owns one `SurfaceManager` that maintains an ordered `number[]` of event seqs. The manager validates each seed or append candidate without applying it before commit, then processes only committed events since its previous synchronization rather than rescanning the entire log. `Session.surface` exposes the same manager through the readonly `SessionSurface` contract, so acceptance, derived history, compaction, and workspace context share one incremental state. Replace locates its inclusive endpoints by array position and splices the replacement seq into that range; no second manager, link objects, or seq-to-node map duplicates the order.
 
 Delta processing is O(1) when no new events and O(new events) when new events arrive.
 
@@ -47,23 +47,24 @@ The `repair.ts` module synthesizes `tool/result` closers for orphaned tool calls
 
 ### Invariants
 
-The dev-mode invariants plugin validates: `sourceEventSeqs` references (non-empty, no duplicates, references earlier events, references known seqs) and `surfaceOp` (replace `start ≤ end`, both endpoints are on the tracked surface, the range is non-reversed in surface position, and `sourceEventSeqs` includes every node the range shadows).
+The dev-mode invariants plugin validates: `sourceEventSeqs` references (only `assistant/message` may use an empty list; otherwise no duplicates, references earlier events, and references known seqs) and `surfaceOp` (replace `start ≤ end`, both endpoints are on the tracked surface, the range is non-reversed in surface position, and `sourceEventSeqs` includes every node the range shadows).
 
 Every surface-eligible event must carry `surfaceOp` or it would disappear from derived history. Typed `append` overloads enforce this for literal event types; runtime checks in `append` and the seed constructor cover widened unions and loaded logs. Invalid seeds are rejected rather than upgraded under the pre-release format policy.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **Per-plugin `agent/request` wrapping** (the pre-surface pattern for history manipulation) — listener-ordering fragility, no durable record of what was changed, and every new manipulation forces another change to core `deriveMessages()`.
-- **Half-open `[start, endExclusive)` replace ranges** — rejected: the surface is a doubly-linked list whose ends are naturally named by node seqs, and single-node replacement (`start === end`) reads naturally with inclusive semantics.
+- **Half-open `[start, endExclusive)` replace ranges** — rejected: endpoints are named by surface event seqs, and single-entry replacement (`start === end`) reads naturally with inclusive semantics.
+- **Linked node objects plus a seq map** — rejected: production did not read predecessor links, the only successor use was the next array position, and replacement already required linear `indexOf` lookup. A single seq array preserves the same asymptotic behavior with one representation to validate.
 - **Full rebuild behind a dirty flag** instead of delta processing — O(N²) over a session's lifetime: every single-event append would rescan all prior events.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- **`packages/core/session`**: New `surface.ts` (`SurfaceManager`), new types (`SurfaceOp`, `SurfaceIntent`), new fields on `SessionEvent`, modified `append()` (third required `SurfaceIntent` param), refactored `deriveMessages()` (walks the surface as the sole derivation path), surface-aware `repair.ts`. The seed constructor rejects a surface-eligible seed event missing its `surfaceOp` marker (see § Invariants).
+- **`packages/core/session`**: `surface.ts` (`SurfaceManager`) maintains one ordered seq array for candidate acceptance and live projection; `SessionSurface` is its readonly public view. `SurfaceOp`/`SurfaceIntent` and the top-level session-event fields record how entries join it. `append()` requires a `SurfaceIntent` for surface events, `deriveMessages()` walks the surface as the sole derivation path, and `repair.ts` emits surface-aware closers. The seed constructor rejects a surface-eligible seed event missing its `surfaceOp` marker (see § Invariants).
 - **`packages/core/agent-loop`**: All surface-capable appends pass surface opts. Chunk seqs are collected for `assistant/message` provenance; `tool/call` seqs are captured for `tool/result` provenance.
 - **`packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite`**: Two new nullable TEXT columns (`source_event_seqs`, `surface_op`) on the `events` table; `SCHEMA_VERSION` bumped (bump-and-reject, no migration).
 - **`packages/support/invariants`**: Surface-related validation rules.
 - **`packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl`**: No changes required.
 - **`packages/session-persistence/session-persistence`**: Abstract interface unchanged.
 
-The surface is the foundation for future history manipulation. A compaction or tool-result-prune plugin appends one of the existing message-producing event types (a `user/message` carrying the summary, say) with `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` and `sourceEventSeqs` covering the shadowed nodes — the new node takes the range's place on the surface while the plugin's own trace events (e.g. `compaction/start`, `compaction/end`) stay off it. Replay preserves the decision deterministically.
+The surface is the foundation for future history manipulation. A compaction or tool-result-prune plugin appends one of the existing message-producing event types (a `user/message` carrying the summary, say) with `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` and `sourceEventSeqs` covering the shadowed entries — the new event takes the range's place on the surface while the plugin's own trace events (e.g. `compaction/start`, `compaction/end`) stay off it. Replay preserves the decision deterministically.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Shared persistence write coordinator
+# Agent Note: Shared persistence write coordinator
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ Status: implemented
 
 Extract a backend-agnostic `PersistenceCoordinator` into `dsh-session-persistence`. The coordinator owns the orchestration once; each first-party backend composes one (`new PersistenceCoordinator(ctx, this)`), implements a small `PersistenceBackend` hook interface, and delegates its four public service methods (`create`/`append`/`load`/`list`) to it.
 
-Composition, not inheritance. The coordinator is a concrete class the backend holds, not a base class the backend extends. The RFC's risk — "a coordinator must not make unusual backends fight an inheritance hierarchy" — is avoided: a backend exposes only the hooks; it cannot reach the coordinator's private orchestration state, and the public `SessionPersistence` service shape is unchanged, so a third-party backend MAY still implement the abstract service directly without the coordinator at all.
+Composition, not inheritance. The coordinator is a concrete class the backend holds, not a base class the backend extends. The Agent Note's risk — "a coordinator must not make unusual backends fight an inheritance hierarchy" — is avoided: a backend exposes only the hooks; it cannot reach the coordinator's private orchestration state, and the public `SessionPersistence` service shape is unchanged, so a third-party backend MAY still implement the abstract service directly without the coordinator at all.
+
+The coordinator retires each live session from its `session/disposed` notification: it waits for that exact Session object's initialization, serializes a final drain, and then removes the owned state, buffer, and init entries. Failed drains retain their buffers for backend teardown to retry. Settled per-id chain tails remove themselves only when they are still the current tail, so a completion cannot erase a newer operation for the same id. Backend teardown unregisters the write-path listeners before awaiting all admitted retirements, remaining buffers, and chains, then closes the backend.
 
 ### The hook interface (`PersistenceBackend<TornMarker>`)
 
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ The single design choice that keeps the seam clean: the crash-repair "where is t
 
 ## Testing
 
-The shared `runPersistenceContract` (public-API contract) keeps running for every backend. A new `runCoordinatorContract` (`tests/coordinator-contract.ts`) holds the write-path orchestration — adoption, HMR, collision, dispose-drain, crash-tail repair — and runs once per backend through a `CoordinatorFixture` (an in-memory reference + jsonl + sqlite). The per-backend specs shrank to storage mechanics only (JSONL: path safety, fsync rollback, bucket listing; SQLite: schema version, `scanRows`, transaction rollback). A through-coordinator torn-tail→load→`commitRepair` test per real backend (via a `corruptTail` fixture hook) keeps the coordinator's torn-marker repair branch covered under the 100% per-file gate — the contract crash test only produces synthetic closers, never a torn marker, so it could not reach that branch.
+The shared `runPersistenceContract` (public-API contract) keeps running for every backend. `runCoordinatorContract` (`tests/coordinator-contract.ts`) holds the write-path orchestration — adoption, HMR, collision, session and backend disposal drains, and crash-tail repair — and runs once per backend through a `CoordinatorFixture` (an in-memory reference + jsonl + sqlite). Coordinator-specific tests pin retirement map cleanup, same-id chain-tail races, failed-drain retry, and close ordering. The per-backend specs retain storage mechanics only (JSONL: path safety, fsync rollback, bucket listing; SQLite: schema version, `scanRows`, transaction rollback). A through-coordinator torn-tail→load→`commitRepair` test per real backend (via a `corruptTail` fixture hook) keeps the coordinator's torn-marker repair branch covered under the 100% per-file gate — the contract crash test only produces synthetic closers, never a torn marker, so it could not reach that branch.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -39,4 +41,4 @@ The shared `runPersistenceContract` (public-API contract) keeps running for ever
 
 ## Consequences
 
-The coordinator adds one indirection and an opaque torn marker, but centralizes correctness-heavy orchestration previously duplicated by every backend. Its hook surface stays narrow: collision checks reuse `loadStored`, materialization stays atomic inside `appendBatch`, and listing bypasses the coordinator. New backends implement storage primitives rather than copy the event-buffer-flush lifecycle.
+The coordinator adds one indirection, an opaque torn marker, and detached session-retirement tasks, but centralizes correctness-heavy orchestration previously duplicated by every backend. Session disposal remains an observe-only event, so the session owner does not await persistence retirement; the coordinator contains failures, preserves uncommitted buffers, and makes backend teardown the quiescence boundary. Its hook surface stays narrow: collision checks reuse `loadStored`, materialization stays atomic inside `appendBatch`, and listing bypasses the coordinator. New backends implement storage primitives rather than copy the event-buffer-flush lifecycle.

.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-branded-ids.md

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Agent Note: Branded IDs everywhere they belong
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+The harness brands `CallId` (`packages/llm/llm/src/brand.ts`) and the shared agent/session `SessionId` (`packages/core/session/src/types.ts`) using the `Branded<B> = string & { readonly [BRAND]: B }` machinery (owned by the type-only `@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand` package at `packages/util/brand/` — see its [README](../../../../packages/util/brand/README.md)) and a zero-cost cast factory per type. `dsh-brand` also states the governing policy: *"Branding is for ids that cross package boundaries and could plausibly be confused; not every string needs a brand."* That policy is right; the problem is that it is only half-applied. Two gaps let a structurally-identical-but-semantically-wrong string slip through the type checker today.
+
+**Gap 1 — unbranded cross-boundary IDs in the bash seam.** The background-task id is a plain `string`: `BashTask.id: string` (`packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts`), carried as `string` through the whole executor seam (`BashExecutor.get`/`ownerOf`/`readOutput`/`kill(id: string)` in `packages/bash/bash/src/index.ts`) and validated/passed as `string` by the model-facing tools (`validateTaskId`, `assertTaskAccess`, the `task_id` schema arg in `packages/bash/tool-bash/src/index.ts`). It is generated by a per-executor counter — `` `bash-${this.nextTaskId++}` `` in `packages/bash/bash-local/src/index.ts` — which gives it **exactly the same `name-N` shape as `SessionId`'s default** (`` `session-${++counter}` `` in `packages/core/session/src/index.ts`). A bash task id and a session id are trivially swappable at a call site and the compiler says nothing. This is the headline case the user asked about, and it is a model-facing id (the model passes `task_id` back to `bash_output`/`bash_kill`), so a confusion here is reachable from untrusted input.
+
+The bash **owner token** is the related sub-case: `BashExecRequest.owner?: string` and `BashExecSpec.owner: string | undefined` (`packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts`) are documented as a deliberately *opaque* isolation key, but in every live caller the value IS the owning agent's shared `Agent.id`/`SessionId` (`callerToken = (exec) => exec.agent?.id` in `packages/bash/tool-bash/src/index.ts`) wearing a different seam-local name. It is compared for access control (`owner !== callerToken(exec)`), so a mismatched-but-well-typed string here is a cross-session isolation bug the type system currently cannot catch. This is the shared id alias covered by the [unified agent/session identity decision](../simplification/2026-06-20-unify-agent-and-session-id.md).
+
+**Gap 2 — brand erosion at the seams of the *already-branded* IDs.** Even `CallId` and `SessionId` decay back to bare `string` at exactly the places confusion is most likely: registry/store key types and public method params. Representative sites include the session store, the agent registry (both keyed by the shared `SessionId`), `ToolPresenter`'s call-id map, ACP's session-id records and loading set, and the persistence coordinator. A brand that is dropped at a collection key buys nothing on lookups — the value of the existing brands is partly unrealized.
+
+## Decision
+
+A type-only change. Brands are zero-cost casts; nothing about runtime behavior, serialization, comparison, or the wire format changes. The work is in three parts, all honoring the existing "not every string" policy.
+
+- **Brand the bash task id.** Add `BashTaskId = Branded<'BashTaskId'>` plus its same-named factory in `packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts` (the package that *owns* the id), importing `Branded` from `@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand` exactly as `SessionId` does. The brand primitive lives in the dependency-free `dsh-brand` utility package precisely so `dsh-bash` can brand its ids by depending on it alone — it never pulls in `dsh-llm` (or `dsh-session`) just to reach `Branded`. Thread it through `BashTask.id`, the `BashExecutor` seam methods (`get`/`ownerOf`/`readOutput`/`kill`), the generation site in `dsh-bash-local` (brand the counter output once, at creation), and the `dsh-tool-bash` validate/access surface (`validateTaskId` returns a `BashTaskId`; `task_id` is branded at the tool boundary where the model's string arrives).
+
+- **Mint a distinct `OwnerToken` brand.** Add `OwnerToken = Branded<'OwnerToken'>` in `packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts`; type `BashExecRequest.owner` / `BashExecSpec.owner` / `BashExecutor.ownerOf` as `OwnerToken | undefined`. The `dsh-tool-bash` consumer casts the agent's shared `id` (`SessionId`) into an `OwnerToken` at the boundary — the one place the two vocabularies meet. The bash seam never imports `dsh-session`. (Rationale in the next section.)
+
+- **Stop the brand erosion.** Propagate the existing brands to the `Map` key types and public method params listed under Gap 2 — `Map<SessionId, Session>`, `Map<SessionId, Agent>`, `get(id: SessionId)`, `Map<CallId, …>`, ACP's `SessionId` surface, and the coordinator's `Map<SessionId, …>`. This is the larger mechanical share of the diff and the part that makes the *existing* brands actually load-bearing on lookups, not just on struct fields.
+
+Illustrative shape (the factory pattern is identical to the three existing brands):
+
+```ts ignore-check
+import type { Branded } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand'
+
+/** A background bash task handle (generated `bash-N` by the local executor). */
+export type BashTaskId = Branded<'BashTaskId'>
+export function BashTaskId(id: string): BashTaskId {
+  return id as BashTaskId
+}
+
+/** A bash task's opaque isolation key — the consumer's owner identity, NOT the bash seam's. */
+export type OwnerToken = Branded<'OwnerToken'>
+export function OwnerToken(id: string): OwnerToken {
+  return id as OwnerToken
+}
+```
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+### Why not typing `owner` as `SessionId`?
+
+The obvious shortcut is to type `owner` as `SessionId` directly — it always *is* one. We reject that. The bash executor seam is a capability seam (interface `dsh-bash`, implementation `dsh-bash-local`, consumer `dsh-tool-bash`) and its owner token is *documented as deliberately opaque*: the executor "never interprets it (no access policy lives in the seam — that is the consumer's job)" (`packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts`). Typing the seam's field as `SessionId` would import `dsh-session`'s vocabulary into a package that must not know what an owner token *means* — it would couple a generic execution backend to the session model and contradict the opaque-token design. A sandboxed or remote executor that replaces `dsh-bash-local` should not inherit a session dependency. The distinct `OwnerToken` brand keeps the seam decoupled: `dsh-bash` knows only "an owner is some opaque branded token," and the `dsh-tool-bash` consumer — which already decides the access policy — is the single boundary that casts its `SessionId` into an `OwnerToken`. The brand still delivers the safety win (you cannot pass a `BashTaskId` or a raw string where an owner is expected) without the coupling.
+
+## Out of scope / possible extensions
+
+Kept deliberately narrow per the "not every string needs a brand" policy. Each of these is a plausible future brand, deferred with a reason, not a commitment:
+
+- **`ModelId`** (`GenerateOptions.model`, the `LlmService` adapter-registry key) — a real cross-package lookup key (config → agent → llm → adapter); a reasonable next brand, left out only to keep this Agent Note's blast radius focused.
+- **`ToolName`** (the `ToolRegistry` key) — author-defined, human-readable, and rarely confused with another id; the weakest candidate, likely not worth a brand.
+- **`ErrorCode`** (`HarnessError.code`) — a closed vocabulary (`ABORTED`, `NO_ADAPTER`, …), not a per-instance id; better served by a string-literal union than a brand, if anything.
+- **Numeric ordinals** — turn number, step number, and the event `seq` are `number`, not `string`, so `Branded<string>` does not apply; a parallel `number & { readonly [BRAND]: B }` variant could brand them, but they are positional ordinals rarely passed across boundaries, so the payoff is low.
+- **Validated construction** — the brand factories are pure casts with no runtime check, and every boundary (ACP `sessionId`, provider-issued `call.id`, the empty-string fallback in `dsh-llm-deepseek`) trusts the raw string today. A `SessionId.parse()` / `isValid()` companion that throws on malformed input at boundaries is a genuine gap, but it is a *runtime-behavior* change with its own design (what is "malformed"? what do we do on failure?) and belongs in its own Agent Note, not bundled into this type-only pass.
+
+## Verification
+
+The landed invariants: `BashTaskId` and `OwnerToken` are defined in `dsh-bash` and threaded end-to-end (executor seam, the `dsh-bash-local` generation site, the `dsh-tool-bash` model-facing surface) with no `dsh-bash` dependency on `dsh-session`; no collection keyed by an in-scope branded id (`CallId`/`SessionId`/`BashTaskId`) is keyed by bare `string`; public method params and exported signatures keep the brand; and brands are constructed via the cast factory at each boundary where a raw string enters (provider call id, ACP session id, model-supplied `task_id`), never as scattered `as` casts.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- **Mechanical churn across two surfaces.** Propagating brands touches the bash seam (interface + impl + consumer) and the ACP session-id surface plus the persistence coordinator. The churn is broad but low-severity: a missed site is a compile error, not a silent bug. The change is observably type-only — no snapshot or e2e behavioral diff. It sits next to the [unified agent/session identity decision](../simplification/2026-06-20-unify-agent-and-session-id.md) because both touch the session-id / owner-token boundary; `OwnerToken` stays distinct from the unified id for the decoupling reason above.
+- **Brands do not validate.** A brand is a confusability guard, not a correctness proof: a *wrong* session id that is still a well-formed string passes the type checker exactly as before. This Agent Note does not close that gap (see Out of scope) — it only stops the *category* error of passing the wrong *kind* of id.
+- **The "where to stop" line stays a judgment call.** Branding `BashTaskId` but not `ToolName`, `OwnerToken` but not `ModelId`, is a taste call about which strings "could plausibly be confused." Reasonable reviewers may want more or fewer; the policy in `brand.ts` is the tie-breaker, and this Agent Note errs toward the ids that are model-facing or used for access control.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-extract-example-app-packages.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-extract-example-app-packages.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Extract example apps into packages
+# Agent Note: Extract example apps into packages
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The old `base*.yml`/`acp-tail.yml` includes already deduped the *config*, but a
 
 - Example directories contain only their config, README, and tests: `start.ts`, the infrastructure preamble, and the shared YAML includes are gone.
 - `demo:echo`, `demo:repl`, and `demo:acp` invoke the app-package bins.
-- Each new package has a README and per-file 100% coverage; each app package also has a keyless real-Loader-path bin smoke that catches export-shape failures described in [postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md).
+- Each new package has a README and per-file 100% coverage; each app package also has a keyless real-Loader-path bin smoke that catches export-shape failures described in [postmortem 0001](../../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md).
 - The ACP replay transcript remains unchanged because the plugin set and load order did not change.
 
 ## Consequences

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-generic-long-running-tool-runtime.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-generic-long-running-tool-runtime.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The background task runtime (`ctx.tasks`) and generic task control tools
+# Agent Note: The background task runtime (`ctx.tasks`) and generic task control tools
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Long-running tools are producers. `dsh-tool-bash` adapts a `BashProcess` into in
 
 ## Runtime contract
 
-The literal types live in the [task data-structure catalog](../../../core-data-structures/tasks.md). A producer calls `ctx.tasks.start()` with a kind, label, optional owning `Agent`, and a `run()` function. The runtime completes all failable preflight work before calling `run()` and invokes it once. After `run()` returns hooks, registration commits without another failable step; a producer cannot start work that lacks a collectable task id.
+The literal types live in the [task data-structure catalog](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/tasks.md). A producer calls `ctx.tasks.start()` with a kind, label, optional owning `Agent`, and a `run()` function. The runtime completes all failable preflight work before calling `run()` and invokes it once. After `run()` returns hooks, registration commits without another failable step; a producer cannot start work that lacks a collectable task id.
 
 The producer hooks define three responsibilities:
 
@@ -123,6 +123,6 @@ Unit coverage pins preflight atomicity, per-kind ids, stream and final reads, wa
 
 ## Consequences
 
-Bash commands and subagents share one id vocabulary, listing, notice format, prompt habit, and set of control tools. New long-running producers implement execution hooks instead of another registry and tool family. The [tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) points producers to this contract.
+Bash commands and subagents share one id vocabulary, listing, notice format, prompt habit, and set of control tools. New long-running producers implement execution hooks instead of another registry and tool family. The [tool cookbook](../../../../docs/cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) points producers to this contract.
 
 Owned background bash now stops with its agent instead of surviving it. Background processes have no executor timeout; callers must kill irrelevant work or rely on owner/service disposal. Stream reads support one consuming reader, completion notices do not wake idle agents, and a producer that returns from `cancel` without settling `done` can still stall teardown. Durable jobs, independent observation cursors, and foreground promotion remain separate designs.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-package-hierarchy.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Reorganize packages into a modular hierarchy
+# Agent Note: Reorganize packages into a modular hierarchy
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-21-mandatory-app-attribution-headers.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-21-mandatory-app-attribution-headers.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Mandatory `User-Agent` attribution for provider requests
+# Agent Note: Mandatory `User-Agent` attribution for provider requests
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-LLM provider requests should identify the product making them. That is useful for provider-side support, abuse investigation, compatibility debugging, and traffic analytics. Before this RFC the harness only partially did this: the hand-rolled DeepSeek adapter sent a hand-copied `User-Agent` constant (`packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts`), while the pi-ai-backed twin sent no harness-owned headers at all (`packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts`). New adapters could therefore omit attribution silently, and a library-backed adapter could drift from the hand-rolled adapter even though [the twin-adapter RFC](2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) exists to keep the provider seam honest across both implementations.
+LLM provider requests should identify the product making them. That is useful for provider-side support, abuse investigation, compatibility debugging, and traffic analytics. Before this Agent Note the harness only partially did this: the hand-rolled DeepSeek adapter sent a hand-copied `User-Agent` constant (`packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts`), while the pi-ai-backed twin sent no harness-owned headers at all (`packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts`). New adapters could therefore omit attribution silently, and a library-backed adapter could drift from the hand-rolled adapter even though [the twin-adapter Agent Note](2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) exists to keep the provider seam honest across both implementations.
 
 The immediate prompt came from OpenRouter's [App Attribution](https://openrouter.ai/docs/app-attribution) docs. OpenRouter creates app pages and rankings from `HTTP-Referer` plus display/category headers. That is valuable, but it is not the HTTP standard for application identity. The risk is adopting OpenRouter's exact header set as if it were universal, then leaking provider-specific headers to direct DeepSeek requests, future OpenAI/Anthropic/Vertex adapters, test servers, or proxies that log unknown fields indefinitely.
 
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ The immediate prompt came from OpenRouter's [App Attribution](https://openrouter
 
 Provider request attribution is mandatory at the LLM adapter boundary, using the standard `User-Agent` header only. The rule: every product LLM adapter sends a static, non-secret application identity on every provider HTTP request, and every adapter has tests proving that `User-Agent` reaches the wire (a mock server asserting received headers; for a library-backed adapter, the library's header hook feeding the same mock-server assertion).
 
-Do **not** implement OpenRouter app attribution in this RFC. `HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, and `X-OpenRouter-Categories` are OpenRouter-specific product-surface headers, not provider-neutral model-request attribution. They can be proposed later by an OpenRouter adapter or explicit OpenRouter mode, with its own privacy/product decision, tests, and docs. Until then, even requests pointed at OpenRouter send only the shared `User-Agent` attribution from this RFC.
+Do **not** implement OpenRouter app attribution in this Agent Note. `HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, and `X-OpenRouter-Categories` are OpenRouter-specific product-surface headers, not provider-neutral model-request attribution. They can be proposed later by an OpenRouter adapter or explicit OpenRouter mode, with its own privacy/product decision, tests, and docs. Until then, even requests pointed at OpenRouter send only the shared `User-Agent` attribution from this Agent Note.
 
 The provider-neutral identity is owned by `dsh-llm` (`packages/llm/llm/src/attribution.ts`), not by individual adapters. `AppIdentity` contains only public product facts needed to build `User-Agent`, and the default `APP_IDENTITY` settles the values the proposal left open:
 
-- product token for `User-Agent`: `deepseek-harness` (continuity with the pre-RFC wire value and the repo/org identity)
+- product token for `User-Agent`: `deepseek-harness` (continuity with the pre-Agent Note wire value and the repo/org identity)
 - version: read from the owning package's manifest via `createRequire`, never a hand-copied constant
 - app URL: `https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness-sdk` - the planned public home; a `FIXME` in `attribution.ts` blocks release until that repository actually exists
 
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ Wire mapping (`attributionHeaders`; header names lowercase in code - HTTP field
 |---|---|
 | All HTTP-based adapters | `User-Agent: {product}/{version} (+{url})` - the parenthesized `+url` comment stays within RFC 9110's conservative product/comment syntax. |
 | Direct DeepSeek endpoint | `User-Agent`; do not send OpenRouter-only headers unless DeepSeek documents an equivalent contract. |
-| OpenRouter endpoints | `User-Agent` only for now. Do not send `HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, or `X-OpenRouter-Categories` under this RFC. |
-| Future providers | `User-Agent` only unless a later provider-specific RFC accepts additional headers. Do not reuse `HTTP-Referer` by analogy. |
+| OpenRouter endpoints | `User-Agent` only for now. Do not send `HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, or `X-OpenRouter-Categories` under this Agent Note. |
+| Future providers | `User-Agent` only unless a later provider-specific Agent Note accepts additional headers. Do not reuse `HTTP-Referer` by analogy. |
 
-Endpoint detection is not part of this RFC because no endpoint-specific mapping is accepted here. If OpenRouter support lands later, detection must be explicit: either a dedicated OpenRouter provider package or an explicit `provider: 'openrouter'` / `attributionTarget: 'openrouter'` config, not arbitrary path fragments or model names.
+Endpoint detection is not part of this Agent Note because no endpoint-specific mapping is accepted here. If OpenRouter support lands later, detection must be explicit: either a dedicated OpenRouter provider package or an explicit `provider: 'openrouter'` / `attributionTarget: 'openrouter'` config, not arbitrary path fragments or model names.
 
 ## Verification
 
@@ -53,19 +53,19 @@ The landed contract:
 - A shared helper (`attributionHeaders` / `userAgent`) constructs the app identity and the standard `User-Agent` value from package metadata, so adapters do not hand-copy version constants.
 - `dsh-llm-deepseek` sends the shared `User-Agent` on every request and its mock-server suite asserts the exact value.
 - `dsh-llm-pi-ai` sends the same `User-Agent` through pi-ai's `StreamOptions.headers` hook and its mock-server suite asserts the exact value.
-- No adapter sends OpenRouter-specific attribution headers (`HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, `X-OpenRouter-Categories`) as part of this RFC.
+- No adapter sends OpenRouter-specific attribution headers (`HTTP-Referer`, `X-OpenRouter-Title`, `X-Title`, `X-OpenRouter-Categories`) as part of this Agent Note.
 - No app-attribution field carries secrets, local paths, session ids, prompt text, model output, user email, or per-user stable identifiers.
 - The adapter READMEs state the `User-Agent` attribution policy and explicitly avoid documenting OpenRouter app attribution as implemented behavior.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-**OpenRouter app attribution now.** Rejected for this RFC. Sending `HTTP-Referer` plus `X-OpenRouter-Title` would satisfy OpenRouter rankings, but those headers are a provider-specific product feature, not the provider-neutral model-request attribution this RFC is trying to standardize. Supporting them should be an explicit OpenRouter adapter/mode decision later, not hidden inside the first shared attribution helper.
+**OpenRouter app attribution now.** Rejected for this Agent Note. Sending `HTTP-Referer` plus `X-OpenRouter-Title` would satisfy OpenRouter rankings, but those headers are a provider-specific product feature, not the provider-neutral model-request attribution this Agent Note is trying to standardize. Supporting them should be an explicit OpenRouter adapter/mode decision later, not hidden inside the first shared attribution helper.
 
 **OpenRouter headers everywhere.** Rejected. It would treat a custom OpenRouter contract as a universal standard and send fields with misleading semantics to providers that did not ask for them. It also risks using `HTTP-Referer` as a generic app URL field even though standard HTTP already has `User-Agent` for product identity and `Referer` for a different browsing-context concept.
 
 **Only provider account/project identity.** Rejected. Organization/project headers, API keys, cloud accounts, and billing projects identify who pays or owns the request, not which application is sending traffic. They also expose no public app title/category and do not help gateways like OpenRouter build app rankings.
 
-**End-user `user`/`metadata` fields.** Rejected for this RFC. Those are valuable for abuse monitoring and customer support but describe the human or tenant behind a request. App attribution must be static product identity and safe to send on every request.
+**End-user `user`/`metadata` fields.** Rejected for this Agent Note. Those are valuable for abuse monitoring and customer support but describe the human or tenant behind a request. App attribution must be static product identity and safe to send on every request.
 
 **Config-only opt-in attribution.** Rejected. A default-off setting is exactly how adapters keep drifting. The policy is mandatory default attribution with overrideable public values, not optional attribution.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-24-web-capability-seam.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Web capability seam - stable tools over multiple providers
+# Agent Note: Web capability seam - stable tools over multiple providers
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ There is also a provider-selection question. Existing `tool-bash` and `tool-fs`
 
 ## Decision
 
-Web access is a first-class capability seam following [the capability-seam RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md):
+Web access is a first-class capability seam following [the capability-seam Agent Note](2026-06-13-capability-seams.md):
 
 1. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-web` (`packages/web/web`) owns `ctx.web`, provider registration, provider selection, shared request/result vocabulary, and web-specific errors.
 2. Provider packages implement concrete backends and register capabilities with `ctx.web`, for example `@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-exa`, `@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-perplexity`, `@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-deepseek`, and `@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-fetch-local`.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Search and fetch are separate tools but one web-access seam. `ctx.web` owns prov
 
 This keeps the model schema stable without making plugin load order, credential state, or HMR timing part of the model-facing contract. If web search is enabled but no usable search provider exists, `web_search` remains visible and execution fails with a structured `WebError` such as `WEB_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE` or `WEB_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED_UNAVAILABLE`. If a provider appears after `dsh-tool-web`, the next execution can use it without changing the schema. If a provider disappears mid-call, execution fails with a structured `WebError` instead of silently choosing another provider or falling through to `UNKNOWN_TOOL`.
 
-The seam deliberately exposes no observation surface — no registry-change event and no aggregated capability-status query. Unavailability is a fact a caller observes by executing: `search()`/`fetch()` resolve the provider at call time and throw the structured `WebError` that names what failed. [The observation-surface RFC](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-unconsumed-web-observation-surface.md) records that judgment: derived-on-call selection and enablement-based registration leave no consumer that needs a change signal or an availability probe distinct from executing and routing the error, and a future provider-status panel reintroduces the smallest signal or query it actually consumes.
+The seam deliberately exposes no observation surface — no registry-change event and no aggregated capability-status query. Unavailability is a fact a caller observes by executing: `search()`/`fetch()` resolve the provider at call time and throw the structured `WebError` that names what failed. [The observation-surface Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-unconsumed-web-observation-surface.md) records that judgment: derived-on-call selection and enablement-based registration leave no consumer that needs a change signal or an availability probe distinct from executing and routing the error, and a future provider-status panel reintroduces the smallest signal or query it actually consumes.
 
 ## Package topology
 
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Tool execution lets these errors flow through `ToolRegistry.execute()`, which al
 
 ## Testing
 
-Each layer is pinned at its own seam: the registry/selection/truncation/abort contract and the `WebError` codes in `dsh-web`; per-provider request/response mapping over recorded fixtures (Perplexity fixtures include URL-only citations so the optional source fields stay honest) plus a self-skipping with-key smoke per real provider; real local-HTTP behavior in `web-fetch-local`; and enablement-driven registration, structured execution errors, and result formatting through the real tool registry in `dsh-tool-web`. A real-Loader smoke guards the two export shapes ([postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)): `dsh-web` is a default-exported service, while the providers and `tool-web` are namespace plugins where a stray `export default` would drop `inject`.
+Each layer is pinned at its own seam: the registry/selection/truncation/abort contract and the `WebError` codes in `dsh-web`; per-provider request/response mapping over recorded fixtures (Perplexity fixtures include URL-only citations so the optional source fields stay honest) plus a self-skipping with-key smoke per real provider; real local-HTTP behavior in `web-fetch-local`; and enablement-driven registration, structured execution errors, and result formatting through the real tool registry in `dsh-tool-web`. A real-Loader smoke guards the two export shapes ([postmortem 0001](../../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)): `dsh-web` is a default-exported service, while the providers and `tool-web` are namespace plugins where a stray `export default` would drop `inject`.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Make `dsh-fs-policy` an event-gate plugin, not a method interface
+# Agent Note: Make `dsh-fs-policy` an event-gate plugin, not a method interface
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-[The split-fs-seam RFC](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) put `ctx.fileContext` between the model-facing tools and the `ctx.fs` provider: `dsh-tool-fs` injects `fileContext` and routes every `read`/`write`/`edit` through its methods. That makes `fileContext` **in-path and mandatory**. The tool cannot reach `ctx.fs` without it, the policy layer owns the fs I/O and the read windowing, and a deployment that does not want observed-state policy cannot simply drop the package — `dsh-tool-fs` would fail to resolve `ctx.fileContext`.
+[The split-fs-seam Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) put `ctx.fileContext` between the model-facing tools and the `ctx.fs` provider: `dsh-tool-fs` injects `fileContext` and routes every `read`/`write`/`edit` through its methods. That makes `fileContext` **in-path and mandatory**. The tool cannot reach `ctx.fs` without it, the policy layer owns the fs I/O and the read windowing, and a deployment that does not want observed-state policy cannot simply drop the package — `dsh-tool-fs` would fail to resolve `ctx.fileContext`.
 
 This couples three things that should be separable:
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Both mutations are still atomic (the backend's per-target lock is unconditional)
 
 ## Supersedes
 
-This amends — does not reverse — [the split-fs-seam RFC](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md). The four-layer split, the provider contract, and the freshness *policy* are all kept. What changes is the **coupling between the tool and the policy layer**: a mandatory method service became a plugin-owned event gate, and the fs I/O + read windowing moved from `fileContext` up into `dsh-tool-fs`. The split-fs-seam RFC's description of `dsh-tool-fs` injecting `fileContext` and of `fileContext` owning `read`/`write`/`edit` was updated to match in the same change.
+This amends — does not reverse — [the split-fs-seam Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md). The four-layer split, the provider contract, and the freshness *policy* are all kept. What changes is the **coupling between the tool and the policy layer**: a mandatory method service became a plugin-owned event gate, and the fs I/O + read windowing moved from `fileContext` up into `dsh-tool-fs`. The split-fs-seam Agent Note's description of `dsh-tool-fs` injecting `fileContext` and of `fileContext` owning `read`/`write`/`edit` was updated to match in the same change.
 
 ## Verification
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Tests pin both paths: without `dsh-fs-policy`, the root tool plugin boots agains
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-- **Keep `ctx.fileContext` as an in-path method service** — the shape [the split-fs-seam RFC](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) first landed; rejected because the tool could not run without the policy layer, making policy load-bearing for basic operation instead of an opt-in tightening.
+- **Keep `ctx.fileContext` as an in-path method service** — the shape [the split-fs-seam Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) first landed; rejected because the tool could not run without the policy layer, making policy load-bearing for basic operation instead of an opt-in tightening.
 - **Policy-side version checking** (`dsh-fs-policy` stats and compares in its waterfall handler) — rejected for the TOCTOU gap between that check and the tool's actual write; the provider's mutation critical section is the only race-free place, so the policy only chooses the CAS basis and gates on prior observation.
 - **Per-tool `/read`/`/write`/`/edit` subpath plugins** — dropped on implementation: no consumer needed a single-tool deployment, and subpath publishing forced bespoke `tsdown`/`tsconfig`/`files`/workspace-constraint handling no sibling tool package carries; the per-tool registration helpers remain internal modules the root plugin composes.
 
@@ -164,6 +164,6 @@ Tests pin both paths: without `dsh-fs-policy`, the root tool plugin boots agains
 
 - **Event indirection over a method call.** A waterfall + emit is less direct than `await ctx.fileContext.edit(...)`. The payoff is removing the tool-to-policy method dependency while keeping the default policy plugin; the cost is one more event vocabulary to learn. Mitigated by keeping the three events narrow and documenting the default-thunk semantics on each.
 - **Policy events in the storage seam.** `dsh-fs` gains two version-decision events plus a recording event though it is "just storage". This is the price of decoupling (the emitter cannot depend on the policy plugin). The events carry only `dsh-fs` vocabulary plus an opaque `object` actor and no model-facing concepts, so the seam stays free of line-window/observation policy types and of the agent/session owner structure.
-- **Single policy occupant, first-wins by convention.** The `fs/write-intent`/`fs/edit-intent` slots hold exactly one decider; the first-registered (or `prepend`ed) listener wins and the rest are short-circuited. `dsh-fs-policy` owning the slot is a deployment convention, not an event-enforced invariant — a second decider registered first would bypass it. This is acceptable because a second fs-version-policy decider is a misconfiguration, not a feature. If a future need for *layered* fs version policy appears, it is a new RFC (a composable value-passing seam), not a silent second listener on these events. Layered permission/audit/sandbox interception already has its home on `tools/execute`.
+- **Single policy occupant, first-wins by convention.** The `fs/write-intent`/`fs/edit-intent` slots hold exactly one decider; the first-registered (or `prepend`ed) listener wins and the rest are short-circuited. `dsh-fs-policy` owning the slot is a deployment convention, not an event-enforced invariant — a second decider registered first would bypass it. This is acceptable because a second fs-version-policy decider is a misconfiguration, not a feature. If a future need for *layered* fs version policy appears, it is a new Agent Note (a composable value-passing seam), not a silent second listener on these events. Layered permission/audit/sandbox interception already has its home on `tools/execute`.
 - **Dropping the post-read confirming stat** makes a follow-up *guarded* edit occasionally fail-closed (`FS_STALE_VERSION` → re-read) under a read/write race. This is a UX nicety lost, never a correctness hole; the provider lock still prevents wrong-version writes.
 - **The bare provider does no read-before-write/edit and no version check.** A deployment without `dsh-fs-policy` lets the model overwrite or edit any existing file unconditionally. This is the deliberate meaning of keeping the tool independent of a policy service: the safety disciplines live in the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin. A deployment that omits it is opting into an unconstrained filesystem on purpose; that is not the intended stance for a config that ships the fs tools.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-bash-stdin-env-trusted-plugin-surface.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-bash-stdin-env-trusted-plugin-surface.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# RFC: stdin + extra env on the bash seam
+# Agent Note: stdin + extra env on the bash seam
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The hooks subsystem runs external hook commands the way Claude Code and Codex do: a hook is a shell command that receives its event payload as **JSON on stdin** and reads context from a handful of **environment variables** (`CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR`, `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`, `PLUGIN_ROOT`, …). The harness already has a perfectly good command runner behind the `ctx.bash` capability seam ([dsh-bash](../../../../packages/bash/bash) → [dsh-bash-local](../../../../packages/bash/bash-local)), with process-group kills, output truncation/spill, and a credential scrub. Reusing it for hook execution means a hook bridge does not re-implement subprocess plumbing — but the seam had no way to write stdin or set extra env. This RFC adds those two inputs.
+The hooks subsystem runs external hook commands the way Claude Code and Codex do: a hook is a shell command that receives its event payload as **JSON on stdin** and reads context from a handful of **environment variables** (`CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR`, `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`, `PLUGIN_ROOT`, …). The harness already has a perfectly good command runner behind the `ctx.bash` capability seam ([dsh-bash](../../../../packages/bash/bash) → [dsh-bash-local](../../../../packages/bash/bash-local)), with process-group kills, output truncation/spill, and a credential scrub. Reusing it for hook execution means a hook bridge does not re-implement subprocess plumbing — but the seam had no way to write stdin or set extra env. This Agent Note adds those two inputs.
 
-`stdin` and `env` do not create a new model capability because ordinary shell syntax already supplies both. Ambient credentials are protected by `dsh-bash-local`'s child-environment scrub, not by hiding these seam fields; model tool arguments are static JSON and do not expand shell variables. The fields therefore serve trusted in-process callers, such as hook bridges, that need to pass structured input and `CLAUDE_*` variables without embedding them in model-visible shell text. See [defensive-patterns.md](../../../defensive-patterns.md) for the ambient-environment rule.
+`stdin` and `env` do not create a new model capability because ordinary shell syntax already supplies both. Ambient credentials are protected by `dsh-bash-local`'s child-environment scrub, not by hiding these seam fields; model tool arguments are static JSON and do not expand shell variables. The fields therefore serve trusted in-process callers, such as hook bridges, that need to pass structured input and `CLAUDE_*` variables without embedding them in model-visible shell text. See [defensive-patterns.md](../../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md) for the ambient-environment rule.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Add `stdin?: string` and `env?: Record<string, string>` to **both** `BashExecReq
 
 Three deliberate choices:
 
-1. **The model-facing tool omits `stdin` and `env`.** Shell syntax already covers those needs, so duplicate parameters would add surface without authority separation. The tool builds requests only from declared model arguments, signal, and owner; trusted in-process callers may set the seam fields directly.
+1. **The model-facing tool omits `stdin` and `env`.** Shell syntax already covers those needs, so duplicate parameters would add surface without authority separation. The tool builds requests only from declared model arguments, signal, and owner; trusted in-process callers may set the seam fields directly. Harness-owned variables use the separate `dshEnv` channel from the [managed environment decision](../feature/2026-07-10-agent-session-identity-and-log-location.md), so ordinary `env` cannot replace them.
 
-2. **`env` merges AFTER the credential scrub, so an explicit caller entry always wins** — even a credential-shaped name. This is correct because the scrub's job is narrow: stop the harness's *ambient* `process.env` credentials from leaking into a spawned command. A caller that explicitly sets a var has named a value it already holds (not the ambient secret), so the scrub is not a constraint on it. `childEnv(extra?)` layers `scrub(process.env)` → `ENV_OVERRIDES` (the model-friendly `TERM=dumb` etc.) → `extra`, last-wins.
+2. **`env` merges AFTER the credential scrub, so an explicit caller entry wins even on a credential-shaped name.** The later managed-namespace decision reserves `DSH_*`: ambient entries are removed, ordinary `env` cannot set them, and trusted `dshEnv` merges last. The complete order is `scrub(process.env, including DSH_*)` → `ENV_OVERRIDES` → ordinary `env` → `dshEnv`.
 
 3. **`stdin`/`env` are required-absent-OK (plain optional) on the resolved spec, NOT required-but-nullable like `owner`.** `owner` is required-but-nullable because a *silently* missing owner yields an unowned, cross-session-readable task — a security footgun that a visible `undefined` guards against. `stdin`/`env` have no such hazard: a missing one means "no stdin / no extra env", which is the safe, ordinary case (every model-driven call). So they stay plain optionals, matching `signal`.
 
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ Three deliberate choices:
 
 ## Consequences
 
-Hook bridges pass JSON payloads and hook-specific variables through the existing bash seam, retaining its process-group, truncation, and spill behavior. The model surface remains unchanged, and the bash tool remains the sole owner of model-call request construction. The vocabulary lives in [the bash data-structure reference](../../../core-data-structures/bash.md).
+Hook bridges pass JSON payloads and hook-specific variables through the existing bash seam, retaining its process-group, truncation, and spill behavior. The model surface remains unchanged, and the bash tool remains the sole owner of model-call request construction. The vocabulary lives in [the bash data-structure reference](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/bash.md).

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Event-domain semantics — session is the fact log, agent is the live surface
+# Agent Note: Event-domain semantics — session is the fact log, agent is the live surface
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The harness extends the agent loop through a Cordis event taxonomy (see [the microkernel event-taxonomy RFC](2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md)). As that taxonomy grew, the line between the three event domains blurred:
+The harness extends the agent loop through a Cordis event taxonomy (see [the microkernel event-taxonomy Agent Note](2026-06-11-microkernel-event-taxonomy.md)). As that taxonomy grew, the line between the three event domains blurred:
 
 - `session/*` carries the durable, event-sourced log (`SessionEventMap`).
 - `agent/*` carries live runtime signals that hand a plugin the `Agent` handle.
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ This vocabulary is the foundation for interception decisions, the durable `hook/
 
 **The boundary rule:** a durable, replayable fact is a `SessionEvent`; a live interception or a transient/live-object signal is an `agent`/`tools` Cordis event. A turn or step boundary is a durable fact, so it lives in the session log and is read off the `session/event` feed — it is NOT mirrored as an `agent/*` emit.
 
-**Applying the rule to the boundary twins:** all four boundary mirrors — `agent/turn-start`, `agent/turn-end`, `agent/step-start`, `agent/step-end` — are **REMOVED**. No production consumer needs the live `Agent` at a boundary: the ACP bridge settles from `session/event` `turn/end` plus `agent/status`, and the only turn-mirror consumer (`dsh-ui-stdio`, a disposable test REPL) was migrated to render boundaries from `session/event`, recovering the short agent label from an `agent/created`→id map. The step mirrors were removed first (they had no consumer at all); the turn mirrors followed once ui-stdio was migrated — see [the remove-boundary-mirror-events RFC](../simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md), which owns that decision. Removing the emits also simplifies the loop's `closeStep`/`closeTurn` (one append each, no paired emit).
+**Applying the rule to the boundary twins:** all four boundary mirrors — `agent/turn-start`, `agent/turn-end`, `agent/step-start`, `agent/step-end` — are **REMOVED**. No production consumer needs the live `Agent` at a boundary: the ACP bridge settles from `session/event` `turn/end` plus `agent/status`, and the only turn-mirror consumer (`dsh-ui-stdio`, a disposable test REPL) renders boundaries from `session/event` while retaining its live target object for the fixed `main` label. The step mirrors were removed first (they had no consumer at all); the turn mirrors followed once ui-stdio was migrated — see [the remove-boundary-mirror-events Agent Note](../simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md), which owns that decision. Removing the emits also simplifies the loop's `closeStep`/`closeTurn` (one append each, no paired emit).
 
 ## Consequences
 
 - The loop no longer emits any boundary mirror; `closeStep` appends `step/end` only and `closeTurn` appends `turn/end` only. `Session.append` owns post-commit observer containment, so a throwing boundary observer cannot change the turn outcome or starve later consumers; an acceptance or internal validation failure still escapes before the boundary enters the log.
 - Tests that observed boundaries via the removed emits now observe the durable `turn/start`/`turn/end`/`step/start`/`step/end` session events — the behavior they pin (boundary ordering, step counting) is unchanged; only the feed they read moved to the canonical one. The tests that exercised a *throwing turn-boundary emit listener* were deleted, because that code path no longer exists (there is no emit to throw from). Per [AGENTS.md "tests document behavior, not golden truth"](../../../../AGENTS.md), the behavior and its test moved (or died) together.
 - The loop marks the step open (`stepOpen = true`) only after `append('step/start')` returns. Internal dispatch validation runs before the log push and may reject without opening a step; post-commit `session/event` observer failures are contained inside `Session.append`. The marker therefore represents exactly the committed boundary that owes a later `step/end`.
-- The full realization of this is [the simplification RFC "Stop mirroring durable boundaries as agent events"](../simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md): all four boundary mirrors are removed and every consumer reads boundaries off `session/event`. `agent/steering` (not a boundary mirror) stayed outside that RFC's scope and was removed by its own follow-up, [Remove the `agent/steering` mirror emit](../simplification/2026-07-04-remove-agent-steering-mirror.md) — it mirrored the durable `steering/message`.
+- The full realization of this is [the simplification Agent Note "Stop mirroring durable boundaries as agent events"](../simplification/2026-06-20-remove-agent-boundary-mirror-events.md): all four boundary mirrors are removed and every consumer reads boundaries off `session/event`. `agent/steering` (not a boundary mirror) stayed outside that Agent Note's scope and was removed by its own follow-up, [Remove the `agent/steering` mirror emit](../simplification/2026-07-04-remove-agent-steering-mirror.md) — it mirrored the durable `steering/message`.
 - The cordis events catalog (`docs/cordis-catalog/events.md`) is regenerated to drop the mirror events.
 
-<!-- rfc-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format RFC) -->
+<!-- agent-note-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format Agent Note) -->

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-fs-per-session-cwd.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-fs-per-session-cwd.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Resolve filesystem paths against the caller's session cwd
+# Agent Note: Resolve filesystem paths against the caller's session cwd
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The ACP bridge gives every session its own workspace: `session/new` records the editor's project directory as `SessionHeader.cwd`, and `dsh-tool-bash` defaults each bash call's `workdir` to the calling agent's `session.header.cwd` (see [the per-session cwd RFC work in `packages/ui/acp`](../../../../packages/ui/acp) and `resolveWorkdir` in `dsh-tool-bash`). So a bash command in session A runs in A's project, and in session B runs in B's — one server process, N workspaces.
+The ACP bridge gives every session its own workspace: `session/new` records the editor's project directory as `SessionHeader.cwd`, and `dsh-tool-bash` defaults each bash call's `workdir` to the calling agent's `session.header.cwd` (see [the per-session cwd Agent Note work in `packages/ui/acp`](../../../../packages/ui/acp) and `resolveWorkdir` in `dsh-tool-bash`). So a bash command in session A runs in A's project, and in session B runs in B's — one server process, N workspaces.
 
 Filesystem resolution used one plugin-load cwd while bash used the session project directory. Relative paths therefore disagreed whenever the editor project differed from the server launch directory; snapshots hid the bug by making those paths identical.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-result-time-applied-hunk-diffs.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-result-time-applied-hunk-diffs.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Result-time applied-hunk diffs for file mutations
+# Agent Note: Result-time applied-hunk diffs for file mutations
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -54,6 +54,6 @@ Per the [capability-seam split](2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), the storage bac
 
 ## Related
 
-- Completes the one remaining representation difference named as a non-goal in [Tagged render-intent union](2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md) — that RFC's Non-goals section is updated to record that applied-hunk diffs shipped here.
+- Completes the one remaining representation difference named as a non-goal in [Tagged render-intent union](2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md) — that Agent Note's Non-goals section is updated to record that applied-hunk diffs shipped here.
 - Builds on the [filesystem capability seam](2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md) (the before/after are storage facts the backend returns) and [event-sourced sessions](2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md) (the `meta` payload persists on the `tool/result` event, so replay reproduces the card).
 - The `meta` channel is deliberately generic: a future tool (a structured search, a data-table result) can attach its own durable result presentation without another core change.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Tagged render-intent union for tool-call presentation
+# Agent Note: Tagged render-intent union for tool-call presentation
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ A tool declares how its calls render in a UI (an editor's tool-call card) throug
 - Which combinations are *valid* is unwritten: a `terminal` call that also sets `content` means "description above the card"; a generic call that sets `terminal` is meaningless but representable. The type permits nonsense.
 - There is no way to express the one file-tool affordance an editor most wants — a **diff card** (`{path, oldText, newText}`, which Zed renders as an inline diff / new-file preview). `ToolCallPresentation.content` is the *LLM* `ContentBlock[]` vocabulary (text/image), so a tool literally cannot ask for a diff.
 
-The existing `FIXME(tool-presentation)` in `packages/core/tools/src/index.ts` named the fix: "redesign the type so a tool declares its render INTENT once (e.g. a tagged union over card kinds) rather than a bag of optional fields the bridge stitches together." The rejected RFC [Collapse tool-owned UI presentation](../../rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-generic-tool-rendering.md) deferred it explicitly: rich rendering "should return later as a tagged render-intent union after there are at least two real tools and two real consumers to validate the vocabulary." That bar is now met — two producer families (`dsh-tool-bash`, `dsh-tool-fs`) and two consumers (the ACP bridge live path + the snapshot-golden replay path).
+The existing `FIXME(tool-presentation)` in `packages/core/tools/src/index.ts` named the fix: "redesign the type so a tool declares its render INTENT once (e.g. a tagged union over card kinds) rather than a bag of optional fields the bridge stitches together." The rejected Agent Note [Collapse tool-owned UI presentation](../../rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-generic-tool-rendering.md) deferred it explicitly: rich rendering "should return later as a tagged render-intent union after there are at least two real tools and two real consumers to validate the vocabulary." That bar is now met — two producer families (`dsh-tool-bash`, `dsh-tool-fs`) and two consumers (the ACP bridge live path + the snapshot replay path).
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ A new render intent is a compile-breaking change at the bridge switch — delibe
 
 ## Non-goals
 
-- **Live incremental `terminal_output_delta` streaming** and **command classification** — the terminal-rendering RFC's own deferred follow-ups, untouched here.
+- **Live incremental `terminal_output_delta` streaming** and **command classification** — the terminal-rendering Agent Note's own deferred follow-ups, untouched here.
 
 ## Related
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-03-filesystem-directory-listing-seam.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-03-filesystem-directory-listing-seam.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Add direct directory listing to the filesystem seam
+# Agent Note: Add direct directory listing to the filesystem seam
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Prompt variables and tool-guidance ownership
+# Agent Note: Prompt variables and tool-guidance ownership
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ The assembled system prompt had four defects, all of one family: facts the harne
 
 **The model could not know its own name.** `AgentOptions.model` drives every request, but no prompt text carried it — and nothing COULD carry it: sections in `dsh-system-prompt` were context-global while the model name is per-agent, and `assemble()` took no per-agent input at all.
 
-**Tool guidance was hand-written prose in leaf YAML.** The bash/subagent/todo_write usage guidance lived in the `systemPrompt` strings of `examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml` and `examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml` — two drifting copies (the ACP one was already abridged) — while `dsh-tool-fs` and `dsh-tool-web` owned their guidance as `ctx.systemPrompt.section()` contributions. Loading or dropping a tool plugin meant editing every deployment's persona by hand; both YAMLs carried a `FIXME(config-comments)` apologizing for a symptom of the split, and the stdio welcome banner hand-enumerated the tool set too.
+**Tool guidance was hand-written prose in leaf YAML.** The bash/subagent/todo_write usage guidance lived in the `systemPrompt` strings of `examples/repl-agent/cordis.yml` and `examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml` — two drifting copies (the ACP one was already abridged) — while `dsh-tool-fs` and `dsh-tool-web` owned their guidance as `ctx.systemPrompt.section()` contributions. Loading or dropping a tool plugin meant editing every deployment's persona by hand; both YAMLs carried a `FIXME(config-comments)` apologizing for a symptom of the split, and the stdio welcome banner hand-enumerated the tool set too.
 
-**The persona rendered after tool guidance.** The loop string-joined `agent.options.systemPrompt` AFTER the assembled sections, so the model read "Use the read tool…" before "You are coding-agent" — backwards relative to the identity-first convention (Claude Code, Codex) and a second composition path besides the section pipeline.
+**The persona rendered after tool guidance.** The loop string-joined `agent.options.systemPrompt` AFTER the assembled sections, so the model read "Use the read tool…" before "You are a coding agent" — backwards relative to the identity-first convention (Claude Code, Codex) and a second composition path besides the section pipeline.
 
 **The fork tool's description was false.** `dsh-tool-subagent` hardcoded one description written for spawn semantics — "a separate agent that works in its own context … it does not see this conversation" — and the `subagent_fork` instance (whose child inherits the parent's completed turns) got the same words; the YAML prose corrected the lie out-of-band. Minor kin: `PromptSection.name` was documented "(diagnostics / dedup)" but duplicates were silently accepted.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Plugins register `{{name}}` values through `ctx.systemPrompt.variable(name, prov
 
 ### Persona as the order-0 section
 
-`dsh-system-prompt` owns `harness:identity` at order `-100` and the configured `deployment:persona` at order 0, so both survive a replacement loop. Prompt rendering has one path, `renderPrompt(assembly)`, and `agent/pre-step` therefore measures the exact prompt used for compaction. An agent-scoped `deployment:persona` shadows the global default and lets subagent providers install a persona before publication. The conventional order bands are identity `-100`, persona `0`, and tool guidance `100–199`.
+`dsh-system-prompt` owns `harness:identity` at order `-100` and the configured `deployment:persona` at order 0, so both survive a replacement loop. Prompt rendering has one path, `renderPrompt(assembly)`, and the routed request header therefore records the exact prompt later replayed by `ctx.tokenMeter` for compaction pressure. An agent-scoped `deployment:persona` shadows the global default and lets subagent providers install a persona before publication. The conventional order bands are identity `-100`, persona `0`, and tool guidance `100–199`.
 
 ### Tool guidance ownership
 
@@ -38,16 +38,16 @@ Per-tool semantics and selection guidance live in tool descriptions. Prompt sect
 
 ### The subagent conversation-history descriptor
 
-`SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext` describes conversation seeding, not scope, services, tools, or authority. Spawn and ACP set it to `false`; fork sets it to `true`. `dsh-tool-subagent` derives its tool and prompt-parameter descriptions from the flag, including that fork inherits completed turns but not the in-flight turn. Provider lifecycle events keep that wording synchronized with reactive provider registration; their rationale lives in the [provider-lifecycle-events RFC](2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md).
+`SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext` describes conversation seeding, not scope, services, tools, or authority. Spawn and ACP set it to `false`; fork sets it to `true`. `dsh-tool-subagent` derives its tool and prompt-parameter descriptions from the flag, including that fork inherits completed turns but not the in-flight turn. Provider lifecycle events keep that wording synchronized with reactive provider registration; their rationale lives in the [provider-lifecycle-events Agent Note](2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md).
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **The loop composes an identity line itself** — hardcodes model-facing prose in the one package that must stay thin ("plugins, not loop changes"), and outside the section pipeline it would be a second composition path. (The identity DOES ship as a code literal — but as an ordinary section registered by `dsh-system-prompt`, whose `system-prompt/assemble` waterfall remains the escape valve for a deployment that must drop it.)
-- **Inject the model name via the `agent/request` waterfall** — prompt text composed in two places, and `agent/pre-step`'s `fullSystemPrompt` would omit it, so compaction would measure a prompt that is not what the model sees.
-- **Hand-write the model name in each persona** — duplicates the `model:` key one line above and silently lies after a config edit; the exact disease this RFC cures.
+- **Inject the model name via the `agent/request` waterfall** — prompt text would be composed in two places and the earlier rendered persona could disagree with the final routed header. The request plugin that owns late routing must also own any earlier prompt claim about that model.
+- **Hand-write the model name in each persona** — duplicates the `model:` key one line above and silently lies after a config edit; the exact disease this Agent Note cures.
 - **Lenient interpolation (leave unknown refs verbatim, or substitute empty)** — a typo ships `{{modle}}` (or a hole) to the model and nobody notices until transcript review.
 - **Per-instance subagent wording in config** — returns model-facing prose to every deployment × instance, the P2 disease again. **Keying wording off the provider NAME** — `providerName` is itself config, so a renamed provider silently gets the wrong words.
-- **Resolving the provider at `apply` time (a load-order requirement)** and **section-only subagent wording (lazily resolved at assemble)** — the alternatives to the provider-lifecycle events; both rejected in [the provider-lifecycle-events RFC](2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md).
+- **Resolving the provider at `apply` time (a load-order requirement)** and **section-only subagent wording (lazily resolved at assemble)** — the alternatives to the provider-lifecycle events; both rejected in [the provider-lifecycle-events Agent Note](2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md).
 
 ## Out of scope
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Per-tool semantics and selection guidance live in tool descriptions. Prompt sect
 
 ## Shipped invariants
 
-- The coding-agent prompt renders identity, persona with the interpolated model, then fs/bash/web guidance through one assembly path.
+- The repl-agent prompt renders identity, persona with the interpolated model, then fs/bash/web guidance through one assembly path.
 - Fork and fresh subagent descriptions reflect whether the provider inherits completed conversation turns; the tool appears, disappears, and is reworded with provider lifecycle changes.
 - Unknown, valueless, malformed, or unbalanced variable references name the section and throw; duplicate section, variable, and tool registrations also throw.
 - Snapshot replay is prompt-independent: it keys recorded chunk streams by turn and step without comparing the outgoing request.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Every LLM request is reconstructable from the session log
+# Agent Note: Every LLM request is reconstructable from the session log
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,25 +6,25 @@ Status: implemented
 
 The request pipeline did not guarantee prefix stability for provider caching, and the session log could not reconstruct what the model saw. It omitted model, system prompt, and tool schemas while allowing per-call request rewrites. Cache behavior and replay equivalence therefore depended on whichever plugins happened to be loaded.
 
-The reference shape for the happy path is MiniCode's `LLMClient`: a stateful conversation client, appended to — never rebuilt — as the conversation advances, resetting only when the system prompt, tool set, or compaction genuinely changes what the model must see. The design question this RFC answers is how to get that discipline without giving up event-sourcing.
+The reference shape for the happy path is MiniCode's `LLMClient`: a stateful conversation client, appended to — never rebuilt — as the conversation advances, resetting only when the system prompt, tool set, or compaction genuinely changes what the model must see. The design question this Agent Note answers is how to get that discipline without giving up event-sourcing.
 
 ## Decision
 
 ### The principle
 
-**Model-visible ⟺ logged.** Anything that reaches a model request must be recorded in the session log. The checkable consequence: **every conversation request the loop sends is a pure function of the session log** — anyone holding the log reconstructs it byte-for-byte. Scope, stated precisely: the guarantee covers the loop-built `GenerateOptions`; provider wire bytes follow from it because both adapters' serialization is a pure per-message function at a pinned code version; direct one-shots (compaction's summarize call) log their envelope scalars (`compact/summary.{model, maxTokens}`) and their input is deterministic code over the logged region — reconstructable from log + code, outside the invariant by the unfrozen-request marker.
+**Model-visible ⟺ logged.** Anything that reaches a model request must be recorded in the session log. The checkable consequence: **every conversation request the loop sends is a pure function of the session log** — anyone holding the log reconstructs it byte-for-byte. Scope, stated precisely: the guarantee covers the loop-built `GenerateOptions`; provider wire bytes follow from it because both adapters' serialization is a pure per-message function at a pinned code version; direct one-shots (compaction's summarize call) log their envelope scalars (`compact/summary.{provider, model, maxTokens}`) and their input is deterministic code over the logged region — reconstructable from log + code, outside the invariant by the unfrozen-request marker.
 
 Prefix-cache stability is corollary #1, not the headline: an append-only log projected by a per-node pure function yields requests that are append-extensions of their predecessors whenever the header is unchanged — stability is emergent, not managed. Byte-exact audit/replay is corollary #2; resume and fork with *attributable* drift is corollary #3.
 
 ### The mechanism
 
-**Messages.** `Session.deriveMessages()` is cached: each surface node is projected exactly once, when first seen, through the public per-node function `deriveEventMessage(event)`; a surface rewrite (a compaction `replace` — `SurfaceManager.replaceGeneration`) rebuilds. Callers get a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages: mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable (it throws), replacing the old clone-per-call isolation. External reconstructors fold the same public function over a log prefix, so no two paths can disagree.
+**Messages.** `Session.deriveMessages()` is cached: each surface entry is projected exactly once, when first seen, through the public per-event function `deriveEventMessage(event)`; a surface rewrite (a compaction `replace` — `SurfaceManager.replaceGeneration`) rebuilds. Callers get a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages: mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable (it throws), replacing the old clone-per-call isolation. External reconstructors fold the same public function over a log prefix, so no two paths can disagree.
 
-`EpochHeader` records the request's non-history state: call config, rendered system prompt, tool schemas, and session prefix, with empty values canonicalized to absence. `request/header` writes a full initial, resume, or fallback snapshot. `request/header-delta` encodes system changes by common-prefix/suffix line trim, tools by name-keyed additions/removals/changes, and config or prefix by full replacement. `foldRequestHeader`, `diffHeader`, and `applyHeaderDelta` are the pure codec. Each loop instance writes a snapshot on its first request to anchor process boundaries. Deltas are only an optimization: the writer verifies round-trip equality and falls back to a full snapshot for unrepresentable changes such as pure tool reordering.
+`EpochHeader` records the request's non-history state: call config, rendered system prompt, tool schemas, and session prefix, with empty values canonicalized to absence. `request/header` always writes a full snapshot: the first loop instance uses reason `initial`, later instances use `resume`, and an in-instance change uses `change`. `foldRequestHeader` selects the latest snapshot. Legacy `request/header-delta` events and the removed `fallback` reason are rejected when appended or loaded.
 
-Each step rebuilds prompt assembly. On the instance's first step, `agent/session-prefix` extends a frozen empty seed with request-only opener messages; the result is frozen and cached for that loop instance. `agent/pre-step` then receives the composed prefix before messages are snapshotted immediately ahead of `step/start`. The first call config starts from explicit `AgentOptions`, preserving fork overrides and resume reconfiguration; later calls start from the folded header. `agent/request` may replace only that frozen config seed, while model-visible content enters through logged channels. The loop records the owed header event—the prefix's only durable home—builds `GenerateOptions` from prefix, snapshot, and header, and deep-freezes it while leaving `AbortSignal` live. Per-instance state is only the cached prefix and whether its anchoring snapshot has been written.
+Each step rebuilds prompt assembly. On the instance's first step, `agent/session-prefix` extends a frozen empty seed with request-only opener messages; the result is frozen and cached for that loop instance before the generic `agent/pre-step` checkpoint and boundary snapshot. The first call config starts from explicit `AgentOptions`, preserving fork overrides and resume reconfiguration; later calls start from the folded header. `agent/request` may replace only that frozen config seed, while model-visible content enters through logged channels. The loop records the owed header event—the prefix's only durable home—builds `GenerateOptions` from prefix, snapshot, and header, and deep-freezes it while leaving `AbortSignal` live. Per-instance state is only the cached prefix and whether its anchoring snapshot has been written.
 
-**`step/start` is the reconstruction boundary.** A step derives messages from events before that sequence. Injection after the snapshot joins the next request, and reentrant appends are rejected during event publication. `agent/pre-step` is the seam for content needed by the current request. Header reconstruction folds through the step's own `request/header*` event, or carries the prior fold when no new header is written.
+**`step/start` is the reconstruction boundary.** A step derives messages from events before that sequence. Injection after the snapshot joins the next request, and reentrant appends are rejected during event publication. `agent/pre-step(agent, turn, step, signal)` remains the generic seam for content needed by the current request. Header reconstruction selects the step's `request/header`, or carries the prior snapshot when no new header is written.
 
 **Enforcement.** In development, `dsh-invariants` independently rebuilds each loop request through a fresh `Session`, so the live cache cannot vouch for itself, then compares messages and folded header fields at `llm/stream`. Loop requests are identified by their frozen shape and session id; direct one-shots are excluded. Correctness depends on sequence-bounded reconstruction rather than listener order. A with-key e2e requires positive cache-read tokens after the first request; per-step usage is the production signal, and a header change or compaction appears as a cache-read drop on the next step.
 
@@ -39,15 +39,16 @@ Like MiniCode, the conversation advances append-only and resets only when model-
 - **Per-call request scalars** (a freely mutable config handed to each `agent/request` dispatch): a listener flips the model per call with zero accounting, silently abandoning the provider cache this design exists to protect. Config is per-conversation logged state; the waterfall proposes, the log records.
 - **Detect-and-report** (compare consecutive requests, warn on divergence): catches violations after the fact; a violating request is still constructible and ships. Rejected for interface-level unrepresentability.
 - **Event-driven assembly** (re-render only on change signals): a missed-signal bug class — a tool registered mid-session emits `tools/change`, not `system-prompt/change`, and a third-party provider may emit nothing. Per-step render + value compare is robust with zero signal discipline.
-- **Narrative fields on the header events** (a `reason`/`changed` list on deltas): derivable by diffing consecutive events — one home per fact; snapshots carry a reason because an anchor's cause is NOT derivable from the data.
+- **A custom header-delta codec** (system line edits, name-keyed tool edits, whole config/prefix replacements): reduced repeated bytes but duplicated the representation and its diff/apply/fallback machinery. Full snapshots retain one replay representation.
+- **Narrative changed-field lists on header snapshots**: derivable by comparing consecutive snapshots. The `reason` remains because an instance boundary is not derivable from the snapshot values.
 
 ## Consequences
 
 - A request that is not explained by the log cannot be constructed by accident — not by the loop, not by a listener; mutating a built request throws; every header change is a durable, diffable log event.
 - Choosing between the advisory channels is a change-frequency decision, and the design makes the stable one structural: an `agent/session-prefix` contribution is composed once per loop instance and reused verbatim, so it extends the cacheable prefix at zero marginal cost and CANNOT bust the provider cache mid-session; content that changes mid-session flows through the append-only history channels — `agent.inject()` and tool/prompt-submit `additionalContexts` — each a durable `context/message` paid once and prefix-cached thereafter, at the price of accumulating in history and the log. Route session-frozen openers to the prefix and change notices to the history channels; a per-step request-only tail slot was deliberately dropped (no consumer, and a durable append covers every current update pattern).
-- What still costs full price at the provider is inherent and logged: compaction (its `compact/*` events and replace node), a real prompt/tool change (`request/header-delta`), a config switch (ditto), a process boundary with drift (`'resume'` snapshot differing from its predecessor). The provider's own reasoning-content exclusion is managed server-side.
+- What still costs full price at the provider is inherent and logged: compaction (its `compact/*` events and replacement entry), a real prompt, tool, or config change (`request/header` with reason `change`), or a process boundary with drift (a differing `resume` snapshot). The provider's own reasoning-content exclusion is managed server-side.
 - The `step/start`-listener behavior change (above) is the one observable semantics change for plugins; `agent/pre-step` is the current-request seam.
-- Tool-result trimming (planned) needs no new mechanism: a logged single-node surface replace (`start === end`) carrying a trimmed `tool/result` under the same `callId` — compaction-family, replay-correct, cache-bust batched by the same pressure logic.
-- Session logs grow one `request/header` snapshot per conversation (system + tool schemas: the dominant term), plus deltas on real changes — small next to `assistant/chunk` volume; `SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION` stays `0` (pre-release churn is absorbed, backends reject-not-migrate).
-- Snapshot goldens changed once (every transcript gains its header events); the fs-writing fixtures are stored in the normalized authored form with cwd-relative tool arguments, because replay only round-trips cwd-independent argument paths.
+- Tool-result trimming (planned) needs no new mechanism: a logged single-entry surface replace (`start === end`) carrying a trimmed `tool/result` under the same `callId` — compaction-family, replay-correct, cache-bust batched by the same pressure logic.
+- Session logs grow one `request/header` snapshot per loop instance plus snapshots on real changes. This is larger than a delta codec but small beside chunk-heavy logs and retains one replay representation. `SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION` stays `0`; legacy delta events are rejected rather than migrated.
+- Snapshot expected outputs changed once (every transcript gains its header events); the fs-writing fixtures are stored in the normalized authored form with cwd-relative tool arguments, because replay only round-trips cwd-independent argument paths.
 - FIXME(call-config-shape): revisit `LlmCallConfig`'s exact field set — which fields are genuinely epoch-level for cache purposes (`model` certainly; the sampling scalars sit there out of caution), and where provider-specific extras (reasoning options, extra body params) belong when an adapter needs them.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-subagent-provider-lifecycle-events.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# RFC: Subagent provider-lifecycle events — `subagent/provider-added` / `subagent/provider-removed`
+# Agent Note: Subagent provider-lifecycle events — `subagent/provider-added` / `subagent/provider-removed`
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-[The prompt-variables RFC](2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md) makes `dsh-tool-subagent` DERIVE its model-facing wording from its provider: `SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext` (spawn/ACP `false`, fork `true`) drives both the tool description and the `prompt` parameter description (`providerWording`), so the fork tool stops lying about context inheritance. That fix created a cross-fiber data dependency: a tool's description is fixed at TOOL REGISTRATION (deliberately — the description is where tool-choice guidance lives), but the provider arrives on its own plugin fiber, on no particular schedule.
+[The prompt-variables Agent Note](2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md) makes `dsh-tool-subagent` DERIVE its model-facing wording from its provider: `SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext` (spawn/ACP `false`, fork `true`) drives both the tool description and the `prompt` parameter description, so the fork tool stops lying about context inheritance. That fix created a cross-fiber data dependency: a tool's description is fixed at TOOL REGISTRATION (deliberately — the description is where tool-choice guidance lives), but the provider arrives on its own plugin fiber, on no particular schedule.
 
-Resolving the provider at the tool plugin's `apply` time creates an implicit load-order requirement ("list the backend before the tool in cordis.yml"). That requirement fails because the Cordis Loader starts sibling entries concurrently and `Entry.init()` does not await activation: a delayed backend can leave the tool fiber failed even when listed first. The Loader offers no sibling-order guarantee — "async state is not synchronous state" ([defensive patterns](../../../defensive-patterns.md)).
+Resolving the provider at the tool plugin's `apply` time creates an implicit load-order requirement ("list the backend before the tool in cordis.yml"). That requirement fails because the Cordis Loader starts sibling entries concurrently and `Entry.init()` does not await activation: a delayed backend can leave the tool fiber failed even when listed first. The Loader offers no sibling-order guarantee — "async state is not synchronous state" ([defensive patterns](../../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md)).
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ The events also complete the seam's vocabulary: `ctx.subagents` is a named regis
 
 - **Resolve the provider at `apply` time and throw when absent** — rejected because "list backends first" would claim a Loader ordering guarantee that does not exist.
 - **Retrying the lookup (poll until the provider appears)** — converges eventually but invents a private readiness protocol beside the one the framework already has (effect registration + disposal); it also cannot notice a provider LEAVING, so HMR would strand a tool whose wording describes a disposed backend.
-- **Section-only subagent wording, lazily resolved at assemble time** — tolerates any load order too, but moves tool-choice guidance out of the DESCRIPTION, contradicting the ownership rule the prompt-variables RFC establishes (per-tool semantics and when-to-use belong in the description). Reactive registration keeps the description authoritative AND order-free.
+- **Section-only subagent wording, lazily resolved at assemble time** — tolerates any load order too, but moves tool-choice guidance out of the DESCRIPTION, contradicting the ownership rule the prompt-variables Agent Note establishes (per-tool semantics and when-to-use belong in the description). Reactive registration keeps the description authoritative AND order-free.
 - **Keying wording off the provider NAME instead of the provider object** — `providerName` is itself config, so a renamed provider silently gets the wrong words; deriving from the resolved provider's own `inheritsParentContext` cannot drift.
 
 ## Consequences
 
 - Consumers deriving state from a named provider react to `subagent/provider-added`/`-removed` instead of reading the registry at `apply` time; `dsh-tool-subagent` is the reference implementation.
-- **Addition fails loud; removal is contained per listener.** An addition listener may unwind registration. Removal runs during disposal, so one throwing listener is logged without starving later mirrors or disrupting teardown. `start()` still resolves the provider by name for every run, preventing stale tools from calling a removed backend. See the [events catalog](../../../cordis-catalog/events.md) and [producer/consumer map](../../../event-producer-consumer.md).
+- **Addition fails loud; removal is contained per listener.** An addition listener may unwind registration. Removal runs during disposal, so one throwing listener is logged without starving later mirrors or disrupting teardown. `start()` still resolves the provider by name for every run, preventing stale tools from calling a removed backend. See the [events catalog](../../../../docs/cordis-catalog/events.md) and [producer/consumer map](../../../../docs/event-producer-consumer.md).
 - **A window where the tool is absent.** Between backend disposal and re-registration (an HMR reload), the model sees no subagent tool. This is the honest state — the alternative is a tool that dispatches into nothing — and the tool registry's `tools/change` emit keeps prompt assembly current.
 - **Two waiting fibers sharing a `toolName` is an invalid config caught late.** If two loads of `dsh-tool-subagent` name different providers but the same `toolName`, both wait, and whichever provider arrives first registers; the second registration throws only when ITS provider arrives. `TODO(subagent-dup-toolname)` in the plugin records this blast radius; the tool registry's duplicate-name rejection remains the backstop.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-06-timeout-deadline-library.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-06-timeout-deadline-library.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: A shared timeout/deadline primitive, with hard-kill left to each capability
+# Agent Note: A shared timeout/deadline primitive, with hard-kill left to each capability
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Tool result retention library
+# Agent Note: Tool result retention library
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-07-tool-call-timeout-policy.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-07-tool-call-timeout-policy.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Tool-call timeout policy as a plugin
+# Agent Note: Tool-call timeout policy as a plugin
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The [timeout/deadline RFC](2026-07-06-timeout-deadline-library.md) extracted the timing-and-classification primitive into `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout`, but timeout policy was still attached to individual capabilities and model-facing schemas. `bash` exposed `timeoutMs`; `web_fetch` exposed `timeout_ms`; `web_search` had no model-facing timeout even though providers already honor `exec.signal`; a future grep/glob tool would either import the timeout library directly or invent its own timeout policy. That is the wrong authoring shape for a plugin SDK: a tool author should normally forward `exec.signal` to the implementation it calls, and deployment policy should decide the budget.
+The [timeout/deadline Agent Note](2026-07-06-timeout-deadline-library.md) extracted the timing-and-classification primitive into `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout`, but timeout policy was still attached to individual capabilities and model-facing schemas. `bash` exposed `timeoutMs`; `web_fetch` exposed `timeout_ms`; `web_search` had no model-facing timeout even though providers already honor `exec.signal`; a future grep/glob tool would either import the timeout library directly or invent its own timeout policy. That is the wrong authoring shape for a plugin SDK: a tool author should normally forward `exec.signal` to the implementation it calls, and deployment policy should decide the budget.
 
 At the same time, not every timeout in the repo is a model-facing tool-call budget. Hooks execute command hooks by calling `ctx.bash` directly, not through `ctx.tools.execute()`, and the `bash` model tool multiplexes foreground execution, background start, background polling, and hook reuse through the same backend. Moving every timeout into a tool plugin in one step would conflate those paths and risk breaking hook timeout semantics.
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ A future model-facing grep/glob tool can be implemented on top of `ctx.bash` wit
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-**Name the plugin `tool-timeout`.** The literal RFC name matched the `gen-tool-catalog` completeness guard's `packages/*/tool-*` glob, which requires every match to register a model-facing tool. This plugin registers none — it is a `tools/execute` wrapper — so a `tool-*` name would either fail `verify-tool-catalog` or force a misleading boot entry. The package is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy` in a new `packages/timeout/` group; the cordis.yml `id` can still be `timeout-policy`.
+**Name the plugin `tool-timeout`.** The literal Agent Note name matched the `gen-tool-catalog` completeness guard's `packages/*/tool-*` glob, which requires every match to register a model-facing tool. This plugin registers none — it is a `tools/execute` wrapper — so a `tool-*` name would either fail `verify-tool-catalog` or force a misleading boot entry. The package is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy` in a new `packages/timeout/` group; the cordis.yml `id` can still be `timeout-policy`.
 
 **Keep per-tool timeout handling only.** This was the shape for `bash` and `web_fetch`, and it matches Claude Code and Codex for shell commands. It loses for web-style tools because every new timeout-capable tool must choose validation, cap semantics, docs, snapshots, and classification. The plugin centralizes policy and classification while leaving each tool's schema focused on business input.
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ A future model-facing grep/glob tool can be implemented on top of `ctx.bash` wit
 
 **Use `tools/pre-execute` plus `tools/post-execute` instead of a new around seam.** A pre listener could arm a deadline and mutate `exec.signal`; a post listener could classify and replace. That loses because the deadline lifetime would cross two independent waterfalls: a call-id map, cleanup on every pre-deny/tool-throw/post-throw/dispose path, and ordering rules with every other listener. `tools/pre-execute` is also the allow/deny gate, not an execution wrapper. `tools/execute` gives the timeout one lexical scope: arm, delegate, classify, dispose.
 
-**Use `Promise.race` to enforce timeouts for non-cooperative tools.** Rejected for the same reason as the timeout-library RFC: it returns control to the caller while the underlying process, fetch, or provider operation may still be running. The plugin only sends a signal; termination remains the implementation's responsibility.
+**Use `Promise.race` to enforce timeouts for non-cooperative tools.** Rejected for the same reason as the timeout-library Agent Note: it returns control to the caller while the underlying process, fetch, or provider operation may still be running. The plugin only sends a signal; termination remains the implementation's responsibility.
 
 ## Consequences
 
@@ -106,4 +106,4 @@ A future model-facing grep/glob tool can be implemented on top of `ctx.bash` wit
 - Multiple `tools/execute` listeners compose by ordinary Cordis waterfall order: a listener that calls `next()` wraps downstream listeners plus dispatch; one that returns without `next()` short-circuits them. A deployment combining timeout with a future retry/sandbox/metrics wrapper chooses semantics by registration order ("timeout covers the whole retry" vs "timeout covers each attempt").
 - Opt-in by declaration is a deliberate misconfiguration risk: a tool can declare a `timeoutMs` without honoring `exec.signal`, and that tool will not stop on timeout. The plugin contract states that declaring a budget means cooperative; the web tools prove the pattern on tools that already forward the signal.
 - During the transition `bash` and the migrated web tools use different timeout paths on purpose: `TOOL_TIMEOUT` is the model-facing tool-call budget, while `BASH_TIMEOUT` remains the bash backend timeout used by bash and hooks.
-- Deviation from the literal proposal, recorded per the implemented-RFC rule: the plugin package is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy` (not `tool-timeout`), signal replacement is in-place `exec.signal` mutation before `next()` (not `next({ ...exec, signal })`, which cordis ignores), and the per-tool budget is declared on the `ToolDefinition` (`timeoutMs`, set by the owning tool plugin from its config) rather than mapped by tool name in this plugin's config — so the enforcer is zero-config and a mistyped tool name is impossible. All three are described in `## Decision` above.
+- Deviation from the literal proposal, recorded per the implemented-Agent Note rule: the plugin package is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy` (not `tool-timeout`), signal replacement is in-place `exec.signal` mutation before `next()` (not `next({ ...exec, signal })`, which cordis ignores), and the per-tool budget is declared on the `ToolDefinition` (`timeoutMs`, set by the owning tool plugin from its config) rather than mapped by tool name in this plugin's config — so the enforcer is zero-config and a mistyped tool name is impossible. All three are described in `## Decision` above.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The agent is a registration scope
+# Agent Note: The agent is a registration scope
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The mechanism also needs a publication boundary. An agent must not become visibl
 
 Every live agent owns one flat registration layer exposed as `agent.ctx`. Code registers through the context that owns a contribution; scope-aware services combine deployment-global registrations with exactly one matching agent layer; operations choose that layer from their real agent; and the layer exists for the agent's complete published lifetime.
 
-Cordis is the plugin framework underneath the SDK. A Cordis **context** is the object plugins use to access services and register effects whose cleanup follows that context. The [Cordis primer](../../../cordis-primer.md) explains the framework in more detail.
+Cordis is the plugin framework underneath the SDK. A Cordis **context** is the object plugins use to access services and register effects whose cleanup follows that context. The [Cordis primer](../../../../docs/cordis-primer.md) explains the framework in more detail.
 
 For most contributors, the complete contract is four rules:
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ flowchart LR
 
 The missing cross-edges are the isolation rule: Agent A's local registrations do not enter Agent B's view, and a parent's registrations do not enter a child merely because the parent owns the child's lifetime.
 
-The companion [runtime-design RFC](2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md) explains the implementation and correctness reasoning. The [subagent composition-controls RFC](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns the separate `persona`, `toolFilter`, and `maxDepth` feature.
+The companion [runtime-design Agent Note](2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md) explains the implementation and correctness reasoning. The [subagent composition-controls Agent Note](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns the separate `persona`, `toolFilter`, and `maxDepth` feature.
 
 ### Registration origin chooses visibility and cleanup
 
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ The ordinary contributor pattern is to register the complete local world during
 
 ```js
 const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
-  agentId: AgentId('reviewer'),
-  sessionId: SessionId('reviewer-session'),
+  sessionId: SessionId('reviewer'),
   agentOptions: { model: 'model-name' },
   setup(agentCtx) {
     agentCtx.systemPrompt.section({
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ An event about Agent A normally reaches unscoped listeners and A-scoped listener
 
 At the Cordis level, `Scoped<T>` is an opaque routing receiver. It carries the filter used to choose listeners but is not the domain object. Event signatures therefore keep the real `Agent`, tool execution, approval request, or other subject as an explicit argument that listeners can inspect.
 
-A listener registered with `{ global: true }` deliberately bypasses contextual audience filtering while its cleanup still follows the registering context. Registry-membership notifications remain unfiltered because they describe shared registry state rather than one agent's operation. The generated [event catalog](../../../cordis-catalog/events.md) is the exhaustive event reference.
+A listener registered with `{ global: true }` deliberately bypasses contextual audience filtering while its cleanup still follows the registering context. Registry-membership notifications remain unfiltered because they describe shared registry state rather than one agent's operation. The generated [event catalog](../../../../docs/cordis-catalog/events.md) is the exhaustive event reference.
 
 ### Creation publishes last and disposal revokes last
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-tool-output-spill-files.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-tool-output-spill-files.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Tool output spill policy
+# Agent Note: Tool output spill policy
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 Tool outputs need bounded model-facing previews, but some oversized results are still useful later. A fetched page body or a verbose tool response should not consume the next model request in full, but the model should be able to inspect the complete formatted result later with existing file-reading tools.
 
-Before this change the behavior was uneven. `dsh-bash-local` already writes complete stdout/stderr streams to private temp spill files when its in-memory tail overflows, but ordinary text tool results were returned inline unless the tool hand-rolled its own cap. The [tool result retention library](./2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md) owns preview mechanics, but it does not own storage or an execution-pipeline policy that applies those mechanics to final tool results.
+Before this change the behavior was uneven. `dsh-bash-local` already writes complete stdout/stderr streams to private temp spill files when its in-memory tail overflows, but ordinary text tool results were returned inline unless the tool hand-rolled its own cap. The [tool result retention library](2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md) owns preview mechanics, but it does not own storage or an execution-pipeline policy that applies those mechanics to final tool results.
 
 The shape matches the timeout policy design: a tool author normally returns the text result, and a policy plugin enforces the deployment's default context budget. Tool-specific early spill remains possible later for outputs that do not survive to the final `ToolExecutionResult`; the first cut proves the default final-result path.
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Those cases can consume `ctx.spillStore` directly in later work. They are not pa
 - `dsh-spill-local` unit tests cover `saveText`, `encodeSegment` sanitization (separators/tilde/whole-segment dots/empty), the session-hash directory, owner-only permissions, distinct paths per save, the configured/private root, and a storage-failure rejection.
 - `dsh-spill-policy` unit tests drive real tools through `ctx.tools.execute`: disabled-mode no-op, oversized-text replacement, small/non-text passthrough, `read` skip, best-effort fallback (save failure / no backend / no owner), and downstream-composition (bounding a replaced result, preserving `additionalContexts`).
 - `dsh-tool-web` integration drives `web_fetch` through `ctx.tools.execute` with the real `spill-local` backend + policy, proving the model-facing text changes only by the deliberate spill notice while the spill file holds the full formatted result.
-- The `coding-agent` example loads `spill-local` + `spill-policy`, so its keyless Loader smoke exercises the real load path (the namespace-plugin export shape + `inject`).
+- The `repl-agent` example loads `spill-local` + `spill-policy`, so its keyless Loader smoke exercises the real load path (the namespace-plugin export shape + `inject`).
 
 ## Consequences
 

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md: f1a1868cd00007fb24efb21779dcc94c098b54e2
+2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.zh.md: a4993de2830301610bb2a9b0d28e8bbdf0ed9c46

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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Agent Note: After-call compaction pressure and context-overflow recovery
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+`agent/pre-step` runs before final request routing and before assistant output, tool results, buffered context, and steering exist. Even with the assembled prompt and session prefix, its pressure view is provisional because `agent/request` can still change routing or call configuration and tool schemas are not frozen with those inputs. Adding fields cannot make pre-call state describe a completed call and couples the generic seam to compaction.
+
+Successful calls are not the only pressure signal. A provider can reject a request for exceeding its context window before it returns usage, and some successful calls omit usage. The system therefore needs replayable post-call pressure plus a narrow failure-recovery path that preserves the provider error whenever compaction cannot prove useful progress.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Successful pressure moves to a durable post-step checkpoint
+
+`agent/pre-step` is narrowed to `(agent, turn, step, signal)`. It remains a generic serial checkpoint before `step/start`, but it carries no compaction-only prompt or prefix fields.
+
+The loop fires awaited serial `agent/post-step(agent, turn, step, signal)` after assistant output, every dispatched or synthetic tool result, post-tool context, and steering are durable, but before `step/end`. This placement gives pressure policy the complete successful-call state without splitting an assistant tool call from its result. A listener failure is an ordinary turn failure; it never enters model-request recovery.
+
+`dsh-compact-basic` reads the exact latest routed model from the durable request header only to establish that a completed route exists, then asks the singleton `ctx.tokenMeter` to measure the canonical logged envelope and current surface. It does not fall back to `AgentOptions.model` for automatic pressure. A headerless session has no completed routed request to assess and produces no work; any durable non-empty model name uses the same estimator. Operational measurement or summarization failures warn and continue with full history.
+
+### Request recovery is limited to the final model boundary
+
+`RequestError`, `RequestErrorDecision`, and the `agent/request-error` waterfall represent failures after the final adapter has been selected. Each returned stream handle owns a private failure set that preserves the original thrown error identity across dispatch, iterator construction, and iteration without leaking nested-call provenance into an outer call. Terminal in-band `error` or `aborted` finishes enter the same path. Prompt assembly, request middleware, request logging, result processing, tools, post-step listeners, and cleanup remain ordinary failures.
+
+The failed step closes before recovery runs. A retry opens the next numbered step and rebuilds the request from the durable log; consecutive recovery attempts reset only after a successful provider request. Both DeepSeek adapters normalize recognized provider context-limit failures to `CONTEXT_WINDOW_EXCEEDED`.
+
+If cancellation lands after assistant tool calls are durable but before all calls dispatch, the loop records a synthetic `tool/call` and aborted `tool/result` pair for every undispatched call before following the normal abort path. The surface therefore never retains orphaned durable tool calls merely because cancellation won the race.
+
+### CompactService exposes intent, not token accounting
+
+`CompactService.compactIfNeeded(agent, trigger, signal)` accepts `trigger: 'pressure' | 'context-overflow'`. The interface gains no estimation methods or token types; `ctx.tokenMeter` remains the reusable accounting owner.
+
+For `pressure`, compact-basic applies the service-wide threshold and retained-tail policy to one unified `ctx.tokenMeter.measure()` result. The same singleton meter owns range pricing, provenance, shadowed token counts, and non-shrinking-summary rejection. The common defaults remain threshold ratio `0.8`, retained history `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, summarization provider/model `''`, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`.
+
+For canonical overflow, compact-basic bypasses scalar pressure and the normal retained-token budget. It chooses the maximal tool-balanced head range while leaving the newest indivisible unit, then attempts exactly one shrinking compaction under the same signal. The automatic listener snapshots `session.surface.replaceGeneration` and returns `{ action: 'retry' }` only when compaction succeeds and the generation increases. A backend returning a result without replacement cannot authorize retry.
+
+`maxOverflowRetries` is optional and defaults to `1`; `0` disables overflow recovery without disabling pressure. `auto: false` registers neither automatic listener. Noncanonical errors, exhausted attempts, an already-aborted signal, a missing routed model, no safe range, no generation change, and recovery throws all delegate to the next listener. With no later recovery, the loop reports the original provider error object and code. Cancellation or disposal remains authoritative even if recovery work completes concurrently.
+
+The default summarizer resolves explicit configuration, then the latest logged route, then agent options. Because direct `llm/stream` middleware may reroute that auxiliary call, `compact/summary.{provider, model}` records the final mutable `GenerateOptions` target observed after dispatch rather than the pre-waterfall candidate.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit tests cover final-adapter failure provenance and identity, closed-step retry numbering and reset, cancellation and disposal, post-step ordering, routed-envelope pressure, balanced overflow reduction, generation proof, caps, delegation, and auxiliary-call routing. Real-loop tests cover thrown and in-band overflow through compaction to a reconstructed retry request.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep provisional pre-step pressure and add more arguments** — rejected because later routing and request mutation remain outside any earlier snapshot, while generic lifecycle becomes coupled to one plugin.
+- **Retry the same numbered step** — rejected because recovery appends durable events after the failed boundary. A new step preserves balanced nesting and reconstructability.
+- **Retry whenever `compactIfNeeded` returns a result** — rejected because a custom backend can report success without changing model-visible state. `replaceGeneration` is the authoritative proof.
+- **Let compact-basic parse provider wording** — rejected because classification belongs at adapters and must cover both thrown and in-band delivery.
+- **Fall back to `AgentOptions.model` when no durable route exists** — rejected because automatic policy must describe a completed logged request. Headerless pressure and recovery delegate unchanged.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Post-step pressure describes the completed routed request, including durable tool results and request-only prefix fields. Canonical overflow supplies the backstop when no successful usage anchor exists. Recovery is bounded, cancellation-owned, and monotonic: it retries only after a visible surface generation change.
+
+The cost is one additional serial checkpoint on successful steps and adapter-maintained overflow classification. Provider wording and heuristic character density remain maintenance risks. Surface compaction still cannot repair an envelope that alone exceeds the window or split one indivisible oversized message/tool unit.
+
+This Agent Note supersedes only the pre-step automatic-trigger portion of the [compaction capability-seam Agent Note](../feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md). The service split, standalone token meter, balanced range contract, log-recorded lock, summary replacement, and sole `summarize()` subclass hook remain unchanged.

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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Agent Note：调用后压缩压力与上下文溢出恢复
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+`agent/pre-step` 运行在最终请求路由之前，也早于 assistant 输出、工具结果、缓冲上下文与 steering 的产生。即使它接收已装配提示词与会话前缀，压力视图仍是临时的，因为 `agent/request` 还可以改变路由或调用配置，工具 schema 也没有与这些输入一同冻结。增加字段无法让调用前状态描述已完成调用，还会把通用 seam 与压缩耦合。
+
+成功调用也不是唯一的压力信号。提供方可能在返回 usage 之前就因上下文窗口超限拒绝请求，一些成功调用也不提供 usage。因此，系统需要可回放的调用后压力，以及一条狭窄的失败恢复路径；当压缩无法证明取得有效进展时，必须保留原始提供方错误。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 成功压力移动到持久 post-step 检查点
+
+`agent/pre-step` 收窄为 `(agent, turn, step, signal)`。它仍是 `step/start` 之前的通用串行检查点，但不再携带压缩专用的提示词或前缀字段。
+
+循环在 assistant 输出、所有已分发或合成的工具结果、工具后上下文与 steering 都持久化之后、`step/end` 之前，触发等待式串行 `agent/post-step(agent, turn, step, signal)`。该位置让压力策略看到完整的成功调用状态，同时不会拆开 assistant 工具调用与其结果。监听器失败属于普通 turn 失败，绝不会进入模型请求恢复。
+
+`dsh-compact-basic` 从持久请求头读取精确的最新实际路由模型，只用它确认已经存在完整路由，随后让单例 `ctx.tokenMeter` 计量规范日志信封与当前表层。自动压力不会回退到 `AgentOptions.model`。没有请求头的会话尚无已完成路由请求可供判断，因此不执行工作；任意持久记录的非空模型名都使用同一个估算器。操作性的计量或摘要失败会发出警告，并继续使用完整历史。
+
+### 请求恢复只覆盖最终模型边界
+
+`RequestError`、`RequestErrorDecision` 与 `agent/request-error` waterfall 表示最终适配器已经选定之后的失败。每个返回的流句柄都绑定一个私有失败集合；该集合在分发、异步迭代器构造与迭代过程中保留原始抛出错误的身份，同时防止把嵌套调用的错误来源误归到外层调用。终止性的带内 `error` 或 `aborted` finish 进入同一路径。提示词装配、请求中间件、请求日志、结果处理、工具、post-step 监听器与清理仍属于普通失败。
+
+恢复运行前，失败 step 已经关闭。重试会打开下一个编号 step，并从持久日志重建请求；连续恢复尝试计数只在提供方请求成功后重置。两个 DeepSeek 适配器都把识别出的提供方上下文限制错误规范化为 `CONTEXT_WINDOW_EXCEEDED`。
+
+如果取消发生在 assistant 工具调用已经持久化之后、所有调用完成分发之前，循环会为每个尚未分发的调用记录一对合成的 `tool/call` 与 aborted `tool/result`，随后进入正常中止路径。因此，表层不会仅因取消赢得竞态而留下孤立的持久工具调用。
+
+### CompactService 暴露意图，而不拥有 token 核算
+
+`CompactService.compactIfNeeded(agent, trigger, signal)` 接收 `trigger: 'pressure' | 'context-overflow'`。接口不增加估算方法或 token 类型；`ctx.tokenMeter` 继续作为可复用的核算所有者。
+
+对于 `pressure`，compact-basic 把服务级阈值与保留尾部策略应用到一次统一的 `ctx.tokenMeter.measure()` 结果。范围定价、来源、被遮蔽 token 数与非缩小摘要拒绝也由同一个单例 meter 完成。通用默认值保持为阈值比例 `0.8`、保留历史 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、摘要提供方/模型 `''`、`maxTokens: 8192`、`compactionRetries: 1` 与 `auto: true`。
+
+对于规范化溢出，compact-basic 绕过标量压力与普通保留 token 预算。它在保留最新不可分割单元的同时，选择最大的工具配对平衡头部范围，并在同一 signal 下只尝试一次缩小压缩。自动监听器先记录 `session.surface.replaceGeneration`，只有压缩成功且 generation 增加时才返回 `{ action: 'retry' }`。后端若只返回结果但没有替换表层，不能授权重试。
+
+`maxOverflowRetries` 可选且默认为 `1`；`0` 只禁用溢出恢复，不会禁用压力检查。`auto: false` 不注册任何自动监听器。非规范化错误、尝试耗尽、已经中止的 signal、缺失路由模型、没有安全范围、generation 未变化，以及恢复抛错都会委托给下一个监听器。若没有后续恢复，循环报告原始提供方错误对象与代码。即使恢复工作并发完成，取消或销毁仍具有最终优先级。
+
+默认摘要器依次解析显式配置、最近记录的路由与 agent options。因为直接 `llm/stream` 中间件可以重新路由该辅助调用，`compact/summary.{provider, model}` 记录分发后最终可变的 `GenerateOptions` 目标，而不是 waterfall 之前的候选值。
+
+## 测试
+
+单元测试覆盖最终适配器失败的来源与身份、已关闭 step 的重试编号与重置、取消与销毁、post-step 顺序、已路由信封压力、平衡溢出缩减、generation 证明、上限、委托与辅助调用路由。真实循环测试覆盖抛出式和带内溢出，并验证压缩后的重试请求从替换表层重建。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+- **保留临时 pre-step 压力并增加更多参数**——不予采纳，因为后续路由与请求变换仍在更早快照之外，同时通用生命周期会耦合到单个插件。
+- **重试相同编号的 step**——不予采纳，因为恢复会在失败边界之后追加持久事件。新 step 保持边界配对与可重建性。
+- **只要 `compactIfNeeded` 返回结果就重试**——不予采纳，因为自定义后端可能报告成功却没有改变模型可见状态。`replaceGeneration` 才是权威证明。
+- **让 compact-basic 解析提供方措辞**——不予采纳，因为分类属于适配器，而且必须同时覆盖抛出式与带内交付。
+- **没有持久路由时回退到 `AgentOptions.model`**——不予采纳，因为自动策略必须描述已完成且已记录的请求。没有请求头的压力检查与恢复会原样委托。
+
+## 后果
+
+Post-step 压力描述已完成的路由请求，包括持久工具结果与仅请求前缀字段。当成功 usage 锚点不存在时，规范化溢出提供兜底路径。恢复有明确上限、以取消为准，并保持单调：只有模型可见的表层 generation 变化后才重试。
+
+代价是成功 step 增加一个串行检查点，并需要适配器持续维护溢出分类。提供方措辞与启发式字符密度仍是维护风险。表层压缩依然无法修复仅信封本身就超出窗口的情况，也不能拆分单个不可分割的超大消息或工具单元。
+
+本 Agent Note 只取代[压缩能力接缝 Agent Note](../feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md) 中的 pre-step 自动触发部分。服务拆分、独立 token meter、平衡范围契约、日志记录锁、摘要替换与唯一 `summarize()` 子类 hook 均保持不变。

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+2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.zh.md: dcc9213c6b3a088b8b8bce2a442c5232ed5b7d0b

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Single-file executable SDK runtime distribution (single-exe)
+# Agent Note: Single-file executable SDK runtime distribution (single-exe)
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The exe is packaged with the **`--sea` (enhanced SEA) mode** of [@yao-pkg/pkg](h
 
 `--sea` requires target ≥ node22; the exe uniformly targets node24. One pkg invocation packages exactly one target; multi-platform builds invoke it once per platform.
 
-Terminology reminder: pkg's `/snapshot` VFS has nothing to do with this repo's testing-system "snapshot" (ACP replay goldens, `$DSH_SNAPSHOT`); this document says "VFS" for the former.
+Terminology reminder: pkg's `/snapshot` VFS has nothing to do with this repo's testing-system "snapshot" (ACP replay expected outputs, `$DSH_SNAPSHOT`); this document says "VFS" for the former.
 
 ### The serving surface is a plugin: the two packages ui/jsonrpc + examples/jsonrpc-demo
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.zh.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.zh.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: 单文件可执行的 SDK 运行时分发（single-exe）
+# Agent Note: 单文件可执行的 SDK 运行时分发（single-exe）
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ exe 使用 [@yao-pkg/pkg](https://github.com/yao-pkg/pkg)（vercel/pkg 归档后
 
 `--sea` 要求构建目标 ≥ node22，exe 统一以 node24 为构建目标；每次 pkg 调用只打包一个构建目标，多平台各调用一次。
 
-术语提醒：pkg 的 `/snapshot` VFS 与本仓库测试体系的“快照”（ACP 回放 golden、`$DSH_SNAPSHOT`）无关，本文用“VFS”指前者。
+术语提醒：pkg 的 `/snapshot` VFS 与本仓库测试体系的“快照”（ACP 回放预期输出、`$DSH_SNAPSHOT`）无关，本文用“VFS”指前者。
 
 ### 对外服务接口也是插件：ui/jsonrpc + examples/jsonrpc-demo 两包
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md → .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Agent-scope runtime design and correctness
+# Agent Note: Agent-scope runtime design and correctness
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ The design can be skimmed as seven choices:
 | Compose the model-visible prompt and tool surface | One shared tool view plus the authoritative assembly-waterfall result |
 | Coordinate subagent, worker, and process shutdown | One cancellation signal plus the independent terminal/quiescence facts of that boundary |
 
-The rest of this RFC expands those choices in dependency order: Cordis mechanics, scope routing, creation and session commit, tools and prompts, subagents and workflows, then executable checks.
+The rest of this Agent Note expands those choices in dependency order: Cordis mechanics, scope routing, creation and session commit, tools and prompts, subagents and workflows, then executable checks.
 
-The [July 8 RFC](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) remains the contributor contract. The separate [subagent composition-controls RFC](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns `persona`, `toolFilter`, and `maxDepth`; this document discusses only how their setup fits the lifecycle.
+The [July 8 Agent Note](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) remains the contributor contract. The separate [subagent composition-controls Agent Note](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns `persona`, `toolFilter`, and `maxDepth`; this document discusses only how their setup fits the lifecycle.
 
 ## Cordis model: context, fiber, effect, receiver, and waterfall
 
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Tool presentation and execution share one private resolver. Prompt assembly rema
 
 The private resolver applies the current presentation mode, live global restrictions, exact local overlay, and local shadowing. Schemas, lookup, execution, Code Mode SDK generation, and restriction validation all use that resolver or its pre-restriction global-name view.
 
-The [subagent composition-controls RFC](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md#tool-filtering-is-one-live-global-view-rule) owns the user-visible allow/deny semantics. The implementation requirement is agreement: a filtered-away global cannot remain executable through a different lookup path, and a locally shadowed definition is the same definition presented and executed.
+The [subagent composition-controls Agent Note](../feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md#tool-filtering-is-one-live-global-view-rule) owns the user-visible allow/deny semantics. The implementation requirement is agreement: a filtered-away global cannot remain executable through a different lookup path, and a locally shadowed definition is the same definition presented and executed.
 
 `ToolRestriction` accepts readonly allow/deny names and compiles them into internal sets. Multiple restrictions intersect. Public `visible()` and `knownNames()` methods are unnecessary because only the registry needs the intermediate views.
 
@@ -328,13 +328,13 @@ The plugin does not police trusted setup by scanning registries or reject prompt
 
 ### Generated artifacts keep public contracts aligned
 
-The event catalog, service catalog, producer/consumer matrix, configuration catalog, module graph, tool catalog, type-equivalence blocks, and scoped-event resolver map are generated or freshness-gated from source. The [TypeScript semantic-gates RFC](../process/2026-07-14-typescript-program-backed-semantic-gates.md) owns Program construction, semantic event discovery, and resolver-generation rules.
+The event catalog, service catalog, producer/consumer matrix, configuration catalog, module graph, tool catalog, type-equivalence blocks, and scoped-event resolver map are generated or freshness-gated from source. The [TypeScript semantic-gates Agent Note](../process/2026-07-14-typescript-program-backed-semantic-gates.md) owns Program construction, semantic event discovery, and resolver-generation rules.
 
 Behavioral tests pin scoped routing and disposal, final-entry collision cleanup, publication rollback, ordered quiescence, durable pre/post-commit behavior, live tool filtering across presentation and execution, cooperative prompt assembly, structured-output commit in native and Code Mode, async subagent startup and signal cancellation, worker terminal arbitration, ACP settlement, and process teardown.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-The [July 8 RFC](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md#alternatives-considered) owns alternatives to the public flat-scope contract. The alternatives here concern implementation shape.
+The [July 8 Agent Note](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md#alternatives-considered) owns alternatives to the public flat-scope contract. The alternatives here concern implementation shape.
 
 ### Use a transparent proxy as the scope carrier
 

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md: b7944bd31fdb5f63894e867d7c1224215d694f11
+2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md: 7dcadf2521bab079e328b5f0d0a45185778b3b8d

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+# Agent Note: Provider-routed LLM adapters and a generic pi-ai backend
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+`dsh-llm` registered adapters by exact model name. A plugin supplied a model list at Cordis startup, `LlmService` stored one adapter per listed string, and `GenerateOptions.model` selected the adapter and the provider model at once. This worked while both shipping adapters targeted the same two DeepSeek models, but it conflated two independent decisions: which upstream provider owns a request, and which model that provider should run.
+
+The conflation prevents a provider gateway from serving an open-ended model catalog. OpenRouter, for example, is one provider with many model ids, while a private OpenAI-compatible endpoint may add models without changing the Harness plugin tree. Every newly selected model currently needs to have been registered during plugin startup. The same model id can also exist at multiple providers, so model-only registration cannot state which provider the caller intended.
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` exposed none of pi-ai's provider abstraction. It constructed an inline DeepSeek `openai-completions` model, applied DeepSeek-specific payload patches, and stamped every replayed assistant message as DeepSeek. pi-ai itself has a provider/model catalog, selects APIs such as `openai-responses`, `anthropic-messages`, and `google-generative-ai`, and preserves provider-specific response ids and reasoning/tool signatures for later turns. The Harness conversion dropped that provenance, so simply replacing the inline model with a catalog lookup would have made same-model replay and cross-provider handoff incomplete.
+
+The adapter configuration also assumes one DeepSeek API key and endpoint. A generic backend needs independent credentials and endpoint overrides per provider while leaving AWS, Google ADC, OAuth, and other ambient authentication mechanisms to pi-ai.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Provider is the adapter registration key
+
+`GenerateOptions` and `LlmCallConfig` carry `provider: string` beside `model: string`; `AgentOptions` carries the corresponding optional creation field. A loop request is valid only after both values are non-empty, and both values are part of the logged request header. `agent/request` may return a replacement pair on any step, so a session can switch providers and models without changing the Cordis plugin lifecycle.
+
+`LlmService` registers and resolves adapters by provider. `registerAdapter(providers, adapter)` checks the entire provider list before mutating the registry, rejects a duplicate with `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER`, and disposes the whole registration as one effect. Model ids are not registration keys; the selected adapter still validates or forwards them. The later [LLM catalog and ACP selection Agent Note](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) added advisory `listProviders()` / `listModels()` discovery without turning model membership into request validation.
+
+A provider has exactly one adapter owner in a Cordis context. `dsh-llm-deepseek` registers `deepseek`; `dsh-llm-pi-ai` may also register `deepseek`, but loading both owners is a configuration error rather than an ordering rule or fallback. A deployment that wants the hand-rolled DeepSeek implementation excludes `deepseek` from the pi-ai profiles. A deployment that wants pi-ai's DeepSeek implementation does not mount `dsh-llm-deepseek`.
+
+`dsh-llm-deepseek` removes its model registration list and accepts any model string routed through provider `deepseek`. Its request serialization, `/chat/completions` endpoint, thinking options, SSE parsing, and error behavior remain unchanged; `options.model` is still sent verbatim.
+
+### Explicit pi-ai provider profiles
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` takes one non-empty list of provider profiles. Provider names must be unique within the list and present in pi-ai's `getProviders()` result. Each profile contains the provider name plus optional `apiKey`, `baseURL`, headers, reasoning level and budgets, cache retention, transport, timeouts, and retry settings. Credentials are never global: an explicit key applies only to its profile, while an absent key lets pi-ai resolve its standard environment variable, OAuth token, AWS credential chain, Google ADC, or other provider-native ambient authentication. An explicitly empty key is invalid configuration rather than an environment fallback.
+
+The plugin registers all configured provider names against one `PiAiAdapter` in one all-or-nothing call. A request uses its provider to select the matching profile and finds its model in `getModels(provider)` to obtain the catalog descriptor. An unknown provider fails at plugin load; an unknown model fails before network I/O with `UNKNOWN_MODEL`. The catalog object is never mutated. When a profile supplies `baseURL`, the adapter clones the selected descriptor and overrides only `baseUrl`, so a private endpoint can retain pi-ai's API, capabilities, compatibility flags, context limits, and reasoning map. The private endpoint must implement the selected provider's protocol, and the model id must still exist in the installed pi-ai catalog.
+
+The adapter calls pi-ai's `streamSimple()` so each catalog model chooses its registered API implementation, including OpenAI Responses instead of Chat Completions where the descriptor says `openai-responses`. Harness temperature, maximum tokens, signal, session id, and the profile's common stream options flow through directly. Profile headers merge with the mandatory Harness attribution headers, with Harness attribution winning its reserved names. The adapter no longer maintains DeepSeek-specific payload rewrites or a provider-protocol matrix.
+
+pi-ai's common stream options do not expose stop sequences. `dsh-llm-pi-ai` rejects a defined Harness `stop` option with `UNSUPPORTED_OPTION` rather than silently ignoring it or growing a second provider-specific payload implementation. `dsh-llm-deepseek` continues to support `stop` through its native request serializer.
+
+### Durable assistant provenance and replay state
+
+Assistant messages carry provider-neutral provenance containing the request's `provider` and `model`, plus an optional JSON-serializable adapter replay state. A successful `assistant/message` session event records this provenance and `deriveMessages()` returns it with the assistant message. User, system, context, and tool-result messages carry no assistant provenance. The provider/model fields are authoritative loop data; an adapter owns only its opaque replay-state payload.
+
+A terminal successful `finish` chunk may carry replay state, and `BlockAssembler` retains it alongside usage and finish reason. The loop attaches it to the assistant provenance only when the post-`agent/step-result` content is structurally equal to the assembled provider output. A listener that rewrites content keeps the provider/model provenance but loses the now-stale replay state. Error and aborted responses do not produce a normal assistant message and therefore do not enter future model history.
+
+The pi-ai replay state is a versioned, minimal projection of its successful `AssistantMessage`: source API/provider/model, response id/model, stop reason, and index-aligned text, thinking, and tool-call signatures. It does not duplicate text or tool arguments already carried by Harness content blocks, and it omits diagnostics, timestamps, usage, and errors. On a later request, `LlmService` gives replay state to the target adapter only when the historical provider and target provider are currently owned by the same adapter instance. That adapter combines the logged Harness content with replay state when it can restore the historical response, and owns any required cross-model or cross-provider conversion. An adapter receiving replay state with an unknown version or mismatched block shape fails explicitly; a different adapter receives only provider-neutral content and provenance.
+
+This state is model-visible replay input and therefore follows the existing [reconstructable-request rule](2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md): it is present in both the terminal `finish` chunk and the assembled `assistant/message` provenance that drives derivation. Resume and fork preserve it verbatim. Compaction that shadows the assistant message also removes its replay state from the active surface; the summary is ordinary provider-neutral content.
+
+### Propagate the target through every request producer
+
+Every model-selection surface carries provider and model together: declarative agents, ACP and stdio app config, the JSON-RPC initialize request, subagent overrides and inheritance, workflow child overrides, and direct compaction summarization. Subagents inherit both fields from their parent before applying request overrides. The system-prompt variable set gains `provider` beside `model`.
+
+Compaction configuration gains `summarizationProvider` beside `summarizationModel`. Both are empty to inherit, or both are non-empty to select an explicit target; a half-configured pair fails load. Inheritance uses the last logged request target when one exists and falls back to the agent's creation options. `compact/summary` records both fields with the existing model-call envelope.
+
+The JSON-RPC runtime receives provider and model explicitly. Its convenience fallback mounts `dsh-llm-deepseek` only for provider `deepseek` when that provider has no registered owner; other missing providers fail without guessing an adapter.
+
+The on-disk session format remains the pre-release pinned version `0`, with no compatibility promise. Seed/load validation rejects request headers lacking provider and assistant messages lacking required provenance instead of accepting an old shape that can no longer reconstruct the request.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Keep model names as registry keys and add wildcard adapters.** A wildcard introduces fallback ordering between exact registrations and catch-all plugins, makes duplicate ownership dependent on listener order, and still cannot distinguish the same model id at two providers without another convention.
+
+**Encode provider and model into one string.** Values such as OpenRouter's `openai/gpt-*` already contain provider-like prefixes and slashes. A delimiter convention would leak routing syntax into every model selector and require escaping rules; two explicit fields are unambiguous and independently loggable.
+
+**Add `backend + provider + model`.** A backend key would allow `dsh-llm-deepseek` and pi-ai's DeepSeek implementation to coexist and switch per request. The accepted deployment rule is instead one adapter owner per provider: implementations of the same upstream are alternatives selected by plugin composition. A third routing dimension would burden every request and configuration for a capability with no current consumer.
+
+**Let `dsh-llm-pi-ai` automatically register every pi-ai provider.** This would claim ambient credentials and provider names the deployment never intended to expose, and would conflict with native adapters such as `dsh-llm-deepseek`. Explicit profiles make capability and credential scope reviewable.
+
+**Mount one pi-ai plugin instance per provider.** Separate instances isolate config but repeat plugin declarations and cannot make profile registration atomic. One adapter already receives provider on every request, so a validated profile map is the smaller lifecycle surface.
+
+**Accept arbitrary inline pi-ai model descriptors.** This would support catalog-external private model ids, but it exposes pi-ai's model and compatibility schema as Harness configuration and makes the adapter responsible for validating protocol-specific combinations. The first version supports custom endpoints by overriding `baseURL` on catalog models; custom descriptors require a separate decision after a real catalog-external deployment is identified.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Provider names are deployment-wide route ownership keys: two providers may use the same model string, but mounting two adapters for one provider fails at load instead of creating fallback order.
+- Model selection no longer changes the Cordis plugin graph. Catalog-backed adapters can accept any installed catalog model selected after startup, while the native DeepSeek adapter forwards arbitrary DeepSeek model ids.
+- A custom `baseURL` preserves the selected catalog model's protocol and capabilities; it does not make catalog-external model ids valid. Private endpoints must implement that catalog entry's protocol.
+- pi-ai credentials and transport knobs are scoped per provider profile. An omitted key delegates to pi-ai ambient authentication, while an explicitly empty key is invalid.
+- `dsh-llm-pi-ai` rejects stop sequences because pi-ai's common stream API cannot express them; the native DeepSeek adapter retains its stop support.
+- Replay state is portable only within the adapter instance that owns both the historical and target providers. Cross-provider and cross-model restoration is an adapter responsibility, and another adapter receives provider-neutral history without the opaque state.
+- Current pre-release session JSONL requires provider/model request headers and assistant provenance. Older shapes remain version `0` but are rejected rather than migrated.
+
+## Testing
+
+- Unit coverage exercises registry conflicts, request reconstruction, session validation, profile resolution, option forwarding, native API selection including OpenAI Responses, conversion, replay validation, error mapping, cancellation, content rewrites, and same-instance versus different-instance replay dispatch.
+- Keyless loop/session tests and ACP snapshots exercise durable provider/model metadata, resume and fork propagation, workflow/subagent overrides, and unchanged user-visible transcripts; the key-gated DeepSeek e2e retains real provider streaming and tool follow-up coverage.
+- Public JSDoc, package READMEs, architecture and core-data-structure docs, generated catalogs, examples, session fixtures, and Python SDK pairs use provider/model targets consistently and are checked by the repository documentation and type-equivalence gates.
+
+## Risks
+
+This is a repo-wide pre-release API break: model-only request construction, adapter registration, app protocols, fixtures, and persisted version-0 event shapes all change together, with no compatibility aliases. The provider exclusivity rule deliberately prevents two implementations of the same upstream from coexisting in one context. A pi-ai dependency update can change the accepted provider/model catalog, so the lockfile and adapter e2e matrix define the tested set. Custom `baseURL` endpoints inherit the chosen catalog model's protocol assumptions and cannot repair an incompatible proxy. Catalog-external model descriptors and multimodal content remain unsupported. pi-ai replay state may contain opaque encrypted reasoning signatures; it is persisted because the provider requires it for continuity, but it is never rendered or logged outside the existing session record.

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@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# Agent Note: 基于提供方路由的 LLM 适配器与通用 pi-ai 后端
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+`dsh-llm` 按精确模型名称注册适配器。插件在 Cordis 启动时提供模型列表，`LlmService` 为列表中的每个字符串保存一个适配器，`GenerateOptions.model` 同时选择适配器与提供方模型。两个正式适配器都只面向相同的两个 DeepSeek 模型时，这种方式可以工作，但它混淆了两个独立决策：由哪个上游提供方承接请求，以及该提供方应运行哪个模型。
+
+这种混淆使提供方网关无法提供开放的模型目录。例如，OpenRouter 是一个包含大量模型 ID 的提供方，私有 OpenAI 兼容端点也可能在不修改 Harness 插件树的情况下增加模型。目前，每个新选择的模型都必须在插件启动期间完成注册。同一个模型 ID 还可能存在于多个提供方中，因此仅按模型注册无法表达调用方预期使用的提供方。
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 没有暴露 pi-ai 的提供方抽象。它以内联方式构造 DeepSeek `openai-completions` 模型，应用 DeepSeek 专用的 payload 补丁，并将每条回放的助手消息标记为 DeepSeek。pi-ai 自身提供提供方/模型目录，能够选择 `openai-responses`、`anthropic-messages`、`google-generative-ai` 等 API，并保留提供方专用的响应 ID，以及后续轮次所需的推理和工具签名。Harness 转换丢弃了这些来源信息，因此仅将内联模型替换为目录查询，会导致同模型回放与跨提供方移交不完整。
+
+适配器配置同样假定只存在一个 DeepSeek API 密钥和端点。通用后端需要为各提供方分别配置凭据和端点覆盖，同时继续由 pi-ai 处理 AWS、Google ADC、OAuth 等环境认证机制。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 提供方作为适配器注册键
+
+`GenerateOptions` 与 `LlmCallConfig` 在 `model: string` 之外携带 `provider: string`，`AgentOptions` 则携带对应的可选创建字段。只有两个值都非空时，agent loop（智能体循环）请求才有效；两个值也都会写入请求头日志。`agent/request` 可以在任意步骤返回替换后的字段组合，因此会话可以切换提供方与模型，无需改变 Cordis 插件生命周期。
+
+`LlmService` 按提供方注册和解析适配器。`registerAdapter(providers, adapter)` 在修改注册表前检查整个提供方列表，遇到重复项时返回 `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER`，并将整组注册作为一个 effect 释放。模型 ID 不作为注册键；仍由选中的适配器负责验证或转发。后续的 [LLM 目录与 ACP 模型选择 Agent Note](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) 增加了建议性的 `listProviders()` / `listModels()` 发现接口，但不会把目录成员关系变成请求校验规则。
+
+在一个 Cordis 上下文中，一个提供方只能有一个适配器所有者。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 注册 `deepseek`；`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 也可以注册 `deepseek`，但同时加载两个所有者属于配置错误，不采用顺序规则或回退行为。若部署选择手写的 DeepSeek 实现，需从 pi-ai 配置中排除 `deepseek`；若部署选择 pi-ai 的 DeepSeek 实现，则不挂载 `dsh-llm-deepseek`。
+
+`dsh-llm-deepseek` 移除模型注册列表，接受通过 `deepseek` 提供方路由的任意模型字符串。其请求序列化、`/chat/completions` 端点、thinking 选项、SSE（Server-Sent Events）解析和错误行为保持不变；`options.model` 仍会原样发送。
+
+### 显式 pi-ai 提供方配置
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 接受一个非空的提供方配置列表。列表内的提供方名称必须唯一，并且存在于 pi-ai 的 `getProviders()` 结果中。每项配置包含提供方名称，以及可选的 `apiKey`、`baseURL`、headers、推理级别和预算、缓存保留设置、传输方式、超时和重试设置。凭据不设全局值：显式密钥仅对所属配置生效；未提供密钥时，pi-ai 使用标准环境变量、OAuth token、AWS 凭据链、Google ADC 或其他提供方原生环境认证。显式空密钥属于无效配置，不会回退到环境认证。
+
+插件通过一次全有或全无调用，将所有已配置的提供方名称注册到同一个 `PiAiAdapter`。请求按 provider 选择对应配置，并在 `getModels(provider)` 中查找模型以取得目录描述符。未知提供方会在插件加载时失败；未知模型会在网络 I/O 前以 `UNKNOWN_MODEL` 失败。适配器不会修改目录对象。当配置提供 `baseURL` 时，适配器复制选中的描述符，仅覆盖 `baseUrl`，使私有端点保留 pi-ai 的 API、能力、兼容标志、上下文限制与推理映射。私有端点必须实现所选提供方的协议，模型 ID 也仍须存在于已安装的 pi-ai 目录中。
+
+适配器调用 pi-ai 的 `streamSimple()`，因此每个目录模型会选择其注册的 API 实现；描述符为 `openai-responses` 时使用 OpenAI Responses，而非 Chat Completions。Harness 的 temperature、最大 token 数、signal、session ID，以及提供方配置中的通用流选项均直接传递。配置 headers 与 Harness 强制归因 headers 合并；发生保留名称冲突时，以 Harness 归因为准。适配器不再维护 DeepSeek 专用 payload 重写或提供方协议矩阵。
+
+pi-ai 的通用流选项不支持停止序列。若 Harness `stop` 选项已定义，`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 会以 `UNSUPPORTED_OPTION` 拒绝请求，不会静默忽略，也不会增加第二套提供方专用 payload 实现。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 继续通过原生请求序列化器支持 `stop`。
+
+### 持久化助手来源信息与回放状态
+
+助手消息携带提供方无关的来源信息，其中包含请求的 `provider` 和 `model`，以及可选的 JSON 可序列化适配器回放状态。成功的 `assistant/message` 会话事件记录这些来源信息，`deriveMessages()` 返回助手消息时也会包含这些信息。用户、system、context 与工具结果消息不携带助手来源信息。provider/model 字段是 agent loop 的权威数据；适配器仅拥有其不透明回放状态 payload。
+
+成功的终止 `finish` 分片可以携带回放状态，`BlockAssembler` 会将其与 token 用量和结束原因一起保留。只有当 `agent/step-result` 处理后的内容与提供方组装输出在结构上相等时，agent loop 才会把回放状态附加到助手来源信息。监听器重写内容后，provider/model 来源信息仍会保留，但已经陈旧的回放状态会被移除。错误或中止响应不会生成正常助手消息，因此不会进入后续模型历史。
+
+pi-ai 回放状态是其成功 `AssistantMessage` 的带版本最小投影，包含源 API/provider/model、响应 ID/model、停止原因，以及按索引对齐的文本、thinking 和工具调用签名。它不会重复 Harness 内容块中已有的文本或工具参数，也不包含诊断信息、时间戳、用量或错误。后续请求中，只有历史提供方和目标提供方当前归同一个适配器实例所有时，`LlmService` 才会把回放状态交给目标适配器。适配器在能够恢复历史响应时，将 Harness 记录的内容与回放状态组合，并负责所需的跨模型或跨提供方转换。适配器收到未知版本或块形状不匹配的回放状态时会显式失败；其他适配器只能收到提供方无关的内容与来源信息。
+
+该状态属于模型可见的回放输入，因此遵循现有的[请求可重建规则](2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md)：它同时存在于终止 `finish` 分片和驱动派生的已组装 `assistant/message` 来源信息中。恢复和 fork 会原样保留该状态。压缩（compaction）遮蔽助手消息时，也会从活动 surface 中移除其回放状态；摘要属于普通的提供方无关内容。
+
+### 在所有请求生产方中传播目标
+
+每个模型选择接口都同时携带 provider 与 model：声明式 agent、ACP（Agent Client Protocol）和 stdio 应用配置、JSON-RPC initialize 请求、subagent 覆盖与继承、工作流子 agent 覆盖，以及直接压缩摘要。subagent 先从父 agent 继承两个字段，再应用请求覆盖。系统提示词变量集合在 `model` 之外增加 `provider`。
+
+压缩配置在 `summarizationModel` 之外增加 `summarizationProvider`。两个值均为空时继承，均非空时选择显式目标；只配置其中一个会导致加载失败。继承优先使用最近一次记录的请求目标，没有时回退到 agent 创建选项。`compact/summary` 使用现有模型调用 envelope 记录两个字段。
+
+JSON-RPC 运行时显式接收 provider 与 model。仅当 `deepseek` 提供方没有注册所有者时，其便利回退才会挂载 `dsh-llm-deepseek`；其他缺失的提供方会直接失败，不会猜测适配器。
+
+磁盘会话格式仍使用预发布阶段固定的版本 `0`，且不承诺兼容性。seed/load 验证会拒绝缺少 provider 的请求头，以及缺少必需来源信息的助手消息，不会接受已无法重建请求的旧格式。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+**继续以模型名称作为注册表键，并增加通配适配器。** 通配机制会在精确注册与兜底插件之间引入回退顺序，使重复所有权取决于监听器顺序；若不再增加其他约定，仍无法区分不同提供方中相同的模型 ID。
+
+**将提供方与模型编码到一个字符串中。** OpenRouter 的 `openai/gpt-*` 等值已经包含类似提供方的前缀和斜杠。分隔符约定会把路由语法泄漏到每个模型选择接口，并需要转义规则；两个显式字段更清晰，也可以分别记录日志。
+
+**增加 `backend + provider + model`。** backend 键可以让 `dsh-llm-deepseek` 与 pi-ai 的 DeepSeek 实现共存，并按请求切换。最终采用的部署规则是一个提供方对应一个适配器所有者：同一上游的不同实现属于由插件组合选定的替代项。第三个路由维度会增加每个请求与配置的负担，却没有当前消费方。
+
+**让 `dsh-llm-pi-ai` 自动注册所有 pi-ai 提供方。** 这种方式会占用部署无意暴露的环境凭据和提供方名称，并与 `dsh-llm-deepseek` 等原生适配器冲突。显式配置可以审查能力和凭据范围。
+
+**每个提供方挂载一个 pi-ai 插件实例。** 独立实例可以隔离配置，但会重复插件声明，也无法实现配置注册的原子性。每个请求本就向同一个适配器提供 provider，因此经过验证的配置映射具有更小的生命周期接口。
+
+**接受任意内联 pi-ai 模型描述符。** 这种方式可支持目录外的私有模型 ID，但会将 pi-ai 的模型与兼容性 schema 暴露为 Harness 配置，并要求适配器验证协议专用组合。当前版本通过覆盖目录模型的 `baseURL` 支持自定义端点；只有实际出现目录外部署需求后，才会另行决策是否支持自定义描述符。
+
+## 影响
+
+- 提供方名称是部署范围内的路由所有权键：两个提供方可以使用相同的模型字符串，但为同一个提供方挂载两个适配器会在加载时失败，不会形成回退顺序。
+- 模型选择不再改变 Cordis 插件图。目录型适配器可以接受启动后选择的任意已安装目录模型，原生 DeepSeek 适配器则会转发任意 DeepSeek 模型 ID。
+- 自定义 `baseURL` 会保留所选目录模型的协议与能力，但不会让目录外模型 ID 变为有效。私有端点必须实现该目录项对应的协议。
+- pi-ai 凭据与传输选项按提供方配置隔离。省略密钥时委托 pi-ai 使用环境认证；显式空密钥无效。
+- pi-ai 的通用流 API 无法表达停止序列，因此 `dsh-llm-pi-ai` 会拒绝停止序列；原生 DeepSeek 适配器仍支持停止序列。
+- 仅当历史提供方与目标提供方归同一个适配器实例所有时，回放状态才可移植。适配器负责跨提供方和跨模型恢复；其他适配器只接收不含不透明状态的提供方无关历史。
+- 当前预发布会话 JSONL 要求请求头包含 provider/model，助手消息包含来源信息。旧格式仍使用版本 `0`，但会被拒绝，不执行迁移。
+
+## 测试
+
+- 单元测试覆盖注册表冲突、请求重建、会话验证、配置解析、选项转发、包括 OpenAI Responses 在内的原生 API 选择、转换、回放验证、错误映射、取消、内容重写，以及同一实例与不同实例间的回放分发。
+- 无密钥的 agent loop/会话测试和 ACP 快照覆盖持久化 provider/model 元数据、恢复与 fork 传播、工作流/subagent 覆盖，以及不变的用户可见 transcript（文本记录）；密钥门控的 DeepSeek e2e 测试保留真实提供方的流式输出与工具后续调用覆盖率。
+- 公共 JSDoc、package README、架构与核心数据结构文档、生成目录、示例、会话 fixture（测试前置数据）和 Python SDK 配对文档统一使用 provider/model 目标，并由仓库文档与类型等价门禁校验。
+
+## 风险
+
+这是一次覆盖全仓库的预发布 API 破坏性变更：仅模型的请求构造、适配器注册、应用协议、fixture，以及持久化版本 0 事件格式会同时变化，不提供兼容别名。提供方排他规则有意禁止同一上游的两个实现共存于同一上下文。pi-ai 依赖升级可能改变可接受的提供方/模型目录，因此锁文件与适配器 e2e 矩阵定义已验证集合。自定义 `baseURL` 端点会继承所选目录模型的协议假设，无法修复不兼容的代理。目录外模型描述符与多模态内容仍不受支持。pi-ai 回放状态可能包含不透明的加密推理签名；提供方需要该信息维持连续性，因此系统会持久化该状态，但不会在现有会话记录之外渲染或记录它。

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+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
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+# Agent Note: Initiating Agent scope over AsyncLocalStorage
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+The harness has two useful but different notions of context. A Cordis `Context` selects services, registration ownership, and lifetime; `agent.ctx` is the flat registration scope owned by one live Agent. Agent and Session identity instead describe the subject of an asynchronous operation. Changing a root `ctx.agent` to mean “whichever Agent is running” would conflate those meanings and fail when one process drives Agents concurrently.
+
+Deep process-local infrastructure sometimes needs a trusted initiating Agent below explicit loop, tool, and request parameters—for example, a host-aware transport, tracing helper, logger, or gateway client. Requiring every private helper to forward `agent` adds repetition, while a process-global mutable slot is incorrect across `await`. Model-visible arguments are unsuitable because a model must not choose a trusted Session or routing header. The carrier belongs to the Agent service rather than optional model-visible context.
+
+## Decision
+
+The mandatory `ctx.agents` service uses Node `AsyncLocalStorage` to carry the initiating Agent. It stores the exact `Agent` directly rather than introducing a one-field frame; a separate private run token records nested boundary lineage only for teardown bookkeeping and carries no identity. The [core-data catalog](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/core.md#initiating-agent) identifies the carried type.
+
+`currentInitiator()` reads optionally, `requireInitiator()` throws `no initiating agent is active`, and `withInitiator(agent, operation)` preserves the operation's exact synchronous value or Promise. `withoutInitiator(operation)` establishes a clearing boundary for work that must not inherit an Agent. Session remains derived as `agent.session`; turn, step, tool call, `signal`, model, `cwd`, sandbox, and authorization stay with their existing owners.
+
+`AgentLoop` already injects `ctx.agents` and wraps each concrete driver's complete `runLoop` lifetime in `agents.withInitiator(agent, ...)`. Its package-private loop, turn, step, and tool-call orchestration entries recover the exact Agent from `ctx.agents`, derive `agent.session` once, and let operation-local helpers capture it instead of forwarding the concrete driver or `Session` through shallow interfaces. A leaf helper keeps a narrow `Session` parameter when that is its actual interface rather than accepting a broader `Context` only for an ambient lookup.
+
+Concurrent drivers receive independent stores. A child driver's continuations carry the child, while the caller resumes in its prior store as soon as `withInitiator()` returns; active-run tracking keeps the returned Promise in the teardown drain until it settles. Creation, persistence load, and unpublished `setup(agentCtx)` remain outside the child's driver boundary: creation initiated by a parent runs under the parent identity, while `agentCtx.agent` explicitly identifies the child.
+
+Ambient identity does not replace explicit contracts. `ToolExecution.agent`, `AssembleContext.agent`, `GenerateOptions.sessionId`, task ownership, parent/child requests, `ctx.agent`, `agentCtx.agent`, approval and hook subjects, `cwd` selection, cancellation, worker/process messages, persistence records, and wire identity remain explicit. A remote boundary materializes the identity it needs into its typed request because ALS is process-local.
+
+`AgentRegistry` owns an ordered initiator lifecycle. Teardown first rejects new boundaries; removing `ctx.agents` then drains injected dependents such as AgentLoop, and the registry waits for active returned-Promise boundaries before calling `AsyncLocalStorage.disable()`. If a boundary's inherited async chain starts an owning Cordis fiber's unload, the private run-token lineage releases that nested boundary chain from the drain, which prevents teardown from waiting on itself while unrelated boundaries still drain. `currentInitiator()` and `requireInitiator()` remain usable through a retained in-flight service reference while the ordinary drain runs; after disposal, initiator methods throw `agent initiator scope is disposed`. Root Context disposal may start sibling fiber teardown concurrently, so active-boundary counting remains necessary in addition to Cordis dependency ordering.
+
+Initiator scope does not own detached work: registry drain tracks only the Promise returned by `withInitiator()` or `withoutInitiator()`. Asynchronous resources created inside a boundary inherit its store until they settle or ALS is disabled, so their owning seam must stop unreturned work explicitly. Agent-owned foreground work returns its lifetime and keeps its cancellation contract. Unrelated timers, queues, and deployment infrastructure start under `withoutInitiator(operation)`; queue, worker, process, and wire boundaries serialize identity rather than expecting ALS propagation.
+
+A host-aware transport may derive a deployment-owned header such as `X-Harness-Session-Id` from `ctx.agents.requireInitiator().session.id`; the header is absent from model-visible schema and arguments. No production MCP or Web transport adopts such a header in this decision. A test-double transport proves the trusted boundary without assigning host routing policy to an existing provider-neutral seam.
+
+This decision extends the [Agent registration-scope contract](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) and its [runtime design](2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md); it does not change their static `agent.ctx` meaning.
+
+## Verification
+
+Agent service tests pin optional and required reads, exact synchronous and cross-realm Promise identity, intrinsic Promise settlement observation, overlapping, nested, and cleared boundaries, restoration after throws or rejection, ordinary and reentrant drain ordering, and retained-reference errors. AgentLoop integration pins concurrent and nested drivers, agentless calls, AgentRegistry restart, root teardown, and package-private loop and tool scheduling through the ambient lookup. Composition, module-graph, build, and runtime-closure checks keep `ctx.agents` wired through the default bundle, SDK spine, Python runtime closure, and direct AgentLoop harnesses without another provider.
+
+A test-double host-aware transport derives `X-Harness-Session-Id` internally and verifies that tool schema and logged arguments contain no identity field. The service deliberately does not drain async work omitted from the Promise returned by the boundary operation; that work remains subject to its owner's explicit stop contract.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Pass Agent through every function.** Public, worker, process, persistence, and wire boundaries continue to do this, but requiring every process-local private helper to carry Agent adds repetitive forwarding without improving trust. ALS is confined to the asynchronous chain inside those explicit boundaries.
+
+**Make `ctx.agent` dynamic.** `ctx.agent` already means the static Agent associated with an Agent-scoped Cordis context. Changing the root meaning would mix registration and execution scopes and make concurrent behavior surprising.
+
+**Add a separate `ctx.agentExecution` service.** The carrier has no independent backend, configuration, or identity type: it stores the same `Agent` that `ctx.agents` already owns, and AgentLoop already depends on that service. A second mandatory provider would add package, composition, lifecycle, generated-catalog, and test-harness wiring without separating a real capability.
+
+**Store a named or complete runtime frame.** A one-field `{ agent }` frame only wraps the value, while Agent, Session, inbox, cancellation, turn, step, tool execution, and persistence already have authoritative owners. Adding more fields would create stale snapshots and another lifecycle; carrying `Agent` directly keeps the boundary named by its methods without duplicating state.
+
+**Include a step `AbortSignal`, `cwd`, sandbox, or authorization.** Their lifetimes and authority do not match the driver boundary, and their existing seams already pass them explicitly. Adding a control capability requires a separate decision and nested lifecycle contract.
+
+**Use a process-global `currentAgent`.** Concurrent Agents and subagents overwrite one another across awaited continuations, so a mutable global is correct only under a serialization guarantee the harness does not make.
+
+**Derive identity from model-visible arguments.** Model or user input cannot be trusted to select Session, tenant, or sandbox routing.
+
+**Add routing identity to every capability seam.** That spreads hosting concerns through provider-neutral APIs. A host-aware implementation owns its transport header while public boundaries remain explicit.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Deep infrastructure gains one trusted process-local initiating Agent without widening existing tool and capability requests. Concurrent and nested drivers isolate automatically, AgentLoop gains no additional mandatory service, and HMR/root disposal reaches quiescence before ALS is disabled.
+
+The dependency is implicit in function signatures and carries a capability-bearing Agent object. Consumers must restrict it to cross-cutting infrastructure, treat ambient presence as neither liveness nor authorization, and retain explicit cancellation and ownership checks. ALS also has an always-on propagation cost and does not cross worker, process, HTTP, or durable queue boundaries.
+
+The teardown design deliberately accepts Node's [Stability 1 (Experimental)](https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html#asynclocalstoragedisable) `AsyncLocalStorage.disable()` dependency. Node requires `disable()` before an ALS instance can be garbage-collected, which matters when HMR replaces AgentRegistry-owned instances; the service state guard prevents a later boundary from re-entering the instance after disposal.
+
+The scope deliberately carries only the Agent, omitting turn, step, `signal`, `cwd`, sandbox, and authorization. A real consumer that cannot use existing explicit fields must justify any refinement separately; a stale copied field may at most mislabel telemetry, never grant control.

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+# Agent Note: 基于 AsyncLocalStorage 的发起 Agent 作用域
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+Harness 中存在两种有用但不同的上下文概念。Cordis `Context` 负责选择服务、注册归属和生命周期；`agent.ctx` 是一个存活 Agent 所拥有的扁平注册作用域。Agent 与会话身份描述的则是异步操作主体。若把根 `ctx.agent` 改成「当前正在运行的 Agent」，就会混淆这两种含义，并在单进程并发驱动多个 Agent 时失效。
+
+进程内深层基础设施有时需要在显式传递的循环、工具及请求参数之下获取可信的发起 Agent，例如宿主感知传输层、追踪辅助函数、日志器或网关客户端。要求每个私有辅助函数都转发 `agent` 会造成重复，而进程级可变槽会在跨 `await` 时发生并发错误。模型可见参数也不适用，因为模型不得选择可信的会话或路由请求头。该载体归 Agent 服务所有，而非模型可见的可选上下文。
+
+## 决策
+
+必需的 `ctx.agents` 服务使用 Node `AsyncLocalStorage` 携带发起 Agent。它直接存储同一个 `Agent`，不引入只有一个字段的帧；另一个私有运行标记只记录嵌套边界的谱系，供 teardown 记账使用，不携带身份。[核心数据目录](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/core.md#initiating-agent)标明了所携带的类型。
+
+`currentInitiator()` 用于可选读取，`requireInitiator()` 抛出 `no initiating agent is active`，`withInitiator(agent, operation)` 保留操作返回的同步值或 Promise 本身。`withoutInitiator(operation)` 会建立清空边界，供不得继承 Agent 的工作使用。会话仍通过 `agent.session` 推导；轮次、步骤、工具调用、`signal`、模型、`cwd`、沙箱和授权继续由现有归属方管理。
+
+`AgentLoop` 已经注入 `ctx.agents`，并用 `agents.withInitiator(agent, ...)` 包裹每个具体驱动的完整 `runLoop` 生命周期。循环、轮次、步骤和工具调用的包内私有入口从 `ctx.agents` 恢复同一个 Agent，一次推导 `agent.session`，再由操作内辅助函数捕获该值，避免在浅层接口中转发具体驱动或 `Session`。若 `Session` 本身就是底层辅助函数的实际接口，该函数会保留狭窄的 `Session` 参数，而不会只为隐式查找而接收更宽泛的 `Context`。
+
+因此，并发驱动使用彼此独立的存储。子驱动的异步延续携带子 Agent；`withInitiator()` 返回后，调用方立即恢复之前的存储，而活动运行计数仍持续跟踪返回的 Promise，直到其结束。创建、持久化加载和尚未发布的 `setup(agentCtx)` 位于子驱动边界之外：由父 Agent 发起的创建使用父身份，而 `agentCtx.agent` 显式标识子 Agent。
+
+隐式身份不会取代显式契约。`ToolExecution.agent`、`AssembleContext.agent`、`GenerateOptions.sessionId`、任务归属、父子请求、`ctx.agent`、`agentCtx.agent`、审批与 hook 主体、`cwd` 选择、取消、worker 和进程消息、持久化记录及协议身份都保持显式传递。远程边界会把所需身份写入类型化请求，因为 ALS 只在进程内有效。
+
+`AgentRegistry` 管理一个有序的发起方生命周期。teardown 会先拒绝新边界；移除 `ctx.agents` 后，AgentLoop 等注入方开始排空，注册表随后等待活动的返回 Promise 边界，最后调用 `AsyncLocalStorage.disable()`。如果某个边界继承的异步调用链启动所属 Cordis fiber 的卸载，私有运行标记谱系会从排空范围中释放该嵌套边界链，从而避免 teardown 等待自身完成，同时继续排空无关边界。在普通排空期间，进行中代码可通过保留的服务引用继续调用 `currentInitiator()` 和 `requireInitiator()`；dispose 后，发起方方法会抛出 `agent initiator scope is disposed`。根 Context dispose 可能并发启动同级 fiber 的 teardown，因此除 Cordis 依赖顺序外仍必须统计活动边界。
+
+发起方作用域不负责管理脱离返回链的工作：注册表排空只跟踪 `withInitiator()` 或 `withoutInitiator()` 返回的 Promise。边界内创建的异步资源会继承其存储，直到自身结束或 ALS 被禁用；所属 seam 必须显式停止未纳入返回 Promise 的工作。Agent 所有前台工作会把完整生命周期纳入返回值，并保留显式取消契约。无关的定时器、队列和部署基础设施在 `withoutInitiator(operation)` 下启动；队列、worker、进程和协议边界必须序列化身份，不能期待 ALS 传播。
+
+宿主感知的传输层可以从 `ctx.agents.requireInitiator().session.id` 推导由部署方拥有的 `X-Harness-Session-Id` 等请求头；模型可见 schema 和参数中不包含该请求头。本决策不让现有生产 MCP 或 Web 传输层采用此请求头。测试替身传输层用于证明可信边界，而不会把宿主路由策略分配给现有的提供方无关 seam。
+
+本决策扩展 [Agent 注册作用域契约](2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md)及其[运行时设计](2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md)，不会改变其中 `agent.ctx` 的静态含义。
+
+## 验证
+
+Agent 服务测试锁定可选与必需读取、同步值和跨 realm Promise 的引用身份、内建 Promise 结束状态观察、并发、嵌套及清空边界、同步抛错或 Promise 拒绝后的恢复、普通与重入排空顺序及保留引用的错误。AgentLoop 集成测试锁定并发与嵌套驱动、无 Agent 调用、AgentRegistry 重启、根 Context 销毁，以及包内私有的循环和工具调度通过隐式查找完成。组合、模块图、构建及运行时闭包检查确保默认组合包、SDK 主干、Python 运行时闭包及直接 AgentLoop harness 通过 `ctx.agents` 完成接线，无需其他提供方。
+
+测试替身形式的宿主感知传输层在内部推导 `X-Harness-Session-Id`，并验证工具 schema 与记录参数都不包含身份字段。服务有意不排空边界操作所返回 Promise 之外的异步工作；这类工作仍由所属方的显式停止契约管理。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+**在每个函数中传递 Agent。** 公开、worker、进程、持久化和协议边界继续显式传递，但要求每个进程内私有辅助函数都携带 Agent 只会造成重复转发，不会提高可信度。ALS 仅限于这些显式边界内部的异步调用链。
+
+**让 `ctx.agent` 变成动态值。** `ctx.agent` 已经表示与 Agent 作用域 Cordis 上下文静态关联的 Agent。改变根上下文的含义会混合注册作用域与执行作用域，并让并发行为变得意外。
+
+**新增独立的 `ctx.agentExecution` 服务。** 该载体没有独立后端、配置或身份类型：它存储的是 `ctx.agents` 已经管理的同一个 `Agent`，而 AgentLoop 本就依赖该服务。第二个必需提供方会增加包、组合、生命周期、生成目录及测试 harness 接线，却没有拆出真实能力。
+
+**保存命名帧或完整运行时帧。** 只有一个字段的 `{ agent }` 帧只是包装该值，而 Agent、会话、inbox、取消、轮次、步骤、工具执行和持久化已经有各自的真源。增加更多字段会产生陈旧快照和另一套生命周期；直接携带 `Agent`，由方法名标识边界，无需重复保存状态。
+
+**包含步骤级 `AbortSignal`、`cwd`、沙箱或授权。** 它们的生命周期及权限范围与驱动边界不一致，而且现有 seam 已经显式传递这些值。新增控制能力需要独立决策和嵌套生命周期契约。
+
+**使用进程级 `currentAgent`。** 并发 Agent 和 subagent 会在异步延续执行之间相互覆盖，因此可变全局值只在 Harness 不具备的串行保证下才正确。
+
+**从模型可见参数推导身份。** 不能信任模型或用户输入来选择会话、租户或沙箱路由。
+
+**给每个能力 seam 增加路由身份。** 这会把宿主关注点扩散到提供方无关 API。宿主感知实现拥有其传输请求头，而公开边界继续显式传递身份。
+
+## 后果
+
+深层基础设施可以获得一个可信的进程内发起 Agent，而无需加宽现有工具和能力请求。并发及嵌套驱动会自动隔离，AgentLoop 不增加新的必需服务，HMR 或根 Context dispose 会在禁用 ALS 前完成排空。
+
+该依赖不会出现在函数签名中，并且携带一个具有控制能力的 Agent 对象。消费方必须将其限制在横切基础设施中，把隐式存在视为既不证明存活、也不授予权限，并保留显式取消和归属检查。ALS 还有常驻传播成本，也无法跨越 worker、进程、HTTP 或持久化队列边界。
+
+该销毁设计有意依赖 Node 的 [Stability 1（实验性）](https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html#asynclocalstoragedisable) API `AsyncLocalStorage.disable()`。Node 要求在 ALS 实例可被垃圾回收前调用 `disable()`，这对 HMR 替换 AgentRegistry 所拥有的实例尤为重要；服务状态守卫会阻止 dispose 后通过后续边界重新进入该实例。
+
+该作用域有意只携带 Agent，省略轮次、步骤、`signal`、`cwd`、沙箱和授权。若真实消费方无法使用现有显式字段，必须另行论证扩展；陈旧字段最多只能误标遥测数据，绝不能授予控制权。

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md: 6cc8afc6c7431fbf3eb29fc358b432db4f72b529
+2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.zh.md: 1cce7a58d0ec83dc01feaf72ccb61d294a78ddd5

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+# Agent Note: Advisory LLM catalogs and per-session ACP model selection
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+Provider-routed adapters let every request choose `provider + model`, but `LlmService` exposed only routing and streaming. A UI could not discover which providers were registered or which models an adapter was prepared to recommend. ACP clients therefore received no `model` session config option, so Zed, JetBrains, and VS Code integrations had no model list even though the request seam already supported runtime switching.
+
+Model discovery cannot become request validation. The hand-written DeepSeek adapter deliberately forwards arbitrary model ids to a public or private endpoint, while pi-ai has a finite installed catalog that is authoritative for its own request resolution. Treating one shared catalog as a whitelist would remove the private-endpoint behavior that provider routing was designed to preserve.
+
+ACP selection must also preserve the provider dimension. The same model id may appear under multiple routes, and switching a global adapter or agent template would leak one editor session's choice into every other session. Prompt variables and request routing must change together; a selection that lands during asynchronous prompt assembly cannot make `{{model}}` name one model while the request reaches another.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Provider-neutral advisory discovery
+
+`LlmAdapter` gains `providerInfo(provider)` and asynchronous `listModels(provider)` methods. Their provider-neutral results are `LlmProviderInfo { id, name }` and `LlmModelInfo { provider, id, name, description? }`. The defaults preserve existing adapter behavior by naming a provider after its route and advertising no models.
+
+`LlmService.listProviders()` returns detached metadata in registration order. `LlmService.listModels(provider)` delegates to the route owner, validates non-empty ids and names, rejects a mismatched provider or duplicate model id with `INVALID_CATALOG`, and returns detached values. Unknown providers still fail with `NO_ADAPTER`. Provider metadata is validated atomically during `registerAdapter()` so a malformed display record cannot leave a partial registration.
+
+Catalog membership is advisory. It drives selectors and diagnostics but never changes `stream()` routing and never rejects an otherwise valid request. Provider ownership remains exclusive and lifecycle-bound; model ids remain request-time adapter input.
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` maps the configured provider's installed `getModels(provider)` entries into the neutral catalog. Its existing request-time catalog lookup remains authoritative and still rejects unknown models with `UNKNOWN_MODEL`. `dsh-llm-deepseek` accepts an optional `models` config containing display entries, defaulting to `deepseek-v4-flash` and `deepseek-v4-pro`. An explicit list replaces those defaults and an empty list disables discovery. The entries improve selector UX for known public or private models, while every unlisted model id continues to pass through unchanged.
+
+### ACP session config option
+
+The ACP bridge advertises one select with `id: model` and `category: model` in `session/new` and `session/load` when the session has a complete target whose provider is registered. Each opaque option value encodes the full provider/model pair. Models are grouped by provider when multiple non-empty provider groups exist; a single group is flattened for clients that render simple selects better.
+
+The session's current target is added to the displayed options when its adapter omits it. This preserves custom DeepSeek and private-endpoint models while keeping the adapter catalog advisory. A target with an unregistered provider is not advertised, and a model-less agent remains available to another `agent/request` supplier.
+
+`session/set_config_option` accepts only values from the current catalog snapshot and updates a target reference owned by that ACP session. No global `LlmService` or `AgentOptions` state changes, so concurrent sessions may select different providers and models. The existing permission select remains independent, and every response returns the complete refreshed option state.
+
+### Prompt/request consistency and durability
+
+Agent setup installs scoped `system-prompt/assemble` and `agent/request` listeners. Prompt assembly snapshots the selected pair once per step, overwrites the assembled `provider` and `model` variables after downstream prompt listeners, and the request listener applies that same snapshot after downstream request listeners. A selection during asynchronous assembly therefore starts on the next step rather than splitting prompt text from routing. Other call-config fields remain untouched.
+
+The request header remains the durable source of truth. When a selected target is actually used, the existing full `request/header` snapshot records it. `session/load` initializes the ACP selection from the folded last request header before falling back to bridge config. A selection that is never used by a request is intentionally in-memory only because it never became model-visible state.
+
+ACP's experimental `providers/*` capability is not used. That draft surface configures provider base URLs, protocols, and headers, including secrets; it does not enumerate models and would give the UI authority to rewrite deployment-owned adapter configuration.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Return model strings only.** A model-only value loses the provider route and becomes ambiguous as soon as two providers expose the same id.
+
+**Make catalogs mandatory whitelists.** This conflicts with the hand-written adapter's arbitrary model pass-through and private deployments. The selected adapter already owns authoritative request validation.
+
+**Store selection in `AgentOptions` or `LlmService`.** Those are creation-wide or deployment-wide objects. Mutating them would couple concurrent ACP sessions and bypass the logged `agent/request` replacement path.
+
+**Persist a new model-selection session event immediately.** An unused UI selection has not affected a model request. Recording the existing request header when the target is consumed preserves the model-visible-if-and-only-if-logged rule without adding a second source of truth.
+
+**Use ACP `providers/*`.** That unstable API changes endpoint and authentication configuration rather than selecting a model for one session, and its lifecycle and secret-handling semantics do not match this feature.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Any adapter can expose a dynamic model list without leaking provider-library types into the core seam.
+- Catalog consumers must treat absence as “not advertised,” never “invalid request.”
+- pi-ai-backed ACP deployments automatically inherit the installed pi-ai provider catalogs; hand-written DeepSeek deployments list known choices explicitly and retain arbitrary model support.
+- ACP clients receive a standard stable model config option, with provider-aware values and per-session isolation.
+- Request headers remain compatible with the provider-routed session shape; no new JSONL event or format version is required.
+- A catalog read can be asynchronous. ACP reads a detached snapshot before creating or resuming an agent, so discovery failure cannot leave a partially published session.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit coverage validates catalog detachment and malformed metadata, pi-ai and DeepSeek catalog projection, ACP provider grouping, custom-current insertion, invalid values, provider/model request routing, prompt-variable alignment, concurrent-session isolation, model-less fallback, and load restoration from the request header. The existing ACP transport suites verify that the additional config option does not change prompt, cancellation, replay, approval, or tool-rendering behavior.

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+# Agent Note: 建议性 LLM 目录与 ACP 会话级模型选择
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+基于提供方路由的适配器允许每次请求选择 `provider + model`，但 `LlmService` 只暴露路由和流式调用。UI 无法发现已注册的提供方，也无法知道适配器愿意推荐哪些模型。因此，ACP 客户端收不到 `model` 会话配置项；即使请求接缝已经支持运行时切换，Zed、JetBrains 和 VS Code 集成仍没有模型列表。
+
+模型发现不能变成请求校验。手写 DeepSeek 适配器会把任意模型 ID 原样转发给公开或私有端点，而 pi-ai 的有限安装目录则是其自身请求解析的权威依据。将共享目录视为白名单，会破坏提供方路由需要保留的私有端点能力。
+
+ACP 选择还必须保留提供方维度。同一个模型 ID 可能存在于多个路由下；切换全局适配器或 agent 模板会让一个编辑器会话的选择泄漏到其他会话。Prompt 变量与请求路由必须同时变化；如果选择发生在异步 prompt 组装期间，不能让 `{{model}}` 表示一个模型、实际请求却到达另一个模型。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 提供方中立的建议性发现
+
+`LlmAdapter` 增加 `providerInfo(provider)` 与异步 `listModels(provider)` 方法。其提供方中立结果分别为 `LlmProviderInfo { id, name }` 和 `LlmModelInfo { provider, id, name, description? }`。默认实现以路由名称作为提供方名称，并且不展示模型，从而保持现有适配器行为。
+
+`LlmService.listProviders()` 按注册顺序返回分离后的元数据。`LlmService.listModels(provider)` 委托给路由所有者，校验非空 ID 和名称，并在提供方不匹配或模型 ID 重复时以 `INVALID_CATALOG` 失败，最后返回分离后的值。未知提供方仍以 `NO_ADAPTER` 失败。提供方元数据在 `registerAdapter()` 期间进行原子校验，错误展示记录不会留下部分注册。
+
+目录成员关系仅提供建议。它驱动选择器与诊断，但不会改变 `stream()` 路由，也不会拒绝原本有效的请求。提供方所有权仍然具有排他性并绑定生命周期；模型 ID 仍是请求时传给适配器的输入。
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 将已配置提供方的安装目录 `getModels(provider)` 映射为中立目录。其现有请求时目录查询仍是权威依据，未知模型仍以 `UNKNOWN_MODEL` 失败。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 接受可选的 `models` 配置作为展示条目，默认包含 `deepseek-v4-flash` 和 `deepseek-v4-pro`。显式列表会替换这些默认值，空列表则关闭发现。这些条目改善已知公开或私有模型的选择体验，而所有未列出的模型 ID 仍会原样透传。
+
+### ACP 会话配置项
+
+当会话具有完整目标且目标提供方已注册时，ACP bridge 会在 `session/new` 与 `session/load` 中展示一个 `id: model`、`category: model` 的选择项。每个不透明选项值都编码完整的提供方/模型字段组合。存在多个非空提供方分组时按提供方分组；只有一个分组时将其展开，以便对简单选择器支持更好的客户端展示。
+
+如果适配器目录未包含会话当前目标，该目标仍会加入展示选项。这能保留自定义 DeepSeek 与私有端点模型，同时维持目录的建议性。提供方未注册的目标不会展示；缺少模型的 agent 仍可由其他 `agent/request` 提供者补齐。
+
+`session/set_config_option` 只接受当前目录快照中的值，并更新该 ACP 会话独占的目标引用。它不会修改全局 `LlmService` 或 `AgentOptions` 状态，因此并发会话可以选择不同的提供方和模型。现有权限选择项保持独立，每次响应都返回完整的刷新后配置项状态。
+
+### Prompt/请求一致性与持久化
+
+Agent setup 会安装作用域内的 `system-prompt/assemble` 与 `agent/request` 监听器。Prompt 组装为每个 step 只快照一次选中的字段组合，在下游 prompt 监听器完成后覆盖组装结果中的 `provider` 与 `model` 变量；请求监听器则在下游请求监听器完成后应用同一个快照。因此，异步组装期间发生的选择会从下一个 step 生效，不会导致 prompt 文本与路由分裂。其他调用配置字段保持不变。
+
+请求头仍是持久化事实来源。当选中目标被实际使用时，现有的完整 `request/header` 快照会记录它。`session/load` 先从折叠后的最后请求头初始化 ACP 选择，再回退到 bridge 配置。一个从未被请求使用的选择只保留在内存中，因为它从未成为模型可见状态。
+
+本功能不使用 ACP 的实验性 `providers/*` 能力。该草案接口配置提供方 base URL、协议和 headers，其中可能包含密钥；它不枚举模型，并且会赋予 UI 改写部署所有的适配器配置的权力。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+**只返回模型字符串。** 仅模型值会丢失提供方路由；两个提供方暴露相同 ID 时立刻产生歧义。
+
+**将目录设为强制白名单。** 这与手写适配器的任意模型透传和私有部署冲突。请求的权威校验本就属于被选中的适配器。
+
+**将选择存入 `AgentOptions` 或 `LlmService`。** 这些对象分别面向创建过程或整个部署。修改它们会耦合并发 ACP 会话，并绕开带日志归因的 `agent/request` 替换路径。
+
+**立即写入新的模型选择会话事件。** 尚未使用的 UI 选择没有影响模型请求。目标被消费时记录现有请求头，既满足“模型可见当且仅当已记录”的规则，也不会引入第二个事实来源。
+
+**使用 ACP `providers/*`。** 该不稳定 API 用于修改端点与认证配置，而不是为单个会话选择模型；其生命周期和密钥处理语义都不适合本功能。
+
+## 结果
+
+- 任意适配器都能暴露动态模型列表，无需把提供方库类型泄漏到核心接缝。
+- 目录消费者必须把缺失理解为“未展示”，而不是“请求无效”。
+- 基于 pi-ai 的 ACP 部署会自动继承已安装的 pi-ai 提供方目录；手写 DeepSeek 部署显式列出已知选项，同时保留任意模型能力。
+- ACP 客户端会收到稳定标准的模型配置项，其中的值保留提供方信息，并按会话隔离。
+- 请求头继续使用基于提供方路由的会话结构；不需要增加 JSONL 事件或格式版本。
+- 目录读取可以是异步的。ACP 在创建或恢复 agent 前读取分离后的快照，因此发现失败不会留下部分发布的会话。
+
+## 测试
+
+单元测试覆盖目录分离与错误元数据、pi-ai 和 DeepSeek 目录投影、ACP 提供方分组、自定义当前模型补入、无效值、提供方/模型请求路由、prompt 变量一致性、并发会话隔离、无模型回退，以及从请求头恢复选择。现有 ACP 传输测试验证新增配置项不会改变 prompt、取消、回放、审批或工具展示行为。

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
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+2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md: 4437626c8651a80537d45197a93733271a592173

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+# Agent Note: Replay token meter service
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+Context pressure is useful outside compaction. A compaction backend, an overflow guard, or a future request-policy plugin can all need the same answer: how much of the configured context window does the durable request consume? Keeping that fold inside `dsh-compact-basic` duplicates replay logic, makes measurement unavailable without compaction, and encourages callers to reuse stale accounting.
+
+Provider usage is not a complete answer. It describes one successful call under one exact request envelope, while the current surface can grow, shrink, or be replaced afterward. Sessions also switch providers and models, old logs can lack chunk provenance, and usage fields separate input, cache-read, cache-write, output, and reasoning counts. A useful service therefore combines the latest exact anchor with conservative heuristic repricing and exposes the log revision consumed by each result.
+
+## Decision
+
+### One concrete LLM-family service
+
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-token-meter` is one concrete package under `packages/llm/` and registers `ctx.tokenMeter`. It is not split into an interface and backend before a second implementation exists. `TokenMeterService` itself exposes `contextWindow`, `measure(session, requestHeader?)`, and `estimateMessage(message)`; consumers call the singleton service directly.
+
+The service has one `contextWindow`, defaulting to 128,000 tokens and configurable as a positive integer. Estimation uses a fixed four-characters-per-token heuristic plus structural overhead. There are no model profiles, density settings, tokenizer backends, or language-specific strategies.
+
+### Per-session replay folds
+
+Each session owns one isolated incremental fold. Active folds advance from `session/event`; every read catches up through the durable tail, so listener ordering, seeded sessions, and service reload do not change the answer. The fold tracks canonical full request-header snapshots, step boundaries, surface appends and replacements, assistant usage, and assistant-chunk provenance. A malformed next event fails transactionally and remains unread rather than partially mutating state.
+
+`measure(session, requestHeader?)` synchronizes the fold once and returns scalar pressure together with positional per-node prices. `totalTokens` remains request-and-response pressure; `surfaceTokens` is the surface-only heuristic total and equals the sum of `nodes[].tokens`. A `requestHeader` override changes pressure pricing only, while the surface fields always describe the current session. `estimateMessage(message)` applies the fixed heuristic without session state. Each result is one detached, deeply immutable snapshot carrying one `logRevision`. Every measurement clones the current nodes and is therefore O(surface).
+
+Provider usage is reused only when the measured canonical request envelope equals the latest successful-call anchor. Any provider, model, system, prefix, tool, or call-config change causes complete heuristic repricing. Surface changes remain a signed delta from a matching anchor, including negative values after a shrinking replacement. A later successful request replaces the earlier anchor, including across provider or model switches.
+
+Usage sums the disjoint input, cache-read, cache-write, and output buckets. Reasoning is not added a second time. Every successful model call records an `assistant/message`, including content-less and max-token calls, with its exact earlier chunk seqs. An explicit empty provenance list means a known empty provider stream; absent legacy provenance conservatively treats the durable assistant output as provider output.
+
+### Compact-basic consumes, but does not own, measurement
+
+`dsh-compact-basic` requires `ctx.tokenMeter`; `CompactService` gains no token methods or types. Configuration, the region transaction, and summarization stay in separate modules; the service registers automatic listeners itself, while `summarize()` remains its sole subclass hook. The singleton meter consistently prices pressure, retention, shadowed content, provenance, and non-shrinking-summary rejection.
+
+Automatic compaction uses one unified measurement for each threshold-and-retention decision. The region transaction measures after appending its durable `compact/start` lock and again after asynchronous summarization; any intervening durable append changes `logRevision` and prevents replacement.
+
+Compact policy has service-wide defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, `summarizationProvider: ''`, `summarizationModel: ''`, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, `maxOverflowRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`. Top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the pressure policy; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. The summarization provider and model must both be set or both be empty; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair.
+
+Automatic pressure runs at `agent/post-step` and measures the canonical durable envelope produced under the provider/model actually selected by `agent/request`. A headerless session has no completed routed request to assess and produces no work; any routed target can use the singleton estimator. Canonical overflow recovery uses the same measurement for forced range selection and retries only after a proven surface replacement.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit tests cover fixed estimation, envelope invalidation and anchor replacement, replay boundaries, immutable snapshots, routed pressure, convergence, overflow generation proof, and rollback. A real Loader/Include fixture verifies the zero-config token-meter and compact-basic load path in dependency order.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep estimation inside `CompactService`** — rejected because measurement has consumers and replay semantics independent of compaction; it would also force every compactor to expose the same unrelated API.
+- **Split a token-meter interface from a heuristic backend immediately** — rejected because only one implementation exists. One concrete service preserves the future seam without speculative packages or configuration.
+- **Keep model-keyed windows and density profiles** — rejected because the deployment currently has one context policy and one estimator. Model registries, unknown-model failures, and configurable density add branches without a second behavior to select.
+- **Keep separate scalar and surface measurements** — rejected because callers would need two reads and revision matching for one decision. A scalar-only read could avoid cloning nodes below threshold, but the split API introduces a caller-side race window; the unified snapshot accepts O(surface) cloning in exchange for coherence.
+- **Treat provider usage as portable between envelopes** — rejected because model, tools, prefixes, and call config are request facts. Mismatch reprices the whole current request.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Token pressure has one replay-aware owner that compaction and future plugins can share.
+- The default makes the bundled composition usable with two zero-config plugin entries; deployments override one context capacity when needed.
+- Fixed heuristic pricing remains an estimate of provider behavior and is not an exact tokenizer or request serializer.
+- Every measurement clones the current positional surface and therefore costs O(surface), including pressure checks that finish below threshold.
+- Measurements fail loudly on malformed durable boundaries. This turns corrupted replay into a named integration failure instead of silently drifting pressure.
+- Post-step pressure reads the exact logged routing/tools/prefix boundary; provider overflow classification remains the adapter-maintained backstop for requests rejected before a successful usage anchor.

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+# Agent Note: 回放式 token 计量服务
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+上下文压力并不只对压缩有用。压缩后端、溢出保护或未来的请求策略插件都可能需要回答同一个问题：持久请求占用了已配置上下文窗口的多少容量？如果把该折叠逻辑留在 `dsh-compact-basic` 内部，就会重复实现回放逻辑，使未加载压缩的调用方无法使用计量，并诱使调用方复用陈旧的核算结果。
+
+提供方 usage 也不是完整答案。它只描述某个精确请求信封下的一次成功调用，而当前表层之后还可能增长、缩小或被替换。会话也可能切换提供方与模型，旧日志可能缺少分片来源，usage 字段还会分别报告输入、缓存读取、缓存写入、输出与推理计数。因此，可用的服务必须把最新精确锚点与保守的启发式重新定价结合起来，并公开每个结果已经消费的日志修订号。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 一个具体的 LLM 家族服务
+
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-token-meter` 是 `packages/llm/` 下的单个具体包，并注册 `ctx.tokenMeter`。在第二种实现出现之前，它不会被拆成接口与后端。`TokenMeterService` 本身公开 `contextWindow`、`measure(session, requestHeader?)` 与 `estimateMessage(message)`；消费方直接调用这个单例服务。
+
+服务只有一个 `contextWindow`，默认值为 128,000 token，并允许配置为正整数。估算采用固定的每 token 四个字符启发式规则，并加上结构开销。服务不提供模型 profile、密度设置、分词器后端或语言专用策略。
+
+### 逐会话回放折叠
+
+每个会话都有一个隔离的增量折叠。活跃折叠通过 `session/event` 前进；每次读取都会追到持久日志尾部，因此监听器顺序、种子会话与服务重载不会改变答案。折叠跟踪规范的完整请求头快照、步骤边界、表层追加与替换、assistant usage，以及 assistant 分片来源。下一个畸形事件会以事务方式失败并保持未读，不会让状态只修改一半。
+
+`measure(session, requestHeader?)` 只同步一次折叠，并在返回标量压力的同时给出逐位置节点价格。`totalTokens` 仍表示请求与响应压力；`surfaceTokens` 是仅针对表层的启发式总量，并等于 `nodes[].tokens` 之和。`requestHeader` 覆盖只改变压力定价，表层字段始终描述当前会话。`estimateMessage(message)` 不依赖会话状态，直接应用固定启发式规则。每个结果都是一个分离且深度不可变的快照，只携带一个 `logRevision`。每次计量都会复制当前节点，因此成本为 O(surface)。
+
+只有当待计量的规范请求信封等于最近一次成功调用的锚点时，服务才复用提供方 usage。提供方、模型、系统提示词、前缀、工具或调用配置任一变化都会触发完整的启发式重新定价。表层变化相对匹配锚点保留有符号增量，包括缩小替换后的负值。后续成功请求会替换先前锚点，提供方或模型切换时也一样。
+
+Usage 会对互不重叠的输入、缓存读取、缓存写入与输出 bucket 求和，不会再次加入推理计数。每次成功模型调用都会记录 `assistant/message`，包括无内容调用与达到 token 上限的调用，并带上精确的更早分片 seq。显式空来源列表表示已知为空的提供方流；旧日志中缺失的来源则保守地把持久 assistant 输出视为提供方输出。
+
+### compact-basic 消费计量，但不拥有计量
+
+`dsh-compact-basic` 要求 `ctx.tokenMeter`；`CompactService` 不增加 token 方法或类型。配置、区域事务与摘要器分别保留在独立模块中，服务自身注册自动监听器，而 `summarize()` 仍是唯一的子类 hook。单例计量器一致用于压力、保留、被遮蔽内容、来源以及非缩小摘要拒绝的定价。
+
+自动压缩的每次阈值与保留联合决策只使用一次统一计量。区域事务先追加持久 `compact/start` 锁，再执行一次计量，并在异步摘要完成后再次计量；期间任何持久追加都会改变 `logRevision`，从而阻止替换。
+
+压缩策略采用服务级默认值：阈值比例 `0.8`、保留尾部 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、`summarizationProvider: ''`、`summarizationModel: ''`、`maxTokens: 8192`、`compactionRetries: 1`、`maxOverflowRetries: 1` 与 `auto: true`。顶层 `thresholdRatio` 与 `retainTokens` 覆盖压力策略；保留值必须小于最终阈值。摘要提供方与模型必须同时设置或同时为空；空组合先解析最近记录的请求目标，再使用 `AgentOptions` 中的组合。
+
+自动压力检查运行在 `agent/post-step`，并计量 `agent/request` 实际所选提供方/模型产生的规范持久信封。没有请求头的会话尚无已完成的路由请求可供判断，因此不执行工作；任意路由目标都可使用这个单例估算器。规范化溢出恢复使用同一计量结果强制选择范围，并且只有在表层替换得到证明后才重试。
+
+## 测试
+
+单元测试覆盖固定估算、信封失效与锚点替换、回放边界、不可变快照、已路由压力、收敛、溢出 generation 证明与回滚。真实 Loader/Include fixture 验证零配置 token-meter 与 compact-basic 按依赖顺序加载的路径。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+- **把估算保留在 `CompactService` 内**——不予采纳，因为计量拥有独立于压缩的消费方与回放语义；它还会强迫每个压缩器暴露同一套无关 API。
+- **立即把 token meter 拆成接口与启发式后端**——不予采纳，因为目前只有一种实现。单个具体服务保留未来接缝，同时避免推测性的包与配置。
+- **保留模型键控的窗口与密度 profile**——不予采纳，因为当前部署只有一种上下文策略与一个估算器。模型注册表、未知模型错误和可配置密度只增加分支，却没有第二种行为可供选择。
+- **保留独立的标量与表层计量**——不予采纳，因为消费方必须为一次决策执行两次读取并匹配修订号。仅读取标量可以避免在低于阈值时复制节点，但拆分 API 会在消费方引入竞态窗口；统一快照接受 O(surface) 复制成本，以换取结果一致性。
+- **在不同信封之间移用提供方 usage**——不予采纳，因为模型、工具、前缀与调用配置都是请求事实。不匹配时会重新定价完整当前请求。
+
+## 后果
+
+- Token 压力拥有一个可供压缩与未来插件共享的回放感知所有者。
+- 默认值让内置组合只需两个零配置插件条目即可使用；部署需要时只覆盖一个上下文容量。
+- 固定启发式定价仍然只是提供方行为的估计，并不是精确分词器或请求序列化器。
+- 每次计量都会复制当前的位置表层，因此成本为 O(surface)，低于阈值即可结束的压力检查也不例外。
+- 遇到畸形持久边界时，计量会明确失败。这会把损坏的回放转化为具名集成错误，而不是让压力静默漂移。
+- post-step 压力检查读取精确记录的路由、工具与前缀边界；对于在成功 usage 锚点出现前就被拒绝的请求，提供方溢出分类仍是由适配器维护的兜底路径。

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support — drive the coding agent from external editors
+# Agent Note: Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support — drive the coding agent from external editors
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The precise supported and deferred protocol rows live in [`packages/ui/acp/acp-f
 
 Editors can create, load, prompt, cancel, render, ask, and reconfigure multiple harness sessions over one ACP connection without a loop-specific dependency. The session event log remains the durable source for replay, prompt settlement, cwd, and per-session configuration. Tool presentation and human-answer channels remain extensible plugin contracts instead of ACP-specific behavior.
 
-The bridge deliberately does not implement session list/delete/resume/close capabilities, MCP passthrough, additional directories, image/audio/embedded-resource prompts, runtime model selection, plans, slash commands, usage updates, editor filesystem delegation, or the ACP terminal execution sub-protocol. The feature checklist records these as unsupported rather than silently accepting them.
+The bridge deliberately does not implement session list/delete/resume/close capabilities, MCP passthrough, additional directories, image/audio/embedded-resource prompts, plans, slash commands, usage updates, editor filesystem delegation, or the ACP terminal execution sub-protocol. Runtime model selection was added later through standard session config options by the [LLM catalog and ACP selection Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md).
 
 An idle config selection is truthful in the live response but not durable until the next `agent/prompt-submit` anchors it inside the open turn. Crashing before that boundary loses the pending selection; this is the cost of keeping session events turn-enclosed and replay-safe.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Multiplex concurrent ACP sessions over one connection
+# Agent Note: Multiplex concurrent ACP sessions over one connection
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ An ACP editor can keep several conversations alive over one agent subprocess. A
 
 ## Decision
 
-The ACP bridge stores live sessions in `Map<SessionId, SessionRecord>` and keeps a `WeakMap<Agent, SessionId>` reverse index for agent-scoped callbacks. A record owns its agent handle, in-flight prompt, live tool-call presentation state, pending idle config switches, session cwd, and client capability snapshot. A separate loading-id set reserves each id before asynchronous resume so two pipelined loads cannot construct duplicate agents; distinct ids may load concurrently.
+The ACP bridge stores live sessions in `Map<SessionId, SessionRecord>`. Agent-scoped callbacks use `ownedRecord`: look up `agent.session.id` in that forward map and accept the record only when it owns the exact agent object, so a foreign same-id object cannot claim the session. A record owns its agent handle, in-flight prompt, live tool-call presentation state, pending idle config switches, session cwd, and client capability snapshot. A separate loading-id set reserves each id before asynchronous resume so two pipelined loads cannot construct duplicate agents; distinct ids may load concurrently.
 
 Every `session/event` and `agent/status` callback resolves the owning record before sending or settling anything. Each session permits one in-flight prompt independently. The prompt records a log watermark, captures its own `turn/start`, and settles only on the matching `turn/end`; a late end from a cancelled prior turn cannot resolve a newer prompt. `session/cancel` addresses one record and calls only that agent's queue-aware cancel path.
 
-Permission ownership uses the same reverse index. The ACP `approval/request` answerer prompts only the editor session that owns the requesting agent and delegates foreign requests. User-interaction elicitations likewise route by agent ownership. Per-session sandbox and approval config values fold only that session's events, with pending idle switches stored on that record until the next turn anchors them.
+Permission ownership uses the same exact-agent check against the forward map. The ACP `approval/request` answerer prompts only the editor session that owns the requesting agent and delegates foreign requests. User-interaction elicitations likewise route by agent ownership. Per-session sandbox and approval config values fold only that session's events, with pending idle switches stored on that record until the next turn anchors them.
 
 Background bash tasks carry an opaque owner token equal to the owning session id. `bash_output` and `bash_kill` compare the caller's token with the executor's task ownership before reading or killing; a predictable task id alone grants no access. Ownership is stored with the executor task, so a tool plugin reload does not erase it.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-15-code-mode.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-15-code-mode.md

@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
-# RFC: Code Mode — the model writes TypeScript against the tool registry
+# Agent Note: Code Mode — the model writes TypeScript against the tool registry
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-In the registry's native presentation, the agent loop advertises every visible capability as a JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` contributes its schemas to the system-prompt assembly, the assembly's `tools` land on the wire (and in the logged request header), the model invokes one `tool-call` block per step, and the loop dispatches each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution is an explicit open TODO in `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)), with **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-entering the model's context on the next request.
+In the registry's native presentation, the agent loop advertises every visible capability as a JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` contributes its schemas to the system-prompt assembly, the assembly's `tools` land on the wire (and in the logged request header), the model invokes one `tool-call` block per step, and the loop dispatches each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution is an explicit open TODO in `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../../../docs/architecture.md)), with **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-entering the model's context on the next request.
 
 For multi-step tool work this is token-heavy and serial. The model cannot compose tools — loop over a result set, branch on an intermediate value, fan out, post-process — without a full model round-trip per call, and each round-trip drags the entire intermediate result back into context whether the model needs it or not.
 
 Cloudflare's [Code Mode](https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/) proposes an alternative grounded in a simple observation: LLMs are better at writing code than at emitting tool calls, because they have seen millions of lines of real code and comparatively few contrived tool-calling traces. Instead of one tool call per step, the model writes a TypeScript program against a generated API over the tools, the program executes in a sandboxed runtime, and the model curates what comes back — only what it prints or returns — instead of every intermediate result.
 
-Tool presentation belongs to the registry that owns tool visibility: implementing a second presentation as an after-the-fact waterfall transform would make correctness depend on listener order and fight [reconstructable requests](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md). The execution substrate is also part of the foundation rather than a placeholder: Node `worker_threads` provides a separate isolate, an empty environment, heap caps, and termination of a hot synchronous loop, while fitting the harness's existing trust model (§Trust posture).
+Tool presentation belongs to the registry that owns tool visibility: implementing a second presentation as an after-the-fact waterfall transform would make correctness depend on listener order and fight [reconstructable requests](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md). The execution substrate is also part of the foundation rather than a placeholder: Node `worker_threads` provides a separate isolate, an empty environment, heap caps, and termination of a hot synchronous loop, while fitting the harness's existing trust model (§Trust posture).
 
 ## Decision
 
 Three decisions, each elaborated in its own section below:
 
 1. **Code Mode is a first-class presentation mode of `ToolRegistry`** (`dsh-tools`), selected by a validated `mode` config: `'native'` (the default, contributing the visible capability schemas), `'code'` (the registry contributes only its reserved `run_code` transport plus a generated SDK `.d.ts` in the system prompt), or `'both'` (native schemas and the transport + SDK). The registry shapes its canonical contribution at the source; the cooperative prompt-assembly result remains authoritative, and the logged request header records exactly that returned presentation.
-2. **Code execution is a capability seam** — `packages/code-runtime/` contains the interface package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime`, which owns `ctx.codeRuntime` ([capability seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md); consumer = `dsh-tools`, with core-consumes-a-seam precedent in `agent-loop` → `dsh-llm`). The runtime knows nothing about tools: it is handed a program and named async bindings, runs the program, and reports `{ value, logs, error? }`. Language and substrate are backend properties, so a future Python or container backend is another implementation package, not a redesign.
+2. **Code execution is a capability seam** — `packages/code-runtime/` contains the interface package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime`, which owns `ctx.codeRuntime` ([capability seams](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md); consumer = `dsh-tools`, with core-consumes-a-seam precedent in `agent-loop` → `dsh-llm`). The runtime knows nothing about tools: it is handed a program and named async bindings, runs the program, and reports `{ value, logs, error? }`. Language and substrate are backend properties, so a future Python or container backend is another implementation package, not a redesign.
 3. **The shipped implementation is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-worker`**: one fresh Node worker thread per run, executing the model's TypeScript after type-strip, with bindings bridged over the message port, an empty environment, configurable heap/output/time caps, and hard termination. Its trust posture is bash-equivalent by design — no unsafe-acknowledgement flags — because the harness already ships `dsh-bash-local`, which executes arbitrary model-written shell commands with strictly *more* ambient authority.
 
 ### The registry owns the mode
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Under `'code'` and `'both'` the registry owns `run_code` as a reserved presentat
 
 **Concurrency is serialized.** Each run owns a dispatch queue, so even `Promise.all` executes tool calls in submission order. Settlement abandons queued calls that have not started. Parallelism requires per-tool concurrency-safety metadata.
 
-**Presentation.** `run_code`'s render intent is decided here per the [render-intent RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md): `presentCall` → a `generic` card, `kind: 'execute'`, title = the program text, `rawInput` = the same program text; `presentResult` → a `generic` card whose content is the captured output (from `meta`). The program is the title because ACP execute cards reliably render that field while some clients omit body and raw-input content. This is not a `terminal` card: that card's semantics are "a shell command in a working directory", which a program is not.
+**Presentation.** `run_code`'s render intent is decided here per the [render-intent Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md): `presentCall` → a `generic` card, `kind: 'execute'`, title = the program text, `rawInput` = the same program text; `presentResult` → a `generic` card whose content is the captured output (from `meta`). The program is the title because ACP execute cards reliably render that field while some clients omit body and raw-input content. This is not a `terminal` card: that card's semantics are "a shell command in a working directory", which a program is not.
 
 ### Observability: `tool/code-dispatch`
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Each sub-dispatch appends a log-only `tool/code-dispatch` event containing paren
 - `CodeBindingNamespace = { global: string; functions: Record<string, (args: unknown) => Promise<unknown>> }` — the runtime exposes each namespace as a global object of async functions inside the program; binding arguments and resolutions must be structured-cloneable (a runtime may cross a serialization boundary; ours does).
 - `CodeRunResult = { value?: unknown; logs: CodeLogEntry[]; error?: CodeRunFailure }` — program execution outcomes, including exception, timeout, abort, and worker exit, resolve as the `error` field. `run()` may reject only for caller/seam misuse (for example a duplicate binding namespace); consumers still contain a non-conforming backend rejection at their own error boundary.
 - `CodeLogEntry = { source: 'console' | 'stdout' | 'stderr'; level?: 'log' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error' | 'debug'; text: string }`
-- `CodeRunFailure = { kind: 'exception' | 'timeout' | 'abort' | 'worker-exit'; message: string }` — orthogonal outcomes reported independently per [defensive patterns](../../../defensive-patterns.md); a timed-out run is not an exception, an abort is not a timeout.
+- `CodeRunFailure = { kind: 'exception' | 'timeout' | 'abort' | 'worker-exit'; message: string }` — orthogonal outcomes reported independently per [defensive patterns](../../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md); a timed-out run is not an exception, an abort is not a timeout.
 - Two readonly backend descriptors, informational not gating: `language` (what the program must be written in — `'typescript'` for the shipped backend; a Python backend would say so, and pair with its own SDK generator on the presentation side) and `isolation` (`'worker-thread'` for the shipped backend; `'process'`, `'container'`, … for future ones). `dsh-tools` requires `language === 'typescript'` in the MVP — its codegen emits TS — and fails the assembly loudly otherwise, the same misconfiguration idiom as `toolOrder` violations (as when `mode` is non-native with no `ctx.codeRuntime` loaded at all).
 
 Requests contain every runtime input; implementations own validated timeout and cap defaults. The registry looks up the optional runtime only when Code Mode is assembled, so native mode does not depend on one. Missing or language-incompatible runtimes fail loudly. Alternate substrates or languages can replace the implementation behind the same seam, paired with the appropriate SDK generator.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Requests contain every runtime input; implementations own validated timeout and
 3. **Execute** in the bootstrap: the stripped program becomes the body of an `AsyncFunction` whose parameters are the binding globals and a capturing `console` shim, so top-level `await` and `return` work and the program's completion value is the run's `value` (structured-cloneable values cross as-is; anything else is replaced by its `util.inspect` rendering, documented).
 4. **Bridge bindings over the message port**: each binding function in the worker posts `{ id, global, name, args }` and awaits the reply; the host validates the name against the request's bindings, invokes, and replies `{ id, ok, value }` or `{ id, ok: false, message }` (a host-side binding rejection becomes a program-side rejection). The worker-side namespace objects are built null-prototype via `defineProperty`, so a binding named `__proto__`, `constructor`, or `toString` is an ordinary own property, not a prototype collision. Unknown names, duplicate ids, and post-settlement messages are rejected or ignored — the port protocol assumes a hostile peer, because the peer runs model code.
 5. **Enforce independent budgets.** `computeMs` meters worker busy time, allowing slow awaited tools without excusing a hot loop. `maxWallMs` bounds total elapsed time, including unresolved waits. Expiry, cancellation, and completion terminate the worker. Heap exits and truncation are reported explicitly; compute, wall, heap, log, and return-value caps are validated configuration.
-6. **Dispose to quiescence**: the service's own disposal terminates in-flight workers and *awaits* their exits before resolving, per [defensive patterns](../../../defensive-patterns.md).
+6. **Dispose to quiescence**: the service's own disposal terminates in-flight workers and *awaits* their exits before resolving, per [defensive patterns](../../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md).
 
 ### Trust posture
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Deployments switching to `'code'` must update any native-only `toolOrder`. Assem
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-**An add-on consumer plugin with zero core changes.** Rejected because `agent/request` is call-config-only under [reconstructable requests](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md), while transforming an assembled tool list would have to undo `toolOrder` canonicalization without owning its config and would depend on listener order. Which tools the model is offered, and in which representation, is the registry's single concern: native schemas and the SDK are two projections of one visible store.
+**An add-on consumer plugin with zero core changes.** Rejected because `agent/request` is call-config-only under [reconstructable requests](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md), while transforming an assembled tool list would have to undo `toolOrder` canonicalization without owning its config and would depend on listener order. Which tools the model is offered, and in which representation, is the registry's single concern: native schemas and the SDK are two projections of one visible store.
 
 **`node:vm` as the reference runtime, with hardening deferred.** Rejected: `node:vm` is not isolation (prototype-chain escapes reach the host realm) and cannot interrupt a hot loop. A worker thread provides a separate isolate, empty environment, `resourceLimits`, and reliable `terminate()` at bash-equivalent trust, so the reference and production implementation are one package without an unsafe-acknowledgement ceremony.
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Deployments switching to `'code'` must update any native-only `toolOrder`. Assem
 
 **`stripTypeScriptTypes` is marked experimental.** It is the same engine (amaro/swc) behind Node's own native `.ts` execution, exposed as an API across this repo's whole engines range. Mitigations: the runtime's unit suite pins the behaviors relied on (position preservation, erasable-only rejection message shape loosely), the call sits behind one private function, and `amaro`/`sucrase` are drop-in replacements if the API shifts. The erasable-only subset is a model-facing contract line, and the error path is a working feedback loop, not a dead end.
 
-**Prompt cost of the SDK, especially under `'both'`.** The `.d.ts` can rival the native schemas it complements; `'both'` carries two representations. Prefix stability + provider caching amortize per-session cost; the mode is per-deployment; the RFC makes no unconditional-savings claim. Measured guidance (when to prefer which mode) is explicitly post-ship learning.
+**Prompt cost of the SDK, especially under `'both'`.** The `.d.ts` can rival the native schemas it complements; `'both'` carries two representations. Prefix stability + provider caching amortize per-session cost; the mode is per-deployment; the Agent Note makes no unconditional-savings claim. Measured guidance (when to prefer which mode) is explicitly post-ship learning.
 
 **Registry scope growth.** `dsh-tools` absorbs codegen, a tool, a bridge, and an event. Contained by module boundaries inside the package (`ts-types.ts`, `code-mode.ts` beside `schema.ts`/`json-schema.ts`/`presentation.ts`) and by the seam: everything substrate-shaped lives behind `ctx.codeRuntime`.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-17-filesystem-tool-schemas.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-17-filesystem-tool-schemas.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# RFC: Filesystem tool schemas — model-facing read/write/edit shapes
+# Agent Note: Filesystem tool schemas — model-facing read/write/edit shapes
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-[The filesystem capability-seam RFC](../architecture/2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md) defines the filesystem capability seam (`ctx.fs`), the package split (`dsh-fs`, `dsh-fs-local`, `dsh-tool-fs`, plus the `dsh-fs-policy` policy plugin), and the observed-file/stale-version policy for read-before-write/edit checks — which the [split-fs-seam](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [event-gate](../architecture/2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md) RFCs moved off `ctx.fs` into the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin on the `fs/*` event gate. The remaining decision for the first filesystem tool delivery is the model-facing schema surface: what arguments the model sees for `read`, `write`, and `edit`.
+[The filesystem capability-seam Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-17-filesystem-capability-seam.md) defines the filesystem capability seam (`ctx.fs`), the package split (`dsh-fs`, `dsh-fs-local`, `dsh-tool-fs`, plus the `dsh-fs-policy` policy plugin), and the observed-file/stale-version policy for read-before-write/edit checks — which the [split-fs-seam](../simplification/2026-06-26-fsspec-style-fs-seam.md) and [event-gate](../architecture/2026-06-26-file-context-as-event-gate.md) Agent Notes moved off `ctx.fs` into the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin on the `fs/*` event gate. The remaining decision for the first filesystem tool delivery is the model-facing schema surface: what arguments the model sees for `read`, `write`, and `edit`.
 
-The schema should be small enough to implement in the first `dsh-tool-fs` pass, but stable enough that future local/remote/sandboxed filesystem backends do not require model-facing churn. It should also avoid importing every option from reference systems. Claude Code and OpenCode expose similar core file tools but differ in naming style and extra flags; this RFC chooses the minimal shared surface for the prototype.
+The schema should be small enough to implement in the first `dsh-tool-fs` pass, but stable enough that future local/remote/sandboxed filesystem backends do not require model-facing churn. It should also avoid importing every option from reference systems. Claude Code and OpenCode expose similar core file tools but differ in naming style and extra flags; this Agent Note chooses the minimal shared surface for the prototype.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ Schema tests pin the required/optional argument set per tool, empty-`old_string`
 
 ## Consequences
 
-**The first schema is intentionally smaller than Claude Code's.** Dropping PDF pages, multimodal read, rich grep/list flags, and expected hash fields keeps the implementation focused, but users may ask for those quickly. They arrive as separate RFCs or focused follow-ups rather than overloads of the initial schema.
+**The first schema is intentionally smaller than Claude Code's.** Dropping PDF pages, multimodal read, rich grep/list flags, and expected hash fields keeps the implementation focused, but users may ask for those quickly. They arrive as separate Agent Notes or focused follow-ups rather than overloads of the initial schema.
 
 **No explicit model-facing stale guard in v1.** The schema does not ask the model to provide an expected hash/version. That is intentional: stale checks come from backend-produced versions and the `dsh-fs-policy` plugin's observed state, not from fragile model-copied tokens. Filesystem safety failures surface through structured `FsError` codes owned by `dsh-fs`, not through model-supplied version fields.
 
-**Naming becomes public surface.** Once shipped, changing `file_path` to `filePath` or `old_string` to `oldString` would churn prompts, examples, and downstream clients. This RFC chooses snake_case up front and treats it as the stable model-facing contract.
+**Naming becomes public surface.** Once shipped, changing `file_path` to `filePath` or `old_string` to `oldString` would churn prompts, examples, and downstream clients. This Agent Note chooses snake_case up front and treats it as the stable model-facing contract.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Rich ACP bash rendering — the terminal card via the `_meta` convention
+# Agent Note: Rich ACP bash rendering — the terminal card via the `_meta` convention
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The ACP bridge lets each tool own its call rendering via `presentCall`/`presentResult` (see [tool-call UI presentation](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) and `packages/core/tools`). For `bash` we surface the exact command as the `tool_call` title, the model's `description` as a content text block, `kind: 'execute'`, and the completed output wrapped in a fenced ` ```console ` text block.
+The ACP bridge lets each tool own its call rendering via `presentCall`/`presentResult` (see [tool-call UI presentation](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) and `packages/core/tools`). For `bash` we surface the exact command as the `tool_call` title, the model's `description` as a content text block, `kind: 'execute'`, and the completed output wrapped in a fenced ` ```console ` text block.
 
 Reference editors render terminal metadata as a dedicated card with cwd, command, live-style output, and exit status; plain text loses that structure. The command is the title because execute cards hide raw input, while the human-readable description remains a separate block above the card.
 
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ Keep `dsh-bash` agent-side execution; render the terminal card via the `_meta` c
 
 ## Out of scope / non-goals
 
-The text-block baseline stays the no-capability default. Two follow-ups are deliberately NOT built here and would each warrant their own RFC when someone takes them on: **live incremental streaming** (`_meta.terminal_output_delta` as chunks arrive, which needs an incremental-output seam on `dsh-bash`), and **command classification** (parsing a `cat`/`sed` as a `read` card with a file location, a `grep` as a `search`, etc., falling back to the terminal card — display-only, must never change what executes).
+The text-block baseline stays the no-capability default. Two follow-ups are deliberately NOT built here and would each warrant their own Agent Note when someone takes them on: **live incremental streaming** (`_meta.terminal_output_delta` as chunks arrive, which needs an incremental-output seam on `dsh-bash`), and **command classification** (parsing a `cat`/`sed` as a `read` card with a file location, a `grep` as a `search`, etc., falling back to the terminal card — display-only, must never change what executes).

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# Agent Note: Compaction as a capability seam (abstract contract + basic backend)
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+A long-running agent conversation grows without bound. As the event log accumulates turns, the derived message history eventually approaches the model's context window — the model then truncates mid-response (`max-tokens`) or degrades. **Compaction** is the mitigation: replace a run of older history with a concise summary, keeping recent context intact.
+
+The [session surface](../architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md) was built as the foundation for exactly this — an ordered projection over the event log with a `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` operation purpose-built to shadow a range of entries and insert a replacement, with `sourceEventSeqs` recording provenance so the decision replays deterministically. What remained was the plugin that *decides what to compact and produces the summary*.
+
+Two forces shape the design. First, compaction policy and reusable token measurement vary independently: measurement belongs to the LLM-family [`ctx.tokenMeter` service](../architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md), while summarization can be a model call, a template, or a remote service. Second, `SurfaceEventType` is closed to five event types (`user/message`, `assistant/message`, `tool/result`, `context/message`, `steering/message`); only those may carry `surfaceOp`. A bespoke `compaction/*` event therefore **cannot** itself appear on the surface — the compiler rejects `surfaceOp` on it and the invariants plugin rejects it at runtime.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Compaction is a capability seam, split interface / implementation
+
+Per the [capability-seams Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), compaction ships as separate packages so the contract, the algorithm, and (later) the consumer surface evolve independently:
+
+1. **Interface** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact`: an abstract `CompactService` owning the `ctx.compact` key, the `CompactionResult` vocabulary, and the `compact/*` session events. It declares `compactIfNeeded()` and `compactRegion()` as **abstract** — the contract states *what* compaction does, not *how*.
+2. **Implementation** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact-basic`: a concrete `BasicCompactService` that consumes `ctx.tokenMeter` and owns the tail→head retention walk, summarization via `ctx.llm.stream()`, the surface replacement, the lock, post-step pressure, and canonical context-overflow recovery. `summarize()` is its sole subclass hook; pricing and replay stay with the meter.
+3. **Consumer** — deferred. A `/compact` tool and slash command will `inject: ['compact']` and call the contract; they are intentionally out of scope here so the seam settles first.
+
+### The contract depends on `dsh-session` and `dsh-llm` — a deliberate deviation
+
+The capability-seams Agent Note states the interface package "depends only on cordis" (true of `dsh-bash`, whose vocabulary is self-contained). Compaction **cannot** honor that: its verbs act on an agent-owned `Session` (`compactRegion(start, end, agent)`) and its output uses the content vocabulary (`CompactionResult.summary: ContentBlock[]`). There is no way to express the contract without naming `Session`/`SessionEvent` (from `dsh-session`) and `ContentBlock` (from `dsh-llm`).
+
+This is not a coupling smell — it is the contract's domain. The "only cordis" guidance was always shorthand for "the interface depends only on what the contract genuinely names, and never on an implementation." `dsh-session` and `dsh-llm` are themselves interface/vocabulary packages, not implementations; `dsh-compact` still imports no backend. The seam's real invariant — *consumers and implementations evolve independently behind an abstract service* — holds intact.
+
+### Abstract `compactIfNeeded` / `compactRegion`, algorithm in the backend
+
+An earlier draft put the full algorithm (the retention walk, token-summing, text extraction) as concrete methods on the interface. That recouples the contract to one strategy: a backend that wants a different retention policy or event sequence would have to fight inherited concrete code. Making both core methods abstract puts every *how* decision in the backend and keeps the interface a statement of *what*. Token measurement is not a compaction hook at all; the singleton service lets multiple consumers share one per-session replay fold.
+
+`compactIfNeeded(agent, trigger, signal)` takes an explicit `'pressure' | 'context-overflow'` trigger and cancellation. It reads only the latest durable routed request; no header means no work, while any routed provider/model target uses the singleton estimator. `compactRegion(start, end, agent, signal?)` uses `agent.session` as its single session identity and keeps an optional signal for manual callers. The default summarizer resolves its target from explicit config, the latest logged routed target, then agent options, and records the provider/model pair after any `llm/stream` routing.
+
+### Automatic pressure runs after successful durable step work
+
+Successful-call pressure cannot run at pre-step because final `agent/request` routing, provider output, tool results, buffered context, and steering do not exist there. Serial `agent/post-step(agent, turn, step, signal)` fires after those facts are durable and before `step/end`. `dsh-compact-basic` measures the canonical logged request through `ctx.tokenMeter`, so the next request sees any replacement without a speculative envelope override.
+
+Canonical provider context overflow takes a separate path. The failed step closes, `agent/request-error` receives the original request error and consecutive retry count, and compact-basic forces one useful balanced reduction. It returns retry only if `session.surface.replaceGeneration` increases; the loop then opens a new numbered step and reconstructs its request from the durable log. No range, no replacement, recovery failure, cancellation, an exhausted cap, or an unrelated error preserves the original provider failure. The complete lifecycle decision is in the [after-call recovery Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md).
+
+```
+assistant/message → tool/result/context/steering
+await serial agent/post-step          ⟵ pressure compaction inside the successful step
+step/end
+
+provider overflow → step/end
+await waterfall agent/request-error  ⟵ forced compaction between attempts
+retry → next numbered step/start      ⟵ derives from the replacement surface
+```
+
+### Retention is turn-agnostic; tool-pairing balance is the only structural guard
+
+Auto-compaction checks after **every successful** step, not once per turn. This is load-bearing for runaway-turn survival: a tool-heavy ReAct turn appends an `assistant/message` + a `tool/result` per step, so the surface grows within a turn. The post-step check can compact early closed tool pairs before continuation opens the next step, and provider-confirmed overflow remains the backstop when a request crosses the limit first.
+
+`compactIfNeeded` retains the smallest tail of whole surface units whose estimated size reaches `retainTokens` and compacts older nodes. A unit is a complete closed step or one no-step message. If the token cutoff lands inside a step, retention expands until the cut is tool-pairing balanced. Balance is checked on surface order, not log sequence, because replacement summaries have new sequence numbers at old surface positions. `dsh-compact` exports the before/after edge helpers; their per-session cache folds only appended surface-tail nodes while `replaceGeneration` is unchanged, does no event reads for log-only growth, and rebuilds current membership and balances after replacement. `compactRegion` rejects boundaries that split a tool call from its result. The in-flight turn receives no special retention.
+
+A runaway turn thus compacts exactly like any other history: its early *closed* steps get summarized while its recent steps stay verbatim. When the only compactable content left is an un-splittable open tail step (its tool-calls have no results yet), compaction declines (`null`) and retries once that step closes.
+
+**Single-unit overflow is out of scope, by design.** If a single retained unit — one closed step, or a large free entry such as a pasted `user/message` — *alone* exceeds the budget, compaction cannot help and the next model call may go out over-budget. Bounding an individual unit's size is a separate concern (output truncation), handled elsewhere; compaction makes no promise about it, and the harness without such a mechanism can still break on a single oversized unit. This is named honestly rather than papered over.
+
+### Head-anchoring: one auto checkpoint, always at the head
+
+Auto-compaction always starts at the surface head, merging the prior checkpoint with newly compacted history so only one automatic checkpoint remains. `shadowedRange` is therefore positional rather than a numeric sequence interval: a newer summary sequence may occupy an older surface position. `shadowedSeqs` records the authoritative surface order. Manual mid-range compaction may leave multiple checkpoints.
+
+### Approximate convergence invariant
+
+`resolveConfig` supplies usable defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, empty summarization provider/model overrides, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, `maxOverflowRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`. Optional top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the policy for the token meter's single context window; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. Convergence remains dynamic because provider output caps can be spent on hidden or surfaced reasoning tokens and summary size is unpredictable. If pressure remains over threshold, `compactIfNeeded()` re-compacts the head checkpoint up to the configured retry count, but each committed summary must be smaller than what it shadows. Overflow bypasses threshold and retained-tail policy for one maximal balanced head reduction, leaving the newest indivisible unit.
+
+### Surface replacement: `compact/*` events are log-only; one `user/message` carries the summary
+
+Because `SurfaceEventType` is closed, the summary cannot ride on a `compact/*` event. The backend instead appends a **single `user/message`** with `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` whose `content` is the (framed) summary and whose `sourceEventSeqs` covers the shadowed entries *and* the bookkeeping events. The `compact/*` events are pure log records (lock + provenance). The surface mutation sits **inside** the lock — `compact/end` is the last event appended:
+
+```
+compact/start    → log-only. Acquires the lock.
+[summarize older range via the backend]
+compact/summary  → log-only. Provenance: raw summary, range, shadowed seqs, token count.
+user/message     → surfaceOp { op:'replace', start, end }. THE surface mutation (framed summary).
+                   deriveMessages() renders it as a user-role message.
+compact/end      → log-only. Releases the lock (carries `error` on a recoverable failure).
+```
+
+`deriveMessages()` then yields `[summary_as_user_message, ...retained_entries]`. Reusing `user/message` is honest rather than a workaround: a summary genuinely *is* user-role context.
+
+### Checkpoint framing + incremental merge (backend-private)
+
+The basic backend wraps the summary as established checkpoint context and tags it for incremental merging on the next cycle. The raw summary remains on `compact/summary`. Framing is backend policy; the seam promises only that one replacement user message carries the possibly framed summary.
+
+### Blocking via a log-recorded lock, plus a crash/recoverable failure taxonomy
+
+The `compact/start … compact/end` bracket is justified, in order of what now does the work:
+
+1. **Crash-detectable orphan + provenance** (primary). Summarization is a slow model call persisted *after* `compact/start`. A crash mid-summarization leaves a `compact/start` with no matching `compact/end` — a detectable orphan. Releasing the lock last (rather than first) converts the crash window from *silent corruption* into that detectable orphan.
+2. **Prevents concurrent compaction.** `compactRegion` refuses to start if the current turn holds an unmatched `compact/start`. (The loop is single-threaded across either awaited automatic seam, so this is also a re-entry tripwire — a thrown "already in progress" signals a real bug.)
+
+Two failure paths, both documented:
+
+- **Crash** (the loop dies mid-summarization): a dangling `compact/start`, no closer. Because `compact/*` are **log-only**, the orphan is **inert** — the surface replacement never landed, so the full, uncompacted history derives correctly. Generic turn-repair (`interruptedTurnClosers`) closes the turn with a synthetic `turn/end`; the orphan sits *before* that `turn/end`, so the turn-scoped in-progress check never sees it and a crash cannot wedge future compaction.
+- **Recoverable** (summarization throws but the loop survives): the backend appends `compact/end` with its **`error`** field set and leaves the surface untouched. Post-step pressure warns and continues; overflow recovery delegates so the original provider error remains authoritative.
+
+`compact/end` keeps its `error?` field (mirroring `tool/result`'s self-contained error — one event tells success from failure without correlating a sibling). There is no separate `compact/error` event.
+
+**Core session repair stays compaction-agnostic — deliberately.** `interruptedTurnClosers` is never taught about `compact/*`. Teaching it would force every future `xxx/start … xxx/end` plugin pair to patch a core module — exactly the coupling the capability-seam architecture exists to avoid. Because the log-only orphan is inert, no special repair is needed: generic turn-repair plus the inertness of an un-landed surface mutation is sufficient.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **The full algorithm as concrete interface methods** — rejected because it recouples the contract to one retention strategy. Both core methods are abstract; reusable measurement is a separate LLM-family service and `summarize()` is basic's sole hook.
+- **Compaction on `agent/request` or provisional `agent/pre-step` inputs** — rejected because neither proves the final durable request and both couple generic lifecycle to compaction-specific envelope data. Post-step replay plus canonical overflow recovery covers both successful and rejected calls.
+- **A separate `compact/error` event** — rejected: `compact/end` keeps an `error?` field, mirroring `tool/result`'s self-contained error — one event tells success from failure without correlating a sibling.
+- **Teaching core turn-repair about `compact/*`** — rejected: the log-only orphan is inert, and a core module patched for every future `xxx/start … xxx/end` plugin pair is exactly the coupling the capability-seam architecture exists to avoid.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- **Packages**: `packages/compact/compact` supplies the interface and `compact-basic` supplies the backend. `packages/llm/token-meter` owns replay-aware measurement independently. The consumer tier is deferred.
+- **Automatic seams**: `agent/post-step` (`@mode serial`) handles successful-call pressure and `agent/request-error` (`@mode waterfall`) handles final request failures after the failed step closes. Generic `agent/pre-step` remains a four-argument checkpoint with no compaction-only prompt/prefix payload.
+- **`SessionEventMap`** gains `compact/start` / `compact/summary` / `compact/end` by declaration merging (merge-extensible); `SurfaceEventType` is **not** touched. These are session events, not cordis `Events`, so the event-taxonomy gate needs no entry.
+- **`dsh-compact`** owns `toolPairingBalancedBefore(session, seq)` and `toolPairingBalancedAfter(session, seq)`, the cached surface-edge checks that `compactRegion` and `compactIfNeeded` use to avoid splitting a tool-call/result pair. The cache validates current membership by seq and answers both edges from one per-cut balance sequence; stale or missing seqs and orphan results reject. `dsh-session` continues to own the surface `replace` operation, ordered event sequences, and rewrite generation.
+- **`dsh-invariants`** drops its `surface replace: start must be <= end` assertion: a head-anchored compaction lands a high-seq replacement entry at an older range's *position*, so `start > end` numerically is normal and valid (the range is positional, validated by the surface's `indexOf` checks that remain). The turn-enclosure invariant is reused unchanged.
+- **Wiring**: `examples/repl-agent/cordis.yml` loads zero-config `dsh-token-meter` before `dsh-compact-basic`; the service-wide window and compact defaults make the pair usable without repeated numeric policy.
+
+## Testing
+
+- **Unit:** Real Loader and invariant plugins cover whole-unit retention, convergence failure, both `compact/end` outcomes, head anchoring, open-tail refusal, inert crash orphans, forced below-threshold overflow, generation proof, caps, and original-error preservation.
+- **Loop:** Tests pin post-step after durable tool results and before `step/end`, actual `agent/request` routing, closed failed steps, fresh retry numbering, and complete thrown/in-band overflow → compaction → reconstructed retry composition.
+- **With-key e2e:** A real model and bash session with lowered limits triggers compaction, records a complete `compact/start…end` pair, shrinks the surface, and finishes the task.
+- **Snapshot gap:** Runaway-turn compaction cannot yet replay because the summarization call records no `assistant/chunk` events or `sessionId`; interleaved summarization-call replay remains follow-up work.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-# RFC: Subagent capability seam
+# Agent Note: Subagent capability seam
 
 Status: implemented
 
-> The full seam is shipped: the `dsh-subagent` interface, the `dsh-subagent-mock` test backend, and the `dsh-tool-subagent` consumer; the two in-process backends (`dsh-subagent-spawn`, `dsh-subagent-fork`); the nested-agent snapshot infrastructure ([per-session snapshot replay](../testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md)); and the out-of-process `dsh-subagent-acp` backend ([its RFC](2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md)).
+> The full seam is shipped: the `dsh-subagent` interface and `dsh-tool-subagent` consumer; the two in-process backends (`dsh-subagent-spawn`, `dsh-subagent-fork`); the nested-agent snapshot infrastructure ([per-session snapshot replay](../testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md)); and the out-of-process `dsh-subagent-acp` backend ([its Agent Note](2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md)).
 
 ## Problem
 
-The harness has a long-deferred seam for **subagents** — an agent delegating work to another agent. The intent was sketched in the `Agent`/`AgentLoop` interfaces ([packages/core/agent/src/types.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts), [packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts)): a creation option referencing a parent agent (fork = seed the child session with the parent's event log; spawn = fresh session), with the child returned as an `Agent` handle so steering and event subscription work uniformly. This RFC realizes that seam; the banner above lists what shipped.
+The harness has a long-deferred seam for **subagents** — an agent delegating work to another agent. The intent was sketched in the `Agent`/`AgentLoop` interfaces ([packages/core/agent/src/types.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts), [packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts)): a creation option referencing a parent agent (fork = seed the child session with the parent's event log; spawn = fresh session), with the child returned as an `Agent` handle so steering and event subscription work uniformly. This Agent Note realizes that seam; the banner above lists what shipped.
 
 The distinctive requirement — the one that shapes the whole design — is that **multiple subagent implementations must coexist at runtime**. A parent may want a cheap in-process child for a scoped subtask AND an isolated out-of-process child (over ACP) in the same session. The transports we foresee:
 
-- **in-process** — a child `ReactLoopAgent` on the same `Context` (the cheapest, and nearly free given the existing agent factory);
+- **in-process** — a child concrete `Agent` on the same `Context` (the cheapest, and nearly free given the existing agent factory);
 - **ACP** — act as an ACP *client* driving another agent process (which can be another instance of ourselves);
 - later: **A2A**, the **Codex app-server**, and the **Claude Code Agent SDK** — each the same out-of-process "start a child, prompt it, stream updates, cancel" shape as the ACP backend.
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The distinctive requirement — the one that shapes the whole design — is that
 
 ### Why not the bash seam shape
 
-The bash seam ([capability seams](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)) registers exactly one `BashExecutor` per context; loading a second throws. That is correct for bash (one machine, one way to run a command) but wrong here: coexistence is the requirement. So the subagent service is a **named-provider registry** — each implementation registers under a unique name and a caller picks one by name — mirroring the **LLM adapter registry** (`LlmService.registerAdapter`), not the single-service bash executor. The seam is still three-package (interface / implementation / consumer); only the "one vs. many implementations" axis differs.
+The bash seam ([capability seams](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)) registers exactly one `BashExecutor` per context; loading a second throws. That is correct for bash (one machine, one way to run a command) but wrong here: coexistence is the requirement. So the subagent service is a **named-provider registry** — each implementation registers under a unique name and a caller picks one by name — mirroring the **LLM adapter registry** (`LlmService.registerAdapter`), not the single-service bash executor. The seam is still three-package (interface / implementation / consumer); only the "one vs. many implementations" axis differs.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ A new package group `packages/subagent/`:
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-spawn` | implementation: a fresh in-process child via `ctx.agents.create` |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-fork` | implementation: an in-process child seeded with a snapshot of the parent's log |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-acp` | implementation: an ACP client driving a configured child process |
-| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-mock` | support: a scripted provider for testing the seam through the real load path |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-subagent` | consumer: the model-facing `subagent` tool over `ctx.subagents` |
 
 ### The primitive: async `start → SubagentRun`
@@ -62,11 +61,11 @@ Each subagent runs in its **own `Session`** (own id, `parentSession` lineage), p
 
 ## Testing
 
-The seam is tested through the real Cordis Loader/export path, which catches the export-shape failure described in [postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md). Registry tests cover reload safety, duplicate names, and start-time capability rejection; nested-agent scenarios replay keylessly through [per-session snapshot replay](../testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md); in-process backends also have real-loop unit tests and a with-key e2e.
+Registry and tool tests replace only the nondeterministic child boundary with a package-local scripted provider while exercising the real `SubagentService`, lifecycle, task integration, and model-facing tool. Provider and consumer export shapes retain their Loader regression coverage for the failure described in [postmortem 0001](../../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md). Registry tests cover reload safety, duplicate names, and start-time capability rejection; nested-agent scenarios replay keylessly through [per-session snapshot replay](../testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md); in-process backends also have real-loop unit tests and a with-key e2e.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- **Recursion.** Without a bound, an in-process child can see the delegation tool and recurse. The in-process backends implement the optional absolute depth limit and scoped live-global `toolFilter`; ACP advertises both capabilities off and rejects such a request. The [subagent composition-controls RFC](2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns their exact semantics and security limits.
+- **Recursion.** Without a bound, an in-process child can see the delegation tool and recurse. The in-process backends implement the optional absolute depth limit and scoped live-global `toolFilter`; ACP advertises both capabilities off and rejects such a request. The [subagent composition-controls Agent Note](2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns their exact semantics and security limits.
 - **Blocking the parent turn.** Foreground collection holds the parent's step open for the child's full duration. Background delegation uses the shared `ctx.tasks` runtime and generic `task_*` tools, the same collection mechanism as background bash; the subagent seam itself remains task-agnostic.
 - **Live progress.** This cut surfaces only lifecycle + final result; a per-chunk child→parent update stream is deferred with the background redesign.
 - **ACP client surface.** Proxying `fs`/`terminal` from the ACP child back to the parent (a shared-workspace mode) is future work; the first cut advertises neither, so the child self-serves in its own process.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-22-acp-subagent-backend.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: ACP subagent backend (out-of-process delegation)
+# Agent Note: ACP subagent backend (out-of-process delegation)
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The subagent seam ([the seam RFC](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md)) was built so multiple backends coexist by name on `ctx.subagents`. The in-process backends (`-spawn`/`-fork`) run a child as a second `Agent` on the SAME cordis context — cheap, but the child shares the parent's process, model client, and tools. The seam's whole point was to also support an OUT-OF-PROCESS child reached over a protocol, proving the abstraction generalizes across a process boundary. This RFC adds the first such backend: an Agent Client Protocol (ACP) client.
+The subagent seam ([the seam Agent Note](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md)) was built so multiple backends coexist by name on `ctx.subagents`. The in-process backends (`-spawn`/`-fork`) run a child as a second `Agent` on the SAME cordis context — cheap, but the child shares the parent's process, model client, and tools. The seam's whole point was to also support an OUT-OF-PROCESS child reached over a protocol, proving the abstraction generalizes across a process boundary. This Agent Note adds the first such backend: an Agent Client Protocol (ACP) client.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Each `start` spawns a new child, runs exactly one ACP session (`initialize` →
 
 ### Minimal client stub
 
-The client advertises NO optional capabilities (no `fs`, no `terminal`): the child self-serves file/terminal access in its own process. `session/update` notifications are consumed — the backend accumulates `agent_message_chunk` text as the result output and ignores the rest (thoughts, tool-call cards) in this cut, which surfaces only the child's final answer. `session/request_permission` is auto-answered by a configured policy (`reject` declines every prompt, `allow` approves via the first allow-shaped option) — the first cut surfaces no prompt to a human. Proxying `fs`/`terminal` back to the parent (a shared-workspace mode) remains future work, as the seam RFC noted.
+The client advertises NO optional capabilities (no `fs`, no `terminal`): the child self-serves file/terminal access in its own process. `session/update` notifications are consumed — the backend accumulates `agent_message_chunk` text as the result output and ignores the rest (thoughts, tool-call cards) in this cut, which surfaces only the child's final answer. `session/request_permission` is auto-answered by a configured policy (`reject` declines every prompt, `allow` approves via the first allow-shaped option) — the first cut surfaces no prompt to a human. Proxying `fs`/`terminal` back to the parent (a shared-workspace mode) remains future work, as the seam Agent Note noted.
 
 ### No start-time capabilities
 
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ Every run pays a fresh subprocess (spawn + `initialize` + `newSession`). The par
 
 ## Future providers
 
-The same out-of-process spawn/prompt/stream/cancel shape generalizes to other transports named in the seam RFC — A2A, the Codex app-server, and the Claude Code Agent SDK — each a sibling provider registered by name. The ACP backend is the proof that the seam supports the boundary; those are mechanically similar.
+The same out-of-process spawn/prompt/stream/cancel shape generalizes to other transports named in the seam Agent Note — A2A, the Codex app-server, and the Claude Code Agent SDK — each a sibling provider registered by name. The ACP backend is the proof that the seam supports the boundary; those are mechanically similar.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-24-workspace-context.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-24-workspace-context.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Workspace context instruction files
+# Agent Note: Workspace context instruction files
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-25-ask-user-question.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-25-ask-user-question.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Ask-user question capability
+# Agent Note: Ask-user question capability
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Providers return `{ answers: [{ id, selected, custom? }] }`. `selected` is alway
 
 `dsh-stdio-demo`'s in-package readline module renders each question, shows each option's `description` on the next line, supports comma/space-separated numeric choices for `multi_select`, accepts free-form custom answers, and rejects pending questions on abort, provider disposal, or stdin EOF. A batched request is asked in order and resolved as one answer object. The stdio provider serializes simultaneous requests with an internal queue so only one prompt owns stdin at a time.
 
-`dsh-acp` provides the same seam for ACP sessions. It routes an ask request from the calling `Agent` through the bridge's `agent→sessionId` reverse map and calls ACP `unstable_createElicitation` with a session-scoped form for each question. Single-select options become a `choice` string enum; `multi_select` options become a `choice` array enum; optionless questions use a required `custom` text field. If the client returns both `choice` and non-empty `custom`, the custom answer wins. ACP `decline`/`cancel`, a missing answer, a missing session, and a client without elicitation support all become structured `UserInteractionError`s.
+`dsh-acp` provides the same seam for ACP sessions. It resolves the calling `Agent` through `ownedRecord`, requiring the forward session-map record at `agent.session.id` to own that exact agent object, and calls ACP `unstable_createElicitation` with a session-scoped form for each question. Single-select options become a `choice` string enum; `multi_select` options become a `choice` array enum; optionless questions use a required `custom` text field. If the client returns both `choice` and non-empty `custom`, the custom answer wins. ACP `decline`/`cancel`, a missing answer, a missing session, and a client without elicitation support all become structured `UserInteractionError`s.
 
 The ACP mapping deliberately uses elicitation, not `session/request_permission`. `request_permission` is still reserved for the separate permission gate: it is a yes/no-or-policy authorization protocol around tool execution. `ask_user_question` is a general information-gathering tool with optional free-form answers, so ACP form elicitation is the closer protocol fit. The bridge's session routing is shared with the future permission gate, but the user intent is different.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The `todo_write` tool — model task list as event-sourced session state
+# Agent Note: The `todo_write` tool — model task list as event-sourced session state
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The list is appended as a `todo/write` event carrying the full `{ todos }` snaps
 
 ### NOT a surface event
 
-`todo/write` is deliberately excluded from `SurfaceEventType`. The surface is the projection that produces the LLM message history (`deriveMessages()`); a todo write produces no conversation message. So it carries no `surfaceOp`, never joins the surface linked list, and never reaches `deriveMessages()` — it is durable, replayable *UI* state that travels alongside the conversation without being part of it. (The dev-mode invariants still require it to sit inside an open turn, which it always does: it is appended mid-step during a tool call.)
+`todo/write` is deliberately excluded from `SurfaceEventType`. The surface is the projection that produces the LLM message history (`deriveMessages()`); a todo write produces no conversation message. So it carries no `surfaceOp`, never joins the ordered surface, and never reaches `deriveMessages()` — it is durable, replayable *UI* state that travels alongside the conversation without being part of it. (The dev-mode invariants still require it to sit inside an open turn, which it always does: it is appended mid-step during a tool call.)
 
 ### Priority synthesized only at the ACP boundary
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Four tiers, designed up front:
 - **Real-Loader path** — the plugin run through `Loader.unwrapExports`, asserting the namespace export shape survives (it HAS `inject`, so a stray default would crash at load — postmortem/0001).
 - **Full-loop integration** — a scripted mock model calls `todo_write` through the real agent loop; the `todo/write` event lands and a second call replaces it.
 - **`session/load` replay** — a persisted `todo/write` re-emits the `plan` update when a fresh ACP bridge loads the session.
-- **With-key e2e + snapshot** — a real prompt induces a `todo_write`; the snapshot golden gains the `plan` notification and the log event.
+- **With-key e2e + snapshot** — a real prompt induces a `todo_write`; the snapshot expected output gains the `plan` notification and the log event.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-# RFC: dsh-hooks-claude + dsh-hooks-codex — the Claude Code / Codex hook bridges
+# Agent Note: dsh-hooks-claude + dsh-hooks-codex — the Claude Code / Codex hook bridges
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The harness's extension surface is its typed interception seams ([the interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)): a "native hook" is just an ordinary cordis plugin subscribing to `agent/session-start`, `agent/prompt-submit`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `subagent/start`, `subagent/end`. But users arrive with **existing** Claude Code (CC) and Codex hook configs — a `hooks.json` (or a settings file's `hooks` key) full of shell-command hooks — and want those to run unmodified. This RFC introduces the two **bridge plugins** that translate that external shell-hook protocol onto the typed seams, built on the shared wire-protocol library ([the hook-protocol-lib RFC](2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md)).
+The harness's extension surface is its typed interception seams ([the interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)): a "native hook" is just an ordinary cordis plugin subscribing to `agent/session-start`, `agent/prompt-submit`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `subagent/start`, `subagent/end`. But users arrive with **existing** Claude Code (CC) and Codex hook configs — a `hooks.json` (or a settings file's `hooks` key) full of shell-command hooks — and want those to run unmodified. This Agent Note introduces the two **bridge plugins** that translate that external shell-hook protocol onto the typed seams, built on the shared wire-protocol library ([the hook-protocol-lib Agent Note](2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md)).
 
 The framing that shapes the whole design: **a bridge is a compatibility adapter, not a power tool.** Anything a bridge does (block a tool, inject context, force continuation, observe a subagent) a native cordis plugin does more powerfully — typed returns, full `ctx`, no serialization boundary. The bridge's reason to exist is to run the explicitly supported subset of external CC/Codex command hooks. That keeps each bridge thin: parse the config, pick a matcher mode, build the per-event payload, call `runHook` + `mergeHookOutputs` from the shared lib, and map the neutral outcome onto a seam Decision. The package READMEs own the exact current unsupported-event and partial-field inventory against the official protocols.
 
 ## Decision
 
-Two independent plugins in the `packages/hooks/` group, each a function/namespace plugin (`name`/`inject`/`Config`/`apply`, NO default export — see [postmortem 0001](../../../postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)) injecting only `bash`:
+Two independent plugins in the `packages/hooks/` group, each a function/namespace plugin (`name`/`inject`/`Config`/`apply`, NO default export — see [postmortem 0001](../../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)) injecting only `bash`:
 
-- **`dsh-hooks-claude`** — the CC dialect. Seven of Claude Code's current hook points: `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `Stop`, `SubagentStart`, and `SubagentStop`. Owns CC-shaped per-event stdin payloads (a base of `session_id`/`cwd`/`hook_event_name` plus per-event fields), `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` plus `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}`/`${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` substitution, and the literal-or-regex matcher mode. A CC hook's stdin carries a **trailing newline**.
-- **`dsh-hooks-codex`** — five of Codex's current hook points: `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, and `Stop`. It uses an always-regex matcher, Codex-shaped snake_case payloads with `turn_id`/`model`/`permission_mode` extras written WITHOUT a trailing newline, no Codex plugin-env injection or config-time placeholder substitution, and no pre-tool approval or rewrite path. A tool call's payload carries the real `tool_name` in the bridge's reduced `tool_input: { command }` shape.
+- **`dsh-hooks-claude`** — the CC dialect. Seven of Claude Code's current hook points: `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `Stop`, `SubagentStart`, and `SubagentStop`. Owns CC-shaped per-event stdin payloads (a base of `session_id`/`transcript_path`/`cwd`/`hook_event_name` plus per-event fields), `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` plus `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}`/`${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` substitution, and the literal-or-regex matcher mode. `transcript_path` is the persistence locator result or `''`; stdin carries a **trailing newline**.
+- **`dsh-hooks-codex`** — five of Codex's current hook points: `PreToolUse`, `PostToolUse`, `SessionStart`, `UserPromptSubmit`, and `Stop`. It uses an always-regex matcher, Codex-shaped snake_case payloads with `turn_id`/`model`/`permission_mode` extras written WITHOUT a trailing newline, no Codex plugin-env injection or config-time placeholder substitution, and no pre-tool approval or rewrite path. `transcript_path` is the same locator result or `null`; tool payloads carry the real `tool_name` in the reduced `tool_input: { command }` shape.
 
 ### Outcome → Decision mapping
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Hooks run in the agent's session workspace, so relative paths target the user's
 
 ## Deferred compatibility gaps
 
-- **Tool-input rewrite.** A CC/Codex `updatedInput` is logged + warned, not honored — input rewrite is a deferred consistency-design problem ([the pre-tool-input-rewrite RFC](../../proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md)), because the pre-execution args are read by `tool/call` audit + `assistant/message` history + ACP/tool-bash presentation, so an honest rewrite is a design unit, not a field.
+- **Tool-input rewrite.** A CC/Codex `updatedInput` is logged + warned, not honored — input rewrite is a deferred consistency-design problem ([the pre-tool-input-rewrite Agent Note](../../proposed/feature/2026-06-30-pre-tool-input-rewrite.md)), because the pre-execution args are read by `tool/call` audit + `assistant/message` history + ACP/tool-bash presentation, so an honest rewrite is a design unit, not a field.
 - **Stop loop-guard** (`TODO(stop-loop-guard)`). Claude Code supplies `stop_hook_active` and overrides a hook after eight consecutive blocks; Codex supplies `stop_hook_active` but documents no equivalent cap. Both bridges always report `false`, so a Stop hook that unconditionally blocks force-continues every step — a hook author must self-limit until state tracking lands.
 - **Hook `continue:false` (hard halt).** A hook can ask to halt the whole run (CC/Codex `continue:false`); the shared merge folds it into `MergedHookOutcome.stop`/`stopReason`, but no bridge acts on it (`TODO(hook-continue-false)`) — the interception seams have no "hard-halt the agent" primitive yet (a Decision blocks/steers a single point, not the run). Deferred with the loop-guard work; the halt request is recorded in the `hook/result` log, and the hook keeps its per-point effect (decision/context) meanwhile.
 - **Config discovery.** The path is explicit in `cordis.yml` and process-level (see above); the full multi-layer CC/Codex precedence walk, per-session project-local discovery, and the trust/hash model are not reimplemented (`TODO(per-session-hook-config)`).

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-hook-protocol-lib.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: dsh-hook-protocol — the shared Claude Code / Codex hook wire-protocol core
+# Agent Note: dsh-hook-protocol — the shared Claude Code / Codex hook wire-protocol core
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 The hooks subsystem ships two bridge plugins: one that runs a user's existing Claude Code (CC) hooks, one for Codex hooks. Studying the reference implementations (`~/repos/refs/claude-code`, `~/repos/refs/codex`) surfaced a decisive fact: **Codex deliberately reimplements a SUBSET of the CC hook protocol.** Its engine reads the same `hooks.json`, uses the same matcher-group shape, the same exit-code/structured-stdout output contract, and the same command-hook execution model — Codex's source even names the engine after Claude's and comments where it "intentionally diverges." So the two bridges would otherwise duplicate the bulk of the protocol.
 
-This RFC introduces `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hook-protocol`, a **library** (not a plugin — it registers and injects nothing) holding the genuinely-identical primitives both bridges build on. The split between shared and per-dialect is the design's center of gravity.
+This Agent Note introduces `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hook-protocol`, a **library** (not a plugin — it registers and injects nothing) holding the genuinely-identical primitives both bridges build on. The split between shared and per-dialect is the design's center of gravity.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ A new `packages/hooks/` group with `hook-protocol` as a pure library. It owns fo
 **Shared (here):**
 - **Matcher** — `matchesMatcher(pattern, query, mode)`. The ONE axis the dialects differ on is collapsed to the `mode` parameter: `claude` treats a pure `[A-Za-z0-9_|]+` pattern as a literal (pipe = exact-match alternation) and anything else as a regex; `codex` is always an unanchored regex. Match-all on absent/`''`/`'*'`; an invalid regex matches nothing (never throws into the loop).
 - **Execution** — `runHook(bash, hook, options)`. Runs a command hook through the `ctx.bash` seam rather than a bespoke `spawn`: the executor already provides the scrubbed-but-overridable env, process-group kills, and timeout the protocol needs, and `dsh-bash`'s `stdin`/`env` fields (added for exactly this) are the trusted-plugin surface an in-process bridge is allowed to use. It serializes the bridge-built payload to stdin (trailing newline iff CC), honors the hook's `timeoutSec` (else `DEFAULT_HOOK_TIMEOUT_MS`, the 10-minute reference default both dialects share), and never throws (an executor rejection becomes a non-blocking-error `HookOutput`).
-- **Decode** — `parseHookOutput(exit, stdout, stderr)`, the exit-code + structured-stdout codec, producing a dialect-neutral `HookOutput`. Exit `0` → lenient JSON parse of stdout; exit `2` → blocking error with `stderr` as the reason (surfaced as `decision: 'block'` so no caller needs a separate exit-code branch); other → non-blocking error. Parses the CC structured-stdout fields that have a consumer on some path (`continue`/`stopReason`/`decision`/`hookSpecificOutput.{permissionDecision,additionalContext,updatedInput}`/`systemMessage`); the bridge honors only the subset meaningful for its dialect. Fields with no consumer on any path are not parsed at all (CC's `suppressOutput` — hook stdout never enters a transcript here, so there is nothing to suppress; see [the tighten-hook-protocol-contract RFC](../simplification/2026-07-04-tighten-hook-protocol-contract.md)).
+- **Decode** — `parseHookOutput(exit, stdout, stderr)`, the exit-code + structured-stdout codec, producing a dialect-neutral `HookOutput`. Exit `0` → lenient JSON parse of stdout; exit `2` → blocking error with `stderr` as the reason (surfaced as `decision: 'block'` so no caller needs a separate exit-code branch); other → non-blocking error. Parses the CC structured-stdout fields that have a consumer on some path (`continue`/`stopReason`/`decision`/`hookSpecificOutput.{permissionDecision,additionalContext,updatedInput}`/`systemMessage`); the bridge honors only the subset meaningful for its dialect. Fields with no consumer on any path are not parsed at all (CC's `suppressOutput` — hook stdout never enters a transcript here, so there is nothing to suppress; see [the tighten-hook-protocol-contract Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-04-tighten-hook-protocol-contract.md)).
 - **Merge** — `mergeHookOutputs(outputs)`, folding multiple matched hooks into one most-restrictive `MergedHookOutcome`: permission precedence **deny > ask > allow**, halt sticky on the first `continue:false`, block reasons joined `\n\n`, context/system-messages accumulated in order.
 - **`hook/*` session events** — `hook/invoked` / `hook/result`, declaration-merged into `SessionEventMap` (log-only, like `compact/*` — NOT `SurfaceEventType`s), with `appendHookInvoked`/`appendHookResult` helpers so the invoked/result pairing and turn-enclosure stay consistent across bridges. `appendHookResult` also owns the durable record's semantics — the decision string (the hook's parsed decision, else `'stop'` on `continue:false`, else `'pass'`) and the 500-character `stderrSummary` truncation derive from the `HookOutput` here, not per-bridge.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-interception-seams.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Interception seams — the typed-Decision surface a hook programs against
+# Agent Note: Interception seams — the typed-Decision surface a hook programs against
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 The harness needs a hooks subsystem: users extend or gate the agent at lifecycle points the way Claude Code (CC) and Codex do. The key reframe driving this design is that **"native hooks" are not a package** — a native hook is just an ordinary Cordis plugin subscribing to the canonical lifecycle events. So the real product is a *powerful, well-typed canonical event surface*; the CC/Codex bridges (the `dsh-hooks-claude` / `dsh-hooks-codex` packages) are merely translators that map an external shell-hook protocol onto that same surface. Anything a bridge can do, a plain plugin can do directly — more powerfully (no serialization boundary, full `ctx`, typed returns).
 
-The surface needs distinct contracts for per-prompt policy (CC's `UserPromptSubmit`), session-start observation (CC's `SessionStart`), pre-tool policy, around-dispatch control, post-tool transformation, final-result observation, and continuation with a model-facing reason. Conflating those phases gives plugins mutation channels they do not need and makes finality depend on listener ordering. The [event-domain-semantics RFC](../architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md) supplies the three-domain rule and the typed-Decision idiom; this RFC applies them to the lifecycle seams.
+The surface needs distinct contracts for per-prompt policy (CC's `UserPromptSubmit`), session-start observation (CC's `SessionStart`), pre-tool policy, around-dispatch control, post-tool transformation, final-result observation, and continuation with a model-facing reason. Conflating those phases gives plugins mutation channels they do not need and makes finality depend on listener ordering. The [event-domain-semantics Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-30-event-domain-semantics.md) supplies the three-domain rule and the typed-Decision idiom; this Agent Note applies them to the lifecycle seams.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Core dispatch and the tool body sit inside normalization boundaries, so tool, li
 
 1. **Open the turn before prompt policy.** A fully blocked batch becomes a zero-step `rejected` turn, preserving enclosure and giving ACP a durable terminal event. Every veto also records `prompt/blocked` with the original prompt and reason, so mixed batches retain blocked inputs. Every allowed `additionalContexts` entry is injected into the open turn.
 
-2. **Post-tool `additionalContexts` are buffered and appended AFTER all `tool/result`s.** `content`/`feedback` shape the result `execute()` returns, but each context is a SEPARATE `context/message`, and a single step or composite tool can produce many. Appending context immediately would interleave `result(c1) → context → result(c2)` or place nested context before its outer result, breaking tool-call/result adjacency. `ToolRunContext.deferContext()` therefore collects nested-dispatch context through failures, `execute()` surfaces the ordered array on `ToolExecutionResult`, and the loop appends every entry only after every `tool/result` in the step. An accepted outer call preserves deferred contexts before decision contexts; an outer block discards deferred contexts and exposes only contexts explicitly supplied by the blocking decision.
+2. **Post-tool `additionalContexts` and asynchronous injections enter the active-batch FIFO and append when that batch settles.** `content`/`feedback` shape the result `execute()` returns, but each context is a separate `context/message`, and a single step or composite tool can produce many. Appending context immediately would interleave `result(c1) → context → result(c2)` or place nested context before its outer result, breaking tool-call/result adjacency. `ToolRunContext.deferContext()` therefore collects nested-dispatch context through failures, `execute()` surfaces the ordered array on `ToolExecutionResult`, and the loop accepts it into the same FIFO as `agent.inject()` calls made during execution. The FIFO appends after every recorded result when the batch settles, including before an interrupted turn closes. An accepted outer call preserves deferred contexts before decision contexts; an outer block discards deferred contexts and exposes only contexts explicitly supplied by the blocking decision.
 
 3. **A forced `continue` `reason` is enqueued through the steering channel**, so the next step's top-of-loop drain records it as steering for the continued turn — next-*step* steering within the SAME turn, not a next-*turn* prompt (matching the existing `hasSteering` force-continue override).
 
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ The seam package does **not** declare `hook/*` session events (the durable hook-
 
 ## Consequences
 
-The canonical interception surface is uniformly typed without giving every extension the same power: hooks return decisions, execution wrappers wrap, terminal guards only deny, and final observers only observe. The loop owns session-start, prompt-submit, post-tool context buffering, and continuation; `dsh-tools` owns identity sealing and the five-phase execution pipeline. Their contracts are documented in [architecture.md](../../../architecture.md), package READMEs, [core interception decisions](../../../core-data-structures/core.md#interception-decisions), and [tool structures](../../../core-data-structures/tools.md). The ACP bridge maps `rejected` turns to its `cancelled` codec value, while hook-driven snapshots verify the observable bridge behavior end to end.
+The canonical interception surface is uniformly typed without giving every extension the same power: hooks return decisions, execution wrappers wrap, terminal guards only deny, and final observers only observe. The loop owns session-start, prompt-submit, post-tool context buffering, and continuation; `dsh-tools` owns identity sealing and the five-phase execution pipeline. Their contracts are documented in [architecture.md](../../../../docs/architecture.md), package READMEs, [core interception decisions](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/core.md#interception-decisions), and [tool structures](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/tools.md). The ACP bridge maps `rejected` turns to its `cancelled` codec value, while hook-driven snapshots verify the observable bridge behavior end to end.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-session-store-fork-api.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-session-store-fork-api.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: SessionStore fork API
+# Agent Note: SessionStore fork API
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 The event-sourced session log already has the primitive a fork needs: create a new session with a seed event prefix, then derive model history from that seeded log exactly as replay does. That primitive is intentionally low-level: `ctx.sessions.create(id, { seed, meta })` accepts any valid seed, but ordinary live-session branching needs policy around which prefix can be copied, which metadata is stamped on the child, and how errors are classified.
 
-The semantic hazard is the fork boundary. A valid user-visible fork seed must be contiguous and turn-enclosed. Forking inside an active turn would copy an open `turn/start`, possibly an open `step/start`, and possibly dangling tool calls. That violates turn-enclosure and provider-transcript invariants, and it creates a misleading child history that appears to have participated in an unfinished parent turn. The existing [subagent seam](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) deliberately solves a different problem: tool-triggered subagent forks usually happen while the parent turn is open, so `dsh-subagent-fork` clips the seed to the parent's last completed-turn prefix. A general session fork should not silently clip; it should either fork the requested boundary or reject it.
+The semantic hazard is the fork boundary. A valid user-visible fork seed must be contiguous and turn-enclosed. Forking inside an active turn would copy an open `turn/start`, possibly an open `step/start`, and possibly dangling tool calls. That violates turn-enclosure and provider-transcript invariants, and it creates a misleading child history that appears to have participated in an unfinished parent turn. The existing [subagent seam](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) deliberately solves a different problem: tool-triggered subagent forks usually happen while the parent turn is open, so `dsh-subagent-fork` clips the seed to the parent's last completed-turn prefix. A general session fork should not silently clip; it should either fork the requested boundary or reject it.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ An empty prefix is forkable; any non-empty boundary must be a safe existing sequ
 
 The public surface stays small and discoverable: live session branching is part of `ctx.sessions`, next to `create({ seed })`, rather than a standalone service or a two-step helper pair. Persistence continues to work through existing `session/created` and `session/flush` behavior: a forked child starts life with seeded events, so existing backends persist that seed once and preserve `parentSession` / `seedLength` in the header.
 
-The v1 scope still excludes ACP `session/fork`, unloaded persisted-session forking, model-facing tools, and subagent refactors. If a future ACP method is added, it should advertise the capability only after it has transcript/snapshot coverage; this RFC adds no editor-facing updates, so no ACP snapshot is required now. Fork-child replay remains covered by the existing [seed-boundary testing RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-22-fork-child-replay-seed-boundary.md), while this API gets focused `dsh-session` unit tests plus JSONL persistence coverage.
+The v1 scope still excludes ACP `session/fork`, unloaded persisted-session forking, model-facing tools, and subagent refactors. If a future ACP method is added, it should advertise the capability only after it has transcript/snapshot coverage; this Agent Note adds no editor-facing updates, so no ACP snapshot is required now. Fork-child replay remains covered by the existing [seed-boundary testing Agent Note](../testing/2026-06-22-fork-child-replay-seed-boundary.md), while this API gets focused `dsh-session` unit tests plus JSONL persistence coverage.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-30-subagent-observe-enrich.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# RFC: Subagent lifecycle enrichment — lastAssistantMessage (observe-only)
+# Agent Note: Subagent lifecycle enrichment — lastAssistantMessage (observe-only)
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The hooks subsystem ([interception seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)) lets a plugin observe and gate the agent at lifecycle points. Claude Code and Codex both expose **SubagentStart / SubagentStop** hooks, and CC's carry the subagent's final message. The harness already emits `subagent/start` and `subagent/end` lifecycle events ([the subagent capability-seam](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md)), but their payloads were minimal (`provider`, `id`, and on end `stopReason`) — not enough for a hooks bridge to report WHAT a subagent produced without separately reaching for the live run.
+The hooks subsystem ([interception seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)) lets a plugin observe and gate the agent at lifecycle points. Claude Code and Codex both expose **SubagentStart / SubagentStop** hooks, and CC's carry the subagent's final message. The harness already emits `subagent/start` and `subagent/end` lifecycle events ([the subagent capability-seam](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md)), but their payloads were minimal (`provider`, `id`, and on end `stopReason`) — not enough for a hooks bridge to report WHAT a subagent produced without separately reaching for the live run.
 
-This RFC enriches the end payload. It is deliberately **observe-only**: no control-flow change and no waterfall. A run-affecting subagent-stop decision (continuation, injection that changes the run) is a separate, larger redesign and stays out of scope.
+This Agent Note enriches the end payload. It is deliberately **observe-only**: no control-flow change and no waterfall. A run-affecting subagent-stop decision (continuation, injection that changes the run) is a separate, larger redesign and stays out of scope.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ Both events stay plain **`emit`s**. Async `SubagentService.start()` attaches res
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-**An `agentType` subagent-kind label** (the harness analogue of CC's `subagent_type`) on the request + both lifecycle payloads — an earlier draft shipped it; dropped in review because it is a Claude-Code concept that does not fit our own seam (nothing here interprets it, and the only consumer was a CC-dialect bridge). The CC bridge instead feeds Claude Code's own default matcher value `"general-purpose"` for its SubagentStart/Stop `agent_type` matcher, so this RFC ships ONE enrichment: `lastAssistantMessage`.
+**An `agentType` subagent-kind label** (the harness analogue of CC's `subagent_type`) on the request + both lifecycle payloads — an earlier draft shipped it; dropped in review because it is a Claude-Code concept that does not fit our own seam (nothing here interprets it, and the only consumer was a CC-dialect bridge). The CC bridge instead feeds Claude Code's own default matcher value `"general-purpose"` for its SubagentStart/Stop `agent_type` matcher, so this Agent Note ships ONE enrichment: `lastAssistantMessage`.
 
 **A control-flow `subagent/end`** — deferred; see below.
 
 ## Why observe-only, and what is deferred
 
-A control-flow `subagent/end` (an awaited waterfall returning a stop/continue decision, like the other interception seams) would require: reshaping `subagent/end` from emit to waterfall, restructuring `SubagentService.start` to await listeners before settling, and implementing the `resume` capability in the in-process provider so a "continue" can actually re-run the child. That belongs to the background/steering subagent redesign the [capability-seam RFC](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) already defers (the same redesign that unifies long-running-tool handling across subagents and bash). This RFC ships the observe-only enrichment a hooks bridge needs today; `FIXME(subagent-continuation)` / `TODO` anchors mark where the control-flow version would land if and when that redesign happens.
+A control-flow `subagent/end` (an awaited waterfall returning a stop/continue decision, like the other interception seams) would require: reshaping `subagent/end` from emit to waterfall, restructuring `SubagentService.start` to await listeners before settling, and implementing the `resume` capability in the in-process provider so a "continue" can actually re-run the child. That belongs to the background/steering subagent redesign the [capability-seam Agent Note](2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md) already defers (the same redesign that unifies long-running-tool handling across subagents and bash). This Agent Note ships the observe-only enrichment a hooks bridge needs today; `FIXME(subagent-continuation)` / `TODO` anchors mark where the control-flow version would land if and when that redesign happens.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-A hooks bridge (or a native plugin) can now forward the child's `lastAssistantMessage` to a SubagentStop handler by subscribing to the existing emits — no new control-flow surface. The vocabulary addition is documented in [docs/core-data-structures/subagent.md](../../../core-data-structures/subagent.md) (the events prose) and the two subagent READMEs; the catalog is regenerated. No production behavior changes — the events fire exactly as before, with one more (optional) field on the end payload — so no snapshot or e2e change is needed.
+A hooks bridge (or a native plugin) can now forward the child's `lastAssistantMessage` to a SubagentStop handler by subscribing to the existing emits — no new control-flow surface. The vocabulary addition is documented in [docs/core-data-structures/subagent.md](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/subagent.md) (the events prose) and the two subagent READMEs; the catalog is regenerated. No production behavior changes — the events fire exactly as before, with one more (optional) field on the end payload — so no snapshot or e2e change is needed.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-dynamic-workflows.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-dynamic-workflows.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Dynamic workflows — a script-driven multi-agent orchestration seam
+# Agent Note: Dynamic workflows — a script-driven multi-agent orchestration seam
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ One deliberate strictness DIVERGENCE from CC: hook misuse — unknown or deferre
 
 ### The seam (dsh-workflow)
 
-`ctx.workflows` is an abstract `WorkflowService` in the bash shape — one engine per context, no named-provider registry (engines are deployment swaps, not co-residents). `start(request)` throws synchronously for a script that cannot begin; a returned `WorkflowRun`'s `result` NEVER rejects (failures resolve as `stopReason: 'error' | 'cancelled'`). The `workflow/*` events are observe-only emits carrying DATA SNAPSHOTS (id + meta; `workflow/end` omits the result value), per-listener contained, mirroring `subagent/start`/`subagent/end` — control stays with the run's holder. Vocabulary details: [core-data-structures/workflow.md](../../../core-data-structures/workflow.md).
+`ctx.workflows` is an abstract `WorkflowService` in the bash shape — one engine per context, no named-provider registry (engines are deployment swaps, not co-residents). `start(request)` throws synchronously for a script that cannot begin; a returned `WorkflowRun`'s `result` NEVER rejects (failures resolve as `stopReason: 'error' | 'cancelled'`). The `workflow/*` events are observe-only emits carrying DATA SNAPSHOTS (id + meta; `workflow/end` omits the result value), per-listener contained, mirroring `subagent/start`/`subagent/end` — control stays with the run's holder. Vocabulary details: [core-data-structures/workflow.md](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/workflow.md).
 
 ### The engine (dsh-workflow-workerthread): one worker thread per run
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ One deliberate strictness DIVERGENCE from CC: hook misuse — unknown or deferre
 
 **Why `node:worker_threads`**: each run gets one unpooled worker. A vm context limits the documented script surface, while message-port RPC bridges `agent()` to host-side child loops. The worker prevents synchronous script work from blocking the host, provides a serialization boundary, and permits forced termination after cancellation. `isolated-vm` was rejected because of its maintenance state and deployment requirements.
 
-The host validates metadata and parses the body before publication. Private enum-keyed payload maps define the wire protocol; pending starts, published child records, one cancellation signal, worker-death reaping, result precedence, and disposal quiescence preserve the subagent run contract across it. The [agent-scope runtime-design RFC](../architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#workflow-children-are-pending-starts-or-published-records) owns those race algorithms.
+The host validates metadata and parses the body before publication. Private enum-keyed payload maps define the wire protocol; pending starts, published child records, one cancellation signal, worker-death reaping, result precedence, and disposal quiescence preserve the subagent run contract across it. The [agent-scope runtime-design Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#workflow-children-are-pending-starts-or-published-records) owns those race algorithms.
 
 The engine exposes an in-process `MessageChannel` test path because main-process V8 coverage cannot see worker execution.
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ A `workflow` tool mirroring `dsh-tool-subagent`'s synchronous shape: start, awai
 
 An output schema makes a schema-valid committed capture mandatory for successful child completion. The scoped runtime presents the capture tool and instruction, commits only a successful final outcome—including the enclosing `run_code` outcome for an SDK call—denies later side effects after capture becomes pending, and stops the child without another model step after commit. A validation failure remains a retryable tool error; clean completion without a committed capture settles as an error.
 
-`StructuredOutputSchema` is the raw enforceable JSON-Schema subset in `dsh-tools` (single-string `type`, `properties`/`required`/`additionalProperties`, `items`, scalar `enum`/`const`), and unsupported keywords fail loudly because that wire data becomes the capture tool's parameters verbatim. The [agent-scope runtime-design RFC](../architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#structured-output-commits-only-authoritative-outcomes) owns the assembly, commit, guard, and terminal-stop correctness algorithms.
+`StructuredOutputSchema` is the raw enforceable JSON-Schema subset in `dsh-tools` (single-string `type`, `properties`/`required`/`additionalProperties`, `items`, scalar `enum`/`const`), and unsupported keywords fail loudly because that wire data becomes the capture tool's parameters verbatim. The [agent-scope runtime-design Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#structured-output-commits-only-authoritative-outcomes) owns the assembly, commit, guard, and terminal-stop correctness algorithms.
 
 ## Testing
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-skill-system.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-skill-system.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Skill system — progressive disclosure instructions for agents
+# Agent Note: Skill system — progressive disclosure instructions for agents
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Local skill filesystem I/O goes through `ctx.fs` when a filesystem service is lo
 
 The `skill({ name })` tool loads one full skill for the current agent cwd and returns a tool result containing `<skill_content name="...">`, `<skill_resources>`, and `<skill_instructions>`. `resourceBase` supplies a directory, URL, or opaque provider-managed base for explicitly referenced scripts, references, and assets; resources load only as needed, without directory enumeration. An unresolved name reports that the skill is unknown or no longer available; invalid names and skills marked `disableModelInvocation` retain distinct tool errors. The tool result is the model-visible disclosure path.
 
-The data structures and catalog/tool contract are documented in [skills.md](../../../core-data-structures/skills.md), with service signatures in the generated [services catalog](../../../cordis-catalog/services.md).
+The data structures and catalog/tool contract are documented in [skills.md](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/skills.md), with service signatures in the generated [services catalog](../../../../docs/cordis-catalog/services.md).
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-approval-seam.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-approval-seam.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: The approval seam — one-shot permission decisions over a waterfall of answerers
+# Agent Note: The approval seam — one-shot permission decisions over a waterfall of answerers
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-Two callers need to put one question — "may this specific action proceed?" — to a human: `tools/pre-execute`'s `ask` decision (including the Claude-Code hook bridge's `permissionDecision: ask`) and the [sandbox RFC](2026-07-06-sandbox.md)'s post-denial one-shot escalation retry. A shared seam keeps them from inventing separate outcome vocabularies, UI routing, cancellation, and audit trails, while guaranteeing that a deployment with no UI can never grant an unanswerable request.
+Two callers need to put one question — "may this specific action proceed?" — to a human: `tools/pre-execute`'s `ask` decision (including the Claude-Code hook bridge's `permissionDecision: ask`) and the [sandbox Agent Note](2026-07-06-sandbox.md)'s post-denial one-shot escalation retry. A shared seam keeps them from inventing separate outcome vocabularies, UI routing, cancellation, and audit trails, while guaranteeing that a deployment with no UI can never grant an unanswerable request.
 
 The routing problem is ownership: an approval prompt must reach the editor session that owns the asking agent (the ACP bridge multiplexes N sessions over one connection), fail closed for agents nobody owns (in-process subagents, tests), and stay out of deployments that compose no UI (headless, CI).
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ One `cordis.yml` entry mounts the seam. Not loading it is the fail-closed opt-ou
 
 The entry alone provides mechanism, not a channel: with no answerer composed, every ask resolves `unavailable` and the asking tool call denies — fail-closed needs no configuration. Composing the ACP app (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`, as in [the acp-agent example's default tree](../../../../examples/acp-agent/README.md)) completes the loop: its bridge registers an answerer that prompts the owning editor session via `session/request_permission`, so a hook's `ask` or an escalation request surfaces as a one-shot Allow/Reject prompt attached to the already-streamed tool call. `policy: never` is the unattended stance — every ask auto-rejects deterministically, stated in the system prompt, no human in the loop. `policy` is validated against the closed list at plugin load; anything else throws.
 
-What a composed deployment observes: `allowed-once` lets exactly that call proceed; rejection, dismissal, and channel absence deny with three distinct reasons the model can tell apart; every ask lands a durable `approval/asked`/`approval/decided` pair on the asking agent's session log; nothing about a grant persists past the call that asked.
+What a composed deployment observes: `allowed-once` lets exactly that call proceed; rejection, dismissal, and channel absence deny with three distinct reasons the model can tell apart; a successful in-turn request lands a durable `approval/asked`/`approval/decided` pair on the asking agent's session log; nothing about a grant persists past the call that asked. An idle request or audit append failure rejects instead of returning an unaudited decision.
 
 One ask under this composition, verbatim from the sandbox example's recorded `escalation-approved` scenario — the model requests a sandbox escalation, the gate asks, the bridge prompts the owning editor, the user clicks Allow once:
 
@@ -49,45 +49,44 @@ The `escalation-rejected` twin ends in `{"outcome": "rejected"}` instead: nothin
 
 #### The seam: mechanism and policy split
 
-After validation and an `approval/asked` append, `request()` resolves to `allowed-once`, `rejected`, `cancelled`, or `unavailable`. The service borrows the readonly request, runs the answerer waterfall, races cancellation, and normalizes thrown or invalid answers to `unavailable`. It then appends the matching `approval/decided`, paired by `ApprovalRequestId`.
+After validation and a successful `approval/asked` append, the service resolves the `approval/request` waterfall to `allowed-once`, `rejected`, `cancelled`, or `unavailable`. It borrows the readonly request identity and signal, treats abort as `cancelled`, contains answerer failures and invalid returns as `unavailable`, discards late answers, and appends the paired `approval/decided` event. Pre-commit audit failures reject; post-append observer failures cannot undo an authoritative event. `allowed-once` authorizes only the asked action, and `request()` rejects outside an open turn so the audit pair remains inside the durable commit boundary.
 
-Both audit events must be inside an open turn; acceptance or a pre-commit append failure rejects the request. Post-commit observers are contained by the session. `allowed-once` grants only the requested action, and the service retains no grant state.
+Answerers are `approval/request` waterfall listeners. Zero listeners fall through to `unavailable`; a recognizing listener occupies the first-wins decision slot, while an unrecognized agent must delegate with `next()`. Listeners dispose with their fibers, so an unloaded channel fails closed. Because sibling registration order is not deterministic, a deployment composes one terminal answerer and reserves `prepend` for decide-or-delegate gates.
 
-Answerers are `approval/request` waterfall listeners. A listener returns an outcome for an agent it owns and calls `next()` otherwise. With no answerer, the default is `unavailable`; unloading a UI therefore fails closed without leaving a channel. Because sibling registration order is not deterministic, a deployment composes one terminal answerer and uses `prepend` only for decide-or-delegate gates.
-
-`ApprovalRequest` carries the agent, tool name, optional `callId`, reason, and signal. The agent routes both the prompt and audit events. The request uses `dsh-llm`'s `CallId` without importing `dsh-tools`, avoiding a package cycle. Tool arguments are omitted because UI answerers attach to the already-rendered call.
+`ApprovalRequest` carries the asking `agent`, `toolName`, optional exact `callId`, human-readable `reason`, and optional `signal`. It uses the `CallId` brand without importing `dsh-tools`, which depends on this seam. Tool arguments stay on the already-streamed call that a UI references by `callId`.
 
 #### Ask routing in dsh-tools
 
-`ToolRegistry.execute()` sends `ask` through the approval seam before the deny path. Only `allowed-once` proceeds; rejection, cancellation, and an unavailable channel produce distinct model-visible reasons. The registry looks up the optional service per call, so an absent or unloaded service fails closed without gating the registry fiber. Agent-less execution also fails closed because it cannot be routed or audited.
+`ToolRegistry.execute()` resolves `ask` before dispatch: `allowed-once` proceeds, while rejection, cancellation, and channel absence produce distinct deny reasons. Opportunistic `ctx.get('approval')` consumption lets an absent or unmounted service fail closed without gating the registry fiber. Agent-less execution also fails closed because it has neither an audit session nor a UI owner.
 
 #### The per-session policy tier
 
-The seam owns the session policy `'ask' | 'never'`, following the switching contract in the [sandbox RFC](2026-07-06-sandbox.md). The effective session or config policy is applied before answerers: `'never'` rejects inside `request()`, while `'ask'` dispatches and falls through to `unavailable` when unanswered. The prompt states only deterministic `'never'`; the narrator reports switches, and every request still receives its audit pair.
+The seam also owns the session-scoped `'ask' | 'never'` policy described by [the sandbox Agent Note](2026-07-06-sandbox.md). Effective policy is folded from logged switches over the deployment default. `'never'` resolves to `rejected` inside `request()` before any answerer can run; `'ask'` dispatches and otherwise falls through to `unavailable`. The prompt states only deterministic `'never'`, switch narration is coalesced, and every request still records the audit pair.
 
 #### The ACP answerer
 
-The ACP bridge finds the owning session, sends `session/request_permission` for the `callId`, and maps one-shot allow, reject, and cancel responses to the seam vocabulary. Unknown selections never grant. Foreign agents and requests without a `callId` delegate via `next()`; RPC failure becomes `unavailable`. The bridge answers requests but does not decide which calls require approval.
+The ACP bridge answers only for an exact agent object owned by its forward session map. It attaches `session/request_permission` to the existing `callId`, advertises one-shot allow/reject options, maps cancellation separately, and never grants an unknown option. Foreign or call-less requests delegate; a failed client RPC becomes `unavailable`. Hooks and `tools/pre-execute` decide whether a call asks at all.
 
-The answerer routes through the bridge's reverse-map ownership seam described by [the ACP support RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md), implementing the per-session permission ownership required by [the multi-session RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md).
+The answerer routes through the bridge's exact-agent ownership check described by [the ACP support Agent Note](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md), implementing the per-session permission ownership required by [the multi-session Agent Note](2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md).
 
 #### Audit, and what the model sees
 
-`approval/asked` and `approval/decided` are durable log-only events. The model sees only the asker's logged `tool/result`. Every accepted request appends one matching decision, including cancellation and contained answerer failures.
+`approval/asked` and `approval/decided` are durable log-only events; the model sees only the ordinary tool result derived from the outcome. Successful completion commits one `decided` per `asked`, including cancellation and contained answerer failure. Idle requests append neither event; a pre-commit failure rejects, while failure of the second append can leave an already-committed `asked` unmatched.
 
 #### Entities and dependencies
 
-`dsh-user-approval` owns the fixed dispatch-and-audit mechanism; `dsh-tools` asks and `dsh-acp` answers. Replaceable answerers remain listeners in their channel-owning plugins, so a three-package capability split would add an empty implementation layer. Sandbox executors remain transport-only, and static capability grants remain separate from interactive approval.
+`dsh-user-approval` depends on Cordis plus the session, agent, and branded-call contracts; `dsh-tools` and `dsh-acp` consume it. The sandbox executor stays independent because `dsh-tool-bash` owns escalation requests. The fixed dispatch-and-audit service remains one package; replaceable answerers live with their channel owners. Static capability grants and `subagent-acp` child-side permission answers remain separate concerns.
 
 ### Testing
 
-- **Unit/integration:** cover first-wins delegation, fail-closed defaults, malformed and throwing answerers, cancellation races and late-answer discard, audit pairing despite observer failures, unbypassable `'never'`, distinct tool-denial reasons, and ACP per-session routing/outcome mapping.
-- **Snapshot:** script permission answers through both sandbox escalation branches and pin the `'never'` prompt plus policy-switch notice. Hook-produced asks without a composed answerer remain covered as fail-closed denial.
+Unit tests pin outcomes, first-wins delegation, containment, cancellation, scoped routing, audit pairing, the unbypassable `'never'` policy, tool deny reasons, and ACP ownership/outcome mapping through a real scripted bridge.
+
+Snapshots record allowed and rejected sandbox escalation through `session/request_permission`, plus the `'never'` prompt and policy-switch notice. Unscripted permission prompts cancel and fail closed.
 
 ## Deferred
 
-- **`allow_always` grant storage** — honoring a persistent grant means designing storage, scope identity (call? path? prefix? session? time window?), and revocation; until designed, only the one-shot options are advertised ([the sandbox RFC](2026-07-06-sandbox.md) § Escalation records the open scope question).
-- **A recorded hook-produced ask with a composed answerer** — escalation records the human-prompt wire, while the current hook fixture pins the no-service denial; their combined producer/answerer path remains unit-covered.
+- **`allow_always` grant storage** — honoring a persistent grant means designing storage, scope identity (call? path? prefix? session? time window?), and revocation; until designed, only the one-shot options are advertised ([the sandbox Agent Note](2026-07-06-sandbox.md) § Escalation records the open scope question).
+- **A recorded hook-driven `ask` through a composed answerer** — the human-prompt wire is recorded through the sandbox example's escalation branches. The hook matrix's `hook-cc-pretool-ask` pins the no-ApprovalService fallback denial, while the hook-producer-plus-answerer composition remains on the unit tier.
 - **Routing a child agent's approvals to the parent session** — `subagent-acp`'s child auto-answers its own `permission` requests; surfacing them to the parent's editor is its own design.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
@@ -101,16 +100,18 @@ The answerer routes through the bridge's reverse-map ownership seam described by
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- Only `allowed-once` dispatches an asked-about action; absent, rejected, cancelled, or failed answer paths deny.
-- Session ownership routes prompts, policy, and audit events without crossing editor sessions.
-- Accepted requests append one durable audit pair; the model sees only the resulting tool result.
-- A deployment without the service emits no approval prompt or audit events and denies every `ask` at the tool boundary.
+The implemented contract is pinned by the suites in Testing:
+
+- `allowed-once` dispatches one action; every other outcome denies with a distinct reason, and `'never'` rejects before prompting.
+- Missing, foreign, agent-less, throwing, invalid, and disconnected answer paths fail closed.
+- Successful requests route by exact agent ownership and append one replayable, model-invisible audit pair; idle and pre-commit failures reject.
+- ACP ownership keeps prompts inside their session, while a deployment without the service emits no prompt or audit events.
 
 Costs and accepted limits:
 
 - **Two decide-eager answerers race for the slot.** Sibling-plugin listener order is not deterministic, so the seam cannot referee competing terminal answerers — mitigated by convention (one terminal answerer per deployment; `prepend` only for decide-or-delegate gates) rather than a priority mechanism the event bus does not have.
 - **Production exercise rests on one composition.** `ask` has two producer families — the hook bridges through `tools/pre-execute`, and sandbox escalation through its own gate — with the wire recorded in the sandbox example's snapshot suite, so the seam's real-world coverage is that one composition until more deployments compose it.
-- **Ownership keys on `Agent` object identity.** The answerer resolves sessions through the bridge's existing WeakMap; every current path hands the same object through the loop and the seams, but a future boundary that clones or proxies agents would make the bridge delegate and fail closed — safe, but silently UI-less — and would need session-id matching instead.
+- **Ownership keys on `Agent` object identity.** The answerer resolves the forward session-map record at `agent.session.id`, then requires that record to own the exact agent object; every current path hands the same object through the loop and the seams, but a future boundary that clones or proxies agents would make the bridge delegate and fail closed — safe, but silently UI-less — and would need a different ownership contract.
 
 ## FAQ
 
@@ -118,10 +119,10 @@ Costs and accepted limits:
 - **Can a grant persist — "always allow this"?** No. `allowed-once` authorizes the single asked-about action and the service stores nothing between requests; `allow_always` is deliberately not advertised until grant storage is designed (§ Deferred).
 - **What does the model see of an approval?** Only the tool result the asker derives from the outcome — the audit pair never enters the transcript. The three non-grant reasons are distinct, so the model can tell a human "no" from a dismissed prompt from a missing channel.
 - **Who decides whether a call asks in the first place?** Policy producers: a hook returning `permissionDecision: ask`, any `tools/pre-execute` listener, or the sandbox escalation gate. The seam and the bridge only route and answer; neither injects its own judgment about what deserves a prompt.
-- **What happens when the user dismisses the prompt, or the turn aborts mid-ask?** Dismissal maps to `cancelled` with its own deny text. An already-aborted signal settles `cancelled` without dispatching; an abort during the ask discards the late answer — one audit pair either way, never two.
+- **What happens when the user dismisses the prompt, or the turn aborts mid-ask?** Dismissal maps to `cancelled` with its own deny text. An already-aborted signal settles `cancelled` without dispatching; an abort during the ask discards the late answer. When both audit appends commit, either path records one pair, never two.
 - **What if the client answers with an option the harness never offered?** Any selection other than the offered `allow_once` maps to `rejected` — an unknown optionId from a non-conforming client can never grant.
 - **How do subagents' approvals route?** An agent no answerer owns delegates through the whole waterfall and fails closed — in-process subagents are deliberately unanswerable. `subagent-acp`'s child-side auto-answer is separate; routing a child's asks to the parent's editor is deferred (§ Deferred).
-- **What does `policy: 'never'` actually change at runtime?** The service resolves every ask for that session to `rejected` before dispatching any answerer (in-service, so no registration order can bypass it); the system prompt states the policy; switches are narrated at boundaries; the audit pair still lands for every auto-rejection.
+- **What does `policy: 'never'` actually change at runtime?** The service resolves every ask for that session to `rejected` before dispatching any answerer (in-service, so no registration order can bypass it); the system prompt states the policy; switches are narrated at boundaries; each successful auto-rejection records the audit pair.
 - **What happens across a hot reload, or when the UI plugin unloads mid-session?** Answerers dispose with their owning fiber, so the next ask degrades to `unavailable` instead of hanging on a dead channel; remounting re-registers the answerer with no catch-up state.
 - **Where does the user see what they are approving?** On the tool call itself: the prompt attaches to the already-streamed call via `callId` — arguments included — and adds the asker's human-readable `reason`; the request carries no argument copy of its own.
 
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ Costs and accepted limits:
 In-repo precedents this design copies or contrasts with:
 
 - The `fs/write-intent` gate (`packages/fs/fs/`) — the documented single-occupancy decision-slot waterfall semantics (first answer wins, delegate via `next()`) the answerer contract reuses.
-- `hook/invoked`/`hook/result` — the log-only audit-pair precedent `approval/asked`/`approval/decided` follows; [the hook-bridges RFC](2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) ships `permissionDecision: ask`, the first producer.
-- [The interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) — the `tools/pre-execute` `allow`/`deny`/`ask` vocabulary whose `ask` this seam services.
-- [The ACP support RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) — the `WeakMap<Agent, sessionId>` ownership seam the answerer routes through; [the multi-session RFC](../../implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md) — the per-session permission-ownership blocker this implements.
+- `hook/invoked`/`hook/result` — the log-only audit-pair precedent `approval/asked`/`approval/decided` follows; [the hook-bridges Agent Note](2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) ships `permissionDecision: ask`, the first producer.
+- [The interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) — the `tools/pre-execute` `allow`/`deny`/`ask` vocabulary whose `ask` this seam services.
+- [The ACP support Agent Note](2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md) — the exact-agent ownership check against the forward session map that the answerer routes through; [the multi-session Agent Note](2026-06-14-acp-multi-session.md) — the per-session permission-ownership blocker this implements.
 - The opportunistic `ctx.get()` consumption pattern (`tool-bash`'s owner-token lookup, the loop's persistence probe) — how `dsh-tools` consumes the seam without gating its fiber on it.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-explicit-tool-order.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-explicit-tool-order.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Explicit model-facing tool order
+# Agent Note: Explicit model-facing tool order
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ Config plumbing follows the `persona` precedent, and `toolOrder` sits beside it:
 - **A `LlmService` config + `orderTools()` method the loop calls before logging the header** — works, but adds a public service method and a loop edit solely to apply a policy at a distance; every future request composer must remember the call. Canonicalizing where the list is born makes an unordered list unrepresentable, with zero new surface.
 - **Normalizing inside `llm.stream()`** — runs after the header event is logged (the flake survives) and rebuilds the deep-frozen envelope, silently disarming the reconstruction invariant.
 - **An exhaustive list (no rest entry)** — every newly loaded tool plugin would break boot; the mandatory rest entry keeps unlisted tools deterministic and their position explicit.
-- **A boot-time validation pass (a `SystemPrompt.assertToolOrderSatisfied()` called by `dsh-app-boot` after `loader.await()`)** — would turn the misconfiguration into a startup death instead of a first-turn failure, but costs a public service method plus a structural coupling from the generic boot glue to one service, and cannot replace the assembly-time check anyway (embedded callers never run app boot; registrations change after boot). No existing event can host the check either: cordis v4 has no ready-like event, `loader/entry-init`/`internal/status` fire mid-load (racy against tool registration, the very entropy this RFC kills), and the agent lifecycle events are no earlier than the assembly. One enforcement point at `assemble()` was judged worth the later failure moment.
+- **A boot-time validation pass (a `SystemPrompt.assertToolOrderSatisfied()` called by `dsh-app-boot` after `loader.await()`)** — would turn the misconfiguration into a startup death instead of a first-turn failure, but costs a public service method plus a structural coupling from the generic boot glue to one service, and cannot replace the assembly-time check anyway (embedded callers never run app boot; registrations change after boot). No existing event can host the check either: cordis v4 has no ready-like event, `loader/entry-init`/`internal/status` fire mid-load (racy against tool registration, the very entropy this Agent Note kills), and the agent lifecycle events are no earlier than the assembly. One enforcement point at `assemble()` was judged worth the later failure moment.
 
 ## Consequences
 
 - Every registry-built assembly starts with a deterministic tool order on every host; absent an expert listener that deliberately changes it, every `request/header` event and model request inherits that order. The CI-vs-local registration-order flip is structurally gone, and the default is lexicographic.
 - The initial `PromptAssembly.tools` is canonical, so waterfall listeners start from the model-facing order; provider registration order is observable nowhere before that cooperative seam.
-- A pure tool reordering between steps is representable only as a `request/header` `'fallback'` snapshot (the name-keyed `ToolsDelta` cannot express it); with a stable canonical order such reorders no longer occur in practice, so the fallback path stays a safety valve.
+- The snapshot suite's single pinned request-header fixture (`text-turn`) carries the new canonical tool order; every other ACP snapshot keeps the header bulk scrubbed as `{{system}}`/`{{tools}}`, per the pinned-header design.
+- A pure tool reordering between steps is logged like any other header change: a full `request/header` snapshot with reason `'change'`. Stable canonical order prevents registration timing from creating such changes in the ordinary path.
 - The `toolOrder` key rides the app → `agent-core` → `SystemPrompt` forwarding chain, so deployments set it next to `persona` in the app config; `dsh-llm` and the agent loop are untouched.
 - A misspelled or unloaded tool name in `toolOrder` fails the turn at prompt assembly, not the boot: the loop assembles inside the turn (after `turn/start`, before `step/start`), so the rejection reaches the turn's outer catch — the turn closes balanced with an `error` reason carrying the message, `agent/error` mirrors it, no step opens, no `request/header` is logged, no request reaches the adapter, and the agent returns to idle. Every turn fails identically until the config is fixed; the process itself stays up (matching the repo rule that explicit config references must not be silently ignored — the enforcement point is the assembly because no earlier universal moment exists).
 - A tool provider that returns the reserved rest-entry name has the same prompt-assembly failure shape as an unknown listed name. This keeps the sentinel from becoming an ambiguous real tool and preserves the "never drops a tool" ordering contract.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The subprocess sandbox — confinement seam, native runners, escalation, and per-session modes
+# Agent Note: The subprocess sandbox — confinement seam, native runners, escalation, and per-session modes
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Confinement alone leaves two gaps. A denial with no escalation path is terminal
 
 ## Decision
 
-One seam, one per-platform chain of local backends, one consumer, and two levers on top: a per-call escalation path and per-session runtime modes. Everything below composes from the leaf `cordis.yml`; nothing touches `agent-loop`. The scope is deliberately bounded: the phases this RFC names but does not design — per-session workspace root, cross-family fs enforcement, the `subagent-acp` consumer, more environments, a Windows chain — are listed under § Deferred phases, each a follow-up design, not a config knob.
+One seam, one per-platform chain of local backends, one consumer, and two levers on top: a per-call escalation path and per-session runtime modes. Everything below composes from the leaf `cordis.yml`; nothing touches `agent-loop`. The scope is deliberately bounded: the phases this Agent Note names but does not design — per-session workspace root, cross-family fs enforcement, the `subagent-acp` consumer, more environments, a Windows chain — are listed under § Deferred phases, each a follow-up design, not a config knob.
 
 ### How a deployment uses it
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Four `cordis.yml` entries turn an unconfined coding agent into the sandboxed pro
     mode: workspace-write                  # the deployment default every session starts from
     workspaceRoot: !!js process.cwd()      # the boundary workspace-write may write under
 - id: approval
-  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval'        # the escalation gate's channel (the approval RFC)
+  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval'        # the escalation gate's channel (the approval Agent Note)
   config:
     policy: ask
 - id: permission
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
 }
 ```
 
-Each owner exports the same three-piece kit: the event declaration, a pure fold (`effectiveSandboxMode(events)` / `effectiveApprovalPolicy(events)` — a `findLast`, typed to the domain's closed union), and THE write path (`setSandboxMode(session, mode)` / `setApprovalPolicy(session, policy)` — a switch IS its event; nothing mutates state out of band). No shared owner service, no generic facts map, no registry: a third knob copies the ~40-line pattern into its own package. Execution follows the fold on both sides — the bash tool's per-call stamp reads it as the middle rung of the § Escalation precedence chain, and the approval seam's `'never'` gate is [the approval RFC](2026-07-06-approval-seam.md)'s side of the same pattern.
+Each owner exports the same three-piece kit: the event declaration, a pure fold (`effectiveSandboxMode(events)` / `effectiveApprovalPolicy(events)` — a `findLast`, typed to the domain's closed union), and THE write path (`setSandboxMode(session, mode)` / `setApprovalPolicy(session, policy)` — a switch IS its event; nothing mutates state out of band). No shared owner service, no generic facts map, no registry: a third knob copies the ~40-line pattern into its own package. Execution follows the fold on both sides — the bash tool's per-call stamp reads it as the middle rung of the § Escalation precedence chain, and the approval seam's `'never'` gate is [the approval Agent Note](2026-07-06-approval-seam.md)'s side of the same pattern.
 
 Sandbox mode is not narrated in the prompt; denial results report the mode when it matters, avoiding preemptive refusal based on a standing label. Approval policy is different: only `'never'` is stated because automatic rejection otherwise looks like a user decision. Policy-change notices are coalesced and delivered by the next pre-step, with log-derived fallback after restart. The notice source is inferred from event position: a knob event after the last request header is user-driven; unlogged drift is operator or config driven.
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Each phase gets its full design when picked up, validated against the code at th
 - **A generic `env/state` facts map with an owner service** — rejected: approval and sandbox compose independently, so neither's state may drag in a third package; single-key folds are one `findLast` each, dissolving the owner service; no invariant spans the knobs, so atomic multi-key patches bought nothing.
 - **Narrate via `agent/user-message` + a bus event** — rejected: it presupposes a turn-entry seam that does not exist (the real seam is `agent/prompt-submit`), and pre-step's position serves both the coalesced turn-entry notice and the mid-turn immediacy bound with one listener.
 - **A standing prompt statement of the sandbox mode (+ a switch narrator)** — shipped first, then removed on live evidence: with `Bash commands run under the "read-only" file sandbox.` in every request, the model refused to ATTEMPT denied-then-escalatable work (five of twelve turns in the first manual session ended with zero tool calls), turning the sandbox into a soft lockout. The denial marker names the mode at the moment it matters and the escalation fields carry the recovery; the approval knob keeps its statement because an auto-rejection is behaviorally indistinguishable from a human "no".
-- **Track "last told" with its own bookkeeping events** — rejected: the `request/header*` fold already records the exact prompt the model saw; parsing the closed candidate sentences back replaces a second bookkeeping stream — events are needed only where they ARE the store.
+- **Track "last told" with its own bookkeeping events** — rejected: the `request/header` fold already records the exact prompt the model saw; parsing the closed candidate sentences back replaces a second bookkeeping stream — events are needed only where they ARE the store.
 - **ACP session modes instead of config options** — rejected: the preset is already one deployment-defined config-option select, and modes are slated for removal in ACP v2.
 
 ## Consequences
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ Costs and accepted limits:
 
 In-repo precedents this design copies or contrasts with:
 
-- [The capability-seams RFC](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) — the interface/implementation/consumer split and the "don't split preemptively" timing rule the second consumer satisfied.
-- The `dsh-bash` request/spec split ([the bash vocabulary catalog](../../../core-data-structures/bash.md)) — the per-call carrier template `sandboxMode` rides, and the explicit-`resolve()` defaulting convention.
-- [The approval seam RFC](2026-07-06-approval-seam.md) — the channel escalation asks through; its answerer waterfall, audit pair, and one-package rationale are recorded there.
+- [The capability-seams Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md) — the interface/implementation/consumer split and the "don't split preemptively" timing rule the second consumer satisfied.
+- The `dsh-bash` request/spec split ([the bash vocabulary catalog](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/bash.md)) — the per-call carrier template `sandboxMode` rides, and the explicit-`resolve()` defaulting convention.
+- [The approval seam Agent Note](2026-07-06-approval-seam.md) — the channel escalation asks through; its answerer waterfall, audit pair, and one-package rationale are recorded there.
 - [Event-sourced sessions](../architecture/2026-06-11-event-sourced-sessions.md) and [the turn-enclosure invariant](../architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md) — the log-as-store foundation the per-session modes fold over, and the commit boundary the anchoring design obeys.
-- [The interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) — the `tools/pre-execute` vocabulary the escalation gate deliberately does not reuse (an escalating call has no pre-execute moment of its own).
+- [The interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) — the `tools/pre-execute` vocabulary the escalation gate deliberately does not reuse (an escalating call has no pre-execute moment of its own).

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-07-mcp-client-plugin.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-07-mcp-client-plugin.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: MCP client plugin — connect to external MCP servers and bridge their tools
+# Agent Note: MCP client plugin — connect to external MCP servers and bridge their tools
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The `ToolRegistry` already accepts raw JSON Schema tool definitions (documented
 
 ### Package
 
-A single package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client` at `packages/mcp/mcp-client/`. No capability-seam three-package split — there is no foreseeable second MCP client implementation, and the convention is "don't split preemptively" ([capability seams RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)).
+A single package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client` at `packages/mcp/mcp-client/`. No capability-seam three-package split — there is no foreseeable second MCP client implementation, and the convention is "don't split preemptively" ([capability seams Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)).
 
 ### SDK
 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ A unified `execute` handler for all tools from one MCP server:
 1. Resolve `rawName` (the executor closes over it) and call `client.callTool({ name: rawName, arguments }, { signal: exec.signal })` with the configured timeout — the public name is never sent to the server.
 2. Map the result:
    - Multiple `text` content blocks → join with `'\n'` into a single `TextBlock` (required: `flattenText` uses `join('')` without separator, so multiple blocks would lose inter-block boundaries).
-   - `image` content blocks → discard with a `ctx.logger.warn` (the harness has no image content block type; [drop-image RFC](../../implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md)).
+   - `image` content blocks → discard with a `ctx.logger.warn` (the harness has no image content block type; [drop-image Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-04-drop-image-content-block.md)).
    - `isError: true` → map to the harness `isError` result path (`{ content: [...], isError: true }`).
 3. Cancellation: `exec.signal` (from the agent loop's cancel) is passed through to the MCP SDK's `callTool`, which sends `$/cancelRequest` to the server.
 
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Coverage is named per tier; each behavior lives at the cheapest tier that can ex
 
 - **Unit** (`tests/mcp-client.spec.ts`, `tests/apply.spec.ts`, mocked MCP SDK): the `publicToolName` algorithm (clean, normalize, truncate-and-hash, determinism, distinct-identity separation), raw-vs-public wire discipline, cross-server and native-tool coexistence, duplicate-`serverName` load failure and reservation release, invalid-tool-list rejection, generation swap/rollback, failed-re-sync retention, result mapping, cancellation, config schema validation. 100% per-file coverage gates the package.
 - **E2E** (`tests/mcp-client.e2e.ts`, keyless): the real MCP protocol against the in-repo fixture server, `@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything`, and `@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem` over stdio, and against an in-process `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` server over Streamable HTTP — discovery under the namespace, dotted-name normalization end to end, execution round-trips, duplicate-`serverName` rejection, disposal.
-- **Snapshot**: deliberately none. MCP tools introduce no new transcript surface — they register as raw `ToolDefinition`s and render through the ACP bridge's generic-card fallback, which the bridge's unit suite already pins (`packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts`). Adding an MCP server to the snapshot example's `cordis.yml` would mutate the pinned `text-turn` system-prompt fixture (forcing a with-key re-record of every recorded golden) and make every replay depend on spawning an external MCP server process — for zero new rendering behavior. If a later change gives MCP tools their own render intent, that change names its snapshot coverage then.
+- **Snapshot**: deliberately none. MCP tools introduce no new transcript surface — they register as raw `ToolDefinition`s and render through the ACP bridge's generic-card fallback, which the bridge's unit suite already pins (`packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts`). Adding an MCP server to the snapshot example's `cordis.yml` would mutate the pinned `text-turn` system-prompt fixture (forcing a with-key re-record of every recorded expected output) and make every replay depend on spawning an external MCP server process — for zero new rendering behavior. If a later change gives MCP tools their own render intent, that change names its snapshot coverage then.
 
 ## Consequences
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-07-session-prefix.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-07-session-prefix.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The session prefix — request-only messages in front of the derived history
+# Agent Note: The session prefix — request-only messages in front of the derived history
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,37 +6,36 @@ Status: implemented
 
 A plugin often owns a session-stable opener the model must always see — a skills catalog, an AGENTS.md digest, a workspace baseline. Before this seam the harness offered two homes, and both are wrong for that content. The system prompt is one rendered string: message-shaped content (a user-role `<system-reminder>` envelope, a multi-message primer) does not fit it, and providers weight conversation messages differently from system text. Durable history (`agent.inject()`, a `context/message` at session start) makes the opener permanent: every `deriveMessages()` consumer replays it, the compaction retention walk owns it, forks bake it in stale, and a resume cannot refresh it — a catalog captured at session birth outlives the world it described.
 
-The obvious third option — let a plugin edit the request's `messages` on the way out — is banned by [the reconstructable-requests RFC](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md): every loop-built request is a pure function of the session log, so whatever channel carries the opener must log exactly what it sends. What was missing was a request-only message channel with a durable record.
+The obvious third option — let a plugin edit the request's `messages` on the way out — is banned by [the reconstructable-requests Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md): every loop-built request is a pure function of the session log, so whatever channel carries the opener must log exactly what it sends. What was missing was a request-only message channel with a durable record.
 
 ## Decision
 
-`agent/session-prefix` is a waterfall on the agent event map ([`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)): listeners receive a frozen empty seed and return an extension (the canonical contribution is a prepend, `[mine, ...await next()]`, which yields registration order on the wire). The loop ([`packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts`](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts)) fires it once per loop instance, lazily before the instance's first `agent/pre-step`; the composed list is deep-cloned, deep-frozen, cached on the instance, and placed in front of the ENTIRE derived history — directly after the provider's system slot — on every request the instance sends ([wire order](../../../core-data-structures/core.md#the-request-envelope-llmcallconfig-and-the-logged-header)).
+`agent/session-prefix` is a waterfall on the agent event map ([`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)): listeners receive a frozen empty seed and return an extension (the canonical contribution is a prepend, `[mine, ...await next()]`, which yields registration order on the wire). The loop ([`packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts`](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts)) fires it once per loop instance, lazily before the instance's first `agent/pre-step`; the composed list is deep-cloned, deep-frozen, cached on the instance, and placed in front of the ENTIRE derived history — directly after the provider's system slot — on every request the instance sends ([wire order](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/core.md#the-request-envelope-llmcallconfig-and-the-logged-header)).
 
 Three properties carry the design:
 
-- **Request-only, header-logged.** `deriveMessages()` never returns the prefix; its one durable record is `EpochHeader.messagePrefix` on the instance's anchoring `request/header` snapshot — the channel the reconstructable-requests RFC already owns for the request's non-history half, so no new session event exists. The dev invariant ([dsh-invariants](../../../../packages/support/invariants/src/index.ts)) recomputes `messagePrefix + boundary derivation` against every loop-built request; an unlogged prefix cannot reach the wire.
-- **Frozen per instance.** Reuse is structural, not disciplined: the cached product cannot change mid-session, so the provider's prompt cache holds by construction and the prefix extends the cacheable region at zero marginal cost per step. A process restart or `ctx.agents.resume()` is a new instance: it recomposes, and any drift lands attributably on the `'resume'` header snapshot. This is the routing rule the seam creates: session-frozen openers ride the prefix; content that changes mid-session rides the append-only history channels (`agent.inject()` or tool/prompt-submit `additionalContexts` — [the interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)), each a durable `context/message` paid once and prefix-cached thereafter.
-- **Composed before the pressure gate.** Composition precedes the instance's first `agent/pre-step`, and the seam hands the composed value through: `agent/pre-step` carries a `sessionPrefix` parameter and `CompactService.compactIfNeeded(agent, fullSystemPrompt, sessionPrefix, signal)` counts it in its token-pressure estimate — a gate reading the previous instance's folded prefix instead would under-gate a resumed or forked instance whose contributor grew, skipping compaction and shipping an over-window first request. A composition interrupted by a cancel/dispose landing inside the waterfall is discarded, never cached: an abort-aware listener's degraded fallback cannot leak into later requests, and the next turn recomposes under a live signal.
+- **Request-only, header-logged.** `deriveMessages()` never returns the prefix; its one durable record is `EpochHeader.messagePrefix` on the instance's anchoring `request/header` snapshot — the channel the reconstructable-requests Agent Note already owns for the request's non-history half, so no new session event exists. The dev invariant ([dsh-invariants](../../../../packages/support/invariants/src/index.ts)) recomputes `messagePrefix + boundary derivation` against every loop-built request; an unlogged prefix cannot reach the wire.
+- **Frozen per instance.** Reuse is structural, not disciplined: the cached product cannot change mid-session, so the provider's prompt cache holds by construction and the prefix extends the cacheable region at zero marginal cost per step. A process restart or `ctx.agents.resume()` is a new instance: it recomposes, and any drift lands attributably on the `'resume'` header snapshot. This is the routing rule the seam creates: session-frozen openers ride the prefix; content that changes mid-session rides the append-only history channels (`agent.inject()` or tool/prompt-submit `additionalContexts` — [the interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)), each a durable `context/message` paid once and prefix-cached thereafter.
+- **Exact in the durable request envelope.** Composition precedes the instance's first `agent/pre-step` and request boundary. The first routed request logs the current prefix on its header, so post-step token pressure reads the exact prefix together with the actual prompt, tools, and routed model; no compaction-only parameter is carried through the generic pre-step seam. A composition interrupted by cancel/dispose is discarded, never cached: an abort-aware listener's degraded fallback cannot leak into later requests, and the next turn recomposes under a live signal.
 
 Because composition runs before the boundary snapshot, a composing listener's session append joins the CURRENT request's derived history. Compaction structurally cannot touch the prefix (or the system prompt): it rewrites surface nodes, and header state never enters the surface.
 
 ## Testing
 
-[Interception tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts) pin compose-once reuse with no header deltas, prepend order, empty-prefix omission, immutability, and composition before pre-step; [cancellation tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts) pin discard and recomposition. Session codec, invariant, and compaction tests cover header round trips, request reconstruction, and prefix-aware pressure accounting. Snapshot normalization preserves prefix counts, while the [pinned-header scenario](../testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md) owns content and the default example remains prefix-free. No prefix-specific e2e is needed because the seam is deterministic and provider-independent; the with-key [request-cache e2e](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts) covers its cache economics.
+[Interception tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts) pin compose-once reuse without changed headers, prepend order, empty-prefix omission, immutability, composition before pre-step, and the prefix on the routed header; [cancellation tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts) pin discard and recomposition. Session, invariant, token-meter, and compaction tests cover header round trips, request reconstruction, and durable prefix-aware pressure accounting. Snapshot normalization preserves prefix counts, while the [pinned-header scenario](../testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md) owns content and the default example remains prefix-free. The provider-independent seam needs no dedicated e2e; the with-key [request-cache e2e](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts) covers its cache economics.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-- **Per-request `before`/`after` slots recomputed every step** (the shape first proposed: a waterfall firing on every request, contributing frozen `before` messages ahead of the history and fresh `after` messages behind it) — rejected. A per-step `before` recompose invites silent drift — nothing anchors it to the log short of logging a header delta per step — and an `after` slot sits behind the growing history, so its tokens re-pay on every request and everything after it is uncacheable. Measured against the alternatives, every current update pattern is served cheaper by a durable append (paid once, cache-read thereafter), and the only content with no home was the session-stable opener — which wants freezing, not recomputation.
-- **A system-prompt section** (`system-prompt/assemble`) — rejected for this content: the assembly renders to the single `system` string, so message-shaped openers do not fit, and the system prompt is deliberately re-assembled per step (with header deltas when it changes) while the opener wants instance-frozen semantics.
+- **Per-request `before`/`after` slots recomputed every step** (the shape first proposed: a waterfall firing on every request, contributing frozen `before` messages ahead of the history and fresh `after` messages behind it) — rejected. A per-step `before` recompose invites drift that must be logged as a full changed header, and an `after` slot sits behind the growing history, so its tokens re-pay on every request and everything after it is uncacheable. Measured against the alternatives, every current update pattern is served cheaper by a durable append (paid once, cache-read thereafter), and the only content with no home was the session-stable opener — which wants freezing, not recomputation.
+- **A system-prompt section** (`system-prompt/assemble`) — rejected for this content: the assembly renders to the single `system` string, so message-shaped openers do not fit, and the system prompt is deliberately re-assembled per step (with a full changed header when it changes) while the opener wants instance-frozen semantics.
 - **A durable history opener** (`inject()` at session start) — rejected: permanent history is the failure mode in the problem statement — replayed everywhere, compactable, stale across resumes.
-- **Compose per turn instead of per instance** — rejected: a turn-boundary recompose either desyncs silently from the log or forces a header delta per change, and it busts the provider cache exactly as often as it fires; the legitimate refresh point is the instance boundary, where the `'resume'` snapshot already records drift attributably.
-- **Compose lazily at the first request and let compaction read the folded header** (the shape as first merged) — superseded in review: the fold matches the live prefix only from the instance's second request on, so on a resumed/forked instance's first step the pressure gate read the PREVIOUS instance's prefix and could under-gate. Composing before the first pre-step and handing the live value through the seam makes the estimate exact at every step.
+- **Compose per turn instead of per instance** — rejected: a turn-boundary recompose either desyncs silently from the log or forces a changed header, and it busts the provider cache exactly as often as it fires; the legitimate refresh point is the instance boundary, where the `'resume'` snapshot already records drift attributably.
+- **Carry prompt/prefix through `agent/pre-step` for provisional pressure** — rejected because it couples a generic lifecycle seam to one consumer and still misses later request routing and tools; post-step replay reads every request-envelope field from its durable routed header.
 - **A dedicated session event carrying the prefix** — rejected: the header events are the request's non-history record by design; a second event would be a second home for the same fact and another codec to keep total.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- `agent/pre-step` and `CompactService.compactIfNeeded` carry a `sessionPrefix` parameter: every pre-step listener and compaction backend sees the real per-instance value (all in-repo implementations updated in the same change, per the pre-release stance).
+- `agent/pre-step` stays a generic `(agent, turn, step, signal)` checkpoint. Compaction receives no prefix parameter; `ctx.tokenMeter` folds the prefix from the canonical routed header at post-step.
 - A contributor whose content changes mid-session is not re-read until the next instance — by design. A deployment needing mid-session catalog updates routes the change notice through the append-only history channels and pays one durable `context/message`.
 - The dropped `after` slot leaves no request-only channel near the request tail; nothing in the repo needs one, and adding it back would re-open the every-step re-pay cost the design exists to avoid.
-- The `request/header-delta` `messagePrefix` arm (whole-array replacement, empty array encoding transition to absence) exists for codec totality; the loop never exercises it, because the cached prefix cannot change within an instance.
 - An empty composition is canonical absence: no-contributor deployments log no extra header bytes and their requests are the bare derivation.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-background-subagent-tasks.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-background-subagent-tasks.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Background subagent tasks
+# Agent Note: Background subagent tasks
 
 Status: implemented
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-repeat-tool-guard.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-repeat-tool-guard.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Repeat-tool-call guard plugin
+# Agent Note: Repeat-tool-call guard plugin
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,17 +6,16 @@ Status: implemented
 
 A model stuck in a loop re-issues the same tool call with byte-identical arguments — re-running a failing grep, re-reading an unchanged file, polling a command that already gave its answer — and each round trip burns tokens, wall-clock, and (for paid APIs) money without adding information. The harness has nothing that notices: the loop has no step budget, no plugin tracks call repetition, and the model only escapes when it happens to vary its own behavior. The failure mode is real and cheap to detect — [pi-repeat-tool-guard](https://github.com/Kingwl/pi-repeat-tool-guard) ships exactly this as a pi coding-agent extension: count consecutive identical calls and, past a threshold, append a `<system-reminder>` telling the model to stop repeating itself and change course.
 
-The harness already has every seam the pi extension uses, and better ones: [the interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) gives `tools/post-execute` a sanctioned way to attach model-facing context to a finished call, the loop buffers and injects that context with call/result adjacency preserved, and injected context is a logged `context/message` — so a native guard satisfies the model-visible ⟺ logged rule with no new session event. What was missing was only the plugin itself.
+The harness already has every seam the pi extension uses, and better ones: [the interception-seams Agent Note](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md) gives `tools/post-execute` a sanctioned way to attach model-facing context to a finished call, the loop buffers and injects that context with call/result adjacency preserved, and injected context is a logged `context/message` — so a native guard satisfies the model-visible ⟺ logged rule with no new session event. What was missing was only the plugin itself.
 
 ## Decision
 
 The guard is a loop-hygiene plugin, not a model-facing tool. It counts consecutive calls to the same tool with identical canonical arguments and injects advisory reminders at configured thresholds. It never delays, blocks, or rewrites a call; the model decides whether to retry differently or finish.
 
-The plugin is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-repeat-tool-guard` at `packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/`, opening the `guard/` group for loop-hygiene plugins (single-package groups have precedent: [the todo-write RFC](2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md) shipped `todo/tool-todo`). It registers three listeners and holds all state in plugin-local maps keyed by `AgentId` — the tool registry is a context-level singleton whose waterfalls interleave every agent's calls (subagents run on the same context), so per-agent keying is correctness, not polish.
+The plugin is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-repeat-tool-guard` at `packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/`, opening the `guard/` group for loop-hygiene plugins (single-package groups have precedent: [the todo-write Agent Note](2026-06-29-todo-write-tool.md) shipped `todo/tool-todo`). It registers two listeners and holds state in a `WeakMap` keyed by the live `Agent` object — the tool registry is a context-level singleton whose waterfalls interleave every agent's calls (subagents run on the same context), so per-agent keying is correctness, not polish; weak object keys also make a disposal-only cleanup listener unnecessary.
 
 - **`tools/post-execute` (waterfall)** — the one detection point. The listener receives `(exec, result)` together, so counting and reminder delivery need no cross-event pending map (the pi extension needs one only because its `tool_call`/`tool_result` hooks are separate events). It always delegates via `next()` and, when a threshold is hit, prepends a reminder to the downstream decision's `additionalContexts` — the observe-and-enrich posture [the hooks bridges](2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) already use, honoring the waterfall contract. Counting happens here rather than in `tools/pre-execute` because post-execute also runs for denied calls (`ToolRegistry.execute` routes a deny through the same pipeline), and a model hammering a denied call is exactly the loop worth breaking.
 - **`agent/prompt-submit` (waterfall)** — pure reset hook: delegate via `next()`, clear the submitting agent's chain. A user interjection changes the context; repetition across it is not a loop.
-- **`agent/status` (emit)** — on `disposed`, drop the agent's state, bounding the maps over harness lifetime.
 
 ### Detection semantics
 
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ The chain key is `(tool name, canonical arguments)`; a call identical to the pre
 Two deliberate rules, both documented in [the package README](../../../../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/README.md) because they are behavior a reader would otherwise guess at:
 
 - **Untracked calls are transparent to the chain.** A call excluded by `include`/`exclude` neither increments nor resets the counter, so `grep X → todo_write → grep X` still counts as two consecutive `grep X` when `todo_write` is excluded. This is what makes exclusion useful — bookkeeping tools interleaved into a loop must not launder it — and it is the pi extension's (undocumented) semantics, kept on purpose and written down.
-- **Calls without an agent are ignored.** A direct `ctx.tools.execute()` caller (tests, non-loop consumers) has no model to remind and no `AgentId` to key on.
+- **Calls without an agent are ignored.** A direct `ctx.tools.execute()` caller (tests, non-loop consumers) has no model to remind and no live agent object to key on.
 
 ### Reminder delivery
 

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-self-referential-cordis-toolset.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-self-referential-cordis-toolset.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: The self-referential cordis toolset
+# Agent Note: The self-referential cordis toolset
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ The vm isolates accidental global pollution, and the context façade hides frame
 
 | Tool | Contract |
 |---|---|
-| `cordis_inspect` | Read-only report over the live runtime, one Markdown section per `what` value (omit `what` for all sections). Never mutates. |
+| `cordis_inspect` | Read-only report over the live runtime, one Markdown section per `what` value (omit `what` for all sections). An exact `name` with `what: "api"` or `what: "events"` narrows to one source-documented target. Never mutates. |
 | `cordis_mount` | Evaluates `code` (the body of an async JavaScript function) in a `node:vm` sandbox; the code must `return` a cordis plugin, which is mounted as a child of the `cordis-dynamic` group fiber and tracked under a fresh id (`dyn-1`, `dyn-2`, …). |
 | `cordis_unmount` | Disposes one dynamic mount by id and returns only after disposal reaches quiescence — every registration the plugin made is unwound, not merely requested to stop. |
 
-`cordis_inspect` sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the owning fiber, non-active owners flagged), `plugins` (a flat list of every loaded plugin with its lifecycle state, from `ctx.registry` — what capabilities are loaded, deliberately not the tree shape), `tools` (what the model can call), `dynamic` (the mount table: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (live service signatures + the type shapes they reference, from the generated catalog), and `events` (harness events with dispatch mode and signature). The model-facing tool descriptions carry the operational rules the model needs at call time; [the generated tool catalog](../../../tool-catalog.md) is their exhaustive rendering.
+`cordis_inspect` sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the owning fiber, non-active owners flagged), `plugins` (a flat list of every loaded plugin with its lifecycle state, from `ctx.registry` — what capabilities are loaded, deliberately not the tree shape), `tools` (what the model can call), `dynamic` (the mount table: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (live service signatures + the type shapes they reference, from the generated catalog), and `events` (harness events with dispatch mode and signature). Broad `api` and `events` reports omit full JSDoc to stay compact; an exact `name` returns one service or event with its original method/declaration JSDoc. A name is invalid with other sections, unknown targets fail, and an API target must be live. The model-facing tool descriptions carry the operational rules the model needs at call time; [the generated tool catalog](../../../../docs/tool-catalog.md) is their exhaustive rendering.
 
 ### Sandbox semantics
 
@@ -44,15 +44,15 @@ Mounts relate to each other through ordinary cordis service semantics, with thei
 
 ### The generated API catalog
 
-`cordis_inspect` serves API and event data from a generated catalog rather than a duplicated table. The generator reuses the Cordis catalog AST scan and emits service summaries, signatures, event modes, referenced type declarations, and the inherited context surface. Ambiguous type names are omitted and oversized declarations are marked as truncated.
+`cordis_inspect` serves API and event data from a generated catalog rather than a duplicated table. The generator reuses the Cordis catalog AST scan and emits service summaries, signatures, original service-method and event JSDoc, event modes, referenced type declarations, and the inherited context surface. Ambiguous type names are omitted and oversized declarations are marked as truncated.
 
-Freshness is gated like every generated artifact: `pnpm run verify-cordis-api` (in `doc-sync`) regenerates in memory and fails on any diff, so a JSDoc edit that changes a public signature cannot ship without regenerating the catalog the model reads. At runtime the inspect tool intersects the catalog with the live runtime rather than dumping it: live catalogued services render summary + signatures, live services without a catalog entry (mount-provided ones) render name + owning fiber, catalogued services with no live provider are listed tersely, and the referenced type shapes follow.
+Freshness is gated like every generated artifact: `pnpm run verify-cordis-api` (in `doc-sync`) regenerates in memory and fails on any diff, so a JSDoc or public-signature edit cannot ship without regenerating the catalog the model reads. At runtime the inspect tool intersects the catalog with the live runtime rather than dumping it: broad reports render live catalogued services as summary + signatures, live services without a catalog entry (mount-provided ones) as name + owning fiber, catalogued services with no live provider tersely, and then the referenced type shapes. Exact-name reports render one live service or event with the original JSDoc immediately before each signature; keeping that detail opt-in avoids charging its token cost on exploratory listings.
 
 ### Configuration, rendering, and observability
 
-The plugin exposes one config field, validated by schemastery and documented in [the config catalog](../../../config-catalog.md): `vmTimeoutMs` (default 5000), the millisecond bound on the synchronous portion of mount-code evaluation. Tool names, the `cordis-dynamic` group name, and the `dyn-` id prefix are structural vocabulary and stay fixed. All three tools render as `generic` cards per [the tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) (`cordis_inspect` a `read`, `cordis_mount` an `execute` carrying the code as `rawInput`, `cordis_unmount` a `delete`), with no `presentResult` overrides.
+The plugin exposes one config field, validated by schemastery and documented in [the config catalog](../../../../docs/config-catalog.md): `vmTimeoutMs` (default 5000), the millisecond bound on the synchronous portion of mount-code evaluation. Tool names, the `cordis-dynamic` group name, and the `dyn-` id prefix are structural vocabulary and stay fixed. All three tools render as `generic` cards per [the tool cookbook](../../../../docs/cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) (`cordis_inspect` a `read`, `cordis_mount` an `execute` carrying the code as `rawInput`, `cordis_unmount` a `delete`), with no `presentResult` overrides.
 
-Model-visible ⟺ logged holds with no new session event type: a mount or unmount is visible only through its own `tool/call` / `tool/result` pair, which the loop logs, and the changed tool set a mount induces is logged by the request-header delta the loop already emits when schemas change between steps. There is deliberately no `cordis/mount` provenance event — it would duplicate what the tool-call pair records. Dynamic mounts are process-lifetime, not session state: resuming a persisted session rehydrates the conversation but does not re-mount plugins.
+Model-visible ⟺ logged holds with no new session event type: a mount or unmount is visible only through its own `tool/call` / `tool/result` pair, which the loop logs, and the changed tool set a mount induces is logged by the full changed request header the loop emits when schemas change between steps. There is deliberately no `cordis/mount` provenance event — it would duplicate what the tool-call pair records. Dynamic mounts are process-lifetime, not session state: resuming a persisted session rehydrates the conversation but does not re-mount plugins.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ The correctness investment therefore goes where it pays for every capability at
 
 **A hand-maintained service/event reference in the tool.** The first cut of the inspect tool carried a hand-written table of service method signatures. It was replaced by the generated `api-catalog.ts` because a hand table drifts from the JSDoc the moment a signature changes and nothing gates the drift, whereas the generated artifact is freshness-checked against the same AST the docs use.
 
-**A new `cordis/mount` session event.** A durable provenance event recording each mount (source, name) has clear precedent (`hook/invoked`, `compact/start`). It was declined for v1: mount and unmount are already visible as `tool/call` / `tool/result` pairs and the tool-set change is already logged as a request-header delta, so a dedicated event would only duplicate the record. It remains addable if an audit use case needs mount provenance separable from the tool call.
+**A new `cordis/mount` session event.** A durable provenance event recording each mount (source, name) has clear precedent (`hook/invoked`, `compact/start`). It was declined for v1: mount and unmount are already visible as `tool/call` / `tool/result` pairs and the tool-set change is already logged as a full changed request header, so a dedicated event would only duplicate the record. It remains addable if an audit use case needs mount provenance separable from the tool call.
 
 **A hardened / capability-restricted sandbox.** Trapping Node built-ins and handing mount code a whitelist façade rather than the raw context might suggest an intent to sandbox for safety. It is explicitly not that: the traps and the façade narrow the *surface* mount code sees — steering it onto cordis services and away from leak-prone Node built-ins and framework internals — for correctness and to close the unguarded-context escape, but the capabilities the façade exposes (`ctx.bash`, `ctx.fs`, `ctx.web`) reach the real runtime, so it is not a security boundary. A real one (separate process, permission prompts) was out of scope for a dev/opt-in toolset and would fight the entire point — handing the model the live runtime.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-The toolset is a deliberate opt-in with a fully-privileged `ctx`, so a deployment adopts it as consciously as a bash tool. Several facts follow that the tool descriptions warn the model about directly: a waterfall listener (e.g. `tools/pre-execute`) that returns without calling `next()` vetoes the chain, so a mounted listener can lobotomize the agent's own tool dispatch ([waterfall semantics](../../../cordis-primer.md#cordis-waterfall-semantics)); mount code runs inside a tool call of the current turn, so awaiting anything that resolves only after the turn deadlocks; `vmTimeoutMs` bounds synchronous evaluation only; and mounts do not survive session resume.
+The toolset is a deliberate opt-in with a fully-privileged `ctx`, so a deployment adopts it as consciously as a bash tool. Several facts follow that the tool descriptions warn the model about directly: a waterfall listener (e.g. `tools/pre-execute`) that returns without calling `next()` vetoes the chain, so a mounted listener can lobotomize the agent's own tool dispatch ([waterfall semantics](../../../../docs/cordis-primer.md#cordis-waterfall-semantics)); mount code runs inside a tool call of the current turn, so awaiting anything that resolves only after the turn deadlocks; `vmTimeoutMs` bounds synchronous evaluation only; and mounts do not survive session resume.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-09-bash-backed-grep-glob-discovery.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-09-bash-backed-grep-glob-discovery.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Bash-backed grep and glob discovery tools
+# Agent Note: Bash-backed grep and glob discovery tools
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ Routine budgets stay out of the model-facing schema. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs-s
 | `rawOutputMaxBytes` | `20000000` | Max complete raw `rg` stdout the tool will parse; matches Claude Code's ripgrep raw buffer. |
 | `timeoutMs` | `30000` | Tool-call timeout attached to both tool definitions and enforced by `@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy`. |
 
-`globMaxResults` and `grepMaxMatches` use `ItemRetainer({ kind: 'head' })`. `grepMaxLineBytes` uses `TextRetainer({ kind: 'head', maxBytes: grepMaxLineBytes })` for each matched line so preview cuts preserve UTF-8 boundaries. This follows the [tool result retention library](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md) mapping for discovery items: collect the complete result, retain head items inline, and keep path mapping, grouping, and per-line preview outside the retainer. `grep` does not expose `case_insensitive`, `head_limit`, `offset`, `count`, multiline, context lines, output modes, or file type filters in v1. A model that needs surrounding context reads the matched file with `read`; a model that needs later results follows the returned spill locator's retrieval hint.
+`globMaxResults` and `grepMaxMatches` use `ItemRetainer({ kind: 'head' })`. `grepMaxLineBytes` uses `TextRetainer({ kind: 'head', maxBytes: grepMaxLineBytes })` for each matched line so preview cuts preserve UTF-8 boundaries. This follows the [tool result retention library](../architecture/2026-07-06-tool-result-retention-library.md) mapping for discovery items: collect the complete result, retain head items inline, and keep path mapping, grouping, and per-line preview outside the retainer. `grep` does not expose `case_insensitive`, `head_limit`, `offset`, `count`, multiline, context lines, output modes, or file type filters in v1. A model that needs surrounding context reads the matched file with `read`; a model that needs later results follows the returned spill locator's retrieval hint.
 
-The Claude Code values are reference points for the two-layer budget, not model-facing schema precedent. Its dedicated search tools buffer raw ripgrep output up to 20 MB for internal processing, use a 20-second ripgrep timeout on non-WSL platforms (60 seconds on WSL), then apply search-specific caps before the model sees a result: `GrepTool` defaults to `head_limit = 250` and persists formatted results above 20,000 characters, while `GlobTool` defaults to 100 paths and persists formatted results above 100,000 characters. This RFC mirrors the raw-buffer and inline-count defaults, chooses a 30-second default search timeout, and uses this harness's `ctx.spillStore.saveText()` path for formatted-result recovery.
+The Claude Code values are reference points for the two-layer budget, not model-facing schema precedent. Its dedicated search tools buffer raw ripgrep output up to 20 MB for internal processing, use a 20-second ripgrep timeout on non-WSL platforms (60 seconds on WSL), then apply search-specific caps before the model sees a result: `GrepTool` defaults to `head_limit = 250` and persists formatted results above 20,000 characters, while `GlobTool` defaults to 100 paths and persists formatted results above 100,000 characters. This Agent Note mirrors the raw-buffer and inline-count defaults, chooses a 30-second default search timeout, and uses this harness's `ctx.spillStore.saveText()` path for formatted-result recovery.
 
 The `path` field follows the same split as Claude Code: `grep.path` is a file-or-directory ripgrep target, while `glob.path` is a directory search root. v1 does not expose a separate cwd/workdir argument on these tools.
 
@@ -122,13 +122,13 @@ If the complete logical result fits under the inline cap, no formatted spill art
 
 **Put `glob` / `grep` on `ctx.fs`.** Rejected for v1: it forces every filesystem backend to grow a search API and makes local ripgrep behavior part of the provider seam. Search is useful product behavior, but it is not a universal text-storage primitive like `readText` or `writeText`.
 
-**Directly spawn ripgrep from `dsh-fs-local`.** Rejected for this RFC's v1: direct spawn gives the cleanest argv boundary, stdout/stderr control, and early-stop control, but it duplicates process execution concerns that the bash seam already owns: environment scrubbing, process-group kill, timeout propagation, sandbox/remote executor substitution, and bounded output capture. It remains a reasonable optimization if bash-backed search proves too shell-string-sensitive or if foreground streaming becomes necessary.
+**Directly spawn ripgrep from `dsh-fs-local`.** Rejected for this Agent Note's v1: direct spawn gives the cleanest argv boundary, stdout/stderr control, and early-stop control, but it duplicates process execution concerns that the bash seam already owns: environment scrubbing, process-group kill, timeout propagation, sandbox/remote executor substitution, and bounded output capture. It remains a reasonable optimization if bash-backed search proves too shell-string-sensitive or if foreground streaming becomes necessary.
 
 **Use `ctx.bash.start()` for streaming early stop.** Rejected: `start()` creates model-visible background task semantics: task ids, owner tokens, `bash_output`, `bash_kill`, completion notifications, and no built-in timeout. `grep` needs a foreground tool result, not a background bash workflow. If streaming search becomes necessary, the right abstraction is a foreground streaming process handle on the bash/process seam, not borrowing the public background-task API.
 
 **Expose bash raw spill paths to the model.** Rejected: a bash raw spill path contains raw `rg` stdout (`rg --json` records for grep), not the stable formatted search result. Search parses raw stdout only as an internal transport; model recovery uses a formatted result saved through `ctx.spillStore.saveText()`.
 
-**Add `spillStore.saveFile()` for bash output normalization first.** Rejected for this RFC's v1: `saveFile()` would help a future bash normalization pass move existing executor spill files into session-scoped spill storage, but search only needs bounded in-memory raw `rg` stdout before producing the model-facing artifact. `saveText()` is sufficient for the formatted search result.
+**Add `spillStore.saveFile()` for bash output normalization first.** Rejected for this Agent Note's v1: `saveFile()` would help a future bash normalization pass move existing executor spill files into session-scoped spill storage, but search only needs bounded in-memory raw `rg` stdout before producing the model-facing artifact. `saveText()` is sufficient for the formatted search result.
 
 **Rely on the generic `dsh-spill-policy`.** Rejected: generic post-execute spill sees only the final tool result. If `grep` / `glob` return the first page inline, the generic policy cannot recover omitted results. The search tools must save the complete formatted result themselves before returning the bounded model-facing text.
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ If the complete logical result fits under the inline cap, no formatted spill art
 - The first-party tool-owned spill precedent is covered directly: spill backend present, spill backend absent, `saveText()` failure, and missing spill owner.
 - The package has real Loader-path coverage for the namespace plugin export shape (`name`, `inject`, `Config`, and `apply`, with no default export).
 - A real-executor integration suite (`dsh-bash-local` + a real `rg`) verifies the world: hostile patterns stay inert, per-session cwd resolution, VCS-metadata exclusion, modification-time ordering, and real ripgrep stderr classification. It self-skips where `rg` is not on PATH (a CI accommodation mirroring the keyless e2e skip); the fake-executor suite alone carries the per-file 100% coverage gate.
-- Snapshot gap note for the transcript-visible spill notice: this landed with the gap note, not a snapshot. The snapshot tier replays the acp-agent tree, and adding the search plugin there changes the assembled system prompt — every golden would need re-recording with a real key, which the implementing environment did not hold. The spill notice's exact transcript text is pinned by unit tests (`formatGlobOutput`/`formatGrepOutput` and the through-the-registry spill tests); wiring the plugin into the acp-agent tree plus a `test:snapshot:record` pass is the follow-up for the next key-holding session.
+- Snapshot gap note for the transcript-visible spill notice: this landed with the gap note, not a snapshot. The snapshot tier replays the acp-agent tree, and adding the search plugin there changes the assembled system prompt — every expected output would need re-recording with a real key, which the implementing environment did not hold. The spill notice's exact transcript text is pinned by unit tests (`formatGlobOutput`/`formatGrepOutput` and the through-the-registry spill tests); wiring the plugin into the acp-agent tree plus a `test:snapshot:record` pass is the follow-up for the next key-holding session.
 
 ## Consequences
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ If the complete logical result fits under the inline cap, no formatted spill art
 - The tools execute through `ctx.bash.resolve(request)` → `ctx.bash.run(spec)`, forward `exec.signal`, never call `ctx.bash.start()`, and never expose a bash task id. The bash request workdir comes from `exec.agent?.session.header.cwd` when available; the resolved `spec.workdir` drives execution and relative-path display.
 - The tools request `stdoutMaxBytes: rawOutputMaxBytes` from the bash seam, parse only untruncated stdout within that cap, and treat over-cap or still-truncated raw output as a clear search failure; raw `rg` output is never exposed to the model.
 - Oversized complete formatted results are saved through `ctx.spillStore.saveText()` when available while inline results stay bounded; spill failure, a missing backend, or a missing owner preserves the inline result and reports the unsaved remainder — never an `isError`.
-- The package README, the generated config catalog, and exported JSDoc document the Config fields and `SEARCH_*` codes; the coding-agent example ships the tools (the acp-agent tree waits on the snapshot re-record above); the fs group README records the co-located bash/filesystem deployment requirement.
+- The package README, the generated config catalog, and exported JSDoc document the Config fields and `SEARCH_*` codes; the repl-agent example ships the tools (the acp-agent tree waits on the snapshot re-record above); the fs group README records the co-located bash/filesystem deployment requirement.
 
 ## Risks
 

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-10-agent-session-identity-and-log-location.md

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Agent Note: Expose agent session identity and JSONL location to tools and hooks
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+An agent can identify its workspace through `session.header.cwd`, but a model using bash cannot reliably identify the session that owns the call or the durable transcript that records it. Searching `./.sessions` guesses deployment config and JSONL layout; custom roots, alternate persistence backends, resume, forks, and concurrent parent/child agents make that guess unreliable. Hooks have the same need for transcript location, while future plugins may need to expose other harness-owned environment facts to shell commands.
+
+The boundary must preserve two properties: the owner of a fact decides how to resolve it, and every child receives a per-execution snapshot rather than process-global mutable state. In particular, a nested harness must not leak its ambient `DSH_*` values into a child whose current agent, persistence backend, or configuration differs.
+
+## Decision
+
+Extend the [`SessionPersistence`](../architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) seam with a synchronous, side-effect-free location query:
+
+```ts
+import type { SessionHeader } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
+
+interface SessionLocation {
+  readonly kind: string
+  readonly path: string
+}
+
+interface SessionPersistence {
+  locate(meta: SessionHeader): SessionLocation | undefined
+}
+```
+
+`path` is an absolute local path to the backend's dedicated log for `meta`; `kind` identifies the representation. JSONL returns `{ kind: 'jsonl', path }` using its resolved root and path helpers. SQLite and any backend without an honest local per-session artifact return `undefined`. The query creates and flushes nothing, so it can report a lazy target path before that file exists.
+
+The model-facing bash package owns a `ctx.bashEnv` registry. A contributor declares its stable name, every `DSH_*` key it may return, a description for each key, and `resolve(execution: ToolExecution)`. Duplicate contributor names, duplicate key ownership, reserved keys, malformed declarations, undeclared runtime output, and non-string output fail loudly. Registration is a Cordis effect and is removed with the contributing plugin fiber. `list()` exposes declarations without running resolvers, keeping the environment surface enumerable for diagnostics and future prompt/UI consumers.
+
+The registry rebuilds a trusted overlay for every foreground and background bash `ToolExecution`:
+
+- `DSH_HOME` is always the absolute configured Harness home. The standalone [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-home`](../../../../packages/util/home/README.md) utility owns its precedence: explicit `dshHome`, then ambient `$DSH_HOME`, then `~/.dsh`.
+- `DSH_SHELL=1` is always present and identifies a model bash child managed by DeepSeek Harness.
+- `DSH_SESSION_ID` is present when the execution has an agent and equals `agent.session.header.id`.
+- The built-in persistence translator contributes `DSH_SESSION_JSONL` only when `ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(header)` returns `kind: 'jsonl'`.
+
+Session persistence remains the fact owner: JSONL does not depend on tool-bash or register shell variables itself, and hooks continue to consume `locate()` directly. Tool-bash is the translation layer from the persistence fact into a shell convention. Other plugins that need shell-visible facts depend on the registry and register their own keys; they do not modify `process.env`.
+
+The bash seam exports `DSH_ENV_PREFIX` as the single namespace source and derives `DshEnvironmentKey` from its `typeof`. Tool-bash derives built-in names and model guidance from that constant, while executors use it for filtering and channel validation. The seam carries the managed overlay separately as `BashExecRequest.dshEnv` / `BashExecSpec.dshEnv`. Ordinary `env` remains the general in-process plugin surface used by hooks, but cannot contain managed keys; symmetrically, `dshEnv` cannot contain ordinary keys. The local executor rejects either wrong channel before spawn, removes every inherited ambient managed key, applies its ordinary scrub/terminal environment/explicit `env`, and finally merges the trusted `dshEnv` snapshot. This guarantees that a missing value means absent now rather than inherited from an outer or previous harness. The model-facing tool still ignores model-supplied `env`/`stdin` arguments.
+
+The bash tool description teaches only the durable convention: current harness environment facts are available through managed `$DSH_*` variables and may be inspected when needed. It does not enumerate persistence-specific keys or add a permanent system-prompt section. Tool schemas are already logged in request headers and tool output is logged as `tool/result`, so no new session event is required.
+
+The [Claude Code and Codex hook bridges](2026-06-30-hook-bridges.md) resolve transcript location from the same persistence seam when constructing payloads. Codex uses `transcript_path: string | null`; Claude Code preserves its string field and falls back to `''`. Hook lookup neither materializes nor flushes a session.
+
+## Peer product findings
+
+Peer products separate stable identity from physical storage. Codex injects stable `CODEX_THREAD_ID` into spawned shells while recorder and hook surfaces own transcript paths. Claude Code supplies `session_id` and `transcript_path` as structured hook/status input. OpenCode carries identity in structured tool context; Kimi Code expands a session placeholder; Reasonix keeps the active session path on its controller. The portable rule is to inject identity at the invocation boundary, let storage resolve location, and never use a process-global current-session variable in a concurrent harness.
+
+## Lifecycle and persistence semantics
+
+A fresh session receives its id before the first turn, so its first bash call can read `DSH_SESSION_ID` and a JSONL target. The JSONL file may still be absent until the first successful turn-end checkpoint, and during an open turn it contains only the last flushed prefix. `DSH_SESSION_JSONL` is a location hint, not an authorization credential or freshness guarantee.
+
+Resume reuses the loaded header and therefore the same id and location. Fork and spawn create new session ids and locations. Parent and child calls resolve from their own `ToolExecution.agent`; each command receives an immutable snapshot even when calls overlap. A persistence service replacement affects later collections because the translator queries `ctx.get('sessionPersistence')` at execution time; the registry itself is effect-scoped and HMR-safe.
+
+`dshHome` is session-independent deployment context. Agent-core resolves one value through `@deepseek-ai/dsh-home` and routes it to both tool-bash and local skill discovery; standalone consumers call the same resolver. If top-level `dshHome` and `skills.local.dshHome` are both supplied and resolve differently, composition fails instead of exposing contradictory homes. Persistence may change independently without freezing its facts into the session prefix.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit coverage pins registry declaration validation, effect disposal, per-execution collection, the `dshHome` precedence, and the local executor's `DSH_*` scrub/rebuild order. Request-recording tests cover foreground/background snapshots, no-agent calls, absent/JSONL persistence, ignored model `env`, and parent/child isolation. JSONL/SQLite locator contract tests and both hook bridge suites pin available and unavailable transcript dialects.
+
+A keyless full-loop integration drives the real agent loop, JSONL persistence, tool-bash, and bash-local on the first turn. The child prints `DSH_HOME`, `DSH_SHELL`, session id, JSONL target, and an inherited stale sentinel; the test verifies current values, absence of the stale variable, pre-flush file absence, and the eventual persisted header. Snapshot coverage pins the generic bash description in the recorded request header. No with-key test is required because the contract is deterministic local execution rather than model choice.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Only an id plus `find`.** Search cannot know a custom root or backend layout and races under multiple sessions.
+
+**Only an absolute path.** A path can be unavailable, lazy, or representation-specific and is not stable session identity.
+
+**Global `process.env`.** Concurrent agents would overwrite one another and nested harnesses would inherit stale current-session values.
+
+**Put persistence instructions in the session prefix.** A session prefix is frozen while the active service can change across HMR or future backend switching; persistence-specific guidance would become stale.
+
+**A typed waterfall event.** Listeners cannot declare ownership without running, and later listeners can silently overwrite keys. A registry detects key conflicts at registration and remains enumerable.
+
+**Have each persistence backend register bash env directly.** That reverses the dependency from storage into one consumer and forces bash into deployments that do not use it. `locate()` is also still required by hooks.
+
+**A model-facing `session_info` tool.** It adds schema and another call while bash already supplies the query surface; the registry generalizes to future environment facts without one tool per fact.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Every model bash child receives current Harness home and shell identity, and agent calls additionally receive stable session identity. JSONL-backed calls get an optional target path; non-file persistence omits it honestly. The complete `DSH_*` namespace inside these children is managed by the harness: ambient values are removed, current trusted values are re-added, and ordinary callers cannot use `env` to bypass ownership checks.
+
+The namespace is discoverable but not secret. Paths can reveal configured roots, lazy targets can be absent or stale, and a command can override variables inside its own shell syntax. Consumers treat them as correlation and environment facts, verify transcript metadata when attribution matters, and rely on sandbox/filesystem policy rather than variable secrecy for authorization.

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-10-parallel-tool-call-execution.md

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+# Agent Note: Parallel tool-call execution by per-call safety
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+An assistant message may contain several sibling `tool-call` blocks. Running them serially adds the latency of independent reads and web requests even though the model has already requested them together.
+
+Concurrency is a host scheduling concern, not model-facing tool metadata. The loop needs to decide which calls may overlap without hardcoding tool names or exposing scheduler policy in the JSON schema.
+
+The session log remains authoritative: every started call has an audit event, every started call receives a result, and model history observes results in the original call order regardless of completion order.
+
+## Decision
+
+Each tool may provide an optional `isConcurrencySafe(args)` classifier. It is synchronous and pure: it examines only the current call's parsed arguments and performs no I/O or mutation. Only an explicit `true` opts in; a missing classifier, invalid arguments, a thrown classifier, or any other return value makes the call exclusive. The canonical type contract lives in the [tool data structures](../../../../docs/core-data-structures/tools.md).
+
+The classifier is deliberately unary. Returning `true` is the tool's promise that this call may overlap with any sibling call that also returns `true`; the scheduler does not compare calls or prove that their resource accesses are compatible.
+
+The unary classifier remains input-sensitive. A tool may classify a read-only operation as parallel and a mutating operation as exclusive. The interface cannot express relational rules such as "these writes are safe only when their paths differ," so a call whose safety depends on a sibling remains exclusive.
+
+`defineTool()` validates arguments before invoking a typed classifier. Invalid arguments classify as exclusive and produce the ordinary argument error only if the call executes. `ctx.tools.executionMode(exec)` resolves the live tool definition and returns the tagged `parallel` or `exclusive` mode; unknown tools fail closed to exclusive.
+
+A tagged mode, rather than a public boolean scheduler API, keeps resource-aware variants representable without changing the classifier contract.
+
+## Scheduling and ordering
+
+The loop waits for the complete assistant message, parses every call once, creates a distinct `ToolExecution` for each call, and scans them in model order. Consecutive parallel calls form one group; every exclusive call forms a singleton group and an ordering barrier. Groups execute sequentially. Classification is lazy: the scheduler resolves the next call after each barrier and reclassifies every later call before replenishing a parallel pool. If a registry mutation makes that call exclusive, the current pool drains before the call starts as the next barrier.
+
+For example:
+
+```text
+[parallel read(A), parallel read(B), exclusive write(A), parallel read(C)]
+
+→ [read(A), read(B)]
+→ [write(A)]
+→ [read(C)]
+```
+
+`read(A)` and `read(B)` may overlap. `write(A)` starts after both finish, and `read(C)` starts after the write finishes.
+
+Every group uses a rolling pool bounded by `maxParallelToolCalls`: the loop starts calls in model order up to the cap and starts another whenever one settles. An exclusive group is a pool of one. A cap of `1` preserves serial execution.
+
+Only dispatch and the tool body overlap. `tools/pre-execute` and `tools/post-execute` run in model order because middleware may maintain ordering-sensitive state. `tools/execute` wrappers run around concurrent dispatches and therefore must be reentrant across distinct executions.
+
+Each started call appends `tool/call` immediately before its pre-execute gate. Completed dispatches occupy model-order slots, and a commit cursor appends `tool/result` and collects `additionalContexts` only when the next slot is ready. Live surfaces may show several pending calls, but results and post-tool context remain model-ordered.
+
+An abort before a group starts records no calls from that group. An abort during a group stops replenishment, waits for already-started calls, commits their results in order, drains accepted batch context after those results, and then ends the step through the existing abort path. Calls that never start have no audit event.
+
+Code Mode remains outside this scheduler because the model emits one native `run_code` call. `run_code` and its internal dispatch queue remain serial; native sibling calls in `mode: 'both'` use the normal scheduler.
+
+## Safety contract
+
+A tool that returns `true` promises that its body is safe to run at the same time as other parallel calls. It must not directly mutate the parent session or other parent-owned state; it returns its outputs to the loop, which commits them in model order.
+
+Any shared state touched during execution must be concurrency-safe. This includes tool wrappers and providers: they may serialize internally or enforce their own capacity, but they must support concurrent dispatch without corrupting state.
+
+## Configuration and declarations
+
+`maxParallelToolCalls` is a positive AgentLoop deployment cap shared by every agent the factory creates. It defaults to `10`; `1` preserves serial execution. Exact fields and defaults live in the generated [configuration catalog](../../../../docs/config-catalog.md).
+
+The shipped declarations are conservative. Web search, web fetch, and filesystem read opt in. Filesystem writes and edits, bash tools, subagent delegation, workflow, user interaction, todo mutation, Code Mode, and Cordis mutation tools remain exclusive. A subagent may share its parent's workspace or external resources, and the unary classifier cannot prove that sibling delegations have disjoint effects. Bash has no proven input-sensitive classifier and remains exclusive.
+
+Filesystem read relies on a narrow recorder exception: its synchronous observation updates may settle out of order, but write and edit re-check the observed version before mutation, so stale state only produces `FS_STALE_VERSION`.
+
+## Verification
+
+Unit coverage pins fail-closed classification, typed argument validation, grouping, barriers, live reclassification after registry replacement, the rolling cap, distinct execution objects, middleware order, ordered results and context, and abort draining. First-party tests pin each parallel declaration.
+
+Snapshot coverage pins the visible multi-call transcript: pending calls may overlap while completed results remain model-ordered. Code Mode coverage pins its serial boundary. No provider-backed e2e is required because scheduling is deterministic loop behavior.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Keep serial execution.** This avoids new ordering and abort cases but retains unnecessary latency for independent sibling calls.
+
+**Use one tool-level boolean.** A fixed `supportsParallelToolCalls` flag is smaller but cannot distinguish a tool's read-only and mutating operations. The argument-sensitive classifier preserves that distinction.
+
+**Use stateful classification.** Giving the classifier a live agent, registry, or I/O access makes the decision depend on when it runs and creates a gap between classification and dispatch. Mutable authorization and stale-state checks remain execution-time responsibilities.
+
+**Use sibling-aware or resource-aware classification.** The scheduler could compare calls pairwise or let each call declare resource read/write claims. This can parallelize non-conflicting writes, but it requires shared resource identity and conflict semantics across unrelated tools. The unary contract instead gives up that concurrency and fails closed when safety is relational.
+
+**Parallelize the complete tool pipeline.** This keeps the loop on the public one-call API but runs pre- and post-execute middleware concurrently. Existing guards and hook bridges may carry ordered state, so only dispatch overlaps.
+
+**Expose staged methods or a scheduling waterfall.** Public `prepare` / `dispatch` / `finalize` methods or a `tools/execution-mode` event add extension surface before another consumer needs it. The loop uses an internal scheduler view, while `executionMode(exec)` leaves an insertion point for a policy seam.
+
+**Start calls while the model streams.** This may reduce latency further but changes assistant-message authority, replay, and call/result pairing. The scheduler starts only after the assistant message is complete.
+
+**Use fixed-size windows.** Waiting for every call in one window before starting the next leaves capacity idle behind a slow call. The rolling pool preserves the cap without that delay.
+
+**Expose concurrency metadata to the model.** The model can already emit sibling calls. Host scheduling metadata would enlarge requests without improving tool choice.
+
+## Consequences
+
+The design is fail-closed and simple for tool authors, but it cannot exploit concurrency whose safety depends on comparing siblings. A tool that opts in too broadly can expose latent shared-state races.
+
+Parallel calls may begin in cases where serial execution would have aborted before reaching them. The scheduler therefore records only started calls, drains them on abort, and never starts replacements after cancellation.
+
+Ordered commits may hold a fast result behind a slow earlier sibling. This preserves replay and model-history order while live surfaces still show pending progress.
+
+Concurrent external calls can compete for quota or process capacity. Providers own their capacity controls; the loop cap only limits calls from one agent step.
+
+Tool registration is a scheduling boundary. Registry mutations affect not-yet-started calls because the scheduler reclassifies after each barrier and before every pool replenishment. Already-started calls retain the scheduling decision under which they entered the pool.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-10-session-query-service.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-10-session-query-service.md

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-# RFC: Exact session query service
+# Agent Note: Exact session query service
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-Session history exists in two places: current `SessionStore` objects and an optional persistence backend. Consumers that need exact inspection would otherwise duplicate live-versus-persisted precedence, persistence lifecycle handling, raw-event surface classification, and defensive cloning. Durable state can lag the live log between checkpoints, so persistence alone is not a truthful current source.
+Session history exists in two places: current `SessionStore` objects and an optional persistence backend. Consumers that need exact inspection would otherwise duplicate live-versus-persisted precedence, persistence lifecycle handling, raw-event surface classification, relationship tracing, and defensive cloning. Durable state can lag the live log between checkpoints, so persistence alone is not a truthful current source.
 
 Full-text search is related but materially larger. Designing provider registration, extraction, synchronization, invalidation, ranking, and cursor contracts before a real backend exists creates two speculative state machines: one in the interface service and another in the eventual database package.
 
 ## Decision
 
-`@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-query` owns `ctx.sessionQuery`, a small trusted exact-read service over one logical corpus. It exposes `listSessions()`, `listEvents(sessionId)`, and bounded `readEvent(request)`. It does not expose filters, lineage or provenance traversals, text extractors, search requests, provider registration, or derived-index synchronization.
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-query` owns `ctx.sessionQuery`, a small trusted exact-inspection service over one logical corpus. It exposes `listSessions()`, `listEvents(sessionId)`, bounded `readEvent(request)`, `traceSession(sessionId)`, and `traceEvent(request)`. It does not expose filters, text extractors, search requests, provider registration, or derived-index synchronization. The separate [tracing decision](2026-07-13-session-query-tracing.md) owns lineage and event-relationship semantics.
 
 The service observes the optional `ctx.sessionPersistence` binding dynamically but retains no persisted cache or invalidation listener. Each cross-corpus list asks the active backend for authoritative metadata, then overlays a fresh live-store list. Matching ids become one `SessionRecord`: the live header wins and `live`/`persisted` independently report source availability. Immutable header disagreement is `SESSION_QUERY_SOURCE_CONFLICT`.
 
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ An exact target read first checks the live store and snapshots the live header a
 
 ## Surface semantics
 
-`dsh-session` exports `foldSurface(events)`, and `SurfaceManager` uses the same transition functions for its incremental cache. The fold returns detached current nodes and each replacement's actual removed seqs. `listEvents()` uses that result to classify every raw event as `current`, `shadowed`, or `log-only`, so inspection cannot disagree with model-history derivation about positional replacement semantics.
+`dsh-session` exports `foldSurface(events)`, and `SurfaceManager` uses the same transition functions for its incremental cache. The fold returns detached current event sequences and each replacement's actual removed seqs. `listEvents()` and `traceEvent()` use that result to classify every raw event, so inspection cannot disagree with model-history derivation about positional replacement semantics.
 
 `readEvent()` returns the complete target plus raw neighbors by contiguous seq. `before` and `after` default to zero and are independently bounded by `readWindowMax`, default 50. The result carries a cloned `SessionHeader`, not a source-availability record, because determining a live target's persisted flag would violate the guarantee that live exact reads do not depend on persistence health.
 
 ## Security boundary
 
-The service is context-wide trusted infrastructure, not an authorization layer. A future model-facing history tool or human UI applies explicit caller/session scope. This phase adds no model-facing tool and changes no transcript or snapshot surface.
+The service is context-wide trusted infrastructure, not an authorization layer. A future model-facing history tool or human UI applies explicit caller/session scope. The service adds no model-facing tool and changes no transcript or snapshot surface.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ The service is context-wide trusted infrastructure, not an authorization layer.
 - **Query only persistence** — rejected because checkpoints can lag the current live log.
 - **Cache persisted metadata and listen for writes/removals** — rejected because exact reads can ask the authoritative sources directly, while cache invalidation adds lifecycle and concurrency state before scale requires it.
 - **Define a provider-neutral search protocol now** — rejected because no provider consumes it. The first SQLite FTS package should own one reconciliation/transaction state machine; a smaller shared seam can be extracted later only when a second implementation proves the boundary.
-- **Include lineage, provenance, and generic filters in phase one** — rejected because no current consumer requires them and canonical logs remain sufficient to add them with evidence later.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-Phase one has one source-resolution state variable: the currently mounted persistence service. There are no provider queues, fingerprints, extractor registries, observation generations, or derived index updates. Exact reads remain usable in live-only deployments and deterministic when persistence is present.
+The service has one source-resolution state variable: the currently mounted persistence service. There are no provider queues, fingerprints, extractor registries, observation generations, or derived index updates. Exact reads and event traces remain usable in live-only deployments and deterministic when persistence is present.
 
-Cross-corpus listing and persisted exact reads perform backend I/O on each call. That is deliberate: correctness comes from current authoritative state, and scale-oriented search belongs to the phase-two database. Full-text search is unavailable until that package defines and implements its complete contract.
+Cross-corpus listing, lineage tracing, and persisted event operations perform backend I/O on each call. That is deliberate: correctness comes from current authoritative state, and scale-oriented search belongs to the proposed database package. Full-text search is unavailable until that package defines and implements its complete contract.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Configure subagent persona, tool visibility, and depth
+# Agent Note: Configure subagent persona, tool visibility, and depth
 
 Status: implemented
 

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-13-session-query-tracing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Agent Note: Session query relationship tracing
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+Session relationships are encoded across immutable headers, positional surface operations, and logged provenance arrays. A consumer reconstructing those relationships directly would need to duplicate corpus precedence, surface folding, malformed-log handling, deterministic lineage ordering, and cloning. Positional replacement and provenance are different graphs, so collapsing them into one generic edge type would also lose meaning.
+
+## Decision
+
+`ctx.sessionQuery` exposes `traceSession(sessionId)` and `traceEvent({ sessionId, seq })` alongside its exact reads. Both are one-shot views over the existing live-preferred corpus: session tracing consumes one complete corpus listing, while event tracing consumes one loaded logical log and one canonical surface fold. The service retains no lineage, reverse-index, or replacement state after a call.
+
+`SessionLineageTrace` returns the target, known parents in immediate-to-outward order, and recursive descendant trees whose siblings sort by creation time and then session id. `complete: true` carries the known root; `complete: false` carries the first unresolved parent id. A cycle connected to the target fails with `SESSION_QUERY_INVALID_LINEAGE`.
+
+`SessionEventTrace` keeps positional and provenance relationships separate. `replacedBy` is the immediate positional replacer, `replacementChain` follows replacers to the final node, and `replacedEventSeqs` lists the actual surface nodes directly removed by the target. `sourceEventSeqs` preserves direct logged source order, while `derivedEventSeqs` lists later direct reverse references in log order. Provenance is not expanded transitively.
+
+## Validation boundary
+
+Event tracing checks target existence before surface analysis. Both event listing and tracing then use `dsh-session`'s one-pass surface fold, which accepts or rejects the loaded log as a whole: event seqs are zero-based and contiguous, surface markers obey event-type eligibility, provenance belongs only to surface event types, present arrays are nonempty and duplicate-free, every source is an earlier seq, and every positional replacement names and cites all surface nodes it removes. Every contract failure uses `SESSION_QUERY_INVALID_SURFACE`; there is no weaker classification-only surface standard.
+
+All returned records and arrays are detached. A known live event trace never consults persistence; persisted event traces preserve the exact-read list/load consistency check. Session lineage is necessarily a cross-corpus operation and therefore preserves cross-corpus persistence failure semantics.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Expose standalone tracing helpers** — rejected because the source-precedence and detachment boundary belongs to `ctx.sessionQuery`; public helpers would invite callers to bypass it.
+- **Combine replacement and provenance edges** — rejected because a positional replacement can shadow surface nodes while also citing non-surface construction inputs, and consumers need to distinguish those meanings.
+- **Return transitive provenance closure** — rejected because it obscures logged direct evidence, increases result size, and lets one malformed distant edge alter otherwise local output.
+- **Best-effort traces over malformed provenance** — rejected because a structurally plausible partial graph would look authoritative. Exact inspection fails loudly when the canonical relationship contract is broken.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Consumers receive deterministic relationship views without a cache or second corpus. Event tracing performs whole-log validation and allocation on each call, while lineage tracing lists the complete logical corpus on each call. Those costs keep the source of truth explicit and are separate from the content-bearing full-text-search and filtering API.
+
+The feature has unit and service-level coverage but no snapshot or end-to-end fixture because it introduces no model-facing consumer, transcript change, or cross-process protocol.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.i18n.yaml → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.i18n.yaml

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
-2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md: 105bf53550f087fdefb1e6fe0ec493f8628d3e18
-2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.zh.md: 60e9004b1453e75e1bcd84870ad7f18d200a95d8
+2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md: 189f75fc12fe12e9dec56fc71ea901ec2eaa8b19
+2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.zh.md: 12671cb891531627fffabb7bd91a1532bc3de6b9

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC: Optional time-context plugin
+# Agent Note: Optional time-context plugin
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ English | [中文](2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.zh.md)
 
 ## Problem
 
+The dynamic system-prompt storage and refresh decision in this record is superseded by [Durable per-step time context](2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.md). The opt-in package, zoned formatting, and validation remain; the follow-up owns the current model-visible and durability contract.
+
 An agent request has no live clock unless a deployment puts one in prompt text or gives the model a query tool. Static text becomes stale, while a tool call adds overhead to ordinary reasoning about dates, deadlines, or idle time. Without elapsed time, the model cannot distinguish an immediate follow-up from one sent hours after the preceding message.
 
 Prompt assembly can derive both facts per step from durable session timestamps, and request-header logging can record the exact rendered value. Accumulating stale readings in conversation history or waking idle agents would violate the existing request lifecycle.
@@ -30,11 +32,11 @@ When `timeZone` is omitted, `Intl.DateTimeFormat` resolves the Node process's sy
 
 ### Logging and token shape
 
-The loop records the temporal block through `request/header` and `request/header-delta` before transmission, satisfying the [reconstructable-requests contract](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md). Each request carries one current block; earlier readings do not remain in conversation history. The plugin owns the fact and contributes it through the prompt registry, following the [prompt-variables RFC](../architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md) without a loop special case.
+The loop records the temporal block in full `request/header` snapshots before transmission, satisfying the [reconstructable-requests contract](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md). Each request carries one current block; earlier readings do not remain in conversation history. The plugin owns the fact and contributes it through the prompt registry, following the [prompt-variables Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md) without a loop special case.
 
 ## Testing
 
-Unit tests pin formatting, baselines, refresh policy, validation, per-agent state, disposal, and load-time system-zone capture. A real agent-loop test pins the transmitted prompt and `request/header-delta`. A keyless subprocess e2e boots a test-only `cordis.yml` through the real Loader and stdio app, omits `timeZone` under a controlled `TZ`, drives two turns, and verifies the persisted request headers externally. Default snapshot compositions omit the plugin, so their transcript fixtures contain no temporal block.
+Unit tests pin formatting, baselines, refresh policy, validation, per-agent state, disposal, and load-time system-zone capture. A real agent-loop test pins the transmitted prompt and full `request/header` snapshots. A keyless subprocess e2e boots a test-only `cordis.yml` through the real Loader and stdio app, omits `timeZone` under a controlled `TZ`, drives two turns, and verifies the persisted request headers externally. Default snapshot compositions omit the plugin, so their transcript fixtures contain no temporal block.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -52,6 +54,6 @@ Unit tests pin formatting, baselines, refresh policy, validation, per-agent stat
 
 - Opted-in models receive a zoned clock and inter-turn duration without a tool call. The system-prompt cost is fixed per request instead of growing with the session.
 - An omitted `timeZone` follows the process's `TZ`, host, or container zone as observed at plugin load. Operators must configure an explicit zone when the deployment environment does not represent the intended user.
-- A refresh changes the request header and can add a `request/header-delta`. `refreshIntervalMs` trades freshness against durable deltas; `0` records a new value on every step whose whole-second rendering changes.
+- A refresh changes the request header and can add a full `request/header` snapshot with reason `change`. `refreshIntervalMs` trades freshness against the number and size of durable full snapshots; `0` records a new value on every step whose whole-second rendering changes.
 - No request exists solely to refresh time. A long-running tool leaves the prior reading until the next step assembles.
 - Duration reflects harness processing time at durable append boundaries, not client-network latency before logging. Preserving a client-origin timestamp requires a separate durable input contract.

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.zh.md → .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.zh.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# RFC：可选时间上下文插件
+# Agent Note：可选时间上下文插件
 
 Status: implemented
 
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ## 问题
 
+本记录中的动态系统提示词存储和刷新决策已由[持久的逐步骤时间上下文](2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.md)取代。需要显式启用的包（package）、分区时间格式和校验仍然保留；后续 Agent Note 负责当前的模型可见与持久性契约。
+
 如果部署方既未在提示词中提供时钟，也未给模型提供查询工具，agent（智能体）请求就无法获得实时准确的时间。静态文本会变得陈旧，而对于日期、截止时间或闲置时长等常规推理，调用工具会增加开销。缺少已经过去的时长时，模型无法区分紧接着发送的消息与上一条消息几小时后才发送的消息。
 
 提示词组装流程可以在每个步骤中根据持久会话时间戳派生这两项信息，请求头日志则可以记录实际渲染的确切值。在会话历史中累积陈旧读数或唤醒空闲 agent 都会违反现有请求生命周期。
 
 ## 决策
 
-`@deepseek-ai/dsh-time-context` 是位于 `packages/context/time-context/`、需要显式启用的函数插件。`context/` 产品分组用于容纳既不定义工具、也不定义服务的有界请求上下文增强。`dsh-agent-spine-demo` 和仓库提供的示例都不会加载该 package；只有当 token 与信息披露成本可接受时，部署方才显式挂载它。
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-time-context` 是位于 `packages/context/time-context/`、需要显式启用的函数插件。`context/` 产品分组用于容纳既不定义工具、也不定义服务的有界请求上下文增强。`dsh-agent-spine-demo` 和仓库提供的示例都不会加载该包；只有当 token 与信息披露成本可接受时，部署方才显式挂载它。
 
 该插件注册顺序值为 10 的全局系统提示词区段 `context:time`，位置在部署方角色设定之后、工具指导之前。对于活跃轮次，它会输出带数字 UTC 偏移和 IANA 时区、形似 ISO 的时间戳，以及从轮次开始前最后一条模型可见消息起算的紧凑整秒时长。未绑定 agent 或 agent 处于空闲状态时，该区段为空。
 
@@ -30,11 +32,11 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ### 日志与 token 形态
 
-agent loop（智能体循环）会在发送前通过 `request/header` 和 `request/header-delta` 记录时间区块，从而满足[可重建请求契约](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md)。每个请求只携带一个当前区块；先前的读数不会保留在会话历史中。该插件拥有时间信息，并按照[提示词变量 RFC](../architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md)通过提示词注册表贡献该信息，无需为循环添加特殊分支。
+agent loop（智能体循环）会在发送前通过完整的 `request/header` 快照记录时间区块，从而满足[可重建请求契约](../architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md)。每个请求只携带一个当前区块；先前的读数不会保留在会话历史中。该插件拥有时间信息，并按照[提示词变量 Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md)通过提示词注册表贡献该信息，无需为循环添加特殊分支。
 
 ## 测试
 
-单元测试固定格式化、基线、刷新策略、校验、逐 agent 状态、资源释放行为，以及系统时区在加载时的捕获行为。使用真实 agent loop 的测试固定实际发送的提示词和 `request/header-delta`。无密钥子进程端到端测试通过真实 Loader 和 stdio 应用启动测试专用 `cordis.yml`，在受控 `TZ` 下省略 `timeZone`，驱动两个轮次，并从外部校验持久请求头。默认快照组合不包含该插件，因此其中的 transcript（文本记录）fixture（测试前置数据）不包含时间区块。
+单元测试固定格式化、基线、刷新策略、校验、逐 agent 状态、资源释放行为，以及系统时区在加载时的捕获行为。使用真实 agent loop 的测试固定实际发送的提示词和完整的 `request/header` 快照。无密钥子进程端到端测试通过真实 Loader 和 stdio 应用启动测试专用 `cordis.yml`，在受控 `TZ` 下省略 `timeZone`，驱动两个轮次，并从外部校验持久请求头。默认快照组合不包含该插件，因此其中的 transcript（文本记录）fixture（测试前置数据）不包含时间区块。
 
 ## 考虑过的替代方案
 
@@ -46,12 +48,12 @@ agent loop（智能体循环）会在发送前通过 `request/header` 和 `reque
 - **省略配置时仍默认使用 UTC**——不予采纳，因为显式启用的时钟应跟随部署环境，除非运维方选择 UTC。需要 UTC 的部署仍可配置 `timeZone: UTC`。
 - **引入时区探测库**——不予采纳，因为 Node 的 `Intl` 运行时已经能够提供进程的 IANA 时区，而且额外依赖同样无法推断远程用户的时区。
 - **在 `dsh-agent-spine-demo` 中挂载插件**——不予采纳，因为时区、信息披露、token 预算和新鲜度都属于部署策略。选择加入能保持默认上下文稳定。
-- **将 package 放入 `core/`**——不予采纳，因为 `core/` 负责产品 API 主干，而该插件是没有服务键的可选叶节点。
+- **将包放入 `core/`**——不予采纳，因为 `core/` 负责产品 API 主干，而该插件是没有服务键的可选叶节点。
 
 ## 后果
 
 - 选择加入的模型无需调用工具，即可获得分区时钟和轮次间隔时长。每个请求的系统提示词成本固定，不会随会话增长。
 - 省略 `timeZone` 时，插件采用加载时观察到的进程 `TZ`、主机或容器时区。当部署环境不能代表目标用户时，运维方必须显式配置时区。
-- 刷新会改变请求头，并可能新增 `request/header-delta`。`refreshIntervalMs` 用新鲜度换取持久增量记录的数量；设为 `0` 时，每个整秒渲染结果发生变化的步骤都会记录新值。
+- 刷新会改变请求头，并可能新增一份 reason 为 `change` 的完整 `request/header` 快照。`refreshIntervalMs` 用新鲜度换取完整持久快照的数量与大小；设为 `0` 时，每个整秒渲染结果发生变化的步骤都会记录新值。
 - 系统不会仅为刷新时间而创建请求。长时间运行的工具会保留先前读数，直至下一步骤开始组装。
 - 时长反映持久追加边界处的 harness 处理时间，不包含消息进入日志之前的客户端网络延迟。若要保留客户端来源时间戳，需要单独的持久输入契约。

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.i18n.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.md: 2d7076d51dbe1a64e5042230bddc6844141ff265
+2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.zh.md: 432e0305cf44dcce1053c6580c9f0039309a7af4

.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.md

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Agent Note: Durable per-step time context
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+A request-only clock can tell the model the current time, but replacing that value in the system prompt removes the evidence behind earlier time-sensitive reasoning. Multi-step turns need requests to retain the readings that shaped preceding steps. The request must remain reconstructable after restart, and automatic compaction must account for the same timing context the model receives.
+
+A process-local refresh cache makes displayed time depend on state that cannot survive resume or be reconstructed from the durable session. Durable interval scheduling can reduce append frequency without introducing that hidden state.
+
+## Decision
+
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-time-context` is an opt-in function plugin in `packages/context/time-context/`. It registers a prepended `agent/pre-step` listener and, when an injection is due, calls `agent.inject()` for a pre-step attempt whose signal is not already aborted. The injected `context/message` carries source `{ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'time-context' }` and append surface metadata; a suppressed attempt appends nothing.
+
+The listener records preparation context before a possible `step/start`. Its prepended registration runs before ordinary automatic compaction listeners, so pressure estimation and any resulting surface rewrite observe a newly appended reading. A later pre-step listener can cancel or fail the attempt before the step opens; the reading remains because the durable log is append-only and this plugin performs no rollback.
+
+The optional `timeZone` config resolves the Node process's IANA zone once at plugin load when omitted; an explicit value is validated by `Intl.DateTimeFormat`. The timestamp includes the numeric UTC offset and resolved IANA zone.
+
+The optional `refreshIntervalMs` config is manually validated at plugin load as a non-negative safe integer. Omission or `0` injects on every eligible preparation attempt. A positive value scans the raw session events for the most recent `context/message` with this plugin's source and injects when none exists, wall time moved backward, or the event is at least the configured age. The raw event timestamp governs even after compaction shadows the message, so scheduling persists across turns and process resume without a timer or process-local cache.
+
+### Text and elapsed baselines
+
+An injected first-step reading is:
+
+```text
+Time sampled while preparing turn <turn>, step 1: <timestamp>
+Elapsed since the preceding model-visible message: <duration-or-unavailable>.
+```
+
+The baseline is the latest preceding user, assistant, tool-result, context, or steering message. This includes the accepted prompt that opened an ordinary message turn. If no model-visible message exists, the duration is `unavailable`.
+
+An injected later-step reading is:
+
+```text
+Time sampled while preparing turn <turn>, step <step>: <timestamp>
+Elapsed since the preceding step context: <duration-or-unavailable>.
+```
+
+Their baseline is the durable event timestamp of the preceding time-context message in the same turn. If interval suppression leaves no earlier same-turn reading, the duration is `unavailable`. Duration formatting uses compact whole-second units and clamps backward wall-clock movement to zero. The explicit turn and step make every retained reading attributable to its historical preparation attempt after later turns append more context.
+
+### Durability and request reconstruction
+
+Each reading remains a normal surface node until compaction shadows it; positive interval scheduling never removes existing readings. A later request therefore sees the cumulative unshadowed readings that affected earlier preparation and steps, rather than a system-prompt value rewritten in place.
+
+The plugin contributes nothing to system-prompt assembly. `request/header` contains no time-context text; request reconstruction obtains the complete durable surface prefix at each `step/start`. Readings and requests need not map one-to-one because a failed preparation can leave a reading while interval suppression can prepare a request without appending one. The plugin depends on the agent registry for its lifecycle listener and does not require the system-prompt service at runtime.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit and real-loop tests pin formatting, both elapsed baselines, interval omission and zero, threshold boundaries, cross-turn and per-session scheduling, backward-clock behavior, invalid config, resumed raw-event lookup after compaction, aborted-signal behavior, later-listener cancellation and failure, listener disposal, source and surface metadata, cumulative multi-step visibility, and absence from request headers. A keyless subprocess e2e boots the real Loader and stdio app, drives two turns, and verifies the persisted context events externally.
+
+## Supersedes
+
+This decision supersedes the dynamic system-prompt storage and refresh policy in [Optional time-context plugin](2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md). It keeps the package location, opt-in deployment stance, timestamp formatting, process-zone default, and load-time validation. Durable history replaces the `context:time` prompt section, process-local refresh cache, and request-header deltas; `refreshIntervalMs` controls durable append frequency instead of prompt replacement.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep the dynamic system-prompt section and process-local refresh cache** — rejected because replacement erases earlier readings, cache state is not replayable, and a frozen request envelope would make the value stale for an entire loop instance.
+- **Replace the preceding context surface node** — rejected because replacement preserves the old node's position or shadows intervening conversation; neither represents when the new reading became visible.
+- **Inject from a background timer** — rejected because idle time has no pending request to consume the value, and timer-driven injection would create durable turns solely to report time passing.
+- **Expose time only through a tool** — rejected because ordinary temporal reasoning would require an avoidable tool round trip and would not guarantee a reading before every step.
+- **Use `agent/session-prefix`** — rejected because one loop-instance prefix cannot represent distinct step timestamps and does not accumulate historically attributable readings.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Omission or `0` records every eligible preparation attempt; a positive interval reduces append frequency and history growth while preserving durable scheduling across resume.
+- Timing context remains append-only until compaction shadows older surface nodes, including a preparation reading left by a later cancellation or failure.
+- The first-step duration normally measures from the prompt that opened the turn, while later-step durations measure model and tool processing since the preceding step context.
+- An omitted `timeZone` still reflects the deployment process rather than a remote user, and elapsed time still uses durable harness append boundaries rather than client-origin timestamps.

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+# Agent Note: 持久的逐步骤时间上下文
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-16-durable-per-step-time-context.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+仅存在于请求中的时钟可以告诉模型当前时间，但在系统提示词中替换这个值会移除先前时效性推理所依据的证据。在包含多个步骤的轮次中，请求需要保留影响先前步骤的读数。系统必须能在重启后重建请求，自动压缩（compaction）也必须核算模型实际收到的同一份时间上下文。
+
+进程本地刷新缓存使显示的时间依赖无法在恢复后保留、也无法从持久会话重建的状态。持久的间隔调度可以减少追加频率，而不引入这种隐藏状态。
+
+## 决策
+
+`@deepseek-ai/dsh-time-context` 是位于 `packages/context/time-context/`、需要显式启用的函数插件。它注册一个前置的 `agent/pre-step` 监听器，并在需要注入时，为信号尚未取消的预步骤尝试调用 `agent.inject()`。注入的 `context/message` 携带来源 `{ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'time-context' }` 和追加表层元数据；受间隔抑制的尝试不会追加任何内容。
+
+监听器在可能出现的 `step/start` 之前记录准备上下文。它采用前置注册，因此先于普通自动压缩监听器运行，使压力估算和由此产生的表层重写都能观察到新追加的读数。后续预步骤监听器可能在步骤开启前取消尝试或使其失败；持久日志仅追加，且本插件不执行回滚，因此该读数会保留下来。
+
+省略可选配置 `timeZone` 时，插件在加载时解析一次 Node 进程的 IANA 时区；显式值由 `Intl.DateTimeFormat` 校验。时间戳包含数字 UTC 偏移和解析后的 IANA 时区。
+
+插件在加载时手动校验可选配置 `refreshIntervalMs`，其值必须为非负安全整数。省略或设为 `0` 时，每次符合条件的准备尝试都会注入。设为正数时，插件扫描原始会话事件，查找来源属于本插件的最新 `context/message`；不存在此类事件、系统挂钟向后移动，或该事件已达到配置时长时，插件执行注入。即使压缩已隐藏消息，调度仍以原始事件时间戳为准，因此该机制无需计时器或进程本地缓存，也能跨轮次和进程恢复持续生效。
+
+### 文本与时长基线
+
+第一个步骤的注入读数为：
+
+```text
+Time sampled while preparing turn <turn>, step 1: <timestamp>
+Elapsed since the preceding model-visible message: <duration-or-unavailable>.
+```
+
+基线是前一条用户消息、助手消息、工具结果、上下文消息或 steering（中途引导）消息。对于普通消息轮次，这包括开启轮次的已接受提示词。如果不存在模型可见消息，时长为 `unavailable`。
+
+后续步骤的注入读数为：
+
+```text
+Time sampled while preparing turn <turn>, step <step>: <timestamp>
+Elapsed since the preceding step context: <duration-or-unavailable>.
+```
+
+其基线是同一轮次中上一条时间上下文消息的持久事件时间戳。如果间隔抑制导致同一轮次中没有更早的读数，时长为 `unavailable`。时长采用紧凑的整秒单位，并在系统挂钟向后移动时钳制为零。显式的轮次号和步骤号使每个保留的读数在后续轮次追加更多上下文后，仍可归属于对应的历史准备尝试。
+
+### 持久性与请求重建
+
+每个读数都作为普通表层节点保留，直至压缩将其隐藏；正数间隔调度绝不会移除已有读数。因此，后续请求会看到影响先前准备过程和步骤且尚未被隐藏的累计读数，而不是一个被原地改写的系统提示词值。
+
+插件不向系统提示词组装贡献任何内容。`request/header` 不包含时间上下文文本；请求重建从每个 `step/start` 取得完整的持久表层前缀。读数与请求无需一一对应，因为失败的准备过程可能留下读数，而间隔抑制也可能使请求准备过程不追加读数。插件通过 agent 注册表使用生命周期监听器，运行时不需要系统提示词服务。
+
+## 测试
+
+单元测试和真实 agent loop（智能体循环）测试固定格式化、两种时长基线、间隔省略和零值、阈值边界、跨轮次和各会话独立调度、挂钟后退行为、无效配置、压缩后基于恢复会话的原始事件查找、已取消信号行为、后续监听器取消和失败、监听器 dispose（资源释放）、来源与表层元数据、多步骤累计可见性，以及请求头中不存在时间上下文。无密钥子进程 e2e 测试通过真实 Loader 和 stdio 应用启动，驱动两个轮次，并从外部校验持久化的上下文事件。
+
+## 取代的决策
+
+本决策取代[可选时间上下文插件](2026-07-14-time-context-plugin.md)中的动态系统提示词存储和刷新策略。它保留包位置、选择加入式部署、时间戳格式、进程时区默认值和加载时校验。持久历史取代 `context:time` 提示词区段、进程本地刷新缓存和请求头增量；`refreshIntervalMs` 用于控制持久追加频率，而非提示词替换。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+- **保留动态系统提示词区段和进程本地刷新缓存**——不予采纳，因为替换会抹去先前读数，缓存状态无法回放，而且冻结的请求内容集合会使该值在整个 agent loop 实例期间保持陈旧。
+- **替换前一条上下文表层节点**——不予采纳，因为替换会保留旧节点的位置或隐藏中间的会话内容；两者都不能表达新读数何时开始可见。
+- **通过后台计时器注入**——不予采纳，因为空闲期间没有待处理请求消费该值，而且计时器驱动的注入会仅为报告时间流逝而创建持久轮次。
+- **只通过工具提供时间**——不予采纳，因为普通时间推理会产生本可避免的工具往返，也不能保证每个步骤之前都有读数。
+- **使用 `agent/session-prefix`**——不予采纳，因为一个 loop 实例前缀无法表示不同的步骤时间戳，也不会累计具有历史归属的读数。
+
+## 后果
+
+- 省略 `refreshIntervalMs` 或设为 `0` 时，每次符合条件的准备尝试都会留下记录；正数间隔会减少追加频率和历史增长，同时使持久调度在恢复后继续生效。
+- 时间上下文仅追加并保留到压缩隐藏旧表层节点为止，其中也包括后续取消或失败所留下的准备读数。
+- 第一个步骤的时长通常从开启轮次的提示词起算，后续步骤的时长则反映自上一条步骤上下文以来的模型与工具处理时间。
+- 省略 `timeZone` 时仍采用部署进程而非远程用户的时区，时长仍采用 harness 的持久追加边界而非客户端来源时间戳。

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-17-dedicated-full-screen-tui-front-door.md: 178b5ea44be67f820a8ea7fed8acb987dffb3f80
+2026-07-17-dedicated-full-screen-tui-front-door.zh.md: ac055bad1b7a692c7a980430fdbd1e34737a9994

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+# Agent Note: Dedicated full-screen TUI front door
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-17-dedicated-full-screen-tui-front-door.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+The line-oriented `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio` front door works in pipes and ordinary terminals, but a full-screen coding interface must own raw input, differential screen drawing, cursor state, overlays, and terminal restoration. Combining those contracts in one UI plugin couples the pipe-safe path to a TTY-only lifecycle and makes it unclear which terminal behavior a composition selects.
+
+The interactive channel must remain a Cordis plugin over the same agent, session, tool, and user-interaction services as every other front door. It needs to resume durable history, follow compaction replacements, display tool-owned presentation, and restore the terminal on startup failure and disposal. A standalone chat application or a second agent composition would duplicate behavior outside the plugin graph.
+
+## Decision
+
+DeepSeek Harness ships [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-tui`](../../../../packages/ui/tui/README.md) as a dedicated Cordis plugin. It owns terminal input and presentation only; agent lifecycle, session persistence, tool execution, and the model-facing question tool remain separate composition entries. The plugin requires both stdin and stdout to be TTYs and fails instead of silently changing to line-oriented behavior.
+
+The app layer selects a concrete terminal front door before mounting it. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo` can resolve `auto` from the two process streams, while the `repl-agent` and `tui-agent` leaves explicitly select readline and TUI respectively. The TUI leaf reuses the repl-agent backend and tool composition through an asserted include patch, so the three runnable agent leaves remain symmetric without duplicating deployment choices.
+
+The selected front door receives the exact generated or resumed `SessionId` used by the pre-created agent. It mounts before the agent composition, waits for the matching root agent, and enters full-screen mode only after that agent exists. A matching `agent-loop/config-start-failed` event is therefore reported before screen takeover and exits with status 1.
+
+### Session projection and interaction
+
+The TUI rebuilds the transcript from the active `session.surface` and reprojects it whenever an event carries a `surfaceOp`, so resumed and compacted history matches the model-visible conversation. It renders Markdown text and reasoning, token totals, the latest `todo/write` plan, and tool cards produced through each tool definition's `presentCall` and `presentResult` methods. Pending chunks and tool calls update the same components that completed events settle.
+
+Editor input calls `agent.send()` while idle and `agent.steer()` while a turn is running. Cancellation, reasoning visibility, tool-card expansion, redraw, transcript clearing, and exit are terminal-only controls. The plugin registers the shared `userInteraction` provider and presents questions as queued keyboard overlays; agent behavior and answer logging remain owned by their existing services.
+
+### Terminal ownership
+
+Before model output, session data, tool presentation, questions, configuration, or diagnostics reach pi-tui or the terminal title, `displayText()` renders C0 and C1 controls other than line feeds as visible hexadecimal escapes. Only the TUI and pi-tui create ANSI control sequences.
+
+The built-in palette uses standard 16-color ANSI foregrounds and SGR attributes, keeps body text and backgrounds at terminal defaults, and uses reverse video for selection. Host terminals therefore remap the interface for light and dark themes without a TUI-specific theme setting; `color: false` removes styling.
+
+## Verification
+
+The implemented [TUI terminal-state snapshot Agent Note](../testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md) owns the four-layer verification contract: direct behavior tests, transient semantic terminal snapshots, recorded JSONL journeys through production tools, and Loader/PTY smoke tests. The package README owns configuration, commands, model-visible effects, and current limitations.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep readline and full-screen modes inside `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio`** — rejected because line-oriented output and differential TTY rendering have different dependencies, input rules, logging ownership, and teardown obligations. Separate packages keep the pipe-safe contract small and explicit.
+- **Let the TUI plugin silently downgrade when either stream is not a TTY** — rejected because a fallback hides deployment mistakes and changes interaction semantics. The app bundle may select a front door with `auto`; an explicitly mounted TUI fails loud.
+- **Keep TUI wiring and tests under the readline `repl-agent` leaf** — rejected because one leaf would represent two distinct front doors and break symmetry with `acp-agent`. A dedicated `tui-agent` leaf owns TUI overlays and tests while reusing the repl-agent backend composition.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Interactive terminal work gains a stateful Markdown, card, plan, and question interface without changing the line-oriented protocol used by pipes and automation.
+- The TUI carries a pi-tui dependency and a strict TTY requirement; non-TTY deployments select `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio` at composition time.
+- Session projection makes resume and compaction consistent with the durable conversation, but one configured session owns the transcript and editor.
+- Tool packages extend terminal cards through their existing presentation methods without adding tool-specific branches to the TUI.