fix(session): drop the <context> envelope and project context verbatim

context/message previously defaulted to a <context source="…">…</context>
wrapper. No model is trained on a <context> tag either, and message
framing does not belong on the session surface: the surface projects the
durable log, and a caller that wants a frame formats its own content —
which the one heavy producer (workspace-context) already does with its own
<system-reminder> frame, opting out via 'raw'. The tag only added
machinery — ContextEnvelope plus an envelope field threaded through
InjectOptions, HookContext, the context/message event, and the agent-loop
inject/additionalContexts plumbing.

context/message now projects its content verbatim as a user-role message,
sharing one deriveEventMessage case with user/message and steering/message.
ContextEnvelope and every envelope field are removed; context/message.meta
still carries durable, model-hidden JSON state. Regenerated catalogs and
website API; refreshed the three affected keyless snapshots (envelope field
only; timestamps unchanged).

Broadens and renames the steering Agent Note to cover both envelope
removals as one decision.

Agent Note: .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md

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

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The harness needs one internal language for messages that the loop, session log,
 
 Own the vocabulary: messages are arrays of typed content blocks (`text`, `reasoning`, `tool-call`, `tool-result`), with the union derived from the merge-extensible `ContentBlockMap` so plugins add block types via declaration merging. The same merge-extensible-map pattern types every "stringly" field (`MessageSource`, `FinishReason`, `TurnTrigger`, `TurnEndReason`). Streaming is a raw chunk protocol; `BlockAssembler` is the single shared assembly implementation. Adapters translate to provider wire formats — mapping cost lives in adapters, where it belongs.
 
-In-session context injection (`context/message`) renders as a tagged user-role envelope (the system-reminder pattern) rather than a new role, so adapters carry zero burden. Live-adapter validation confirms this rendering for current DeepSeek behavior; a future provider-specific mismatch belongs in that adapter rather than a new canonical role. `steering/message` originally shared the envelope but now projects as plain user content; see [the steering-unwrap Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.md).
+In-session context injection (`context/message`) and mid-turn steering (`steering/message`) originally rendered as tagged user-role envelopes (the system-reminder pattern) rather than a new role, so adapters carry zero burden. Both now project as plain user content with no wrapper; see [the injected-content-envelope Agent Note](../simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md). Live-adapter validation confirms this rendering for current DeepSeek behavior; a future provider-specific mismatch belongs in that adapter rather than a new canonical role.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

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

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ After a successful first-party `read`, `write`, or `edit` call, the `tools/post-
 
 A content edit appends `Updated instructions from: <path>`, states that the new content replaces the previous content, and includes the complete current file. If precedence changes from one candidate to another, the message also names the previous path and says it no longer applies. If no candidate remains, the plugin appends `Instructions removed: <path>` and states that the previously loaded instructions no longer apply.
 
-Dynamic messages use a raw `context/message` envelope because the plugin owns the complete system-reminder framing. Core context injection therefore supports `envelope: 'raw'`; callers that omit it retain the canonical `<context source="...">` wrapper. `context/message.meta` carries opaque JSON state that is persisted but never rendered to the model.
+Dynamic messages carry their complete system-reminder framing in `content`, and every `context/message` reaches the model verbatim as a user-role message (there is no core wrapper to opt out of). `context/message.meta` carries opaque JSON state that is persisted but never rendered to the model.
 
 Shell commands are not discovery triggers. Local bash calls start fresh shells, and inferring reached paths from arbitrary command strings would require shell semantics the prompt plugin does not own.
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ There is intentionally no watcher. Detection occurs at the next successful struc
 
 ## Consequences
 
-Workspace guidance is isolated per session and shared by both product front doors and every tool presentation mode. Initial instructions benefit from stable prefix caching, while nested and changed content remains durable and replayable. The generic session/agent context contract includes optional raw framing and JSON metadata, both propagated through prompt-submit and post-tool `additionalContexts` arrays without flattening entries.
+Workspace guidance is isolated per session and shared by both product front doors and every tool presentation mode. Initial instructions benefit from stable prefix caching, while nested and changed content remains durable and replayable. The generic session/agent context contract carries JSON metadata propagated through prompt-submit and post-tool `additionalContexts` arrays without flattening entries.
 
 Repository text remains untrusted input. Lower-authority user-role framing, explicit precedence language, delimiter escaping, and symlink rejection reduce risk but do not eliminate prompt injection. Permission and sandbox layers treat workspace files as data rather than authority.
 

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

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The canonical surface separates transformable policy, around-dispatch control, a
 - `agent/session-start(agent, source)` — emit, once before turn 1, carrying a `SessionStartSource` (`startup` for a fresh/forked create, `resume` for a reloaded persisted session; `clear`/`compact` reserved). A pure notification — it CANNOT block startup (a deliberate gap: a bridge logs/injects, it does not gate startup). A listener seeds context via `agent.inject()`.
 - `agent/prompt-submit(agent, content, source, next) → PromptDecision` — waterfall, fired per drained queued message inside the open turn, before the `user/message` append. `allow` (optionally rewriting the prompt `content` or attaching separately sourced `additionalContexts[]`) or `block` (dropping the prompt; the loop appends a durable `prompt/blocked` in its place — see the dispatch note below).
 
-**`agent/turn-continuation`** receives and returns a `ContinuationDecision`. A `{action:'continue', reason?}` may carry model-facing content and source recorded as next-step steering in the same turn — the typed twin of the `/goal` step-end-steer pattern. It is not a `context/message`, so its type does not offer a context envelope or durable context metadata.
+**`agent/turn-continuation`** receives and returns a `ContinuationDecision`. A `{action:'continue', reason?}` may carry model-facing content and source recorded as next-step steering in the same turn — the typed twin of the `/goal` step-end-steer pattern. It is not a `context/message`, so its type does not offer durable context metadata.
 
 ### The tool pipeline gives each phase one kind of authority
 

.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.i18n.yaml → .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.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
-2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.md: 93be7191a556b6438a0ad265d3cc9bde29f5d0ef
-2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.zh.md: 8e3fcd0fbf25c393e7429b0d24bd9a1e38d61e48
+2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md: 32642660f7bcea748c349933b99552b1974922c5
+2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.zh.md: a01a51e12cecca5bc46526ccca61dbe90eb3136f

.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Agent Note: Project injected content verbatim, dropping the XML envelopes
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+Two families of injected session content rendered into the model transcript wrapped in XML envelopes: `steering/message` as `<steering source="…">…</steering>` and `context/message` as `<context source="…">…</context>` (the latter with a `'raw'` opt-out that skipped the wrapper). The envelopes aimed to tell the model "this is injected, not the user speaking."
+
+Two problems:
+
+- **No model is trained on these tags.** `<steering>` and `<context>` are arbitrary markup no model was taught to read, so the framing adds tokens without a reliable effect and can actively mislead — recorded transcripts show a model treating a `<steering>` instruction as third-party metadata and refusing it while answering only the original prompt.
+- **The session surface is the wrong layer for framing.** The surface projects the durable log into the model transcript; deciding how content is worded is not its job. A caller that wants a particular frame formats its own content before injecting it — which the one heavy producer (`workspace-context`) already does, owning its complete `<system-reminder>` frame and opting out of the `<context>` wrapper with `envelope: 'raw'`. The remaining tag machinery (`ContextEnvelope`, an `envelope` field threaded through `InjectOptions`, `HookContext`, the `context/message` event, and the loop) served a distinction that belongs to the caller.
+
+## Decision
+
+Injected session content projects verbatim; the caller owns any framing. `deriveEventMessage` renders `user/message`, `context/message`, and `steering/message` through one shared case returning `{ role: 'user', content: event.data.content }`; their content blocks reach the model unchanged. `context/message`'s `source`/`meta` and `steering/message`'s `turn` stay in the durable event log but do not render.
+
+The `ContextEnvelope` type and every `envelope` field are removed — `context/message` in `SessionEventMap`, `InjectOptions`, `HookContext`, and the `inject()`/`additionalContexts` plumbing in `dsh-agent-loop`. `workspace-context` no longer requests `'raw'`; its self-framed content renders as before. The `renderTagged`/`renderContextEnvelope` helpers are deleted. `context/message.meta` still carries durable, model-hidden JSON state.
+
+The `source` attribution the envelopes carried is not lost — it remains on the durable events; it simply no longer renders into the transcript.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Keep the `<context>` envelope, unwrap only steering** — leaves the `ContextEnvelope`/`envelope` machinery alive for a framing bit no model reads, and keeps the inconsistency that the main producer already opts out of.
+- **Keep the envelope field for plugin-sourced content only** — splits one projection into two on `source.kind` for no observed benefit; a plugin steering the agent (hook-bridge continuation reasons) also wants the instruction followed, not labeled.
+- **Move the unwrapping into adapters** — the canonical projection is the model-visible contract ("model-visible ⟺ logged"); per-adapter divergence on framing would make the derived transcript adapter-dependent. Framing that a caller genuinely wants belongs in the caller's content, not in an adapter.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Mid-turn steering and injected context reach the model with the same weight as an ordinary user prompt.
+- The transcript no longer distinguishes injected content from a user message; consumers that need the distinction read the durable event log, which keeps the event types, `source`, and `meta` intact.
+- The `hook-{cc,codex}-stop-continue` ACP snapshots were re-recorded: the old recordings captured the model refusing steering as third-party metadata, the fix's exact failure mode.
+- The [content-block-vocabulary Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md)'s tagged-envelope clause is amended to point here.
+
+## Deferred
+
+`workspace-context` already frames its own content: it emits a complete `<system-reminder>…</system-reminder>` block as the message content instead of leaning on a surface-level wrapper. That caller-owned pattern is the one to keep — the surface passes content through verbatim, and any framing lives in the producer's own content.
+
+Two framing paths existed — caller-baked framing (`workspace-context`'s `<system-reminder>`) and surface-level wrapping (`<context>`/`<steering>` added by `deriveEventMessage`). This change removes the second, leaving only caller-owned framing. If labeled framing is wanted again, unify it through the event's `meta` map — the producer-attached, model-hidden metadata field — consumed by a dedicated renderer or adapter, rather than re-hardcoding a tag in `deriveEventMessage`. A producer declares the frame it wants in `meta`; one renderer applies it; the session-surface projection stays a verbatim pass-through.

.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.zh.md

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Agent Note: 注入内容逐字投影，去除 XML 封套
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+两类注入的会话内容在渲染进模型 transcript（文本记录）时被包在 XML 封套里：`steering/message` 包成 `<steering source="…">…</steering>`，`context/message` 包成 `<context source="…">…</context>`（后者有一个 `'raw'` 退出选项可跳过封套）。这些封套意在告诉模型「这是注入内容，不是用户在说话」。
+
+两个问题：
+
+- **没有模型在这些标签上训练过。** `<steering>` 和 `<context>` 是任何模型都未被教会去读的任意标记，因此这层框架只是徒增 token 而没有可靠效果，还可能起反作用——已录制的 transcript 显示，模型会把 `<steering>` 指令当成第三方元数据而拒绝服从，只回答原始提示。
+- **session 表层是承载框架的错误层次。** 表层的职责是把持久日志投影为模型 transcript；决定内容如何措辞并不是它的事。想要特定框架的调用方可以在注入前自行格式化内容——唯一的重度生产方（`workspace-context`）本就这样做，它自带完整的 `<system-reminder>` 框架，并用 `envelope: 'raw'` 退出 `<context>` 封套。剩下的标签机制（`ContextEnvelope` 类型，以及贯穿 `InjectOptions`、`HookContext`、`context/message` 事件和 agent loop 的 `envelope` 字段）所服务的区分，本应归属调用方。
+
+## 决策
+
+注入的会话内容逐字投影，框架由调用方自行负责。`deriveEventMessage` 通过一个共享分支渲染 `user/message`、`context/message` 和 `steering/message`，都返回 `{ role: 'user', content: event.data.content }`；它们的内容块原样到达模型。`context/message` 的 `source`/`meta` 和 `steering/message` 的 `turn` 保留在持久事件日志中，但不渲染。
+
+`ContextEnvelope` 类型和所有 `envelope` 字段都被移除——包括 `SessionEventMap` 中的 `context/message`、`InjectOptions`、`HookContext`，以及 `dsh-agent-loop` 中 `inject()`/`additionalContexts` 的相关管线。`workspace-context` 不再请求 `'raw'`；它自带框架的内容渲染方式不变。`renderTagged`/`renderContextEnvelope` 辅助函数被删除。`context/message.meta` 仍携带持久的、对模型隐藏的 JSON 状态。
+
+封套曾携带的 `source` 归属并未丢失——它仍保留在持久事件上；只是不再渲染进 transcript。
+
+## 权衡的替代方案
+
+- **保留 `<context>` 封套，只对 steering 去封套** —— 会为一个没有模型会读的框架位保留 `ContextEnvelope`/`envelope` 机制，并保留主要生产方本就退出的那种不一致。
+- **仅对插件来源的内容保留 envelope 字段** —— 会按 `source.kind` 把一条投影拆成两条，却没有观察到任何收益；插件引导 agent（智能体）时（钩子桥接器的轮次续行原因）同样希望指令被遵从，而不是被贴标签。
+- **把去封套的逻辑移入适配器** —— 规范投影就是模型可见契约（「模型可见 ⟺ 已记录」）；让各适配器在框架上各行其是，会使派生的 transcript 依赖于适配器。调用方确实想要的框架应放进调用方自己的内容里，而不是适配器。
+
+## 结果
+
+- 中途引导与注入的 context 以与普通用户提示相同的权重到达模型。
+- transcript 不再区分注入内容与用户消息；需要这一区分的消费方读取持久事件日志，其中事件类型、`source` 和 `meta` 完整保留。
+- `hook-{cc,codex}-stop-continue` ACP 快照已重新录制：旧录制捕获的是模型把 steering 当作第三方元数据而拒绝服从，正是本次修复针对的失败模式。
+- [内容块词汇表 Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md) 中关于带标签封套的条款已修订为指向本文。
+
+## 推迟事项
+
+`workspace-context` 已经自行为内容加框架：它把一个完整的 `<system-reminder>…</system-reminder>` 块作为消息内容发出，而不依赖表层封套。这种调用方自有的模式才是应保留的——表层逐字透传内容，任何框架都住在生产方自己的内容里。
+
+曾经存在两条框架路径——调用方自行加框架（`workspace-context` 的 `<system-reminder>`），以及表层封套（`deriveEventMessage` 加上的 `<context>`/`<steering>`）。本次变更移除了后者，只留下调用方自有的框架。如果未来又需要带标签的框架，应由事件的 `meta` map（生产方附加、对模型隐藏的元数据字段）来统一它，交给专门的渲染器或适配器消费，而不是在 `deriveEventMessage` 中重新硬编码标签。生产方在 `meta` 中声明所需的框架，由一个渲染器统一施加；session 表层的投影始终保持逐字透传。

.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.md

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Agent Note: Project steering messages as plain user content
-
-Status: implemented
-
-English | [中文](2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.zh.md)
-
-## Problem
-
-`Session.deriveEventMessage` rendered `steering/message` inside a `<steering source="…">…</steering>` envelope, mirroring the `context/message` framing. But the two events differ in kind: context injection is ambient, non-conversational material (file-change notices, workspace instructions) where the envelope tells the model "this is not the user speaking", while steering *is* the user (or a plugin acting for the user) speaking mid-turn — "also reply with SECOND", "focus on tests". Wrapping that direction in an XML label distances the model from an instruction it should treat as a first-class user message; recorded transcripts show models reasoning about whether to obey "the steering input" as if it were third-party metadata.
-
-## Decision
-
-`steering/message` projects to a plain user-role message carrying its content blocks verbatim — identical to `user/message` projection. The `<context>` envelope on `context/message` (with its `raw` opt-out) is untouched. The former `renderTagged` helper in `packages/core/session/src/index.ts` is now the context-only `renderContextEnvelope` with no tag parameter. The compaction renderer's `[Steering: …]` label is unaffected: that is a summarization-input format, not model-visible history.
-
-The `source` attribution that the envelope carried is not lost — it remains on the durable `steering/message` event; it just no longer renders into the model transcript.
-
-## Alternatives considered
-
-- **Keep the envelope for plugin-sourced steering only** — splits one projection into two on `source.kind` for no observed benefit; a plugin steering the agent (hook-bridge continuation reasons) also wants the instruction followed, not attributed.
-- **Move the unwrapping into adapters** — the canonical projection is the model-visible contract ("model-visible ⟺ logged"); per-adapter divergence on framing would make the derived transcript adapter-dependent.
-
-## Consequences
-
-- Mid-turn steering reaches the model with the same weight as an ordinary user prompt.
-- The transcript no longer distinguishes a steering injection from a user message; consumers that need the distinction read the durable event log, which keeps `steering/message` and its `source` intact.
-- The [content-block-vocabulary Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md)'s tagged-envelope clause now covers `context/message` only and is amended to point here.

.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.zh.md

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Agent Note: steering 消息投影为普通用户内容
-
-Status: implemented
-
-[English](2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.md) | 中文
-
-## 问题
-
-`Session.deriveEventMessage` 曾把 `steering/message` 包在 `<steering source="…">…</steering>` 封套里渲染，与 `context/message` 的框架保持一致。但这两类事件性质不同：上下文注入是环境性的、非对话性的材料（文件变更通知、工作区指令），封套告诉模型「这不是用户在说话」；而 steering（中途引导）恰恰**是**用户（或代表用户的插件）在轮次中途发言——「再回复 SECOND」「专注于测试」。把这种指令包进 XML 标签会让模型把本应作为一等用户消息对待的指令当成第三方元数据；已录制的 transcript（文本记录）显示，模型会推理是否要服从「那条 steering 输入」，仿佛它是旁观者的附注。
-
-## 决策
-
-`steering/message` 投影为普通的 user 角色消息，逐字携带其内容块——与 `user/message` 的投影完全相同。`context/message` 上的 `<context>` 封套（及其 `raw` 退出选项）保持不变。`packages/core/session/src/index.ts` 中原来的 `renderTagged` 辅助函数现在是只服务于 context 的 `renderContextEnvelope`，不再接受标签参数。压缩（compaction）渲染器的 `[Steering: …]` 标注不受影响：那是摘要输入格式，不是模型可见的历史。
-
-封套曾携带的 `source` 归属并未丢失——它仍保留在持久的 `steering/message` 事件上；只是不再渲染进模型 transcript。
-
-## 备选方案
-
-- **仅对插件来源的 steering 保留封套** —— 会按 `source.kind` 把一条投影拆成两条，却没有观察到任何收益；插件引导 agent（智能体）时（钩子桥接器的轮次续行原因）同样希望指令被遵从，而不是被归因。
-- **把去封套的逻辑移入适配器** —— 规范投影就是模型可见契约（「模型可见 ⟺ 已记录」）；让各适配器在框架上各行其是，会使派生的 transcript 依赖于适配器。
-
-## 影响
-
-- 中途引导以与普通用户提示相同的权重到达模型。
-- transcript 不再区分 steering 注入与用户消息；需要这一区分的消费方读取持久事件日志，其中 `steering/message` 及其 `source` 完整保留。
-- [内容块词汇表 Agent Note](../architecture/2026-06-11-content-block-vocabulary.md) 中关于带标签封套的条款现在只覆盖 `context/message`，并已修订为指向本文。

docs/cordis-catalog/events.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A fully configured agent and live session were published. Setup is composition-o
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:147`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:143`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/disposed` — emit
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ An agent left the registry; AgentLoop emits this after driver quiescence but bef
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:156`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:152`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/error` — emit
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ A step or turn errored. The loop reports a failure here (plus the logger) even w
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:311`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:307`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/post-step` — serial
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint after the response, real or synthetic tool results, in
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:264`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:260`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/pre-step` — serial
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint before `step/start`; appends land outside the pending
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:204`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:200`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/prompt-submit` — waterfall
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Allow, rewrite, or block one drained prompt before it becomes a user message. Ca
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [PromptDecision](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:214`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:210`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/queued` — emit
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Detached, frozen content entered the agent's inbox. Source defaults have already
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:175`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:171`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/request` — waterfall
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Replace the frozen call configuration. Model-visible content must use logged cha
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmCallConfig](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:226`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:222`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/request-error` — waterfall
 
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Recover a model-request failure after its failed step has closed. `retry` opens
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [RequestError](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [RequestErrorDecision](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:278`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:274`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/session-prefix` — waterfall
 
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:241`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:237`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/session-start` — emit
 
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ The session lifecycle began, once before the first turn. Use `agent.inject()` to
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [SessionStartSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:188`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:184`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/status` — emit
 
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ Agent status changed (`idle` ⇄ `running`, or → `disposed`). `send()` does no
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [AgentStatus](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:165`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:161`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/step-result` — waterfall
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Waterfall: post-process the assembled assistant Message before tool dispatch (va
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:252`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:248`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/turn-continuation` — waterfall
 
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Override whether the turn continues. The default continues after tool calls or s
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContinuationDecision](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:288`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:284`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/turn-stop` — serial
 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Monotonic terminal-stop checkpoint after continuation and steering are folded; a
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContinuationStop](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:298`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:294`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ## `agent-loop/*`
 

docs/cordis-catalog/services.md

@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ fork(source: SessionForkSource, boundary?: number, childSessionId?: SessionId):
 
 Types: [CreateSessionOptions](../core-data-structures/persistence.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md) · [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:574`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:549`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.skills` — `SkillService`
 

docs/core-data-structures/core.md

@@ -338,13 +338,11 @@ The fourteen event variants (`turn/start`, `turn/end`, `step/start`, `step/end`,
 
 Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
-`InjectOptions` extends ordinary message attribution with context-only framing and durable model-hidden JSON metadata:
+`InjectOptions` extends ordinary message attribution with durable model-hidden JSON metadata:
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /** Options specific to durable synthetic context injection. */
 interface InjectOptions extends SendOptions {
-  /** Keep the canonical context tag, or send caller-owned framing verbatim. */
-  envelope?: ContextEnvelope
   /** Opaque JSON state retained in the session event but hidden from the model. */
   meta?: JsonValue
 }
@@ -407,7 +405,7 @@ The process-local initiator carried by `ctx.agents` is the exact `Agent` above,
 
 ## Interception decisions
 
-Each `agent/*` interception waterfall returns a small, seam-specific typed union — the unified Decision idiom (the tool seams' `PreToolDecision`/`PostToolDecision` in [tools.md](tools.md) follow the same shape). A CC/Codex hook bridge maps its `permissionDecision`/`decision`/`continue`/`additionalContext` fields onto these; a native plugin returns them directly. Prompt and post-tool decisions share one model-facing context shape, `HookContext`, which is `inject()`ed as a `context/message` and therefore carries a REQUIRED `source` (a missing source would default to `{kind:'user'}` and mislabel plugin context as a user prompt). Its optional `envelope` selects the canonical context tag or caller-owned raw framing, while JSON `meta` persists plugin state without exposing it to the model. Both decisions carry `additionalContexts[]` so every entry preserves its own provenance, framing, and metadata. Continuation reasons are steering messages instead and deliberately use the narrower content/source shape.
+Each `agent/*` interception waterfall returns a small, seam-specific typed union — the unified Decision idiom (the tool seams' `PreToolDecision`/`PostToolDecision` in [tools.md](tools.md) follow the same shape). A CC/Codex hook bridge maps its `permissionDecision`/`decision`/`continue`/`additionalContext` fields onto these; a native plugin returns them directly. Prompt and post-tool decisions share one model-facing context shape, `HookContext`, which is `inject()`ed as a `context/message` and therefore carries a REQUIRED `source` (a missing source would default to `{kind:'user'}` and mislabel plugin context as a user prompt). Its `content` reaches the model verbatim as a user-role message, while JSON `meta` persists plugin state without exposing it to the model. Both decisions carry `additionalContexts[]` so every entry preserves its own provenance and metadata. Continuation reasons are steering messages instead and deliberately use the narrower content/source shape.
 
 Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
@@ -416,8 +414,6 @@ Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types
 interface HookContext {
   content: ContentBlock[]
   source: MessageSource
-  /** Keep the canonical context tag, or use caller-owned framing verbatim. */
-  envelope?: ContextEnvelope
   /** Opaque JSON state retained in the session event but hidden from the model. */
   meta?: JsonValue
 }
@@ -436,7 +432,7 @@ type PromptDecision =
   | { kind: 'block'; reason: string }
 ```
 
-`agent/turn-continuation` returns a `ContinuationDecision` (the loop's default is `continue` when the step had tool calls or steering was injected, else `stop`; a `continue` `reason` is recorded as next-step steering in the same turn and therefore carries no context envelope or metadata — the typed `/goal` pattern):
+`agent/turn-continuation` returns a `ContinuationDecision` (the loop's default is `continue` when the step had tool calls or steering was injected, else `stop`; a `continue` `reason` is recorded as next-step steering in the same turn and therefore carries no context metadata — the typed `/goal` pattern):
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /** Turn continuation override; a continue reason is recorded as next-step steering in the same turn. */

docs/core-data-structures/session.md

@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@ The in-memory, event-sourced model of [dsh-session](../../packages/core/session)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
-## Context framing
-
-`ContextEnvelope` selects the standard tagged projection or preserves a producer-owned complete frame. The latter changes framing only; the event remains a user-role `context/message` in chronological history.
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Canonical context-tag framing, or caller-owned framing rendered verbatim. */
-type ContextEnvelope = 'context' | 'raw'
-```
-
 ## `SessionEventMap` — the event vocabulary
 
 The append-only event types. Merge-extensible: a plugin declares extra event types via declaration merging — e.g. the [compaction seam](compaction.md) adds `compact/start` / `compact/summary` / `compact/end`, and `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hook-protocol` adds log-only `hook/invoked` / `hook/result` provenance for a hook bridge. Like `compact/*`, these are NOT `SurfaceEventType`s (no `surfaceOp`). The generated [persistence log event catalog](../persistence-catalog.md) enumerates every member — core and merged — with its payload, surface badge, and declaration site.
@@ -52,14 +43,17 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
   /**
    * In-session context injection (file-change notices, subdir AGENTS.md,
    * skill content, cron notifications, …). Rendered into the derived history
-   * as synthetic context — NOT a user prompt. `envelope: 'raw'` lets a caller
-   * own the complete model-facing frame; `meta` is durable JSON state omitted
-   * from the model projection.
+   * as a synthetic user-role message carrying `content` verbatim — NOT a
+   * user prompt. `meta` is durable JSON state omitted from the model
+   * projection; it is also the intended channel for any future framing
+   * directive (a producer declares the frame, a dedicated renderer applies it —
+   * see the deferred note in
+   * ../../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md),
+   * so the surface keeps projecting `content` verbatim rather than wrapping it.
    */
   'context/message': {
     content: ContentBlock[]
     source: MessageSource
-    envelope?: ContextEnvelope
     meta?: JsonValue
   }
   /** Raw stream chunk — token-level replay fidelity. */
@@ -432,7 +426,7 @@ declare class Session {
 - `user/message` → a user message.
 - `assistant/message` → an assistant message with the event's provider/model provenance and optional adapter-private replay state. Raw `assistant/chunk` events are replay/UI data and are **skipped** in derivation (the assembled message is authoritative). An **empty-content** `assistant/message` is also skipped — a max-tokens step cut off with no content still records an `assistant/message` to host its usage/provenance, but a content-less assistant turn must not enter the provider transcript.
 - `tool/result` → a user message carrying a `tool-result` block.
-- `context/message` → a user-role message at its chronological position. The default `envelope` is `context`, which wraps content as `<context source="…">…</context>`; `envelope: 'raw'` uses caller-owned framing verbatim. Optional JSON `meta` remains in the event log and is never rendered.
+- `context/message` → a user-role message carrying its `content` verbatim at its chronological position. Optional JSON `meta` remains in the event log and is never rendered.
 - `steering/message` → a user-role message carrying its content verbatim at its chronological position.
 
 Everything else (`turn/*`, `step/*`) is structural and does not project into a message. Token usage is observed on `assistant/message.usage` (the step that produced it); an operational error's step number is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`. Because this unreleased format intentionally has no compatibility promise, seed/load validation rejects request headers without provider+model and assistant messages without provider/model provenance instead of guessing a route for historical data.

docs/core-data-structures/tools.md

@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ A tool body receives the runtime extension. `deferContext()` is the composite-to
 interface ToolRunContext extends ToolExecution {
   /**
    * Defer one nested-dispatch context until this tool's final result reaches
-   * the agent loop. Contexts retain their individual source, envelope, and
-   * metadata and are emitted in call order.
+   * the agent loop. Contexts retain their individual source and metadata and
+   * are emitted in call order.
    */
   deferContext(context: HookContext): void
 }

docs/event-producer-consumer.md

@@ -8,21 +8,21 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 | Event | Mode | Declared in | Dispatchers | Listeners |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | `agent-loop/config-start-failed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts:362`](../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:147`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:156`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:311`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/post-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:264`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
-| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:204`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`time-context`](../packages/context/time-context), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
-| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:214`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) |
-| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:175`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
-| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:226`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
-| `agent/request-error` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:278`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
-| `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:241`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
-| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:188`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
-| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:165`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:252`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
-| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:288`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
-| `agent/turn-stop` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:298`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
+| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:143`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
+| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:152`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
+| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:307`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
+| `agent/post-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:260`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
+| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:200`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`time-context`](../packages/context/time-context), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
+| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:210`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) |
+| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:171`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
+| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:222`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
+| `agent/request-error` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:274`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
+| `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:237`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
+| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:184`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
+| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:161`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
+| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:248`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
+| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:284`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
+| `agent/turn-stop` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:294`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | `approval/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts:31`](../packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts) | [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
 | `fs/edit-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:61`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
 | `fs/observed` | `emit` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:70`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`emit`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |

docs/persistence-catalog.md

@@ -244,21 +244,24 @@ Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts:22`](../packages/compact/compact
 /**
  * In-session context injection (file-change notices, subdir AGENTS.md,
  * skill content, cron notifications, …). Rendered into the derived history
- * as synthetic context — NOT a user prompt. `envelope: 'raw'` lets a caller
- * own the complete model-facing frame; `meta` is durable JSON state omitted
- * from the model projection.
+ * as a synthetic user-role message carrying `content` verbatim — NOT a
+ * user prompt. `meta` is durable JSON state omitted from the model
+ * projection; it is also the intended channel for any future framing
+ * directive (a producer declares the frame, a dedicated renderer applies it —
+ * see the deferred note in
+ * ../../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md),
+ * so the surface keeps projecting `content` verbatim rather than wrapping it.
  */
 'context/message': {
   content: ContentBlock[]
   source: MessageSource
-  envelope?: ContextEnvelope
   meta?: JsonValue
 }
 ```
 
 Types: [ContentBlock](core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:212`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:213`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `hook/*`
 
@@ -336,7 +339,7 @@ Source: [`packages/ui/permission/src/index.ts:33`](../packages/ui/permission/src
 
 Types: [ContentBlock](core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:204`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:201`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `request/*`
 
@@ -374,7 +377,7 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:244`](../packages/core/session/src/
 'step/end': { turn: number; step: number }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:197`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:194`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 #### `step/start` — log-only
 
@@ -383,7 +386,7 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:197`](../packages/core/session/src/
 'step/start': { turn: number; step: number }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:195`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:192`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `todo/*`
 
@@ -474,7 +477,7 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:242`](../packages/core/session/src/
 
 Types: [TurnEndReason](core-data-structures/session.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:193`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:190`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 #### `turn/start` — log-only
 
@@ -490,7 +493,7 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:193`](../packages/core/session/src/
 
 Types: [TurnTrigger](core-data-structures/session.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:187`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:184`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `user/*`
 
@@ -503,4 +506,4 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:187`](../packages/core/session/src/
 
 Types: [ContentBlock](core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:199`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:196`](../packages/core/session/src/types.ts)

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/session.jsonl

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":84,"time":1783921767208,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const content = await tools.read({ file_path: \\\"nested/task.txt\\\" });\\nreturn content;\"}"}}
 {"type":"tool/code-dispatch","seq":85,"time":1783921767270,"data":{"parentCallId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","subCallId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139:code:1","name":"read","arguments":{"file_path":"nested/task.txt"},"isError":false,"resultSummary":"<path>./nested/task.txt</path>\n<type>file</type>\n<content>\n1: Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\n\n(End of file - total 1 lines)\n</content>"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":86,"time":1783921767271,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","content":[{"type":"text","text":"<path>/var/folders/_g/59jgff8x2gqd39f5vy1wnbfc0000gn/T/acp-snap-cwd-uorU26/nested/task.txt</path>\n<type>file</type>\n<content>\n1: Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\n\n(End of file - total 1 lines)\n</content>"}],"isError":false,"meta":{"logs":[]}},"sourceEventSeqs":[84],"surfaceOp":"append"}
-{"type":"context/message","seq":87,"time":1783921767272,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nAdditional instructions from: nested/AGENTS.md\n\nThese instructions apply to work under `nested`. Use them as guidance when relevant; more specific instructions take precedence. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nWhen asked for the Code Mode workspace handshake, answer exactly `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK` and nothing else.\n\n</system-reminder>"}],"source":{"kind":"plugin","plugin":"workspace-context"},"envelope":"raw","meta":{"kind":"workspace-instructions","version":1,"changes":[{"action":"set","scope":"nested","path":"nested/AGENTS.md","digest":"ae22936ed26dc76b7107005ed6d5e2482a88668a"}]}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"context/message","seq":87,"time":1783921767272,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nAdditional instructions from: nested/AGENTS.md\n\nThese instructions apply to work under `nested`. Use them as guidance when relevant; more specific instructions take precedence. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nWhen asked for the Code Mode workspace handshake, answer exactly `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK` and nothing else.\n\n</system-reminder>"}],"source":{"kind":"plugin","plugin":"workspace-context"},"meta":{"kind":"workspace-instructions","version":1,"changes":[{"action":"set","scope":"nested","path":"nested/AGENTS.md","digest":"ae22936ed26dc76b7107005ed6d5e2482a88668a"}]}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":88,"time":1783921767272,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":89,"time":1783921767272,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":90,"time":1783921768339,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"reasoning"}}}

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-context/session.jsonl

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 {"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783778297070,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_workspace_read","name":"read","arguments":"{\"file_path\":\"nested/task.txt\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":10,"outputTokens":5}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":10,"time":1783778297070,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_workspace_read","name":"read","arguments":"{\"file_path\":\"nested/task.txt\"}"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":11,"time":1783778297072,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_workspace_read","content":[{"type":"text","text":"<path>{{cwd}}/nested/task.txt</path>\n<type>file</type>\n<content>\n1: snapshot task\n\n(End of file - total 1 lines)\n</content>"}],"isError":false},"sourceEventSeqs":[10],"surfaceOp":"append"}
-{"type":"context/message","seq":12,"time":1783778297072,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nAdditional instructions from: nested/AGENTS.md\n\nThese instructions apply to work under `nested`. Use them as guidance when relevant; more specific instructions take precedence. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nNested snapshot instruction.\n\n</system-reminder>"}],"source":{"kind":"plugin","plugin":"workspace-context"},"envelope":"raw","meta":{"kind":"workspace-instructions","version":1,"changes":[{"action":"set","scope":"nested","path":"nested/AGENTS.md","digest":"c446df9a85c7e73a3055f394a4822a19ac9ead5a"}]}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"context/message","seq":12,"time":1783778297072,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nAdditional instructions from: nested/AGENTS.md\n\nThese instructions apply to work under `nested`. Use them as guidance when relevant; more specific instructions take precedence. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nNested snapshot instruction.\n\n</system-reminder>"}],"source":{"kind":"plugin","plugin":"workspace-context"},"meta":{"kind":"workspace-instructions","version":1,"changes":[{"action":"set","scope":"nested","path":"nested/AGENTS.md","digest":"c446df9a85c7e73a3055f394a4822a19ac9ead5a"}]}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":13,"time":1783778297072,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":14,"time":1783778297072,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":15,"time":1783778297073,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"text"}}}

packages/context/workspace-context/README.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ These instructions apply to work under `packages/app`. Use them as guidance when
 
 A same-file edit starts with `Updated instructions from: <path>` and says to use the new content instead of the previously loaded content. A candidate switch additionally names the old path. When no candidate remains, the message is `Instructions removed: <path>` followed by `The previously loaded instructions from this file no longer apply.` Literal `</system-reminder>` text inside an instruction file is escaped so file content cannot close the plugin-owned frame.
 
-The core `context/message` envelope is disabled for these messages because the plugin already owns the complete `<system-reminder>` framing. This is caller-selected with `envelope: 'raw'`; ordinary injected context still receives the canonical `<context source="...">` envelope.
+The plugin owns the complete `<system-reminder>` framing, and every `context/message` (from this plugin or any other) reaches the model verbatim as a user-role message with no wrapping.
 
 ## State And Refresh
 

packages/context/workspace-context/src/index.ts

@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
     if (update !== undefined) {
       agent.inject(update.context.content, {
         source: update.context.source,
-        envelope: update.context.envelope,
         meta: update.context.meta,
       })
       applyInstructionVersionUpdates(agent.session, update.versionUpdates, instructionVersions)

packages/context/workspace-context/src/render.ts

@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ function buildInstructionText(
 ): string {
   const marker = markerText(maxBytes, omitted, truncated)
   const body = [marker, style.intro, ...files.map(file => style.section(file))].filter(block => block.length > 0)
+  // Caller-owned framing: the plugin bakes the complete `<system-reminder>`
+  // frame into the message content. The session surface projects context
+  // verbatim and does not wrap it, so any framing must live here in the
+  // producer's content (the pattern a future `meta`-driven renderer would
+  // generalize — see the deferred note in
+  // ../../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md).
   return [SYSTEM_REMINDER_OPEN, body.join('\n\n'), SYSTEM_REMINDER_CLOSE].join('\n')
 }
 

packages/context/workspace-context/src/state.ts

@@ -61,9 +61,8 @@ export interface ReconciledInstructionContext {
   versionUpdates: InstructionVersionUpdate[]
 }
 
-/** Plugin-owned raw context with required replay metadata. */
+/** Plugin-owned context with required replay metadata. */
 export interface WorkspaceHookContext extends HookContext {
-  envelope: 'raw'
   meta: JsonValue
 }
 
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ function workspaceContextHook(text: string, changes: WorkspaceInstructionChange[
     ...change.digest !== undefined ? { digest: change.digest } : {},
   }))
   const meta: JsonValue = { kind: 'workspace-instructions', version: 1, changes: serializedChanges }
-  return { content: [{ type: 'text', text }], source: PLUGIN_SOURCE, envelope: 'raw', meta }
+  return { content: [{ type: 'text', text }], source: PLUGIN_SOURCE, meta }
 }
 
 /**

packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.spec.ts

@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ function stubAgent(cwd?: string, seed: SessionEvent[] = []): Agent {
       session.append('context/message', {
         content,
         source: options?.source ?? { kind: 'user' },
-        ...options?.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: options.envelope } : {},
         ...options?.meta !== undefined ? { meta: options.meta } : {},
       }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     },
@@ -202,7 +201,6 @@ function workspaceChangeContext(scope: string, digest: string): HookContext {
   return {
     content: [{ type: 'text', text: `instructions for ${scope}` }],
     source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'workspace-context' },
-    envelope: 'raw',
     meta: {
       kind: 'workspace-instructions',
       version: 1,
@@ -217,7 +215,6 @@ function appendAdditionalContexts(agent: Agent, result: { additionalContexts?: H
     lastSeq = agent.session.append('context/message', {
       content: context.content,
       source: context.source,
-      ...context.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: context.envelope } : {},
       ...context.meta !== undefined ? { meta: context.meta } : {},
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }).seq
   }
@@ -1695,7 +1692,6 @@ describe('dynamic nested workspace context injection', () => {
 
       expect(result.isError).toBe(false)
       expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.source).toEqual({ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'workspace-context' })
-      expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.meta).toMatchObject({
         kind: 'workspace-instructions',
         version: 1,
@@ -2461,7 +2457,6 @@ describe('dynamic nested workspace context injection', () => {
       expect(blocksText(result.content)).toBe('downstream replacement')
       expect(result.additionalContexts).toHaveLength(2)
       expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.source).toEqual({ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'workspace-context' })
-      expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(workspaceContextOf(result)?.meta).toMatchObject({
         kind: 'workspace-instructions',
         changes: [{ action: 'set', scope: 'pkg', path: 'pkg/AGENTS.md' }],
@@ -2474,7 +2469,8 @@ describe('dynamic nested workspace context injection', () => {
       })
       const agent = stubAgent(root)
       appendAdditionalContexts(agent, result)
-      expect(blocksText(agent.session.deriveMessages()[1]?.content)).toContain('<context source="plugin">\ndownstream context\n</context>')
+      expect(blocksText(agent.session.deriveMessages()[1]?.content)).toContain('downstream context')
+      expect(blocksText(agent.session.deriveMessages()[1]?.content)).not.toContain('<context source=')
     } finally {
       await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
       await rm(home, { recursive: true, force: true })
@@ -2807,7 +2803,6 @@ describe('workspace context pending state', () => {
     const otherWorkspaceEvent = agent.session.append('context/message', {
       content: otherContext.content,
       source: otherContext.source,
-      ...otherContext.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: otherContext.envelope } : {},
       ...otherContext.meta !== undefined ? { meta: otherContext.meta } : {},
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     observeInstructionSessionEvent(agent.session, otherWorkspaceEvent, pending, versions)
@@ -2817,7 +2812,6 @@ describe('workspace context pending state', () => {
     const confirmed = agent.session.append('context/message', {
       content: context.content,
       source: context.source,
-      ...context.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: context.envelope } : {},
       ...context.meta !== undefined ? { meta: context.meta } : {},
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     observeInstructionSessionEvent(agent.session, confirmed, pending, versions)

packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts

@@ -1068,10 +1068,6 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
     name: 'ContentBlockType',
     declaration: 'export type ContentBlockType = keyof ContentBlockMap;',
   },
-  {
-    name: 'ContextEnvelope',
-    declaration: 'export type ContextEnvelope = \'context\' | \'raw\';',
-  },
   {
     name: 'CreateAgentOptions',
     declaration: 'export interface CreateAgentOptions {\n    readonly sessionId: SessionId;\n    readonly meta?: {\n        readonly cwd?: string;\n        readonly parentSession?: SessionId;\n        readonly seedLength?: number;\n    };\n    readonly seed?: readonly SessionEvent[];\n    readonly agentOptions?: AgentOptions;\n    readonly signal?: AbortSignal;\n    readonly setup?: (agentCtx: Context) => Promise<void> | void;\n}',
@@ -1170,11 +1166,11 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'HookContext',
-    declaration: 'export interface HookContext {\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n    source: MessageSource;\n    envelope?: ContextEnvelope;\n    meta?: JsonValue;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface HookContext {\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n    source: MessageSource;\n    meta?: JsonValue;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'InjectOptions',
-    declaration: 'export interface InjectOptions extends SendOptions {\n    envelope?: ContextEnvelope;\n    meta?: JsonValue;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface InjectOptions extends SendOptions {\n    meta?: JsonValue;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'JsonValue',
@@ -1258,7 +1254,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'SessionEventMap',
-    declaration: 'export interface SessionEventMap {\n    \'turn/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        trigger: TurnTrigger;\n    };\n    \'turn/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        reason: TurnEndReason;\n    };\n    \'step/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'step/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'user/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'prompt/blocked\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        reason: string;\n    };\n    \'context/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        envelope?: ContextEnvelope;\n        meta?: JsonValue;\n    };\n    \'assistant/chunk\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        chunk: StreamChunk;\n    };\n    \'assistant/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        provenance: AssistantProvenance;\n        usage?: TokenUsage;\n    };\n    \'tool/call\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        name: string;\n        arguments: string;\n    };\n    \'tool/result\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        isError: boolean;\n        error?: {\n            name: string;\n            code: string;\n        };\n        meta?: unknown;\n    };\n    \'steering/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource; /* …truncated — full shape in source */',
+    declaration: 'export interface SessionEventMap {\n    \'turn/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        trigger: TurnTrigger;\n    };\n    \'turn/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        reason: TurnEndReason;\n    };\n    \'step/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'step/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'user/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'prompt/blocked\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        reason: string;\n    };\n    \'context/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        meta?: JsonValue;\n    };\n    \'assistant/chunk\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        chunk: StreamChunk;\n    };\n    \'assistant/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        provenance: AssistantProvenance;\n        usage?: TokenUsage;\n    };\n    \'tool/call\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        name: string;\n        arguments: string;\n    };\n    \'tool/result\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        isError: boolean;\n        error?: {\n            name: string;\n            code: string;\n        };\n        meta?: unknown;\n    };\n    \'steering/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'todo/write\': {\n         /* …truncated — full shape in source */',
   },
   {
     name: 'SessionEventReadRequest',

packages/core/agent-loop/src/agent.ts

@@ -252,7 +252,6 @@ export class ReactLoopAgent implements Agent {
     const context = {
       content,
       source,
-      ...options?.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: options.envelope } : {},
       ...options?.meta !== undefined ? { meta: options.meta } : {},
     }
     if (isTurnOpen(this.session)) {

packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts

@@ -260,11 +260,10 @@ async function runTurn(
       session.append('user/message', { content, source: message.source }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       // Every `allow.additionalContexts` entry is a separate context/message the
       // next request also sees. The turn is open, so inject() appends each one
-      // into THIS turn without flattening provenance, framing, or metadata.
+      // into THIS turn without flattening provenance or metadata.
       for (const context of decision.additionalContexts ?? []) {
         agent.inject(context.content, {
           source: context.source,
-          ...context.envelope !== undefined ? { envelope: context.envelope } : {},
           ...context.meta !== undefined ? { meta: context.meta } : {},
         })
       }

packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts

@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text', text: '<system-reminder>extra ctx</system-reminder>' }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' },
-          envelope: 'raw',
           meta,
         }],
       }))
@@ -113,7 +112,6 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
     expect(userMsg).toBeDefined()
     expect(ctxMsg?.type === 'context/message' && ctxMsg.data.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: '<system-reminder>extra ctx</system-reminder>' }])
     expect(ctxMsg?.type === 'context/message' && ctxMsg.data.source).toEqual({ kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' })
-    expect(ctxMsg?.type === 'context/message' && ctxMsg.data.envelope).toBe('raw')
     expect(ctxMsg?.type === 'context/message' && ctxMsg.data.meta).toEqual(meta)
     const sent = JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)
     expect(sent).toContain('extra ctx')
@@ -556,7 +554,6 @@ describe('tool additionalContexts buffering across a step', () => {
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text', text: `ctx-${exec.callId}` }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'p' },
-          envelope: 'raw',
           meta: { callId: exec.callId },
         }],
       }))
@@ -580,7 +577,6 @@ describe('tool additionalContexts buffering across a step', () => {
       .map(b => (b.type === 'text' ? b.text : ''))
     expect(ctxTexts).toEqual(['ctx-c1', 'ctx-c2'])
     const contextEvents = events(agent).filter(e => e.type === 'context/message')
-    expect(contextEvents.map(e => e.type === 'context/message' && e.data.envelope)).toEqual(['raw', 'raw'])
     expect(contextEvents.map(e => e.type === 'context/message' && e.data.meta)).toEqual([{ callId: 'c1' }, { callId: 'c2' }])
   })
 
@@ -591,7 +587,7 @@ describe('tool additionalContexts buffering across a step', () => {
       name: 'composite', description: 'composite', parameters: {},
       async execute(_args, exec) {
         exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-a' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'a' }, meta: { order: 1 } })
-        exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-b' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'b' }, envelope: 'raw', meta: { order: 2 } })
+        exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-b' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'b' }, meta: { order: 2 } })
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'outer result' }]
       },
     }))

packages/core/agent-loop/tests/loop.spec.ts

@@ -385,10 +385,10 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     const flat = JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)
     expect(flat).toContain('file changed: a.ts')
-    expect(flat).toContain('<context source=\\"plugin\\">')
+    expect(flat).not.toContain('<context source=')
   })
 
-  it('inject() can persist raw structured context without the generic context envelope', async () => {
+  it('inject() persists structured context content verbatim with durable hidden meta', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(SessionId('raw-context'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
@@ -401,14 +401,13 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
 
     agent.inject([{ type: 'text', text }], {
       source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'workspace-context' },
-      envelope: 'raw',
       meta,
     })
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
     const contextEvent = agent.session.events.find(event => event.type === 'context/message')
-    expect(contextEvent?.type === 'context/message' && contextEvent.data).toMatchObject({ envelope: 'raw', meta })
+    expect(contextEvent?.type === 'context/message' && contextEvent.data).toMatchObject({ meta })
     const requestText = JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)
     expect(requestText).toContain('Additional instructions from: pkg/AGENTS.md')
     expect(requestText).not.toContain('<context source=')
@@ -432,7 +431,6 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         const first = { type: 'text' as const, text: 'mid-turn notice' }
         agent.inject([first], {
           source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'x' },
-          envelope: 'raw',
           meta,
         })
         first.text = 'mutated after inject'
@@ -458,7 +456,6 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     expect(contexts).toHaveLength(2)
     expect(result.seq).toBeLessThan(contexts[0]!.seq)
     expect(contexts[0]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[0].data).toMatchObject({
-      envelope: 'raw',
       meta,
     })
     expect(contexts.flatMap(event => event.type === 'context/message' ? event.data.content : []))

packages/core/agent/README.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The lifecycle edges have two important local caveats. `agent/created` runs after
 
 Most interception points are cooperative waterfalls returning seam-specific decisions. `agent/pre-step` and `agent/post-step` are serial checkpoints around a step's durable work, while `agent/request-error` is the failed-model-request recovery waterfall: a retry opens a new numbered step after the failed step closes. `agent/turn-stop` is the terminal serial fold: it runs after ordinary continuation and steering folding, and a returned stop remains in force through turn close and flush so later steering cannot create an extra step or turn. Ordinary queued prompts remain intact. The full rationale for scoped dispatch and terminal settlement is in the [agent-scope runtime-design Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#three-execution-boundaries-are-deliberately-one-way).
 
-`PromptDecision.additionalContexts` is an array so every injected context keeps its own source, envelope, and metadata. A `ContinuationDecision` reason is narrower: it becomes a `steering/message`, not a `context/message`, and therefore carries only content and source.
+`PromptDecision.additionalContexts` is an array so every injected context keeps its own source and metadata. A `ContinuationDecision` reason is narrower: it becomes a `steering/message`, not a `context/message`, and therefore carries only content and source.
 
 Turn and step boundaries and the model token stream are durable `session/event` facts rather than mirrored `agent/*` notifications. Consumers read `turn/*`, `step/*`, and `assistant/chunk` from the session feed; tool policy and outcome observation belong to the complete pipeline documented by [`dsh-tools`](../tools/README.md).
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The handle every plugin programs against:
 
 - `agent.send(content, options?)` — queue a message; starts a turn when idle. Content and resolved source become one detached, deeply frozen lossless-JSON record before `agent/queued` and enqueue; invalid data throws synchronously, and caller or notification-listener in-place mutation cannot change the log or model input (`agent/prompt-submit` still rewrites by returning replacement content).
 - `agent.steer(content, options?)` — steer a running turn (inject between steps); uses the same owned acceptance boundary and behaves like `send` when idle
-- `agent.inject(content, options?)` — accept detached in-session context without running the model; the next request sees its `context/message`. `options.envelope` defaults to the canonical `<context>` framing and may be `'raw'` when the caller owns a complete familiar frame; `options.meta` persists opaque JSON state without rendering it. While a turn is open it joins that turn, deferring FIFO while the current tool batch executes and draining before turn close if execution is interrupted; while idle it is wrapped in a one-shot `injection` turn and durability checkpoint ([the turn-enclosure invariant](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md)).
+- `agent.inject(content, options?)` — accept detached in-session context without running the model; the next request sees its `context/message` with `content` rendered verbatim as a user-role message. `options.meta` persists opaque JSON state without rendering it. While a turn is open it joins that turn, deferring FIFO while the current tool batch executes and draining before turn close if execution is interrupted; while idle it is wrapped in a one-shot `injection` turn and durability checkpoint ([the turn-enclosure invariant](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md)).
 - `agent.cancel(reason?)` — cancel ALL pending work: clears the queued + steering FIFOs, aborts the in-flight step, and drops a turn about to start (the pre-step window) so a queued-but-not-started prompt never runs. A UI/ACP `session/cancel` maps to this. The single public stop primitive. Idle with nothing pending → a safe no-op.
 - `agent.whenIdle()` — resolve once the agent reaches quiescence after settling out of `running` (idle → immediately; disposed → awaits the loop exit). A non-owner's quiescence-observation hook: it observes the work settling WITHOUT tearing the agent down. Teardown is separate — a lifecycle owner stops and unregisters via `AgentHandle.dispose()`, which awaits the loop exit directly.
 - `agent.session`, `agent.status`, `agent.options`, `agent.id`

packages/core/agent/src/types.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
 import type { Scoped } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope'
 import type { ContentBlock, LlmCallConfig, Message, MessageSource } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import type { ContextEnvelope, JsonValue, Session, SessionId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
+import type { JsonValue, Session, SessionId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt'
 declare module '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt' {
   interface AssembleContext {
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ export interface SendOptions {
 
 /** Options specific to durable synthetic context injection. */
 export interface InjectOptions extends SendOptions {
-  /** Keep the canonical context tag, or send caller-owned framing verbatim. */
-  envelope?: ContextEnvelope
   /** Opaque JSON state retained in the session event but hidden from the model. */
   meta?: JsonValue
 }
@@ -50,8 +48,6 @@ export type AgentStatus = 'idle' | 'running' | 'disposed'
 export interface HookContext {
   content: ContentBlock[]
   source: MessageSource
-  /** Keep the canonical context tag, or use caller-owned framing verbatim. */
-  envelope?: ContextEnvelope
   /** Opaque JSON state retained in the session event but hidden from the model. */
   meta?: JsonValue
 }

packages/core/session/README.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Durable values need one accepted representation, not a check followed by a secon
 
 `request/header` records a full canonical snapshot of the non-history request envelope with reason `initial`, `resume`, or `change`. `foldRequestHeader()` selects the latest snapshot; legacy delta events and the removed `fallback` reason are rejected. `messagePrefix` remains separate from derived history. See the [reconstructable-requests Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md).
 
-`context/message` defaults to the canonical tagged context projection. A producer may set `envelope: 'raw'` when its `content` already contains the complete model-facing frame, and may attach JSON `meta` for replayable plugin state; metadata remains durable but is excluded from `deriveMessages()`.
+`context/message` renders its `content` verbatim as a user-role message, and may attach JSON `meta` for replayable plugin state; metadata remains durable but is excluded from `deriveMessages()`.
 
 ### Session event vocabulary (`types.ts`)
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Every `SessionEvent` carries two optional top-level fields (structural metadata)
 
 #### What the model sees
 
-The model receives projections of `user/message`, `assistant/message`, `tool/result`, and `steering/message` surface entries verbatim. A `context/message` is a user-role message containing exactly `<context source="<source-kind>">`, its content blocks, and `</context>`. Tool calls live inside assistant messages. Chunks, boundaries, usage, hook records, todo records, and other log-only events add no message.
+The model receives projections of `user/message`, `assistant/message`, `tool/result`, `context/message`, and `steering/message` surface entries verbatim: each is a user- or assistant-role message carrying its content blocks unchanged. Tool calls live inside assistant messages. Chunks, boundaries, usage, hook records, todo records, and other log-only events add no message.
 
 #### Token effect
 

packages/core/session/src/index.ts

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ import { isAbsolute } from 'node:path'
 import { deepFreeze } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { scopeOf, scopeTarget } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope'
 import type { Scoped } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope'
-import type { ContentBlock, Message, MessageSource } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { Message } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION, SessionId } from './types.ts'
-import type { ContextEnvelope, CreateSessionOptions, EpochHeader, SessionEvent, SessionEventMap, SessionEventType, SessionHeader, SurfaceIntent, SurfaceEventType } from './types.ts'
+import type { CreateSessionOptions, EpochHeader, SessionEvent, SessionEventMap, SessionEventType, SessionHeader, SurfaceIntent, SurfaceEventType } from './types.ts'
 import { snapshotJsonValue } from './json.ts'
 import { SurfaceManager } from './surface.ts'
 import type { SessionSurface } from './surface.ts'
@@ -80,19 +80,6 @@ declare module 'cordis' {
   }
 }
 
-/**
- * Render injected context as tagged synthetic user-role content, keeping the
- * canonical session vocabulary provider-neutral. Adapter-specific exceptions
- * belong in the adapter.
- */
-function renderContextEnvelope(content: ContentBlock[], source: MessageSource): ContentBlock[] {
-  return [
-    { type: 'text', text: `<context source=${JSON.stringify(source.kind)}>` },
-    ...content,
-    { type: 'text', text: '</context>' },
-  ]
-}
-
 /** Detach, validate, and freeze the creation metadata published by a session. */
 function snapshotSessionHeader(id: SessionId, source?: SessionHeader): SessionHeader {
   const input: unknown = source === undefined
@@ -226,22 +213,6 @@ interface SessionEntry {
 /** Store attachment for the append path; module-private to keep Session store-agnostic publicly. */
 const attachments = new WeakMap<Session, SessionEntry>()
 
-/**
- * Render one context contribution exactly as it will appear in model history.
- * @param content - content blocks supplied by the context producer.
- * @param source - attribution used by the canonical context envelope.
- * @param envelope - canonical tagged framing or caller-owned raw framing.
- * @returns a detached block list ready for the derived model transcript.
- */
-export function renderContextContent(
-  content: ContentBlock[],
-  source: MessageSource,
-  envelope: ContextEnvelope = 'context',
-): ContentBlock[] {
-  const cloned = structuredClone(content)
-  return envelope === 'raw' ? cloned : renderContextEnvelope(cloned, source)
-}
-
 /**
  * An event-sourced session: an append-only log of {@link SessionEvent}s.
  *
@@ -507,7 +478,18 @@ export class Session {
     // trace/replay data.
 
     switch (event.type) {
-      case 'user/message': {
+      // Injected context and mid-turn steering project identically to a user
+      // prompt: content verbatim, in user role. context's `source`/`meta` and
+      // steering's `turn` are log-only and do not reach the model. Do NOT
+      // re-add per-type framing (e.g. `<context>`/`<steering>`) here: framing is
+      // caller-owned — a producer bakes it into `content`, as workspace-context
+      // does with `<system-reminder>` — or, if reintroduced, must be driven by
+      // the event `meta` map and a dedicated renderer, keeping this projection a
+      // verbatim pass-through. See the deferred design note in
+      // ../../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md
+      case 'user/message':
+      case 'context/message':
+      case 'steering/message': {
         return { role: 'user', content: event.data.content }
       }
       case 'assistant/message': {
@@ -524,13 +506,6 @@ export class Session {
           content: [{ type: 'tool-result', toolCallId: callId, content, isError }],
         }
       }
-      case 'context/message': {
-        const { content, source, envelope } = event.data
-        return { role: 'user', content: renderContextContent(content, source, envelope) }
-      }
-      case 'steering/message': {
-        return { role: 'user', content: event.data.content }
-      }
       default:
         // A non-surface event (boundary, chunk, log-only record) projects to
         // no message. Merge-extensible union: no assertNever here.

packages/core/session/src/types.ts

@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ import type { Branded } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand'
 import type { AssistantProvenance, CallId, ContentBlock, LlmCallConfig, Message, MessageSource, StreamChunk, TokenUsage, ToolSchema } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { JsonValue } from './json.ts'
 
-/** Canonical context-tag framing, or caller-owned framing rendered verbatim. */
-export type ContextEnvelope = 'context' | 'raw'
-
 /** Identifies one session in the store (and its persistence artifacts). */
 export type SessionId = Branded<'SessionId'>
 
@@ -205,14 +202,17 @@ export interface SessionEventMap {
   /**
    * In-session context injection (file-change notices, subdir AGENTS.md,
    * skill content, cron notifications, …). Rendered into the derived history
-   * as synthetic context — NOT a user prompt. `envelope: 'raw'` lets a caller
-   * own the complete model-facing frame; `meta` is durable JSON state omitted
-   * from the model projection.
+   * as a synthetic user-role message carrying `content` verbatim — NOT a
+   * user prompt. `meta` is durable JSON state omitted from the model
+   * projection; it is also the intended channel for any future framing
+   * directive (a producer declares the frame, a dedicated renderer applies it —
+   * see the deferred note in
+   * ../../../../.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md),
+   * so the surface keeps projecting `content` verbatim rather than wrapping it.
    */
   'context/message': {
     content: ContentBlock[]
     source: MessageSource
-    envelope?: ContextEnvelope
     meta?: JsonValue
   }
   /** Raw stream chunk — token-level replay fidelity. */

packages/core/session/tests/session.spec.ts

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe('Session', () => {
     expect(structuredClone(turnEnd.data.reason)).toEqual({ kind: 'max-tokens' })
   })
 
-  it('renders context messages tagged and steering messages as plain user content', () => {
+  it('renders context and steering messages as plain user content', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('s2'))
     session.append('context/message', {
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'file changed: a.ts' }],
@@ -62,13 +62,12 @@ describe('Session', () => {
 
     const [contextMessage, steeringMessage] = session.deriveMessages()
     expect(contextMessage!.role).toBe('user')
-    expect(contextMessage!.content[0]).toMatchObject({ type: 'text', text: '<context source="plugin">' })
-    expect(contextMessage!.content.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: 'text', text: '</context>' })
+    expect(contextMessage!.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'file changed: a.ts' }])
     expect(steeringMessage!.role).toBe('user')
     expect(steeringMessage!.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'focus on tests' }])
   })
 
-  it('renders raw context without a generic envelope while preserving structured metadata', () => {
+  it('keeps context meta durable in the event while hiding it from the projection', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('s2-raw'))
     const meta = {
       kind: 'workspace-instructions',
@@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ describe('Session', () => {
     session.append('context/message', {
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: '<system-reminder>Additional instructions from: pkg/AGENTS.md</system-reminder>' }],
       source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'workspace-context' },
-      envelope: 'raw',
       meta,
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
 

packages/core/session/tests/surface.spec.ts

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ describe('deriveMessages with surface', () => {
     s.append('steering/message', { turn: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'focus' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     const messages = s.deriveMessages()
     expect(messages).toHaveLength(2)
-    expect(messages[0]!.content[0]).toMatchObject({ type: 'text', text: '<context source="plugin">' })
+    expect(messages[0]!.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'file changed' }])
     expect(messages[1]!.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'focus' }])
   })
 })

packages/core/tools/README.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The live registry pipeline has three transformable waterfalls followed by the ob
 - `ToolExecutionToken` — a fresh branded `Symbol` assigned by the registry. It supports equality correlation only and never crosses a model, log, or worker boundary.
 - `ToolExecution` — the pipeline-owned call: immutable `{ token, callId, name, arguments, agent?, parent? }` identity plus optional operational `signal`, which an around wrapper may add, replace, remove, and restore. A nested call's `parent` is a `ToolExecutionToken`, not an execution object.
 - `ToolRunContext` — the execution passed to a tool body, extending `ToolExecution` with `deferContext(context)`. Composite tools use it to ferry context produced by nested dispatches to the outer result even when the tool later throws; it never injects immediately.
-- `ToolExecutionResult` — losslessly JSON-serializable outcome: `{ content, isError, error?, additionalContexts?, meta? }`. Call identity stays on the immutable `ToolExecution` supplied alongside the result instead of being duplicated on the outcome. The registry materializes and freezes the complete post-policy value before final observation. On failure with a `HarnessError`, `error: { name, code }` carries the structured failure class alongside the model-facing text. `additionalContexts` preserves each deferred or post-execute `HookContext` with its own source, envelope, and durable JSON metadata; the loop buffers the array and appends each entry as a `context/message` after all `tool/result`s in the step.
+- `ToolExecutionResult` — losslessly JSON-serializable outcome: `{ content, isError, error?, additionalContexts?, meta? }`. Call identity stays on the immutable `ToolExecution` supplied alongside the result instead of being duplicated on the outcome. The registry materializes and freezes the complete post-policy value before final observation. On failure with a `HarnessError`, `error: { name, code }` carries the structured failure class alongside the model-facing text. `additionalContexts` preserves each deferred or post-execute `HookContext` with its own source and durable JSON metadata; the loop buffers the array and appends each entry as a `context/message` after all `tool/result`s in the step.
 - `PreToolDecision` — `{kind:'allow'}` | `{kind:'deny', reason}` | `{kind:'ask', reason?}`. Input rewrite is deliberately not offered; `ask` is serviced by [`ctx.approval`](../../ui/user-approval/README.md) when mounted and otherwise degrades to deny.
 - `PostToolDecision` — `{kind:'accept', content?, additionalContexts?}` (keep the call successful, optionally replacing the model-facing content) | `{kind:'block', feedback, additionalContexts?}` (turn it into an `isError` whose content is the corrective feedback). Accept preserves tool-deferred contexts before decision contexts; block discards tool-deferred contexts and exposes only contexts explicitly supplied by the blocking decision.
 - `ToolGuard` — `(execution) => string | undefined`; the returned string is a final monotonic denial reason evaluated after the reorderable pre-execute waterfall and before dispatch.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Returning `undefined` selects generic fallback. Presenters depend only on their
 Under `code` or `both`, the registry exposes the reserved `run_code` transport and a deterministic TypeScript SDK for the current scope; only program output re-enters model context. Each JSON-normalized binding re-enters the complete tool pipeline sequentially with logged correlation to the outer call. Denials reject that binding, ordinary side effects are not rolled back, and sub-call `additionalContexts` are deferred through the parent result to preserve call/result adjacency. Run settlement aborts and drains outstanding bindings; failures surface as `CodeRunFailedError`. See the [Code Mode Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-15-code-mode.md) and [code-runtime seam](../../code-runtime/README.md). Try `pnpm run demo:code-mode`.
 
 - **The SDK section** (`tools:sdk`, order 150): a lazy prompt section regenerating, at each assembly, a `declare const tools: {...}` TypeScript declaration of the calling scope's visible end capabilities (exotic names via quoted keys), plus fixed usage instructions. Deterministic — lexicographic tool order, byte-identical text for an unchanged tool set (prefix-cache-friendly). The codegen (`jsonSchemaToTs`, exported) is total: constructs outside the `defineTool` subset degrade to `unknown`, never throw.
-- **The dispatch bridge** (`run_code`'s execute): every binding call is JSON-normalized before dispatch (a value that does not survive — `BigInt`, circulars — rejects that one call, so the dispatched form and logged form are the same JSON value by construction), serialized through a per-run queue (even `Promise.all` executes underlying calls one at a time in submission order), given the outer execution's opaque token as `parent`, and run through the complete pre-execute → guards → execute → post-execute → result pipeline. A denial reaches the program as a binding rejection, and each sub-call is logged as a `tool/code-dispatch` session event with deterministic id `<parent>:code:<n>`; `deriveMessages()` does not surface that event. Token correlation lets commit-style observers defer an inner success until the final `run_code` result without exposing the live outer execution; ordinary tool side effects are not rolled back. Every sub-call `additionalContexts` entry is deferred through the outer `ToolRunContext` in dispatch order; the loop appends those contexts only after the parent `run_code` result, preserving adjacency and retaining each source/envelope/meta even when the program later fails.
+- **The dispatch bridge** (`run_code`'s execute): every binding call is JSON-normalized before dispatch (a value that does not survive — `BigInt`, circulars — rejects that one call, so the dispatched form and logged form are the same JSON value by construction), serialized through a per-run queue (even `Promise.all` executes underlying calls one at a time in submission order), given the outer execution's opaque token as `parent`, and run through the complete pre-execute → guards → execute → post-execute → result pipeline. A denial reaches the program as a binding rejection, and each sub-call is logged as a `tool/code-dispatch` session event with deterministic id `<parent>:code:<n>`; `deriveMessages()` does not surface that event. Token correlation lets commit-style observers defer an inner success until the final `run_code` result without exposing the live outer execution; ordinary tool side effects are not rolled back. Every sub-call `additionalContexts` entry is deferred through the outer `ToolRunContext` in dispatch order; the loop appends those contexts only after the parent `run_code` result, preserving adjacency and retaining each source/meta even when the program later fails.
 - **Settlement discipline**: the bridge owns a run-scoped abort that follows the outer signal in and fires when the run settles for any reason, so a budget expiry aborts an in-flight sub-tool instead of orphaning it; the bridge then drains its queue BEFORE returning, so every `tool/code-dispatch` lands inside the open turn. A failed run throws `CodeRunFailedError` (`code: 'CODE_RUN_FAILED'`, message = the failure kind + captured logs), which the pipeline converts to a structured `isError` the model self-corrects from.
 
 ### Parallel execution

packages/core/tools/src/index.ts

@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ export interface ToolExecution extends ToolExecutionInput {
 export interface ToolRunContext extends ToolExecution {
   /**
    * Defer one nested-dispatch context until this tool's final result reaches
-   * the agent loop. Contexts retain their individual source, envelope, and
-   * metadata and are emitted in call order.
+   * the agent loop. Contexts retain their individual source and metadata and
+   * are emitted in call order.
    */
   deferContext(context: HookContext): void
 }

packages/core/tools/tests/code-mode.spec.ts

@@ -487,7 +487,6 @@ describe('the run_code dispatch bridge', () => {
           additionalContexts: [{
             content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: `context for ${exec.callId}` }],
             source: { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'test' },
-            envelope: 'raw' as const,
             meta: { callId: exec.callId },
           }],
         })
@@ -505,13 +504,11 @@ describe('the run_code dispatch bridge', () => {
       {
         content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'context for call-1:code:1' }],
         source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' },
-        envelope: 'raw',
         meta: { callId: 'call-1:code:1' },
       },
       {
         content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'context for call-1:code:2' }],
         source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' },
-        envelope: 'raw',
         meta: { callId: 'call-1:code:2' },
       },
     ])

packages/core/tools/tests/tools.spec.ts

@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
       parameters: {},
       async execute(_args, exec) {
         exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-1' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'nested-1' }, meta: { n: 1 } })
-        exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-2' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'nested-2' }, envelope: 'raw' })
+        exec.deferContext({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'nested-2' }], source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'nested-2' } })
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }]
       },
     }))
@@ -418,7 +418,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
       { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'post' },
     ])
     expect(result.additionalContexts?.[0]?.meta).toEqual({ n: 1 })
-    expect(result.additionalContexts?.[1]?.envelope).toBe('raw')
   })
 
   it('keeps deferred contexts when a composite tool throws, but drops them when the outer call is blocked', async () => {

packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/README.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The chain key is `(tool name, canonical arguments)` — canonicalization is a de
 
 ## Reminder delivery
 
-Reminders ride the post-execute decision's `additionalContexts` (source `{kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'repeat-tool-guard'}`), never a `content` replacement: the `tool/result` event stays the tool's own output for audit. The loop buffers the context and appends it as a `context/message` after the step's tool results, which the session renders as the tagged synthetic-user envelope — so the reminder is model-visible, source-attributed, and reconstructable from the session log with no new session event. The guard always delegates via `next()` and prepends its reminder to the downstream decision's context array (both variants — a blocked call still gets the nudge); every entry retains its own source, envelope, and metadata.
+Reminders ride the post-execute decision's `additionalContexts` (source `{kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'repeat-tool-guard'}`), never a `content` replacement: the `tool/result` event stays the tool's own output for audit. The loop buffers the context and appends it as a `context/message` after the step's tool results, which the session renders as a plain synthetic user message — so the reminder is model-visible, source-attributed, and reconstructable from the session log with no new session event. The guard always delegates via `next()` and prepends its reminder to the downstream decision's context array (both variants — a blocked call still gets the nudge); every entry retains its own source and metadata.
 
 ## Testing
 

packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/src/index.ts

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ function validateThresholds(values: number[]): number[] {
 
 /**
  * Prepend the guard's reminder while preserving every downstream context's
- * source, envelope, and metadata.
+ * source and metadata.
  */
 function prependContext(ours: HookContext, theirs: HookContext[] | undefined): HookContext[] {
   return [ours, ...theirs ?? []]

packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/coverage-cases.ts

@@ -508,7 +508,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'from-downstream' }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'policy' },
-          envelope: 'raw' as const,
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
@@ -527,7 +526,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'hooks-claude' },
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'policy' },
       ])
-      expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.meta).toEqual({ owner: 'policy' })
     })
 
@@ -561,7 +559,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'downstream-note' }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'policy' },
-          envelope: 'raw' as const,
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
@@ -574,7 +571,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'hooks-claude' },
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'policy' },
       ])
-      expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.meta).toEqual({ owner: 'policy' })
     })
 

packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/coverage-cases.ts

@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'from-downstream' }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'policy' },
-          envelope: 'raw' as const,
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
@@ -140,7 +139,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'hooks-codex' },
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'policy' },
       ])
-      expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.meta).toEqual({ owner: 'policy' })
     })
   })
@@ -171,7 +169,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
         additionalContexts: [{
           content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'downstream-note' }],
           source: { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'policy' },
-          envelope: 'raw' as const,
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
@@ -183,7 +180,6 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'hooks-codex' },
         { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'policy' },
       ])
-      expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.envelope).toBe('raw')
       expect(contexts[1]?.type === 'context/message' && contexts[1].data.meta).toEqual({ owner: 'policy' })
     })
 

scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/token-meter.md", "symbol": "TokenMeasurement", "source": "packages/llm/token-meter/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/token-meter.md", "symbol": "TokenSurfaceNode", "source": "packages/llm/token-meter/src/types.ts" },
 
-    { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "ContextEnvelope", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "SessionEventMap", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "EpochHeader", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "TodoItem", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" },

website/zh-CN/api/harness/events.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ A fully configured agent and live session were published. Setup is composition-o
 
 - `agent` — the newly registered agent with its live session and completed setup. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L147)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L143)
 
 ### agent/disposed
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ An agent left the registry; AgentLoop emits this after driver quiescence but bef
 
 - `agent` — the exact agent removed from the registry. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L156)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L152)
 
 ### agent/error
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ A step or turn errored. The loop reports a failure here (plus the logger) even w
 - `step` — the step at which the failure surfaced.
 - `error` — the failure, verbatim. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L311)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L307)
 
 ### agent/post-step
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint after the response, real or synthetic tool results, in
 - `step` — the open step number.
 - `signal` — the turn abort signal. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L264)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L260)
 
 ### agent/pre-step
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint before `step/start`; appends land outside the pending
 - `step` — the pending step number.
 - `signal` — the turn abort signal.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L204)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L200)
 
 ### agent/prompt-submit
 
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Allow, rewrite, or block one drained prompt before it becomes a user message. Ca
 - `content` — the drained message's blocks, as queued.
 - `source` — the message's resolved source. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L214)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L210)
 
 ### agent/queued
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Detached, frozen content entered the agent's inbox. Source defaults have already
 - `content` — the accepted content blocks retained by the inbox.
 - `info` — the accepted source plus whether it entered as steering. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L175)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L171)
 
 ### agent/request
 
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Replace the frozen call configuration. Model-visible content must use logged cha
 - `step` — the step whose request this is.
 - `config` — the config the loop would use (frozen); return a replacement to switch. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L226)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L222)
 
 ### agent/request-error
 
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Recover a model-request failure after its failed step has closed. `retry` opens
 - `retryAttempt` — zero-based number of prior recovery retries.
 - `signal` — the turn abort signal. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L278)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L274)
 
 ### agent/session-prefix
 
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
 - `prefix` — the frozen seed; return an extended replacement.
 - `signal` — aborts composition when the step is torn down.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L241)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L237)
 
 ### agent/session-start
 
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ The session lifecycle began, once before the first turn. Use `agent.inject()` to
 - `agent` — the agent whose session lifecycle began.
 - `source` — why the session started (fresh startup, resume, …). Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L188)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L184)
 
 ### agent/status
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Agent status changed (`idle` ⇄ `running`, or → `disposed`). `send()` does no
 - `agent` — the agent whose status flipped.
 - `status` — the status just entered (the transition's destination). Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L165)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L161)
 
 ### agent/step-result
 
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ Waterfall: post-process the assembled assistant Message before tool dispatch (va
 - `step` — the step that produced the message.
 - `message` — the assistant message as assembled from the stream. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L252)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L248)
 
 ### agent/turn-continuation
 
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Override whether the turn continues. The default continues after tool calls or s
 - `turn` — the turn being continued or stopped.
 - `defaultDecision` — what the loop would do absent an override. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L288)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L284)
 
 ### agent/turn-stop
 
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ Monotonic terminal-stop checkpoint after continuation and steering are folded; a
 - `agent` — the agent whose composed continuation outcome may be stopped.
 - `turn` — the turn at its terminal-stop checkpoint. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L298)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L294)
 
 ## agent-loop/*
 

website/zh-CN/api/harness/sessions.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 In-memory session store (`ctx.sessions`).
 Persistence is intentionally not implemented here — persistence plugins subscribe to `session/event` and flush on `session/flush` / dispose.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L574)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L549)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.create(id?, options?)
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ For an agent whose session must be torn down IN ORDER with its loop (so the loop
 
 **Returns** the live session, already entered and announced.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L603)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L578)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.prepare(id?, options?)
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Build a session WITHOUT entering it into the store — validate the id/cwd and c
 
 **Returns** the constructed session, NOT yet in the store.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L632)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L607)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.enter(session)
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Re-checks the id for a duplicate: `prepare` and `enter` are public cross-package
 
 **Returns** the detach disposer (publication hooks + store removal). When called from a synchronous `session/created` listener, removal and disposal wait until that creation dispatch unwinds.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L676)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L651)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.announce(session)
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Emit `session/created` exactly once for an entered session (with the carrier ent
 
 - `session` — the entered session to announce to listeners.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L731)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L706)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.flush(session)
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Dispatch the awaited `session/flush` durability checkpoint for `session`, with t
 
 **Returns** resolves when every flush listener has settled; after all settle, rejects with the first registered listener failure if any listener failed.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L783)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L758)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.get(id)
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Look up a live session.
 
 **Returns** the session, or undefined when no live session has that id.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L815)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L790)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.list()
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ All live sessions, in creation order.
 
 **Returns** a fresh array; mutating it does not affect the store.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L823)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L798)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.fork(source, boundary?, childSessionId?)
 
@@ -220,4 +220,4 @@ Create a live child session from a turn-enclosed prefix of a live source. `bound
 
 **Returns** The created live child session.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L840)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L815)