deepseek-harness/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts

/**
 * Concrete agent-loop plugin: creates scoped ReactLoopAgents, publishes them
 * through the agent/session registries, and owns their ordered teardown.
 *
 * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop
 */

import { Context, FiberState, Service } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto'
import z from '@deepseek-ai/schemastery'
import { emitAgentEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
import type {
  Agent,
  AgentFactory,
  AgentHandle,
  AgentOptions,
  AgentSetup,
  CreateAgentOptions,
  ResumeAgentOptions,
  SessionStartSource,
} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
import { errorChain, ReasoningEffortId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
import { installSettingsSection, settingsNamespace } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-settings'
import { SessionId, SessionPreparation } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
import type { Session, SessionHeader } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt'
import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
import type { SessionPersistence } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence'
import { ReactLoopAgent } from './agent.ts'
import { DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS } from './constants.ts'

/** Fiber states that cannot own or serve a new lifecycle. */
const INACTIVE_STATES: ReadonlySet<FiberState> = new Set([
  FiberState.UNLOADING,
  FiberState.DISPOSED,
  FiberState.FAILED,
])

/** Factory-level ownership: live agent teardowns plus config startup work. */
class FactoryOwnership {
  private accepting = true
  private readonly teardown = new AbortController()
  private readonly inactive = Promise.withResolvers<void>()
  private readonly liveAgents = new Set<() => Promise<void>>()
  private startupTasks = new Set<Promise<void>>()

  constructor(private readonly fiber: Context['fiber']) {}

  /** Aborts (reason: `agent loop is not active` error) when factory teardown begins. */
  get signal(): AbortSignal {
    return this.teardown.signal
  }

  isActive(): boolean {
    return this.accepting && !INACTIVE_STATES.has(this.fiber.state)
  }

  /** Track one live agent's shared teardown until it has run. */
  track(dispose: () => Promise<void>): () => void {
    this.liveAgents.add(dispose)
    return () => { this.liveAgents.delete(dispose) }
  }

  /** Join config startup work that begins before an agent exists. */
  trackStartup(job: Promise<void>): void {
    this.startupTasks.add(job)
    const forget = () => { this.startupTasks.delete(job) }
    void job.then(forget, forget)
  }

  /** Join one public create/resume continuation; factory dispose awaits its settlement. */
  trackWrapper(job: Promise<unknown>): void {
    this.trackStartup(job.then(() => undefined, () => undefined))
  }

  /** Resolve `task`, or stop waiting when factory teardown begins. */
  async waitWhileActive(job: Promise<void>): Promise<void> {
    await Promise.race([job, this.inactive.promise])
  }

  async dispose(): Promise<void> {
    this.accepting = false
    this.teardown.abort(new Error('agent loop is not active'))
    this.inactive.resolve()
    await Promise.all([
      ...[...this.liveAgents].map(dispose => dispose()),
      ...this.startupTasks,
    ])
  }
}

/** Await `operation`, or throw the signal's reason as soon as it aborts. */
async function raceAbort<T>(operation: PromiseLike<T> | T, signal: AbortSignal, id: SessionId): Promise<T> {
  const toAbortError = (): Error => signal.reason instanceof Error
    ? signal.reason
    : new Error(`agent "${id}" creation aborted`, { cause: signal.reason })
  if (signal.aborted) throw toAbortError()
  const aborted = Promise.withResolvers<never>()
  const listener = (): void => { aborted.reject(toAbortError()) }
  signal.addEventListener('abort', listener, { once: true })
  try {
    return await Promise.race([Promise.resolve(operation), aborted.promise])
  } finally {
    signal.removeEventListener('abort', listener)
  }
}

/** Start an abortable operation and release a value that arrives after cancellation. */
async function raceAbortCall<T>(
  operation: () => PromiseLike<T> | T,
  signal: AbortSignal,
  id: SessionId,
  releaseAbandoned?: (value: T) => void,
): Promise<T> {
  if (signal.aborted) {
    throw signal.reason instanceof Error
      ? signal.reason
      : new Error(`agent "${id}" creation aborted`, { cause: signal.reason })
  }
  const pending = Promise.resolve().then(operation)
  try {
    return await raceAbort(pending, signal, id)
  } catch (error: unknown) {
    // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/no-unnecessary-condition -- the signal can abort while the operation is awaited.
    if (signal.aborted && releaseAbandoned !== undefined) {
      void pending.then(releaseAbandoned, () => undefined)
    }
    throw error
  }
}

/** Resolve the deployment-wide scheduler cap at the owning config boundary. */
function resolveMaxParallelToolCalls(value: number | undefined): number {
  const maxParallelToolCalls = value ?? DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS
  if (!Number.isInteger(maxParallelToolCalls) || maxParallelToolCalls < 1) {
    throw new Error('maxParallelToolCalls must be a positive integer')
  }
  return maxParallelToolCalls
}

/** Reject an output-token cap that cannot be represented exactly on the request wire. */
function assertAgentOptions(options: AgentOptions): void {
  if (options.maxTokens !== undefined
    && (!Number.isSafeInteger(options.maxTokens) || options.maxTokens <= 0)) {
    throw new TypeError('agent maxTokens must be a positive safe integer')
  }
}

/** Prepared-but-unpublished agent resources sharing one memoized teardown. */
interface PreparedAgent {
  agent: ReactLoopAgent
  /** Aborts when the factory unloads, the caller cancels, or teardown begins — ends any setup await. */
  signal: AbortSignal
  /** Enter registries, announce, notify session-start, and start the machine. */
  publish(source: SessionStartSource): AgentHandle
  /** Reverse teardown: stop the machine, unregister, unwind the scope. Memoized. */
  dispose(): Promise<void>
}

declare module '@deepseek-ai/cordis' {
  interface Context {
    agentLoop: AgentLoop
    /**
     * Launcher-owned exact session identities for configured agents, keyed by
     * the agent's config `id` and set with `ctx.provide()` before any Loader
     * entry mounts (see {@link CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY}). A launcher
     * owns identity because only it knows whether the session already exists,
     * while the `cordis.yml` row keeps the model route as ordinary patchable
     * config. An entry with no matching key keeps its configured identity.
     */
    configuredAgentIdentities?: ConfiguredAgentIdentities
  }
  interface Events {
    /**
     * A declarative agent entry failed before it could publish a live agent.
     * Consumers that buffer work for the configured identity use this
     * transient signal to reject that work instead of waiting forever. Normal
     * factory teardown suppresses failures from the cancelled startup attempt.
     * @param payload.sessionId - exact shared agent/session identity that failed startup.
     * @param payload.error - persistence, setup, or publication failure.
     * @mode emit
     */
    'agent-loop/config-start-failed'(payload: { sessionId: SessionId; error: unknown }): void
  }
}

export { DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS }

/**
 * One launcher-selected session identity for a configured agent. `resume`
 * distinguishes rehydrating existing persisted history from creating the
 * session fresh under that exact id, which the two config keys express as
 * `resumeSessionId` and `sessionId`.
 */
export interface LauncherAgentIdentity {
  /** Exact session id to create fresh or resume. */
  id: SessionId
  /** Resume existing persisted history instead of creating the session fresh. */
  resume: boolean
}

/** Launcher-selected identities keyed by the configured agent's `id`. */
export interface ConfiguredAgentIdentities extends Readonly<Record<string, LauncherAgentIdentity>> {}

/**
 * Context key a launcher sets before any Loader entry mounts
 * (`ctx.provide(CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY, identities)`) to fix
 * configured agents' session identities without a config key, so an overlay
 * repointing the row's model route cannot drop them.
 */
export const CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY = 'configuredAgentIdentities'

/**
 * Apply launcher-owned identities over the configured agents, replacing both
 * identity keys for every entry the launcher named so a config-supplied
 * identity can never survive alongside a launcher-supplied one.
 * @param agents - the configured agent entries.
 * @param identities - launcher identities keyed by configured agent `id`, or `undefined`.
 * @returns the entries with launcher-owned identities applied.
 */
function applyLauncherIdentities(
  agents: Config['agents'],
  identities: ConfiguredAgentIdentities | undefined,
): Config['agents'] {
  if (identities === undefined) return agents
  return agents.map((agent) => {
    const identity = identities[agent.id]
    if (identity === undefined) return agent
    const { sessionId: _sessionId, resumeSessionId: _resumeSessionId, ...rest } = agent
    return identity.resume
      ? { ...rest, resumeSessionId: identity.id }
      : { ...rest, sessionId: identity.id }
  })
}

/** Settings namespace carrying the tool-call parallelism a user owns. */
export const AGENT_LOOP_SETTINGS_NAMESPACE = settingsNamespace('agent-loop')

/**
 * The agent-loop fields a user owns. Deliberately a strict subset of
 * {@link Config}: `agents` is a boot-time composition array consumed once when
 * the service starts, so a stored change could only look like it had an effect.
 */
export interface AgentLoopSettings {
  /** Maximum parallel-safe calls in flight per agent step. */
  maxParallelToolCalls: number
}

/** Schema of the agent-loop settings section. */
export const AGENT_LOOP_SETTINGS_SCHEMA: z<AgentLoopSettings> = z.object({
  maxParallelToolCalls: z.number().step(1).min(1).default(DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS),
})

/** Agent-loop plugin configuration. */
export interface Config {
  /**
   * Maximum parallel-safe calls in flight per agent step. `1` is serial;
   * omission defaults to {@link DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS}.
   */
  maxParallelToolCalls?: number
  /** Agents created or resumed at plugin startup. */
  agents: (AgentOptions & {
    /** Stable config label used in logs and as the fresh combined-id prefix. */
    id: string
    /** Optional stable identity; remounts resume its materialized history, while first use creates it fresh. */
    sessionId?: SessionId
    /** Optional workspace for a fresh session. */
    cwd?: string
    /** Persisted session to resume instead of creating a fresh session. */
    resumeSessionId?: SessionId
  })[]
}

/** Agent-loop configuration after defaults and load-time validation. */
type ResolvedConfig = Config & { maxParallelToolCalls: number }

/** Reject self-contained identity conflicts before any configured agent starts. */
function validateConfiguredAgents(agents: Config['agents']): void {
  const exactIdentities = new Map<SessionId, string>()
  for (const { id, sessionId, resumeSessionId } of agents) {
    const hasResumeId = resumeSessionId !== undefined && resumeSessionId !== ''
    if (sessionId !== undefined && hasResumeId) {
      throw new Error(`agent "${id}": sessionId and resumeSessionId are mutually exclusive`)
    }
    const exactIdentity = hasResumeId ? resumeSessionId : sessionId
    if (exactIdentity === undefined) continue
    const firstId = exactIdentities.get(exactIdentity)
    if (firstId !== undefined) {
      throw new Error(`agents "${firstId}" and "${id}" use duplicate exact session identity "${exactIdentity}"`)
    }
    exactIdentities.set(exactIdentity, id)
  }
}

/** Concrete agent factory and driver service. */
export class AgentLoop extends Service implements AgentFactory {
  static inject = ['agents', 'sessions', 'llm', 'tools', 'systemPrompt']

  /** Runtime schema for declarative agents. */
  static Config = z.object({
    maxParallelToolCalls: z.number().step(1).min(1).default(DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS),
    agents: z.array(z.object({
      id: z.string().required(),
      sessionId: z.string().min(1),
      provider: z.string(),
      model: z.string(),
      reasoningEffort: z.string().min(1) as z<ReturnType<typeof ReasoningEffortId>>,
      maxTokens: z.number().step(1).min(1).max(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER),
      cwd: z.string(),
      resumeSessionId: z.string(),
    })).default([]),
  }) as z<Config>

  /** Validated configuration owned by the agent-loop service. */
  readonly config: ResolvedConfig
  private readonly ownership: FactoryOwnership
  /** Plain holder prevents Cordis from re-tracing the factory's dependency context through a caller shadow. */
  private readonly runtime: { ctx: Context }

  constructor(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
    super(ctx, 'agentLoop')
    const entry: AgentLoopSettings = {
      maxParallelToolCalls: resolveMaxParallelToolCalls(config.maxParallelToolCalls),
    }
    let source: () => AgentLoopSettings = () => entry
    this.config = {
      ...config,
      agents: applyLauncherIdentities(config.agents, ctx.get(CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY)),
      // Read through on every scheduler decision: `tool-calls.ts` destructures
      // this at the start of each group, so a committed change caps the next
      // group without disturbing the one in flight.
      get maxParallelToolCalls() {
        return source().maxParallelToolCalls
      },
    }
    installSettingsSection(ctx, AGENT_LOOP_SETTINGS_NAMESPACE, AGENT_LOOP_SETTINGS_SCHEMA, entry, {
      // The schema admits any integer above zero; `resolveMaxParallelToolCalls`
      // owns the whole rule, so refusing here keeps the running scheduler on
      // its last good cap instead of failing at the next tool group.
      validate: value => void resolveMaxParallelToolCalls(value.maxParallelToolCalls),
      setSource: (current) => {
        source = current
      },
      // Nothing is derived from the cap: the getter above is the only reader.
      onChange: () => {},
    })
    validateConfiguredAgents(this.config.agents)
    this.ownership = new FactoryOwnership(ctx.fiber)
    this.runtime = { ctx }
    ctx.effect(() => () => this.ownership.dispose(), 'agentLoop.transactions()')
    ctx.effect(() => ctx.agents.setFactory(this), 'agentLoop.setFactory()')
    ctx.systemPrompt.variable('provider', context => context.agent?.options.provider)
    ctx.systemPrompt.variable('model', context => context.agent?.options.model)
    ctx.systemPrompt.variable('cwd', context => context.agent?.session.header.cwd)

    for (const { id, sessionId, cwd, resumeSessionId, ...options } of this.config.agents) {
      const meta = cwd === undefined ? {} : { cwd }
      if (resumeSessionId === undefined || resumeSessionId === '') {
        const configuredId = sessionId ?? SessionId(`${id}-session-${randomUUID()}`)
        const persistence = sessionId === undefined ? undefined : ctx.get('sessionPersistence')
        if (persistence === undefined) {
          this.create(configuredId, options, meta)
        } else {
          const startup = this.restoreOrCreateConfigured(ctx, persistence, configuredId, options, meta).catch((error: unknown) => {
            this.reportConfiguredStartupFailure(id, 'restore', configuredId, error)
          })
          this.ownership.trackStartup(startup)
        }
        continue
      }
      ctx.effect(() => {
        const fiber = ctx.inject(['sessionPersistence'], (childCtx: Context) => {
          void this.resumeWith(ctx, childCtx.sessionPersistence, {
            resumeSessionId,
            agentOptions: options,
          }).catch((error: unknown) => {
            this.reportConfiguredStartupFailure(id, 'resume', resumeSessionId, error)
          })
        })
        return fiber.dispose
      }, `agentLoop.resume(${id})`)
    }
  }

  /** Report a contained declarative-start failure to identity-bound consumers. */
  private reportConfiguredStartupFailure(
    configId: string,
    action: 'restore' | 'resume',
    sessionId: SessionId,
    error: unknown,
  ): void {
    if (!this.ownership.isActive()) return
    this.ctx.logger.warn(`agent "${configId}": config-driven ${action} of "${sessionId}" failed: ${errorChain(error)}`)
    const args: unknown[] = ['agent-loop/config-start-failed', { sessionId, error }]
    for (const callback of this.ctx.events.dispatch('emit', args)) {
      try {
        const returned: unknown = callback(...args)
        void Promise.resolve(returned).catch((listenerError: unknown) => {
          this.ctx.logger.warn(`agent "${configId}": config-start-failed listener rejected: ${errorChain(listenerError)}`)
        })
      } catch (listenerError: unknown) {
        this.ctx.logger.warn(`agent "${configId}": config-start-failed listener threw: ${errorChain(listenerError)}`)
      }
    }
  }

  /** Restore a materialized exact config identity on remount, or create it on first use. */
  private async restoreOrCreateConfigured(
    ownerCtx: Context,
    persistence: SessionPersistence,
    sessionId: SessionId,
    agentOptions: AgentOptions,
    meta: Pick<SessionHeader, 'cwd'>,
  ): Promise<void> {
    await this.waitForDrainingConfiguredIdentity(ownerCtx, sessionId)
    if (!this.ownership.isActive()) return
    try {
      await this.resumeWith(ownerCtx, persistence, { resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions })
      return
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      if (!this.ownership.isActive()) return
      // A load is the per-id serialization barrier for eager write-behind and
      // lifecycle retirement. Only a genuinely absent artifact falls back to
      // first creation; corruption and backend failures stay loud.
      const exists = (await persistence.list()).some(header => header.id === sessionId)
      if (exists) throw error
    }
    this.create(sessionId, agentOptions, meta)
  }

  /** Wait for a draining same-id lifecycle to finish registry teardown. */
  private async waitForDrainingConfiguredIdentity(ownerCtx: Context, sessionId: SessionId): Promise<void> {
    // Only an id still occupying a registry needs waiting for; a live healthy
    // occupant is a collision the create/resume below will surface itself.
    if (ownerCtx.agents.get(sessionId) === undefined && ownerCtx.sessions.get(sessionId) === undefined) return

    const released = Promise.withResolvers<void>()
    const checkReleased = (): void => {
      if (ownerCtx.agents.get(sessionId) === undefined && ownerCtx.sessions.get(sessionId) === undefined) {
        released.resolve()
      }
    }
    const disposeAgentListener = ownerCtx.on('agent/disposed', () => { checkReleased() })
    const disposeSessionListener = ownerCtx.on('session/disposed', checkReleased)
    try {
      checkReleased()
      await this.ownership.waitWhileActive(released.promise)
    } finally {
      disposeAgentListener()
      disposeSessionListener()
    }
  }

  /**
   * Construct the driver, scope, and one memoized reverse teardown for a new
   * agent. The teardown is registered with the factory and the owner fiber
   * BEFORE publication, so a mid-setup unload rolls everything back; `signal`
   * fuses caller cancellation with lifecycle teardown for setup awaits.
   */
  private prepare(ownerCtx: Context, id: SessionId, options: AgentOptions, session: Session, callerSignal?: AbortSignal): PreparedAgent {
    assertAgentOptions(options)
    ownerCtx.fiber.assertActive()
    // Every caller reaches prepare() synchronously from a service method
    // whose Cordis dispatch already requires the live factory fiber, or
    // re-checks ownership itself after its awaits (resume's load barrier).
    /* v8 ignore next -- unreachable backstop, see above */
    if (!this.ownership.isActive()) throw new Error('agent loop is not active')
    if (callerSignal?.aborted) {
      throw callerSignal.reason instanceof Error
        ? callerSignal.reason
        : new Error(`agent "${id}" creation aborted`, { cause: callerSignal.reason })
    }
    const loopCtx = this.runtime.ctx

    // Deactivation fuses three owners, each with its own reason: the caller's
    // cancellation signal, the owner fiber's unload, and factory teardown.
    // It is registered BEFORE any resource exists, over mutable slots, so an
    // unload arriving while the scope is still minting finds a working
    // disposer instead of a leak.
    const abort = new AbortController()
    const onCallerAbort = (): void => {
      abort.abort(callerSignal?.reason instanceof Error
        ? callerSignal.reason
        : new Error(`agent "${id}" creation aborted`, { cause: callerSignal?.reason }))
    }
    const onFactoryTeardown = (): void => { abort.abort(this.ownership.signal.reason) }
    callerSignal?.addEventListener('abort', onCallerAbort, { once: true })
    this.ownership.signal.addEventListener('abort', onFactoryTeardown, { once: true })

    let machine: ReactLoopAgent | undefined
    let detachSession: (() => void) | undefined
    let detachAgent: (() => void) | undefined
    let disposing: Promise<void> | undefined
    const machineReady = Promise.withResolvers<void>()
    // Reverse teardown, memoized so every racing owner awaits one quiescence:
    // stop the machine, leave the registries, unwind the scope, release
    // bookkeeping.
    const dispose = (ownerTriggered = false): Promise<void> => (disposing ??= (async () => {
      abort.abort(new Error(`agent "${id}" lifecycle disposed`))
      callerSignal?.removeEventListener('abort', onCallerAbort)
      this.ownership.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onFactoryTeardown)
      try {
        // Disposal IS a disposed-cause cancel followed by quiescence. New work
        // sent after this point is the sender's bug — the registries are about
        // to drop the agent, so nothing should still hold it.
        if (machine === undefined) await machineReady.promise
        if (machine !== undefined) {
          machine.cancel({ kind: 'disposed' })
          await machine.whenIdle()
          await machine.scope.dispose()
        }
      } finally {
        try {
          detachAgent?.()
          detachSession?.()
        } finally {
          untrack()
          if (!ownerTriggered) await unfollowOwner()
        }
      }
    })())
    const untrack = this.ownership.track(dispose)
    let unfollowOwner: () => Promise<void> | void
    try {
      unfollowOwner = ownerCtx.effect(() => () => {
        // Owner disposal owns the same quiescence boundary. Its teardown skips
        // unregistering this already-running owner effect from inside itself.
        if (disposing !== undefined) return
        abort.abort(new Error(`agent "${id}" setup aborted: owner disposed during setup`))
        return dispose(true)
      }, `agentLoop.lifecycle(${id})`)
      /* v8 ignore start -- ctx.effect throws only on an inactive fiber, which assertActive() above already rejected */
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      untrack()
      callerSignal?.removeEventListener('abort', onCallerAbort)
      this.ownership.signal.removeEventListener('abort', onFactoryTeardown)
      throw error
    }
    /* v8 ignore stop */

    const assertLive = (): void => {
      if (!abort.signal.aborted) return
      // Every fused abort source carries an Error reason: onCallerAbort and
      // raceAbort wrap non-Error caller reasons, and the factory/lifecycle
      // owners abort with constructed Errors.
      /* v8 ignore next -- unreachable String() arm, see above */
      throw abort.signal.reason instanceof Error ? abort.signal.reason : new Error(String(abort.signal.reason))
    }
    try {
      const agent = machine = new ReactLoopAgent(loopCtx, id, options, session)
      machineReady.resolve()
      assertLive()

      return {
        agent,
        signal: abort.signal,
        publish: (source) => {
          assertLive()
          detachSession = agent.ctx.sessions.enter(session)
          detachAgent = loopCtx.agents.enter(agent, ownerCtx.agent)
          agent.ctx.sessions.announce(session)
          assertLive()
          loopCtx.agents.announce(agent)
          assertLive()
          // A synchronous announce/session-start listener may have started
          // teardown; the machine is already live (delivery works from the
          // session-start extension point), so only the liveness recheck is owed.
          emitAgentEvent(loopCtx, agent, 'agent/session-start', { source })
          assertLive()
          return { agent, dispose }
        },
        dispose,
      }
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      machineReady.resolve()
      void dispose()
      throw error
    }
  }

  /**
   * Create an agent and session under one caller-supplied identity, owned by
   * the accessing fiber. Constructor-driven config calls mint a fresh combined
   * id before entering this boundary.
   * @param id - shared agent/session identity.
   * @param options - concrete loop options.
   * @param meta - optional fresh-session workspace metadata.
   * @returns the published running agent.
   */
  create(id: SessionId, options: AgentOptions = {}, meta: Pick<SessionHeader, 'cwd'> = {}): Agent {
    using preparation = SessionPreparation.create(this.runtime.ctx.sessions.prepare(id, { meta }))
    const prepared = this.prepare(this.ctx, id, options, preparation.session)
    try {
      return prepared.publish('startup').agent
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      void prepared.dispose()
      throw error
    }
  }

  /**
   * Create an owned agent on a caller-supplied session id.
   * @param ownerCtx - caller context that structurally owns the lifecycle.
   * @param options - identities, session seed/metadata, loop options, setup, and cancellation.
   * @returns the published handle.
   */
  async createAgent(ownerCtx: Context, options: CreateAgentOptions): Promise<AgentHandle> {
    const preparation = SessionPreparation.create(this.runtime.ctx.sessions.prepare(options.sessionId, {
      ...options.seed === undefined ? {} : { seed: options.seed },
      ...options.meta === undefined ? {} : { meta: options.meta },
    }))
    const published = this.setupAndPublish(
      ownerCtx,
      options.sessionId,
      preparation,
      options.agentOptions ?? {},
      options.setup,
      options.signal,
      'startup',
    )
    this.ownership.trackWrapper(published)
    return published
  }

  /** Prepare one Agent around an acquired Session, run setup, and publish it. */
  private async setupAndPublish(
    ownerCtx: Context,
    id: SessionId,
    preparation: SessionPreparation,
    agentOptions: AgentOptions,
    setup: AgentSetup | undefined,
    signal: AbortSignal | undefined,
    source: SessionStartSource,
  ): Promise<AgentHandle> {
    using ownedPreparation = preparation
    const session = ownedPreparation.session
    const prepared = this.prepare(ownerCtx, id, agentOptions, session, signal)
    try {
      const setupCommit = await raceAbort(setup?.(prepared.agent.ctx), prepared.signal, id)
      setupCommit?.commit()
      return prepared.publish(source)
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      await prepared.dispose()
      throw error
    }
  }

  /**
   * Resume an owned agent from the configured persistence service.
   * @param ownerCtx - caller context that owns load, setup, and the live lifecycle.
   * @param options - persisted identity, loop options, setup, and cancellation.
   * @returns the published handle.
   */
  async resume(ownerCtx: Context, options: ResumeAgentOptions): Promise<AgentHandle> {
    const persistence = this.runtime.ctx.get('sessionPersistence')
    if (persistence === undefined) {
      throw new Error('cannot resume: session persistence is not configured (load a dsh-session-persistence backend)')
    }
    return this.resumeWith(ownerCtx, persistence, options)
  }

  /** Resume through an explicit persistence handle used by the deferred config path. */
  private resumeWith(
    ownerCtx: Context,
    persistence: SessionPersistence,
    options: ResumeAgentOptions,
  ): Promise<AgentHandle> {
    const id = options.resumeSessionId
    const published = (async () => {
      // The load may outlive its owner: race it against caller cancellation,
      // owner-fiber unload, and factory teardown so a never-settling backend
      // cannot pin the identity.
      const ownerAbort = new AbortController()
      const unfollowOwner = ownerCtx.effect(() => () => {
        ownerAbort.abort(new Error(`agent "${id}" setup aborted: owner disposed during setup`))
      }, `agentLoop.resume-load(${id})`)
      const fused = AbortSignal.any([
        ...options.signal === undefined ? [] : [options.signal],
        ownerAbort.signal,
        this.ownership.signal,
      ])
      let preparation: SessionPreparation | undefined
      try {
        try {
          preparation = await raceAbortCall(
            () => persistence.prepare(id, fused),
            fused,
            id,
            (abandoned) => { abandoned[Symbol.dispose]() },
          )
        } finally {
          await unfollowOwner()
        }
        ownerCtx.fiber.assertActive()
        if (!this.ownership.isActive()) throw new Error('agent loop is not active')
        return await this.setupAndPublish(
          ownerCtx,
          id,
          preparation,
          options.agentOptions ?? {},
          options.setup,
          options.signal,
          'resume',
        )
      } finally {
        preparation?.[Symbol.dispose]()
      }
    })()
    this.ownership.trackWrapper(published)
    return published
  }
}

export default AgentLoop