Merge branch 'master' into worktree/pi-ai-manual-e2e

.agents/skills/dsh-code-review/SKILL.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ description: Use when reviewing a pull request in the deepseek-harness repo —
 
 ## Sources of truth
 
-- [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) and [packages/AGENTS.md](../../../packages/AGENTS.md): repository and package rules.
+- [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) and [packages/AGENTS.md](../../../packages/AGENTS.md): standing repository and package authoring contracts.
 - [docs/defensive-patterns.md](../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md): subprocess, callback, async-state, and disposal bug classes.
 - [docs/AGENTS.md](../../../docs/AGENTS.md): documentation placement and prose discipline.
 - [dsh-prose-standard](../dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md): required coverage and editorial judgment for comments, docs, prompts, and visible strings.
@@ -22,26 +22,27 @@ description: Use when reviewing a pull request in the deepseek-harness repo —
 1. **New prose receives semantic review.** Use [dsh-prose-standard](../dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) to critically review every added or changed Markdown passage, JSDoc, comment, prompt, description, diagnostic, and visible string. Verify required coverage, accuracy, placement, and editorial quality against the owning code or behavior; automated checks do not establish those properties.
 2. **Docs match the code.** Config, defaults, errors, wire fields, events, and public behavior update the package README and JSDoc in the same diff. Comments state non-obvious contracts; flag implementation narration, test walkthroughs, review history, and duplicated rationale for deletion or a link to their one home.
 3. **Core type docs match.** Changes to spine or seam vocabulary update the appropriate [core-data-structures](../../../docs/core-data-structures/core.md) page and any `type-equiv` entry. Internal types need no catalog entry.
-4. **Registrations clean up.** A new registry contribution has a test that disposes its owner and observes removal.
+4. **Registrations clean up.** Verify each new registry contribution satisfies the disposal-test contract in [packages/AGENTS.md](../../../packages/AGENTS.md).
 5. **Required gates pass.** Trust the [current readiness sequence](../../../AGENTS.md#run-the-ci-gates-locally-before-marking-a-pr-ready) and `pnpm run check:pre-push` for their enforced inventory; review the semantic gaps they cannot detect.
 
 ## Manual checks
 
 - **Intent and seam contracts:** trace both sides of every changed interface. Confirm the implementation matches the PR and any RFC, including errors, cancellation, ownership, and disposal.
 - **Lifecycle and concurrency:** for async setup, callbacks, processes, or teardown, apply [defensive-patterns.md](../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md). Check races before publication, cancellation during awaits, independent error reporting, callback containment, ownership before reentry, complete detach cleanup, and quiescent disposal.
-- **Capability shape:** a swappable capability follows the interface / implementation / consumer split. Consumers depend on the interface, not a backend.
-- **Scope, ownership, and necessity:** tie each abstraction, state machine, option, defensive copy, and compatibility path to a current contract or production consumer. Challenge unrelated features, speculative generality, and behavior placed outside its owning plugin or service.
-- **Configuration:** deployment-varying timeouts, caps, models, URLs, paths, and retry counts are validated `Config` fields, not literals or `DEFAULT_*` constants.
-- **Enforcement boundaries:** hidden schema fields, filtered prompts, facades, wrappers, and listener ordering are not authoritative enforcement when direct or alternate callers can bypass them. Exercise denial paths at the boundary that actually executes the operation.
-- **Borrowed and derived state:** determine whether retained caller-owned values are borrowed or snapshotted by contract; do not demand copies at typed same-process seams. Materialize mutable values that cross queues, model/tool JSON, durable logs or files, workers, processes, or wire boundaries. Commit notifications and derived state only at the documented success boundary, and trace caches, prompts, UI echoes, replay, and query views to one authoritative source.
-- **Bounds cover the final operation:** verify byte, token, item, and time limits at the boundary that owns the complete emitted or retained result, including wrappers and metadata. Probe tiny limits, exact thresholds, oversized single chunks, and multibyte text for byte limits.
+- **Capability and consumer fit:** trace every current consumer, then flag consumer-specific behavior leaking into the interface under [the package contract](../../../packages/AGENTS.md).
+- **Scope, ownership, and necessity:** map each abstraction, state machine, option, defensive copy, and compatibility path to its current contract, production consumer, and owning plugin or service. Challenge unrelated features and speculative generality, then test the PR's coherence against [the root contract](../../../AGENTS.md#conventions).
+- **Configuration and public choices:** ask what current-consumer evidence or prior art supports each default, public operation set, format, or imported external concept. Require an explicit choice or deferral when that evidence is absent.
+- **Model perspective:** inspect the exact prompts, tool schemas, results, and diagnostics the model receives across affected modes. Flag concepts outside the model's task, then verify stable text verbatim and dynamic behavior through snapshots or end-to-end coverage.
+- **Enforcement boundaries:** follow every denial path to the operation that executes it; exercise direct and alternate callers that can bypass schemas, prompts, facades, wrappers, or listener ordering.
+- **Borrowed and derived state:** classify each retained value under the package boundary contract, then trace notifications and every cache, prompt, UI echo, replay, and query view to the documented success point and authoritative source.
+- **Bounds cover the final operation:** locate the owner of the complete emitted or retained result, including wrappers and metadata. Probe tiny and exact limits, oversized single chunks, and multibyte text for byte limits.
 - **Real entry path:** tests exercise the shipped Loader, bin, worker, ACP bridge, or subprocess where relevant. A hand-mounted plugin does not catch Loader export-shape failures; a function plugin must named-export its namespace and have no default export.
 - **Test strength:** assertions fail on the intended regression and verify external state, logs, events, or disposal rather than restating the implementation or trusting an agent's report. Coverage is necessary but not evidence that the scenario is correct.
-- **Changed checks have a negative control:** a new automated check, or a changed acceptance path in one, has a deliberately invalid case that reaches the real top-level runner and fails for the intended rule; a green happy path does not prove the check is wired.
+- **Mechanized invariants and negative controls:** trace each new or changed check through the executed top-level gate and its deliberately invalid case; confirm the real runner fails for the intended rule.
 - **Implemented RFCs match shipped reality:** when a PR implements a proposed RFC, move and rewrite it as present-tense shipped state in the same diff, then verify paths, names, and mechanisms against the implementation.
-- **Transcript changes:** editor-visible or model-visible changes update snapshots or explain why no snapshot applies. Review golden diffs as behavior changes, not formatting noise.
+- **Transcript changes:** editor-visible or model-visible changes update snapshots or explain why no snapshot applies. Review expected-output diffs as behavior changes, not formatting noise.
 - **Bilingual changes:** compare meaning and terminology on both sides; a green pairing hash does not prove translation quality.
 
 ## Reporting findings
 
-State the defect, location, impact, and evidence. Separate blockers from suggestions and omit issues already enforced by a green gate. Use the existing GitHub review thread for replies. When receiving review, verify each claim and fix or rebut it on technical grounds without performative agreement.
+State the defect, location, impact, and evidence. Place a localized defect inline on the tightest relevant diff range; use a PR-level comment for cross-cutting architecture, scope, or review-wide synthesis. Separate blockers from suggestions and omit issues already enforced by a green gate. Use the existing GitHub review thread for replies. When receiving review, verify each claim and fix or rebut it on technical grounds without performative agreement.

.agents/skills/dsh-find-simplifications/SKILL.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ A strong simplification removes, folds, or demotes something real and has clear
 - A seam has methods every implementation must support but no consumer uses.
 - A package boundary exists only for test/demo/support code and adds publish or dependency overhead.
 - A feature implements speculative product generality: multi-session/session-load, background task rosters, live registry invalidation, mid-turn steering, tool-owned UI rendering, and similar shapes with no product owner.
-- An invariant, rollback path, goldens set, or special-case test exists only to protect an unused surface.
+- An invariant, rollback path, set of expected outputs, or special-case test exists only to protect an unused surface.
 - The simplified behavior may differ slightly, but the new behavior is still reasonable and easier to explain.
 
 Thin candidates are usually not enough for an RFC: deleting one typo, running `knip` once, removing an intentionally documented backend/adapter, or flagging "this looks complex" without call-site proof.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Use parallel subagents when the user asks for breadth or many candidates. Give e
 - ACP and UI surfaces: `session/*` methods, terminal `_meta`, transcript rendering, single vs multi-session state.
 - LLM/tools/system prompt: stream/generate surfaces, assemblers, registries, tool schema defaults, presentation hooks.
 - Bash and tool execution: foreground/background split, task ownership, output spill files, executor methods.
-- Packages/examples/scripts/tests: package boundaries, static inventories, redundant snapshot goldens, support packages.
+- Packages/examples/scripts/tests: package boundaries, static inventories, redundant snapshot expected outputs, support packages.
 
 If subagents are unavailable, simulate the same breadth yourself. Do not let the first good candidate stop the survey.
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ For complex asynchronous code, draw the ownership graph and map each sentinel, r
 For every symbol or behavior, classify consumers before writing:
 
 - Production corpus: `packages/*/src`, `examples/*/src`, `examples/**/*.yml`, runtime scripts, and loader/config paths.
-- Non-production corpus: tests, README/docs, RFCs, snapshots, generated goldens, and comments.
+- Non-production corpus: tests, README/docs, RFCs, snapshots, generated expected outputs, and comments.
 - Ambiguous corpus: examples and scripts that may be product smoke paths. Inspect usage before classifying.
 
 Use `rg` first. Good searches include the exact symbol, event name, package name, config key, method name with both `.name(` and `name(`, and any wire strings. Then read the call sites. `knip` can help, but it is not a substitute for understanding public interfaces, dynamic event names, tests, docs, and Cordis loader paths.

.agents/skills/dsh-pre-push-checks/SKILL.md

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ pnpm run test:snapshot
 Run built-bin smoke tests after `pnpm run build` when app packages, app boot, package runtime imports, bin entries, loader behavior, or published artifact paths change.
 
 ```sh
-pnpm exec vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
+pnpm exec vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/cli-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
 ```
 
 Run real e2e when behavior depends on a real model/API, tool-use loop, ACP integration, prompt injection, or end-to-end agent UX. If `.env` is available, use it; do not print secrets.

.github/workflows/expected-filenames.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: Expected filenames
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '*[gG][oO][lL][dD][eE][nN]*'
+      - '**/*[gG][oO][lL][dD][eE][nN]*'
+      - '!vendor/**'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  expected-filenames:
+    name: no golden filenames
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Check tracked filenames
+        run: scripts/check-expected-filenames.sh

AGENTS.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ packages/    @deepseek-ai/dsh-<pkg> workspaces at packages/<group>/<pkg>/
   hooks/       Claude Code / Codex hook bridges + shared wire-protocol library
   session-persistence/  persistence seam + JSONL/SQLite backends
   ui/          ACP/stdio/TUI/JSON-RPC bridges; boot, approval, interaction plugins
-  examples/    demo bundles (agent-spine + stdio/ACP/JSON-RPC bins) leaves load
+  examples/    demo bundles (agent-spine + stdio/CLI/ACP/JSON-RPC bins) leaves load
   support/     dev/test infrastructure packages
   util/        zero-dependency utilities
 python/      Python SDK and bundled runtime (see python/README.md)
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ pnpm install            # pnpm workspaces, node ^22.19 || >=24
 pnpm run test           # vitest unit tests
 pnpm run test:coverage  # THE gating test run: per-file 100% coverage on packages/*/*/src
 pnpm run test:e2e       # real-API tests; self-skip without DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-pnpm run test:snapshot  # keyless ACP replay vs goldens; filter: -t <name>
-pnpm run test:snapshot:record  # re-record goldens (needs key)
+pnpm run test:snapshot  # keyless ACP/headless/TUI replay vs expected outputs; filter: -t <name>
+pnpm run test:snapshot:record  # re-record expected outputs (needs key)
 pnpm run typecheck
 pnpm run lint
 pnpm run duplication    # cross-file TypeScript clone detection
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ pnpm run doc-sync       # all documentation gates; see the doc-sync script in pa
 pnpm run website:build  # VitePress build (doubles as the site's dead-link check)
 pnpm run demo:echo      # mock-model REPL, no key needed
 pnpm run demo:repl      # real REPL coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
+pnpm run demo:headless -- "task" # one-shot agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:tui       # full-screen TUI coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:cordis    # self-referential demo: the agent modifies its own runtime (needs key)
 pnpm run demo:acp       # ACP server agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -q '\[tool call\] echo({"text":"ci smoke"})'
 printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -q '\[tool result\] ECHO: CI SMOKE'
 test -n "$(find .sessions -path '.sessions/cwd-*/main-session-*.jsonl' -type f -print -quit)"
 rm -rf .sessions
-pnpm exec vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/built-scope-carrier.e2e.ts packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/built-worker.e2e.ts packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-worker/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts
+pnpm exec vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/cli-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/built-scope-carrier.e2e.ts packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/built-worker.e2e.ts packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-worker/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts
 ```
 
 `test:coverage`, not `test`, is the gate ([why](docs/testing.md)); report only commands actually run.
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ Real-API tests and demos read `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, optional `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`,
 - **Plugins, not loop changes**: new behavior goes on the documented extension seams; changing `agent-loop` requires updating docs/architecture.md.
 - **Capability seams are three packages** — interface / implementation / consumer; don't split preemptively.
 - **Explicit > implicit at package seams**: defaulting is an explicit `resolve(request): Spec` step in the owning implementation, never a hidden `?? default` inside `run()` (the `dsh-bash` request/spec split is the template).
-- **No hardcoded tunables in plugins**: deployment choices are defaulted, validated `Config` fields changeable from cordis.yml; a `DEFAULT_*` constant or test seam is not configurability. Protocol constants, external specs, and security invariants stay fixed.
+- **No hardcoded tunables in plugins**: deployment-varying choices are validated `Config` fields changeable from cordis.yml; a `DEFAULT_*` constant or test seam is not configurability. Protocol constants, external specs, and security invariants stay fixed.
 - **Misconfiguration fails loud** at load when self-contained, otherwise at the earliest resolvable point; never silently skip a missing referent.
 - **Opaque cross-boundary ids are branded** (`Branded<B>` from `dsh-brand`), never bare `string`.
 - **An empty `catch` names what it swallows** and why nothing else can reach it; keep the `try` to one statement.
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ Real-API tests and demos read `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, optional `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`,
 - **Testing policy** — [docs/testing.md](docs/testing.md). Transcript changes need snapshots or a PR note. Fixtures must replay on macOS/Linux; fix fixtures, not normalizers.
 - **A tool's ACP render intent is part of its design**, decided up front (`generic`/`terminal`/`diff`, `locations`); presentation methods are pure functions of `args` ([cookbook](docs/cookbook/adding-a-tool.md)).
 - **Plan unit, e2e, and snapshot coverage** for new seams, lifecycle shapes, and transcript surfaces, and schedule any missing harness support before implementation.
-- **Merge PRs with merge commits**, never squash/rebase or rewrite pushed branches. Put a review fix on its introducing PR, then merge down the stack ([guide](docs/cookbook/responding-to-pr-review-on-a-stack.md)).
+- **Keep PRs coherent and merge with merge commits.** Split an independently meaningful feature or design decision into a separate or stacked PR when combining it obscures ownership, intent, or verification. Never squash/rebase or rewrite pushed branches; put a review fix on its introducing PR, then merge down the stack ([guide](docs/cookbook/responding-to-pr-review-on-a-stack.md)).
 - TODO markers: `FIXME`/`TODO`/`XXX` by urgency ([semantics](docs/development.md)).
 - Files end with exactly one trailing newline; `git diff --check` (pre-push) gates it.
 
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ Read [docs/defensive-patterns.md](docs/defensive-patterns.md) before lifecycle,
 
 Everything compiles under `strict: true` with `noImplicitAny`; every remaining `any` explains why a narrower type is infeasible. Every module and export has concise JSDoc for its non-obvious contract; function-like exports include `@param`/`@returns`, as enforced by `verify-export-jsdoc`. Heritage-declared members, plugin-protocol slots, and constructors keep their docs at the declaring seam, protocol, or class.
 
-Comments and docs preserve complete contracts and non-obvious orientation, not reasoning transcripts. Do not narrate control flow or tests, preserve review history, or restate code. Keep factual clauses affecting behavior, failure, timing, ownership, or safe use; link aggressively to owning rationale. Use [dsh-prose-standard](.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) for prose decisions. Encode enforceable invariants in checks, using narrow justified exceptions rather than disabling a rule globally.
+Comments and docs preserve complete contracts and non-obvious orientation, not reasoning transcripts. Do not narrate control flow or tests, preserve review history, or restate code. Keep factual clauses affecting behavior, failure, timing, ownership, or safe use; link aggressively to owning rationale. Use [dsh-prose-standard](.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) for prose decisions. Wire mechanically checkable invariants into an executed top-level gate and prove each new or changed acceptance path rejects an invalid case. Use narrow justified exceptions instead of disabling a rule globally.
 
 Docs are part of every change: code changes update their README and JSDoc in the SAME change; a bilingual-pair edit updates the counterpart and re-records ([i18n contract](docs/i18n/README.md)). The writing rules — document the current state never the history, one physical line per paragraph, one home per fact — and the word-budget gate live in [docs/AGENTS.md](docs/AGENTS.md).
 

README.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
-README.md: aaa129272ee9346cebe2d59774d742fbe21af80a
-README.zh.md: 42f2ed9b57bf008210042083977b7adbb7f1ab0e
+README.md: ef9a3a8832d1eaa35ec5f0fed1780ab27e8ff37c
+README.zh.md: a30d6db4b04f23559c36a7aba80b4feb2962a1c6

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pnpm run test          # vitest
 pnpm run demo:echo     # keyless mock-model REPL
 pnpm run demo:repl     # readline coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:tui      # full-screen TUI coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
+pnpm run demo:headless -- "task" # one-shot coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:cordis   # self-referential agent demo (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:acp      # ACP server agent demo (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 ```

README.zh.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pnpm run test          # vitest
 pnpm run demo:echo     # keyless mock-model REPL
 pnpm run demo:repl     # readline coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:tui      # full-screen TUI coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
+pnpm run demo:headless -- "task" # one-shot coding agent (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:cordis   # self-referential agent demo (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 pnpm run demo:acp      # ACP server agent demo (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
 ```

docs/AGENTS.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Placement: bugs → postmortems; rationale → RFCs; procedures → cookbooks; t
 - **Document current state, not change history.** Avoid "previously/now/no longer", PRs, commits, and stack positions in durable prose; name the live mechanism. Put change stories in commits, PRs, RFCs, or postmortems.
 - **Write an RFC in the same PR for decisions a maintainer may reasonably revisit.** Mechanical or self-evident changes need none ([when to write one](rfc/README.md)).
 - **One physical line per paragraph** (`verify-md-wrap`): use editor soft-wrap. Code blocks, tables, and list structure keep their formatting; code comments stay under the linter's column limit.
-- **Fenced `ts` blocks must compile** (`doc-typecheck`); a pasted type declaration and its original JSDoc are fenced ` ```ts type-equiv ` and registered in the manifest so neither can drift ([mechanics](development.md#documenting-types-verbatim-ts-type-equiv)).
+- **Fenced `ts` blocks must compile** (`doc-typecheck`); a pasted type declaration and its original JSDoc use ` ```ts type-equiv `, while a body-stripped public class declaration uses ` ```ts public-api `; register either in the manifest so neither can drift ([mechanics](development.md#documenting-types-verbatim-ts-type-equiv)).
 - **The [core-data-structures catalog](core-data-structures/core.md) updates in the same change** that reshapes a documented type. `verify-type-equiv` catches drifted pastes, not never-documented new types ([what counts as core](core-data-structures/core.md#what-counts-as-core)).
 - **Bilingual pairs update together**: editing either side obligates the counterpart and a re-record in the same change ([i18n contract](i18n/README.md)).
 - **Comments and JSDoc state complete contracts, not reasoning transcripts.** Preserve behavior, conditions, timing, modality, exceptions, consequences, and non-obvious orientation; delete implementation narration, test walkthroughs, review analysis, and code restatement. Keep the local contract and link to its owning rationale. Use [dsh-prose-standard](../.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) for required coverage, decision rules, and examples.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ When the gate goes red:
 2. **Condense** content that belongs here but can be shorter.
 3. **Raise** the ceiling only when the words truly need the space; justify the manifest diff in the PR. A too-low ceiling is a budget bug.
 
-Ceilings are guardrails, not reduction targets. Retain at least 5% headroom; lower a ceiling only when the document's durable contract still has room, and raise it when necessary content would otherwise be deleted. Targets: root `AGENTS.md` ≤ 1,500 words; `architecture.md` ≤ 1,800; each subtree `AGENTS.md` ≤ 600, except this file ≤ 1,250; `packages/README.md` ≤ 600. Review and the slop checklist govern unbudgeted tiers.
+Ceilings are guardrails, not reduction targets. Retain at least 5% headroom; lower a ceiling only when the document's durable contract still has room, and raise it when necessary content would otherwise be deleted. Targets: root `AGENTS.md` ≤ 1,600 words; `architecture.md` ≤ 1,800; each subtree `AGENTS.md` ≤ 600, except `packages/AGENTS.md` ≤ 650 and this file ≤ 1,250; `packages/README.md` ≤ 600. Review and the slop checklist govern unbudgeted tiers.
 
 ## The slop checklist
 

docs/agent-lifecycle.md

@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ sequenceDiagram
   LLM-->>Driver: StreamChunk*
   Driver->>Session: <code>assistant/chunk</code>*
   Session-->>SDK: <code>session/event</code> <code>assistant/chunk</code>*
+  alt final adapter or terminal in-band request failure
+    Driver->>Session: <code>step/end</code>
+    Driver->>Hooks: <code>agent/request-error</code> waterfall
+    Hooks-->>Driver: retry in a new step or preserve the original error
+  else model request succeeded
   Driver->>Hooks: <code>agent/step-result</code> waterfall
   Driver->>Session: <code>assistant/message</code>
   Driver->>Tools: classify pending call by executionMode
@@ -46,9 +51,12 @@ sequenceDiagram
       Driver->>Session: <code>tool/result</code>
     end
   end
+  Driver->>Session: post-tool context and steering
+  Driver->>Hooks: <code>agent/post-step</code> serial checkpoint
   Driver->>Session: <code>step/end</code>
   Driver->>Hooks: <code>agent/turn-continuation</code> waterfall
   Driver->>Hooks: <code>agent/turn-stop</code> serial terminal checkpoint
+  end
   Driver->>Session: <code>turn/end</code>
   Driver->>Persistence: <code>session/flush</code> parallel checkpoint
   Driver-->>SDK: <code>agent/status</code> idle
@@ -56,6 +64,8 @@ sequenceDiagram
 
 The `assistant/message` edge records every successful provider call, including content-less and `max-tokens` finishes. Empty content stays out of derived history while the durable anchor retains usage and exact chunk provenance, including an explicit empty source set.
 
+`dsh-compact-basic` uses `agent/post-step` for pressure after those durable facts and `agent/request-error` only for canonical context overflow. Recovery compacts between the closed failed step and a fresh retry step, and returns retry only when the surface replacement generation advances; otherwise the original request error remains authoritative.
+
 SDK users that need replayable transcript data should consume `session/event`; `agent/*` is the live coordination surface for queue/status, prompt interception, request shaping, steering, continuation, and errors.
 
 Maintenance mode: curated Mermaid sequence; exact event signatures live in the generated Cordis catalog.

docs/architecture.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The **DeepSeek Harness SDK** builds agent harnesses on Cordis. The principle is
 
 ## Overview
 
-A harness is one [Cordis](cordis-primer.md) context. Packages contribute service keys, typed events, and disposable registrations: services expose stable calls (`ctx.llm`, `ctx.tools`, `ctx.sessions`), events provide interception and notifications (`agent/request`, `tools/pre-execute`, `session/event`), and registrations install prompt sections, tools, providers, adapters, or listeners.
+A harness is one [Cordis](cordis-primer.md) context. Packages add services (`ctx.llm`, `ctx.tools`, `ctx.sessions`), typed events (`agent/request`, `tools/pre-execute`, `session/event`), and disposable prompt, tool, provider, adapter, and listener registrations.
 
 `packages/core/` groups the default agent flow; surrounding capabilities are equally first-class Cordis plugins.
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ A harness is one [Cordis](cordis-primer.md) context. Packages contribute service
 | `ctx.sessions` | `dsh-session` | in-memory event-sourced sessions |
 | `ctx.systemPrompt` | `dsh-system-prompt` | ordered prompt sections, tool schemas, and prompt variables |
 | `ctx.tools` | `dsh-tools` | tool registry and [execution pipeline](tool-execution-pipeline.md) |
-| `ctx.agents` | `dsh-agent` | live agent registry, public `Agent` handle, `agent/*` events |
+| `ctx.agents` | `dsh-agent` | live agents, delegated creation, `agent/*` events, and process-local initiator scope |
 | `ctx.agentLoop` | `dsh-agent-loop` | concrete `Agent` driver |
 
 ### Capability Services
@@ -80,33 +80,43 @@ forever:
       assemble system prompt and tool schemas
       agent/session-prefix (first step)
       agent/pre-step
-      'step/start'
       snapshot the derived messages (the reconstruction boundary)
+      'step/start'
       agent/request (config only) -> log request/header -> llm/stream (frozen)
+      on final adapter-path or terminal in-band failure:
+        'step/end'
+        agent/request-error(original error, consecutive retry attempt, signal)
+        retry in the next numbered step or preserve the original error
+      otherwise:
         'assistant/chunk'
-      agent/step-result
-      'assistant/message' (transformed content or empty success anchor after step-result rejection)
-      schedule tool calls by ctx.tools.executionMode:
-        exclusive -> one-call barrier
-        parallel -> rolling pool, <= maxParallelToolCalls in flight; reclassify before start
-        each start -> 'tool/call' -> ordered tools/pre-execute -> concurrent tools/execute
-        each model-order result -> ordered tools/post-execute -> 'tool/result'
-      append accepted tool-batch context after all recorded results, then steering
-      'step/end'
-      agent/turn-continuation
-      agent/turn-stop (terminal policy)
-      stop unless tools or continuation policy ask for another step
+        agent/step-result
+        'assistant/message' (transformed content or empty success anchor after step-result rejection)
+        schedule tool calls by ctx.tools.executionMode:
+          exclusive -> one-call barrier
+          parallel -> rolling pool, <= maxParallelToolCalls in flight; reclassify before start
+          each start -> 'tool/call' -> ordered tools/pre-execute -> concurrent tools/execute
+          each model-order result -> ordered tools/post-execute -> 'tool/result'
+        append accepted tool-batch context after all recorded results, then steering
+        agent/post-step
+        'step/end'
+        agent/turn-continuation
+        agent/turn-stop (terminal policy)
+        stop unless tools or continuation policy ask for another step
     'turn/end'
     checkpoint persistence and notify idle/running status
 ```
 
 Each step assembles ordered prompt sections, tool schemas, and `{{name}}` variables; unknown or valueless references fail the turn. `dsh-system-prompt` owns the harness identity and default persona, which an agent scope may shadow. The loop supplies `model` and `cwd` ([prompt-ownership RFC](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md)).
 
-Context accepted during tool execution—including async `agent.inject()` notices and post-tool `additionalContexts`—waits for settlement, then follows every recorded result. Successful batches preserve call/result adjacency; interrupted batches drain that context before turn closure. Steering drains between steps; ordinary leftover steering becomes queued input. Terminal `agent/turn-stop` runs after continuation and steering folding, stays authoritative through turn close and flush, and discards later steering while preserving queued prompts.
+Tool-time context—including async `agent.inject()` notices and post-tool `additionalContexts`—settles, then follows recorded results. Steering drains before `agent/post-step`, which observes durable output, results, context, and steering before signal closure. Leftovers become queued input. Terminal `agent/turn-stop` runs after continuation and steering folding, stays authoritative through turn close and flush, and discards later steering but preserves queued prompts.
+
+`dsh-compact-basic` handles pressure and canonical overflow at these checkpoints; retry requires a balanced surface replacement ([RFC](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md)).
 
 ### Failure Boundaries
 
-The turn is the containment boundary. A throwing listener, adapter error finish, or failed step ends it with an error reason and reports `agent/error` without killing the driver. `cancel()` clears queued and steering work, aborts the active model/tool boundary when possible, and records the turn end. Disposal stops the loop, awaits quiescence, unregisters the agent, and drains service disposers.
+The turn is the containment boundary. Final adapter-path and terminal in-band failures close the step before `agent/request-error`; retry opens a numbered step; otherwise, the provider error survives. Attempts reset on success.
+
+Other failures use `agent/error`. Cancellation and disposal beat recovery; undispatched model tool calls receive synthetic `tool/call` and `ABORTED` result pairs before `turn/end`. `cancel()` clears queues and aborts active work; disposal awaits quiescence before unregistering.
 
 Every session event is turn-enclosed. Reloading preserves an interrupted tail and closes it with a synthetic `interrupted` turn end. Failures after durable turn close report only through `agent/error` because no safe in-turn position remains. Each turn has one `TurnEndReason`; [TurnEndReasonMap](core-data-structures/session.md#why-a-turn-ended-turnendreasonmap) owns the variants.
 
@@ -116,7 +126,7 @@ Every session event is turn-enclosed. Reloading preserves an interrupted tail an
 
 ### Agent Scope
 
-Every live agent owns a scoped `agent.ctx`. Its registrations shadow globals, receive only that agent's dispatches, and unwind with it; async effects such as background-task cleanup are awaited. `CreateAgentOptions.setup(agentCtx)` composes the scope before publication. Typed resolvers derive carrier checks from merged `Events` signatures and `scopeTarget` ([semantic-gates RFC](rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-14-typescript-program-backed-semantic-gates.md)). See the [agent-scope RFC](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) and [subagent composition controls](rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md).
+Every live agent owns a scoped `agent.ctx`. Its registrations shadow globals, receive only that agent's dispatches, and unwind with it; async effects such as background-task cleanup are awaited. `CreateAgentOptions.setup(agentCtx)` composes the scope before publication. Typed resolvers derive carrier checks from merged `Events` signatures and `scopeTarget` ([semantic-gates RFC](rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-14-typescript-program-backed-semantic-gates.md)). See the [agent-scope RFC](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) and [subagent composition controls](rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md). `AgentLoop` runs drivers inside `ctx.agents.withInitiator()`; private orchestration derives `agent.session`; other identities stay explicit ([RFC](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md)).
 
 ## State
 
@@ -146,7 +156,7 @@ Some seams bend the template deliberately: LLM combines interface and consumer b
 
 ### Bundles And Apps
 
-`dsh-agent-spine-demo` bundles the default spine ([README](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/README.md)). `dsh-stdio-demo` adds a terminal front door that selects `dsh-tui` for interactive terminals and line-oriented `dsh-stdio` for pipes; `dsh-acp-demo` adds stdout-pure ACP over JSON-RPC ([ui/](../packages/ui/README.md)). `dsh-jsonrpc-agent` boots external `cordis.yml`; the Python SDK supplies its default only without an explicit config channel and drives `dsh-jsonrpc` over line-delimited JSON-RPC ([Python SDK](../python/README.md)). Deployments remain thin leaves with swappable backends and optional product tools ([examples/](../examples/AGENTS.md), [runnable wirings](cookbook/extension-cookbook.md#runnable-wirings), [graph atlas](graph-atlas.md)).
+`dsh-agent-spine-demo` bundles the default spine ([README](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/README.md)). `dsh-stdio-demo` selects `dsh-tui` for interactive terminals and line-oriented `dsh-stdio` for pipes; `dsh-cli-demo` runs one persisted headless turn with format-pure stdout; `dsh-acp-demo` adds stdout-pure ACP over JSON-RPC ([ui/](../packages/ui/README.md)). `dsh-jsonrpc-agent` boots external `cordis.yml`; the Python SDK supplies its default only without an explicit config channel and drives `dsh-jsonrpc` over line-delimited JSON-RPC ([Python SDK](../python/README.md)). Deployments remain thin leaves with swappable backends and optional product tools ([examples/](../examples/AGENTS.md), [runnable wirings](cookbook/extension-cookbook.md#runnable-wirings), [graph atlas](graph-atlas.md)).
 
 ### Where New Behavior Goes
 
@@ -160,7 +170,7 @@ New behavior should attach to a documented extension point; changing the shipped
 | Add a long-running/background capability | register the work on `ctx.tasks`; the generic `task_*` tools collect/stop it |
 | Add filesystem access or policy | implement a `ctx.fs` provider or listen on `fs/*` policy events |
 | Confine spawned processes | a `ctx.sandbox` backend; consumers wrap their argv before spawning |
-| Intercept prompts, requests, tool use, or continuation | listen on the relevant `agent/*` or `tools/*` waterfall; use serial `agent/turn-stop` for a monotonic terminal stop |
+| Intercept prompts, requests, model completion/failure, tool use, or continuation | listen on the relevant `agent/*` or `tools/*` event; use serial `agent/turn-stop` for a monotonic terminal stop |
 | Add a session-stable request prefix outside history | compose it on `agent/session-prefix`, once per loop instance; logged on the request header |
 | Add UI or editor integration | drive `ctx.agents` and render from `session/event` |
 | Add durable session state | add a `SessionEventMap` member and render/replay from the log |

docs/capability-seams.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ flowchart LR
   pkg_session["session"]
   svc_sessions["ctx.sessions<br/>In-memory session store"]
   pkg_agent["agent"]
+  pkg_cli_demo["cli-demo"]
   pkg_session_persistence["session-persistence"]
   pkg_session_query["session-query"]
   pkg_subagent_inprocess["subagent-inprocess"]
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ flowchart LR
   pkg_skill["skill"]
   svc_skills["ctx.skills<br/>Skill provider registry"]
   pkg_skill_local["skill-local"]
-  svc_agents["ctx.agents<br/>Agent registry"]
+  svc_agents["ctx.agents<br/>Agent service"]
   svc_agentLoop["ctx.agentLoop<br/>Concrete loop driver"]
   pkg_agent_spine_demo["agent-spine-demo"]
   pkg_bash["bash"]
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ flowchart LR
   svc_agentLoop --> pkg_agent_spine_demo
   svc_agents --> pkg_acp
   svc_agents --> pkg_agent_loop
+  svc_agents --> pkg_cli_demo
   svc_agents --> pkg_invariants
   svc_agents --> pkg_stdio_demo
   svc_agents --> pkg_subagent_inprocess
@@ -168,6 +170,7 @@ flowchart LR
   svc_sessionPersistence --> pkg_tool_bash
   svc_sessions --> pkg_agent
   svc_sessions --> pkg_agent_loop
+  svc_sessions --> pkg_cli_demo
   svc_sessions --> pkg_invariants
   svc_sessions --> pkg_session_persistence
   svc_sessions --> pkg_session_query
@@ -205,14 +208,14 @@ flowchart LR
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | `ctx.llm` | `seam` | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) | [`llm-deepseek`](../packages/llm/llm-deepseek), [`llm-pi-ai`](../packages/llm/llm-pi-ai), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | - | Adapters register provider implementations; the loop and compaction call the provider-neutral stream service. |
 | `ctx.tokenMeter` | `core` | [`token-meter`](../packages/llm/token-meter) | - | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | - | Owns isolated per-session replay folds; pressure consumers share immutable revisioned measurements. |
-| `ctx.sessions` | `core` | [`session`](../packages/core/session) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`session-query`](../packages/session-query/session-query), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants) | - | Owns append-only Session instances and emits the durable session event feed. |
+| `ctx.sessions` | `core` | [`session`](../packages/core/session) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`cli-demo`](../packages/examples/cli-demo), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`session-query`](../packages/session-query/session-query), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants) | - | Owns append-only Session instances and emits the durable session event feed. |
 | `ctx.sessionPersistence` | `seam` | [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) | [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`session-persistence-sqlite`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`session-query`](../packages/session-query/session-query) | - | Backends persist the same SessionEvent vocabulary; apps choose a backend at composition time. |
 | `ctx.sessionQuery` | `seam` | [`session-query`](../packages/session-query/session-query) | - | - | - | Resolves live and optional persisted logs into one logical corpus for exact reads and relationship traces. |
 | `ctx.systemPrompt` | `core` | [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs), [`tool-web`](../packages/web/tool-web) | - | Collects prompt sections and model-facing tool schemas for each step. |
 | `ctx.tools` | `core` | [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user), [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash), [`tool-cordis`](../packages/cordis/tool-cordis), [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs), [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill), [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent), [`tool-todo`](../packages/todo/tool-todo), [`tool-web`](../packages/web/tool-web), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | - | Registers capabilities, owns Code Mode transport, and routes calls through pre-policy, monotonic guards, around dispatch, post-policy, and final-result observation. |
 | `ctx.userInteraction` | `seam` | [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) | [`stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user), [`stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | - | UI front doors provide the active human-answer provider; tool-ask-user pauses a tool call on the provider-neutral ask() promise. |
 | `ctx.skills` | `seam` | [`skill`](../packages/skill/skill) | [`skill-local`](../packages/skill/skill-local) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill) | - | Merges provider skill catalogs; tool-skill renders the session-prefix catalog and loads complete skill bodies. |
-| `ctx.agents` | `core` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess), [`stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants) | - | Owns live Agent handles and the create/resume factory seam. |
+| `ctx.agents` | `core` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) | - | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`cli-demo`](../packages/examples/cli-demo), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess), [`stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants) | - | Owns live Agent handles, the create/resume factory seam, and process-local initiator propagation. |
 | `ctx.agentLoop` | `bundle` | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) | - | [`agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo) | - | The one concrete loop plugin; extension packages depend on dsh-agent events and services, not on this package. |
 | `ctx.bash` | `seam` | [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash) | [`bash-local`](../packages/bash/bash-local), [`bash-sandbox`](../packages/bash/bash-sandbox) | [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) | - | The model-facing bash tools and hook bridges consume this seam; sandboxed or remote executors replace bash-local without touching them. |
 | `ctx.bashEnv` | `core` | [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash) | - | - | - | Plugins declare effect-scoped DSH_* facts; tool-bash collects one trusted snapshot per execution and the executor rebuilds the namespace. |
@@ -221,7 +224,7 @@ flowchart LR
 | `ctx.permission` | `core` | [`permission`](../packages/ui/permission) | - | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | - | User-facing preset table (`workspace-write`/`danger-full-access`) bundling the sandbox-mode and approval-policy knobs; a switch writes one `permission/preset` event through to both knob events. |
 | `ctx.codeRuntime` | `seam` | [`code-runtime`](../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime) | [`code-runtime-worker`](../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-worker) | [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) | - | Runs one model-written program against host-provided async bindings; backends differ by substrate and language (the tool registry consumes it for Code Mode). |
 | `ctx.fs` | `seam` | [`fs`](../packages/fs/fs) | [`fs-local`](../packages/fs/fs-local) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) | tool-fs executes read/write/edit through ctx.fs; fs-policy contributes observed-state checks through the fs/* event gate. |
-| `ctx.compact` | `seam` | [`compact`](../packages/compact/compact) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | - | The basic backend currently consumes the pre-step event directly; a model-facing compact tool remains deferred. |
+| `ctx.compact` | `seam` | [`compact`](../packages/compact/compact) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) | - | The basic backend consumes post-step pressure and request-error recovery events; a model-facing compact tool remains deferred. |
 | `ctx.subagents` | `seam` | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) | [`subagent-spawn`](../packages/subagent/subagent-spawn), [`subagent-fork`](../packages/subagent/subagent-fork), [`subagent-acp`](../packages/subagent/subagent-acp) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) | - | Providers implement transports; tool-subagent exposes one configured provider as a model-facing tool name. |
 | `ctx.tasks` | `core` | [`tasks`](../packages/tasks/tasks) | - | [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash), [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent), [`tool-tasks`](../packages/tasks/tool-tasks) | - | Producers (tool-bash background commands, tool-subagent background delegations) register running work; tool-tasks is the model-facing control surface that reads, lists, and kills it. |
 | `ctx.web` | `seam` | [`web`](../packages/web/web) | [`web-search-exa`](../packages/web/web-search-exa), [`web-search-perplexity`](../packages/web/web-search-perplexity), [`web-search-deepseek`](../packages/web/web-search-deepseek), [`web-fetch-local`](../packages/web/web-fetch-local) | [`tool-web`](../packages/web/tool-web) | - | Search and fetch providers register into one ctx.web seam; tool-web owns the stable model-facing names. |

docs/config-catalog.md

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Depends on: [`AgentOptions`](../packages/core/agent/src/index.ts) · [`SessionId`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
+Depends on: [`AgentOptions`](core-data-structures/core.md) · [`SessionId`](core-data-structures/core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts:369`](../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -206,6 +206,42 @@ Depends on: [`LocalConfig`](#deepseek-aidsh-bash-local) · [`SandboxMode`](core-
 
 Source: [`packages/bash/bash-sandbox/src/index.ts:27`](../packages/bash/bash-sandbox/src/index.ts)
 
+## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-cli-demo`
+
+```ts config-catalog
+/** App config forwarded to the spine, configured agent, and JSONL backend. */
+export interface Config {
+  /** Provider route for the configured agent. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Model name for the configured agent; a matching adapter must be registered. */
+  model: string
+  /** Bundled agent-loop concurrency cap; `1` is serial and omission uses its default. */
+  maxParallelToolCalls?: number
+  /** Deployment persona forwarded to the system-prompt plugin. */
+  persona?: string
+  /** Explicit model-facing tool order forwarded to the system-prompt plugin. */
+  toolOrder?: string[]
+  /** Tool-registry presentation config forwarded through agent-spine-demo. */
+  tools?: ToolsConfig
+  /** DeepSeek Harness home directory exposed to bash and used for local skill discovery. */
+  dshHome?: string
+  /** Directory the JSONL session backend writes under. Defaults to `./.sessions`. */
+  persistenceRoot?: string
+  /** Skill registry, local-provider, and model-facing consumer config. */
+  skills?: agentCore.SkillConfig
+  /** Model-facing bash tool config forwarded through agent-spine-demo. */
+  toolBash?: NonNullable<agentCore.Config['toolBash']>
+  /** Generic background-task control-tool config forwarded through agent-spine-demo. */
+  toolTasks?: NonNullable<agentCore.Config['toolTasks']>
+  /** Controls automatic AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md loading; configure a byte budget or set `false`. */
+  workspaceContext: agentCore.Config['workspaceContext']
+}
+```
+
+Depends on: [`agentCore`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/src/index.ts) · [`ToolsConfig`](#deepseek-aidsh-tools)
+
+Source: [`packages/examples/cli-demo/src/index.ts:22`](../packages/examples/cli-demo/src/index.ts)
+
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-worker`
 
 ```ts config-catalog
@@ -261,7 +297,9 @@ export interface BasicCompactConfig {
   maxTokens?: number
   /** Extra attempts after the first compaction when pressure remains above threshold. Defaults to `1`. */
   compactionRetries?: number
-  /** Enable the automatic `agent/pre-step` pressure listener. Defaults to `true`. */
+  /** Maximum retries after canonical context overflow; `0` disables recovery. Defaults to `1`. */
+  maxOverflowRetries?: number
+  /** Enable automatic post-step pressure and overflow-recovery listeners. Defaults to `true`. */
   auto?: boolean
 }
 ```
@@ -956,7 +994,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/context/time-context/src/index.ts:20`](../packages/context/time-context/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/context/time-context/src/index.ts:19`](../packages/context/time-context/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-token-meter`
 
@@ -1108,7 +1146,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Depends on: [`AgentOptions`](../packages/core/agent/src/index.ts)
+Depends on: [`AgentOptions`](core-data-structures/core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts:23`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts)
 

docs/cookbook/adding-a-package.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
-adding-a-package.md: 2930cee9ab64b382f6211335ae639bce45629d1d
-adding-a-package.zh.md: 10e906c320203c3658c103fc8936540f72697d65
+adding-a-package.md: 404492a9903d823feb011ec2536e4b66ef110e32
+adding-a-package.zh.md: 4be67137d416f373bf3477e30785055fedc5ac6f

docs/cookbook/adding-a-package.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ packages/<group>/<pkg>/
   src/index.ts     # service default export or plugin (name/inject/apply/Config)
   tests/<x>.spec.ts
   README.md        # service API, events, extension points, design notes,
-                   # + gated Model Experience context blocks or short sentence
+                   # + gated Model Experience context blocks or short form
                    # + the gated "Known Limitations and Deferred Work" section
                    # (or a whitelist entry in scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts)
 ```
@@ -51,24 +51,32 @@ Keep package-specific service API, config, events, extension points, and design
 
 ### Request surface and condition
 
-**What the model sees**: An exact data-dependent shape, an anchored generated-catalog link, or an introduction to the verbatim literal below.
+#### What the model sees
 
-**Token effect**: Fixed, conditional, retained, replaced, capped, or zero-direct token effect.
+An exact data-dependent shape, an anchored generated-catalog link, or an introduction to the verbatim literal below.
 
-#### Verbatim text for this context surface, when needed
+##### Verbatim text for this field, when needed
 
 ```markdown
 Stable system-prompt prose of any length, or another long non-generated literal, copied exactly from source.
 ```
 
+#### Token effect
+
+Fixed, conditional, retained, replaced, capped, or zero-direct token effect.
+
+#### KV Cache effect
+
+Append-only, prefix-stable, replacing, or independent behavior, including the exact conditions that may invalidate reuse.
+
 ## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
 
 - **Consumer-visible gap** — exact boundary, consequence, or maintainer constraint.
 ````
 
-Fill Model Experience from the implementation. Use one H3 per direct, conditional, capped, lifetime, or auxiliary-model surface, with the two fields shown above. Quote stable text owned by the package: system-prompt prose goes in a titled H4 plus `markdown` fence, other short literals stay inline with named placeholders, and other long literals use the same nested form. Summarize only data-dependent or provider-owned text. A tool-schema surface links its anchored section in the generated [tool catalog](../tool-catalog.md) and states only deltas absent there. Keep prompt and schema surfaces separate when scoping can hide one without the other. The [prose standard](../../.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) governs completeness and ownership; the verifier enforces the mechanical shape.
+Fill Model Experience from the implementation. Use one H3 per direct, conditional, capped, lifetime, or auxiliary-model surface, with the three ordered H4 fields shown above and one prose paragraph under each. Quote stable text owned by the package: system-prompt prose goes in a titled H5 plus `markdown` fence under the field that introduces it—normally `What the model sees`—other short literals stay inline with named placeholders, and other long literals use the same nested form. Summarize only data-dependent or provider-owned text. A tool-schema surface links its anchored section in the generated [tool catalog](../tool-catalog.md) and states only deltas absent there. Keep prompt and schema surfaces separate when scoping can hide one without the other. In `KV Cache effect`, distinguish append-only growth, a stable repeated prefix, replacement of earlier request tokens, and an independent model request, then name the package-owned changes that can invalidate reuse. “Does not invalidate” means the package preserves an already-reusable prefix; provider cache availability and eviction remain outside the package contract. The [prose standard](../../.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) governs completeness and ownership; the verifier enforces the mechanical shape.
 
-A package with no context effect or one consumer-owned path uses the audited `None, as ` or `Indirectly, through ` sentence in [`SENTENCE_MODEL_EXPERIENCE`](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-model-experience.ts); a model-agnostic generic package may instead join `NO_MODEL_EXPERIENCE_SECTION`. Do not expand either case into a description of another package's work. The limitations [allowlist](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts) is independent. The [Model Experience RFC](../rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-12-package-model-experience-contract.md) records the rationale.
+A package with no context effect or one consumer-owned path uses the audited `None, as ` or `Indirectly, through ` sentence in [`SENTENCE_MODEL_EXPERIENCE`](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-model-experience.ts), followed by a `KV Cache effect` H4 and one non-empty paragraph; a model-agnostic generic package may instead join `NO_MODEL_EXPERIENCE_SECTION`. Do not expand either case into a description of another package's work. The limitations [allowlist](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts) is independent. The [Model Experience RFC](../rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-12-package-model-experience-contract.md) records the rationale.
 
 ## 5. Verify
 

docs/cookbook/adding-a-package.zh.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ packages/<group>/<pkg>/
   src/index.ts     # service default export or plugin (name/inject/apply/Config)
   tests/<x>.spec.ts
   README.md        # service API, events, extension points, design notes,
-                   # + gated Model Experience context blocks or short sentence
+                   # + gated Model Experience context blocks or short form
                    # + the gated "Known Limitations and Deferred Work" section
                    # (or a whitelist entry in scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts)
 ```
@@ -51,24 +51,32 @@ package.json 不变式（由 `pnpm run constraints` / `scripts/check-workspace-c
 
 ### Request surface and condition
 
-**What the model sees**: An exact data-dependent shape, an anchored generated-catalog link, or an introduction to the verbatim literal below.
+#### What the model sees
 
-**Token effect**: Fixed, conditional, retained, replaced, capped, or zero-direct token effect.
+An exact data-dependent shape, an anchored generated-catalog link, or an introduction to the verbatim literal below.
 
-#### Verbatim text for this context surface, when needed
+##### Verbatim text for this field, when needed
 
 ```markdown
 Stable system-prompt prose of any length, or another long non-generated literal, copied exactly from source.
 ```
 
+#### Token effect
+
+Fixed, conditional, retained, replaced, capped, or zero-direct token effect.
+
+#### KV Cache effect
+
+Append-only, prefix-stable, replacing, or independent behavior, including the exact conditions that may invalidate reuse.
+
 ## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
 
 - **Consumer-visible gap** — exact boundary, consequence, or maintainer constraint.
 ````
 
-根据实现填写 Model Experience。每个直接、条件、上限、生命周期或辅助模型的 surface 使用一个 H3，包含上述两个字段。引用包拥有的稳定文本：系统提示词放在带标题的 H4 加 `markdown` 围栏中，其他短文本以命名占位符内联，其他长文本使用相同的嵌套形式。仅概述数据依赖或提供方拥有的文本。tool-schema surface 链接到生成的[工具目录](../tool-catalog.md)中对应的锚定章节，仅说明该处缺失的差异。当作用域可以隐藏 prompt 或 schema 其中之一而不影响另一个时，将二者分开。[行文标准](../../.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md)约束完整性与归属；验证器强制执行机械形状。
+根据实现填写 Model Experience。每个直接、条件、上限、生命周期或辅助模型的 surface 使用一个 H3，包含上述三个有序 H4 字段，每个字段下有一个正文段落。引用包拥有的稳定文本：系统提示词放在引出它的字段下，用带标题的 H5 加 `markdown` 围栏表示，通常归入 `What the model sees`；其他短文本以命名占位符内联，其他长文本使用相同的嵌套形式。仅概述数据依赖或提供方拥有的文本。tool-schema surface 链接到生成的[工具目录](../tool-catalog.md)中对应的锚定章节，仅说明该处缺失的差异。当作用域可以隐藏 prompt 或 schema 其中之一而不影响另一个时，将二者分开。填写 `KV Cache effect` 时，应区分仅追加增长、稳定重复的前缀、替换既有请求 token 和独立模型请求，并列出会使缓存复用失效、且由本包拥有的变化。“不使缓存失效”仅表示本包保留了已有的可复用前缀；缓存是否可用以及何时淘汰不属于本包契约。[行文标准](../../.agents/skills/dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md)约束完整性与归属；验证器强制执行机械形状。
 
-没有上下文效果或仅有消费方拥有路径的包使用 [`SENTENCE_MODEL_EXPERIENCE`](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-model-experience.ts) 中经过审计的 `None, as ` 或 `Indirectly, through ` 语句；与模型无关的通用包可以改为加入 `NO_MODEL_EXPERIENCE_SECTION`。两种情况都不要展开为对另一个包工作的描述。limitations [allowlist](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts) 独立管理。[Model Experience RFC](../rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-12-package-model-experience-contract.md) 记录了设计动机。
+没有上下文效果或仅有消费方拥有路径的包使用 [`SENTENCE_MODEL_EXPERIENCE`](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-model-experience.ts) 中经过审计的 `None, as ` 或 `Indirectly, through ` 语句，随后添加 `KV Cache effect` H4 和一个非空正文段落；与模型无关的通用包可以改为加入 `NO_MODEL_EXPERIENCE_SECTION`。两种情况都不要展开为对另一个包工作的描述。limitations [allowlist](../../scripts/verify-package-readme-limitations.ts) 独立管理。[Model Experience RFC](../rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-12-package-model-experience-contract.md) 记录了设计动机。
 
 ## 5. 验证
 

docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.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
-extension-cookbook.md: d271ceee208e276d97188a6ebbe91e1e90a4219f
-extension-cookbook.zh.md: bdd2c5f0861aa55c6f0104764a34784e5e834d10
+extension-cookbook.md: c6bf6ddd4bf0da8bd7377ab57e779750b72bd25e
+extension-cookbook.zh.md: dcc188b7d3ac44f5d86253c20147e95da0bea648

docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context) {
 
 ## Runnable wirings
 
-Five runnable leaves load their plugin trees from `cordis.yml`: [`examples/echo-agent`](../../examples/echo-agent) (mock model + echo tool, `pnpm run demo:echo`), [`examples/repl-agent`](../../examples/repl-agent) (DeepSeek V4 + coding tools through a line-oriented readline REPL, `pnpm run demo:repl`), [`examples/tui-agent`](../../examples/tui-agent) (the same coding composition through full-screen pi-tui, `pnpm run demo:tui`), [`examples/cordis-agent`](../../examples/cordis-agent) (self-inspection and dynamic plugin mounting, `pnpm run demo:cordis`), and [`examples/acp-agent`](../../examples/acp-agent) (an ACP server over JSON-RPC stdio, `pnpm run demo:acp`). The terminal leaves load [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../../packages/examples/stdio-demo), the ACP leaf loads [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../../packages/examples/acp-demo), and both app packages share the spine through [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo).
+Six runnable leaves load their plugin trees from `cordis.yml`: [`examples/echo-agent`](../../examples/echo-agent) (mock model + echo tool, `pnpm run demo:echo`), [`examples/repl-agent`](../../examples/repl-agent) (DeepSeek V4 + coding tools through a line-oriented readline REPL, `pnpm run demo:repl`), [`examples/tui-agent`](../../examples/tui-agent) (the same coding composition through full-screen pi-tui, `pnpm run demo:tui`), [`examples/headless-agent`](../../examples/headless-agent) (the same capability class behind a one-shot task and DSH-native output, `pnpm run demo:headless -- "task"`), [`examples/cordis-agent`](../../examples/cordis-agent) (self-inspection and dynamic plugin mounting, `pnpm run demo:cordis`), and [`examples/acp-agent`](../../examples/acp-agent) (an ACP server over JSON-RPC stdio, `pnpm run demo:acp`). The terminal leaves load [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../../packages/examples/stdio-demo), the headless leaf loads [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-cli-demo`](../../packages/examples/cli-demo), the ACP leaf loads [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../../packages/examples/acp-demo), and all three app packages share [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo).
 
 ## The feature → mechanism map
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Every product feature maps to a listener on a documented extension seam — the
 | `/loop` | on the `turn/end` session event, `send()` the next iteration; or force-continue |
 | Dynamic workflow | `ctx.workflows` + the worker-thread engine + the `workflow` tool; structured in-process children enforce output with scoped prompt/tool registrations, a monotonic tool guard, final `tools/result` commit (including enclosing `run_code`), and terminal `agent/turn-stop` |
 | Queued + steering messages | core `Agent.send()` / `Agent.steer()` |
-| Context compaction (auto + manual) | the `ctx.compact` seam + a backend (`dsh-compact-basic`) on the serial `agent/pre-step` seam; auto = token-pressure check before each step; a manual trigger invokes the same `ctx.compact` routine ([compaction RFC](../rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md) — the model-facing `/compact` consumer tool is deferred) |
+| Context compaction (auto + manual) | the `ctx.compact` seam + `dsh-compact-basic`; automatic pressure runs on serial `agent/post-step`, canonical overflow recovery runs on `agent/request-error`, and manual callers use the same compact service ([compaction RFC](../rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md) — the model-facing `/compact` consumer tool is deferred) |
 | System prompt configurability | `ctx.systemPrompt.section()` with ordering and scope-local shadowing |
 | AGENTS.md (root) | a section provider reading the file |
 | AGENTS.md (subdir, on-touch) + file-change notices | `agent.inject()` from a watcher / tool-result listener |

docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.zh.md

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context) {
 
 ## 可运行的组装示例
 
-五个可运行叶子从 `cordis.yml` 加载各自的插件树：[`examples/echo-agent`](../../examples/echo-agent)（mock 模型 + echo 工具，`pnpm run demo:echo`）、[`examples/repl-agent`](../../examples/repl-agent)（DeepSeek V4 + coding 工具，通过面向行的 readline REPL 交互，`pnpm run demo:repl`）、[`examples/tui-agent`](../../examples/tui-agent)（通过全屏 pi-tui 复用相同的 coding 组装，`pnpm run demo:tui`）、[`examples/cordis-agent`](../../examples/cordis-agent)（自我检查和动态插件挂载，`pnpm run demo:cordis`）与 [`examples/acp-agent`](../../examples/acp-agent)（通过 JSON-RPC stdio 暴露的 ACP 服务器，`pnpm run demo:acp`）。终端叶子加载 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../../packages/examples/stdio-demo)，ACP 叶子加载 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../../packages/examples/acp-demo)，两个 app 包通过 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo) 共享主干。
+六个可运行叶子从 `cordis.yml` 加载各自的插件树：[`examples/echo-agent`](../../examples/echo-agent)（mock 模型 + echo 工具，`pnpm run demo:echo`）、[`examples/repl-agent`](../../examples/repl-agent)（DeepSeek V4 + coding 工具，通过面向行的 readline REPL 交互，`pnpm run demo:repl`）、[`examples/tui-agent`](../../examples/tui-agent)（通过全屏 pi-tui 复用相同的 coding 组装，`pnpm run demo:tui`）、[`examples/headless-agent`](../../examples/headless-agent)（同类能力通过单次任务和 DSH 原生输出运行，`pnpm run demo:headless -- "task"`）、[`examples/cordis-agent`](../../examples/cordis-agent)（自我检查和动态插件挂载，`pnpm run demo:cordis`）与 [`examples/acp-agent`](../../examples/acp-agent)（通过 JSON-RPC stdio 暴露的 ACP 服务器，`pnpm run demo:acp`）。终端叶子加载 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../../packages/examples/stdio-demo)，headless 叶子加载 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-cli-demo`](../../packages/examples/cli-demo)，ACP 叶子加载 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../../packages/examples/acp-demo)，三个 app 包都通过 [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo) 共享主干。
 
 ## 功能→机制映射
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context) {
 | `/loop` | 在 `turn/end` 会话事件上 `send()` 下一次迭代；或强制继续 |
 | 动态工作流 | `ctx.workflows` + worker-thread 引擎 + `workflow` 工具；结构化的进程内子任务通过作用域化的 prompt/工具注册、单调工具守卫、最终 `tools/result` 提交（包括外层 `run_code`）和终端 `agent/turn-stop` 来强制输出 |
 | 排队消息 + steering（中途引导） | 核心 `Agent.send()` / `Agent.steer()` |
-| 上下文压缩（context compaction）（自动 + 手动） | `ctx.compact` seam + 串行 `agent/pre-step` seam 上的后端（`dsh-compact-basic`）；自动 = 每步之前的 token 压力检查；手动触发调用同一个 `ctx.compact` 例程（[压缩 RFC](../rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md)——面向模型的 `/compact` 消费方工具已推迟） |
+| 上下文压缩（context compaction）（自动 + 手动） | `ctx.compact` seam + `dsh-compact-basic`；自动压力检查运行在串行 `agent/post-step`，规范化溢出恢复运行在 `agent/request-error`，手动调用方使用同一个压缩服务（[压缩 RFC](../rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md)——面向模型的 `/compact` 消费方工具已推迟） |
 | 系统提示词可配置性 | `ctx.systemPrompt.section()`，支持排序与作用域局部覆盖 |
 | AGENTS.md（根目录） | 一个读取该文件的 section provider |
 | AGENTS.md（子目录，按需触发）+ 文件变更通知 | 从 watcher / tool-result 监听器调用 `agent.inject()` |

docs/cordis-catalog/events.md

@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ A fully configured agent and live session were published. Setup is composition-o
 'agent/created'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:141`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:147`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/disposed` — emit
 
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ An agent left the registry; AgentLoop emits this after driver quiescence but bef
 'agent/disposed'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:150`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:156`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/error` — emit
 
@@ -73,35 +73,53 @@ A step or turn errored. The loop reports a failure here (plus the logger) even w
 'agent/error'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, error: Error): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:285`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:311`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
-### `agent/pre-step` — serial
+### `agent/post-step` — serial
 
-Awaited serial checkpoint for session-surface mutation after prompt assembly and before `step/start`; appends land outside the pending step. The loop derives history once afterward, so compaction records and replacements are included without rewriting an assembled request. The prompt and prefix are the exact pressure inputs for that request, and `signal` cancels listener work. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
+Awaited serial checkpoint after the response, real or synthetic tool results, injected context, and steering are durable but before `step/end`. A cancelled tool batch reaches this checkpoint with an aborted signal.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
- * Awaited serial checkpoint for session-surface mutation after prompt
- * assembly and before `step/start`; appends land outside the pending step.
- * The loop derives history once afterward, so compaction records and
- * replacements are included without rewriting an assembled request. The
- * prompt and prefix are the exact pressure inputs for that request, and
+ * Awaited serial checkpoint after the response, real or synthetic tool
+ * results, injected context, and steering are durable but before `step/end`.
+ * A cancelled tool batch reaches this checkpoint with an aborted signal.
+ * @param agent - the agent whose step is settling.
+ * @param turn - the open turn number.
+ * @param step - the open step number.
+ * @param signal - the turn abort signal.
+ * Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
+ * @mode serial
+ */
+'agent/post-step'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<void> | void
+```
+
+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)
+
+### `agent/pre-step` — serial
+
+Awaited serial checkpoint before `step/start`; appends land outside the pending step and are included when the loop derives request history. `signal` cancels listener work. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
+
+```ts cordis-catalog
+/**
+ * Awaited serial checkpoint before `step/start`; appends land outside the
+ * pending step and are included when the loop derives request history.
  * `signal` cancels listener work.
  * Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
  * @param agent - the agent opening the step.
  * @param turn - the open turn number.
  * @param step - the pending step number.
- * @param fullSystemPrompt - the assembled prompt.
- * @param sessionPrefix - the frozen request prefix.
  * @param signal - the turn abort signal.
  * @mode serial
  */
-'agent/pre-step'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, fullSystemPrompt: string, sessionPrefix: readonly Message[], signal: AbortSignal): Promise<void> | void
+'agent/pre-step'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<void> | void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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)
 
@@ -122,7 +140,7 @@ Allow, rewrite, or block one drained prompt before it becomes a user message. Ca
 'agent/prompt-submit'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, content: ContentBlock[], source: MessageSource, next: () => Promise<PromptDecision>): Promise<PromptDecision>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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)
 
@@ -143,9 +161,9 @@ Detached, frozen content entered the agent's inbox. Source defaults have already
 'agent/queued'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, content: ContentBlock[], info: { source: MessageSource; steering: boolean }): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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:169`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:175`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/request` — waterfall
 
@@ -166,13 +184,38 @@ Replace the frozen call configuration. Model-visible content must use logged cha
 'agent/request'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, config: LlmCallConfig, next: () => Promise<LlmCallConfig>): Promise<LlmCallConfig>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmCallConfig](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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)
 
+### `agent/request-error` — waterfall
+
+Recover a model-request failure after its failed step has closed. `retry` opens a new numbered step; `fail` preserves the original request error. Call `next()` to delegate to the next recovery listener or the default.
+
+```ts cordis-catalog
+/**
+ * Recover a model-request failure after its failed step has closed. `retry`
+ * opens a new numbered step; `fail` preserves the original request error.
+ * Call `next()` to delegate to the next recovery listener or the default.
+ * @param agent - the agent whose request failed.
+ * @param turn - the open turn number.
+ * @param step - the failed step number.
+ * @param error - the original model-request failure.
+ * @param retryAttempt - zero-based number of prior recovery retries.
+ * @param signal - the turn abort signal.
+ * Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
+ * @mode waterfall
+ */
+'agent/request-error'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, error: RequestError, retryAttempt: number, signal: AbortSignal, next: () => Promise<RequestErrorDecision>): Promise<RequestErrorDecision>
+```
+
+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)
+
 ### `agent/session-prefix` — waterfall
 
-Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result is computed once per loop instance, logged on its anchoring request header, and reused so the provider prefix remains stable. Interrupted composition is discarded. Composition precedes the first `agent/pre-step` and request boundary, so listener appends join the current request and pressure accounting sees the composed prefix. Changing context belongs in history; contributors should prepend to `await next()` to preserve registration order. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
+Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result is computed once per loop instance, logged on its anchoring request header, and reused so the provider prefix remains stable. Interrupted composition is discarded. Composition precedes the first `agent/pre-step` and request boundary, so listener appends join the current request. Changing context belongs in history; contributors should prepend to `await next()` to preserve registration order. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
@@ -180,9 +223,9 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
  * result is computed once per loop instance, logged on its anchoring request
  * header, and reused so the provider prefix remains stable. Interrupted
  * composition is discarded. Composition precedes the first `agent/pre-step`
- * and request boundary, so listener appends join the current request and
- * pressure accounting sees the composed prefix. Changing context belongs in
- * history; contributors should prepend to `await next()` to preserve registration order.
+ * and request boundary, so listener appends join the current request.
+ * Changing context belongs in history; contributors should prepend to
+ * `await next()` to preserve registration order.
  * Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
  * @param agent - the agent whose session prefix is being composed.
  * @param prefix - the frozen seed; return an extended replacement.
@@ -192,7 +235,7 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
 'agent/session-prefix'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, prefix: Message[], signal: AbortSignal, next: () => Promise<Message[]>): Promise<Message[]>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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)
 
@@ -214,9 +257,9 @@ The session lifecycle began, once before the first turn. Use `agent.inject()` to
 'agent/session-start'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, source: SessionStartSource): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionStartSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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:182`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:188`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/status` — emit
 
@@ -234,9 +277,9 @@ Agent status changed (`idle` ⇄ `running`, or → `disposed`). `send()` does no
 'agent/status'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, status: AgentStatus): void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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:159`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:165`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/step-result` — waterfall
 
@@ -256,7 +299,7 @@ Waterfall: post-process the assembled assistant Message before tool dispatch (va
 'agent/step-result'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, step: number, message: Message, next: () => Promise<Message>): Promise<Message>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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)
 
@@ -277,9 +320,9 @@ Override whether the turn continues. The default continues after tool calls or s
 'agent/turn-continuation'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number, defaultDecision: ContinuationDecision, next: () => Promise<ContinuationDecision>): Promise<ContinuationDecision>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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:262`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:288`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/turn-stop` — serial
 
@@ -298,9 +341,9 @@ Monotonic terminal-stop checkpoint after continuation and steering are folded; a
 'agent/turn-stop'(this: Scoped<Agent>, agent: Agent, turn: number): ContinuationStop | undefined
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+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:272`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:298`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ## `agent-loop/*`
 
@@ -321,6 +364,8 @@ A declarative agent entry failed before it could publish a live agent. Consumers
 'agent-loop/config-start-failed'(sessionId: SessionId, error: unknown): void
 ```
 
+Types: [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts:362`](../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `approval/*`
@@ -340,7 +385,7 @@ Ask composed answerers for one decision. Return an outcome to claim the request
 'approval/request'(this: Scoped<ApprovalService>, req: ApprovalRequest, next: () => Promise<ApprovalOutcome>): Promise<ApprovalOutcome>
 ```
 
-Types: [ApprovalOutcome](../core-data-structures/approval.md) · [ApprovalRequest](../core-data-structures/approval.md)
+Types: [ApprovalOutcome](../core-data-structures/approval.md) · [ApprovalRequest](../core-data-structures/approval.md) · [ApprovalService](../core-data-structures/approval.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts:31`](../../packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -426,9 +471,9 @@ Waterfall around every streaming model call (retry, replay, routing). Bound to t
 'llm/stream'(this: LlmService, options: GenerateOptions, next: () => AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>
 ```
 
-Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
+Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmService](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:40`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:43`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `session/*`
 
@@ -451,6 +496,8 @@ Creation announcement during session publication. A synchronous throw vetoes and
 'session/created'(this: Scoped<Session>, session: Session): void
 ```
 
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:47`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `session/disposed` — emit
@@ -470,6 +517,8 @@ Emitted once when an announced session leaves the store, including publication r
 'session/disposed'(this: Scoped<Session>, session: Session): void
 ```
 
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:57`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `session/event` — emit
@@ -491,7 +540,7 @@ Post-commit, fire-and-forget append feed. The listener snapshot resolves before
 'session/event'(this: Scoped<Session>, session: Session, event: SessionEvent): void
 ```
 
-Types: [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md) · [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:69`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -512,6 +561,8 @@ Awaited parallel durability checkpoint: every listener runs and the caller await
 'session/flush'(this: Scoped<Session>, session: Session): Promise<void> | void
 ```
 
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:79`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `subagent/*`
@@ -532,6 +583,8 @@ A ready child settled. Scope-filtered dispatch uses the same delegating parent c
 'subagent/end'(this: Scoped<SubagentService>, info: SubagentRunEndInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [SubagentService](../core-data-structures/subagent.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:112`](../../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `subagent/provider-added` — emit
@@ -547,6 +600,8 @@ A provider became resolvable in the registry.
 'subagent/provider-added'(provider: SubagentProvider): void
 ```
 
+Types: [SubagentProvider](../core-data-structures/subagent.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:86`](../../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `subagent/provider-removed` — emit
@@ -582,6 +637,8 @@ A provider established a ready child. For in-process providers, `ctx.agents.get(
 'subagent/start'(this: Scoped<SubagentService>, info: SubagentRunInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [SubagentService](../core-data-structures/subagent.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:103`](../../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `system-prompt/*`
@@ -602,6 +659,8 @@ Expert waterfall over the assembled sections, tools, and variables. Scope-filter
 'system-prompt/assemble'(this: Scoped<SystemPrompt>, assembly: PromptAssembly, context: AssembleContext, next: () => Promise<PromptAssembly>): Promise<PromptAssembly>
 ```
 
+Types: [AssembleContext](../core-data-structures/system-prompt.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [SystemPrompt](../core-data-structures/system-prompt.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts:27`](../../packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `system-prompt/change` — emit
@@ -656,7 +715,7 @@ Around-dispatch waterfall for timeout, retry, or metrics. `next()` returns a nor
 'tools/execute'(this: Scoped<ToolRegistry>, exec: ToolExecution, next: () => Promise<ToolExecutionResult>): Promise<ToolExecutionResult>
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolRegistry](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:89`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -676,7 +735,7 @@ Accept, replace, enrich, or block a normalized dispatch result. `next()` accepts
 'tools/post-execute'(this: Scoped<ToolRegistry>, exec: ToolExecution, result: Readonly<ToolExecutionResult>, next: () => Promise<PostToolDecision>): Promise<PostToolDecision>
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [PostToolDecision](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolRegistry](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:98`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -695,7 +754,7 @@ Allow, deny, or ask before dispatch. `next()` delegates to allow; missing approv
 'tools/pre-execute'(this: Scoped<ToolRegistry>, exec: ToolExecution, next: () => Promise<PreToolDecision>): Promise<PreToolDecision>
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [PreToolDecision](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolRegistry](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:80`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -714,7 +773,7 @@ Observe the frozen, lossless-JSON final outcome. Listener failures are contained
 'tools/result'(this: Scoped<ToolRegistry>, exec: Readonly<ToolExecution>, result: Readonly<ToolExecutionResult>): undefined
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [Scoped](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolRegistry](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:106`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -738,6 +797,8 @@ One `agent()` call settled (clean result, child failure, or run cancellation). P
 'workflow/agent-end'(info: WorkflowRunInfo, agent: WorkflowAgentEndInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:81`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `workflow/agent-start` — emit
@@ -757,6 +818,8 @@ One `agent()` call established a ready child run. Paired with Events['workflow/a
 'workflow/agent-start'(info: WorkflowRunInfo, agent: WorkflowAgentInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:70`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `workflow/end` — emit
@@ -776,6 +839,8 @@ A workflow run settled (any stop reason). Fired when WorkflowRun.result resolves
 'workflow/end'(info: WorkflowRunInfo, result: WorkflowResultInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:91`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `workflow/log` — emit
@@ -792,6 +857,8 @@ The script emitted a narration line (a `log(message)` call).
 'workflow/log'(info: WorkflowRunInfo, message: string): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:60`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `workflow/phase` — emit
@@ -809,6 +876,8 @@ The script entered a phase (a `phase(title)` call) — progress grouping for obs
 'workflow/phase'(info: WorkflowRunInfo, title: string): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:53`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ### `workflow/start` — emit
@@ -825,6 +894,8 @@ A workflow run started — the script's meta block validated, the body about to
 'workflow/start'(info: WorkflowRunInfo): void
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRunInfo](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:45`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ## Inherited events (cordis core + loader/hmr/timer)

docs/cordis-catalog/services.md

@@ -42,15 +42,66 @@ async createAgent(ownerCtx: Context, options: CreateAgentOptions): Promise<Agent
 async resume(ownerCtx: Context, options: ResumeAgentOptions): Promise<AgentHandle>
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [AgentOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionHeader](../core-data-structures/persistence.md) · [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts:407`](../../packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.agents` — `AgentRegistry`
 
-Agent registry (`ctx.agents`): tracks live agents so UI, hook, and orchestrator plugins can find them without depending on the concrete loop package. Agent *creation* is provided by whichever plugin implements the AgentFactory (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop`), registered via setFactory.
+Agent service (`ctx.agents`): tracks live agents and carries the initiating Agent through one process-local asynchronous driver chain. Agent *creation* is provided by whichever plugin implements the AgentFactory (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop`), registered via setFactory.
+
+Initiator methods provide same-process causal attribution only. Ambient presence is neither liveness proof nor authorization; subjects and owners remain explicit, as does identity at worker, process, persistence, and wire boundaries. Returned Promise boundaries drain during teardown, except a nested lineage that starts an owning-fiber unload is excluded from its own drain.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
+/**
+ * Read the Agent that initiated the inherited asynchronous driver chain.
+ * Use this optional form for logging, tracing, metrics, or host attribution
+ * that also supports agentless calls. When a parent creates a child, setup
+ * reports the causal parent while `agentCtx.agent` identifies the child.
+ * @returns the inherited Agent, or `undefined` outside an initiator boundary
+ *   and inside an explicit clearing boundary.
+ * @throws when this service instance has been disposed.
+ */
+currentInitiator(): Agent | undefined
+
+/**
+ * Read the initiating Agent and fail when no initiator boundary is active.
+ * Use this for private helpers contractually below a driver, or for a
+ * deployment-owned outbound request whose contract forbids agentless calls.
+ * Generic or direct-call seams use optional lookup or explicit request fields.
+ * @returns the inherited Agent.
+ * @throws when no initiator is active or this service instance has been disposed.
+ */
+requireInitiator(): Agent
+
+/**
+ * Run an operation with one exact Agent as its process-local initiator. The
+ * exact synchronous value or Promise returned by the operation is preserved.
+ * Custom drivers and test harnesses wrap their complete returned foreground
+ * lifetime.
+ * A queue or wire receiver may establish this boundary only after validating
+ * explicit identity and resolving the exact live Agent; this method does neither.
+ * Detached work remains owned by the subsystem that starts it.
+ * @param agent - initiating Agent to inherit; presence is neither liveness proof nor authorization.
+ * @param operation - synchronous or asynchronous operation to invoke.
+ * @returns the exact value returned by `operation`.
+ * @throws when the initiator scope is closing/disposed, or when `operation` throws.
+ */
+withInitiator<T>(agent: Agent, operation: () => T): T
+
+/**
+ * Run an operation inside a boundary that hides any inherited initiating
+ * Agent. The exact synchronous value or Promise is preserved.
+ * Use this while creating lazy shared timers, queue pumps, pool maintenance,
+ * watchers, or exporters so they do not inherit the first Agent that happens
+ * to initialize them. It clears only initiator attribution, not explicit
+ * fields, and does not own or drain detached resources.
+ * @param operation - synchronous or asynchronous operation to invoke without an initiator.
+ * @returns the exact value returned by `operation`.
+ * @throws when the initiator scope is closing/disposed, or when `operation` throws.
+ */
+withoutInitiator<T>(operation: () => T): T
+
 /**
  * Register the agent-creation factory (the loop calls this on construction,
  * effect-scoped). A traced Cordis service is canonicalized to its concrete
@@ -163,9 +214,9 @@ list(): Agent[]
 roots(): Agent[]
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/index.ts:201`](../../packages/core/agent/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/index.ts:217`](../../packages/core/agent/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.approval` — `ApprovalService`
 
@@ -233,7 +284,7 @@ abstract run(spec: BashExecSpec): Promise<BashRunResult>
 abstract start(spec: BashExecSpec): BashProcess
 ```
 
-Types: [BashExecRequest](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [BashExecSpec](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [BashRunResult](../core-data-structures/bash.md)
+Types: [BashExecRequest](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [BashExecSpec](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [BashProcess](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [BashRunResult](../core-data-structures/bash.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/bash/bash/src/index.ts:49`](../../packages/bash/bash/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -264,7 +315,7 @@ collect(execution: ToolExecution): DshEnvironment
 list(): BashEnvVariableInfo[]
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [DshEnvironment](../core-data-structures/bash.md) · [ToolExecution](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/bash/tool-bash/src/index.ts:102`](../../packages/bash/tool-bash/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -295,21 +346,18 @@ Abstract compaction service. Implementations own trigger policy, retention, and
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
- * Check token pressure and compact if the conversation is too large.
- * Estimate the next request, including its session prefix, derived history,
- * and system prompt. Above threshold, compact a head-anchored range ending at
- * a balanced tool boundary and reconsolidate any prior automatic checkpoint.
- * Return `null` when no compaction is needed or an open tail leaves no safe
- * cutoff. A single oversized retained unit or prefix cannot be repaired here.
+ * Consider automatic compaction for one explicit trigger. Pressure policy
+ * uses the latest durable routed request, while context-overflow policy may
+ * force a useful balanced reduction even below the normal threshold. Return
+ * `null` when no safe range can be compacted. A single oversized retained
+ * unit or request envelope cannot be repaired through surface compaction.
  *
- * @param agent - agent context owning the session surface and model options.
- * @param fullSystemPrompt - assembled system prompt, counted toward the estimate.
- * @param sessionPrefix - the instance's composed session prefix, counted toward the
- *   estimate.
+ * @param agent - agent context owning the session surface and routing options.
+ * @param trigger - normal pressure or provider-confirmed context overflow.
  * @param signal - cancellation signal; model-backed implementations must forward it.
  * @returns the compaction result, or `null` if no compaction was needed.
  */
-abstract compactIfNeeded( agent: CompactAgentContext, fullSystemPrompt: string, sessionPrefix: readonly Message[], signal: AbortSignal, ): Promise<CompactionResult | null>
+abstract compactIfNeeded( agent: CompactAgentContext, trigger: CompactionTrigger, signal: AbortSignal, ): Promise<CompactionResult | null>
 
 /**
  * Forcibly compact a range of surface nodes into a single summary node.
@@ -331,9 +379,9 @@ abstract compactIfNeeded( agent: CompactAgentContext, fullSystemPrompt: string,
 abstract compactRegion( start: number, end: number, agent: CompactAgentContext, signal?: AbortSignal, ): Promise<CompactionResult>
 ```
 
-Types: [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [CompactionResult](../core-data-structures/compaction.md) · [CompactionTrigger](../core-data-structures/compaction.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts:38`](../../packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts:40`](../../packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.fs` — `FileSystem` (abstract seam)
 
@@ -427,7 +475,7 @@ abstract writeText(target: FsTarget, content: string, expected?: FsWriteIntent,
 abstract editText(target: FsTarget, edit: FsEditRequest, expected?: { version: FsVersion }, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<FsEditOutcome>
 ```
 
-Types: [FsEditOutcome](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsEditRequest](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsInfo](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsTarget](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsVersion](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsWriteIntent](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsWriteOutcome](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md)
+Types: [FsDirEntry](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsEditOutcome](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsEditRequest](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsInfo](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsPathInfo](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsTarget](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsVersion](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsWriteIntent](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md) · [FsWriteOutcome](../core-data-structures/filesystem.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:80`](../../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -464,17 +512,20 @@ async listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>
  * Stream one model call as raw chunks (token-level deltas). Throws
  * `LlmError` with code `NO_ADAPTER` if no adapter is registered for
  * `options.provider`. Replay state is retained only when the same adapter
- * instance owns its historical provider and the target provider. Dispatches
- * through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
+ * instance owns its historical provider and the target provider. Final
+ * adapter selection, dispatch, and iteration failures retain their original
+ * Error identity and are tagged in a call-local scope for narrow agent-loop
+ * request recovery; middleware and nested-call failures remain untagged for
+ * the outer call.
  * @param options - the full request; `options.provider` selects the adapter.
  * @returns the chunk stream, possibly wrapped by `llm/stream` listeners.
  */
 stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>
 ```
 
-Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
+Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmAdapter](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md) · [LlmModelInfo](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmProviderInfo](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:94`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:97`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.permission` — `PermissionService`
 
@@ -516,7 +567,7 @@ optionOf(name: string): PresetOption
 set(session: Session, name: string): void
 ```
 
-Types: [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md) · [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/ui/permission/src/index.ts:94`](../../packages/ui/permission/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -594,7 +645,7 @@ abstract load(id: SessionId): Promise<{ meta: SessionHeader; events: SessionEven
 abstract list(): Promise<SessionHeader[]>
 ```
 
-Types: [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [SessionEvent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionHeader](../core-data-structures/persistence.md) · [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionLocation](../core-data-structures/persistence.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/src/index.ts:42`](../../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -640,6 +691,8 @@ async traceEvent(request: SessionEventTraceRequest): Promise<SessionEventTrace>
 async readEvent(request: SessionEventReadRequest): Promise<SessionEventWindow>
 ```
 
+Types: [SessionEventReadRequest](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionEventRecord](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionEventTrace](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionEventTraceRequest](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionEventWindow](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionId](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionLineageTrace](../core-data-structures/session-query.md) · [SessionRecord](../core-data-structures/session-query.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/session-query/session-query/src/index.ts:38`](../../packages/session-query/session-query/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.sessions` — `SessionStore`
@@ -765,6 +818,8 @@ list(): Session[]
 fork(source: SessionForkSource, boundary?: number, childSessionId?: SessionId): Session
 ```
 
+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:577`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.skills` — `SkillService`
@@ -811,6 +866,8 @@ async list(options: SkillLookupOptions = {}): Promise<SkillSummary[]>
 async get(name: string, options: SkillLookupOptions = {}): Promise<SkillDefinition | undefined>
 ```
 
+Types: [SkillDefinition](../core-data-structures/skills.md) · [SkillLookupOptions](../core-data-structures/skills.md) · [SkillProvider](../core-data-structures/skills.md) · [SkillRegistration](../core-data-structures/skills.md) · [SkillSummary](../core-data-structures/skills.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:141`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.spillStore` — `SpillStore` (abstract seam)
@@ -832,6 +889,8 @@ Semantics every implementation must honor:
 abstract saveText(input: SaveTextSpill): Promise<SpillRef>
 ```
 
+Types: [SaveTextSpill](../core-data-structures/spill.md) · [SpillRef](../core-data-structures/spill.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/spill/spill/src/index.ts:45`](../../packages/spill/spill/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.subagents` — `SubagentService`
@@ -873,6 +932,8 @@ list(): string[]
 async start(name: string, request: SubagentStartRequest): Promise<SubagentRun>
 ```
 
+Types: [SubagentProvider](../core-data-structures/subagent.md) · [SubagentRun](../core-data-structures/subagent.md) · [SubagentStartRequest](../core-data-structures/subagent.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:153`](../../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.systemPrompt` — `SystemPrompt`
@@ -919,6 +980,8 @@ variable(name: string, provider: (context: AssembleContext) => string | undefine
 async assemble(context: AssembleContext = {}): Promise<PromptAssembly>
 ```
 
+Types: [AssembleContext](../core-data-structures/system-prompt.md) · [PromptSection](../core-data-structures/system-prompt.md) · [ToolProviderResult](../core-data-structures/system-prompt.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts:209`](../../packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.tasks` — `TaskService`
@@ -1006,7 +1069,7 @@ onTaskDone(listener: TaskDoneListener): () => void
 attachSurface(name: string): () => void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [TaskDoneListener](../core-data-structures/tasks.md) · [TaskId](../core-data-structures/tasks.md) · [TaskRead](../core-data-structures/tasks.md) · [TaskSnapshot](../core-data-structures/tasks.md) · [TaskStart](../core-data-structures/tasks.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/tasks/tasks/src/index.ts:76`](../../packages/tasks/tasks/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -1041,7 +1104,7 @@ measure(session: Session, requestHeader?: EpochHeader): TokenMeasurement
 estimateMessage(message: Message): number
 ```
 
-Types: [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
+Types: [EpochHeader](../core-data-structures/session.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Session](../core-data-structures/session.md) · [TokenMeasurement](../core-data-structures/token-meter.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/llm/token-meter/src/index.ts:106`](../../packages/llm/token-meter/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -1119,7 +1182,7 @@ executionMode(exec: ToolExecutionInput): ToolExecutionMode
 async execute(exec: ToolExecutionInput): Promise<ToolExecutionResult>
 ```
 
-Types: [ToolDefinition](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionInput](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionMode](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
+Types: [ScopeKey](../core-data-structures/scope.md) · [ToolDefinition](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionInput](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionMode](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolGuard](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolRestriction](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolSchema](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:438`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
@@ -1145,6 +1208,8 @@ registerProvider(provider: UserInteractionProvider): () => void
 async ask(request: AskUserQuestionRequest): Promise<AskUserQuestionAnswer>
 ```
 
+Types: [AskUserQuestionAnswer](../core-data-structures/user-interaction.md) · [AskUserQuestionRequest](../core-data-structures/user-interaction.md) · [UserInteractionProvider](../core-data-structures/user-interaction.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/ui/user-interaction/src/index.ts:82`](../../packages/ui/user-interaction/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.web` — `WebService`
@@ -1201,6 +1266,8 @@ async search(request: WebSearchRequest, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<WebSearch
 async fetch(request: WebFetchRequest, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<WebFetchResult>
 ```
 
+Types: [WebFetchProvider](../core-data-structures/web.md) · [WebFetchRequest](../core-data-structures/web.md) · [WebFetchResult](../core-data-structures/web.md) · [WebSearchProvider](../core-data-structures/web.md) · [WebSearchRequest](../core-data-structures/web.md) · [WebSearchResult](../core-data-structures/web.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/web/web/src/index.ts:74`](../../packages/web/web/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.workflows` — `WorkflowService` (abstract seam)
@@ -1217,6 +1284,8 @@ Workflow execution seam. Invalid requests throw before publication; a live run i
 abstract start(request: WorkflowStartRequest): WorkflowRun
 ```
 
+Types: [WorkflowRun](../core-data-structures/workflow.md) · [WorkflowStartRequest](../core-data-structures/workflow.md)
+
 Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts:159`](../../packages/workflow/workflow/src/index.ts)
 
 ## Inherited `ctx` members (cordis core + loader/hmr/timer)

docs/core-data-structures/compaction.md

@@ -51,8 +51,15 @@ interface CompactionResult {
 
 ## The service
 
-`CompactService` exposes `compactIfNeeded(...)` for pressure-triggered compaction, returning `null` when no compaction is needed, and `compactRegion(...)` for an explicit inclusive surface range. The pre-step caller supplies the agent, full prompt, session prefix, and abort signal; implementations must forward that signal to summarization. The seam owns no pricing API: [`ctx.tokenMeter`](token-meter.md) directly owns estimation and replay, while `dsh-compact-basic` owns retention, event sequencing, routed summarization calls, and their configuration.
+Automatic callers state why policy is running; implementations may treat confirmed overflow more aggressively than ordinary pressure.
 
-Auto-compaction runs at serial `agent/pre-step`, before the step and request derivation, so it can replace surface nodes while keeping trace events outside the step. Region boundaries preserve tool-call/result pairing but do not preserve whole turns, allowing early closed steps of one oversized turn to compact. `dsh-compact-basic` owns the retention and failure details.
+```ts type-equiv
+/** Why automatic policy is asking a backend to consider compaction. */
+type CompactionTrigger = 'pressure' | 'context-overflow'
+```
+
+`CompactService` exposes `compactIfNeeded(agent, trigger, signal)` for automatic `pressure` or `context-overflow` policy, returning `null` when no safe work exists, and `compactRegion(...)` for an explicit inclusive surface range. Implementations must forward the supplied signal to summarization. The seam owns no pricing API: the singleton [`ctx.tokenMeter`](token-meter.md) directly owns estimation and replay, while `dsh-compact-basic` owns retention, event sequencing, routed summarization calls, and their configuration.
+
+Pressure compaction runs at serial `agent/post-step`, after successful assistant output, tool results, buffered context, and steering are durable but before `step/end`. Failed-request recovery runs through `agent/request-error` after the failed step closes, and authorizes a fresh numbered-step retry only when the surface replacement generation advances. Region boundaries preserve tool-call/result pairing but do not preserve whole turns, allowing early closed steps of one oversized turn to compact. `dsh-compact-basic` owns thresholds, retained-tail policy, overflow caps, and failure handling.
 
 The seam exports `toolPairingBalancedBefore(session, seq)` and `toolPairingBalancedAfter(session, seq)` for those edge checks. Both validate current surface membership and reject missing seqs and orphan results; the [package contract](../../packages/compact/compact/README.md#tool-pairing-boundaries) owns their cache semantics.

docs/core-data-structures/core.md

@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ Everything else is documented on a **sub-page**, not here. The rule that draws t
 | [spill.md](spill.md) | the spill storage seam: `SaveTextSpill`, `SpillOwner`/`SpillSource`, `SpillRef`, the branded `SpillLocator` |
 | [workflow.md](workflow.md) | the workflow seam: `WorkflowStartRequest`, `WorkflowMeta`, `WorkflowRun`/`Result`, the `workflow/*` event payloads, `WorkflowError` fatality |
 
-> Type declarations and their JSDoc on this page are pasted **verbatim** from source and drift-checked by `pnpm run verify-type-equiv` (see [development.md](../development.md#documenting-types-verbatim-ts-type-equiv)).
-
-FIXME(catalog-verbs): the drift gate covers only the nouns (the pasted type shapes); every method surface on these pages is hand-written prose. core-data-structures should probably also generate the *verbs* — the public methods of the cataloged classes — so a signature change cannot silently outdate the catalog.
+> Type declarations and their JSDoc on these pages are source-equivalent and drift-checked by `pnpm run verify-type-equiv` (see [development.md](../development.md#documenting-types-verbatim-ts-type-equiv)). Ordinary blocks preserve complete declarations; `public-api` blocks preserve body-stripped public class declarations. Cordis services use the generated [service catalog](../cordis-catalog/services.md).
 
 ## The `…Map → derived-union` pattern
 
@@ -403,6 +401,10 @@ interface Agent {
 
 The [event taxonomy](../architecture.md#event) owns the `agent/*` lifecycle, checkpoint, and waterfall contracts. Turn and step boundaries are durable session events rather than agent emits.
 
+## Initiating Agent
+
+The process-local initiator carried by `ctx.agents` is the exact `Agent` above, not a separate frame or copied identity. Ambient presence is neither liveness proof nor authorization; the [initiator-scope decision](../rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md) owns its lifetime and boundary rules.
+
 ## 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.
@@ -443,6 +445,22 @@ type ContinuationDecision =
   | { action: 'continue'; reason?: { content: ContentBlock[]; source: MessageSource } }
 ```
 
+`agent/request-error` receives the original `RequestError`, whose optional provider-neutral `code` supports stable routing without message parsing:
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/** Model-request failure with an optional machine-routable provider code. */
+type RequestError = Error & { code?: string }
+```
+
+It returns a `RequestErrorDecision`; `retry` opens a new numbered step after the recovery listener's durable mutation, while `fail` preserves that error:
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/** Failed-request recovery decision; `retry` opens another numbered step while listeners delegate by calling `next()`. */
+type RequestErrorDecision = { action: 'fail' } | { action: 'retry' }
+```
+
+`agent/post-step` is awaited after assistant output, real or synthetic tool results, buffered context, and steering are durable but before `step/end`. A cancelled tool batch reaches it with an aborted signal after draining; its signature is `(agent, turn, step, signal)`, and replayable facts remain in the session log rather than a transient payload.
+
 `agent/turn-stop` returns the stop-only `ContinuationStop` subset or `undefined`. The loop calls this serial checkpoint after folding the ordinary decision, its reason, and pending steering; a stop is terminal and discards pending steering.
 
 ```ts type-equiv

docs/core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md

@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ Every adapter MUST obey these, and every consumer may rely on them:
 
 - **`usage` before `finish`, nothing after `finish`.** Defer both to the provider's end-of-stream marker so a trailing usage-only chunk can't violate the ordering.
 - **Tool-call `arguments` stay raw JSON strings end-to-end.** Partial fragments stream via `argumentsDelta`; a provider that hands back parsed objects re-stringifies at `block-end`.
-- **Two sanctioned error paths.** A failure may either THROW from `stream()` (transport/protocol errors) **or** end the stream with `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` (provider in-band errors, for adapters that can't throw mid-stream). Consumers must handle *both*. The agent loop translates a finish-error/aborted into a turn error — it never logs a normal completed assistant message for a failed step.
+- **Two sanctioned error paths.** A failure may either THROW from `stream()` (transport/protocol errors) **or** end the stream with `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` (provider in-band errors, for adapters that can't throw mid-stream). Consumers must handle *both*. The agent loop closes the failed step and offers either form to `agent/request-error`; absent recovery it becomes a turn error, and no normal completed assistant message is logged for that request.
+- **Context overflow has one canonical code.** Both DeepSeek adapters classify explicit provider detail through `isContextWindowExceededError()` and surface `CONTEXT_WINDOW_EXCEEDED`, whether the failure arrives as a thrown HTTP `LlmError` or an in-band finish error. Consumers route on the code, never provider text.
 - **Every provider HTTP request carries the app-attribution header.** Adapters send `attributionHeaders()` (below) - the `User-Agent` baseline - and prove it with a wire-level test (mock server asserting the received header, or the library's header hook for a library-backed adapter).
 - **Replay state is adapter-owned.** A successful `finish` may carry lossless-JSON state needed to reconstruct a native provider response. The loop stores it with the assembled assistant message unless an `agent/step-result` listener rewrote the content. On a later request, `LlmService` passes the state only when the historical provider and target provider are currently registered to the exact same adapter instance. That adapter validates the state and owns any cross-model or cross-provider conversion; other adapters receive the provider-neutral content and provenance without the private state.
 
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ interface AppIdentity {
 
 ## `TokenUsage`
 
-Per-call token accounting. Counts are **disjoint**: `inputTokens` is uncached input only; cached input is reported separately, and billed input is the sum of the three. Adapters whose providers fold cache hits into a single prompt total (DeepSeek's `prompt_tokens`) subtract them back out.
+Per-call token accounting. Counts are **disjoint**: `inputTokens` is uncached input only; cached input is reported separately, and billed input is the sum of the three. Adapters whose providers fold cache hits into a single prompt total (DeepSeek's `prompt_tokens`) subtract them back out. `reasoningTokens`, when present, is informational detail already included in `outputTokens`; totals must not add it again.
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
@@ -91,10 +92,79 @@ interface TokenUsage {
 
 `BlockAssembler` ([`packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts)) is the single shared implementation that folds a `StreamChunk` stream back into `ContentBlock`s, usage, finish reason, and replay state. The loop logs the raw chunks while feeding the same chunks through an assembler, then stores the assembled assistant content with its provider/model provenance. A consumer that needs the assembled result without re-implementing the fold uses this.
 
+```ts public-api
+/**
+ * Incrementally assembles raw {@link StreamChunk}s into complete
+ * {@link ContentBlock}s and a final assistant {@link Message}.
+ *
+ * The agent loop feeds it while logging raw chunks for replay fidelity, then
+ * reads `blocks()` / `message()` / `usage` / `finish` once the stream ends.
+ *
+ * Tolerant of delta-only protocols (no block-start/end); deltas arriving for
+ * an index already closed by `block-end` are ignored (malformed stream) so a
+ * misbehaving adapter cannot grow memory or corrupt a completed block.
+ */
+declare class BlockAssembler {
+  /**
+   * Feed one chunk into the assembly state.
+   * @param chunk - the next raw chunk, in stream order.
+   */
+  push(chunk: StreamChunk): void;
+  /**
+   * Assemble all blocks seen so far, in stream order.
+   * @returns one block per seen index; an open block assembles from its
+   *   accumulated deltas (an unknown block type never closed by `block-end` throws).
+   */
+  blocks(): ContentBlock[];
+  /** Usage from the `usage` chunk; undefined until one arrives. */
+  get usage(): TokenUsage | undefined;
+  /** Finish reason from the `finish` chunk; `{kind: 'stop'}` when the stream ended without one. */
+  get finish(): FinishReason;
+  /** Adapter-private replay state from the terminal finish chunk, if any. */
+  get replayState(): unknown;
+  /**
+   * The assembled assistant message.
+   * @returns an assistant-role message over `blocks()` (same open-block assembly rules).
+   */
+  message(): Message;
+}
+```
+
 ## The seam
 
 `LlmAdapter` is the provider seam: subclass, implement `stream()`, and register one adapter instance with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)`. `GenerateOptions.provider` selects the registered adapter; `GenerateOptions.model` is passed to that adapter and need not be registered at lifecycle start. Duplicate provider routes fail atomically. Optional `providerInfo()` and asynchronous `listModels()` methods feed `LlmService.listProviders()` / `listModels()` with detached selector metadata. That catalog is advisory rather than a request whitelist: the adapter remains authoritative and may accept unlisted model ids. Adapter lookup happens at the terminal continuation of the `llm/stream` waterfall, so a listener may short-circuit the call or route a mutable one-shot request before lookup. The `block-start` / `block-end` `index` correlation and the assembler together mean an adapter only has to emit well-formed chunks — block reassembly is not each adapter's problem. The consumer surface (`ctx.llm.stream()`) and the `llm/stream` waterfall are described in [architecture.md § Content blocks and streaming](../architecture.md#content-blocks-and-streaming-dsh-llm).
 
+```ts public-api
+/**
+ * Provider-wire adapter for the harness message and stream vocabulary. Register implementations
+ * with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)`. Every provider HTTP request must include
+ * `attributionHeaders()`; prove that at the wire or library header-hook boundary. The hand-rolled
+ * DeepSeek and pi-ai adapters intentionally exercise this contract through different internals.
+ */
+declare abstract class LlmAdapter {
+  /**
+   * Describe one provider route owned by this adapter.
+   * @param provider - a route passed to `registerAdapter()` for this instance.
+   * @returns detached display metadata whose id must equal `provider`.
+   */
+  providerInfo(provider: string): LlmProviderInfo;
+  /**
+   * List models this adapter can currently advertise for one owned provider.
+   * The result is advisory: an adapter may accept unlisted model ids, and
+   * consumers must not turn absence into request rejection.
+   * @param _provider - one provider route owned by this adapter.
+   * @returns discoverable models in adapter-preferred order.
+   */
+  listModels(_provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]>;
+  /**
+   * Stream one model call as raw chunks. The only required method.
+   * @param options - the fully-assembled request; implementations must honor `options.signal`.
+   * @returns the chunk stream, obeying the adapter contract documented on `StreamChunk`.
+   */
+  abstract stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>;
+}
+```
+
 `ContentBlockType` (the key set the `index`-correlated blocks carry) derives from `ContentBlockMap`:
 
 ```ts type-equiv

docs/core-data-structures/session.md

@@ -305,6 +305,126 @@ interface SurfaceFoldResult {
 }
 ```
 
+## `Session` public API
+
+The body-stripped declaration keeps the plain class's public constructor, state accessors, append boundary, and history projections synchronized with source. Store operations remain in the generated [`ctx.sessions` service catalog](../cordis-catalog/services.md#ctxsessions--sessionstore).
+
+```ts public-api
+/**
+ * An event-sourced session: an append-only log of {@link SessionEvent}s.
+ *
+ * Plain class (not a Service) — create instances via `ctx.sessions.create()`.
+ * Seeding with an existing event log replays/forks a session.
+ */
+declare class Session {
+  /** The ordered surface over this session's event log. */
+  get surface(): SessionSurface;
+  /**
+   * Detached, deep-frozen creation metadata (format version, cwd, lineage,
+   * seed boundary). Supplied by the store via `ctx.sessions.create()`. When a
+   * `Session` is constructed bare (tests, ad-hoc replay), a minimal header is
+   * synthesized (stamped with the current {@link SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION}) so
+   * `session.header` is always present. Kept out of the event log — it is a
+   * storage concern, not replayable conversation state.
+   */
+  readonly header: SessionHeader;
+  /** The session identity, derived from its durable header's single copy. */
+  get id(): SessionId;
+  constructor(id: SessionId, seed?: readonly SessionEvent[], header?: SessionHeader);
+  /**
+   * An immutable snapshot of the append-only event log. The snapshot is reused
+   * until the next append; a previously returned array does not grow later.
+   * Events and their nested data are deep-frozen at acceptance, so neither a
+   * cast nor ordinary JavaScript can rewrite durable history.
+   */
+  get events(): readonly SessionEvent[];
+  /** The next event's sequence number — always the log length (the `seq = log.length` contiguity contract). */
+  get seq(): number;
+  /**
+   * Append one typed event to the log and synchronously notify observers via
+   * the store-owned, module-private publication hooks. The hot path never blocks
+   * on I/O — persistence plugins buffer asynchronously. Once the event enters
+   * the log, the append is committed: observer failures are logged and
+   * contained per listener, so they do not change the return value or prevent
+   * later listeners from observing the same accepted event.
+   *
+   * @param type - The event type (key of {@link SessionEventMap}).
+   * @param data - The event payload; must be JSON-serializable.
+   * @param opts - Surface metadata: `surfaceOp` controls how the event enters
+   *   the ordered surface; `sourceEventSeqs` records provenance (the seq
+   *   numbers of events this one derives from). REQUIRED for
+   *   {@link SurfaceEventType} events (every message-producing event must
+   *   declare how it joins the surface, the sole source of derived history) and
+   *   rejected by the compiler for non-surface types like `turn/start` or
+   *   `assistant/chunk`.
+   * @returns the logged event — its assigned `seq`/`time` plus the SNAPSHOT of
+   *   `data` that entered the log, so reading `event.data` back sees the logged
+   *   value, never the caller's still-mutable input.
+   * @throws if `data` or surface metadata is not losslessly JSON-serializable
+   *   (BigInt, function, symbol, undefined, negative zero, non-finite number,
+   *   circular reference, sparse array, or an exotic object such as
+   *   Map/Set/Date/class instance), or when the candidate violates the
+   *   canonical surface contract (marker shape and eligibility, unique
+   *   earlier provenance, positional replacement validity, and complete
+   *   shadowed-node coverage). One recursive pass reads, validates, and
+   *   copies each nested value once, so a stateful getter cannot supply one value
+   *   to validation and another to storage. The event log is the durable source
+   *   of truth, so a bad event fails at the append site rather than later during
+   *   a backend flush. A synchronous internal dispatch validation failure or an
+   *   append reentered while this acceptance/publication boundary is open also
+   *   rejects before the log changes.
+   */
+  append<T extends SessionEventType>(
+    type: T,
+    data: SessionEventMap[T],
+    ...opts: T extends SurfaceEventType ? [opts: SurfaceIntent] : []
+  ): SessionEvent<T>;
+  /**
+   * The {@link EpochHeader} in force after the log's last header event — the
+   * header the NEXT request will be compared against — or undefined before
+   * the first `request/header` snapshot. The live, incrementally-maintained
+   * form of `foldRequestHeader(session.events)`: each header event is folded
+   * once, when first seen, so a per-step read costs O(new events).
+   * @returns the folded header, or undefined when no header event exists yet.
+   */
+  requestHeader(): EpochHeader | undefined;
+  /**
+   * Derive the LLM message history by walking the ordered sequences of
+   * message-producing events maintained by `surfaceOp` markers. The
+   * surface is the single source of derived history: every message-producing
+   * append records its `surfaceOp`, so a raw event with no marker (a chunk, a
+   * turn boundary) is correctly absent, and a compaction `replace` deletes the
+   * shadowed nodes from the derivation. The projection rules are
+   * {@link deriveEventMessage}, folded per node.
+   *
+   * CACHED: each surface node is projected exactly once, when first seen — a
+   * call costs O(new nodes), and a surface rewrite (a `replace`;
+   * {@link SessionSurface.replaceGeneration}) rebuilds. The returned array is
+   * a fresh snapshot per call (later appends never grow an array a caller
+   * already holds); the `Message` objects in it are SHARED and **deep-frozen**.
+   * Their content reuses the already frozen durable event data, so the cache
+   * needs no second deep clone and consumers still cannot mutate the log.
+   * @returns a fresh array of the shared, frozen derived history.
+   */
+  deriveMessages(): Message[];
+  /**
+   * Project a single event into the LLM message it derives to, or null when
+   * it produces none — a non-surface event (chunk, boundary, log-only record)
+   * or an empty-content assistant/message (which exists only to host usage).
+   * The per-node pure function {@link deriveMessages} folds over the surface;
+   * an external reconstructor (or the dev invariant) folds the same function
+   * over a log prefix's surface to rebuild the exact messages any request was
+   * built from (the reconstructability RFC). The returned message wrapper is
+   * fresh; its content reuses the logged event's already deep-frozen durable
+   * data, so changing the wrapper cannot rewrite the log and changing content
+   * throws.
+   * @param event - the event to project.
+   * @returns the derived message, or null when the event produces none.
+   */
+  deriveEventMessage(event: SessionEvent): Message | null;
+}
+```
+
 ## Derived history: `deriveMessages()` and `deriveEventMessage()`
 
 `Session.deriveMessages()` projects the event log into the `Message[]` the model sees — cached (each surface node projected once, when first seen; a surface rewrite rebuilds) and frozen (a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages, so mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable). `deriveEventMessage(event)` is the per-node pure function the fold applies — public so external reconstructors and the dev invariant project a log prefix with exactly the same rules and cannot disagree with the cache. The projection rules:

docs/development.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
-development.md: 452f4e82beaeacb23aa6bc3e7a60c0f2b1e2c95e
-development.zh.md: 2285482726c43aa02d31c7d2094e2058de1d3863
+development.md: a3268164cd06fb8bf66f52391bc42c2dc3ca9396
+development.zh.md: f8f29c64aa6e49e3ed6d7ef12df2a4911c9182b0

docs/development.md

@@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ Pick the tag that matches the urgency so anyone scanning the code can tell a rel
 
 ## Documenting types verbatim (`ts type-equiv`)
 
-The [core data structures](core-data-structures/core.md) docs paste real type declarations together with their original JSDoc so a reader sees the exact shape and source contract. To keep a paste from drifting when source changes, fence it as ` ```ts type-equiv ` (instead of ` ```ts `) and register it in `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` with the source file and symbol it mirrors:
+The [core data structures](core-data-structures/core.md) docs paste source-equivalent declarations together with their original JSDoc so a reader sees the exact shape and source contract. To keep a paste from drifting when source changes, fence it as ` ```ts type-equiv ` (instead of ` ```ts `) and register it in `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` with the source file and symbol it mirrors:
 
 ```json
 { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "SessionEvent", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" }
 ```
 
-`pnpm run verify-type-equiv` (part of `doc-sync`) then extracts that symbol's declaration and attached JSDoc from source via the TypeScript parser and asserts the block matches both. Comparison ignores whitespace and non-JSDoc comments but requires every original JSDoc comment, including member documentation, so readers see the source contract beside the exact shape. The gate also enforces a 1:1 correspondence: every `ts type-equiv` block has exactly one manifest entry and vice-versa, so a block can't go silently unchecked and a stale entry can't linger. `doc-typecheck` skips `ts type-equiv` blocks (they aren't standalone-compilable) and excludes them from its opt-out ratio. When you change a documented declaration or its JSDoc, the gate fails until you update the paste; when you add or remove a block, update the manifest in the same change.
+`pnpm run verify-type-equiv` (part of `doc-sync`) then extracts that symbol's declaration and attached JSDoc from source via the TypeScript parser and asserts the block matches both. For a class whose implementation bodies do not belong in the catalog, use ` ```ts public-api ` and set `"projection": "public-api"`; the checked projection retains the public fields, constructor, accessors, methods, and original class/member JSDoc while omitting bodies and private or protected members. Comparison ignores whitespace and non-JSDoc comments but requires every original JSDoc comment, including member documentation, so readers see the source contract beside the exact shape. The gate also enforces a 1:1 correspondence by document, symbol, and projection, so a block can't go silently unchecked and a stale entry can't linger. `doc-typecheck` skips both fence kinds (they aren't standalone-compilable) and excludes them from its opt-out ratio. When you change a documented declaration or its JSDoc, the gate fails until you update the paste; when you add or remove a block, update the manifest in the same change.
 
 ## Architecture context
 

docs/development.zh.md

@@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ pnpm run demo:acp
 
 ## 逐字记录类型（`ts type-equiv`）
 
-[核心数据结构](core-data-structures/core.md)文档会把真实类型声明及其原始 JSDoc 一并粘贴，让读者看到确切形状和源码契约。为防止粘贴内容在源码变化时漂移，请将其围栏为 ` ```ts type-equiv `（而不是 ` ```ts `），并在 `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` 中登记它镜像的源文件和符号：
+[核心数据结构](core-data-structures/core.md)文档会把与源码等价的声明及其原始 JSDoc 一并粘贴，让读者看到确切形状和源码契约。为防止粘贴内容在源码变化时漂移，请将其围栏为 ` ```ts type-equiv `（而不是 ` ```ts `），并在 `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` 中登记它镜像的源文件和符号：
 
 ```json
 { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/session.md", "symbol": "SessionEvent", "source": "packages/core/session/src/types.ts" }
 ```
 
-`pnpm run verify-type-equiv`（`doc-sync` 的一环）随后通过 TypeScript 解析器从源码提取该符号的声明及其附带的 JSDoc，并断言代码块同时匹配两者。比对会忽略空白和非 JSDoc 注释，但要求保留每条原始 JSDoc（包括成员文档），让读者同时看到源码契约和确切形状。该门禁还强制 1:1 对应：每个 `ts type-equiv` 块恰好有一条 manifest 条目，反之亦然；因此不会有块被静默漏检，也不会有陈旧条目滞留。`doc-typecheck` 跳过 `ts type-equiv` 块（它们不能独立编译），并将其排除在 opt-out 比例之外。当你改动一个已记录的类型声明或其 JSDoc 时，门禁会失败直到你更新粘贴内容；当你增删一个块时，请在同一个变更里更新 manifest。
+`pnpm run verify-type-equiv`（`doc-sync` 的一环）随后通过 TypeScript 解析器从源码提取该符号的声明及其附带的 JSDoc，并断言代码块同时匹配两者。对于不应把实现体写进目录的类，请使用 ` ```ts public-api ` 并设置 `"projection": "public-api"`；门禁检查的投影会保留公共字段、构造函数、访问器、方法以及类和成员的原始 JSDoc，同时省略实现体和私有或受保护成员。比对会忽略空白和非 JSDoc 注释，但要求保留每条原始 JSDoc（包括成员文档），让读者同时看到源码契约和确切形状。该门禁还按文档、符号和投影强制 1:1 对应，因此不会有块被静默漏检，也不会有陈旧条目滞留。`doc-typecheck` 跳过两种围栏（它们不能独立编译），并将其排除在 opt-out 比例之外。当你改动一个已记录的类型声明或其 JSDoc 时，门禁会失败直到你更新粘贴内容；当你增删一个块时，请在同一个变更里更新 manifest。
 
 ## 架构上下文
 

docs/event-producer-consumer.md

@@ -8,27 +8,29 @@ 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:141`](../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:150`](../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:285`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui) |
-| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:204`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic), [`time-context`](../packages/context/time-context), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
+| `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:169`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
+| `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:182`](../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:159`](../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/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:262`](../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:272`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
+| `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) |
 | `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) |
 | `fs/write-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:53`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
-| `llm/stream` | `waterfall` | [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:40`](../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts) | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) (`waterfall`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) |
+| `llm/stream` | `waterfall` | [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:43`](../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts) | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) (`waterfall`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) |
 | `session/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:47`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
 | `session/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:57`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
-| `session/event` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:69`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`token-meter`](../packages/llm/token-meter), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
+| `session/event` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:69`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`cli-demo`](../packages/examples/cli-demo), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`token-meter`](../packages/llm/token-meter), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
 | `session/flush` | `parallel` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:79`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
 | `subagent/end` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:112`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc) |
 | `subagent/provider-added` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:86`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`emit`) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) |
@@ -53,5 +55,6 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 | Event string | Dispatchers | Listeners |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `internal/dispatch` | - | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants) |
+| `internal/status` | - | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) |
 
 Maintenance mode: generated: Cordis event declarations and producer/listener edges are resolved from the repository TypeScript Program.

docs/graph-atlas.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ The process decision behind this index is recorded in [the documentation graph R
 | [echo-agent app composition](../examples/echo-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
 | [repl-agent app composition](../examples/repl-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
 | [tui-agent app composition](../examples/tui-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
+| [headless-agent app composition](../examples/headless-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
 | [cordis-agent app composition](../examples/cordis-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
 | [acp-agent app composition](../examples/acp-agent/composition.md) | `hybrid generated` |
 | [event producer/consumer matrix](event-producer-consumer.md) | `hybrid generated` |

docs/i18n/terminology.md

@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 | event stream | 事件流 | | | |
 | event-sourced | 事件溯源 | | | 沿用 DDD 社区通行译法 |
 | executor | 执行器 | | | |
+| expected output | 预期输出 | | 金标 | 指 snapshot 比较产物；翻译语料的人工校准样例不在此列 |
 | extension | 扩展 | | | |
 | extension point | 扩展点 | | | 注意与 `seam` 区分 |
 | fail-fast | 快速失败 | | | |

docs/module-graph.md

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ flowchart TD
   subgraph group_examples["packages/examples"]
     pkg_acp_demo["acp-demo"]
     pkg_agent_spine_demo["agent-spine-demo"]
+    pkg_cli_demo["cli-demo"]
     pkg_jsonrpc_demo["jsonrpc-demo"]
     pkg_stdio_demo["stdio-demo"]
   end
@@ -420,6 +421,14 @@ flowchart TD
   pkg_acp_demo --> pkg_tools
   pkg_acp_demo --> pkg_user_interaction
   pkg_acp_demo --> pkg_workspace_context
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_agent
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_agent_spine_demo
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_app_boot
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_llm
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_session
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_session_persistence_jsonl
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_tools
+  pkg_cli_demo --> pkg_workspace_context
   pkg_stdio_demo --> pkg_agent
   pkg_stdio_demo --> pkg_agent_loop
   pkg_stdio_demo --> pkg_agent_spine_demo
@@ -524,4 +533,5 @@ flowchart TD
 | [`subagent-fork`](../packages/subagent/subagent-fork) | `subagent` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | [`subagent-spawn`](../packages/subagent/subagent-spawn) | `subagent` | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | [`acp-demo`](../packages/examples/acp-demo) | `examples` | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
+| [`cli-demo`](../packages/examples/cli-demo) | `examples` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
 | [`stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo) | `examples` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop), [`agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`tui`](../packages/ui/tui), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |

docs/postmortem/0002-js-expression-disabled-filesystem-tools.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Status: resolved
 
 ## Executive summary
 
-The ACP example attempted to enable filesystem plugins conditionally with `disabled: !!js ...`, but Cordis evaluates JavaScript expressions only inside plugin `config`. The raw expression object was truthy, so the filesystem stack was always disabled. Snapshot refresh then accepted `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results as new goldens. The fix uses an explicit filesystem overlay and adds static-config and snapshot-result guards.
+The ACP example attempted to enable filesystem plugins conditionally with `disabled: !!js ...`, but Cordis evaluates JavaScript expressions only inside plugin `config`. The raw expression object was truthy, so the filesystem stack was always disabled. Snapshot refresh then accepted `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results as new expected outputs. The fix uses an explicit filesystem overlay and adds static-config and snapshot-result guards.
 
 ## Summary
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The live confined default did not gain unintended filesystem access. A naive int
 
 - PR #261 consolidated ACP compositions and refreshed the filesystem snapshots while introducing conditional filesystem entries.
 - All unit, coverage, snapshot, documentation, build, and hygiene checks passed.
-- Review of the refreshed filesystem goldens found generic failed cards and structured `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results.
+- Review of the refreshed filesystem expected outputs found generic failed cards and structured `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results.
 - A real Loader boot confirmed that every `disabled` value remained an expression object and every filesystem fiber was absent.
 
 ## Root cause
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ The snapshot framework treated any deterministic transcript as valid behavior. H
 - Filesystem scenarios boot `fs.cordis.yml`, an explicit fixed full-access overlay with a paired replay config and its own request-header class.
 - [`AGENTS.md`](../../AGENTS.md) and the [Cordis primer](../cordis-primer.md#loader-configuration) state that `!!js` is valid only under plugin `config` and conditional composition uses overlays.
 - `verify-cordis-config` parses repository Cordis YAML and rejects expression nodes in Loader entry metadata, including include patches and inserted entries.
-- `dsh-acp-snapshot` rejects structured `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results in fresh runs and committed session fixtures before they can become accepted goldens.
+- `dsh-acp-snapshot` rejects structured `UNKNOWN_TOOL` results in fresh runs and committed session fixtures before they can be committed as expected outputs.
 
 ## Lessons
 
 - A syntactically accepted configuration value is not necessarily evaluated at that location; document and verify interpolation boundaries.
-- A snapshot refresh is fixture production, not correctness review. Semantic impossibilities such as a missing registered tool need assertions independent of the golden.
+- A snapshot refresh is fixture production, not correctness review. Semantic impossibilities such as a missing registered tool need assertions independent of the expected output.
 - Permission controls must describe only the capabilities they actually govern. Composition-time filesystem access cannot follow a runtime bash-only preset safely.

docs/rfc/INDEX.md

@@ -160,9 +160,11 @@ Generated by `pnpm run gen-rfc-index` from the RFC tree — never edit by hand;
 | [Tool-call timeout policy as a plugin](implemented/architecture/2026-07-07-tool-call-timeout-policy.md) | 2026-07-07 |
 | [The agent is a registration scope](implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-agent-scope-contexts.md) | 2026-07-08 |
 | [Tool output spill policy](implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-tool-output-spill-files.md) | 2026-07-08 |
+| [After-call compaction pressure and context-overflow recovery](implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md) | 2026-07-10 |
 | [Single-file executable SDK runtime distribution (single-exe)](implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md) | 2026-07-10 |
 | [Agent-scope runtime design and correctness](implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md) | 2026-07-12 |
 | [Provider-routed LLM adapters and a generic pi-ai backend](implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md) | 2026-07-14 |
+| [Initiating Agent scope over AsyncLocalStorage](implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md) | 2026-07-15 |
 | [Advisory LLM catalogs and per-session ACP model selection](implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) | 2026-07-15 |
 | [Replay token meter service](implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md) | 2026-07-15 |
 
@@ -205,11 +207,11 @@ Generated by `pnpm run gen-rfc-index` from the RFC tree — never edit by hand;
 | [Property-based testing for protocol-shaped code](implemented/testing/2026-06-11-property-based-testing.md) | 2026-06-11 |
 | [ACP snapshot tests — record-once / replay-deterministic](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) | 2026-06-19 |
 | [Real-API e2e in CI against the external DeepSeek API](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-real-api-e2e-ci.md) | 2026-06-19 |
-| [Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact](implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-goldens.md) | 2026-06-20 |
+| [Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact](implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-expected-output.md) | 2026-06-20 |
 | [Persist the seed boundary so fork-child replay routes correctly](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-fork-child-replay-seed-boundary.md) | 2026-06-22 |
 | [Record fork and mixed spawn+fork snapshot scenarios](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-fork-snapshot-scenarios.md) | 2026-06-22 |
 | [Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md) | 2026-06-22 |
-| [Hook snapshot matrix — end-to-end goldens for both bridges](implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md) | 2026-07-04 |
+| [Hook snapshot matrix — end-to-end expected outputs for both bridges](implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md) | 2026-07-04 |
 | [Single-source the acp-agent replay config](implemented/testing/2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md) | 2026-07-04 |
 | [Pin request-header content in one snapshot scenario](implemented/testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md) | 2026-07-06 |
 | [Extract the ACP snapshot suite into a support package](implemented/testing/2026-07-08-shared-acp-snapshot-package.md) | 2026-07-08 |

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

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ The product principle is "everything is a plugin": hooks, /goal, /loop, dynamic
 
 Pure Cordis event taxonomy. The loop's extension seams are typed events with deliberate dispatch modes:
 
-- **waterfall** (around-middleware) where plugins transform, veto, or wrap: `agent/prompt-submit`, `agent/request`, `agent/step-result`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `llm/stream`, `system-prompt/assemble`.
-- **serial** (awaited in listener order; a bail value stops later listeners) for ordered checkpoints: every `agent/pre-step` listener runs when all abstain, while the first stop returned from `agent/turn-stop` makes the terminal decision final.
+- **waterfall** (around-middleware) where plugins transform, veto, recover, or wrap: `agent/prompt-submit`, `agent/request`, `agent/request-error`, `agent/step-result`, `agent/turn-continuation`, `tools/pre-execute`, `tools/execute`, `tools/post-execute`, `llm/stream`, `system-prompt/assemble`.
+- **serial** (awaited in listener order; a bail value stops later listeners) for ordered checkpoints: every `agent/pre-step` and `agent/post-step` listener runs when all abstain, while the first stop returned from `agent/turn-stop` makes the terminal decision final.
 - **parallel** (awaited fan-out) where every listener must get an independent chance: the `session/flush` durability checkpoint.
 - **emit** (synchronous fire-and-forget) for notifications: turn/step boundaries, stream chunks, lifecycle, errors, and the contained immutable `tools/result` observation.
 

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

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

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

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Plugins register `{{name}}` values through `ctx.systemPrompt.variable(name, prov
 
 ### Persona as the order-0 section
 
-`dsh-system-prompt` owns `harness:identity` at order `-100` and the configured `deployment:persona` at order 0, so both survive a replacement loop. Prompt rendering has one path, `renderPrompt(assembly)`, and `agent/pre-step` therefore measures the exact prompt used for compaction. An agent-scoped `deployment:persona` shadows the global default and lets subagent providers install a persona before publication. The conventional order bands are identity `-100`, persona `0`, and tool guidance `100–199`.
+`dsh-system-prompt` owns `harness:identity` at order `-100` and the configured `deployment:persona` at order 0, so both survive a replacement loop. Prompt rendering has one path, `renderPrompt(assembly)`, and the routed request header therefore records the exact prompt later replayed by `ctx.tokenMeter` for compaction pressure. An agent-scoped `deployment:persona` shadows the global default and lets subagent providers install a persona before publication. The conventional order bands are identity `-100`, persona `0`, and tool guidance `100–199`.
 
 ### Tool guidance ownership
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Per-tool semantics and selection guidance live in tool descriptions. Prompt sect
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **The loop composes an identity line itself** — hardcodes model-facing prose in the one package that must stay thin ("plugins, not loop changes"), and outside the section pipeline it would be a second composition path. (The identity DOES ship as a code literal — but as an ordinary section registered by `dsh-system-prompt`, whose `system-prompt/assemble` waterfall remains the escape valve for a deployment that must drop it.)
-- **Inject the model name via the `agent/request` waterfall** — prompt text composed in two places, and `agent/pre-step`'s `fullSystemPrompt` would omit it, so compaction would measure a prompt that is not what the model sees.
+- **Inject the model name via the `agent/request` waterfall** — prompt text would be composed in two places and the earlier rendered persona could disagree with the final routed header. The request plugin that owns late routing must also own any earlier prompt claim about that model.
 - **Hand-write the model name in each persona** — duplicates the `model:` key one line above and silently lies after a config edit; the exact disease this RFC cures.
 - **Lenient interpolation (leave unknown refs verbatim, or substitute empty)** — a typo ships `{{modle}}` (or a hole) to the model and nobody notices until transcript review.
 - **Per-instance subagent wording in config** — returns model-facing prose to every deployment × instance, the P2 disease again. **Keying wording off the provider NAME** — `providerName` is itself config, so a renamed provider silently gets the wrong words.

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

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The reference shape for the happy path is MiniCode's `LLMClient`: a stateful con
 
 ### The principle
 
-**Model-visible ⟺ logged.** Anything that reaches a model request must be recorded in the session log. The checkable consequence: **every conversation request the loop sends is a pure function of the session log** — anyone holding the log reconstructs it byte-for-byte. Scope, stated precisely: the guarantee covers the loop-built `GenerateOptions`; provider wire bytes follow from it because both adapters' serialization is a pure per-message function at a pinned code version; direct one-shots (compaction's summarize call) log their envelope scalars (`compact/summary.{model, maxTokens}`) and their input is deterministic code over the logged region — reconstructable from log + code, outside the invariant by the unfrozen-request marker.
+**Model-visible ⟺ logged.** Anything that reaches a model request must be recorded in the session log. The checkable consequence: **every conversation request the loop sends is a pure function of the session log** — anyone holding the log reconstructs it byte-for-byte. Scope, stated precisely: the guarantee covers the loop-built `GenerateOptions`; provider wire bytes follow from it because both adapters' serialization is a pure per-message function at a pinned code version; direct one-shots (compaction's summarize call) log their envelope scalars (`compact/summary.{provider, model, maxTokens}`) and their input is deterministic code over the logged region — reconstructable from log + code, outside the invariant by the unfrozen-request marker.
 
 Prefix-cache stability is corollary #1, not the headline: an append-only log projected by a per-node pure function yields requests that are append-extensions of their predecessors whenever the header is unchanged — stability is emergent, not managed. Byte-exact audit/replay is corollary #2; resume and fork with *attributable* drift is corollary #3.
 
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Prefix-cache stability is corollary #1, not the headline: an append-only log pro
 
 `EpochHeader` records the request's non-history state: call config, rendered system prompt, tool schemas, and session prefix, with empty values canonicalized to absence. `request/header` always writes a full snapshot: the first loop instance uses reason `initial`, later instances use `resume`, and an in-instance change uses `change`. `foldRequestHeader` selects the latest snapshot. Legacy `request/header-delta` events and the removed `fallback` reason are rejected when appended or loaded.
 
-Each step rebuilds prompt assembly. On the instance's first step, `agent/session-prefix` extends a frozen empty seed with request-only opener messages; the result is frozen and cached for that loop instance. `agent/pre-step` then receives the composed prefix before messages are snapshotted immediately ahead of `step/start`. The first call config starts from explicit `AgentOptions`, preserving fork overrides and resume reconfiguration; later calls start from the folded header. `agent/request` may replace only that frozen config seed, while model-visible content enters through logged channels. The loop records the owed header event—the prefix's only durable home—builds `GenerateOptions` from prefix, snapshot, and header, and deep-freezes it while leaving `AbortSignal` live. Per-instance state is only the cached prefix and whether its anchoring snapshot has been written.
+Each step rebuilds prompt assembly. On the instance's first step, `agent/session-prefix` extends a frozen empty seed with request-only opener messages; the result is frozen and cached for that loop instance before the generic `agent/pre-step` checkpoint and boundary snapshot. The first call config starts from explicit `AgentOptions`, preserving fork overrides and resume reconfiguration; later calls start from the folded header. `agent/request` may replace only that frozen config seed, while model-visible content enters through logged channels. The loop records the owed header event—the prefix's only durable home—builds `GenerateOptions` from prefix, snapshot, and header, and deep-freezes it while leaving `AbortSignal` live. Per-instance state is only the cached prefix and whether its anchoring snapshot has been written.
 
-**`step/start` is the reconstruction boundary.** A step derives messages from events before that sequence. Injection after the snapshot joins the next request, and reentrant appends are rejected during event publication. `agent/pre-step` is the seam for content needed by the current request. Header reconstruction selects the step's `request/header`, or carries the prior snapshot when no new header is written.
+**`step/start` is the reconstruction boundary.** A step derives messages from events before that sequence. Injection after the snapshot joins the next request, and reentrant appends are rejected during event publication. `agent/pre-step(agent, turn, step, signal)` remains the generic seam for content needed by the current request. Header reconstruction selects the step's `request/header`, or carries the prior snapshot when no new header is written.
 
 **Enforcement.** In development, `dsh-invariants` independently rebuilds each loop request through a fresh `Session`, so the live cache cannot vouch for itself, then compares messages and folded header fields at `llm/stream`. Loop requests are identified by their frozen shape and session id; direct one-shots are excluded. Correctness depends on sequence-bounded reconstruction rather than listener order. A with-key e2e requires positive cache-read tokens after the first request; per-step usage is the production signal, and a header change or compaction appears as a cache-read drop on the next step.
 
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@ Like MiniCode, the conversation advances append-only and resets only when model-
 - The `step/start`-listener behavior change (above) is the one observable semantics change for plugins; `agent/pre-step` is the current-request seam.
 - Tool-result trimming (planned) needs no new mechanism: a logged single-entry surface replace (`start === end`) carrying a trimmed `tool/result` under the same `callId` — compaction-family, replay-correct, cache-bust batched by the same pressure logic.
 - Session logs grow one `request/header` snapshot per loop instance plus snapshots on real changes. This is larger than a delta codec but small beside chunk-heavy logs and retains one replay representation. `SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION` stays `0`; legacy delta events are rejected rather than migrated.
-- Snapshot goldens changed once (every transcript gains its header events); the fs-writing fixtures are stored in the normalized authored form with cwd-relative tool arguments, because replay only round-trips cwd-independent argument paths.
+- Snapshot expected outputs changed once (every transcript gains its header events); the fs-writing fixtures are stored in the normalized authored form with cwd-relative tool arguments, because replay only round-trips cwd-independent argument paths.
 - FIXME(call-config-shape): revisit `LlmCallConfig`'s exact field set — which fields are genuinely epoch-level for cache purposes (`model` certainly; the sampling scalars sit there out of caution), and where provider-specific extras (reasoning options, extra body params) belong when an adapter needs them.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.i18n.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md: d88d7aaea8ccec30b10bfeb17f1312cfe87a0ce7
+2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.zh.md: 42e6114304de9c8022ef8f1341035858c0c7d9ec

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md

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

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

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 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
-2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md: b177af24e988c6a314db522b8de0d1c09e30464f
-2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.zh.md: 0b964e8a748e4adcc32c017957e5294a3f258365
+2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md: 80d5ab64682f1b72ca1dfa1f96bc34f2a3db5f2d
+2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.zh.md: aea1fb66136b31e0a75ba51471fec4dadd960e8f

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

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

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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md: a9df15beb8744216e020c259934db9fdf8b28b79
+2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.zh.md: 4198f066ef27042bda0d12fbcaf86f143482d596

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

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

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.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
-2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md: 34df0383d1b8ae8047c4283eef3800de772c3cae
-2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md: 51f319f3c473fe247791e69133eef4280b768002
+2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md: a86696a1077c9fa21d9984280009f9a0df0b4bbb
+2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md: a6803fc9921a832b7614a7dc26b545a9145a08df

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md

@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@ Usage sums the disjoint input, cache-read, cache-write, and output buckets. Reas
 
 ### Compact-basic consumes, but does not own, measurement
 
-`dsh-compact-basic` requires `ctx.tokenMeter`; `CompactService` gains no token methods or types. The backend is factored into configuration, automatic triggering, region transaction, and summarizer modules, while `summarize()` remains its sole subclass hook. The singleton service consistently prices pressure, retention, shadowed content, provenance, and non-shrinking-summary rejection.
+`dsh-compact-basic` requires `ctx.tokenMeter`; `CompactService` gains no token methods or types. Configuration, the region transaction, and summarization stay in separate modules; the service registers automatic listeners itself, while `summarize()` remains its sole subclass hook. The singleton meter consistently prices pressure, retention, shadowed content, provenance, and non-shrinking-summary rejection.
 
 Automatic compaction uses one unified measurement for each threshold-and-retention decision. The region transaction measures after appending its durable `compact/start` lock and again after asynchronous summarization; any intervening durable append changes `logRevision` and prevents replacement.
 
-Compact policy has service-wide defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, empty summarization provider/model, maximum summary output `8192`, one extra compaction attempt, and automatic triggering enabled. Top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the pressure policy; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. `summarizationProvider` and `summarizationModel` must both be set or both be empty; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair.
+Compact policy has service-wide defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, `summarizationProvider: ''`, `summarizationModel: ''`, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, `maxOverflowRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`. Top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the pressure policy; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. The summarization provider and model must both be set or both be empty; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair.
 
-The pre-step trigger measures a provisional envelope: the current prompt and prefix override logged values, while the latest logged header supplies provider, model, tools, and other call config. A router-only agent without a complete provider/model pair skips that provisional check because `agent/request` can route later; any routed target can use the singleton estimator.
+Automatic pressure runs at `agent/post-step` and measures the canonical durable envelope produced under the provider/model actually selected by `agent/request`. A headerless session has no completed routed request to assess and produces no work; any routed target can use the singleton estimator. Canonical overflow recovery uses the same measurement for forced range selection and retries only after a proven surface replacement.
 
 ## Testing
 
-Unit coverage pins service configuration, fixed estimation, envelope invalidation, latest-anchor replacement across provider/model switches, usage and missing-usage paths, seeded append/replace replay, signed deltas, provenance modes, malformed boundaries, unified snapshot detachment and deep immutability, surface-total equality, listener ordering, reload, compact defaults, routing fallback, one-call automatic decisions, retention, convergence, and log-revision rollback. A real Loader/Include YAML fixture loads the exact zero-config token-meter and compact-basic package names in dependency order.
+Unit tests cover fixed estimation, envelope invalidation and anchor replacement, replay boundaries, immutable snapshots, routed pressure, convergence, overflow generation proof, and rollback. A real Loader/Include fixture verifies the zero-config token-meter and compact-basic load path in dependency order.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ Unit coverage pins service configuration, fixed estimation, envelope invalidatio
 - Fixed heuristic pricing remains an estimate of provider behavior and is not an exact tokenizer or request serializer.
 - Every measurement clones the current positional surface and therefore costs O(surface), including pressure checks that finish below threshold.
 - Measurements fail loudly on malformed durable boundaries. This turns corrupted replay into a named integration failure instead of silently drifting pressure.
-- The pre-step compact integration can skip a router-only first check and can miss tool or routing changes applied later in request middleware.
+- Post-step pressure reads the exact logged routing/tools/prefix boundary; provider overflow classification remains the adapter-maintained backstop for requests rejected before a successful usage anchor.

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md

@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@ Usage 会对互不重叠的输入、缓存读取、缓存写入与输出 bucket
 
 ### compact-basic 消费计量，但不拥有计量
 
-`dsh-compact-basic` 要求 `ctx.tokenMeter`；`CompactService` 不增加 token 方法或类型。后端拆分为配置、自动触发、区域事务与摘要器模块，而 `summarize()` 仍是唯一的子类 hook。单例服务一致用于压力、保留、被遮蔽内容、来源以及非缩小摘要拒绝的定价。
+`dsh-compact-basic` 要求 `ctx.tokenMeter`；`CompactService` 不增加 token 方法或类型。配置、区域事务与摘要器分别保留在独立模块中，服务自身注册自动监听器，而 `summarize()` 仍是唯一的子类 hook。单例计量器一致用于压力、保留、被遮蔽内容、来源以及非缩小摘要拒绝的定价。
 
 自动压缩的每次阈值与保留联合决策只使用一次统一计量。区域事务先追加持久 `compact/start` 锁，再执行一次计量，并在异步摘要完成后再次计量；期间任何持久追加都会改变 `logRevision`，从而阻止替换。
 
-压缩策略采用服务级默认值：阈值比例 `0.8`、保留尾部 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、空的摘要提供方/模型、摘要最大输出 `8192`、一次额外压缩尝试，以及启用自动触发。顶层 `thresholdRatio` 与 `retainTokens` 覆盖压力策略；保留值必须小于最终阈值。`summarizationProvider` 与 `summarizationModel` 必须同时设置或同时为空；空组合先解析最近记录的请求目标，再使用 `AgentOptions` 中的组合。
+压缩策略采用服务级默认值：阈值比例 `0.8`、保留尾部 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、`summarizationProvider: ''`、`summarizationModel: ''`、`maxTokens: 8192`、`compactionRetries: 1`、`maxOverflowRetries: 1` 与 `auto: true`。顶层 `thresholdRatio` 与 `retainTokens` 覆盖压力策略；保留值必须小于最终阈值。摘要提供方与模型必须同时设置或同时为空；空组合先解析最近记录的请求目标，再使用 `AgentOptions` 中的组合。
 
-pre-step 触发器计量临时请求信封：当前提示词与前缀覆盖日志值，最近记录的请求头给出提供方、模型、工具及其他调用配置。没有完整提供方/模型组合的纯路由 agent（智能体）会跳过该临时检查，因为 `agent/request` 仍可稍后路由；任意已路由目标都可使用这个单例估算器。
+自动压力检查运行在 `agent/post-step`，并计量 `agent/request` 实际所选提供方/模型产生的规范持久信封。没有请求头的会话尚无已完成的路由请求可供判断，因此不执行工作；任意路由目标都可使用这个单例估算器。规范化溢出恢复使用同一计量结果强制选择范围，并且只有在表层替换得到证明后才重试。
 
 ## 测试
 
-单元覆盖固定服务配置、固定估算、信封失效、提供方/模型切换时替换最新锚点、有无 usage 的路径、种子追加/替换回放、有符号增量、来源模式、畸形边界、统一快照的分离性与深度不可变性、表层总量相等性、监听器顺序、重载、压缩默认值、路由回退、自动决策单次调用、保留、收敛与日志修订回滚。真实 Loader/Include YAML fixture 按依赖顺序加载精确的零配置 token-meter 与 compact-basic 包名称。
+单元测试覆盖固定估算、信封失效与锚点替换、回放边界、不可变快照、已路由压力、收敛、溢出 generation 证明与回滚。真实 Loader/Include fixture 验证零配置 token-meter 与 compact-basic 按依赖顺序加载的路径。
 
 ## 考虑过的替代方案
 
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ pre-step 触发器计量临时请求信封：当前提示词与前缀覆盖日
 - 固定启发式定价仍然只是提供方行为的估计，并不是精确分词器或请求序列化器。
 - 每次计量都会复制当前的位置表层，因此成本为 O(surface)，低于阈值即可结束的压力检查也不例外。
 - 遇到畸形持久边界时，计量会明确失败。这会把损坏的回放转化为具名集成错误，而不是让压力静默漂移。
-- pre-step 压缩集成可能跳过纯路由的首次检查，也可能错过请求中间件稍后应用的工具或路由变化。
+- post-step 压力检查读取精确记录的路由、工具与前缀边界；对于在成功 usage 锚点出现前就被拒绝的请求，提供方溢出分类仍是由适配器维护的兜底路径。

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Two forces shape the design. First, compaction policy and reusable token measure
 Per the [capability-seams RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md), compaction ships as separate packages so the contract, the algorithm, and (later) the consumer surface evolve independently:
 
 1. **Interface** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact`: an abstract `CompactService` owning the `ctx.compact` key, the `CompactionResult` vocabulary, and the `compact/*` session events. It declares `compactIfNeeded()` and `compactRegion()` as **abstract** — the contract states *what* compaction does, not *how*.
-2. **Implementation** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact-basic`: a concrete `BasicCompactService` that consumes `ctx.tokenMeter` and owns the tail→head retention walk, summarization via `ctx.llm.stream()`, the surface replacement, the lock, and the `agent/pre-step` auto-compaction listener. `summarize()` is its sole subclass hook; pricing and replay stay with the meter.
+2. **Implementation** — `@deepseek-ai/dsh-compact-basic`: a concrete `BasicCompactService` that consumes `ctx.tokenMeter` and owns the tail→head retention walk, summarization via `ctx.llm.stream()`, the surface replacement, the lock, post-step pressure, and canonical context-overflow recovery. `summarize()` is its sole subclass hook; pricing and replay stay with the meter.
 3. **Consumer** — deferred. A `/compact` tool and slash command will `inject: ['compact']` and call the contract; they are intentionally out of scope here so the seam settles first.
 
 ### The contract depends on `dsh-session` and `dsh-llm` — a deliberate deviation
@@ -30,27 +30,27 @@ This is not a coupling smell — it is the contract's domain. The "only cordis"
 
 An earlier draft put the full algorithm (the retention walk, token-summing, text extraction) as concrete methods on the interface. That recouples the contract to one strategy: a backend that wants a different retention policy or event sequence would have to fight inherited concrete code. Making both core methods abstract puts every *how* decision in the backend and keeps the interface a statement of *what*. Token measurement is not a compaction hook at all; the singleton service lets multiple consumers share one per-session replay fold.
 
-`compactIfNeeded(agent, fullSystemPrompt, sessionPrefix, signal)` takes required pressure inputs and cancellation. `compactRegion(start, end, agent, signal?)` uses `agent.session` as its single session identity and keeps an optional signal for manual callers. The pre-step integration resolves a provisional provider/model pair from the latest logged request header, then `AgentOptions`; a model-less router-only first step skips pressure because `agent/request` can route later. The default summarizer resolves its target from explicit config, the latest logged routed target, then agent options.
+`compactIfNeeded(agent, trigger, signal)` takes an explicit `'pressure' | 'context-overflow'` trigger and cancellation. It reads only the latest durable routed request; no header means no work, while any routed provider/model target uses the singleton estimator. `compactRegion(start, end, agent, signal?)` uses `agent.session` as its single session identity and keeps an optional signal for manual callers. The default summarizer resolves its target from explicit config, the latest logged routed target, then agent options, and records the provider/model pair after any `llm/stream` routing.
 
-### Auto-compaction runs on `agent/pre-step`, a dedicated surface-mutation seam
+### Automatic pressure runs after successful durable step work
 
-Compaction mutates the session surface, so it runs before the step opens and before messages are derived. `agent/request` remains a call-config transform and never needs to rebuild history after a surface change.
+Successful-call pressure cannot run at pre-step because final `agent/request` routing, provider output, tool results, buffered context, and steering do not exist there. Serial `agent/post-step(agent, turn, step, signal)` fires after those facts are durable and before `step/end`. `dsh-compact-basic` measures the canonical logged request through `ctx.tokenMeter`, so the next request sees any replacement without a speculative envelope override.
 
-The fix is a dedicated loop seam, **`agent/pre-step`** (`@mode serial`), fired by the loop *after* system assembly and *before* the step opens (`step/start`):
+Canonical provider context overflow takes a separate path. The failed step closes, `agent/request-error` receives the original request error and consecutive retry count, and compact-basic forces one useful balanced reduction. It returns retry only if `session.surface.replaceGeneration` increases; the loop then opens a new numbered step and reconstructs its request from the durable log. No range, no replacement, recovery failure, cancellation, an exhausted cap, or an unrelated error preserves the original provider failure. The complete lifecycle decision is in the [after-call recovery RFC](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-after-call-compaction-pressure-and-overflow-recovery.md).
 
 ```
-assembly = ctx.systemPrompt.assemble()
-await ctx.serial('agent/pre-step', agent, turn, step, system, prefix, signal)  ⟵ compaction mutates the surface here
-session('step/start')                 ⟵ the step opens AFTER the seam
-messages = session.deriveMessages()   ⟵ single derive, reflects the compaction
-request  = waterfall agent/request    ⟵ pure request transform (hooks, model switch)
-```
+assistant/message → tool/result/context/steering
+await serial agent/post-step          ⟵ pressure compaction inside the successful step
+step/end
 
-The loop derives messages once after `agent/pre-step`. Running before `step/start` keeps compaction records outside any half-open step, simplifying crash repair. The seam is awaited and serial so surface mutations cannot interleave; listeners return `void` and do not use Cordis bail values as vetoes.
+provider overflow → step/end
+await waterfall agent/request-error  ⟵ forced compaction between attempts
+retry → next numbered step/start      ⟵ derives from the replacement surface
+```
 
 ### Retention is turn-agnostic; tool-pairing balance is the only structural guard
 
-Auto-compaction fires before **every** step, not once per turn. This is **load-bearing for runaway-turn survival**: a tool-heavy ReAct turn appends an `assistant/message` + a `tool/result` per step, so the surface grows *within* a turn. A single turn can grow past the window on its own (a "runaway turn") — and the only moment to rescue it before the next model call overflows is the next step's `pre-step` checkpoint. Gating compaction to a turn's first step (or, worse, retaining the whole in-flight turn verbatim) re-opens exactly the hole compaction exists to close: the harness would die when compaction is most needed.
+Auto-compaction checks after **every successful** step, not once per turn. This is load-bearing for runaway-turn survival: a tool-heavy ReAct turn appends an `assistant/message` + a `tool/result` per step, so the surface grows within a turn. The post-step check can compact early closed tool pairs before continuation opens the next step, and provider-confirmed overflow remains the backstop when a request crosses the limit first.
 
 `compactIfNeeded` retains the smallest tail of whole surface units whose estimated size reaches `retainTokens` and compacts older nodes. A unit is a complete closed step or one no-step message. If the token cutoff lands inside a step, retention expands until the cut is tool-pairing balanced. Balance is checked on surface order, not log sequence, because replacement summaries have new sequence numbers at old surface positions. `dsh-compact` exports the before/after edge helpers; their per-session cache folds only appended surface-tail nodes while `replaceGeneration` is unchanged, does no event reads for log-only growth, and rebuilds current membership and balances after replacement. `compactRegion` rejects boundaries that split a tool call from its result. The in-flight turn receives no special retention.
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Auto-compaction always starts at the surface head, merging the prior checkpoint
 
 ### Approximate convergence invariant
 
-`resolveConfig` supplies usable defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, empty summarization-model override, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`. Optional top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the policy for the token meter's single context window; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. Convergence remains dynamic because provider output caps can be spent on hidden or surfaced reasoning tokens and summary size is unpredictable. If the compacted surface remains over threshold, `compactIfNeeded()` re-compacts the head checkpoint up to the configured retry count, but each committed summary must be smaller than what it shadows.
+`resolveConfig` supplies usable defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, empty summarization provider/model overrides, `maxTokens: 8192`, `compactionRetries: 1`, `maxOverflowRetries: 1`, and `auto: true`. Optional top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the policy for the token meter's single context window; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. Convergence remains dynamic because provider output caps can be spent on hidden or surfaced reasoning tokens and summary size is unpredictable. If pressure remains over threshold, `compactIfNeeded()` re-compacts the head checkpoint up to the configured retry count, but each committed summary must be smaller than what it shadows. Overflow bypasses threshold and retained-tail policy for one maximal balanced head reduction, leaving the newest indivisible unit.
 
 ### Surface replacement: `compact/*` events are log-only; one `user/message` carries the summary
 
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ The basic backend wraps the summary as established checkpoint context and tags i
 The `compact/start … compact/end` bracket is justified, in order of what now does the work:
 
 1. **Crash-detectable orphan + provenance** (primary). Summarization is a slow model call persisted *after* `compact/start`. A crash mid-summarization leaves a `compact/start` with no matching `compact/end` — a detectable orphan. Releasing the lock last (rather than first) converts the crash window from *silent corruption* into that detectable orphan.
-2. **Prevents concurrent compaction.** `compactRegion` refuses to start if the current turn holds an unmatched `compact/start`. (The loop is single-threaded across the awaited `pre-step`, so this is also a re-entry tripwire — a thrown "already in progress" signals a real bug.)
+2. **Prevents concurrent compaction.** `compactRegion` refuses to start if the current turn holds an unmatched `compact/start`. (The loop is single-threaded across either awaited automatic seam, so this is also a re-entry tripwire — a thrown "already in progress" signals a real bug.)
 
 Two failure paths, both documented:
 
-- **Crash** (the loop dies mid-summarization): a dangling `compact/start`, no closer. Because `compact/*` are **log-only**, the orphan is **inert** — the surface replacement never landed, so the full, uncompacted history derives correctly. Generic turn-repair (`interruptedTurnClosers`) closes the turn with a synthetic `turn/end`; the orphan sits *before* that `turn/end`, so the turn-scoped in-progress check never sees it and a crash can't wedge future compaction. Compaction simply re-attempts at the next `pre-step`.
-- **Recoverable** (summarization throws but the loop survives): the backend appends `compact/end` with its **`error`** field set, leaving the surface untouched, and the model call proceeds with full history.
+- **Crash** (the loop dies mid-summarization): a dangling `compact/start`, no closer. Because `compact/*` are **log-only**, the orphan is **inert** — the surface replacement never landed, so the full, uncompacted history derives correctly. Generic turn-repair (`interruptedTurnClosers`) closes the turn with a synthetic `turn/end`; the orphan sits *before* that `turn/end`, so the turn-scoped in-progress check never sees it and a crash cannot wedge future compaction.
+- **Recoverable** (summarization throws but the loop survives): the backend appends `compact/end` with its **`error`** field set and leaves the surface untouched. Post-step pressure warns and continues; overflow recovery delegates so the original provider error remains authoritative.
 
 `compact/end` keeps its `error?` field (mirroring `tool/result`'s self-contained error — one event tells success from failure without correlating a sibling). There is no separate `compact/error` event.
 
@@ -104,14 +104,14 @@ Two failure paths, both documented:
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **The full algorithm as concrete interface methods** — rejected because it recouples the contract to one retention strategy. Both core methods are abstract; reusable measurement is a separate LLM-family service and `summarize()` is basic's sole hook.
-- **Compaction on the `agent/request` waterfall** — the earlier cut; rejected for the double-derive it forced and for handing the listener context it structurally cannot compact. The dedicated `agent/pre-step` seam makes the layering correct by construction.
+- **Compaction on `agent/request` or provisional `agent/pre-step` inputs** — rejected because neither proves the final durable request and both couple generic lifecycle to compaction-specific envelope data. Post-step replay plus canonical overflow recovery covers both successful and rejected calls.
 - **A separate `compact/error` event** — rejected: `compact/end` keeps an `error?` field, mirroring `tool/result`'s self-contained error — one event tells success from failure without correlating a sibling.
 - **Teaching core turn-repair about `compact/*`** — rejected: the log-only orphan is inert, and a core module patched for every future `xxx/start … xxx/end` plugin pair is exactly the coupling the capability-seam architecture exists to avoid.
 
 ## Consequences
 
 - **Packages**: `packages/compact/compact` supplies the interface and `compact-basic` supplies the backend. `packages/llm/token-meter` owns replay-aware measurement independently. The consumer tier is deferred.
-- **New loop seam**: `agent/pre-step` (`@mode serial`) declared in `dsh-agent` and emitted by `dsh-agent-loop` after system assembly and before `step/start`. This is a documented change to the loop — `docs/architecture.md` records it and the generated cordis catalog carries its signature.
+- **Automatic seams**: `agent/post-step` (`@mode serial`) handles successful-call pressure and `agent/request-error` (`@mode waterfall`) handles final request failures after the failed step closes. Generic `agent/pre-step` remains a four-argument checkpoint with no compaction-only prompt/prefix payload.
 - **`SessionEventMap`** gains `compact/start` / `compact/summary` / `compact/end` by declaration merging (merge-extensible); `SurfaceEventType` is **not** touched. These are session events, not cordis `Events`, so the event-taxonomy gate needs no entry.
 - **`dsh-compact`** owns `toolPairingBalancedBefore(session, seq)` and `toolPairingBalancedAfter(session, seq)`, the cached surface-edge checks that `compactRegion` and `compactIfNeeded` use to avoid splitting a tool-call/result pair. The cache validates current membership by seq and answers both edges from one per-cut balance sequence; stale or missing seqs and orphan results reject. `dsh-session` continues to own the surface `replace` operation, ordered event sequences, and rewrite generation.
 - **`dsh-invariants`** drops its `surface replace: start must be <= end` assertion: a head-anchored compaction lands a high-seq replacement entry at an older range's *position*, so `start > end` numerically is normal and valid (the range is positional, validated by the surface's `indexOf` checks that remain). The turn-enclosure invariant is reused unchanged.
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Two failure paths, both documented:
 
 ## Testing
 
-- **Unit:** Real Loader and invariant plugins cover whole-unit retention, convergence failure, both `compact/end` outcomes, head anchoring, open-tail refusal, inert crash orphans, and compacting closed steps inside one oversized open turn.
-- **Loop:** Tests pin one awaited `agent/pre-step` per step between `turn/start` and `step/start`; a surface mutation there lands outside the step and appears in the single derived request.
+- **Unit:** Real Loader and invariant plugins cover whole-unit retention, convergence failure, both `compact/end` outcomes, head anchoring, open-tail refusal, inert crash orphans, forced below-threshold overflow, generation proof, caps, and original-error preservation.
+- **Loop:** Tests pin post-step after durable tool results and before `step/end`, actual `agent/request` routing, closed failed steps, fresh retry numbering, and complete thrown/in-band overflow → compaction → reconstructed retry composition.
 - **With-key e2e:** A real model and bash session with lowered limits triggers compaction, records a complete `compact/start…end` pair, shrinks the surface, and finishes the task.
 - **Snapshot gap:** Runaway-turn compaction cannot yet replay because the summarization call records no `assistant/chunk` events or `sessionId`; interleaved summarization-call replay remains follow-up work.

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

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Four tiers, designed up front:
 - **Real-Loader path** — the plugin run through `Loader.unwrapExports`, asserting the namespace export shape survives (it HAS `inject`, so a stray default would crash at load — postmortem/0001).
 - **Full-loop integration** — a scripted mock model calls `todo_write` through the real agent loop; the `todo/write` event lands and a second call replaces it.
 - **`session/load` replay** — a persisted `todo/write` re-emits the `plan` update when a fresh ACP bridge loads the session.
-- **With-key e2e + snapshot** — a real prompt induces a `todo_write`; the snapshot golden gains the `plan` notification and the log event.
+- **With-key e2e + snapshot** — a real prompt induces a `todo_write`; the snapshot expected output gains the `plan` notification and the log event.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

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

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Coverage is named per tier; each behavior lives at the cheapest tier that can ex
 
 - **Unit** (`tests/mcp-client.spec.ts`, `tests/apply.spec.ts`, mocked MCP SDK): the `publicToolName` algorithm (clean, normalize, truncate-and-hash, determinism, distinct-identity separation), raw-vs-public wire discipline, cross-server and native-tool coexistence, duplicate-`serverName` load failure and reservation release, invalid-tool-list rejection, generation swap/rollback, failed-re-sync retention, result mapping, cancellation, config schema validation. 100% per-file coverage gates the package.
 - **E2E** (`tests/mcp-client.e2e.ts`, keyless): the real MCP protocol against the in-repo fixture server, `@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything`, and `@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem` over stdio, and against an in-process `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` server over Streamable HTTP — discovery under the namespace, dotted-name normalization end to end, execution round-trips, duplicate-`serverName` rejection, disposal.
-- **Snapshot**: deliberately none. MCP tools introduce no new transcript surface — they register as raw `ToolDefinition`s and render through the ACP bridge's generic-card fallback, which the bridge's unit suite already pins (`packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts`). Adding an MCP server to the snapshot example's `cordis.yml` would mutate the pinned `text-turn` system-prompt fixture (forcing a with-key re-record of every recorded golden) and make every replay depend on spawning an external MCP server process — for zero new rendering behavior. If a later change gives MCP tools their own render intent, that change names its snapshot coverage then.
+- **Snapshot**: deliberately none. MCP tools introduce no new transcript surface — they register as raw `ToolDefinition`s and render through the ACP bridge's generic-card fallback, which the bridge's unit suite already pins (`packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts`). Adding an MCP server to the snapshot example's `cordis.yml` would mutate the pinned `text-turn` system-prompt fixture (forcing a with-key re-record of every recorded expected output) and make every replay depend on spawning an external MCP server process — for zero new rendering behavior. If a later change gives MCP tools their own render intent, that change names its snapshot coverage then.
 
 ## Consequences
 

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

@@ -16,26 +16,26 @@ Three properties carry the design:
 
 - **Request-only, header-logged.** `deriveMessages()` never returns the prefix; its one durable record is `EpochHeader.messagePrefix` on the instance's anchoring `request/header` snapshot — the channel the reconstructable-requests RFC already owns for the request's non-history half, so no new session event exists. The dev invariant ([dsh-invariants](../../../../packages/support/invariants/src/index.ts)) recomputes `messagePrefix + boundary derivation` against every loop-built request; an unlogged prefix cannot reach the wire.
 - **Frozen per instance.** Reuse is structural, not disciplined: the cached product cannot change mid-session, so the provider's prompt cache holds by construction and the prefix extends the cacheable region at zero marginal cost per step. A process restart or `ctx.agents.resume()` is a new instance: it recomposes, and any drift lands attributably on the `'resume'` header snapshot. This is the routing rule the seam creates: session-frozen openers ride the prefix; content that changes mid-session rides the append-only history channels (`agent.inject()` or tool/prompt-submit `additionalContexts` — [the interception-seams RFC](2026-06-30-interception-seams.md)), each a durable `context/message` paid once and prefix-cached thereafter.
-- **Composed before the pressure gate.** Composition precedes the instance's first `agent/pre-step`, and the seam hands the composed value through: `agent/pre-step` carries a `sessionPrefix` parameter and `CompactService.compactIfNeeded(agent, fullSystemPrompt, sessionPrefix, signal)` counts it in its token-pressure estimate — a gate reading the previous instance's folded prefix instead would under-gate a resumed or forked instance whose contributor grew, skipping compaction and shipping an over-window first request. A composition interrupted by a cancel/dispose landing inside the waterfall is discarded, never cached: an abort-aware listener's degraded fallback cannot leak into later requests, and the next turn recomposes under a live signal.
+- **Exact in the durable request envelope.** Composition precedes the instance's first `agent/pre-step` and request boundary. The first routed request logs the current prefix on its header, so post-step token pressure reads the exact prefix together with the actual prompt, tools, and routed model; no compaction-only parameter is carried through the generic pre-step seam. A composition interrupted by cancel/dispose is discarded, never cached: an abort-aware listener's degraded fallback cannot leak into later requests, and the next turn recomposes under a live signal.
 
 Because composition runs before the boundary snapshot, a composing listener's session append joins the CURRENT request's derived history. Compaction structurally cannot touch the prefix (or the system prompt): it rewrites surface nodes, and header state never enters the surface.
 
 ## Testing
 
-**Unit** — [interception.spec.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts) pins compose-once across turns and steps (one composition and no changed headers), canonical prepend ordering, empty-prefix omission from the header, the frozen seed (in-place push throws), held-reference mutation immunity, and composition-precedes-pre-step with the seam receiving the composed value; [cancel.spec.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts) pins cancel/dispose landing inside the composition window and the discard-and-recompose stale-cache guard; dsh-session header tests cover canonical prefix snapshots and latest-snapshot folding; dsh-invariants tests pin the `messagePrefix + derivation` equation; dsh-compact-basic tests pin that the pressure estimate counts the handed prefix. **Snapshot** — the acp-snapshot normalizer scrubs header prefixes to count-preserving `{{messagePrefix}}` tokens (unit-covered in dsh-acp-snapshot); header content itself is pinned per [the pinned-header scenario RFC](../testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md), and the example tree loads no prefix contributor, so live goldens stay prefix-free. **e2e** — none prefix-specific: the seam is provider-independent and deterministic; the with-key cache measurement in [request-cache.e2e.ts](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts) already proves the cacheable-prefix economics the design rests on.
+[Interception tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts) pin compose-once reuse without changed headers, prepend order, empty-prefix omission, immutability, composition before pre-step, and the prefix on the routed header; [cancellation tests](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts) pin discard and recomposition. Session, invariant, token-meter, and compaction tests cover header round trips, request reconstruction, and durable prefix-aware pressure accounting. Snapshot normalization preserves prefix counts, while the [pinned-header scenario](../testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md) owns content and the default example remains prefix-free. The provider-independent seam needs no dedicated e2e; the with-key [request-cache e2e](../../../../packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts) covers its cache economics.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **Per-request `before`/`after` slots recomputed every step** (the shape first proposed: a waterfall firing on every request, contributing frozen `before` messages ahead of the history and fresh `after` messages behind it) — rejected. A per-step `before` recompose invites drift that must be logged as a full changed header, and an `after` slot sits behind the growing history, so its tokens re-pay on every request and everything after it is uncacheable. Measured against the alternatives, every current update pattern is served cheaper by a durable append (paid once, cache-read thereafter), and the only content with no home was the session-stable opener — which wants freezing, not recomputation.
 - **A system-prompt section** (`system-prompt/assemble`) — rejected for this content: the assembly renders to the single `system` string, so message-shaped openers do not fit, and the system prompt is deliberately re-assembled per step (with a full changed header when it changes) while the opener wants instance-frozen semantics.
 - **A durable history opener** (`inject()` at session start) — rejected: permanent history is the failure mode in the problem statement — replayed everywhere, compactable, stale across resumes.
-- **Compose per turn instead of per instance** — rejected: a turn-boundary recompose either desyncs silently from the log or forces a full changed header, and it busts the provider cache exactly as often as it fires; the legitimate refresh point is the instance boundary, where the `'resume'` snapshot already records drift attributably.
-- **Compose lazily at the first request and let compaction read the folded header** (the shape as first merged) — superseded in review: the fold matches the live prefix only from the instance's second request on, so on a resumed/forked instance's first step the pressure gate read the PREVIOUS instance's prefix and could under-gate. Composing before the first pre-step and handing the live value through the seam makes the estimate exact at every step.
-- **A dedicated session event carrying the prefix** — rejected: request headers are the request's non-history record by design; a second event would be a second home for the same fact.
+- **Compose per turn instead of per instance** — rejected: a turn-boundary recompose either desyncs silently from the log or forces a changed header, and it busts the provider cache exactly as often as it fires; the legitimate refresh point is the instance boundary, where the `'resume'` snapshot already records drift attributably.
+- **Carry prompt/prefix through `agent/pre-step` for provisional pressure** — rejected because it couples a generic lifecycle seam to one consumer and still misses later request routing and tools; post-step replay reads every request-envelope field from its durable routed header.
+- **A dedicated session event carrying the prefix** — rejected: the header events are the request's non-history record by design; a second event would be a second home for the same fact and another codec to keep total.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- `agent/pre-step` and `CompactService.compactIfNeeded` carry a `sessionPrefix` parameter: every pre-step listener and compaction backend sees the real per-instance value (all in-repo implementations updated in the same change, per the pre-release stance).
+- `agent/pre-step` stays a generic `(agent, turn, step, signal)` checkpoint. Compaction receives no prefix parameter; `ctx.tokenMeter` folds the prefix from the canonical routed header at post-step.
 - A contributor whose content changes mid-session is not re-read until the next instance — by design. A deployment needing mid-session catalog updates routes the change notice through the append-only history channels and pays one durable `context/message`.
 - The dropped `after` slot leaves no request-only channel near the request tail; nothing in the repo needs one, and adding it back would re-open the every-step re-pay cost the design exists to avoid.
 - An empty composition is canonical absence: no-contributor deployments log no extra header bytes and their requests are the bare derivation.

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

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ The vm isolates accidental global pollution, and the context façade hides frame
 
 | Tool | Contract |
 |---|---|
-| `cordis_inspect` | Read-only report over the live runtime, one Markdown section per `what` value (omit `what` for all sections). Never mutates. |
+| `cordis_inspect` | Read-only report over the live runtime, one Markdown section per `what` value (omit `what` for all sections). An exact `name` with `what: "api"` or `what: "events"` narrows to one source-documented target. Never mutates. |
 | `cordis_mount` | Evaluates `code` (the body of an async JavaScript function) in a `node:vm` sandbox; the code must `return` a cordis plugin, which is mounted as a child of the `cordis-dynamic` group fiber and tracked under a fresh id (`dyn-1`, `dyn-2`, …). |
 | `cordis_unmount` | Disposes one dynamic mount by id and returns only after disposal reaches quiescence — every registration the plugin made is unwound, not merely requested to stop. |
 
-`cordis_inspect` sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the owning fiber, non-active owners flagged), `plugins` (a flat list of every loaded plugin with its lifecycle state, from `ctx.registry` — what capabilities are loaded, deliberately not the tree shape), `tools` (what the model can call), `dynamic` (the mount table: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (live service signatures + the type shapes they reference, from the generated catalog), and `events` (harness events with dispatch mode and signature). The model-facing tool descriptions carry the operational rules the model needs at call time; [the generated tool catalog](../../../tool-catalog.md) is their exhaustive rendering.
+`cordis_inspect` sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the owning fiber, non-active owners flagged), `plugins` (a flat list of every loaded plugin with its lifecycle state, from `ctx.registry` — what capabilities are loaded, deliberately not the tree shape), `tools` (what the model can call), `dynamic` (the mount table: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (live service signatures + the type shapes they reference, from the generated catalog), and `events` (harness events with dispatch mode and signature). Broad `api` and `events` reports omit full JSDoc to stay compact; an exact `name` returns one service or event with its original method/declaration JSDoc. A name is invalid with other sections, unknown targets fail, and an API target must be live. The model-facing tool descriptions carry the operational rules the model needs at call time; [the generated tool catalog](../../../tool-catalog.md) is their exhaustive rendering.
 
 ### Sandbox semantics
 
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ Mounts relate to each other through ordinary cordis service semantics, with thei
 
 ### The generated API catalog
 
-`cordis_inspect` serves API and event data from a generated catalog rather than a duplicated table. The generator reuses the Cordis catalog AST scan and emits service summaries, signatures, event modes, referenced type declarations, and the inherited context surface. Ambiguous type names are omitted and oversized declarations are marked as truncated.
+`cordis_inspect` serves API and event data from a generated catalog rather than a duplicated table. The generator reuses the Cordis catalog AST scan and emits service summaries, signatures, original service-method and event JSDoc, event modes, referenced type declarations, and the inherited context surface. Ambiguous type names are omitted and oversized declarations are marked as truncated.
 
-Freshness is gated like every generated artifact: `pnpm run verify-cordis-api` (in `doc-sync`) regenerates in memory and fails on any diff, so a JSDoc edit that changes a public signature cannot ship without regenerating the catalog the model reads. At runtime the inspect tool intersects the catalog with the live runtime rather than dumping it: live catalogued services render summary + signatures, live services without a catalog entry (mount-provided ones) render name + owning fiber, catalogued services with no live provider are listed tersely, and the referenced type shapes follow.
+Freshness is gated like every generated artifact: `pnpm run verify-cordis-api` (in `doc-sync`) regenerates in memory and fails on any diff, so a JSDoc or public-signature edit cannot ship without regenerating the catalog the model reads. At runtime the inspect tool intersects the catalog with the live runtime rather than dumping it: broad reports render live catalogued services as summary + signatures, live services without a catalog entry (mount-provided ones) as name + owning fiber, catalogued services with no live provider tersely, and then the referenced type shapes. Exact-name reports render one live service or event with the original JSDoc immediately before each signature; keeping that detail opt-in avoids charging its token cost on exploratory listings.
 
 ### Configuration, rendering, and observability
 

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

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ If the complete logical result fits under the inline cap, no formatted spill art
 - The first-party tool-owned spill precedent is covered directly: spill backend present, spill backend absent, `saveText()` failure, and missing spill owner.
 - The package has real Loader-path coverage for the namespace plugin export shape (`name`, `inject`, `Config`, and `apply`, with no default export).
 - A real-executor integration suite (`dsh-bash-local` + a real `rg`) verifies the world: hostile patterns stay inert, per-session cwd resolution, VCS-metadata exclusion, modification-time ordering, and real ripgrep stderr classification. It self-skips where `rg` is not on PATH (a CI accommodation mirroring the keyless e2e skip); the fake-executor suite alone carries the per-file 100% coverage gate.
-- Snapshot gap note for the transcript-visible spill notice: this landed with the gap note, not a snapshot. The snapshot tier replays the acp-agent tree, and adding the search plugin there changes the assembled system prompt — every golden would need re-recording with a real key, which the implementing environment did not hold. The spill notice's exact transcript text is pinned by unit tests (`formatGlobOutput`/`formatGrepOutput` and the through-the-registry spill tests); wiring the plugin into the acp-agent tree plus a `test:snapshot:record` pass is the follow-up for the next key-holding session.
+- Snapshot gap note for the transcript-visible spill notice: this landed with the gap note, not a snapshot. The snapshot tier replays the acp-agent tree, and adding the search plugin there changes the assembled system prompt — every expected output would need re-recording with a real key, which the implementing environment did not hold. The spill notice's exact transcript text is pinned by unit tests (`formatGlobOutput`/`formatGrepOutput` and the through-the-registry spill tests); wiring the plugin into the acp-agent tree plus a `test:snapshot:record` pass is the follow-up for the next key-holding session.
 
 ## Consequences
 

docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-06-20-core-data-structures-catalog.md

@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ The rule that settled the remaining cases: ***the type you write, hold, or recei
 
 The durability requirement was specific: the doc shows the **literal** current type declaration and original JSDoc (so a reader sees the real shape and source contract, not a paraphrase) **and** is mechanically guaranteed to match source. The repo already compiles fenced ` ```ts ` blocks (`doc-typecheck`), but a real typechecked block needs import noise and proves only *assignability* — a renamed field or changed JSDoc can pass. So:
 
-- Type declarations and their JSDoc are pasted verbatim into a dedicated ` ```ts type-equiv ` fence. `doc-typecheck` recognizes the fence and skips it (a bare definition is not standalone-compilable), and **excludes it from the opt-out ratio** — it is a separately-checked category, not an unchecked sketch.
-- A new `scripts/verify-type-equiv.ts` extracts each block via the TypeScript parser and asserts that its declaration structure and every JSDoc comment match the declared symbol, ignoring only formatting whitespace and non-JSDoc comments. This is chosen over a compiled `_Check` assertion because source names and documentation identity, not assignability, are the properties the catalog preserves.
+- Complete type declarations and their JSDoc are pasted verbatim into a dedicated ` ```ts type-equiv ` fence. A concise ` ```ts public-api ` fence carries the source-equivalent ambient projection for a class whose implementation bodies do not belong in the catalog. `doc-typecheck` recognizes both and skips them (the bare declarations are not standalone-compilable), and **excludes them from the opt-out ratio** — they are a separately-checked category, not unchecked sketches.
+- A new `scripts/verify-type-equiv.ts` extracts each block via the TypeScript parser and asserts that its declaration structure and every JSDoc comment match the declared symbol, ignoring only formatting whitespace and non-JSDoc comments. Ordinary blocks retain the complete declaration. A `public-api` projection retains a class's public fields, constructor, accessors, and methods with their original JSDoc while removing implementation bodies and private or protected members. This is chosen over a compiled `_Check` assertion because source names and documentation identity, not assignability, are the properties the catalog preserves.
 - Provenance lives in a central `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` (`{ doc, symbol, source }` entries), **not** in directive comments in the prose. The script enforces a **1:1 correspondence**: every type-equiv block has exactly one manifest entry and vice versa, so a block can never be silently unchecked and an entry can never rot.
 - Wired into `doc-sync`, so it runs in the same lefthook pre-push and CI paths as the other doc gates.
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The spine-vs-seam rule was tested against `BashExecRequest`, tool schemas and de
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- The vocabulary now has a single home that **cannot silently drift**: a field rename in source fails `verify-type-equiv` in the pre-push hook and CI until the paste is refreshed.
+- The vocabulary now has a single home that **cannot silently drift**: a field or public class-member change in source fails `verify-type-equiv` in the pre-push hook and CI until the paste is refreshed. Cordis service methods remain owned by the generated services catalog rather than being duplicated here.
 - The spine-vs-seam line is a reusable scoping tool, not a one-off: the same "the thing you write/hold/receive is core; the machinery that types/renders/persists it is a detail" rule is what later scoped the events/services catalog's harness-vs-inherited tiering.
 - The `ts type-equiv` fence is a third doc-block category alongside ` ```ts ` (compiled) and ` ```ts ignore-check ` (sketch). A later sibling added a fourth, ` ```ts cordis-catalog ` (generated signature), reusing the same skip-and-exclude treatment.
 - Adding or reshaping a core type now carries a documentation obligation the author must honor (the gate cannot detect a missing *new* type), backstopped by the `dsh-code-review` checklist.

docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Specific choices:
 
 - **`@mode` tag, cross-checked.** Each harness event's JSDoc carries an explicit `@mode emit|waterfall|parallel|serial` tag; the generator hard-errors on a missing tag. Where the signature shape is conclusive — a trailing `next: () => …` parameter is structurally a waterfall — it asserts the tag agrees and hard-errors on a contradiction. The emit/parallel/serial distinction is not structurally visible (`session/flush` returns `Promise<void> | void` with no `next`, as does the ordered `agent/pre-step` checkpoint), so it is trusted from the tag. The authoring rule lives in [AGENTS.md](../../../../AGENTS.md).
 - **Tiered scope.** The harness tier (the 8 `@deepseek-ai/dsh-*` services + their events) is rendered in full from source. The inherited tier (cordis-core `ctx.on/emit/effect/provide/…` + the `internal/*` events + loader/hmr/timer) is pinned vendor source a plugin also sees; it is rendered tersely (name + one-line + source pointer) from a curated table in the generator, NOT walked from the vendor AST — the cordis-core `Context` mixes true ctx members with non-service fields (`root`, `baseUrl`, `logger`), and the vendor surface changes only on a deliberate vendor sync.
-- **Cross-links to the data-structure catalog.** A type name in a signature (`GenerateOptions`, `StreamChunk`, `ToolDefinition`, …) links to the core-data-structures page that documents it. The map is a small hand-curated const in the generator — NOT `type-equiv.manifest.json`, which documents the `…Map` symbols while signatures reference the derived union names, and lists a few symbols on two pages.
+- **Cross-links to the data-structure catalog.** Every repository-owned type name in a signature (`GenerateOptions`, `StreamChunk`, `ToolDefinition`, …) links to its primary core-data-structures page through a curated map. The AST walk is fail-closed: each parameter, generic constraint/default, and return-type reference must be mapped, be the signature's own type parameter, be a named TypeScript/Cordis foundation type, or carry a named exception with its non-catalog documentation owner. Violations aggregate with source pointers and name the appropriate owning lists. The map does NOT reuse `type-equiv.manifest.json`, which documents `…Map` symbols while signatures reference derived union names and lists some symbols on multiple pages.
 - **A dedicated fence.** Signature blocks use a ` ```ts cordis-catalog ` info string and place the original event or public-method JSDoc immediately before its declaration. `doc-typecheck` recognizes and skips the bare fragments, excluding them from the opt-out ratio — the same treatment `type-equiv` blocks get.
 
 This **supersedes the event-taxonomy half** of [doc-sync enforcement](2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md): `verify-event-taxonomy` and its `docs/architecture.md` table are retired (the architecture.md heading stays, its body now points at the catalog; the Service-map role table stays as curated prose). doc-typecheck, verify-md-wrap, verify-md-links, and verify-type-equiv are unchanged.
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ This **supersedes the event-taxonomy half** of [doc-sync enforcement](2026-06-11
 
 - **Verify-don't-generate, as the retired taxonomy check did** — reversed *for this surface only*: the data here is mechanically complete, so generation is strictly stronger (full signatures, cannot drift, catches undocumented events) than a name-set check of a hand-maintained table.
 - **Walking the vendor AST for the inherited tier** — rejected for the curated table: the cordis-core `Context` mixes true ctx members with non-service fields, and the pinned vendor surface changes only on a deliberate sync.
-- **Reusing `type-equiv.manifest.json` as the signature cross-link map** — rejected for a small hand-curated const: the manifest documents the `…Map` symbols while signatures reference the derived union names, and it lists a few symbols on two pages.
+- **Reusing `type-equiv.manifest.json` as the signature cross-link map** — rejected for a complete curated const plus fail-closed coverage: the manifest documents `…Map` symbols while signatures reference derived union names, and it lists some symbols on multiple pages. The explicit map makes each rendered destination and each non-catalog exception a reviewable decision.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- The catalog cannot drift: a source change that the committed file doesn't reflect fails `verify-cordis-catalog` in the pre-push hook and CI. A new event with no `@mode` tag, or a tag that contradicts its signature, fails the generator outright.
+- The catalog cannot drift: a source change that the committed file doesn't reflect fails `verify-cordis-catalog` in the pre-push hook and CI. A new event with no `@mode` tag, a tag that contradicts its signature, or an unclassified signature type fails the generator outright.
 - Event and service-method contracts have a single home — the JSDoc at the declaration. The catalog repeats that original JSDoc inside its generated signature block and uses its description portion as entry prose, so thin source documentation yields a thin catalog entry.
 - The inherited tier is hand-summarized, so a vendor sync that adds/renames a cordis-core event or `ctx` member needs a matching edit to the curated table in `gen-cordis-catalog.ts`. This is the deliberate cost of not walking pinned vendor source; it changes rarely and is called out in the generator.
 - `verify-event-taxonomy.ts` is deleted and the `docs/architecture.md` event table is gone; anyone who linked to a specific table row now lands on the generated catalog instead.

docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-12-package-model-experience-contract.md

@@ -4,28 +4,28 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-A package README can explain APIs and runtime mechanics without answering the question that dominates an agent harness's behavior and cost: what from this package reaches a model request, under which conditions, and how long those tokens remain. The omission is especially hard to audit in a plugin architecture. A consumer may turn a backend result into a tool message, a policy plugin may replace success with an error, compaction may remove old history, and an agent-scoped registration may change one agent's prompt or schemas while leaving every other agent unchanged. Reading only the nominally model-facing packages therefore misses real context effects, while reading source across every dependency is too expensive for routine review.
+A package README can explain APIs and runtime mechanics without answering the questions that dominate an agent harness's behavior and cost: what from this package reaches a model request, under which conditions, how long those tokens remain, and whether later requests preserve a reusable KV-cache prefix. The omission is especially hard to audit in a plugin architecture. A consumer may turn a backend result into a tool message, a policy plugin may replace success with an error, compaction may remove old history, and an agent-scoped registration may change one agent's prompt or schemas while leaving every other agent unchanged. Reading only the nominally model-facing packages therefore misses real context effects, while reading source across every dependency is too expensive for routine review.
 
 ## Decision
 
 Every workspace package README with a model-facing or model-adjacent contract ends with the canonical [Model Experience section](../../../cookbook/adding-a-package.md#4-write-the-package-readme), immediately before `## Known Limitations and Deferred Work`; a package on the no-limitations allowlist ends with Model Experience itself. An audited model-agnostic generic package omits the section through `NO_MODEL_EXPERIENCE_SECTION`.
 
-Packages with direct, conditional, capped, lifetime, multi-surface, or auxiliary-model effects use one H3 per context surface. Each names what the relevant model receives and when, then classifies the token effect. Stable package-owned text is quoted exactly: system-prompt prose and other long literals use a nested H4 plus `markdown` fence, while short literals stay inline with named interpolation placeholders. Tool-schema surfaces link their anchored section in the generated [tool catalog](../../../tool-catalog.md) and state only composition or configuration deltas; runtime-only definitions explain why the catalog omits them. Data-dependent and provider-owned text is summarized. Agent-scoped visibility is explicit, and prompt and schema surfaces remain separate when scoping can hide one without the other.
+Packages with direct, conditional, capped, lifetime, multi-surface, or auxiliary-model effects use one H3 per context surface. Each surface contains three ordered H4 fields—`What the model sees`, `Token effect`, and `KV Cache effect`—and each field starts with one prose paragraph. The cache field distinguishes append-only growth, a stable repeated prefix, replacement of earlier tokens, and an independent model request; it names every package-owned configuration, scope, lifecycle, compaction, or routing change that can alter the request before newly appended content. “Does not invalidate” means the package preserves an already-reusable prefix, not that a provider promises a cache hit or retention period. Stable package-owned text is quoted exactly: system-prompt prose and other long literals use a titled H5 plus `markdown` fence under the field that introduces them, normally `What the model sees`, while short literals stay inline with named interpolation placeholders. Tool-schema surfaces link their anchored section in the generated [tool catalog](../../../tool-catalog.md) and state only composition or configuration deltas; runtime-only definitions explain why the catalog omits them. Data-dependent and provider-owned text is summarized. Agent-scoped visibility is explicit, and prompt and schema surfaces remain separate when scoping can hide one without the other.
 
-A package with no model-context effect, or one path rendered entirely by another package, uses the verifier's audited one-sentence form: `None, as ` or `Indirectly, through `. Pure transport and keyless test-support packages use the none form when they create no model-bound content. Provider backends use the indirect form even when they cap or filter data, and wiring bundles use it when named children own every effect. These sentences locate the contribution without restating the consumer. Structured sections likewise document only package-owned inputs, transformations, and deltas.
+A package with no model-context effect, or one path rendered entirely by another package, uses the verifier's audited short form: one sentence beginning `None, as ` or `Indirectly, through ` followed by a `KV Cache effect` H4 and one prose paragraph. Pure transport and keyless test-support packages use the none form when they create no model-bound content. Provider backends use the indirect form even when they cap or filter data, and wiring bundles use it when named children own every effect. These sections locate the contribution and disclaim direct cache invalidation without restating the consumer. Structured sections likewise document only package-owned inputs, transformations, and deltas.
 
-`verify-package-readme-model-experience` discovers package manifests and validates the three classifications, canonical final-section order, required fields, concrete literal evidence, nested verbatim blocks, and anchored tool-catalog links. It runs in `doc-sync` and the parallel gate runner. Review still owns coverage, link relevance, and factual accuracy.
+`verify-package-readme-model-experience` discovers package manifests and validates the three classifications, canonical final-section order, exact field heading depth and order, non-empty field paragraphs, H5 ownership of verbatim blocks, concrete literal evidence, and anchored tool-catalog links. It runs in `doc-sync` and the parallel gate runner. Review still owns coverage, link relevance, and factual accuracy.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 - **Document only packages that register prompts or tools** — rejected because backends, policy plugins, adapters, persistence, scoping, and compaction change the content or lifetime of tokens without owning a model-facing schema.
 - **Generate one central context-cost catalog from source** — rejected because an AST can find registrations but cannot infer semantic conditions such as history retention, output truncation, parent-versus-child visibility, or an auxiliary model boundary. The package README is the implementation-local contract; a central copy would add another drift surface.
 - **Require numeric token counts** — rejected because exact counts depend on the selected model tokenizer, adapter serialization, configuration, and runtime data. The stable contract is the growth shape: fixed per request, conditional per call, retained, replaced, capped, or zero-direct.
-- **Use a three-column table** — rejected because exact source text and conditional result shapes make cells dense and difficult to scan. Repeated subsections give each context surface readable vertical space while preserving the same fields.
+- **Use a table** — rejected because exact source text and conditional result shapes make cells dense and difficult to scan. Repeated subsections give each context surface readable vertical space while preserving the same fields.
 - **Allow every zero-impact package to omit the section** — rejected because unconstrained absence is ambiguous between an audited zero and forgotten documentation. Omission is reserved for model-agnostic generic packages named with a reason in the verifier; model-adjacent zero-impact packages keep one explicit sentence.
-- **Require the full structured form for audited zero or simple indirect packages** — rejected because it repeats labels around one fact. A gated sentence preserves explicit coverage without the ceremony.
+- **Require the full structured form for audited zero or simple indirect packages** — rejected because it repeats labels around one fact. A gated sentence plus cache field preserves explicit coverage without the ceremony.
 - **Convention without a gate** — rejected because a repo-wide contract must also cover every future package; review memory cannot reliably detect an omitted README section.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-A reviewer can start at any model-facing or model-adjacent package and see its contribution to the conversation model, child models, and auxiliary calls without reconstructing the full plugin graph. Token-budget work can distinguish repeated request overhead from data-dependent history, and agent-scoped changes have an explicit documentation checkpoint. Package authors maintain one or more compact context-surface blocks or one classified sentence whenever model-visible behavior changes; audited generic packages carry no irrelevant model boilerplate. The structured fields do not promise provider-exact token counts; measurements remain model- and workload-specific, while the documented growth and visibility contract stays stable.
+A reviewer can start at any model-facing or model-adjacent package and see its contribution to the conversation model, child models, and auxiliary calls without reconstructing the full plugin graph. Token-budget work can distinguish repeated request overhead from data-dependent history, while cache-sensitive work can identify append-only paths and the earliest package-owned prefix mutation. Agent-scoped changes have an explicit documentation checkpoint. Package authors maintain one or more compact context-surface blocks or one classified short form whenever model-visible behavior changes; audited generic packages carry no irrelevant model boilerplate. The structured fields do not promise provider-exact token counts or cache hits; measurements remain model-, provider-, and workload-specific, while the documented growth, visibility, and prefix-stability contract stays stable.

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-adapter-change-event.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If an LLM adapter browser or dynamic model-picker needs this signal later, reint
 
 ## Verification
 
-`llm/adapter-change` and its emits are gone and the regenerated cordis catalog is fresh; HMR-safety holds (disposing a contributing fiber removes the adapter); `tools/change` and `system-prompt/change` remain documented and tested; and no production path changed observable behavior — the ACP snapshot goldens and the echo-agent smoke are byte-unchanged.
+`llm/adapter-change` and its emits are gone and the regenerated cordis catalog is fresh; HMR-safety holds (disposing a contributing fiber removes the adapter); `tools/change` and `system-prompt/change` remain documented and tested; and no production path changed observable behavior — the ACP snapshot expected outputs and the echo-agent smoke are byte-unchanged.
 
 ## Consequences
 

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-unconsumed-llm-assembled-surfaces.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This is the [drop-mutable-session-summary](../../implemented/simplification/2026
 
 ## Verification
 
-`streamBlocks`, `generate`, `llm/generate`, and the assembler helpers they alone required are gone with no new dead exports; both real adapters are exercised through `stream()` and the shared assembler; the loop behaves identically (ACP snapshot goldens unchanged); and the README, architecture doc, and module docs carry no mention of the removed surfaces.
+`streamBlocks`, `generate`, `llm/generate`, and the assembler helpers they alone required are gone with no new dead exports; both real adapters are exercised through `stream()` and the shared assembler; the loop behaves identically (ACP snapshot expected outputs unchanged); and the README, architecture doc, and module docs carry no mention of the removed surfaces.
 
 ## Consequences
 

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-write-only-fs-surface.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ A future permission/containment layer might want the pre-resolution path for err
 
 ## Verification
 
-The removed surfaces are gone — `STREAM_MIN_SIZE`/`streamMinSize` in `dsh-fs-local`, `FsTarget.inputPath`, `FsEditOutcome.replacements`/`.replaceAll`, and `FileReadOutcome.limit`/`.version` — while the request-side `replaceAll` (`FsEditRequest`) and the version fields on the other outcome types are untouched; the test fakes shrank with the types. `formatEditOutput`'s emitted text is unchanged for both `replace_all` branches, so no snapshot golden churned.
+The removed surfaces are gone — `STREAM_MIN_SIZE`/`streamMinSize` in `dsh-fs-local`, `FsTarget.inputPath`, `FsEditOutcome.replacements`/`.replaceAll`, and `FileReadOutcome.limit`/`.version` — while the request-side `replaceAll` (`FsEditRequest`) and the version fields on the other outcome types are untouched; the test fakes shrank with the types. `formatEditOutput`'s emitted text is unchanged for both `replace_all` branches, so no snapshot expected output churned.
 
 ## Consequences
 

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-remove-agent-steering-mirror.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 `agent/steering` duplicated the immediately preceding durable `steering/message` with the same payload. `agent/queued` remains the live-only signal because it fires before persistence and covers work that may be cancelled before entering the log.
 
-Steering carries real production traffic — the hook bridges' turn-continuation decisions inject their reasons through `inbox.steer()`, landing as durable `steering/message` events that the hook-matrix goldens pin — and every one of those consumers observes the durable event. Nothing observed the mirror.
+Steering carries real production traffic — the hook bridges' turn-continuation decisions inject their reasons through `inbox.steer()`, landing as durable `steering/message` events that the hook-matrix expected outputs pin — and every one of those consumers observes the durable event. Nothing observed the mirror.
 
 ## Decision
 

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-tighten-hook-protocol-contract.md

@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Unsupported vocabulary can return when a real consumer exists. `durationMs` rema
 
 ## Consequences
 
-The `dialect`, `suppressOutput`, tunables, and semantics changes are invisible on the wire and in the goldens. The cost was churn in `dsh-hook-protocol` and both bridges — cheap under the pre-release stance, and cheaper than letting two copies of a durable event's semantics age apart.
+The `dialect`, `suppressOutput`, tunables, and semantics changes are invisible on the wire and in the expected outputs. The cost was churn in `dsh-hook-protocol` and both bridges — cheap under the pre-release stance, and cheaper than letting two copies of a durable event's semantics age apart.

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-trim-acp-bridge-unreachable-surface.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 Two pieces of `dsh-acp` surface were unreachable from any shipped configuration:
 
-1. **`AcpConfig.agentName` / `agentVersion`** (`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts`). The shipped app package hands the bridge only `{ model }` (`packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts`), so no leaf `cordis.yml` — the only production config surface — could set the knobs at all; they were settable solely by direct-mounting the bridge, which only a unit test did. Every snapshot golden — the hook-matrix scenarios included — pins the schema defaults (`deepseek-harness-acp` / `0.0.1`). The pair also carried a live `TODO(double-default)`: the literals existed twice (schema `.default(...)` plus `??` fallbacks), with the TODO asking to pick one home.
+1. **`AcpConfig.agentName` / `agentVersion`** (`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts`). The shipped app package hands the bridge only `{ model }` (`packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts`), so no leaf `cordis.yml` — the only production config surface — could set the knobs at all; they were settable solely by direct-mounting the bridge, which only a unit test did. Every snapshot expected output — the hook-matrix scenarios included — pins the schema defaults (`deepseek-harness-acp` / `0.0.1`). The pair also carried a live `TODO(double-default)`: the literals existed twice (schema `.default(...)` plus `??` fallbacks), with the TODO asking to pick one home.
 2. **The `toolKindFor` name heuristic** (same file) special-cased `bash*`/`read*`/`write`/`edit*` tool names in the generic-fallback path. Since the [render-intent union](../architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md), every first-party tool those arms matched ships its own `presentCall` carrying its kind, and the presenter-less production tools (`subagent`, `subagent_fork`) fell through to `other` anyway. The arms were production-reachable only when a tool declined to present its own call — a `presentCall` that THROWS (the containment fallback), or model arguments that fail the tool's schema so `defineTool`'s `presentCall` wrapper returns `undefined` (e.g. a `bash` call missing the required `description`) — and the bridge's own module doc states the design rule the heuristic violated: "the bridge never special-cases tool names".
 
 ## Decision

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md

@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ This RFC records the decision to add a third test tier — **snapshot tests**
 
 ## Decision
 
-A snapshot test boots the real ACP example, drives its stdio protocol from a deterministic script, and compares normalized output with committed goldens. A session log recorded once from the real API supplies all later model streams. The fixture is the product's ordinary persisted JSONL.
+A snapshot test boots the real ACP example, drives its stdio protocol from a deterministic script, and compares normalized output with committed expected outputs. A session log recorded once from the real API supplies all later model streams. The fixture is the product's ordinary persisted JSONL.
 
 ### The fixture is the persisted session JSONL
 
-Each scenario's `session.jsonl` is harvested from a real run. `assistant/chunk` events reproduce the model streams; tool, message, and boundary events capture the harness behavior. One ordinary session artifact therefore serves as both replay source and behavioral golden.
+Each scenario's `session.jsonl` is harvested from a real run. `assistant/chunk` events reproduce the model streams; tool, message, and boundary events capture the harness behavior. One ordinary session artifact therefore serves as both replay source and behavioral expected output.
 
 ### Replay derives the model script from the log
 
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ Replay uses a `cordis.snapshot.yml` overlay that replaces the real adapter with
 
 A snapshot run asserts **two** normalized surfaces, because the harness's external surfaces are distinct:
 
-1. The **stdout transcript** — the framed `session/update` JSON-RPC the editor sees. Catches regressions in the ACP bridge's event→update translation (`streamSessionEventUpdate`). Compared against a committed `stdout.golden.jsonl`.
+1. The **stdout transcript** — the framed `session/update` JSON-RPC the editor sees. Catches regressions in the ACP bridge's event→update translation (`streamSessionEventUpdate`). Compared against a committed `stdout.expected.jsonl`.
 2. The **re-persisted session JSONL**, normalized and compared with `session.jsonl`. The same fixture is both replay source and expected log. Prompt text is scrubbed; one scenario per header class pins readable prompt and tool content as described in the [header-pinning RFC](2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md). Override scenarios derive model behavior solely from their sidecar.
 
 The surfaces are complementary: stdout covers bridge projection, while JSONL covers loop, tool, and boundary structure that the projection omits.
 
-Normalization replaces session, cwd, protocol-id, timestamp, path, and process volatility while preserving deterministic sequence numbers. Scenarios constrain real bash use to stable commands. The stdout golden remains wire-shaped JSONL and every raw line must parse as JSON. Vitest updates only the stdout golden; normalized session equality never overwrites the replay fixture.
+Normalization replaces session, cwd, protocol-id, timestamp, path, and process volatility while preserving deterministic sequence numbers. Scenarios constrain real bash use to stable commands. The stdout expected output remains wire-shaped JSONL and every raw line must parse as JSON. Vitest updates only the stdout expected output; normalized session equality never overwrites the replay fixture.
 
 ### Isolation: normalization now, sandbox later
 
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ Tool determinism comes from a temporary cwd, scrubbed environment, fresh non-log
 
 ### Two subcommands, replay in the default gate
 
-`pnpm run test:snapshot` replays committed fixtures keylessly; `test:snapshot:record` uses the real API and rewrites the harvested session log and stdout golden. Missing fixtures fail loud. Every scenario carries `input.json`, `stdout.golden.jsonl`, and `session.jsonl`; no-model cases use a header-only log. `replay.override.json` is required only for scenarios marked `overridden`, because its presence replaces derived replay. Fixture guards reject missing, mismatched, and orphaned files. Both commands accept scenario filters.
+`pnpm run test:snapshot` replays committed fixtures keylessly; `test:snapshot:record` uses the real API and rewrites the harvested session log and stdout expected output. Missing fixtures fail loud. Every scenario carries `input.json`, `stdout.expected.jsonl`, and `session.jsonl`; no-model cases use a header-only log. `replay.override.json` is required only for scenarios marked `overridden`, because its presence replaces derived replay. Fixture guards reject missing, mismatched, and orphaned files. Both commands accept scenario filters.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
-- **A hand-authored `llm.json` of model chunks** — the earlier draft; reusing the real session log makes the fixture a genuine product of the system rather than a hand-built mock, and doubles it as a behavioral golden.
+- **A hand-authored `llm.json` of model chunks** — the earlier draft; reusing the real session log makes the fixture a genuine product of the system rather than a hand-built mock, and doubles it as a behavioral expected output.
 - **A byte-level HTTP-record library (Polly/nock/MSW)** — rejected: adapter-specific, awkward with streaming SSE, and lower-level than the thing under test.
 - **Synthesizing throw/cancel entries from `turn/end {kind:'error'|'aborted'}`** — rejected: it couples `llm-replay` to loop-internal turn-closing semantics, and the `turn/end` reason is lossy (it cannot distinguish a thrown 401 from a finish-error); the explicit `replay.override.json` sidecar is the cleaner seam.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-expected-output.md

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# RFC: Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact
+
+Status: implemented
+
+## Problem
+
+Model-driving ACP snapshot scenarios ship both `session.jsonl` and `session.expected.jsonl`. For normal recorded scenarios, `session.jsonl` is the replay fixture harvested from a real run, and the replay test normalizes the newly persisted log and compares it to `session.expected.jsonl`. In the current fixtures, the two normalized logs are identical for ordinary recorded scenarios.
+
+Authored override scenarios (`error-finish`, `cancel`) currently use `replay.override.json` to drive model behavior and keep `session.jsonl` as a minimal dummy fixture, while `session.expected.jsonl` holds the expected persisted log. The override file is a JSON array of `ReplayEntry` objects: `{ "kind": "chunks", "chunks": StreamChunk[] }`, `{ "kind": "throw", "chunks": StreamChunk[], "message": string, "code": string }`, or `{ "kind": "hang" }`. That split is also unnecessary: when an override sidecar exists, `llm-replay` replaces the derived script and does not need `session.jsonl` for model chunks, so `session.jsonl` can still be the expected session-log artifact for the scenario.
+
+## Decision
+
+The `session.expected.jsonl` concept is removed entirely. Every scenario has at most one committed session-log artifact, `session.jsonl`:
+
+- For recorded scenarios, `session.jsonl` remains the raw harvested log. Replay still derives model chunks from it, and the snapshot test compares the replay run's normalized persisted log against normalized `session.jsonl`.
+- For authored override scenarios, `replay.override.json` drives model behavior and `session.jsonl` holds the expected produced session log. The replay adapter ignores the fixture for model chunks when the override exists, so the same file can be the expected log without affecting replay behavior.
+- For no-model scenarios, `session.jsonl` can stay as the minimal fixture needed to boot `llm-replay`; no session-log comparison is needed unless the scenario creates a persisted session.
+
+Stdout expected outputs remain unchanged; they are the editor-facing projection and are not redundant with the session fixture.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Normalizing both sides against a shared (replay-run) context** — rejected: `normalizeSessionLog` scrubs cwd by exact string match, so the fixture's recorded cwd would survive unscrubbed and every compare would fail. Each side normalizes against its own header-derived context — the implementation note below carries the mechanics.
+
+## Verification
+
+`session.expected.jsonl` appears nowhere in the snapshot harness, fixtures, orphan guards, or docs; the snapshot test derives the expected session log from `session.jsonl` for every model scenario; authored sidecar scenarios commit their expected produced log as `session.jsonl` with `replay.override.json` as the model-behavior override; and the orphan-fixture guards know which files each scenario kind requires. The [ACP snapshot tests RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) describes the reduced fixture set.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Reviewers lose one artifact name that made the expected persisted log visually separate from the replay fixture. The stdout expected output still protects the editor transcript, and comparing replay output to `session.jsonl` preserves the loop/persistence regression check without duplicating files.
+
+## Implementation note
+
+Each side is normalized against its own header values because recording and replay have different ids, paths, and timestamps. `fixtureContext()` derives the fixture context from its header, making already-normalized fixtures idempotent. Session logs use plain equality rather than file-snapshot updates, so comparison never rewrites fixtures.

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-goldens.md

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# RFC: Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact
-
-Status: implemented
-
-## Problem
-
-Model-driving ACP snapshot scenarios ship both `session.jsonl` and `session.golden.jsonl`. For normal recorded scenarios, `session.jsonl` is the replay fixture harvested from a real run, and the replay test normalizes the newly persisted log and compares it to `session.golden.jsonl`. In the current fixtures, the normalized recorded log and normalized golden are identical for the ordinary recorded scenarios.
-
-Authored override scenarios (`error-finish`, `cancel`) currently use `replay.override.json` to drive model behavior and keep `session.jsonl` as a minimal dummy fixture, while `session.golden.jsonl` holds the expected persisted log. The override file is a JSON array of `ReplayEntry` objects: `{ "kind": "chunks", "chunks": StreamChunk[] }`, `{ "kind": "throw", "chunks": StreamChunk[], "message": string, "code": string }`, or `{ "kind": "hang" }`. That split is also unnecessary: when an override sidecar exists, `llm-replay` replaces the derived script and does not need `session.jsonl` for model chunks, so `session.jsonl` can still be the expected session-log artifact for the scenario.
-
-## Decision
-
-The `session.golden.jsonl` concept is removed entirely. Every scenario has at most one committed session-log artifact, `session.jsonl`:
-
-- For recorded scenarios, `session.jsonl` remains the raw harvested log. Replay still derives model chunks from it, and the snapshot test compares the replay run's normalized persisted log against normalized `session.jsonl`.
-- For authored override scenarios, `replay.override.json` drives model behavior and `session.jsonl` holds the expected produced session log. The replay adapter ignores the fixture for model chunks when the override exists, so the same file can be the expected log without affecting replay behavior.
-- For no-model scenarios, `session.jsonl` can stay as the minimal fixture needed to boot `llm-replay`; no session-log comparison is needed unless the scenario creates a persisted session.
-
-Stdout goldens remain unchanged; they are the editor-facing projection and are not redundant with the session fixture.
-
-## Alternatives considered
-
-**Normalizing both sides against a shared (replay-run) context** — rejected: `normalizeSessionLog` scrubs cwd by exact string match, so the fixture's recorded cwd would survive unscrubbed and every compare would fail. Each side normalizes against its own header-derived context — the implementation note below carries the mechanics.
-
-## Verification
-
-`session.golden.jsonl` appears nowhere in the snapshot harness, fixtures, orphan guards, or docs; the snapshot test derives the expected session log from `session.jsonl` for every model scenario; authored sidecar scenarios commit their expected produced log as `session.jsonl` with `replay.override.json` as the model-behavior override; and the orphan-fixture guards know which files each scenario kind requires. The [ACP snapshot tests RFC](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) describes the reduced fixture set.
-
-## Consequences
-
-Reviewers lose one artifact name that made the expected persisted log visually separate from the replay fixture. The stdout golden still protects the editor transcript, and comparing replay output to `session.jsonl` preserves the loop/persistence regression check without duplicating files.
-
-## Implementation note
-
-Each side is normalized against its own header values because recording and replay have different ids, paths, and timestamps. `fixtureContext()` derives the fixture context from its header, making already-normalized fixtures idempotent. Session logs use plain equality rather than file-snapshot updates, so comparison never rewrites fixtures.

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The snapshot tier (`pnpm run test:snapshot`) boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session through [`dsh-llm-replay`](../../../../packages/support/llm-replay), and diffs the normalized stdout transcript + re-persisted session log against committed goldens. It is the only tier that exercises the full editor-facing transcript end to end.
+The snapshot tier (`pnpm run test:snapshot`) boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session through [`dsh-llm-replay`](../../../../packages/support/llm-replay), and diffs the normalized stdout transcript + re-persisted session log against committed expected outputs. It is the only tier that exercises the full editor-facing transcript end to end.
 
 It was built for ONE session per process, and that assumption is wired into two places:
 

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-04-hook-snapshot-matrix.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# RFC: Hook snapshot matrix — end-to-end goldens for both bridges
+# RFC: Hook snapshot matrix — end-to-end expected outputs for both bridges
 
 Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The hook bridges — [`dsh-hooks-claude`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-claude) (7 Claude Code hook points) and [`dsh-hooks-codex`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) (5 Codex points) — map external hook commands onto the harness interception seams. They carry deep unit and coverage-spec coverage (every decision arm, every payload dialect, driven against a mocked seam) plus one key-gated e2e (`hooks.e2e.ts`, a live `PreToolUse` block). But the full-transcript snapshot tier — the one net that boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session keyless, and diffs the normalized ACP stdout + re-persisted log against committed goldens — covered exactly ONE hook: a Claude `UserPromptSubmit` block (`hook-cc-promptsubmit-block`).
+The hook bridges — [`dsh-hooks-claude`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-claude) (7 Claude Code hook points) and [`dsh-hooks-codex`](../../../../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) (5 Codex points) — map external hook commands onto the harness interception seams. They carry deep unit and coverage-spec coverage (every decision arm, every payload dialect, driven against a mocked seam) plus one key-gated e2e (`hooks.e2e.ts`, a live `PreToolUse` block). But the full-transcript snapshot tier — the one net that boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session keyless, and diffs the normalized ACP stdout + re-persisted log against committed expected outputs — covered exactly ONE hook: a Claude `UserPromptSubmit` block (`hook-cc-promptsubmit-block`).
 
 That is the tier a mocked unit test structurally cannot be: it exercises the REAL bridge translating a REAL hook process's outcome into the REAL seam decision, then the REAL loop's reaction, rendered exactly as an editor sees it. A bridge-translation or loop-structure regression that left every unit green would still escape it for every hook point but one — and for the Codex bridge, the ACP example did not even LOAD it, so no Codex hook could fire end-to-end at all.
 
@@ -29,22 +29,22 @@ Thirteen scenarios under `examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/`, naming `hook-<di
 
 Each hook command emits only FIXED LITERAL strings (no timestamps/pids/`$RANDOM`/cwd echoes); the snapshot normalizer scrubs the one volatile field a `hook/result` carries (`durationMs`). The `Stop` scenarios self-limit with a marker file (`.stop_fired`) so the force-continue does not loop — the `stop_hook_active` loop-guard is still a bridge `TODO`, so an unconditional Stop hook would force-continue every step.
 
-The `PostToolUse` block scenarios self-limit at the mechanism they prove. The Claude hook persists a workspace marker after its first rejection, so one recovery call is allowed; the Codex prompt makes one call and reports the injected result. Each golden pins one blocked call without repeated block/retry cycles.
+The `PostToolUse` block scenarios self-limit at the mechanism they prove. The Claude hook persists a workspace marker after its first rejection, so one recovery call is allowed; the Codex prompt makes one call and reports the injected result. Each expected output pins one blocked call without repeated block/retry cycles.
 
 ### Three hook points are deliberately NOT snapshotted
 
 Discovered while building the matrix, and documented here because the omission is a decision, not an oversight:
 
-- **`SessionStart` and `SubagentStart`** inject context through a detached, best-effort `void runPoint(...).then(agent.inject())` with NO turn binding. The resulting `context/message` races the work it precedes (the first model request / the child's first turn) and lands at a nondeterministic log position. A recorded golden does not even reproduce on its own replay — a 10× replay stability check failed 10/10 for both. They stay on the bridges' unit coverage, which drives the seam directly without the timing race. (If the injection is ever made turn-bound and deterministic — the direction the `TODO(session-start-gating)` points — these become snapshottable.)
-- **`SubagentStop`** is observe-only: its `subagent/end` handler passes no turn (so no `hook/*` log events) and does no injection. It writes NOTHING to the transcript, so a golden would be byte-identical to the no-hook run and could never be proven to fail — a guard that cannot bite. It stays on unit coverage (`bridge.spec.ts` already asserts the observe-only call).
+- **`SessionStart` and `SubagentStart`** inject context through a detached, best-effort `void runPoint(...).then(agent.inject())` with NO turn binding. The resulting `context/message` races the work it precedes (the first model request / the child's first turn) and lands at a nondeterministic log position. A recorded expected output does not even reproduce on its own replay — a 10× replay stability check failed 10/10 for both. They stay on the bridges' unit coverage, which drives the seam directly without the timing race. (If the injection is ever made turn-bound and deterministic — the direction the `TODO(session-start-gating)` points — these become snapshottable.)
+- **`SubagentStop`** is observe-only: its `subagent/end` handler passes no turn (so no `hook/*` log events) and does no injection. It writes NOTHING to the transcript, so an expected output would be byte-identical to the no-hook run and could never be proven to fail — a guard that cannot bite. It stays on unit coverage (`bridge.spec.ts` already asserts the observe-only call).
 
 The matrix therefore covers every hook point that has a DETERMINISTIC, OBSERVABLE transcript footprint, for both dialects.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- Every bridge seam mapping with an observable transcript is now guarded at the full-transcript tier, in the real app, for both dialects — including the Codex bridge, which had no end-to-end coverage at all. Recorded goldens capture the model's real reaction to a denied/blocked/force-continued turn, which a hand-authored transcript could only guess at.
+- Every bridge seam mapping with an observable transcript is now guarded at the full-transcript tier, in the real app, for both dialects — including the Codex bridge, which had no end-to-end coverage at all. Recorded expected outputs capture the model's real reaction to a denied/blocked/force-continued turn, which a hand-authored transcript could only guess at.
 - The `UserPromptSubmit` block scenarios are authored keylessly (no model turn); the rest replay keylessly from recorded fixtures. `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` regenerates the recorded fixtures from the live API and self-skips without a key like every recorded scenario.
-- The prove-red discipline holds: tampering a hook config's output (e.g. changing a deny reason) turns its scenario red on replay — the hook process runs FOR REAL during replay (only the model is replayed), so the golden guards the actual hook→seam→loop path, not a mock of it.
+- The prove-red discipline holds: tampering a hook config's output (e.g. changing a deny reason) turns its scenario red on replay — the hook process runs FOR REAL during replay (only the model is replayed), so the expected output guards the actual hook→seam→loop path, not a mock of it.
 - The `acp-agent` demo now loads a Codex bridge it will usually no-op (no `codex-hooks.json` in a typical project), which is the intended fail-soft behavior, not a cost.
 
 <!-- rfc-format: alternatives-not-recorded (pre-format RFC) -->

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-04-single-source-acp-replay-config.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 `cordis.snapshot.yml` includes the live config, disables the named DeepSeek adapter by id and name, and inserts the replay adapter. Every other entry therefore comes from the shipping tree. Replay selects the overlay; recording still boots `cordis.yml`, and the load guard permits the intentionally disabled entry.
 
-One vendored-plugin fact the overlay depends on, deliberately: the include applies `patches` when it loads the file — its `refresh()`/`internal/update` paths re-read without re-patching — which is exactly enough for a one-shot replay boot (the replay app loads no `hmr` and nothing rewrites the config mid-run). The snapshot suite is the proof: all scenarios pass unchanged on the overlay, byte-identical goldens included.
+One vendored-plugin fact the overlay depends on, deliberately: the include applies `patches` when it loads the file — its `refresh()`/`internal/update` paths re-read without re-patching — which is exactly enough for a one-shot replay boot (the replay app loads no `hmr` and nothing rewrites the config mid-run). The snapshot suite is the proof: all scenarios pass unchanged on the overlay, byte-identical expected outputs included.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ An ACP snapshot suite needs to prove the exact composed system prompt and tool-s
 
 ## Decision
 
-Exactly one scenario per header-composition class is flagged `pinsHeader`. Its directory splits the pin by review format: `system-prompt.golden.md` contains the normalized full prompt sequence as ordinary Markdown, `tool-schemas.golden.json` contains the corresponding complete schema sequence as structured JSON, and `session.jsonl` retains config, reason, and any model-visible prefix while storing `header.system` and `header.tools` as `"{{system}}"` / `"{{tools}}"`. Every other JSONL uses the same prompt and tool tokens and also tokenizes session-prefix content. The pin mechanics live in [`dsh-acp-snapshot`](../../../../packages/support/acp-snapshot/README.md), whose suite factory enforces one pin per class.
+Exactly one scenario per header-composition class is flagged `pinsHeader`. Its directory splits the pin by review format: `system-prompt.expected.md` contains the normalized full prompt sequence as ordinary Markdown, `tool-schemas.expected.json` contains the corresponding complete schema sequence as structured JSON, and `session.jsonl` retains config, reason, and any model-visible prefix while storing `header.system` and `header.tools` as `"{{system}}"` / `"{{tools}}"`. Every other JSONL uses the same prompt and tool tokens and also tokenizes session-prefix content. The pin mechanics live in [`dsh-acp-snapshot`](../../../../packages/support/acp-snapshot/README.md), whose suite factory enforces one pin per class.
 
 The pure `scrubSystemPrompts` and `scrubToolSchemas` normalizers independently tokenize every stored full header. `scrubRequestHeaders` also tokenizes session-prefix content for non-pinning scenarios while retaining header count, field presence, config, reason, and prefix message count. Record and refresh write-back apply the appropriate scrub before writing JSONL and regenerate both sidecars from the normalized live full-header sequence, so neither path can reintroduce prompt/schema bulk into JSONL or leave a review artifact stale.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-08-shared-acp-snapshot-package.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
-The ACP snapshot tier ([snapshot RFC](2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md)) was built from three modules living inside one example's test directory: `snapshot-harness.ts` (boot the real bin subprocess, drive it over ACP JSON-RPC, harvest the persisted logs), `snapshot-normalize.ts` (the pure golden normalizers), and the ~150-line scenario body plus fixture guards in `acp.snapshot.ts` (record/replay modes, the stdout-golden and log compares, the pinned-header uniformity guard, the orphan/required-file/single-pin meta-tests).
+The ACP snapshot tier ([snapshot RFC](2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md)) was built from three modules living inside one example's test directory: `snapshot-harness.ts` (boot the real bin subprocess, drive it over ACP JSON-RPC, harvest the persisted logs), `snapshot-normalize.ts` (the pure expected-output normalizers), and the ~150-line scenario body plus fixture guards in `acp.snapshot.ts` (record/replay modes, the stdout expected-output and log comparisons, the pinned-header uniformity guard, the orphan/required-file/single-pin meta-tests).
 
 A second ACP example wanting snapshot coverage — the sandbox/approval composition is the immediate consumer — could only copy those modules, forking exactly the logic that must not drift: record write-back, header scrubbing, child-session harvest ordering. The spawn/client glue was also triplicated across `acp.e2e.ts`, `hooks.e2e.ts`, and the harness. Location decided test rigor: the per-file 100% coverage gate measures `packages/*/*/src` only, so none of this machinery was measured — the same gap that had moved `dsh-llm-replay` out of `examples/` into [packages/support](../../../../packages/support/README.md). And the harness's ACP client hardcoded `requestPermission → cancelled`, so an approval round-trip — the headline behavior of the sandbox composition — could not be expressed at the snapshot tier at all.
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The machinery lives in [`packages/support/acp-snapshot`](../../../../packages/su
 
 **`src/normalize.ts`** — the pure normalizers, hook-free by policy: when a future event carries a new volatile field (an approval duration, say), the shared normalizer learns it in the same change, keeping one home for what "normalized" means rather than per-suite scrub extensions.
 
-**`src/suite.ts`** — the `Scenario` type and `defineAcpSnapshotSuite(options)`, registering the per-scenario compares, record/refresh fixture write-back, the header pin with its live uniformity guard, and the fixture guard block (no orphan scenario dirs, required files present, exactly one pin per class, every JSONL a `scrubSystemPrompts` fixed point, non-pinning fixtures also `scrubRequestHeaders` fixed points). A scenario directory's `session.jsonl` plus contiguous `session.<n>.jsonl` siblings are its ordered primary/child inventory, so the scenario table declares policy without duplicating a child count. The pinned-header contract ([pinned-header RFC](2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md)) is per-suite: each header class flags exactly one `pinsHeader` scenario, whose `system-prompt.golden.md` and JSONL tool list split the composed header into reviewable artifacts; the uniformity guard compares both against every live header in that class. A pinning scenario declares any legitimate changed-header count, and its Markdown artifact records every full changed prompt. The pure helpers (`sessionFixtureNames`, `fixtureContext`, `normalizedHeaders`, `normalizedSystemPrompts`, `formatSystemPromptSnapshot`, `headerChangeCount`) are exported from the module for direct unit coverage.
+**`src/suite.ts`** — the `Scenario` type and `defineAcpSnapshotSuite(options)`, registering the per-scenario compares, record/refresh fixture write-back, the header pin with its live uniformity guard, and the fixture guard block (no orphan scenario dirs, required files present, exactly one pin per class, every JSONL a `scrubSystemPrompts` fixed point, non-pinning fixtures also `scrubRequestHeaders` fixed points). A scenario directory's `session.jsonl` plus contiguous `session.<n>.jsonl` siblings are its ordered primary/child inventory, so the scenario table declares policy without duplicating a child count. The pinned-header contract ([pinned-header RFC](2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md)) is per-suite: each header class flags exactly one `pinsHeader` scenario, whose `system-prompt.expected.md` and JSONL tool list split the composed header into reviewable artifacts; the uniformity guard compares both against every live header in that class. A pinning scenario declares any legitimate changed-header count, and its Markdown artifact records every full changed prompt. The pure helpers (`sessionFixtureNames`, `fixtureContext`, `normalizedHeaders`, `normalizedSystemPrompts`, `formatSystemPromptSnapshot`, `headerChangeCount`) are exported from the module for direct unit coverage.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The machinery lives in [`packages/support/acp-snapshot`](../../../../packages/su
 - **A shared module directory under `examples/`** — keeps the code outside the coverage gate and forces relative imports across example boundaries, against the package-name import convention; `examples/` leaves stay thin by design.
 - **A `/testing` subpath export of `dsh-acp-demo`** — couples test infrastructure into a product package's surface and dependency set; `packages/support/` exists precisely for real-but-lower-compatibility dev/test packages, with `dsh-llm-replay` as the precedent this package completes.
 - **Export raw test-body functions instead of a suite factory** — each example would re-own the `describe`/`it` skeleton (~80 lines of registration boilerplate per suite) for no flexibility gain; the factory keeps consumers to a scenario table plus one call, and the exported pure helpers preserve unit-testability inside the factory design.
-- **An injectable ACP `Client` factory instead of declarative `permissionAnswers`** — maximally flexible, but it leaks SDK client construction to every consumer and reopens per-example drift in exactly the layer being unified; a declarative queue keeps `input.json` the single scripting surface and stays golden-normalizable.
+- **An injectable ACP `Client` factory instead of declarative `permissionAnswers`** — maximally flexible, but it leaks SDK client construction to every consumer and reopens per-example drift in exactly the layer being unified; a declarative queue keeps `input.json` the single scripting surface and compatible with expected-output normalization.
 - **Generalize beyond ACP (a transport-agnostic snapshot harness)** — no second transport exists; the harness is ACP-shaped end to end (SDK client, JSON-RPC frames, `session/update` waiters), and a speculative abstraction would be a seam split ahead of any consumer.
 
 ## Testing

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.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
-2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md: a1363a521372c11dab8b239cad87df5ff5ca8f22
-2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.zh.md: aa365ba1f2ba17e5bc5409dbdc3736cbc29fe26a
+2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md: a609e7c167ddf7ebe594f6793e34a48c555c10a9
+2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.zh.md: 8690a6f83a827619682b82c2df56d360e104c53b

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md

@@ -25,19 +25,19 @@ The runnable TUI has its own `examples/tui-agent` leaf beside the readline `repl
 
 ### Recorded-session replay
 
-Each example-level scenario directory owns `session.jsonl`, optional child logs `session.<n>.jsonl`, and `terminal.golden.txt`. The primary log supplies user-authored `user/message` prompts and the recorded `assistant/chunk` sequence. `dsh-llm-replay` derives one model-call script per session, binds child logs to fresh child sessions, and is the only mocked boundary. The agent loop, bash and filesystem implementations, Code Mode worker, subagent provider, workflow worker, Cordis tools, presenters, and TUI are production implementations.
+Each example-level scenario directory owns `session.jsonl`, optional child logs `session.<n>.jsonl`, and `terminal.expected.txt`. The primary log supplies user-authored `user/message` prompts and the recorded `assistant/chunk` sequence. `dsh-llm-replay` derives one model-call script per session, binds child logs to fresh child sessions, and is the only mocked boundary. The agent loop, bash and filesystem implementations, Code Mode worker, subagent provider, workflow worker, Cordis tools, presenters, and TUI are production implementations.
 
-The suite rejects a journey when its tool-call sequence differs, an expected event count is missing, a tool result is an error, a turn ends in error, a workflow lifecycle is incomplete, or the live child-session count differs from the fixture set. These assertions prevent an attractive terminal golden from hiding a failed or bypassed production path.
+The suite rejects a journey when its tool-call sequence differs, an expected event count is missing, a tool result is an error, a turn ends in error, a workflow lifecycle is incomplete, or the live child-session count differs from the fixture set. These assertions prevent an attractive terminal expected output from hiding a failed or bypassed production path.
 
-The live-model fixtures use `DSH_SNAPSHOT=record`; record mode rewrites their primary and child JSONL logs and terminal goldens. The deterministic Cordis toolchain keeps an authored complete JSONL script because reliably coercing a live model through five exact tool boundaries and two children is not a stable recording contract. `DSH_SNAPSHOT=refresh` replays every committed script keylessly and rewrites only derived terminal goldens. Plain replay compares without writing, and unknown mode values fail loud.
+The live-model fixtures use `DSH_SNAPSHOT=record`; record mode rewrites their primary and child JSONL logs and terminal expected outputs. The deterministic Cordis toolchain keeps an authored complete JSONL script because reliably coercing a live model through five exact tool boundaries and two children is not a stable recording contract. `DSH_SNAPSHOT=refresh` replays every committed script keylessly and rewrites only derived terminal expected outputs. Plain replay compares without writing, and unknown mode values fail loud.
 
 ### Semantic terminal projection
 
 The package-local `HeadlessTerminal` implements the same pi-tui `Terminal` interface as the process terminal and feeds every ANSI write into the pinned `@xterm/headless` parser. Snapshot code waits for synchronized frames to quiesce before reading state, so a checkpoint represents a completed screen rather than a timer-dependent write prefix.
 
-Each golden projects dimensions, active-buffer and viewport coordinates, lifecycle and cursor state, rows, wrap markers, and non-default style ranges into text. Scroll-heavy cards capture the used buffer; overlays capture the visible viewport. Text and style remain separate so a reviewer can distinguish content changes from presentation changes without decoding ANSI bytes.
+Each expected output projects dimensions, active-buffer and viewport coordinates, lifecycle and cursor state, rows, wrap markers, and non-default style ranges into text. Scroll-heavy cards capture the used buffer; overlays capture the visible viewport. Text and style remain separate so a reviewer can distinguish content changes from presentation changes without decoding ANSI bytes.
 
-Every checkpoint enforces theme independence across the complete terminal state: no RGB colors, no palette entries beyond ANSI 0–15, and no explicit background colors. Reverse video remains valid for selection because it uses terminal defaults. Both suites own closed inventories that reject missing scenarios, missing checkpoints, and orphaned golden files.
+Every checkpoint enforces theme independence across the complete terminal state: no RGB colors, no palette entries beyond ANSI 0–15, and no explicit background colors. Reverse video remains valid for selection because it uses terminal defaults. Both suites own closed inventories that reject missing scenarios, missing checkpoints, and orphaned expected output files.
 
 ### Required scenario matrix
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Every checkpoint enforces theme independence across the complete terminal state:
 - **Snapshot raw terminal writes** — rejected because differential rendering may change write boundaries without changing the screen, while cursor and clear sequences are unreadable in review.
 - **Snapshot component render lines before terminal output** — rejected because it does not test ANSI parsing, cursor movement, overlays, viewport behavior, or independent components in one frame.
 - **Build every completed flow by appending session events** — rejected because a hand-authored event sequence can drift from the agent loop, tool execution, child-session binding, or worker behavior while its presentation test stays green. Direct event construction remains limited to transient renderer states.
-- **Reuse ACP stdout goldens as the TUI oracle** — rejected because a recorded model journey is transport-neutral but its presentation is not. TUI scenarios own terminal goldens while using the same JSONL replay vocabulary.
+- **Reuse ACP stdout expected outputs as the TUI oracle** — rejected because a recorded model journey is transport-neutral but its presentation is not. TUI scenarios own terminal expected outputs while using the same JSONL replay vocabulary.
 - **Commit raster screenshots** — rejected because fonts, glyph metrics, antialiasing, and host terminal themes make them platform-sensitive and make semantic style changes difficult to review.
 - **Use only PTY end-to-end tests** — rejected because raw PTY output is a stream of historical drawing operations, not queryable final state. PTY tests retain the real Loader/input/teardown boundary, while the emulator owns broad state coverage.
 
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ Every checkpoint enforces theme independence across the complete terminal state:
 - Completed advanced snapshots now fail when the real Code Mode, workflow, subagent, filesystem, bash, or Cordis path breaks, rather than accepting a fabricated result event.
 - TUI visual regressions produce readable cell-and-style diffs, while JSONL fixtures retain the exact model chunks that made the production path execute.
 - The emulator uses xterm's proposed buffer API. An xterm upgrade requires rerunning and reviewing the semantic projection; terminal-specific behavior still needs the PTY smoke.
-- Goldens deliberately encode wrapping and viewport behavior at fixed sizes. Intentional layout changes use keyless refresh, while model-journey changes use record mode and review both JSONL and terminal diffs.
+- Expected outputs deliberately encode wrapping and viewport behavior at fixed sizes. Intentional layout changes use keyless refresh, while model-journey changes use record mode and review both JSONL and terminal diffs.

docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.zh.md

@@ -25,19 +25,19 @@ TUI 覆盖分为四个互补层次：
 
 ### 已录制会话回放
 
-每个示例级场景目录都包含 `session.jsonl`、可选的子会话日志 `session.<n>.jsonl`，以及 `terminal.golden.txt`。主日志提供用户来源的 `user/message` 提示词和已录制的 `assistant/chunk` 序列。`dsh-llm-replay` 为每个会话派生一份模型调用脚本，并将子日志绑定到新建的子会话；这是测试中唯一的 mock 边界。agent loop、bash 与文件系统实现、Code Mode worker、subagent 提供方、工作流 worker、Cordis 工具、呈现器和 TUI 都使用生产实现。
+每个示例级场景目录都包含 `session.jsonl`、可选的子会话日志 `session.<n>.jsonl`，以及 `terminal.expected.txt`。主日志提供用户来源的 `user/message` 提示词和已录制的 `assistant/chunk` 序列。`dsh-llm-replay` 为每个会话派生一份模型调用脚本，并将子日志绑定到新建的子会话；这是测试中唯一的 mock 边界。agent loop、bash 与文件系统实现、Code Mode worker、subagent 提供方、工作流 worker、Cordis 工具、呈现器和 TUI 都使用生产实现。
 
-如果工具调用顺序不符、预期事件数量不足、工具结果报错、轮次以错误结束、工作流生命周期不完整，或者实时子会话数量与 fixture（测试前置数据）集合不一致，测试都会失败。即使终端金标表面正确，这些断言也能阻止失败或被绕过的生产路径混入结果。
+如果工具调用顺序不符、预期事件数量不足、工具结果报错、轮次以错误结束、工作流生命周期不完整，或者实时子会话数量与 fixture（测试前置数据）集合不一致，测试都会失败。即使终端预期输出表面正确，这些断言也能阻止失败或被绕过的生产路径混入结果。
 
-真实模型 fixture 通过 `DSH_SNAPSHOT=record` 更新；录制模式会重写其主会话与子会话 JSONL 日志以及终端金标。确定性的 Cordis 工具链保留一份人工编写的完整 JSONL 脚本，因为要求真实模型稳定经过五个指定工具边界和两个子会话并不是可靠的录制契约。`DSH_SNAPSHOT=refresh` 会无密钥回放所有已提交脚本，并且只重写派生的终端金标。普通回放只比较而不写入，未知模式值会快速失败。
+真实模型 fixture 通过 `DSH_SNAPSHOT=record` 更新；录制模式会重写其主会话与子会话 JSONL 日志以及终端预期输出。确定性的 Cordis 工具链保留一份人工编写的完整 JSONL 脚本，因为要求真实模型稳定经过五个指定工具边界和两个子会话并不是可靠的录制契约。`DSH_SNAPSHOT=refresh` 会无密钥回放所有已提交脚本，并且只重写派生的终端预期输出。普通回放只比较而不写入，未知模式值会快速失败。
 
 ### 语义终端投影
 
 包内的 `HeadlessTerminal` 实现与进程终端相同的 pi-tui `Terminal` 接口，并把每次 ANSI 写入交给固定版本的 `@xterm/headless` 解析器。读取状态前，快照代码会等待同步帧稳定，因此每个检查点表示已经完成的画面，而不是依赖计时的写入前缀。
 
-每份金标把终端尺寸、活动缓冲区和视口坐标、生命周期与光标状态、各行、换行标记以及非默认样式区间投影为文本。滚动内容较多的卡片捕获已使用缓冲区；浮层捕获可见视口。文本和样式相互分离，评审人无需解码 ANSI 字节即可区分内容变化与呈现变化。
+每份预期输出把终端尺寸、活动缓冲区和视口坐标、生命周期与光标状态、各行、换行标记以及非默认样式区间投影为文本。滚动内容较多的卡片捕获已使用缓冲区；浮层捕获可见视口。文本和样式相互分离，评审人无需解码 ANSI 字节即可区分内容变化与呈现变化。
 
-每个检查点还会对完整终端状态强制执行主题无关性：禁止 RGB 颜色、禁止 ANSI 0–15 以外的调色板项，也禁止显式背景色。选择行使用终端默认色进行反显，因此仍然有效。两套测试都拥有封闭清单，会拒绝缺失的场景、缺失的检查点和遗留金标文件。
+每个检查点还会对完整终端状态强制执行主题无关性：禁止 RGB 颜色、禁止 ANSI 0–15 以外的调色板项，也禁止显式背景色。选择行使用终端默认色进行反显，因此仍然有效。两套测试都拥有封闭清单，会拒绝缺失的场景、缺失的检查点和遗留预期输出文件。
 
 ### 必需场景矩阵
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ TUI 覆盖分为四个互补层次：
 - **快照原始终端写入**：不予采纳，因为差分渲染可能在画面不变时改变写入边界，而且光标与清屏序列难以评审。
 - **快照进入终端输出之前的组件渲染行**：不予采纳，因为它无法测试 ANSI 解析、光标移动、浮层、视口行为，也无法测试独立组件在同一帧中的相互作用。
 - **通过追加会话事件构造所有完整流程**：不予采纳，因为人工编写的事件序列可能与 agent loop、工具执行、子会话绑定或 worker 行为发生偏差，但呈现测试仍然保持绿色。直接构造事件只用于渲染器瞬态。
-- **复用 ACP stdout 金标作为 TUI 判定依据**：不予采纳，因为已录制模型流程与传输方式无关，其呈现方式却并非如此。TUI 场景使用同一套 JSONL 回放词汇，但拥有独立的终端金标。
+- **复用 ACP stdout 预期输出作为 TUI 判定依据**：不予采纳，因为已录制模型流程与传输方式无关，其呈现方式却并非如此。TUI 场景使用同一套 JSONL 回放词汇，但拥有独立的终端预期输出。
 - **提交栅格截图**：不予采纳，因为字体、字形度量、抗锯齿和宿主终端主题会使结果依赖平台，也会增加语义样式变更的评审难度。
 - **只使用 PTY 端到端测试**：不予采纳，因为原始 PTY 输出是一系列历史绘制操作，而不是可查询的最终状态。PTY 测试保留真实 Loader、输入与清理边界，模拟器负责广泛的状态覆盖。
 
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ TUI 覆盖分为四个互补层次：
 - 当真实 Code Mode、工作流、subagent、文件系统、bash 或 Cordis 路径损坏时，已完成高级快照会失败，不会继续接受伪造的结果事件。
 - TUI 视觉回归会产生便于阅读的单元格和样式 diff，而 JSONL fixture 会保留触发生产路径的确切模型分片。
 - 模拟器使用 xterm 的拟议缓冲区 API。升级 xterm 时必须重新运行并评审语义投影；终端特有行为仍需由 PTY 冒烟测试覆盖。
-- 金标有意固定指定尺寸下的换行与视口行为。预期布局变更使用无密钥刷新；模型流程变更使用录制模式，并同时评审 JSONL 与终端 diff。
+- 预期输出有意固定指定尺寸下的换行与视口行为。预期布局变更使用无密钥刷新；模型流程变更使用录制模式，并同时评审 JSONL 与终端 diff。

docs/rfc/rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-drop-durable-step-boundaries.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Status: rejected — `step/end` is the durable indication that a model step fini
 
 ## Problem
 
-The session log stores `step/start` and `step/end` events even though every step-scoped event already carries `{ turn, step }`: assistant chunks, assistant messages, tool calls, tool results, usage, and errors. `deriveMessages()` ignores step boundaries, ACP ignores them for UI, and the main consumers are invariants, tests, snapshot goldens, and crash repair.
+The session log stores `step/start` and `step/end` events even though every step-scoped event already carries `{ turn, step }`: assistant chunks, assistant messages, tool calls, tool results, usage, and errors. `deriveMessages()` ignores step boundaries, ACP ignores them for UI, and the main consumers are invariants, tests, snapshot expected outputs, and crash repair.
 
 The rejected argument was that boundary events make the log more ceremonial than informative. In practice, `step/end` is concrete information: a reader can tell whether a model request finished, crashed, or is being repaired without deriving that state from the next event. A bare `step/start` is likewise useful for a model request that began but produced no chunks before failing.
 

docs/rfc/rejected/simplification/2026-06-20-generic-tool-rendering.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ As a smaller alternative, replace the current optional-field bag with one explic
 - `ToolCallPresentation`, `ToolResultPresentation`, `ToolTerminal`, and `ToolCallKind` disappear unless a minimal generic UI type still needs one.
 - ACP no longer keeps presenter pending state or calls tool callbacks during live streaming/load replay.
 - `dsh-tool-bash` no longer parses rendered text to recover exit status for a UI pill.
-- Snapshot goldens show generic tool cards and text results.
+- Snapshot expected outputs show generic tool cards and text results.
 
 ## What we give up
 

docs/testing.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ How this repo tests, tier by tier, and the rules that keep a green suite meaning
 - **Unit** (`pnpm run test`): vitest over `packages|examples/*/tests/**/*.spec.ts`, colocated with what they test. Every registry gets an HMR-safety test (dispose the contributing fiber, assert cleanup). Prefer edge cases, error paths, event ordering, concurrency races, and permanent contract regressions (see `packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts`).
 - **Coverage gate** (`pnpm run test:coverage`): the gating run, per-file 100% on `packages/*/*/src`. An uncovered line is often dead code the gate is correctly flagging for deletion, not a missing test to bolt on. Line coverage is necessary, never sufficient — it proves lines ran, not that the feature works as shipped.
 - **Real-API e2e** (`pnpm run test:e2e`): with-key tests against live provider APIs — the DeepSeek model plus provider-specific smokes that gate on their own keys (`EXA_API_KEY`, `PERPLEXITY_API_KEY`, …); each suite self-skips without its key so keyless CI stays green ([real-API e2e RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-real-api-e2e-ci.md)).
-- **Snapshot** (`pnpm run test:snapshot`): transport-specific keyless goldens cover external presentation. ACP suites boot the real example subprocess, replay a recorded session, and diff normalized stdout plus the re-persisted log ([ACP snapshot RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md)). TUI completed journeys replay recorded primary/child JSONL through the real agent loop and tools before projecting ANSI into semantic terminal-state goldens; package-local snapshots retain transient renderer states, and a real PTY conversation covers the process boundary ([TUI snapshot RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md)). Use `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` when a model transcript must change and `pnpm run test:snapshot:refresh` when committed replay input remains correct; review every JSONL and golden diff. System-prompt/tool-schema content is pinned by ONE ACP scenario (`text-turn`) and tokenized in every other fixture, so a prompt or schema edit churns one committed line ([pinned-header RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md)).
+- **Snapshot** (`pnpm run test:snapshot`): transport-specific keyless expected outputs cover external presentation. ACP suites boot the real example subprocess, replay a recorded session, and diff normalized JSON-RPC plus the re-persisted log ([ACP snapshot RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md)); the headless suite independently pins `stream-json` through its real one-shot subprocess. TUI completed journeys replay recorded primary/child JSONL through the real agent loop and tools before projecting ANSI into semantic terminal-state expected outputs; package-local snapshots retain transient renderer states, and a real PTY conversation covers the process boundary ([TUI snapshot RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-18-tui-terminal-state-snapshots.md)). Use `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` when a model transcript must change and `pnpm run test:snapshot:refresh` when committed replay input remains correct; review every JSONL and expected-output diff. System-prompt/tool-schema content is pinned by one ACP scenario (`text-turn`) and tokenized in every other fixture, so a prompt or schema edit churns one committed line ([pinned-header RFC](rfc/implemented/testing/2026-07-06-pin-request-header-content-in-one-scenario.md)).
 
 ## The with-key policy: inference is cheap here
 
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ An e2e assertion re-runs the command or re-reads the file externally; a keyword
 
 ## When a snapshot test is required
 
-Any change affecting an editor-facing transcript or end-to-end agent UX adds or updates a scenario in the owning snapshot suite, or states in the PR why none applies. ACP surfaces use `examples/<name>/tests/snapshots/`, a scenario table over the [`dsh-acp-snapshot`](../packages/support/acp-snapshot/README.md) suite factory (`examples/acp-agent` is primary). Completed interactive-terminal journeys use JSONL-driven scenarios under `examples/tui-agent/tests/snapshots/`; transient presentation uses the package-local semantic matrix, with a PTY case when input, Loader selection, or terminal teardown changes. New capability seams, lifecycle shapes, or transcript surfaces name their coverage at every tier at plan time and verify the harness can express it — a harness gap is scheduled work, not a mid-build surprise.
+Any change affecting an editor-facing transcript, headless event stream, or end-to-end agent UX adds or updates a scenario in the owning snapshot suite, or states in the PR why none applies. ACP surfaces use `examples/<name>/tests/snapshots/`, a scenario table over the [`dsh-acp-snapshot`](../packages/support/acp-snapshot/README.md) suite factory (`examples/acp-agent` is primary); `examples/headless-agent` owns the `stream-json` snapshot and replay fixtures. Completed interactive-terminal journeys use JSONL-driven scenarios under `examples/tui-agent/tests/snapshots/`; transient presentation uses the package-local semantic matrix, with a PTY case when input, Loader selection, or terminal teardown changes. New capability seams, lifecycle shapes, or transcript surfaces name their coverage at every tier at plan time and verify the harness can express it — a harness gap is scheduled work, not a mid-build surprise.

docs/tool-catalog.md

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ The bash tool is the model-facing consumer of the bash executor seam. A `run_in_
 
 ### `cordis_inspect`
 
-Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections.
+Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections. With `what:"api"` or `what:"events"`, pass an exact `name` to narrow to one service/event and include its original source JSDoc.
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections:
         "api",
         "events"
       ]
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Exact service key or event name whose original JSDoc to include; valid only with what:\"api\" or what:\"events\"."
     }
   }
 }

examples/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Examples
 
-Runnable demos (not workspaces) that showcase how the harness is wired. Each example is a **thin leaf**: a `cordis.yml` that picks the swappable backends (an LLM adapter, a bash executor), loads one app package, and may add optional product tools or demo-only mocks. The composition — the spine, the front-door cluster, and the boot glue — lives in the app packages ([`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../packages/examples/acp-demo)) and the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo) bundle they share. There is no `start.ts`; the `demo:*` scripts invoke each app package's `bin`.
+Runnable demos (not workspaces) that showcase how the harness is wired. Each example is a **thin leaf**: a `cordis.yml` that picks the swappable backends (an LLM adapter, a bash executor), loads one app package, and may add optional product tools or demo-only mocks. The composition — the spine, the front-door cluster, and the boot glue — lives in the app packages ([`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../packages/examples/stdio-demo), [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-cli-demo`](../packages/examples/cli-demo), [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../packages/examples/acp-demo)) and the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../packages/examples/agent-spine-demo) bundle they share. There is no `start.ts`; the `demo:*` scripts invoke each app package's `bin`.
 
 ## echo-agent
 
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ Run with: `pnpm run demo:repl` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` in the environment or a
 
 Run the Code Mode overlay with `pnpm run demo:code-mode`, or pass `acp` for the ACP example. See the [Code Mode example](repl-agent/README.md#code-mode) for its composition and a sample task.
 
+## headless-agent
+
+A non-interactive agent demo that accepts one positional task, runs one complete model/tool turn on the `@deepseek-ai/dsh-cli-demo` app, persists a fresh session, prints `text`, `json`, or `stream-json`, and exits.
+
+Run with: `pnpm run demo:headless -- "task"` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`). See [headless-agent/README.md](headless-agent/README.md) for the output contract, safety boundaries, and snapshot suite.
+
 ## tui-agent
 
 The full-screen terminal sibling of `repl-agent`: it reuses the same coding backends and tools while forcing the shared terminal app to `dsh-tui`. It is the home of TUI PTY and snapshot scenarios.
@@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ Run with: `pnpm run demo:cordis` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`). See [cordis-agent/R
 
 ## acp-agent
 
-An agent demo exposed as an **Agent Client Protocol (ACP)** server over JSON-RPC stdio, via the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../packages/examples/acp-demo) app — drive it from Zed or any other ACP client. Also the home of the keyless snapshot tests.
+An agent demo exposed as an **Agent Client Protocol (ACP)** server over JSON-RPC stdio, via the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`](../packages/examples/acp-demo) app — drive it from Zed or any other ACP client. It owns the ACP keyless snapshot suite.
 
 Run with: `pnpm run demo:acp` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`); `pnpm run demo:code-mode acp` boots the same server in Code Mode via the `code-mode.cordis.yml` overlay. See [acp-agent/README.md](acp-agent/README.md) for the Zed setup and the snapshot-test design.
 

examples/acp-agent/README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The editor sets each session's `cwd` to the project it opens, and bash uses that
 
 ## Snapshot tests (record-once / replay-deterministic)
 
-This example hosts the ACP snapshot suite. `dsh-llm-replay` reconstructs model streams from `assistant/chunk` events in each scenario's session JSONL, so replay is keyless. Recording runs the real agent and harvests that log; refresh keeps the committed transcript as mock input and rewrites current replay outputs. `replay.override.json` covers throw and hang cases that chunks cannot express, and an optional `workspace/` seeds files. The [snapshot RFC](../../docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) owns the full design.
+This example hosts the ACP snapshot suite. It replays through `dsh-llm-replay`, which reconstructs model streams from `assistant/chunk` events in each scenario's session JSONL. Recording runs the real ACP agent and harvests its logs; refresh keeps the committed transcript as mock input and rewrites current replay outputs. `replay.override.json` covers throw and hang cases that chunks cannot express, and an optional `workspace/` seeds files. The [snapshot RFC](../../docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) owns the ACP harness design.
 
 ## Permissions and sandboxing
 

examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import { defineAcpSnapshotSuite, type Scenario, type SnapshotSuiteOptions } from
 /**
  * The acp-agent example's snapshot suite: the scenario table for
  * `dsh-acp-snapshot`'s suite factory, which owns every compare/guard mechanic
- * (golden + re-persisted-log diffs, record/refresh write-back, the pinned-header
+ * (expected-output + re-persisted-log diffs, record/refresh write-back, the pinned-header
  * uniformity guard, the fixture guards). Fixtures live under `snapshots/<name>/`;
  * `pnpm run test:snapshot:record` re-records model transcripts against the real
- * API; `pnpm run test:snapshot:refresh` rewrites current replay goldens keyless.
+ * API; `pnpm run test:snapshot:refresh` rewrites current replay expected outputs keyless.
  * See the package README (packages/support/acp-snapshot) and the snapshot RFC,
  * docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md.
  */
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ const SCENARIOS: Scenario[] = [
     configPath: WORKSPACE_CONTEXT_CONFIG,
   },
   { name: 'cancel', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: false, overridden: true },
+  { name: 'cancel-tool-calls', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: false, overridden: true },
   { name: 'subagent-spawn', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },
   { name: 'subagent-multi', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },
   { name: 'subagent-fork', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },
@@ -122,6 +123,13 @@ const SCENARIOS: Scenario[] = [
     headerClass: 'advanced',
     configPath: ADVANCED_CONFIG,
   },
+  {
+    name: 'cordis-inspect-jsdoc',
+    hasModelTurn: true,
+    recorded: false,
+    headerClass: 'advanced',
+    configPath: ADVANCED_CONFIG,
+  },
   // Prompt-submit blocks are authored keylessly: they persist a rejected turn
   // and hook events without starting a model step, so their logs still compare.
   { name: 'hook-cc-promptsubmit-block', hasModelTurn: false, comparesLog: true, recorded: false },
@@ -129,7 +137,7 @@ const SCENARIOS: Scenario[] = [
   // The mid-turn seams fire during a real model turn, so each is recorded with its hook active
   // (the model's reaction to a deny/block/force-continue is part of the captured transcript).
   // SessionStart/SubagentStart are excluded because detached injection races log
-  // order; SubagentStop writes no transcript, so a golden could not prove it ran.
+  // order; SubagentStop writes no transcript, so an expected output could not prove it ran.
   // Unit tests cover those points; the hook-snapshot-matrix RFC owns the rationale.
   { name: 'hook-cc-promptsubmit-context', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },
   { name: 'hook-cc-pretool-deny', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/system-prompt.expected.md

@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ declare const tools: {
     /** Required with sandbox_permissions: one sentence for the user explaining why this exact command needs the wider access. */
     justification?: string;
   }): Promise<string>;
-  /** Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections. */
+  /** Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections. With `what:"api"` or `what:"events"`, pass an exact `name` to narrow to one service/event and include its original source JSDoc. */
   cordis_inspect(args: {
     /** Limit the report to one section. Omit for all sections. */
     what?: "services" | "plugins" | "tools" | "dynamic" | "api" | "events";
+    /** Exact service key or event name whose original JSDoc to include; valid only with what:"api" or what:"events". */
+    name?: string;
   }): Promise<string>;
   /** Mount a NEW cordis plugin into the live runtime that is running THIS agent (self-modification). `code` runs as the body of an async JavaScript function in an isolated sandbox and MUST `return` a plugin. Two forms: FUNCTION form `return (ctx) => { … }` — declares no inject, so it can register tools, listen to events, and provide services, but reaching ANY service (e.g. ctx.bash) throws; use it only when you need no services. OBJECT form `return { name?, inject: ['bash', 'llm', …], apply(ctx) { … } }` — declares dependencies, and cordis activates the plugin only after the services exist; PREFER this form. You may reach ONLY the services you list in inject: an undeclared service throws even if it exists, because an undeclared dependency would not be cleaned up if its provider is unmounted. BEFORE calling a service from your code, read cordis_inspect what:"api" — it lists method signatures AND the type shapes of their arguments/returns (do not guess a field's type; e.g. a bash run's stdout is an object, not a string). Inside `apply`, use the standard cordis API: `ctx.on(event, listener)` to observe events (see cordis_inspect what:"events"), or call `harness.registerTool(ctx, harness.defineTool({ name, description, parameters: { text: { type: 'string', required: true } }, async execute(args) { … } }))` to give yourself a new tool — it becomes callable on your NEXT step. Tool parameters: each key IS a property — { type: 'string'|'number'|'boolean'|'object'|'array', required?: true, description?, enum?, items?, properties? }; a JSON-Schema-style { type: 'object', properties, required: […] } wrapper and type 'integer' are also accepted and normalized. A tool's `execute` MUST return an ARRAY of content blocks, e.g. `return [{ type: 'text', text: someString }]` — never a bare string. Mounts can COMPOSE: one plugin may `ctx.provide('name', value)` a service and another may declare `inject: ['name']` to consume it — the consumer stays pending until the provider exists and returns to pending when the provider is unmounted. Everything registered inside `apply` is cleaned up automatically on unmount. Sandbox globals: `console` (tagged `[cordis:<id>]`, writes through to the harness terminal), `harness.defineTool`, `harness.registerTool`, `btoa`, `atob`, `TextEncoder`, `TextDecoder`. Node APIs are DISABLED — do filesystem/network/timer work through the cordis services, never Node built-ins: `require`, `setTimeout`/`setInterval`, and `fetch` throw redirect errors; `process` and `Buffer` are undefined. Instead use inject: ['fs'] + ctx.fs for files, inject: ['web'] + ctx.web for HTTP, inject: ['bash'] + ctx.bash for processes, and inject: ['timer'] + ctx.setTimeout/ctx.setInterval for timing (fiber effects, auto-cleaned on unmount) — cordis_inspect what:"api" shows what THIS runtime provides. Write PLAIN JavaScript, not TypeScript (no `as`, no type annotations). Cautions: (1) waterfall events (e.g. tools/pre-execute) hand the listener a trailing `next` callback which MUST be called — returning without `next()` VETOES the call; prefer plain notification events unless you intend to intercept. (2) Never await something that only resolves after the current turn (your code runs INSIDE a tool call of that turn — it would deadlock). (3) Your `ctx` is a restricted façade: you can register tools, observe events, provide/consume services, and use timers, but framework internals (ctx.root, ctx.fiber, ctx.extend, ctx.plugin, …) are withheld. It is not a security boundary though — the services you inject (e.g. ctx.bash) reach the real runtime. */
   cordis_mount(args: {

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/tool-schemas.expected.json

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     },
     {
       "name": "cordis_inspect",
-      "description": "Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections.",
+      "description": "Inspect the live cordis runtime that is running THIS agent. Read-only. Sections: `services` (every provided ctx service and the plugin fiber that owns it), `plugins` (a flat list of the loaded plugins with their lifecycle states), `tools` (the model-facing tools currently registered, i.e. what you can call), `dynamic` (plugins you mounted via cordis_mount: id, name, state, provided services, awaited services), `api` (method signatures AND argument/return type shapes for every LIVE service — read this before writing plugin code that calls a service), `events` (every harness event with its dispatch mode and exact signature — pick listener targets here). Omit `what` to get all six sections. With `what:\"api\"` or `what:\"events\"`, pass an exact `name` to narrow to one service/event and include its original source JSDoc.",
       "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
               "api",
               "events"
             ]
+          },
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Exact service key or event name whose original JSDoc to include; valid only with what:\"api\" or what:\"events\"."
           }
         }
       }

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel-tool-calls/input.json

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "steps": [
+    { "op": "initialize" },
+    { "op": "newSession" },
+    {
+      "op": "promptAndCancel",
+      "text": "Run two shell commands: wait for cancellation, then write skipped.txt.",
+      "afterUpdate": "tool_call",
+      "waitForToolCallUpdate": "call_skipped"
+    }
+  ]
+}

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel-tool-calls/replay.override.json

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[
+  {
+    "kind": "chunks",
+    "chunks": [
+      { "type": "block-start", "index": 0, "blockType": "tool-call" },
+      { "type": "tool-call-delta", "index": 0, "id": "call_wait", "name": "bash", "argumentsDelta": "{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}" },
+      { "type": "block-end", "index": 0, "block": { "type": "tool-call", "id": "call_wait", "name": "bash", "arguments": "{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}" } },
+      { "type": "block-start", "index": 1, "blockType": "tool-call" },
+      { "type": "tool-call-delta", "index": 1, "id": "call_skipped", "name": "bash", "argumentsDelta": "{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}" },
+      { "type": "block-end", "index": 1, "block": { "type": "tool-call", "id": "call_skipped", "name": "bash", "arguments": "{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}" } },
+      { "type": "usage", "usage": { "inputTokens": 10, "outputTokens": 10 } },
+      { "type": "finish", "reason": { "kind": "tool-calls" } }
+    ]
+  }
+]

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel-tool-calls/session.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{"type":"session","version":0,"id":"{{sessionId}}","createdAt":0,"cwd":"{{cwd}}"}
+{"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1784437195072,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
+{"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1784437195072,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Run two shell commands: wait for cancellation, then write skipped.txt."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":1784437195076,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1784437195076,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"tool-call"}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"tool-call-delta","index":0,"id":"call_wait","name":"bash","argumentsDelta":"{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}"}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":6,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-end","index":0,"block":{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_wait","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}"}}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":7,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":1,"blockType":"tool-call"}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":8,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"tool-call-delta","index":1,"id":"call_skipped","name":"bash","argumentsDelta":"{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}"}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":9,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-end","index":1,"block":{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_skipped","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}"}}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":10,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":10,"outputTokens":10}}}}
+{"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":11,"time":1784437195077,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"tool-calls"}}}}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":12,"time":1784437195078,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_wait","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}"},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_skipped","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":10,"outputTokens":10}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"tool/call","seq":13,"time":1784437195078,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_wait","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"node -e \\\"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\\\"\",\"description\":\"Wait until cancellation\"}"}}
+{"type":"tool/result","seq":14,"time":1784437195089,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_wait","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Error: command aborted"}],"isError":true},"sourceEventSeqs":[13],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"tool/call","seq":15,"time":1784437195089,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_skipped","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\":\"printf skipped > skipped.txt\",\"description\":\"Write skipped marker\"}"}}
+{"type":"tool/result","seq":16,"time":1784437195089,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_skipped","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Error: tool call skipped because the step was aborted before execution"}],"isError":true,"error":{"name":"AbortError","code":"ABORTED"}},"sourceEventSeqs":[15],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"step/end","seq":17,"time":1784437195090,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
+{"type":"turn/end","seq":18,"time":1784437195090,"data":{"turn":1,"reason":{"kind":"aborted","reason":"session/cancel"}}}

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel-tool-calls/stdout.expected.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":1,"agentInfo":{"name":"deepseek-harness-acp","version":"0.0.1"},"agentCapabilities":{"loadSession":true,"promptCapabilities":{"image":false,"audio":false,"embeddedContext":false}},"authMethods":[]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"The session permission preset: each choice bundles a sandbox mode and an approval policy.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"tool_call","toolCallId":"call_wait","title":"node -e \"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\"","kind":"execute","status":"in_progress","rawInput":"node -e \"setInterval(() => {}, 1000)\"","content":[{"type":"content","content":{"type":"text","text":"Wait until cancellation"}}]}}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"stopReason":"cancelled"}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"tool_call_update","toolCallId":"call_wait","status":"failed","content":[{"type":"content","content":{"type":"text","text":"```console\nError: command aborted\n```"}}]}}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"tool_call","toolCallId":"call_skipped","title":"printf skipped > skipped.txt","kind":"execute","status":"in_progress","rawInput":"printf skipped > skipped.txt","content":[{"type":"content","content":{"type":"text","text":"Write skipped marker"}}]}}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"tool_call_update","toolCallId":"call_skipped","status":"failed","content":[{"type":"content","content":{"type":"text","text":"```console\nError: tool call skipped because the step was aborted before execution\n```"}}]}}}