The parent implementation introduced sandboxMode and approvalPolicy as generic SessionHeader fields, then propagated those fields through both persistence backends, session-query indexes, collision checks, policy-specific seed-boundary folds, catalogs, and a broad test matrix. That storage plane is unnecessary: Session already accepts a validated constructor seed, and persistence captures that seed when the session is announced before committing its first batch.
Capture each parent override synchronously at delegation, append source-tagged sandbox/mode and approval/policy records after the optional fork prefix, and create the child with that combined seed. Keeping header.seedLength at the original fork-prefix length preserves lineage while ordinary last-event-wins folds make the inherited records outrank stale parent history and remain subordinate to later child switches. Unswitched parents still stamp nothing, so children continue to follow deployment defaults.
Remove the generic header fields and every persistence/query/schema branch built around them. Collapse the inheritance suite from ten leaking scenarios to four owned-context cases covering real filesystem confinement, stale fork precedence, delegation-time capture, and the no-override path. The assembled headless snapshot now asserts the persisted inheritance event directly.
This keeps the security behavior while restoring policy ownership to the existing event log and deleting the speculative durability machinery that the original tests did not exercise.
Retarget the feature branch to the current master tip without rewriting its existing review history. Keeping this as a dedicated merge checkpoint makes the later simplification diff attributable to the stacked child rather than mixing base movement with design changes.
Resolve the identified-message API drift in the feature tests by constructing complete user messages, reading the nested tool-result message shape, and adapting the prompt-submit listener signature. Preserve both sides of the user-approval conflict: master’s createUserMessage wrapper and the feature’s inherited-policy attribution.
Regenerate the Cordis and persistence catalogs, re-record the session README pair, and refresh the affected ACP/headless fixtures so derived artifacts describe the merged source rather than either parent in isolation.
Validated with the focused policy/session/persistence/query suites (430 tests), focused ACP/headless snapshots (3 tests), build, doc-sync (25 gates), lint, hygiene, and git diff checks.
The staged-promotion machinery (concludingParents keyed by parent token
plus a pendingParentConclusions staging map) spread one fact — this call
concluded the turn — across three registry-side collections with manual
cleanup. Align it with how additionalContexts already crosses the same
boundary: concludeTurn() marks only its own execution, the marker rides
that execution's successful result (ToolExecutionFailure types
concludesTurn as never, so a policy-converted failure sheds it with the
type), and the composite that owns the nested dispatch forwards it —
Code Mode's binding does so beside its existing context forwarding.
The registry loses both parent-keyed collections and the promotion
block; the propagation decision moves to the owning boundary; the
structured-output consumer's own two-phase commit is untouched.
agent-loop lifecycle: dispose drains machine.done to true quiescence.
cancel()'s own running-to-idle transition can legitimately re-enter
through an automation listener (goal-session's idle drive runs
synchronously to its first await) and replace done with a fresh
admission after the single capture; teardown now re-cancels and
re-awaits until the slot stabilizes, so the scope never unwinds under a
live run.
tools: a nested concludeTurn() stages on its own execution and promotes
to the enclosing composite only on the call's authoritative successful
verdict. A post-execute policy that converts the nested success into an
error no longer lets a recovering composite stop the turn on a failed
terminal operation (the Code Mode structured-output shape).
goal-session: the driver owns its round durability barrier again. The
loop's persistence is eager write-behind with no turn-end flush, so the
old post-turn agent/error signal for flush failures never fires; a
settled round now sets needsCheckpoint and re-enters drive, flushing
before the next reservation and disarming on failure instead of queueing
an autonomous round on state that was never persisted.
Review fix (ds-review-bot critical #2 on #623): the first-turn event stamp
had a durability hole no turn anchoring can close — an idle SessionStart-
style injection persists a complete one-shot turn before any prompt turn
opens, so a crash in that window left a resumable-looking child with no
inherited policy, falling back to a possibly wider deployment default.
The captured overrides now ride the child's creation meta into its
immutable SessionHeader (sandboxMode/approvalPolicy, neutral strings at the
session boundary — the delegationDepth precedent), durable from the moment
the session exists: no listener ordering can starve the baseline and no
crash window can lose it. overrideOf(session) on both policy services
resolves fold(events past header.seedLength) ?? header baseline, validating
against the closed vocabulary on read; stampOverride and the prompt-submit
listener machinery are deleted. The header field rides both persistence
backends (JSONL header line; SQLite sessions columns, SCHEMA_VERSION 11 —
pre-release, no migration). pty-local reads through overrideOf so PTY
spawns see the baseline too.
Red-first: header-durability-before-any-turn test (the injection crash
window shape), baseline/seed-boundary/closed-vocabulary contract tests in
both service suites; the real-wall suite (race, veto, fork stale-seed,
grandchild) re-anchored on header assertions and green. The Agent Note's
Alternatives now records the superseded event-stamping iteration with the
review evidence; bilingual docs updated.
Conflict resolution: drainDispatches composes both sides — the reworked
single-lane driver's drive() (ordered stages, mid-flight commit drain)
followed by this branch's logWork drain, so every shaped settle append
still lands inside the open run_code turn.
Responding to ds-review-bot round 2 on #658 (three critical findings, one
warning — all rooted in the pump/commit split racing ordered stages):
- ONE driver lane now owns every ordered stage: the start append, prepare
(pre-execute/guards), and the head-of-line commit (post-execute, context
deferral, settle append). start() is awaited before the next entry can
start, so concurrent submissions can no longer run pre-execute pipelines
concurrently; only the around-dispatch/body stage overlaps, matching the
native loop's fillPool sequencing.
- An exclusive call's barrier now holds through its COMMIT: later starts
wait for the exclusive pipeline (post-execute included) to finish, the
native exclusive-group semantics.
- drainDispatches() awaits the driver run itself, so a commit already
mid-flight when the program returns is drained before run_code closes
the turn — the settle event and deferred contexts land inside it.
- maxParallelSubCalls is resolved and validated at construction (positive
integer), so direct construction can no longer wedge the pool with 0.
New tests: overlapping-submission ordered-prepare, barrier-through-commit,
drain-mid-commit, cap rejection. 96 keyless snapshots replay unchanged;
Agent Note updated (both languages).
CI's full-tree coverage flagged three untaken paths this PR introduced:
- shapeDispatchLog's catch (a throwing tools/code-dispatch-log listener
must be contained — the settle event logs the unshaped content);
- the spill listener's flatten-decline arm (non-text sub-result content
passes through unchanged);
- the generated scope-key extractor row for tools/code-dispatch-log
(registered in the scope invariant matrix like the other tools events).
The coverage gate flagged three untaken paths in the bridge scheduler:
- the exclusive-head inFlight re-check was dead (the shared guard above
already returns for an exclusive head with any in-flight sibling) — removed;
- the commit-cursor undefined-dispatched break was structurally unreachable
once entries join commitQueue only after start() ran synchronously —
reordered the pump so the invariant holds by construction, annotated;
- the finish (final-result) commit arm and the pump re-entry guard gain a
covering test (throwing tools/pre-execute listener) and a defensive
annotation respectively; mid-run unregistration test renamed to match its
actual post-result settlement path.
Also covers the direct-construction maxParallelSubCalls default (index.ts)
and commits the regenerated persistence catalog for the new dispatch pair.
ds-review-bot findings on the parallel bridge: sub-dispatches now run
through the registry's staged scheduler view (the loop's own seam) —
ordered prepare (pre-execute/guards) at submission-ordered start time,
only the dispatch/body stage overlapping, and a head-of-line commit
cursor running post-execute, context deferral, and the settle event in
submission order (new spec pins post order + context order under
out-of-order completion). Queued dispatches reclassify via
executionMode() immediately before starting, so a registry mutation
while queued flips them exclusive (native lazy-reclassification
semantics). Config and tool catalogs regenerated; the tool-catalog
metadata now names the start/settle pair and the scheduling contract.
The bridge replaces its serialization queue with a pool that reuses the
native concurrency contract: submissions classify through
registry.executionMode (fail-closed isConcurrencySafe), start strictly in
submission order, overlap up to the validated maxParallelSubCalls config
(default 10; 1 restores serial), and exclusive calls drain the pool, run
alone, and bar later calls. Each started sub-call logs a
tool/code-dispatch-start event at pool entry; the existing
tool/code-dispatch settles the pair (started ⇔ settles exactly once;
abandoned queued calls log neither). SDK prompt guidance now states the
true Promise.all contract — re-recorded across every code/both-mode
snapshot (plus the stale cordis-dynamic-toolchain fixture gaining the
required description arg).
Client: CodeSubCall widens to RunningToolCall | ToolResultNode — starts
land the running shape (rows wear the native running ring), settles
replace in place preserving start order, callTime pairs to the start
time. Fixture emits start/settle pairs; jsdom pins the running sub-row;
runtime specs pin in-place settlement and out-of-order completion.
run_code gains a required bash-style description parameter: presentCall
titles the card with it and moves the program to rawInput, so every
surface gets a readable label. tool/code-dispatch now logs each
sub-call's complete content/isError (the tool/result vocabulary),
replacing the bounded resultSummary and deleting the summarize/cwd
machinery — a UI renders sub-calls through the identical path as native
results. The dsh config tree mounts the worker code runtime and reads
DSH_TOOLS_MODE (temporary seam until per-session mode selection lands).
Session format stays v0 (pre-release churn). Code-mode ACP/TUI fixtures
re-recorded; TUI presenter pin refreshed; catalogs regenerated. Keyless
web smoke pins the code-mode wire contract (tools=[run_code] + SDK
prompt section).
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