The sandbox deliberately provides no Node API, and now says so instead of
letting a bare ReferenceError teach nothing: require, the timers, and fetch
are callable traps whose error redirects to the cordis alternative (inject:
['fs'] + ctx.fs, ['web'] + ctx.web, ['bash'] + ctx.bash, ['timer'] +
ctx.setTimeout — a fiber effect, unwound on unmount). Only function-shaped
globals are trapped; process/Buffer stay undefined so typeof feature probes
stay inert. The mount description and the demo persona state the routing rule,
and the demo mounts ctx.fs (local provider) and ctx.web (seam + keyless local
fetch provider) so agent-built plugins have real capabilities to build on.
Live-validated: a model that reached for Node setTimeout self-corrected to
inject: ['timer'] in one step and built a working ctx.web fetch tool.
Everything outside the package and example that a new top-level group and a
new demo touch: GROUP_ORDER in gen-module-graph and gen-doc-graphs (plus the
tools-service consumers list, the APP_EXAMPLES entry, and the graph-atlas
label/mode rows), the knip e2e entries, the packages/README group row, the
AGENTS.md layout and demo lines, and the regenerated module-graph /
config-catalog / graph-atlas / capability-seams / composition artifacts.
AGENTS.md and examples/AGENTS.md word-budget ceilings rise to current+5%
(1802 / 653): the new group and demo rows are genuine additions to both docs,
not condensable restatements.
Emits packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts (the data cordis_inspect
serves the model) from the same JSDoc-enforcing AST walk as docs/cordis-catalog
(collectServices/collectEvents, plus the now-exported INHERITED_SERVICES
table): service summaries + method signatures, event modes + signatures, and
the transitive closure of type shapes the signatures reference — so a mounted
plugin reads that a bash run's stdout is { text, truncated } instead of
guessing. verify-cordis-api joins doc-sync as the freshness gate.
The coding spine (DeepSeek V4 + local bash on dsh-stdio-agent) plus
@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis loaded by package name, run via demo:cordis.
Ships the keyless Loader smoke (the export-shape / package-name-resolution
guard) and the with-key smoke: a real model mounts a listener whose tagged
console line actually fires, builds and calls its own reverse_text tool, and
composes two mounts via provide/inject — all world-verified against the
registry and session events.
New top-level packages/cordis/ group with the self-referential toolset:
cordis_inspect (services / plugin tree / tools / dynamic mounts / api / events,
the api section intersecting the generated catalog with the live service store),
cordis_mount (model-written code evaluated in a node:vm sandbox, mounted under
one cordis-dynamic group fiber as dyn-<n>), cordis_unmount (awaited disposal to
quiescence). Boundary mechanisms: dual-realm instanceof, JSON realm
normalization of dynamic tool results, marker-guarded registration, SchemaSpec
teaching errors, parse failures surfaced with the offending line + caret and a
line-scoped TypeScript hint, and the unmount-first recipe on tool-name
collisions. Config: vmTimeoutMs (schemastery, default 5000). Design record:
docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-self-referential-cordis-toolset.md.
The tool-catalog boot manifest, its regenerated output, and the pinned
tool-name list land here rather than with the other repo registration: the
completeness guard globs packages/*/tool-* and fails the generator (and the
core/tools spec) the moment the package directory exists.
The design record for tool-cordis: the three-tool contract, the vm sandbox
trust stance and boundary mechanisms, the dynamic-group lifecycle, cross-mount
provide/inject composition, the generated runtime API catalog, and the
alternatives weighed (per-capability registration tools, hand-maintained API
tables, a mount provenance event, a hardened sandbox).
The extracted library's name sat one edit away from @deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-inprocess
(process/inprocess), inviting a typo'd import to silently resolve to the wrong
package. subagent-subprocess also reads as the deliberate counterpart to
subagent-inprocess (in-process vs. subprocess), matching how the two shared
drivers actually differ.
Package directory, npm name, module doc, JSDoc module tags, test-file name and
its temp-dir prefixes, the subagent-acp import and its Config/tsconfig/package.json
references, root tsconfig.json/tsconfig.build.json/knip.json entries, and the
packages/subagent group README all renamed together; regenerated
docs/module-graph.md and docs/config-catalog.md. Pure rename — no behavior,
export, or Config shape changed.
Move compact-basic's private _extractText/_blocksToText into the interface
package as renderTranscript/renderContentBlocks, so the summarize path and a
future recall read path render one span identically. Byte-identical output
vs the private helpers it replaces; compact-basic delegates.
Both demo:code-mode UIs now share one mechanism: the base example plus a
same-shaped code-mode.cordis.yml include overlay (insert the worker
runtime, flip tools.mode). Previously the REPL side was a hand-forked
example (examples/code-agent) that had also silently diverged — it
dropped compaction and the subagent stack — so the demo's UI argument
switched agents, not just surfaces. The fork is retired: coding-agent
gains the overlay, a Code Mode README section absorbing code-agent's,
and both of its tests (the keyless boot guard, retargeted at the
overlay; the with-key RFC proof, which hand-mounts its own harness and
moves untouched). The RFC's composed-surface and e2e-tier lines, the
examples index, the AGENTS.md smoke table, and the dsh-tools README
link now describe the overlay shape.
Verified live: overlay keyless smoke, with-key code-mode e2e from its
new home, demo:code-mode banner + EOF exit, and the acp handshake.
Code Mode is the point; the UI is just the surface it happens to wear.
demo:code and demo:acp-code collapse into one dispatcher
(scripts/demo-code-mode.mjs): `pnpm run demo:code-mode [repl|acp]` —
repl (default) boots the stdio REPL over examples/code-agent, acp
serves examples/acp-agent's code-mode overlay; each UI runs the exact
node invocation its standalone script ran, and an unknown argument
fails loud with usage. All nine references across READMEs, the RFC,
the overlay header, and the keyless-smoke comment renamed. Smoked all
three paths: usage exit 2, ACP initialize handshake, REPL boot + EOF.
Boots the acp-agent example through the existing code-mode.cordis.yml
overlay (tool surface collapses to run_code + the generated TypeScript
SDK, dispatching through the worker-thread runtime), mirroring how
demo:code relates to demo:repl on the stdio side. The overlay header
and both READMEs now name the demo as a consumer. Smoke: the server
answers an ACP initialize handshake with a clean frame on stdout.
The scrub pattern and layering semantics live in the dsh-subagent-process
README (the fact's home since the extraction); the ACP section restated them
in full — two prose copies drift word by word until they disagree (the
one-home-per-fact rule in docs/AGENTS.md). The section now links the library
and keeps only the backend's own story: which credential enters via
config.env and why.
Each timed-out wait used to leave the once('exit') listener from its inner
waitForExit attached to the child; the dispose ladder accumulates at most a
couple, but in a shared library a caller polling exitsWithin in a loop would
pile listeners onto one child (MaxListenersExceededWarning at 11) and retain
their closures. The race now owns its wiring: the timeout arm removes the
exit listener, the exit arm clears the (still unref'ed) grace timer, and an
already-exited child short-circuits true without attaching anything. Tests
pin listenerCount('exit') === 0 after every outcome.
The best-effort-remove test provoked a real EACCES via a chmod-000 subtree,
which only fails for unprivileged users — under root, recursive rm ignores
permission bits, deleting the subtree: the existsSync assertion goes red and
the swallow branch loses coverage, failing the per-file gate. The rejection
is now injected deterministically at the node:fs/promises boundary (rm
wrapped with a real-passthrough vi.fn; one test queues a single rejection),
the fs-failure boundary being exactly the non-deterministic seam the testing
policy sanctions mocking. Everything else in the suite stays on the real
filesystem, and the swallow contract stays error-kind agnostic.
The seam shipped without its own RFC — the reconstructable-requests RFC
was amended with the mechanics, but the decision record (why a
compose-once frozen prefix, and what the per-request before/after shape,
a system-prompt section, a durable history opener, per-turn composition,
and a dedicated session event each lost to) had no home. Implemented
lifecycle, feature class, dated to the first commit of the work.
A reviewer read "TypeScript via host-side type-strip" and reasonably
asked what typing buys if nothing checks it — the group README never
said the annotations are advisory by design. The row now states it; the
rationale stays in the RFC and the enforcement story (per-dispatch
validateArgs) in the dsh-tools README.
The seam gained sessionPrefix between fullSystemPrompt and signal in
18d478bc, but the compact README member table and the compaction
core-data-structures page still showed the 3-arg form and listed only
agent/system/signal as what pre-step supplies. The generated service
catalog was already correct; only these two prose homes drifted.
[P1] review finding: the run-scoped abort + queue drain ran only after
runtime.run() FULFILLED, so a backend that starts a binding call and
then throws left the sub-dispatch running past run_code's settlement —
its tool/code-dispatch event could append after the parent call
returned, breaking the drain-before-return contract. The quiescence
pair now lives in a finally around runtime.run(); the folded queue tail
keeps the drain from masking the thrown error. Pinned by a test whose
fake runtime fails mid-flight: pre-fix it returns in milliseconds with
the slow tool still running.
Two [P1] review findings on the worker runtime:
- maxValueBytes gated and sliced the rendered fallback by UTF-16 code
units, so a multibyte string ("€€€€" under a 4-byte cap) crossed whole
and a truncated multibyte rendering could still run ~3x over budget.
New truncateUtf8Bytes cuts at code-point boundaries under a real byte
budget; prepareValue's fallback and the host's forged-error-text bound
both use it, and the VALUE_RENDER_SLACK comment drops its now-obsolete
"sliced by characters" wrinkle.
- The patched stream write dropped Node's optional encoding/callback
arguments, so a program awaiting flush completion
(write(chunk, resolve)) hung to the wall ceiling and misreported as a
timeout. The shim now fires the callback asynchronously once the chunk
is admitted — including for writes the exhausted budget drops.
A cancel/dispose landing inside the first agent/session-prefix waterfall
used to commit the listener chain's return value to the instance cache
before the interruption check dropped the turn; an abort-aware listener's
degraded fallback would then ship on every later request of the instance.
The commit now happens only after the composition survives the
interruption check — the cache only ever holds a fully composed prefix,
and the next turn recomposes under a live signal.
ds-review-bot critical (follow-up): on the first step of a resumed or
seeded/forked instance, auto-compaction ran before runStep composed
this instance's prefix, so the gate read the PREVIOUS instance's logged
prefix from the header fold — a contributor that grew across
resume/fork (skills added, AGENTS.md grown: exactly the
environment-dependent case) could under-gate and ship an over-window
first request.
The loop now composes agent/session-prefix before the instance's first
agent/pre-step (still once per instance; runStep just reads the cache),
and agent/pre-step carries the composed prefix to its listeners.
CompactService.compactIfNeeded gains the sessionPrefix parameter;
BasicCompactService.estimatePressure gates on the handed value — the
header-fold read is gone, so the estimate is exact at every step
including a resumed/forked instance's first. Composition moving before
the boundary snapshot also means a composing listener's session append
now joins the CURRENT request (documented on the seam).
New coverage: composition precedes pre-step and the seam receives the
composed prefix; cancel and disposal landing inside the composition
window drop the step cleanly; the compact gate test hands the prefix
directly.
ds-review-bot critical: compactIfNeeded estimated pressure from the
derived history + system prompt only, but every loop-built request also
carries EpochHeader.messagePrefix in front of the history — a
deployment at the window edge would under-estimate by exactly the
prefix, skip compaction, and ship an over-window request.
BasicCompactService now gates on estimatePressure(): the session prefix
read from the log's folded header + the derived history + the system
prompt. The fold is exact from the instance's second request on (and
from a resumed instance's first — the previous instance logged its
prefix); it is absent only before a fresh session's first request,
where the history is a single prompt and compaction is moot. Compaction
itself still shrinks history only — a prefix that alone approaches the
window is a configuration error no compactor fixes, same as the
documented single-unit-overflow stance.
The credential env scrub (SENSITIVE_ENV_PATTERN/buildChildEnv), the
spawn-failure capture (spawnFailure), the child-exit waits
(waitForExit/exitsWithin), and the stdin-EOF -> SIGTERM -> SIGKILL dispose
ladder move out of subagent-acp into a new pure library package (the
subagent-inprocess shape), with the ladder taking its two grace periods as
parameters — defaults stay in the plugin Config. New isolated-config-dir
helpers (mkdtemp create, best-effort remove; a pinned dir is never removed)
land alongside for the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR / CODEX_HOME redirection the RFC
names.
The ACP backend migrates onto the library with no semantic change: its suite
passes with import-path edits only. bash-local keeps its sibling copy, per
the RFC's blast-radius call.
RFC: docs/rfc/proposed/feature/2026-07-07-claude-code-and-codex-subagent-backends.md
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