context/message previously defaulted to a <context source="…">…</context>
wrapper. No model is trained on a <context> tag either, and message
framing does not belong on the session surface: the surface projects the
durable log, and a caller that wants a frame formats its own content —
which the one heavy producer (workspace-context) already does with its own
<system-reminder> frame, opting out via 'raw'. The tag only added
machinery — ContextEnvelope plus an envelope field threaded through
InjectOptions, HookContext, the context/message event, and the agent-loop
inject/additionalContexts plumbing.
context/message now projects its content verbatim as a user-role message,
sharing one deriveEventMessage case with user/message and steering/message.
ContextEnvelope and every envelope field are removed; context/message.meta
still carries durable, model-hidden JSON state. Regenerated catalogs and
website API; refreshed the three affected keyless snapshots (envelope field
only; timestamps unchanged).
Broadens and renames the steering Agent Note to cover both envelope
removals as one decision.
Agent Note: .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md
Codex review of the draft: the abort-on-dispose tests asserted only that
dispose() resolved and no warning fired — a regression back to untracked
fire-and-forget runs would pass both. The hook script now records its
shell PID before sleeping, and after dispose the test asserts
process.kill(pid, 0) throws: the drain resolves only after the killed
run settled (the child reaped), so ESRCH-by-dispose-return is
deterministic under the correct implementation, while an alive or
unreaped process fails it. Verified the discriminator by gutting drain()
locally: exactly these two tests fail.
The emit-shaped hook points (SessionStart, SubagentStart, SubagentStop)
run fire-and-forget: no seam awaits the run chain, so disposing a bridge
could strand a live hook process and let a late continuation inject into
a disposed context. The floating continuation also made the coverage
gate racy: the only coverage of the SubagentStart continuation's
no-context branch arm rode on an un-awaited .then, and on a loaded CI
runner the fork's per-file coverage snapshot beat it — master run
28798191671 failed the 100% branch gate on hooks-claude/src/index.ts at
99.03% (uncovered line 336) with the identical tree passing the PR run
three minutes earlier.
New shared primitive createDetachedRuns() in dsh-hook-protocol: a bridge
tracks each detached run chain, passes the tracker's abort signal to
runHook, and registers drain() as its effect disposer — drain aborts
still-running hook processes (a kill via the bash seam, not a wait out
to the 10-minute default hook timeout), then resolves once every chain
has settled. fiber.dispose() resolving now means the bridge's detached
work is quiescent (docs/defensive-patterns.md).
The subagent marker test disposes the bridge as its sync point, so the
formerly racy branch arm is executed deterministically before the file's
coverage snapshot; new tests pin abort-on-dispose promptness for both
bridges and the tracker's settle/drain contract in hook-protocol.
A Codex review pass on the draft caught four real gaps and two solid
suggestions; all addressed except one pushed back on the merits:
- hooks-claude/hooks-codex: stderrSummaryMaxChars was the one new knob
with NO range validation — a negative/NaN cap would silently
misbehave inside slice(). Both bridges now assert a positive integer
at the TOP of apply() (before the config-file parse's early return,
so a bad value fails the load loudly), with rejection tests.
- tool-fs: the read caps count lines/chars/bytes, so positive-FINITE
was too loose (a fractional readLimit would flow into windowing
arithmetic and the schema description). All four now require a
positive integer, matching tool-web's cap.
- Doc drift the gates cannot catch: tool-web's README tools table
still named WEB_SEARCH_MAX_RESULTS as the mechanism; compact-basic's
README/module doc and the compaction-capability-seam RFC still
described estimation as fixed char/4 rather than the charsPerToken
default.
- subagent-acp: the dispose graces were tested only at the
startAcpRun level, so a regression that stopped threading plugin
config into AcpRunSpec would have survived. A provider-path test now
drives the trap-escalation scenario through ctx.subagents.start with
small config graces and bounds dispose at 4s.
Pushed back on: converting compact-basic's charsPerToken to a
schemastery field. The package's whole config is deliberately
hand-rolled (resolveConfig, every threshold REQUIRED with no default —
a documented design posture); one schemastery field beside it would be
incoherent. The knob is cordis.yml-reachable, defaulted, and validated,
which is what the convention requires; migrating the package to
schemastery wholesale is pre-existing config-surface hygiene out of
this change's scope.
The audit swept every packages/*/* plugin for the new AGENTS.md
convention (no hardcoded tunables in plugins) and exposes each finding
as a defaulted, validated Config field. Defaults are the previously
hardcoded values throughout, so no deployment or golden changes.
- tool-fs (had NO Config): readLimit, readMaxLineLength, readMaxBytes,
readStreamMinSize. The caps thread through ReadToolCaps/ReadWindow —
read-render already documented that the consumer applies the caps, so
they become explicit per-request fields.
- tool-web: searchMaxResults (WEB_SEARCH_MAX_RESULTS stays as the
schemastery default). Also fixes the stale GREP_LIMIT references in
search.ts and the web-capability-seam RFC (no such constant exists).
- bash-local: graceMs (SIGTERM->SIGKILL escalation grace). The
RunInternals.graceMs test seam is gone: graceMs is now a required
SpawnSpec field filled from config, so tests exercise the real
config path and the defaults live in exactly one place.
- subagent-acp: disposeEofGraceMs / disposeGraceMs. The AcpRunSpec
fields become required for the same one-defaulting-layer reason.
- session-persistence-sqlite: journalMode ('wal' default; the
rollback-journal modes serve filesystems where WAL's shared-memory
files do not work, e.g. network mounts).
- hooks-claude + hooks-codex: stderrSummaryMaxChars for the persisted
hook/result stderr summary. The duplicated summarize() helpers merge
into hook-protocol's summarizeStderr(stderr, maxChars), beside the
HookResultRecord field it feeds, with the bound parameterized the
same way runHook's defaultTimeoutMs already is.
- compact-basic: charsPerToken for the token estimator (default 4, the
English-text heuristic; CJK-heavy deployments need ~1-2 or compaction
fires far too late). Also corrects the BasicCompactService class doc,
which claimed defaults the required-field config never had.
- fs-local: deletes the dead STREAM_MIN_SIZE constant and the dead
FsIoInternals.streamMinSize seam — the read-routing bound lives in
the consumer (tool-fs), where it is now config. This is item 1 of
the proposed prune-write-only-fs-surface RFC, annotated accordingly.
Every new field gets range validation (following the existing
assertPositiveFinite pattern), a README row, and tests covering the
configured behavior, the schema default, and load-time rejection.
Implement the tighten-hook-protocol-contract RFC (moved to implemented/):
- HookDialect narrows to 'claude' | 'codex': the 'native' variant had zero
producers (native plugins on the seams write no hook/* provenance), and the
dialect is defined as the bridge that ran the hook.
- HookOutput.suppressOutput is gone: the codec parsed it and every path
discarded it with no warn and no deferral — hook stdout never enters a
transcript, so there is nothing to suppress.
- hook/result.durationMs is gone: durable timing telemetry with no reader
that the snapshot normalizer had to scrub as replay noise. With no duration
to measure, runHook loses its injected now clock and the single-field
RunHookResult wrapper — it returns the HookOutput directly. The committed
hook fixtures had the field stripped mechanically (field-only diff); the
stdout goldens never carried it.
- The bridges' double-defaulted defaultTimeoutMs config knob is replaced by
one reference-default constant, DEFAULT_HOOK_TIMEOUT_MS, exported from the
lib's runner and applied inside runHook; per-hook timeoutSec stays the
override surface.
- The hook/result semantics move into the lib that declares the event:
HookResultRecord now carries the decoded HookOutput and appendHookResult
derives the decision string (decision ?? stop-on-continue:false ?? pass)
and the 500-char stderrSummary truncation; both bridges delete their
byte-identical private copies. The snapshot suite passes against the
existing goldens, proving the derived values are unchanged.
- Rider: BLOCKING_EXIT_CODE is codec-internal again (zero importers).
Amend the hook-protocol-lib and hook-snapshot-matrix RFCs to the new facts,
update the lib/bridge READMEs and the session.md event tables, and retarget
the affected unit tests (including new lib-level coverage of the derivation
rules).
Codex convergence findings on the delegate-and-fold fix (code path verified
correct, prose only):
- The hook-bridges RFC claimed a downstream `block` "carries the bridge context
too" for BOTH seams. True for `tools/post-execute` (PostToolDecision.block has
an additionalContext field) but false for `agent/prompt-submit`
(PromptDecision.block is `{kind,reason}` with no context field). The code is
already correct — a blocked prompt drops the context, which is right since the
prompt never reaches the model. Reworded the RFC to state the per-seam
difference accurately.
- Two test comments narrated "Before the fix…", which the current-state-only
doc rule forbids. Reworded to describe the behavior, not its history.
- Documented on concatContext (both bridges) why the merged block carries a
single source: a HookContext holds one MessageSource and the seam cannot
represent mixed provenance; rendering distinguishes only by source.kind, so a
downstream plugin's text stays framed as plugin context.
Address review on the hook-bridges PR — two composability/compatibility bugs
in both the CC and Codex bridges:
1. A hook that only attaches additionalContext (no block/deny) returned
`allow`/`accept` WITHOUT calling next(), short-circuiting every later
agent/prompt-submit / tools/post-execute listener. A policy/sandbox plugin
registered after the bridge never saw the prompt. Now the context-only path
delegates via next() and folds its context onto the downstream decision
(concatContext): a downstream block/deny still wins and carries the bridge
context; a downstream allow/accept keeps its own content rewrite and gains
the context. Only a real hook deny/block short-circuits.
2. CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR was empty in the default ACP wiring (no projectDir
configured), breaking common unmodified hooks that reference
$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR. It now defaults per-run to the agent's session
workspace (the same cwd the hook runs in); an explicit config.projectDir
still wins.
Regression tests per bridge: a later listener blocks a prompt a context-only
hook allowed; both contexts survive when the downstream also adds one; the
default CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR reaches the hook. Each proven red on the pre-fix
code.
Address review on the bridges:
- Hook cwd (blocking): the bridges never passed a workdir to runHook, so hooks
ran in the executor default (the ACP server launch dir), not the session
cwd — a hook doing `pwd`/relative reads/marker writes operated in the wrong
tree. Both bridges now thread the agent's session `header.cwd` (the
session/new.cwd) as the hook workdir for agent-scoped points. Regression per
bridge: server cwd ≠ session cwd, a `pwd` hook proves it ran in the session
workspace (proven red without the workdir).
- Example config honesty (blocking): `configPath: ./hooks.json` is read ONCE at
load against the PROCESS cwd, not per-session — the comment/README now say so
explicitly (a project-local per-session hooks.json is not discovered;
TODO(per-session-hook-config)). The hooks-run-in-session-cwd fix above is the
distinct, separately-documented half.
- Session-start timing (blocking): agent/session-start is a synchronous emit and
the hook runs on a detached .then, so injected context is BEST-EFFORT — not
guaranteed before the first request. Downgrade the contract in code comments +
README + RFC (TODO(session-start-gating)) rather than implying "first request
sees it", and add a no-wait regression that asserts the safe properties
without pre-waiting for the inject.
- systemMessage (non-blocking): the merge collects merged.systemMessages but no
bridge surfaced it. Warn per hook (like updatedInput) and document it as
deferred in both READMEs + the RFC; tests assert the warn + non-surfacing.
Tianyi Cui
Turtle
Yichen Jiang
imccyu