The agent factory (`ctx.agents.create`/`resume`, the `AgentFactory` seam)
now returns `AgentHandle = { agent; dispose(): Promise<void> }` instead of a
bare `Agent`. The disposer is a capability: only the holder can tear down
exactly this agent — stop its loop, await the loop's exit (true quiescence,
not just the `disposed` status flip), unregister it, and remove its session
from the store.
The teardown ORDER is load-bearing for durability. The loop appends its
final `turn/end` + runs `session/flush` AFTER an abort, delivered through
`session.onAppend` → `session/event`; if the session-store effect (which
detaches `onAppend`) were torn down first, those closing events would never
reach persistence. So `dispose()`:
1. runs the register+start effect disposer (sync: request loop stop),
2. `await agent.done` (loop exits, final flush captured), THEN
3. runs the session disposer (detach onAppend + delete store entry).
`SessionStore.createOwned()` exposes the session-create effect's disposer
(plain `create()` discards it — fiber-owned). `AgentLoop` funnels both
factory entrypoints (`createAgent`, `resumeWith`) through a shared
`startOwned` that composes the ordered teardown; the config path keeps a
fiber-owned agent by discarding the handle.
`ctx.agents.get(id)` still returns a bare `Agent` — the handle is only for
the owner that created it.
abort() only kills the in-flight step, so a queued-but-not-yet-started prompt
ran to completion after a cancel and a prompt accepted right after could be
batched into the cancelled turn (the loop merges queued messages into one turn).
This closes TODO(rfc010-cancel-prestep) with a distinct cancel() verb.
cancel() clears the queued + steering FIFOs, aborts the in-flight step, and
drives a turn-scoped marker on the LoopHandle that the driver checks at EVERY
point a turn could start or continue:
- right after the idle wait (window 1): drop the about-to-run turn and settle
whenIdle() waiters directly (no running→idle transition fires, and no
agent/status is emitted, so an ACP listener can't see a spurious idle that
resolves a freshly-queued prompt as cancelled);
- after the synchronous setStatus('running') emit (window 2): a running listener
can cancel in the gap before runTurn;
- in the step-start window (before runStep, after setAbort): a synchronous
turn-start/step-start listener can cancel before any AbortController exists;
- at the continuation gate: a cancel during the continuation waterfall (the
finished step's controller already cleared) ends the turn aborted.
The marker is ARMED only when there is something to cancel (running, an
in-flight step, or queued/steering work) — an idle no-op cancel cannot leave it
set to drop a later prompt — and RESET unconditionally once per loop iteration,
so it governs exactly one turn and never leaks onto the next prompt (even when a
send() lands in the cancelled turn's flush window).
ACP session/cancel now maps to agent.cancel() (keeping the synchronous
settlePrompt). Teardown/disconnect still use abort('disposed') until PR D, so
the ACP README narrows the remaining best-effort window to teardown only.
Tests (agent-loop/cancel.spec.ts) cover every window unit-level (the F1 hang
guard: a whenIdle() waiter registered before a pre-step cancel resolves; the F2
leak guard: idle cancel then a prompt runs; mid-step, continuation, both
pre-step windows, turn-start-listener, steering-cleared, marker-reset). ACP
turns.spec.ts adds the through-bridge tests with NO intervening whenIdle (idle
cancel→prompt runs; mid-stream cancel→immediate next prompt runs) and updates
the stale pre-step test to the queue-aware guarantee. The existing cancel
snapshot golden is byte-identical (it drives the new cancel() path end-to-end
through the real subprocess), so no new golden is needed. 100% coverage.
Implements the RFC 010 MVP: a new `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` package bridges the
harness agent to the Agent Client Protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0 over newline-delimited
stdio), so Zed and other ACP editors can drive the coding agent — streaming
render, tool-call display, and resumable sessions via `session/load`.
- packages/acp: AgentSideConnection wiring; initialize/newSession/loadSession/
prompt/cancel; a total TurnEndReason→StopReason codec; settle-once with a
fallback chain (agent/turn-end → logged turn/end → idle); single-session
guard; cwd-must-equal-launch-dir validation; load replays from the persisted
event log (assistant/chunk→agent_message_chunk, tool/call/result→tool_call*).
- agent: add Agent.whenIdle() quiescence signal to the interface; LoopAgent
implements it (resolves on the first running→idle/disposed transition). The
bridge awaits it on disposal so teardown reaches quiescence, not just abort.
- examples: extract the shared provider/tool core into examples/base.yml;
coding-agent nest-includes it; new examples/acp-agent serves the agent over
ACP with JSONL persistence and no stdout logger (stdout is the protocol).
- Permission gate deferred (TODO(rfc010-permission-gate)): tools run with the
executor's full authority; only the Agent→sessionId ownership seam is laid
down. Cancel is best-effort for a not-yet-started queued turn
(TODO(rfc010-cancel-prestep)). RFC 010 stays `proposed`.
- Docs: package README + Zed snippet; client-driver cookbook section; root and
packages layout/commands; RFC 010 implementation-status note.
48 bridge tests + whenIdle coverage; 100% per-file coverage; e2e boots the
example as a subprocess and verifies a written file on disk (key-gated, with a
no-key stdout-purity check).
Add the agent-creation factory seam on ctx.agents (AgentRegistry):
setFactory/create/resume plus the AgentFactory interface and
CreateAgentOptions/ResumeAgentOptions. AgentLoop implements AgentFactory
and registers itself via ctx.agents.setFactory(this), so plugins
create/resume agents through the interface without depending on the
concrete loop package.
- create({ agentId, sessionId, meta?, agentOptions? }) — programmatic
create on a caller-supplied session id (e.g. an ACP-generated id).
- resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId, agentOptions? }) — load a persisted
session via ctx.sessionPersistence (RFC 009) and resume an agent on it;
the live session id is the resumed id, turn numbering and derived
history continue from the loaded log. sessionPersistence is NOT
hard-injected (non-persistent demos still work); resume rejects with a
typed error when it is absent. assertAgentIdFree runs before any
session is created (and again after the load await) so a duplicate id
never leaves an orphaned live session.
Adds the runtime dsh-session-persistence dependency to agent-loop.
llm.registerAdapter, agents.register, sessions.create, systemPrompt.section,
systemPrompt.tools, and tools.register each mutated state, emitted a change
event, then returned the disposer. In Cordis a synchronous throw before the
effect returns its disposer leaves nothing for the fiber to collect, so a
throwing change-listener leaked the registry entry permanently — HMR/dispose
could not clean it, and the duplicate-name/already-exists check stayed wedged
until restart.
Convert each to the generator-effect pattern already proven in
AgentLoop.create: mutate state, `yield` the disposer that undoes it (collected
before the next step runs, so it is torn down if a later step throws), THEN
emit the change event. The existing duplicate-name throws are unchanged — they
fire before any mutation, so they correctly leak nothing. No public API change:
generator effects are still synchronous SyncEffects and register() keeps
returning its fire-and-forget disposer wrapper.
Tests: a listener-throw rollback test for all six methods — register with a
change-listener that throws, assert the call throws AND the registry is clean
(entry absent; a subsequent listener-free register of the same name succeeds
and contributes exactly once). For systemPrompt (no duplicate-name check) the
two tests assert assembly is clean. Verified each fails against the pre-fix
emit-before-return-disposer form.
Nominal string types via a unique-symbol brand (zero runtime cost):
an AgentId can no longer be passed where a CallId is expected. Each
core package brands the IDs it owns — CallId in dsh-llm (tool-call
correlation across blocks, chunks, session events, and execution
results), SessionId in dsh-session, AgentId in dsh-agent. Construction
goes through same-named factory functions; public string-in APIs
(sessions.create, agentLoop.create) keep accepting plain strings and
brand internally. Policy note in the brand module: brand IDs that
cross package boundaries, not every string.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm: provider-neutral content-block vocabulary
(merge-extensible maps), raw StreamChunk protocol, ToolSchema,
abstract LlmAdapter, LlmService adapter registry, BlockAssembler.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-session: event-sourced Session (append-only log,
deriveMessages; context/steering render as tagged envelopes),
SessionStore, session/event + awaited session/flush durability seam.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt: ordered sections + tool-schema
providers; assemble() through the system-prompt/assemble waterfall.
Tool schemas are part of the assembly by design.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools: tool registry feeding schemas into the
assembly; execute() through the tools/execute waterfall (the single
sandbox/permission/hook seam).
@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent: Agent interface (send/steer/inject/abort,
spawn/fork TODO seams), AgentRegistry, and the full agent/* event
taxonomy so plugins never depend on the concrete loop.
Tianyi Cui