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.
core/ — product API spine
The packages every harness build is assembled from: the session log, the system-prompt assembly, the tool registry, the agent vocabulary, and the one concrete loop that drives them. These are product packages — the stable surface plugins and consumers build against.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
session/ |
Event-sourced session log + in-memory store | ctx.sessions |
system-prompt/ |
Prompt-section + tool-schema assembly registry | ctx.systemPrompt |
tools/ |
Tool registry + tools/pre-execute/tools/post-execute pipeline |
ctx.tools |
agent/ |
Agent interface, registry, agent/* event vocabulary |
ctx.agents |
agent-loop/ |
The concrete loop plugin: ReactLoopAgent + the loop driver |
ctx.agentLoop |
agent-core/ |
Bundle plugin: the providerless/executor-less/UI-less spine as code | (loads the spine) |
agent-loop is the one concrete implementation of the agent seam and lives here because it is the harness's default product loop; everything else in core/ is interface/vocabulary. Plugins depend on the agent vocabulary, never on agent-loop directly, so the loop stays swappable.
agent-core is the composition counterpart: one bundle plugin that loads the whole providerless spine (timer + llm + sessions + system-prompt + tools + agents + invariants + tool-bash + agent-loop) and forwards agent-loop's agents list as its own config. App packages (ui/stdio-agent, ui/acp-agent) consume it and add only a front door; a leaf adds the swappable backends plus any optional product tools it wants to expose. It lives in core/ because it composes exclusively core/ + interface packages and ships no provider, executor, or UI of its own.