Address @tianyicui's minor-revision review on PR #110: - Make every BasicCompactConfig knob required except `auto` (defaults true): there is no data yet to justify default thresholds/budgets, so a consumer states each value explicitly. Drop the DEFAULTS export and the constructor's `= {}` default; example cordis.yml, the compaction e2e, the README, and every test construction site now pass a complete config (tests route through a `cfg()` helper). - Add a TODO on estimateContentTokens: char/4 is coarse; replace with a real tokenizer or post-response usage feedback in a follow-up. - Add a TODO on the agent/pre-step `fullSystemPrompt` param flagging it as a smell on a generic per-step seam (compaction is its sole consumer); a `//` line comment so it stays out of the generated catalog.
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/execute waterfall |
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 only the swappable backends. It lives in core/ because it composes exclusively core/ + interface packages and ships no provider, executor, or UI of its own.