fix(rebase): migrate the replayed stack onto current master APIs
The linear replay carried each commit's own lineage, so this checkpoint restores the master-owned surfaces the conflicted regions clobbered and migrates branch-owned code to master's post-rebase APIs: - rebuild subprocess-local spawn.ts on master's tree-exit-observer machinery, keeping the branch's win32 childEnv key semantics and the Linux zombie-quiescence probe; the zombie test reaps its survivor directly since a confirmed-absent verdict is a permanent no-more-signals boundary - migrate pty-local test stubs to the Inbox-model Agent interface, Session.create, runnerFailureRules, and the new turn/start payload - implement the seam's resolveExecutable/spawnTerminal abstracts in the new pwsh-local and tool-fs-search test fakes - restore code-runtime, atomic-write, pwsh-local, and app-boot to master's exact content (the net-zero code-runtime churn is pruned from this history) and drop rename-detection graft debris - re-apply the PR's architecture rows and execution-world paragraph, re-record bilingual pairings, regenerate catalogs, and reconcile the lockfile
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## Problem
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In the registry's native presentation, the agent loop advertises every visible capability as a JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` contributes its schemas to the system-prompt assembly, the assembly's `tools` land on the wire (and in the logged request header), the model invokes one `tool-call` block per step, and the loop dispatches each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution is an explicit open TODO in `dsh-tools` and [docs/architecture.md](../../../../docs/architecture.md)), with **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-entering the model's context on the next request.
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In the registry's native presentation, the agent loop advertises every visible capability as a JSON-schema function definition. `ToolRegistry` contributes its schemas to the system-prompt assembly, the assembly's `tools` land on the wire (and in the logged request header), the model invokes one `tool-call` block per step, and at the time of this note the loop dispatched each call through `ctx.tools.execute()` **sequentially** (parallel tool execution was an open TODO then; bounded parallel dispatch has since shipped — the [parallel tool-call note](2026-07-10-parallel-tool-call-execution.md), the rolling pool in [docs/architecture.md](../../../../docs/architecture.md)) — with **every** intermediate `tool-result` re-entering the model's context on the next request.
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For multi-step tool work this is token-heavy and serial. The model cannot compose tools — loop over a result set, branch on an intermediate value, fan out, post-process — without a full model round-trip per call, and each round-trip drags the entire intermediate result back into context whether the model needs it or not.
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**Interaction with `toolOrder`, stated up front:** a configured `systemPrompt.toolOrder` naming native capabilities rejects every assembly under `mode: 'code'`, because those names are outside that mode's wire-validation universe. This is correct behavior, not a bug: a deployment using Code Mode updates its order config or drops it.
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**SDK prompt section.** In `'code'` and `'both'`, the lazy `tools:sdk` section in the tool-guidance order band renders TypeScript declarations plus fixed usage instructions for the scope's visible capabilities. It shares lookup and execution visibility, excludes `run_code`, and sorts tools lexicographically for byte-stable output.
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**SDK prompt section.** In `'code'` and `'both'`, the lazy `tools:sdk` section in the tool-guidance order band renders the loaded runtime's language declarations plus fixed usage instructions for the scope's visible capabilities (TypeScript by default; the [language-dispatch note](2026-07-31-code-mode-language-dispatch.md) added Python and the `ctx.codeRuntime.language` renderer table). It shares lookup and execution visibility, excludes `run_code`, and sorts tools lexicographically for byte-stable output.
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**Assembly ownership.** `run_code` and `tools:sdk` enter the trusted `system-prompt/assemble` waterfall as normal assembly inputs. A scoped `tools:sdk` section may shadow the global default before dispatch, and a listener may remove or replace either contribution. The waterfall's returned assembly is final, so whoever changes these inputs owns preserving a viable Code Mode protocol when the deployment expects Code Mode to remain usable; no restoration pass overrides deliberate composition.
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**Sub-call contexts are deferred through the parent.** Injecting inside `run_code` would break parent call/result adjacency, so `ToolRunContext.deferContext()` collects every sub-result `additionalContexts` entry in dispatch order. The registry carries that array even when the program later throws, and the loop appends each entry only after the outer result and every sibling result in the step. An outer post-execute block discards tool-deferred entries and exposes only contexts explicitly attached by the blocking decision.
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**Concurrency is serialized.** Each run owns a dispatch queue, so even `Promise.all` executes tool calls in submission order. Settlement abandons queued calls that have not started. Parallelism requires per-tool concurrency-safety metadata.
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**Concurrency is bounded, not serialized.** Each run owns a dispatch queue that starts calls strictly in submission order and classifies each one through `registry.executionMode`, the same fail-closed `isConcurrencySafe` contract the native loop uses. Consecutive parallel-classified calls overlap up to `maxParallelSubCalls` (default 10; `1` restores serial dispatch); an exclusive call drains the pool and runs alone. Settlement abandons queued calls that have not started. This note shipped the serialized placeholder; the [live-parallel Agent Note](2026-07-26-code-mode-live-parallel-dispatch.md) owns the scheduler that replaced it.
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**Presentation.** `run_code`'s render intent is decided here per the [render-intent Agent Note](../architecture/2026-07-02-tool-render-intent-union.md): `presentCall` creates a `generic` card with `kind: 'execute'`, the program text as its title, and the same program text as `rawInput`; `run_code` intentionally declares no `presentResult`, so the TUI and host/client runtime (Web) complete that card through their generic raw-content fallback using the final durable `tool/result.content`, including captured logs plus the returned value, failure, or post-policy spill preview. This is not a `terminal` card: that card's semantics are "a shell command in a working directory", which a program is not. See the [result-card completeness note](../../archived/bug-fix/2026-07-20-code-mode-result-card-completeness.md).
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- `CodeBindingNamespace = { global: string; functions: Record<string, (args: unknown) => Promise<CodeJsonValue>>; errorClass?: { name: string; memberNameProperty: string } }` — the runtime exposes each namespace as a global object of async functions inside the program; the optional descriptor asks the runtime to inject a real program-visible rejection class without teaching the seam consumer-specific names. `CodeJsonValue` is this dependency-light seam's structural lossless-JSON type, so binding arguments and resolutions cross the implementation's serialization boundary whole.
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- `CodeRunResult = { value?: CodeJsonValue; logs: string[]; error?: CodeRunFailure }` — program execution outcomes resolve as the `error` field. `run()` may reject only for caller/seam misuse (for example a duplicate binding namespace); consumers still contain a non-conforming backend rejection at their own error boundary.
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- `CodeRunFailure = { kind: 'exception' | 'timeout' | 'abort' | 'worker-exit' | 'invalid-output' | 'output-limit'; message: string }` — orthogonal outcomes reported independently per [defensive patterns](../../../../docs/defensive-patterns.md); a timed-out run is not an exception, an abort is not a timeout, a lossy completion is not an overflow, and a substrate exit is none of them.
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- Two readonly backend descriptors, informational not gating: `language` (what the program must be written in — `'typescript'` for the shipped backend; a Python backend would say so, and pair with its own SDK generator on the presentation side) and `isolation` (`'worker-thread'` for the shipped backend; `'process'`, `'container'`, … for future ones). `dsh-tools` requires `language === 'typescript'` in the MVP — its codegen emits TS — and fails the assembly loudly otherwise, the same misconfiguration idiom as `toolOrder` violations (as when `mode` is non-native with no `ctx.codeRuntime` loaded at all).
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- Two readonly backend descriptors, informational not gating: `language` (what the program must be written in — `'typescript'` for the first backend; a Python backend says `'python'` and pairs with its own SDK generator on the presentation side) and `isolation` (`'worker-thread'` for the shipped backend; `'process'`, `'container'`, … for future ones). `dsh-tools` accepts any `language` with a registered SDK renderer and `run_code` flavor (TypeScript and Python ship; see the [language-dispatch note](2026-07-31-code-mode-language-dispatch.md)) and fails the assembly loudly otherwise, the same misconfiguration idiom as `toolOrder` violations (as when `mode` is non-native with no `ctx.codeRuntime` loaded at all).
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Requests contain every runtime input; implementations own validated timeout and cap defaults. The registry looks up the optional runtime only when Code Mode is assembled, so native mode does not depend on one. Missing or language-incompatible runtimes fail loudly. Alternate substrates or languages can replace the implementation behind the same seam, paired with the appropriate SDK generator.
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### What the model sees
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The SDK instructs the model to write an async erasable-TypeScript body, call tools through `await tools.name(args)`, catch rejected tool calls when needed, and return or log only the output that should re-enter context. Calls remain sequential even under `Promise.all`. The declaration prefix can be as large as native schemas, especially in `'both'`, but remains stable for provider caching.
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The SDK instructs the model to write an async body in the loaded runtime's language (an erasable-TypeScript body by default; a Python `async` body under a Python runtime — see the [language-dispatch note](2026-07-31-code-mode-language-dispatch.md)), call tools through `await tools.name(args)`, catch rejected tool calls when needed, and return or log only the output that should re-enter context. Both flavors state the same contract in their own primitive: independent read-only calls MAY overlap under `Promise.all` (TypeScript) or `asyncio.gather` (Python), mutating calls run alone in submission order, and dependent work sequences with `await`. The declaration prefix can be as large as native schemas, especially in `'both'`, but remains stable for provider caching.
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## Consequences
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Deployments switching to `'code'` must update any native-only `toolOrder`. Assembly listeners own the integrity of any rewritten protocol surface. Sub-dispatch remains serialized, while per-call contexts retain their source, envelope, and metadata through the outer result.
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Deployments switching to `'code'` must update any native-only `toolOrder`. Assembly listeners own the integrity of any rewritten protocol surface. Sub-dispatch starts in submission order under a bounded overlap pool, while per-call contexts retain their source, envelope, and metadata through the outer result.
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## Testing
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**Result elision / summarization over native tool-calling.** Addresses only the context-bloat half of the problem: trimming old `tool-result`s is cheap to add as a logged surface replacement under reconstructable requests, but still pays one model round-trip per call and cannot express loops, branches, or joins. Complementary, not competing; it can layer under Code Mode for residual native calls.
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**Parallel native dispatch in the loop.** The other answer to round-trip cost; still valid future work (the open TODO), still blocked on concurrency-safety metadata, and still no composition — it parallelizes calls the model already decided on in one step. Code Mode's serialized-queue decision keeps the two compatible: when the metadata lands, both native parallel dispatch and per-tool binding parallelism unlock together.
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**Parallel native dispatch in the loop.** The other answer to round-trip cost at decision time; it was blocked on concurrency-safety metadata and offers no composition either way — it parallelizes calls the model already decided on in one step. Code Mode's queue decision kept the two compatible, and that is how it played out: the metadata landed as `isConcurrencySafe` (the [parallel tool-call note](2026-07-10-parallel-tool-call-execution.md)), and native rolling-pool dispatch and per-tool binding parallelism unlocked on the same classifier.
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**Always-exclusive (Cloudflare-faithful, no mode).** Rejected for this SDK's primary consumer: a coding agent's bread-and-butter single calls (`bash`, `read`, `edit`) are already ideal as native calls, and forcing every edit through a program taxes the common case. The mode config keeps the faithful form (`'code'`) one line away without imposing it.
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**Large lossless JSON values can exhaust memory.** Tool bindings snapshot lossless JSON before dispatch and return canonical JSON resolutions whole. The runtime validates both sides of the worker port and applies no per-binding byte cap; structured-clone cost and process or worker memory are the practical bounds. The combined outer-output ledger for logs, the completion value, and a failure diagnostic is the only byte-capped boundary.
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**Serialized-only sub-dispatch.** `Promise.all` gains no wall-clock parallelism yet, only fewer round-trips; models may over-expect. The instructions state it; lifting it is tied to the same concurrency-safety metadata the native parallel-dispatch TODO needs.
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**Sub-dispatch overlap is bounded by tool safety claims, not by the caller.** A program's `Promise.all` or `asyncio.gather` buys wall-clock parallelism only across calls the tool itself classifies concurrency-safe; a run of exclusive calls still costs its round-trips in sequence, and models may over-expect. Both flavors' SDK instructions state the real contract. This note shipped the serialized placeholder that made the risk absolute; the [live-parallel Agent Note](2026-07-26-code-mode-live-parallel-dispatch.md) owns the scheduler and its overlap cap.
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**Budget metering reads the event loop, not a flag.** Busy-time polling (`eventLoopUtilization()`) is coarser than an exact CPU meter — a budget expires up to one poll interval late — and its correctness claim ("a pending dispatch cannot pause it") is load-bearing against a hostile program. Both sides are unit-tested (hot loop with a pending decoy dispatch dies at `computeMs`; idle-on-slow-binding survives to `maxWallMs`), and the poll interval is an internal constant, not config — nothing a deployment could mis-tune into a bypass. `maxWallMs` is config, and it reaches `setTimeout`, which clamps a delay above `MAX_TIMER_DELAY_MS` (2^31-1 ms) to 1 ms; a positivity check alone therefore accepts a 25-day ceiling that expires on the first tick and times out every run. The worker runtime range-checks the field at load for that reason. `computeMs` needs no upper bound because it is compared against measured utilization instead of being handed to a timer.
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