docs(rfc): align scoped runtime contracts

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Tianyi Cui
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@@ -39,21 +39,21 @@ interface ApprovalRequest {
* UI answerer only answers for agents it owns) and receives the audit
* events on its session log.
*/
agent: Agent
readonly agent: Agent
/** The tool the question is about (presentation and audit). */
toolName: string
readonly toolName: string
/**
* The exact tool call being decided, when the asker has one — lets a UI
* attach the prompt to the tool call it already streamed.
*/
callId?: CallId
readonly callId?: CallId
/** The asker's human-readable explanation of WHY it is asking. */
reason?: string
readonly reason?: string
/**
* Aborting withdraws the question: the request settles `'cancelled'`
* immediately and a late answer from a still-pending answerer is discarded.
*/
signal?: AbortSignal
readonly signal?: AbortSignal
}
```

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@@ -355,19 +355,6 @@ interface Agent {
`AgentStatus` is `'idle' | 'running' | 'disposed'`. `AgentId` is a branded string. `AgentOptions` (`model?`) is merge-extensible — plugins add creation options by declaration merging; the persona is NOT an agent option but the `dsh-system-prompt` plugin's `persona` config, shared context-wide. The `agent/*` event taxonomy (lifecycle emits incl. `agent/session-start`, serial `agent/pre-step`/`agent/turn-stop` checkpoints, and the `agent/prompt-submit`/`agent/request`/`agent/session-prefix`/`agent/step-result`/`agent/turn-continuation` waterfalls) is in [architecture.md § Event taxonomy](../architecture.md#event-taxonomy); turn/step boundaries are durable `session/event` records, not `agent/*` emits.
### `AgentRegistrationReservation` — unpublished identity ownership
An agent factory reserves its public `AgentId` before awaiting setup, so setup code cannot publish either the intended agent or a replacement under that id ahead of the transaction. The opaque capability authorizes exactly the later `enter()` call. Its `release` function is the exact Cordis owner effect disposer, letting the lifecycle adopt it by identity and place release after scope quiescence while owner disposal remains the abandoned-transaction backstop. Ordinary plugins use `register()` and never hold this type.
Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/index.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/index.ts)
```ts type-equiv
interface AgentRegistrationReservation {
readonly id: AgentId
release(): void
}
```
## Interception decisions
Each `agent/*` interception waterfall returns a small, seam-specific typed union — the unified Decision idiom (the tool seams' `PreToolDecision`/`PostToolDecision` in [tools.md](tools.md) follow the same shape). A CC/Codex hook bridge maps its `permissionDecision`/`decision`/`continue`/`additionalContext` fields onto these; a native plugin returns them directly. They share one envelope for model-facing context, `HookContext`, which is `inject()`ed as a `context/message` and so carries a REQUIRED `source` (a missing source would default to `{kind:'user'}` and mislabel plugin context as a user prompt).

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@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ interface SessionHeader {
* session is created. A persistence backend rejects any other version on load
* (no migration — see the constant).
*/
version: number
readonly version: number
/** The session's id (mirrors the {@link Session}'s id). */
id: SessionId
readonly id: SessionId
/** Unix epoch milliseconds when the session was created. */
createdAt: number
readonly createdAt: number
/** Absolute working directory the session was created in (if any). */
cwd?: string
readonly cwd?: string
/** The session this one was forked from (seed lineage), if any. */
parentSession?: SessionId
readonly parentSession?: SessionId
/**
* How many leading events were INHERITED via a seed rather than produced by
* this session — the seed boundary. Set when a fork seeds a child with a
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ interface SessionHeader {
* harness can skip the inherited prefix when deriving the child's OWN script
* (the seeded events are the parent's, not this child's model calls).
*/
seedLength?: number
readonly seedLength?: number
}
```
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Creating a `Session` through the store takes a `seed` (replay/fork an existing e
```ts type-equiv
interface CreateSessionOptions {
/** Events to seed the new session with (replay/fork). */
seed?: SessionEvent[]
readonly seed?: readonly SessionEvent[]
/**
* Creation metadata. The store fills in `version`/`id` and defaults
* `createdAt` to now; the caller supplies the storage-level fields (validated
@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ interface CreateSessionOptions {
* length, not the original boundary — the caller must pass the persisted
* boundary back. A fresh fork passes its actual seeded-prefix length.
*/
meta?: { cwd?: string; parentSession?: SessionId; createdAt?: number; seedLength?: number }
readonly meta?: {
readonly cwd?: string
readonly parentSession?: SessionId
readonly createdAt?: number
readonly seedLength?: number
}
}
```

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Scoped Registration
The [scope package](../../packages/core/scope) supplies the identity and carrier vocabulary that makes one registration context mean both per-agent visibility and shared lifetime ownership. It is a library primitive rather than a Cordis service; the [agent-scope runtime-design RFC](../rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#scope-mechanism-context-key-and-lifetime) owns the implementation rationale, while the package [README](../../packages/core/scope/README.md) owns the callable API and filtering semantics.
The [scope package](../../packages/core/scope) supplies the identity and carrier vocabulary that makes one registration context mean both per-agent visibility and shared lifetime ownership. It is a library primitive rather than a Cordis service; the [agent-scope runtime-design RFC](../rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md#scope-routing-one-opaque-key-selects-one-layer) owns the implementation rationale, while the package [README](../../packages/core/scope/README.md) owns the callable API and filtering semantics.
Source: [`packages/core/scope/src/index.ts`](../../packages/core/scope/src/index.ts).
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Source: [`packages/core/scope/src/index.ts`](../../packages/core/scope/src/index
type ScopeKey = object
```
`Scoped<T>` is the compile-time brand on the proxy returned by `scopeTarget(base, key)`. Scope-filtered event declarations require this carrier as their `this` type, preventing an ordinary subject object from type-checking as the dispatch carrier.
`Scoped<T>` is the compile-time brand on the opaque routing receiver returned by `scopeTarget(base, key)`. Scope-filtered event declarations require this carrier as their `this` type, while the real event subject remains an explicit argument.
```ts type-equiv
type Scoped<T> = T & { readonly [ScopedBrand]: 'dsh.scope.carrier' }
type Scoped<T extends object> = object & { readonly [ScopedBrand]: T }
```
## Owned registration context

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@@ -196,20 +196,6 @@ export interface SurfaceNode {
}
```
## `SessionRegistrationReservation` — unpublished identity and construction ownership
A session factory reserves its public `SessionId` before awaiting persistence load or scoped setup, so concurrent code cannot create, prepare, or enter a session under that id ahead of the transaction. The opaque capability may construct exactly one unpublished `Session` and authorizes exactly that object at `enter()`. Its `release` function is the exact Cordis owner effect disposer, letting the lifecycle adopt it by identity and place release after scope quiescence while owner disposal remains the abandoned-transaction backstop. Ordinary session consumers use `create()` and never hold this type.
Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
```ts type-equiv
interface SessionRegistrationReservation {
readonly id: SessionId
prepare(options?: CreateSessionOptions): Session
release(): void
}
```
## Derived history: `deriveMessages()` and `deriveEventMessage()`
`Session.deriveMessages()` projects the event log into the `Message[]` the model sees — cached (each surface node projected once, when first seen; a surface rewrite rebuilds) and frozen (a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages, so mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable). `deriveEventMessage(event)` is the per-node pure function the fold applies — public so external reconstructors and the dev invariant project a log prefix with exactly the same rules and cannot disagree with the cache. The projection rules:

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@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/ind
## Provider registry
`ctx.skills` is a multi-provider registry. Providers can represent local directories, embedded plugin data, HTTP catalogs, or another source. Provider plugins register synchronously during `apply()`; remote initialization, authentication, and discovery are awaited by `list()`. Each lookup snapshots its read-only options before provider work, and each provider candidate becomes registry-owned data while its opaque locator retains provider-owned identity. The registry validates candidates, resolves duplicate skill names first-wins by rank/provider order/local order, and sorts the final summaries by `name` for deterministic consumers. A provider `list()` rejection is logged and skipped without caching the degraded catalog; malformed candidates still fail fast because they violate the provider contract.
`ctx.skills` is a multi-provider registry. Providers can represent local directories, embedded plugin data, HTTP catalogs, or another source. Provider plugins register synchronously during `apply()`; remote initialization, authentication, and discovery are awaited by `list()`. Provider objects, lookup options, and candidates are readonly same-process contracts, so the registry borrows them instead of manufacturing defensive snapshots. The registry still validates semantic fields, resolves duplicate skill names first-wins by rank/provider order/local order, and sorts the final summaries by `name` for deterministic consumers. A provider `list()` rejection is logged and skipped without caching the degraded catalog; malformed candidates still fail fast because they violate the provider contract.
```ts type-equiv
interface SkillProvider {
name: string
list(options: SkillLookupOptions): Promise<SkillCandidate[]>
get(candidate: SkillCandidate, options: SkillLookupOptions): Promise<SkillDefinition | undefined>
readonly name: string
readonly list: (options: SkillLookupOptions) => Promise<readonly SkillCandidate[]>
readonly get: (candidate: SkillCandidate, options: SkillLookupOptions) => Promise<SkillDefinition | undefined>
}
```
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ type SkillSource = 'project-dsh' | 'project-agents' | 'runtime' | 'user-dsh' | '
```ts type-equiv
interface SkillSummary {
name: string
description: string
whenToUse?: string
disableModelInvocation?: boolean
source: SkillSource
provider: string
resourceBase?: SkillResourceBase
readonly name: string
readonly description: string
readonly whenToUse?: string
readonly disableModelInvocation?: boolean
readonly source: SkillSource
readonly provider: string
readonly resourceBase?: SkillResourceBase
}
```
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ interface SkillSummary {
```ts type-equiv
interface SkillCandidate extends SkillSummary {
rank: number
locator: unknown
path?: string
metadata?: Record<string, unknown>
readonly rank: number
readonly locator: unknown
readonly path?: string
readonly metadata?: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>
}
```
@@ -69,16 +69,16 @@ interface SkillCandidate extends SkillSummary {
```ts type-equiv
type SkillResourceBase =
| { kind: 'directory'; path: string }
| { kind: 'url'; url: string }
| { kind: 'opaque'; description: string }
| { readonly kind: 'directory'; readonly path: string }
| { readonly kind: 'url'; readonly url: string }
| { readonly kind: 'opaque'; readonly description: string }
```
```ts type-equiv
interface SkillDefinition extends SkillSummary {
content: string
path?: string
metadata?: Record<string, unknown>
readonly content: string
readonly path?: string
readonly metadata?: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>
}
```
@@ -86,13 +86,13 @@ Runtime skills use the same complete shape and participate in the same first-win
```ts type-equiv
type SkillRegistration = Omit<SkillDefinition, 'provider'> & {
provider?: string
readonly provider?: string
}
```
## Lookup and configuration
Skill lookup is cwd-sensitive because providers may expose workspace-local skills, and its optional signal cancels provider work for the caller. The registry captures both fields once and providers receive the same read-only snapshot used for cache identity and loading. Cancellation is checked before and after catalog selection, including cache hits, and races both discovery and full-definition loading. If no git root is found, the local provider treats the supplied cwd itself as the project root.
Skill lookup is cwd-sensitive because providers may expose workspace-local skills, and its optional signal cancels provider work for the caller. Providers receive the same readonly options object used for cache identity and loading. Cancellation is checked before and after catalog selection, including cache hits, and races both discovery and full-definition loading. If no git root is found, the local provider treats the supplied cwd itself as the project root.
```ts type-equiv
interface SkillLookupOptions {
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ The registry owns only its discovery-cache bound. The local provider owns filesy
```ts type-equiv
interface Config {
collectCacheMaxEntries?: number
readonly collectCacheMaxEntries?: number
}
```

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@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ A provider advertises its **start-time** features on a static descriptor the ser
```ts type-equiv
interface SubagentCapabilities {
outputSchema: boolean
depthLimit: boolean
toolFilter: boolean
persona: boolean
readonly outputSchema: boolean
readonly depthLimit: boolean
readonly toolFilter: boolean
readonly persona: boolean
}
```
@@ -25,26 +25,28 @@ What a caller asks for when starting a subagent. The tool layer builds this from
```ts type-equiv
interface SubagentStartRequest {
prompt: ContentBlock[]
parent: Agent
signal?: AbortSignal
agentOptions?: AgentOptions
outputSchema?: StructuredOutputSchema
maxDepth?: number
toolFilter?: { allow?: string[]; deny?: string[] }
persona?: string
readonly prompt: ContentBlock[]
readonly parent: Agent
readonly signal: AbortSignal
readonly agentOptions?: AgentOptions
readonly outputSchema?: StructuredOutputSchema
readonly maxDepth?: number
readonly toolFilter?: ToolRestriction
readonly persona?: string
}
```
`signal` is the single cancellation channel before and after readiness. The [subagent composition-controls RFC](../rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-12-subagent-persona-tool-filter-and-depth.md) owns the persona, live global-tool filter, absolute-depth, and visibility-not-authority rationale.
## The terminal result: `SubagentResult`
The outcome of a run, resolved by `SubagentRun.result`. `structured` is present only after a requested `outputSchema` was successfully satisfied; requesting a schema does not guarantee it, and a provider may return `stopReason: 'error'` when the child fails or finishes without a valid capture. A non-`completed` `stopReason` means `output` may be partial — the consumer maps it to an `isError` tool result rather than reporting partial output as success.
```ts type-equiv
interface SubagentResult {
output: ContentBlock[]
structured?: unknown
stopReason: SubagentStopReason
readonly output: ContentBlock[]
readonly structured?: unknown
readonly stopReason: SubagentStopReason
}
```
@@ -62,17 +64,15 @@ interface SubagentStopReasonMap {
## A live run: `SubagentRun`
The handle the consumer holds while a child executes. `started` is the provider's publication boundary: it resolves only after an in-process agent is live in `ctx.agents` or a remote transport has created its child session, and rejects when the attempt fails or is cancelled before that point. The consumer normally awaits `result`, may `cancel` mid-flight, and MUST `dispose` on every path to reach child quiescence (no leaked idle child / session). `result` does NOT reject on a child-level failure — a model/transport failure resolves with `stopReason: 'error'` — so the consumer maps a non-`completed` reason to an `isError` result; it rejects only on an infrastructure fault the seam cannot represent. `sendMessage` and `resume` are OPTIONAL: a provider that supports the runtime capability defines the method; one that doesn't omits it.
The handle the consumer holds after a provider has established a ready child. The consumer awaits `result` and MUST `dispose` on every path to cancel remaining work and reach child quiescence. `result` does NOT reject on a child-level failure — a model/transport failure resolves with `stopReason: 'error'` — so the consumer maps a non-`completed` reason to an `isError` result; it rejects only on an infrastructure fault the seam cannot represent. `sendMessage` and `resume` are OPTIONAL: a provider that supports the runtime capability defines the method; one that doesn't omits it.
```ts type-equiv
interface SubagentRun {
readonly id: AgentId
readonly started: Promise<void>
readonly result: Promise<SubagentResult>
cancel(reason?: string): void
dispose(): Promise<void>
sendMessage?(content: ContentBlock[]): void
resume?(content: ContentBlock[]): SubagentRun
resume?(content: ContentBlock[]): Promise<SubagentRun>
}
```
@@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ interface SubagentProvider {
readonly name: string
readonly capabilities: SubagentCapabilities
readonly inheritsParentContext: boolean
start(request: SubagentStartRequest): SubagentRun
start(request: SubagentStartRequest): Promise<SubagentRun>
}
```
The service (`ctx.subagents`) emits `subagent/start` only after `run.started` fulfills and emits the paired `subagent/end` when that started run settles (see the [events catalog](../cordis-catalog/events.md)); a pre-publication readiness rejection emits neither event. For an in-process provider, a start listener can therefore resolve the live child with `ctx.agents.get(info.id)`; a remote provider need not publish into the local registry. `subagent/end` carries `lastAssistantMessage` (the child's final `output`) on the settle path, so an observer sees WHAT the subagent produced without holding the run (absent when the run rejected at the infrastructure level — no result was produced). These are **observe-only** events: both are plain `emit`s, so a subscriber observes but cannot change the run. Result settlement is observed immediately even while readiness is pending, then its cloned end payload is buffered until start has been announced; this prevents an early rejection from becoming unhandled while preserving start-before-end order and protecting the caller's result from listener mutation. Both emits contain a thrown listener **per listener** (logged, never propagated): one bad subscriber can neither strand a live run, surface as an unhandled rejection on the detached settle hook, nor starve the listeners registered after it.
`SubagentProvider.start()` and `ctx.subagents.start()` are the publication boundary: their promises fulfill only with a ready run. The service attaches result observation, emits `subagent/start`, and returns the same holder-owned run; a rejected start has already cleaned provider-owned partial resources and emits neither lifecycle event. For an in-process provider, a start listener can resolve the live child with `ctx.agents.get(info.id)`; a remote provider need not publish into the local registry. `subagent/end` carries `lastAssistantMessage` (the child's final `output`) on the settle path and reports `error` on infrastructure rejection. Both lifecycle events are observe-only emits with per-listener exception containment.
## In-process backends: depth and seed
The two in-process backends ([dsh-subagent-spawn](../../packages/subagent/subagent-spawn) fresh, [dsh-subagent-fork](../../packages/subagent/subagent-fork) seeded) run the child as a child `Agent` on the same application. They synchronously snapshot caller-owned data, install provider ownership before attaching the abort listener, create one run-owner fiber under `parent.ctx`, and invoke the factory through that fiber: parent teardown, provider teardown, and manual run disposal share the same pre-publication ownership and quiescence boundary, while the child still receives a flat new scope rather than inheriting the parent's registrations. Their `started` promise projects the factory's successful publication and the result driver awaits that same promise before sending the prompt. Two pieces of vocabulary ride on the existing agent/session types rather than new core types:
The two in-process backends ([dsh-subagent-spawn](../../packages/subagent/subagent-spawn) fresh, [dsh-subagent-fork](../../packages/subagent/subagent-fork) seeded) run the child as an ordinary `Agent` in the same application. The provider creates it directly through `parent.ctx`, passes the required signal into the core creation transaction, and delegates quiescent disposal to the returned `AgentHandle`. Provider removal prevents new starts but does not revoke an accepted run. The child receives a flat new scope rather than inheriting the parent's registrations. Two pieces of vocabulary ride on the existing agent/session types rather than new core types:
- **Delegation depth** is a merge-extensible `AgentOptions.subagentDepth` field (`0` for a top-level agent, parent + 1 for a child). Only `undefined` means top level; every stored present value must be a non-negative safe integer. The seam owns it — the loop neither sets nor reads it — so a nested spawn validates its parent's stored depth, rejects a derived child depth outside the safe-integer domain, and applies a defined absolute `request.maxDepth` cap to that child.
- **Fork seeding** uses `CreateAgentOptions.seed` (a `SessionEvent[]` prefix threaded through `AgentLoop.createAgent` → `ctx.sessions.prepare({ seed })`, the same primitive `resume` uses). The fork backend passes a *balanced completed-turn prefix* of the parent's log — the parent's events up to and including its last `turn/end` — so the seed is contiguous-from-0 and the [invariants](../../packages/support/invariants) replay accepts it (the in-flight, unbalanced turn is excluded).

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@@ -16,22 +16,25 @@ interface AssembleContext {
## Tool-provider result
`ToolProviderResult.schemas` is the model-visible set for the current assembly. `knownNames` is the provider's pre-restriction name universe used to distinguish a configured-name typo from a known tool that is deliberately hidden in this scope.
`ToolProviderResult.schemas` is the model-visible set for the current assembly. `knownNames` is the provider's pre-restriction name universe used to distinguish a configured-name typo from a known tool that is deliberately hidden in this scope. `ownerFinalNames` identifies tool contributions whose canonical presence or absence survives the assembly waterfall.
```ts type-equiv
interface ToolProviderResult {
schemas: ToolSchema[]
knownNames?: readonly string[]
readonly schemas: readonly ToolSchema[]
readonly knownNames?: readonly string[]
readonly ownerFinalNames?: readonly string[]
}
```
## Canonical contribution protection
## Prompt sections and owner finality
`PromptProtection` names section and tool contributions whose canonical registry output remains authoritative after the assembly waterfall. Either field may be omitted, but a registration with no names is rejected.
`PromptSection` is a readonly same-process registration contract. `ownerFinal` is reserved for protocol-owned instructions whose canonical presence and definition must survive the complete assembly waterfall; ordinary sections remain transformable. Tool definitions declare the equivalent fact on their own contribution, and the tool provider reports the resolved names through `ownerFinalNames` above.
```ts type-equiv
interface PromptProtection {
sections?: readonly string[]
tools?: readonly string[]
interface PromptSection {
readonly name: string
readonly order: number
readonly text: string | ((context: AssembleContext) => string)
readonly ownerFinal?: boolean
}
```

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@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ interface ToolDefinition extends ToolSchema {
* cooperative implementation that can reach quiescence when the signal aborts.
*/
timeoutMs?: number
/**
* Whether this tool name's canonical wire presence or absence survives the
* complete system-prompt assembly waterfall. Reserved for protocol tools
* whose owner must retain the final definition.
*/
readonly ownerFinal?: boolean
/**
* Optional: how to present the PENDING state of one call in a UI, derived from
* the call's `args` (parsed arguments, `unknown` — the tool validates/narrows
@@ -81,16 +87,25 @@ type InferArgs<S extends SchemaSpec> = Simplify<
`defineTool({ name, description, parameters, execute, … })` ties it together: `parameters` is a `SchemaSpec`, `execute(args, exec)` gets `args: InferArgs<typeof parameters>`, and the helper converts the spec to JSON Schema (`schemaSpecToJsonSchema`) for the wire and validates model-generated args (`validateArgs`) before the typed body runs. A mismatch throws `ToolArgsError` (`code: 'INVALID_ARGS'`), which the registry turns into an `isError` result so the model can self-correct. Why a custom DSL and not schemastery: tool parameters need JSON Schema (the LLM wire format), not validation/transformation — the lightweight DSL gives the best authoring DX with the smallest surface.
Registration is a value boundary. `ToolRegistry.register()` reads every top-level field once, validates fixed scalar and callback types, materializes `ToolDefinition.parameters` as detached lossless JSON in one recursive pass, binds the accepted execute/presentation callbacks once to the original definition as their method receiver, and deep-freezes the stored record. Replacing a callback property on the caller-owned definition later does not change dispatch. `get()`/`visible()` expose only that frozen snapshot, while `schemas()` produces detached projections, so the model-visible and executable views cannot drift through a leaked mutable registry object.
Registration is a trusted same-process contract. The registry borrows the typed definition as readonly input and validates only semantic requirements such as a positive finite `timeoutMs`; `schemas()` materializes the explicit model-facing projection at the model boundary so execution and presentation share one resolved definition without leaking callbacks onto the wire.
## `ToolRestriction` — one scope's live global filter
`ToolRestriction` applies only to the live deployment-global tool layer. The registry compiles readonly names into private sets, intersects multiple restrictions, then overlays scope-local tools. A deny-only filter admits later unlisted globals, while an allow-list excludes them.
```ts type-equiv
interface ToolRestriction {
readonly allow?: readonly string[]
readonly deny?: readonly string[]
}
```
## Execution: extensible waterfalls plus monotonic policy
`ctx.tools.execute()` accepts a caller-owned `ToolExecutionInput`, snapshots it into a pipeline-owned `ToolExecution`, and runs that call through `tools/pre-execute` (the reorderable allow/deny/ask waterfall) → registered monotonic guards → `tools/execute` (around-dispatch wrappers) → `tools/post-execute` (inspect/replace the result) → `tools/result` (the immutable authoritative outcome). The outcome is a `ToolExecutionResult`.
`ctx.tools.execute()` accepts a caller-owned `ToolExecutionInput`, materializes its parsed JSON arguments once into a pipeline-owned `ToolExecution`, and runs that call through `tools/pre-execute` (the reorderable allow/deny/ask waterfall) → registered monotonic guards → `tools/execute` (around-dispatch wrappers) → `tools/post-execute` (inspect/replace the result) → `tools/result` (the immutable authoritative outcome). The outcome is a `ToolExecutionResult`.
```ts type-equiv
interface ToolExecutionToken {
readonly [toolExecutionTokenBrand]: true
}
type ToolExecutionToken = symbol & { readonly [toolExecutionTokenBrand]: true }
```
```ts type-equiv
@@ -118,7 +133,7 @@ interface ToolExecution extends ToolExecutionInput {
}
```
`ToolExecutionToken` is a compile-time opaque type and a frozen, property-free object at runtime; identity comparison is its only operation. Before policy runs, `ctx.tools.execute()` reads each caller-owned field once, materializes `arguments` as detached lossless JSON in one recursive pass, assigns a fresh token, and deep-freezes the accepted arguments. A mutable exotic such as `Map` is rejected and normalized to an error before policy; one-pass materialization prevents a stateful getter from supplying different values to validation and storage. `token`, `callId`, `name`, `arguments`, `agent`, and the optional `parent` token are non-writable throughout all waterfalls, so a listener cannot change which tool or scope the pipeline accepted or reach a live enclosing execution; an around-dispatch wrapper may add, replace, or remove only optional `signal`. After the complete pipeline the registry freezes the execution and exposes its stable identity to `tools/result` observers, where the execution remains usable as a `WeakMap` key without mutation races.
`ToolExecutionToken` is a compile-time opaque fresh `Symbol` at runtime; identity comparison is its only operation. Before policy runs, `ctx.tools.execute()` materializes `arguments` as detached lossless JSON, assigns the token, and deep-freezes the accepted arguments. A non-JSON value is normalized to an error before policy. `token`, `callId`, `name`, `arguments`, `agent`, and the optional `parent` token are readonly throughout the waterfalls, while an around-dispatch wrapper may add, replace, or remove only optional `signal`. After the complete pipeline the registry freezes the execution and exposes its stable identity to `tools/result` observers.
A `ToolGuard` is scope-aware final pre-dispatch policy. Its shape deliberately has no allow result: `undefined` preserves the waterfall decision, while a returned reason can only reduce permission, so a later listener cannot undo it.
@@ -158,7 +173,7 @@ interface ToolExecutionResult {
}
```
The registry rebuilds and validates the complete authoritative result after post-policy. Its content, structured error, additional context, and presentation metadata must round-trip losslessly through JSON; a malformed or non-JSON value becomes a JSON-safe `isError` result before `tools/result` observers run, so the live outcome is always safe for the later durable `tool/result` append.
The registry materializes and freezes the final accepted result immediately before `tools/result`. Its content, structured error, additional context, and presentation metadata must round-trip losslessly through JSON; an invalid outcome becomes a JSON-safe `isError` result, so the observed live outcome is safe for the later durable `tool/result` append.
Each interception waterfall returns a typed **Decision** (the idiom shared with the `agent/*` seams). `tools/pre-execute` listeners receive `(exec, next)` and return a `PreToolDecision`; `tools/execute` wrappers return a `ToolExecutionResult`; `tools/post-execute` listeners receive `(exec, result, next)` and return a `PostToolDecision`: