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| [Drop the mutable session summary](implemented/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md) | 2026-06-19 |
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| [Shared persistence write coordinator](implemented/2026-06-18-shared-persistence-write-coordinator.md) | 2026-06-18 |
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| [Agent lifecycle and ownership seams](implemented/2026-06-18-agent-lifecycle-and-ownership-seams.md) | 2026-06-18 |
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| [Core-data-structures catalog and the `ts type-equiv` drift gate](implemented/2026-06-20-core-data-structures-catalog.md) | 2026-06-20 |
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| [Generated cordis events + services catalog](implemented/2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md) | 2026-06-20 |
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## Rejected
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Two gates, mirroring the existing `scripts/` style (tsx ESM, one job each):
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1. **`doc-typecheck`** extracts every fenced ` ```ts ` block from `README.md`, `docs/**`, and `packages/*/README.md`, writes them to a temp project, and compiles with `tsc --noEmit`. The temp tsconfig copies only resolution-relevant options and the workspace `paths` map from `tsconfig.typecheck.json` (vendor → built `lib`, harness → `src`) — resolving vendor to `lib` is essential, or tsc type-checks raw vendor source and floods the run. A block that is a deliberate sketch opts out with an explicit ` ```ts ignore-check ` info string; the script reports the opt-out ratio and fails if it exceeds half, so the escape hatch can't quietly become the norm.
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2. **`verify-event-taxonomy`** extracts the event names from the `interface Events` blocks across `packages/*/src` and from the taxonomy table in `docs/architecture.md`, and asserts the two sets match exactly. Verify, don't generate: the table keeps its hand-written Mode/Purpose columns; only the set of names is checked. (Landing this surfaced three events the table had been missing — `tools/change`, `llm/adapter-change`, `system-prompt/change`.)
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2. **`verify-event-taxonomy`** extracts the event names from the `interface Events` blocks across `packages/*/src` and from the taxonomy table in `docs/architecture.md`, and asserts the two sets match exactly. Verify, don't generate: the table keeps its hand-written Mode/Purpose columns; only the set of names is checked. (Landing this surfaced three events the table had been missing — `tools/change`, `llm/adapter-change`, `system-prompt/change`.) **Superseded** by [the generated cordis catalog](2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md): this gate and its `architecture.md` table are retired in favor of a fully-generated `docs/cordis-catalog/events-and-services.md` and its `verify-cordis-catalog` freshness gate. The other gates here (`doc-typecheck`, and the `verify-md-wrap` amendment below) are unaffected.
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Both run via a shared `doc-sync` package.json script that the lefthook pre-push hook and CI both invoke ([mechanical quality gates](2026-06-11-quality-gates.md): hooks and CI call the same scripts, so the gate fires locally before a push — not only after it). They run after `pnpm run typecheck` (which emits the vendor `lib/` that doc-typecheck resolves against). API-extractor golden reports ([the deferred API-extractor-reports proposal](../proposed/2026-06-11-api-extractor-reports.md)) were deliberately **deferred** — low value for an internal monorepo where reviewers already see the source diff, and a heavy, finicky dependency.
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# RFC: Core-data-structures catalog and the `ts type-equiv` drift gate
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Status: implemented (accepted 2026-06-20)
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<!-- XXX: legacy ADR/RFC body format, not yet normalized to a unified RFC template. -->
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## Context
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A reader trying to understand the harness could find its *behavior* in [architecture.md](../../architecture.md) (the service map, the session/turn/step lifecycle, the event taxonomy) but had no single place describing its *vocabulary* — the data structures that behavior moves around. The type shapes lived only in source, scattered across `packages/*/src/types.ts`, so understanding "what is a `Message`, a `SessionEvent`, a `StreamChunk`" meant reading the declarations directly. A prose catalog would help, but a catalog that paraphrases or paste-copies type definitions rots the instant a field changes — and an out-of-sync type doc is worse than none, because a reader trusts it.
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So the work had two intertwined questions: **what belongs in such a catalog** (the scoping problem — a harness has dozens of cross-package types and dumping all of them helps no one), and **how to keep pasted type definitions from drifting** (the durability problem). This RFC records both decisions. Its sibling, [the generated cordis events + services catalog](2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md), is the *wiring*-axis complement: this one catalogs the data structures, that one the events and services that move them.
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## Decision
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A new `docs/core-data-structures/` folder catalogs the vocabulary, with a new `verify-type-equiv` doc-sync gate that keeps every pasted type definition byte-identical to its source.
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### What counts as "core" — the spine-vs-seam line
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The scoping line was not picked top-down; it was discovered by testing candidate definitions against concrete borderline types until one rule survived every case. The decisive test was `BashExecRequest`/`BashExecSpec`/`BashRunResult`: bash is a capability *seam*, not part of the agent-loop spine, so if those are "core" then "core" means *all cross-package vocabulary* and the catalog is a flat dump; if they are not, "core" means *the central spine* and bash vocabulary belongs on a sub-page. The latter won, which set the whole structure: a **tiered folder**, not a flat document.
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The rule that settled the remaining cases: ***the type you write, hold, or receive is core; the machinery that types it, renders it, or persists it is a sub-page detail.*** Worked through:
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- A data structure is **core** if it flows through the agent-loop spine — the loop holds, derives, streams, or logs it on every turn regardless of which plugins load (`Message`, `StreamChunk`, `SessionEvent`, the `Agent` handle) — **or** it is the single headline type a plugin author writes against a pipeline (`ToolDefinition`).
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- `ToolDefinition` is core (it is what every tool author writes) **even though the loop never holds one** — authoring-importance overrides the strict flows-through-spine rule for this one headline type. But its typing machinery — the `SchemaSpec`/`InferArgs` DSL — is a sub-page detail (you write a `ToolDefinition`; the type-level machinery that types it you do not). That is the spine-vs-seam line made sharp.
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- `ToolSchema` is core (it is a field of `GenerateOptions`, the model request that flows through every step) even though it is conceptually part of the tool pipeline — *flows through the spine* wins over *conceptual home* when they conflict.
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- The tool-presentation vocabulary (`ToolCallPresentation`, …, carrying a `FIXME(tool-presentation)` redesign marker), the `SessionPersistence` durability seam, and bash vocabulary are sub-pages.
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`core.md` is a **self-contained spine doc**: it states the exact type definition of each spine structure with minimal prose and links to sub-pages for the per-seam detail. The sub-pages are `llm-streaming.md`, `session.md`, `persistence.md` (split from session along the in-memory-model vs. durability-seam line), `tools.md`, and `bash.md`.
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### The `ts type-equiv` mechanism — literal AND drift-proof
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The durability requirement was specific: the doc should show the **literal** current type definition (so a reader sees the real shape, not a paraphrase) **and** be mechanically guaranteed to match source. The repo already compiles fenced ` ```ts ` blocks (`doc-typecheck`), but a real typechecked block needs import noise and proves only *assignability*, not *byte-equality* — a renamed field with the same type would pass. So:
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- Type definitions are pasted verbatim into a dedicated ` ```ts type-equiv ` fence. `doc-typecheck` recognizes the fence and skips it (a bare definition is not standalone-compilable), and **excludes it from the opt-out ratio** — it is a separately-checked category, not an unchecked sketch.
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- A new `scripts/verify-type-equiv.ts` extracts each block via the TypeScript parser and asserts a **verbatim source match** against the declared symbol — chosen over a compiled `_Check` assertion precisely because byte-equality, not assignability, is the property we want.
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- Provenance lives in a central `scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json` (`{ doc, symbol, source }` entries), **not** in directive comments in the prose. The script enforces a **1:1 correspondence**: every type-equiv block has exactly one manifest entry and vice versa, so a block can never be silently unchecked and an entry can never rot.
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- Wired into `doc-sync`, so it runs in the same lefthook pre-push and CI paths as the other doc gates.
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### Maintenance is the author's job, with a gate backstop
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`verify-type-equiv` catches a *drifted paste* of an already-documented type, but it cannot tell you a brand-new core type went undocumented. So AGENTS.md and the `dsh-code-review` skill were updated to require keeping the catalog in sync when a change adds or reshapes a documented type — the gate handles drift, the human handles new surface.
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## Process
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The design was driven entirely by a one-question-at-a-time grilling that walked the scoping decision tree through concrete examples (`BashExecRequest`, `ToolSchema`, `ToolDefinition`, the schema DSL, the presentation types, the session/persistence split) before committing to the spine-vs-seam rule — the rule was the *output* of the examples, not an a-priori axiom. The implementation landed as four commits mirroring the structure of the work: the gate (`e97f94b`), the catalog (`7e33c7b`), the maintenance-guard updates (`53e01a0`), and a review-fix commit (`6da7a0f`).
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That last commit is why the process is worth recording: an independent Codex review (gpt-5.5:xhigh) found a real **scan-gap bug** — `verify-type-equiv` only scanned the docs the manifest named, so a type-equiv block added to an *unmanifested* doc was silently skipped, defeating the 1:1 guarantee in one direction. The fix scans every doc in the markdown scope and reports an unmanifested block as an orphan. The same review corrected a `SessionPersistence` surface-listing prose error (`has`/`delete`) and the `doc-sync` command summary. The bug is the point: a drift gate that silently skips part of its input is worse than no gate, and only an adversarial reader caught it.
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This decision shipped in #71 **without** an RFC at the time — the judgment was that the `ts type-equiv` convention was small enough to document in `development.md`. This RFC is the retroactive record: the spine-vs-seam scoping rule and the verbatim-match-over-assignability choice are exactly the kind of "why was it done this way?" decisions a future maintainer would otherwise re-litigate, and its sibling catalog ([generated cordis events + services](2026-06-20-generated-cordis-catalog.md)) does carry an RFC, so the pair should be documented symmetrically.
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## Consequences
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- The vocabulary now has a single home that **cannot silently drift**: a field rename in source fails `verify-type-equiv` in the pre-push hook and CI until the paste is refreshed.
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- The spine-vs-seam line is a reusable scoping tool, not a one-off: the same "the thing you write/hold/receive is core; the machinery that types/renders/persists it is a detail" rule is what later scoped the events/services catalog's harness-vs-inherited tiering.
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- The `ts type-equiv` fence is a third doc-block category alongside ` ```ts ` (compiled) and ` ```ts ignore-check ` (sketch). A later sibling added a fourth, ` ```ts cordis-catalog ` (generated signature), reusing the same skip-and-exclude treatment.
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- Adding or reshaping a core type now carries a documentation obligation the author must honor (the gate cannot detect a missing *new* type), backstopped by the `dsh-code-review` checklist.
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# RFC: Generated cordis events + services catalog
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Status: implemented (accepted 2026-06-20)
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## Context
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A plugin author needs two reference surfaces that no single document gave them: every cordis **event** they can listen to (with its exact signature and dispatch mode) and every `ctx.<key>` **service** they can call (with its exact interface). The pieces existed but were scattered — a hand-maintained event-taxonomy *table* in `docs/architecture.md` (names + prose Mode/Purpose, name-set-checked by `verify-event-taxonomy`), a Service-map table (8 rows of role prose), and the `interface Events` / `interface Context` declarations themselves. The taxonomy table also could not catch a brand-new *undocumented* event: a name-set verifier only checks the names that are already in the table on both sides.
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This is the wiring-axis complement to the [core-data-structures catalog](../../core-data-structures/core.md) ([its RFC](2026-06-20-core-data-structures-catalog.md)): that one catalogs the *data structures* the loop moves around (verified hand-pastes); this one catalogs the *events and services* that move them.
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## Decision
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Generate the catalog from source instead of hand-maintaining a table and verifying a subset.
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`scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts` walks the `interface Events` and `interface Context` declarations (plus the service classes) with the TypeScript compiler API and emits `docs/cordis-catalog/events-and-services.md` — one `## Events` section (grouped by scope, each event rendered as signature + mode badge + its source JSDoc) and one `## Services` section (each `ctx.<key>` with its public method signatures + class JSDoc). It mirrors the `gen-module-graph` pattern exactly: `--write` regenerates, `--check` fails if the committed file is stale, output is deterministic (sorted), and the file is a build artifact that is never hand-edited. `verify-cordis-catalog` (the `--check`) runs inside `doc-sync`, so the freshness gate fires in the same lefthook pre-push and CI paths as every other doc gate.
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Pure generation is correct here because the codebase is disciplined enough that the AST is the whole truth: every event/service name is a string literal that round-trips to a static declaration — there are no dynamically-named events and no runtime-only services. So a generated doc cannot be wrong, and it closes the undocumented-event gap structurally (generation enumerates source rather than checking a hand-written subset).
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Specific choices:
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- **`@mode` tag, cross-checked.** Each harness event's JSDoc carries an explicit `@mode emit|waterfall|parallel` tag; the generator hard-errors on a missing tag. Where the signature shape is conclusive — a trailing `next: () => …` parameter is structurally a waterfall — it asserts the tag agrees and hard-errors on a contradiction. The emit-vs-parallel distinction is not structurally visible (`session/flush` returns `Promise<void> | void` with no `next`), so it is trusted from the tag. The authoring rule lives in [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md).
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- **Tiered scope.** The harness tier (the 8 `@deepseek-ai/dsh-*` services + their events) is rendered in full from source. The inherited tier (cordis-core `ctx.on/emit/effect/provide/…` + the `internal/*` events + loader/hmr/timer) is pinned vendor source a plugin also sees; it is rendered tersely (name + one-line + source pointer) from a curated table in the generator, NOT walked from the vendor AST — the cordis-core `Context` mixes true ctx members with non-service fields (`root`, `baseUrl`, `logger`), and the vendor surface changes only on a deliberate vendor sync.
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- **Cross-links to the data-structure catalog.** A type name in a signature (`GenerateOptions`, `StreamChunk`, `ToolDefinition`, …) links to the core-data-structures page that documents it. The map is a small hand-curated const in the generator — NOT `type-equiv.manifest.json`, which documents the `…Map` symbols while signatures reference the derived union names, and lists a few symbols on two pages.
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- **A dedicated fence.** Signature blocks use a ` ```ts cordis-catalog ` info string that `doc-typecheck` recognizes and skips (a bare signature fragment is not standalone-compilable), excluded from the opt-out ratio — the same treatment `type-equiv` blocks get.
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This **supersedes the event-taxonomy half** of [doc-sync enforcement](2026-06-11-doc-sync-enforcement.md): `verify-event-taxonomy` and its `docs/architecture.md` table are retired (the architecture.md heading stays, its body now points at the catalog; the Service-map role table stays as curated prose). The verify-don't-generate principle that RFC chose for the taxonomy is reversed *for this surface only* — the data here is mechanically complete, so generation is strictly stronger (full signatures, cannot drift, catches undocumented events) than a name-set check of a hand-table. doc-typecheck, verify-md-wrap, verify-md-links, and verify-type-equiv are unchanged.
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## Consequences
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- The catalog cannot drift: a source change that the committed file doesn't reflect fails `verify-cordis-catalog` in the pre-push hook and CI. A new event with no `@mode` tag, or a tag that contradicts its signature, fails the generator outright.
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- Event prose now has a single home — the JSDoc at the declaration. Thin JSDoc yields a thin catalog entry, which pressures authors to document at the source (the generator is a forcing function for the AGENTS.md "every export has a semantic JSDoc" rule).
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- The inherited tier is hand-summarized, so a vendor sync that adds/renames a cordis-core event or `ctx` member needs a matching edit to the curated table in `gen-cordis-catalog.ts`. This is the deliberate cost of not walking pinned vendor source; it changes rarely and is called out in the generator.
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- `verify-event-taxonomy.ts` is deleted and the `docs/architecture.md` event table is gone; anyone who linked to a specific table row now lands on the generated catalog instead.
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