A max-tokens response that included a tool call persisted assembler-transformed
content next to replay metadata projected from the untransformed native message,
so the next request died in history reconstruction with INVALID_REPLAY_STATE and
the session stayed permanently stuck.
Write side: the finish chunk's replayState becomes a typed ReplayEnvelope —
opaque response-level metadata plus optional per-block entries aligned with the
emitted block sequence. BlockAssembler computes one keep/drop decision for
blocks and entries together, so stored metadata always describes stored content
and retained blocks keep their signatures. pi-ai splits its state into a
version-2 response half and per-block signature entries.
Read side: durable content is authoritative. toPiAssistant degrades any
unusable state — foreign kind, other versions (including the flat v1 form
already on disk), malformed metadata, or content/block mismatches — to the
existing provider-neutral conversion with an onReplayDegrade diagnostic instead
of failing the request, which un-bricks sessions poisoned before this change.
Covered by assembler and replay unit tests, an agent-loop continuation
regression, keyless real-composition continuation tests (native pruned-envelope
replay and legacy flat-state degrade), and the authored keyless snapshot
scenario max-tokens-continue through the assembled ACP app.
The executor collapse landed without telling the model it exists. Every
tool contributes its own guidance section naming its tool, none of them
qualify how that tool is reached, and they all render before the SDK
(orders 100-199 against SDK_SECTION_ORDER 150), so the prompt said "Use
the read tool" eleven times and never said only run_code is callable.
A real session shows the consequence: the model emitted a native call,
read `unknown tool "read"` for a tool the same prompt declares, and
concluded the deployment was inconsistent rather than routing through
run_code.
The registry now contributes `tools:code-only` at order 99 -- ahead of
the guidance band -- stating the rule, registered wherever `tools:sdk`
is and rendering empty outside an effective `code`. `both` renders it
empty because its native calls do execute, which is also why
both-mode-turn no longer shares code-mode-turn's expected prompt. The
denial itself now names the route back, since a bare UNKNOWN_TOOL for a
declared tool is what misled the model.
One assistant message carrying several subagent calls now overlaps them
under the rolling pool (maxParallelToolCalls) instead of serializing each
foreground delegation behind an exclusive barrier; results still commit
in model order.
tool-subagent declares isConcurrencySafe: () => true for every call form:
children work in their own sessions, a run never mutates the parent
session, and sibling workspace coordination already belongs to the model
for background, continuable, and workflow children. The former
serial-execution pin flips to a parallel pin plus a gated genuine-overlap
test, and the authored subagent-parallel snapshot pins the assembled
transcript (tool/call, tool/call, tool/result, tool/result) with
interchangeable twin children, which replay race-free under the existing
first-call binding and createdAt harvest ordering.
The provider seam now requires concurrent starts and continuable
preparations for distinct children to isolate operation-local state,
cancellation, settlement, and cleanup; a continuable gate test proves a
cancelled preparation leaves no Agent or durable Session while its
sibling persists independently.
Closesdeepseek-harness/deepseek-harness#1489
A continuable child that stopped without reporting — an error, a token
ceiling, cancellation, teardown — left its parent nothing to act on.
The continuation manager now delivers an unconditional settlement
notice to the durable direct parent before releasing ownership, folding
consumed work (foldConsumedWork supersedes findLastMessageTurnEnd) so a
claimed-but-unrun prompt reads as aborted rather than completed, waking
an idle parent, steering a busy one, and never waking a closing tree.
A continuable child could finish without giving its parent a usable
result: the report tool was described as optional and its default
delivery stayed quiet. Install the child-scoped report obligation (tool
description plus the tool:report prompt section), default reportDelivery
to wakeup, bind shipped subagent_fork delegations to one-shot so fork
keeps its prefix reuse, and extend the ACP snapshot harness to pin child
system prompts alongside child tool schemas.
Address ds-review-bot on #2127:
- assistant-output: the rule has ONE implementation, the incremental
AssistantOutputFold (push/pushText/collect); finalAssistantOutput folds a
complete suffix, the SDK backend folds notification events, and the ACP
backend folds raw chunk text into the same streamed fallback.
- subagent/end.lastAssistantMessage: 'no output' is encoded once — absent,
never [], on both lifecycle shapes (observeRun now omits empty output).
- tool-subagent: a non-completed foreground result stays isError but appends
the child's preserved partial text after the stop-reason headline.
- Authored keyless snapshot scenario subagent-max-tokens-partial pins the
assembled transcript: the child's committed log carries the usage-only
empty message and the parent's tool result carries the partial answer.
- Rule-boundary sentence (message wins over later streamed text) and the
consumer half recorded in the Agent Note; comments trimmed to pointers.
The model reads a PNG/JPEG/WebP/GIF file, the bytes commit through the
durable attachment lifecycle, and the tool result carries the real
ImageBlock so the image enters context from the next request onward.
FileSystem gains a bounded readBytes primitive (local + E2B providers);
registration is conditional on the attachment store, and a strict
execution gate refuses routes that do not declare image input, so a
text route's durable history stays free of image blocks. llm-replay
models may declare inputModalities, letting keyless ACP snapshots pin
both the sha256-referenced success and the verbatim refusal.
Supersedes the withdrawn route-scoped design of PR #598; the decision
record is .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-08-10-minimal-read-image-tool.md.
A continuable background child (the default backgroundMode for both
delegation tools) never received the parent session's explicit
sandbox/approval overrides: materialization applied only child
composition, so a danger-full-access parent produced workspace-write
children whose every out-of-workspace operation raised an approval
prompt.
Move the one-shot driver's capture/append pair into the shared
child-agent module (captureDelegatedPolicyOverrides /
appendDelegatedPolicyOverrides) and call it from both paths:
startContinuable captures before its first await, only fresh
materialization appends the source-tagged events (after any fork seed),
and a cold resume replays the persisted delegation events instead of
re-capturing the parent.
Adds the continuable inheritance unit suite, the ACP snapshot scenario
subagent-continuable-inheritance (fails without the fix), the
continuable policy-inheritance Agent Note, and the seam-level README
contract, with bilingual counterparts.
Fixes#1692
Descriptor-phase errnos in readTextForDiff fold to before: null so a file
deleted or made unreadable after the caller's preflight cannot fail the
committed write; cancellation and non-errno faults still propagate. Drops
the now-covered isFile v8 ignore, extends llm-replay with catalog
capability parity (defaultMaxTokens/reasoningEfforts), and records the
fs-write-overwrite-bounded keyless snapshot pinning the over-limit
whole-file fallback through the real acp-agent composition.
