/** * The model-facing `subagent` tool: delegate a task to a child agent and return * its final output. Pure schema + lifecycle shaping — every transport concern * lives behind the `ctx.subagents` provider registry * (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent`), so an in-process, ACP, or future A2A backend * swaps in without touching what the model sees. * * Provider selection is config, not model-facing: this plugin is bound to * EXACTLY ONE provider name (`Config.provider`). To expose more than one * transport, load the plugin more than once, each bound to a different provider * — there is no provider/type parameter in the model-facing schema. The model * sees only `{ description, prompt }`. * * The tool DESCRIPTION is derived from the bound provider's context contract * ({@link providerWording}): a fresh-context provider (spawn, ACP) gets the * standalone-prompt wording, an inheriting provider (fork) tells the model the * child already sees the conversation's completed turns. The tool MIRRORS the * provider's lifecycle via `subagent/provider-added`/`-removed` — it registers * when the provider is (or becomes) available and unregisters when the * provider goes away — so no load-order requirement exists and an HMR reload * of the backend re-derives the wording from the fresh provider. * * Collection is SYNCHRONOUS this cut: `execute` starts a run and awaits * `run.result` inside a `try/finally` that always disposes the run, so the * owned child agent/session is torn down on every path (success, error, abort) * and never leaks as a live idle child. A non-`completed` stop reason maps to an * `isError` tool result (by throwing) rather than returning partial output as * success. * * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-subagent */ import type { Context } from 'cordis' import z from 'schemastery' import { defineTool } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools' import type { AgentOptions } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent' import type { ContentBlock } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm' import type { SubagentProvider, SubagentResult, SubagentRun, SubagentStartRequest } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent' export const name = 'tool-subagent' export const inject = ['tools', 'subagents'] /** Config: which registered provider this tool delegates to, plus child defaults. */ export interface Config { /** The `ctx.subagents` provider name to start runs on (e.g. `spawn`, `acp`). */ provider: string /** * The model-facing tool name to register (default `subagent`). To expose more * than one transport, load this plugin once per provider — each load MUST set * a distinct `toolName` (the tool registry rejects a duplicate name), e.g. * `{ provider: 'spawn', toolName: 'subagent' }` and * `{ provider: 'acp', toolName: 'subagent_acp' }`. */ toolName?: string /** * Default per-child agent options (model) applied to every spawned child. * Omitted fields fall back to the child loop's own defaults. There is no * per-child persona: the deployment persona (the system-prompt plugin's * `persona` config) is a context-wide section every agent shares. */ agentOptions?: AgentOptions } export const Config: z = z.object({ provider: z.string().required(), toolName: z.string().default('subagent'), agentOptions: z.object({ model: z.string(), }), }) /** * Flatten a child's final output blocks to text for the tool result. The child * may return non-text blocks; this cut surfaces the text content (the common * case) and drops the rest, which is acceptable for a synchronous summary — * the structured path (`outputSchema`) is the channel for non-text results. */ function outputText(blocks: ContentBlock[]): string { return blocks .filter((b): b is Extract => b.type === 'text') .map(b => b.text) .join('') } /** A non-`completed` stop reason means the child did not finish cleanly. */ function stopReasonError(result: SubagentResult): string | undefined { switch (result.stopReason) { case 'completed': return undefined case 'aborted': return 'subagent run was cancelled' case 'error': return 'subagent run failed' case 'max-tokens': return 'subagent run hit its token limit before finishing' case 'refusal': return 'subagent declined the task' // Merge-extensible union: a backend may add stop reasons. Treat an unknown // terminal reason as a failure rather than reporting partial output as success. default: return `subagent run ended abnormally (${String(result.stopReason)})` } } /** * Model-facing wording per context contract ({@link SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext}). * A fresh child needs a standalone prompt; a forked child already sees the * conversation's completed turns — telling the model to restate everything * (or, worse, that the child "does not see this conversation") would be false * for a fork. Exported for tests. * @param inherits - the bound provider's context contract. * @returns the tool `description` and the `prompt` parameter description. */ export function providerWording(inherits: boolean): { description: string; promptDescription: string } { if (inherits) { return { description: 'Delegate a task to a subagent that INHERITS this conversation: a child agent seeded with all ' + 'completed turns so far (it does not see the current in-flight turn), returning only its final ' + 'result. Use this when the subtask builds on this conversation\'s context — a follow-up analysis, ' + 'a review, a continuation — without consuming this conversation\'s context for the work itself. ' + 'You receive only its final answer, not its intermediate steps.', promptDescription: 'The task for the subagent. It already sees this conversation\'s completed turns, so build on them ' + 'freely and state only what is new.', } } return { description: 'Delegate a self-contained task to a subagent (a separate agent that works in its own context) ' + 'and return its final result. Use this to offload focused, independent work — research, a scoped ' + 'implementation, an analysis — so it does not consume this conversation\'s context. The subagent ' + 'runs to completion and you receive only its final answer, not its intermediate steps. Give it a ' + 'complete, standalone prompt: it does not see this conversation.', promptDescription: 'The complete, self-contained task for the subagent. It does not share this ' + 'conversation\'s context, so include everything it needs.', } } export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void { // The tool MIRRORS its provider's lifecycle instead of assuming load order: // the cordis Loader starts sibling entries concurrently, so "backend listed // first in cordis.yml" does not guarantee "provider registered first", and // an HMR reload of the backend replaces the provider while this fiber stays // loaded. Register the tool when the bound provider is (or becomes) // available — deriving the wording from THAT provider — and unregister it // when the provider goes away, so the description can never outlive or // predate the provider it describes. let disposeTool: (() => void) | undefined const mount = (provider: SubagentProvider): void => { const wording = providerWording(provider.inheritsParentContext) disposeTool = ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: config.toolName ?? 'subagent', description: wording.description, parameters: { description: { type: 'string', required: true, description: 'A short (3-5 word) description of the delegated task, for display.', }, prompt: { type: 'string', required: true, description: wording.promptDescription, }, }, async execute(args, exec): Promise { const parent = exec.agent if (!parent) { // The loop sets `exec.agent` for every model-driven call; its absence // means a non-agent caller invoked the tool directly, which has no // parent to attribute the child to. Fail loud rather than guess. throw new Error('subagent tool requires a calling agent (exec.agent was undefined)') } const request: SubagentStartRequest = { prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: args.prompt }], parent, ...exec.signal ? { signal: exec.signal } : {}, ...config.agentOptions ? { agentOptions: config.agentOptions } : {}, } const run: SubagentRun = ctx.subagents.start(config.provider, request) // Bridge the tool's abort signal to the run: if the parent step is // aborted while the child is in flight, cancel the child too. const onAbort = (): void => { run.cancel('parent step aborted') } exec.signal?.addEventListener('abort', onAbort, { once: true }) // `addEventListener` does NOT fire for a signal already aborted before this // line, so a step cancelled before the tool ran would never reach the // child. Cancel explicitly in that case — the bridge must honor an // already-aborted signal, not lean on each provider re-checking it. if (exec.signal?.aborted) run.cancel('parent step aborted') try { const result = await run.result const error = stopReasonError(result) if (error !== undefined) { // Map a non-clean finish to an isError result (the registry turns a // throw into an isError). Report the reason, not partial output. throw new Error(error) } return [{ type: 'text', text: outputText(result.output) }] } finally { exec.signal?.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort) // Always reach child quiescence — never leak a live idle child/session. await run.dispose() } }, })) } // Listeners first, then the presence check: both run synchronously, so no // registration can slip between them; the `disposeTool === undefined` guard // makes a same-tick added-event after a successful mount a no-op. // TODO(subagent-dup-toolname): two WAITING fibers configured with the same // toolName collide only when their provider finally arrives — the duplicate // tool-name throw then propagates through `subagent/provider-added` and // rolls back the PROVIDER registration, so an invalid config blasts the // backend's fiber instead of the misconfigured tool's. Config-time detection // would need a cross-fiber registry of intended tool names; revisit if a // real deployment ever hits it. ctx.on('subagent/provider-added', (provider) => { if (provider.name === config.provider && disposeTool === undefined) mount(provider) }) ctx.on('subagent/provider-removed', (name) => { if (name !== config.provider || disposeTool === undefined) return disposeTool() disposeTool = undefined }) const present = ctx.subagents.getProvider(config.provider) if (present !== undefined) { mount(present) } else { // Not an error: the backend's fiber may simply activate after this one. // The tool appears the moment the provider registers; a typo'd provider // name shows up as this note plus a tool that never materializes. ctx.logger.info(`subagent provider "${config.provider}" not registered yet; the "${config.toolName ?? 'subagent'}" tool will register when it appears`) } }