Semantic resolutions beyond line merges: - The bash seam keeps resolveMode + the bash/resolve-mode waterfall on master's task-free BashExecutor (run/start/resolve only; BashProcess handles); tool-bash consults it at its stamping site and escalation baseline on master's render/background split, with a waterfall test on the recording executor. - dsh-mode's BASH_FAMILY narrows to ['bash']: bash_output/bash_kill are replaced by the kind-generic task_output/task_kill, which span every task kind and only observe or stop work, so the access cap withholds only the starter it can reason about. - The plan-mode snapshot suite adopts master's pin grammar (tool-schema sidecars; the expectedHeaderSnapshots extension is gone — the exit transition deltas, and entering-before-turn-1 needs no second snapshot); modes-advertise joins the plan header class (no-model, so membership is vacuous). Fixtures re-recorded on the acp-demo bin; the replay overlay gains the passthrough sandbox runner. - examples/plan-acp-agent rewires to @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo and drops its tool-bash entry (the spine bundle now composes it); dsh-stdio (the renamed stdio-chat home) keeps its /mode command and gains the dsh-mode peer edge; the acp bridge keeps the modes surface beside master's permission presets. - mode README gains the Model Experience / Known Limitations sections the new README gates require; AGENTS.md ceiling 1370 → 1440 for the kept mode/ layout line and Agent efficiency section.
core/ — product API spine
The session log, system-prompt assembly, tool registry, agent vocabulary, and concrete loop that form the harness's default control spine. These are product packages — the stable surface plugins and consumers build against.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
scope/ |
Scoped-context registration primitive (scope tags, scope-filtered dispatch) | (library — no ctx key) |
session/ |
Event-sourced session log + in-memory store | ctx.sessions |
system-prompt/ |
Prompt-section + tool-schema assembly registry | ctx.systemPrompt |
tools/ |
Scoped tool registry + pre-policy, guards, around-dispatch, post-policy, and final-result observation | ctx.tools |
agent/ |
Agent interface, registry, agent/* event vocabulary |
ctx.agents |
agent-loop/ |
The concrete loop plugin: ReactLoopAgent + the loop driver |
ctx.agentLoop |
scope/ is the one non-service package here: a dependency-free library (createScope/scopeOf/scopeTarget) the registries and the loop build per-agent scoping on — it sits below session/ and system-prompt/ in the module graph precisely so they can consume it without a cycle.
agent-loop is the one concrete implementation of the agent seam and lives here because it is the harness's default product loop; everything else in core/ is interface/vocabulary. Plugins depend on the agent vocabulary, never on agent-loop directly, so the loop stays swappable.
The default composition that wires this spine into a runnable agent lives in examples/agent-spine-demo: one bundle plugin that loads the control spine plus selected default capabilities (timer + llm + sessions + system-prompt + tools + agents + invariants + the local skill family + tool-bash + agent-loop) and forwards agent-loop's agents list as its own config. It sits in examples/ — ready-to-run demo/reference bundles — not in core/: core/ ships the swappable spine pieces, while a demo bundle picks one concrete composition of them and adds a front door.