- skills/ (builtin SKILL.md assets) has zero Python importers; it is read by
filesystem path only. Moved the dir and restored
skills_backends._default_builtin_root() to the clean
parent.parent / "skills" / "builtin" form (undoing the transient path from 5c).
- plugin_loader.py -> shared (frozen chat_deepagent uses it -> re-export shim).
- plugins/ package -> shared (year_substituter rewired to shared.plugin_loader;
docstring entry-point example updated to the shared dotted path). No shim
needed (only a test imported it). Plugin discovery is via importlib entry
points (group "surfsense.plugins"), not dotted-path import, and nothing is
registered in pyproject, so the move does not affect runtime discovery.
Relocate the entire new_chat/middleware/ package to the shared kernel as one
cohesive unit (it is live shared infrastructure: the multi-agent stack wraps
nearly every middleware via multi_agent_chat/middleware/main_agent/*, and
anonymous_agent consumes it too). Flip 69 live importers across both the
package-path and submodule-path forms.
Shims left for the frozen single-agent stack: a package __init__ re-export plus
submodule shims for permission, skills_backends, and scoped_model_fallback
(the three imported via submodule path by chat_deepagent/subagents).
Cycle break: importing shared.middleware previously reached back into
new_chat.tools at module load, which dragged in new_chat.__init__ ->
chat_deepagent -> the middleware shim -> half-initialized shared.middleware.
Made action_log's ToolDefinition import TYPE_CHECKING-only and
tool_call_repair's INVALID_TOOL_NAME import function-local. These tools-package
back-edges fully resolve in slice 6.
Asset note: skills_backends._default_builtin_root now walks to
app/agents/new_chat/skills/builtin (the skills/ tree migrates in slice 7).
