Recursive shared-folder rule: a shared/ must be shared by ALL siblings at its
level. The kernel (context, compaction, retry_after, web_search) was shared by
only 2 of the agents -- anonymous_chat + multi_agent_chat -- never by podcaster
or video_presentation. Those 2 are the "chat" category, so their shared code
belongs in that category's shared/, not the top-level one.
app/agents/anonymous_chat/ -> app/agents/chat/anonymous_chat/
app/agents/multi_agent_chat/ -> app/agents/chat/multi_agent_chat/
app/agents/shared/ -> app/agents/chat/shared/ (anon<->mac kernel)
Top-level app/agents/shared/ is gone: nothing was shared across all three
categories (chat / podcaster / video_presentation).
~289 import sites rewritten (app.agents.{anonymous_chat,multi_agent_chat,shared}
-> app.agents.chat.*); all moves are git renames (history preserved).
app/agents/ now: chat/, podcaster/, video_presentation/, runtime/.
knowledge_search, memory_injection and scoped_model_fallback no longer
belong in the cross-agent kernel (app/agents/shared/middleware): they are
consumed only inside multi_agent_chat. Relocate each impl next to the
builder that uses it:
- knowledge_search.py -> multi_agent_chat/shared/middleware/ (genuinely
shared: its _render_priority_message feeds kb_context_projection, used by
both the main agent and the KB subagent)
- memory_injection.py -> multi_agent_chat/shared/middleware/ (beside its
memory.py builder)
- scoped_model_fallback.py -> multi_agent_chat/shared/middleware/resilience/
(beside fallback.py/bundle.py)
Impls moved verbatim (git rename). Builders/consumers now import the local
sibling; main_agent knowledge_priority imports the new shared path; shared
middleware barrel trimmed.
Tests: repoint imports; convert the knowledge_search monkeypatch targets
from brittle dotted-string form to object-based patching (monkeypatch.setattr
on the imported module), which is robust to import ordering. No behavior
change.
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).
