app/agents/shared/ is a sibling of anonymous_chat/podcaster/multi_agent_chat/
video_presentation, so it should only hold code shared across 2+ of those
agents. In practice podcaster and video_presentation import nothing from it,
and anonymous_chat needs only context + compaction + retry_after + web_search.
Everything else was multi_agent_chat-only (the boundary just passes through).
Move the multi_agent_chat-only cluster into multi_agent_chat/shared/ (files
moved verbatim via git rename; ~116 import sites rewritten):
errors, feature_flags, filesystem_selection, path_resolver, prompt_caching,
sandbox, llm_config, mention_resolver
middleware/busy_mutex, middleware/kb_persistence
busy_mutex/llm_config/mention_resolver are boundary-only but import the moved
modules, so they were folded in to avoid a backwards shared -> multi_agent_chat
dependency. main_agent builders now import the impls directly; the shared
middleware barrel keeps only the genuinely-shared compaction + retry_after.
Also delete the dead leftover shared/plugins and shared/skills dirs (live
copies already live under main_agent/).
Remaining in app/agents/shared/: context, system_prompt(+prompts), checkpointer,
middleware/{compaction,retry_after,dedup_tool_calls}, tools/. checkpointer and
system_prompt are boundary-only infra pending a dedicated home decision.
The concrete filesystem backends are consumed only by the MAC filesystem
layer (tools, path-resolution middleware, the resolver, skills backend) and
tests -- no external app code. Group them next to the filesystem middleware
they serve:
- filesystem_backends.py -> filesystem/backends/resolver.py
- middleware/kb_postgres_backend.py -> filesystem/backends/kb_postgres.py
- middleware/local_folder_backend.py -> filesystem/backends/local_folder.py
- middleware/multi_root_local_folder_backend.py -> .../multi_root_local_folder.py
- document_xml.py -> filesystem/backends/document_xml.py
Repoint all 21 importers. No behavior change; import-all + filesystem
backend/path-resolution/knowledge-search unit tests stay green (478).
Completes slice 5. filesystem_backends was deferred from 3b because it depends
on middleware.{kb_postgres_backend,multi_root_local_folder_backend}; those moved
to shared in 5c, so it now relocates cleanly. Flip the 2 non-frozen importers
(multi-agent factory + test); a re-export shim remains for the frozen
chat_deepagent (build_backend_resolver).
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).
Promote the filesystem mode contracts (FilesystemMode, FilesystemSelection,
ClientPlatform, LocalFilesystemMount) out of `new_chat` into the cross-agent
`app/agents/shared` kernel.
Pure leaf consumed across the whole multi-agent filesystem middleware/tool tree,
the chat flows/monolith, routes and tests. git mv (content unchanged) + flipped
all ~48 importers. A re-export shim remains at new_chat/filesystem_selection.py
only for the not-yet-retired single-agent (chat_deepagent).
Also updated the stream parity test's annotation normalizer to strip the new
app.agents.shared.filesystem_selection. prefix (the dataclasses' __module__
changed with the move), keeping monolith<->flows signature parity intact.
Behavior-preserving: only import paths change. 1326 tests green.
