Adds a canonical reasoning-effort ladder (low|medium|high, absent =
auto/provider default) that travels: send config → turn_created.config →
every model call's persisted parameters (§8.3) → provider-specific
options at invoke time. Behavior-neutral: nothing sends an effort yet,
and auto produces byte-identical requests to today.
- shared: ReasoningEffort enum (single source, reused by models.json
provider config), TurnCreated.config.reasoningEffort (additive
optional on a non-strict object — old builds strip it, no
schemaVersion bump), sessions:sendMessage IPC schema.
- turns: CreateTurnInput/SendMessageConfig/HeadlessAgentOptions carry
the value; runModelStep stamps it on each call's parameters so every
step durably records what it ran with.
- bridge: maps canonical effort to provider options, transport-only
like prompt caching — OpenAI reasoningEffort, Anthropic thinking
budgets (raising maxOutputTokens to the budget floor, never lowering
an explicit value), Gemini thinkingLevel/thinkingBudget by
generation, OpenRouter/rowboat reasoning.effort. Capability-gated
via a cache-only models.dev lookup (never blocks a turn on the
network); unknown support fails closed on strict flavors, while
OpenRouter-shaped flavors map permissively since OpenRouter drops
the field for non-reasoning models. Explicit persisted
providerOptions win over the mapping. Ollama keeps its existing
provider-level think rewrite; openai-compatible endpoints get
nothing (no safe universal parameter).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TurnRuntime now publishes every turn's events (durable ones tagged with
their 1-based file offset, deltas without) to an injected TurnEventHub,
regardless of who started the turn. Main forwards durable events to all
windows on one turns:events channel; the renderer's new useTurn(turnId)
hook joins live turns gap/duplicate-free via the offset protocol. The
sub-agent card drops its 1s polling for push updates, and the nine
per-channel window fan-out loops collapse into one broadcastToWindows.
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Skills now own their tools. The copilot attaches only a small hardcoded
base set (~16 tools instead of all ~42); loading a skill via loadSkill
attaches its declared tools as native tool definitions from the very
next model step, and they stay attached for the rest of the session.
- tools_extended: new durable turn event (the one sanctioned exception
to per-turn tool immutability — explicit, replayable, never silent).
Reducer tracks extensions per model-call index; effectiveTools()
composes base + extensions for both the live loop and inspect.
- Runtime: sync tool results may carry metadata.toolAdditions; dedupe
and the durable append run atomically on the serialized commit chain
(safe under concurrent sync tools). Crash recovery rebuilds the
extended toolset from the log.
- Skills declare tools (SkillDefinition.tools; SKILL.md tools:/
allowed-tools frontmatter); catalog entries list them; loadSkill
returns them via a reserved $toolAdditions key the registry lifts
into result metadata. builtin-tools skill = escape hatch, derived as
"every non-base builtin" at module init.
- Sessions derive composition.activeSkills from the previous turn's
request + its tools_extended events; the resolver attaches active
skills' tools on top of the base set (stable order, so snapshot
inheritance keeps working).
- Legacy code-mode path keeps working on the base set (which includes
code_agent_run/launch-code-task) and strips $toolAdditions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the agent-as-tool capability deferred in turn-runtime-design §29.2:
a `spawn-agent` builtin that runs a sub-agent in its own standalone
headless turn and returns its final answer to the parent. Multiple
spawn calls in one assistant batch run concurrently (previous commit).
- RequestedAgent is now a union: by-id (unchanged shape) | inline
{name, instructions, model?, tools?}. Inline definitions persist
verbatim in turn_created and resolve to the same immutable snapshot.
- Agent resolution splits by variant: DispatchingAgentResolver narrows
the union once; InlineAgentResolver materializes inline specs
(builtin catalog validation, headless default profile when tools are
omitted); RealAgentResolver keeps the by-id path byte-identical. The
builtin→ToolDescriptor conversion is extracted to a shared helper.
- The spawn handler (RealToolRegistry branch → runSpawnedAgent) runs
the child via HeadlessAgentRunner on the parent's model by default,
clamps the model-call budget at 20, cascades the parent's abort
signal, and records {kind:"subagent", childTurnId} as durable tool
progress — the only parent→child link; no parentTurnId is added to
the schema. Task-level failures return as conversational isError
results, never terminal.
- Depth is capped at 1: both resolvers strip spawn-agent from children
(inline always; by-id via the new subagent composition flag) and the
handler refuses child-shaped parents outright.
- Renderer: spawn-agent calls render as a SubAgentBlock — a collapsed
status card that expands to the child's live transcript
(CompactConversation over sessions:getTurn, polled at 1s while
running; standalone child turns don't reach the session bus).
- The BuiltinTools entry gives copilot (and other catalog-attached
agents) the tool automatically; its execute is the degraded legacy
path only, since the turn runtime intercepts builtin:spawn-agent.
Schema note: RequestedAgent widened under schemaVersion 1 (pre-release)
— requires wiping ~/.rowboat/storage.
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Third application of the reference mechanism: session turns whose
system prompt + tools are byte-identical to the context predecessor's
materialized snapshot persist { agentId, model, inheritedFrom } instead
of ~70KB per turn (measured: turn 2 of a session is now ~1.1KB total).
Inheritance is decided at createTurn by equality against the
materialized predecessor; the model stays concrete, and on
materialization the inherited record's own agentId/model win — a rule
the new test matrix caught as a real bug (the chain base's model was
overriding a mid-session model switch). Reducer invariants: inherited
snapshots must reference the context predecessor; tool identity arrives
via invocation events.
Test matrix per review: prompt-diff -> full snapshot, tools-diff ->
full snapshot, model-switch -> inherits with concrete model, multi-hop
chains materialize, standalone turns never inherit, unreadable
predecessor falls back to full, cyclic inheritance is corruption,
sessions denormalize the model from inherited snapshots.
The inspector now handles sessions too (auto-detected): overview with
per-turn status/size/input preview, --turns to cascade full turn
inspection. Documented in a new repo-root AGENTS.md (storage layout,
reference model, inspector usage, invariants) with a CLAUDE.md pointer.
Breaking for dev turn files: wipe ~/.rowboat/storage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two debuggability follow-ups from reviewing real turn files:
- Request refs are now compact strings — 'context' | 'input' |
'assistant:<index>' | 'toolResult:<toolCallId>' — so a raw JSONL line
reads naturally: {"messages": ["assistant:0", "toolResult:toolu_…"]}.
Same exact-match reducer invariants, via parseRequestRef.
- npm run inspect-turn -- <turnId|path> [callIndex] [--full]: prints,
per model call, the EXACT provider payload (resolved system prompt,
tool list, wire-form messages with user-message context woven in, and
the response/failure) — rebuilt by the same composer the loop sends
through. This is the missing viewer for the derived-not-duplicated
request design: the file stores facts once; the inspector shows what
the model actually received.
Breaking for turn files written since the previous commit (dev only):
wipe ~/.rowboat/storage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
model_call_requested carried three duplications that dominated turn-file
size (measured on a real 647KB two-step turn): the system prompt (28KB)
and the 38-tool snapshot (40KB) repeated per call despite being byte-
identical to turn_created.agent.resolved, and messages re-inlining the
whole current-turn transcript (230KB re-stating a 207KB tool result).
ModelRequest is now a list of references into the turn's own events —
call 0: [{context}?, {input}]; call N: [{assistant: N-1}, ...that
batch's toolResults in source order]; re-issue after an interruption:
[]. Every referenced byte exists exactly once in the file; the measured
turn drops to ~285KB and each further model call costs ~200 bytes. The
reducer's ordering invariant got stricter: reference lists are matched
exactly against the transcript.
Debuggability is now byte-for-byte at the wire level: ResolvedModel
gains encodeMessages (the structural->wire conversion — user-message
context weaving, attachment rendering, tool-result enveloping, i.e.
convertFromMessages), and composeModelRequest rebuilds the exact
provider payload (resolved system prompt + wrapped tools + materialized
prefix + resolved refs, encoded). The loop transmits exactly the
composer's output, so the durable file plus the composer reproduce what
the model received — pinned by a property test asserting composed ==
sent for every call, and a 2KB size guard on request events. A bridge
test demonstrates the woven wire form (no raw userMessageContext).
Breaking for existing dev turn files (same schemaVersion, pre-release):
wipe ~/.rowboat/storage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five bridges adapt existing app code to the runtime seams, each unit-
tested against injected fakes:
- RealAgentResolver: loadAgent + dynamic builders -> immutable
ResolvedAgent. Model precedence override > agent > app default; tool
descriptors from BuiltinTools (zod -> JSON schema) and MCP
attachments (toolId schemes builtin:/mcp:server:tool); ask-human as
the async requiresHuman tool. System prompt composed via
composeSystemInstructions — extracted verbatim from streamAgent so
old and new runtimes share one implementation — driven by the new
opaque RequestedAgent.overrides.composition (session-sticky inputs
preserve provider prefix caching; per-message context stays on
UserMessage.userMessageContext as today).
- RealModelRegistry: models.json -> live AI SDK model; one streamText
step (stopWhen: stepCountIs(1)) normalized into deltas, durable step
events, and the completed assistant message.
- RealToolRegistry: execTool dispatch (builtins + MCP) with per-call
abortRegistry bracketing and tool-output-stream -> durable progress.
- RealPermissionChecker: getToolPermissionMetadata rules (command
allowlist, workspace file boundaries); session grants deferred.
- RealPermissionClassifier: classifyToolPermissions with conversation
context now threaded through the classifier batch.
Interface refinements (doc updated): ToolExecutionContext gains
turnId/toolCallId; classifier takes a batch with turnId + messages;
TurnRuntime dep renamed bus -> lifecycleBus and SessionsImpl bus ->
sessionBus for strict-PROXY DI. Container registers the whole stack
(FS repos rooted at WorkDir/storage); the legacy agentRuntime
registration became lazy to survive the new import-order cycle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The TurnRuntime per turn-runtime-design.md: constructor-injected,
container-ignorant, no per-turn state — every advanceTurn reconstructs
from the JSONL log, so normal execution and crash recovery share one
path.
- runtime.ts: createTurn/advanceTurn/getTurn; durable-barrier appends
before side effects; sequential sync tools with progress; async tool
exposure + durable suspension; permission pipeline (checker →
optional classifier batch → human/deny fallback, fail-closed on
checker errors); cancellation with synthetic results; recovery that
re-issues interrupted model calls and continues after interrupted
sync tools; model-call-limit exhaustion with machine-readable code.
- fs-repo.ts: date-partitioned append-only JSONL, strict line
validation, path-traversal rejection, per-turn in-process locking.
- stream.ts: hot execution stream — buffers before the consumer
attaches, outcome independent of consumption, close-drops-events.
- context-resolver.ts: chain-walking materialization of context
references with cycle detection.
- Seam interfaces for stage-4 bridges: model/tool registries,
permission checker/classifier, agent resolver, lifecycle bus, clock.
- shared reducer: track classification failures durably so failed
classifications are never re-run.
67 new tests: all nine §26 end-to-end scenarios (mocked deps,
recovery boundaries seeded directly) plus repo/stream/resolver suites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Durable contracts for the new turn/session runtime, shared by core and
renderer:
- turns.ts: zod schemas for all 16 durable turn events, TurnContext
(previousTurnId ref | inline messages), ModelRequest with contextRef
and current-turn-only messages, ephemeral delta types, reduceTurn
enforcing every spec invariant, and pure derivations
(deriveTurnStatus, turnTranscript, outstanding work).
- sessions.ts: session_created/turn_appended/title_changed schemas,
reduceSession, and the SessionIndexEntry projection.
- vitest wiring for packages/shared (config, build-excluded tests);
92 tests covering happy paths, recovery-shaped histories, and one
named test per corruption invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
