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+# Bundles
+
+What each shipped bundle does for you, its commands, settings and files. A bundle's code is written only against
+the plugin API ([plugins.md](plugins.md)); install, upgrade and the `chi bundle` commands are in
+[plugins.md](plugins.md#the-bundle-commands) and [cli.md](cli.md). Two shipped bundles are documented with the
+feature they belong to: **source-links** in [hooks.md](hooks.md#the-source-links-bundle) and **known-names** in
+[guardrails.md](guardrails.md#the-known-names-bundle).
+
+## The btw bundle
+
+`chi bundle install btw` (or the `dev` profile) installs the bundle shipped with chi. It is written
+only against this API (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/btw/plugin.rb`).
+
+- `/btw <question>` asks the session's model a side question about the
+  conversation, even while a turn runs. A card `btw: <question>` shows
+  "thinking…" at once, and the same card then shows the answer. Nothing else
+  sees the answer.
+- The card's **Keep as session** runs `/btw keep <id>`. It forks the
+  conversation, the question and the answer into an idle child session, and
+  shows a card `kept as <id>`.
+- The last 10 answers can be kept, while the session's worker (or REPL)
+  runs. After that, or after a restart, `keep` says expired.
+- In the REPL, a question asked during a turn is about the conversation
+  before that turn, and the card says so. In a worker it includes the turn
+  so far.
+- Settings: `bundles: btw: {max_tokens: 1024, timeout: 120}`.
+- It ships no memory, so it adds no line to the prompt's memory index. Its
+  0.1.0 shipped `btw.md` as one, and `chi bundle upgrade btw` leaves that file
+  (and its index line) behind. Drop it with `chi bundle uninstall btw`, then
+  `chi bundle install btw`. After an upgrade already ran, delete
+  `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/samagotchi/memories/btw.md` (`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` defaults to
+  `~/.config`) and its `**btw**` line in `index.md` there by hand.
+
+## The mcp bundle
+
+`chi bundle install mcp` (or the `dev` profile) installs the bundle shipped with chi. It is written
+only against this API (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/mcp/plugin.rb`), and gives
+the model the tools of [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) servers. It
+has no memory file, and the servers' tools aren't declared to the model one
+by one: the bundle publishes them into chi's tool index
+([chi.tool_source](plugins.md#chitool_sourcecall-acts_as-label-wait-prefix), a group
+per server), and the model has its two tools, `find_tools` and `call_tool` (~250 tokens in
+every request plus a line per server, whatever the servers have; `/mcp`
+says how many). On `api: anthropic` each tool also goes out deferred as
+`mcp_<server>_<tool>`, so a `find_tools` hit loads it and the model calls it
+by that name, as `call_tool` would run it. Stdio servers only, for now.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  mcp:
+    timeout: 60             # seconds per tool call (default 60)
+    startup_timeout: 10     # seconds for initialize and tools/list (default 10)
+    servers:
+      everything:
+        command: [npx, -y, "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
+      files:
+        command: [npx, -y, "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", ~/scratch]
+        env: {NODE_OPTIONS: "--no-warnings"}   # added to chi's environment
+        cwd: ~/scratch                         # default: where chi runs
+        tools: [read_*, list_directory]        # optional: only these (globs)
+        description: files in ~/scratch        # optional: its line in find_tools
+        timeout: 120                           # optional: this server's per-call timeout
+      chrome:
+        command: [npx, -y, "chrome-devtools-mcp@latest", --slim, --headless]
+        attach_image_paths: true               # the default; false leaves a path as text
+        start: lazy                            # the default; eager: start it with every session
+```
+
+- **Start: from a cache, on the first call.** A server's `tools/list` is
+  saved in the bundle's data dir (`$XDG_STATE_HOME/samagotchi/plugins/mcp/
+  tools-<server>.json`), keyed by a digest of its `command`, `env` (names
+  and values: only the digest is stored) and `cwd`. A session with a saved
+  list can search its tools at once and **doesn't start the server**: the
+  first call of one of its tools does (the call's row shows the wait). So a
+  session that never uses MCP spawns nothing, and a new session opens without
+  waiting for `npx`. If the live list differs from the saved one, the saved
+  one is replaced, and so is what a search finds. The model's tools never
+  change, so the prompt cache keeps. The saved file also keeps the first
+  sentence of the server's `instructions` (from `initialize`), for its line
+  in `find_tools`.
+- **The first run** (no saved list, or the config changed) starts the
+  server in an [init task](plugins.md#chiinitlabel-provides_tools-false-quiet-false-timeout-nil-failed-nil--ctx--):
+  every UI shows `Starting MCP server x (first run, saving its tools)`, and
+  a turn sent meanwhile waits for its tools. A server that doesn't start,
+  answer or list its tools within `startup_timeout` (each step) is a warn
+  card, `…: failed`, and its calls fail until chi restarts. The rest of chi
+  works as usual.
+- **Freshness.** A saved list older than a day is still used, and a quiet
+  background task lists the tools again with a server of its own (then
+  stops it), saves them, and replaces the searched ones if they changed.
+  One worker does it at a time.
+- **A server that says its tools changed** (`notifications/tools/list_changed`)
+  is asked for its `tools/list` again; the saved list and the searched tools
+  are replaced.
+- **A cached server that doesn't start** (the command is gone, it crashes)
+  fails that call with `Error: MCP server x didn't start: …` and one notice;
+  later calls answer the same at once until chi restarts, and a search shows
+  its tools as `(failed: …)`. The saved list stays: the next session tries
+  again.
+- **`start: eager`** on a server starts it with every session (in an init
+  task, after the Bridge is up), even when that session's toolkit does not
+  reach its group. A first-run init task still blocks the first turn until
+  it finishes, even for an unreached group. A stale-cache refresh likewise
+  starts its short-lived server regardless of the toolkit. Switching away
+  from a group refuses its calls without starting a lazy cached server, and
+  does not stop a server already running; switching back reuses it.
+- **`npx -y …@latest` checks the npm registry on every start** (~3.4 s for
+  `chrome-devtools-mcp`, against ~0.9 s for the installed binary). The cache
+  hides it from new sessions, but not from the first call. For a faster first
+  call, install the server once and run it directly:
+
+  ```yaml
+  chrome:
+    command: [chrome-devtools-mcp, --slim, --headless]   # after npm i -g chrome-devtools-mcp
+  ```
+
+- **Tools: search, then call.** The servers' tools are kept in chi's tool index;
+  the model has two fixed tools:
+  - `find_tools(query, group?)` searches it by keywords over the
+    server's name, the tool's name and its description, and answers up to 5
+    tools, each with its name `<server>/<tool>`, its description and its
+    whole `inputSchema`. A word counts more the fewer tools have it (a word
+    most of a browser server's tools share, "page", counts little), and
+    three times as much in a name as in a description. An empty query (and
+    a search with no match) lists every server's tool names, without
+    schemas. A tool whose `inputSchema` (or a property's schema) isn't an
+    object shows
+    `(bad schema)` (and is said once, as a notice), a failed server's tools
+    `(failed: …)`, a first-run server still starting `(starting, try
+    again)`. Its description names each server on one line, never its
+    tools: the server's `description:`, else the first sentence of its
+    `instructions`, and how many tools it has (`- chrome (26 tools)` with
+    neither: tool names there get called blind, without a search; a first
+    run's server is just its name until the next session).
+  - `call_tool(tool, args)` calls one: `tool` is `<server>/<tool>`, and
+    `mcp_<server>_<tool>` works too (looked up, not parsed). Two tools whose
+    `mcp_<server>_<tool>` comes out the same (servers `git-hub` and
+    `git_hub`, names alike up to the 48-character cut) are both refused,
+    since guardrail rules and approvals couldn't tell them apart: a search
+    and `/mcp` mark them `(name clash with …)`, and there is one notice.
+    `args` are typed by the tool's
+    `inputSchema` (numbers and booleans given as text, JSON text for an
+    object). A name it doesn't know answers the closest ones (`Error: no
+    tool chrome/open_url. Closest: chrome/new_page, …`). Its row shows
+    `mcp chrome/take_screenshot fullPage=true`.
+  - A tool turn takes a few more steps than when every tool was declared
+    (the P1 spike: about 1.5 more on a 30-tool server), and each request is
+    smaller (about half there).
+- **Calls.** A call is `tools/call`. The text blocks of the answer are joined;
+  audio or a resource without text is a short placeholder
+  (`[audio: audio/wav]`). `isError` makes it `Error: …`; it, a JSON-RPC
+  error and `args` that aren't an object end with the tool's schema
+  (`chrome/click's inputSchema: {…}`), so a call made without a search can
+  be fixed on the next step. A call that takes longer than the timeout is
+  an `Error:`, and a cancelled turn stops the wait; both send
+  `notifications/cancelled` to the server.
+- **Images.** An `image` block goes to the model as a picture
+  ([Returning images](plugins.md#returning-images): at most 4 per call, a line
+  instead when the model can't see images). Its place in the text is a line,
+  `[image 1: image/png, attached]`, so the model knows the order. A text
+  block that is **the absolute path of an image file** is attached too
+  (`[image 1: screenshot.png, attached]` after the text), and so is an
+  absolute path ending in `.png`, `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.gif` or `.webp` inside
+  a sentence (`Saved screenshot to /tmp/shot.png.`; such a path can't hold a
+  space). Either way only when the file is an image by its bytes and is
+  under the system temp dir or the server's `cwd`: a server's text can't
+  pull in any image on disk. `chrome-devtools-mcp --slim` answers
+  `screenshot` that way; without `--slim`, `take_screenshot` returns an image
+  block. `attach_image_paths: false` on a server leaves such paths as text.
+- **A server that exits** fails the call it was on with `Error: MCP server
+  x is not running (…)`, and there is one notice. Its next call starts it
+  again (its tools stay), up to 3 times a session; after the third restart
+  the notice says so, and its calls fail at once until chi restarts (a new
+  session, or the worker's next start).
+- **Stop.** The servers stop with chi ([Shutdown](plugins.md#shutdown)): stdin is
+  closed, then TERM and KILL go to the server's process group. A chi
+  killed with `kill -9` (or crashing past Ruby) stops nothing itself; a
+  server that ignores its stdin's EOF would live on then. So each server's
+  group also holds a watchdog, a `/bin/sh` waiting on a pipe only chi
+  holds: when that pipe closes without chi letting it go, it gives the
+  server a second, then TERMs and KILLs its group (the server's helpers
+  too). A server that leaves its group (`setsid`) is out of its reach.
+- **`/mcp`** (anytime) shows a card with the servers, their state (cached
+  (not started), running with its pid, failed with its count, stopped) and
+  their tools as `<server>/<tool>`, the name `call_tool` takes.
+  A cached or running server's line says roughly how many tokens its tool
+  definitions take (`~4,232 tokens`), which only a search's answer carries
+  now; the last line says what every request carries (`find_tools` and
+  `call_tool`) and totals the servers'. It is an estimate:
+  the definitions' JSON as the chat API gets it (`api: openai`), divided by
+  4. The native prompts (Gemma, Qwen) render a flatter schema, so there they
+  take less. The log records each server's estimate when it changes
+  (`mcp_tools_estimated`).
+- The server's stderr goes to the debug log (`plugins` records, bundle=mcp).
+- **Guardrails.** A rule's `tool:` can be a glob, so one rule covers every
+  MCP tool (a search is `find_tools`, outside `mcp_*`, so it isn't
+  asked about):
+
+  ```yaml
+  guardrails:
+    rules:
+      - id: mcp-ask
+        tool: "mcp_*"
+        verdict: ask
+        reason: an MCP server's tool
+  ```
+
+  `call_tool`'s `targets:` act as the tool it calls, by its
+  `mcp_<server>_<tool>` name ([acts_as:](plugins.md#guardrails)), so `tool:
+  "mcp_github_*"` or `tool: mcp_github_merge_pull_request` match a
+  `call_tool` to it, as they matched the tool when it was declared by that
+  name. A call made before the server's tools are known (a first run
+  still starting) is matched by the name the model gave, so the rule fires
+  before the call waits; if the tool it then finds isn't that one, the
+  call is refused. The question shows the inner arguments under `<server>: <tool>`
+  (`everything: get_sum: a=20 b=22`), and "Allow this call for the
+  session" (or in this repo) allows that tool with those arguments only.
+  (Approvals stored before 0.6.0, under the old name, don't carry over, nor
+  ones stored before 0.7.0 under `mcp_call`: each MCP tool is asked about once more.)
+  Two things see `call_tool`, not the MCP tool: hooks (a `before_tool_call`
+  event's `tool:` is `"call_tool"`, the tool in its args; a built-in reached
+  through `call_tool` is the exception, it fires as that built-in), and loop-guard's
+  `ignore_tools` (`call_tool` ignores every MCP call; calls to different
+  tools, or with different args, stay distinct, since the tool is in the
+  args).
+
+## The loop-guard bundle
+
+`chi bundle install loop-guard` installs the bundle shipped with chi (`chi
+bootstrap` installs it with the `core` profile). It is
+written only against this API (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/loop-guard/plugin.rb`),
+with `chi.on` hooks, and has no memory file. It guards two kinds of loop:
+repeated tool calls (below) and [thinking that repeats
+itself](#thinking-that-repeats-itself).
+
+A local model can run the same tool call again and again in one turn: each
+step's thinking starts over, so it never notices it already tried. (A real
+one ran `find . -name 'config.yml'` ten times, getting nothing each time.)
+loop-guard breaks that:
+
+- A call is keyed by its tool and its arguments (whitespace collapsed), and
+  its result by a hash of the output. When a call has already returned the
+  same result `deny_after` times this turn (default 2), the next identical
+  call is **denied** with advice, so the 3rd one is caught:
+
+  ```
+  [execute] Error: denied by guardrail (bundle loop-guard): repeated call. The user was not asked. You already ran this exact call 2 times this turn and it returned the same result each time (exit: 0 (no output)). Don't repeat it. Try a different approach, or tell the user what you're stuck on.
+  ```
+
+  The user sees one line per call per turn: `loop-guard> loop: execute find
+  . -name 'config.yml' 2>/dev/null repeated, denied`.
+- At the `stop_after`-th deny in a turn (default 4) the turn is **stopped**
+  (core's own "stopped" notice), and a card lists the repeated calls, so the
+  user can say what to try instead.
+- A denied call has no result: a deny (loop-guard's, known-names', a rule's)
+  never counts as the call's result, so the deny sticks.
+- The counts are per turn, and a count is the turn's total, not a run of
+  consecutive repeats: the loop usually has other calls in between. A new
+  turn (a prompt, a continue, a reminder) starts from zero, since a new user
+  message can make an old call right again. A steering message merged into
+  a running turn doesn't reset them.
+- The polling tools, where repeating is the point, are ignored.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  loop-guard:
+    deny_after: 2        # same call, same result this many times: deny the next one
+    stop_after: 4        # stop the turn at this many denies
+    ignore_tools: [task_wait, task_get, delegate_result, list_sessions, list_reminders, context_read, forget_outputs]
+    mode: deny           # deny | notify: notify only warns, once per call per turn
+```
+
+Its hooks run at the default priority (100), after known-names (50), so in
+known-names' `correct` mode loop-guard keys the corrected call.
+
+### Thinking that repeats itself
+
+A model can also go in circles inside one generation: its thinking says the
+same few sentences again and again ("Wait, let me check once more…") for
+minutes, until the provider's output cap ends it with no answer. loop-guard
+watches the thinking while it streams ([Watching the
+stream](hooks.md#watching-the-stream)) and cuts it:
+
+- The thinking is cut into sentences. Two sentences of `min_words` or more
+  count as the same when their words and word pairs mostly match
+  (`similarity`), so a reworded round ("Hmm, …", a synonym, a swapped
+  clause) still counts.
+- A loop is a cycle of 1 to `max_period` sentences seen `repeats` times in a
+  row, over at least `min_span_sentences` sentences and `min_span_chars`
+  chars; or one sentence `max_same` times anywhere in the generation. One
+  sentence over and over must be near-identical (`similarity` + 0.4), and a
+  longer cycle must hold different sentences: a list of templated sentences
+  ("Now I need to open the file <path> and …" for 14 paths) is no loop.
+- Short sentences (under `min_words`) are a loop of their own when
+  `short_run` of them come in a row with at most `short_distinct` different
+  ones among them ("I'll write it. Go. OK. Writing. Go. OK."). Normal
+  thinking has short sentences too ("Hmm.", "Fine."), but spread out or all
+  different (code lines); a longer sentence ends the run, and lines inside a
+  ```` ``` ```` code block don't count.
+- Any `window_sentences` sentences in a row, short or long, holding at most
+  `window_distinct` different ones are a loop too: a cycle of 7 or 8 short
+  sentences, or one where a longer sentence ("I'll write the spec file
+  now.") keeps ending the short run. Real thinking holds 40 or more
+  different sentences in any 48; DeepSeek's write loops hold 4 to 9.
+- Nothing triggers before `min_chars` of thinking. The watch sees a loop
+  within one batch (2000 chars, or a second) of its third cycle.
+
+What happens (`action: retry`, the default):
+
+1. The first loop in a turn: the generation is cut and the model asked
+   again, with a hidden note that it was cut off. The user sees the loop's
+   first sentence quoted,
+   `loop-guard> thinking repeats itself ("Wait, the count of the letter r…", 3 sentences ×3, 4k chars, 8 s): cut`
+   (a short run or a window says how many different sentences it held:
+   "12 different sentences in 48"), and `↻ cut by loop-guard, asking again (1/1)`.
+2. If the retry loops too, the turn is stopped ("stopped the turn: …", "■
+   turn stopped by loop-guard") with a card that quotes the repeated
+   sentences.
+3. A loop is forgotten after `forget_after` good steps in a row (generations
+   with no loop): a model that recovered and made progress gets its next
+   loop cut and retried again, not the turn stopped. `forget_after: 0`
+   never forgets: the turn's second loop stops it.
+
+The cut uses the `retry.empty_answer` budget: with `retry.empty_answer: 0`
+the first loop ends the turn as stopped by loop-guard, with the notice and
+no card. `action: stop` stops the turn at the first loop; `action: notify` only
+warns, once per generation.
+
+The cut thinking never goes back to the model, but its last 20k chars are kept
+in the session's folder, `thinking_tails.jsonl` (with a generation that ran to
+the provider's output cap, or that a stop_turn ended): an archived session
+keeps them. A turn's record counts its cuts and cap hits (`cuts`, `capped` in
+`analytics.json`; `/stats` shows "thinking cuts" and "output cap hits").
+
+```yaml
+bundles:
+  loop-guard:
+    thinking:
+      watch: true             # false: the tool-call guard only
+      action: retry           # retry (cut, ask again; then stop) | stop | notify
+      min_chars: 2000         # thinking this long before anything triggers
+      repeats: 3              # a cycle seen this many times is a loop
+      max_period: 6           # cycles of up to this many sentences
+      similarity: 0.5         # 0..1, how alike two sentences must be to count as the same
+      min_span_sentences: 6   # a loop spans at least this many sentences…
+      min_span_chars: 600     # …and this many chars
+      max_same: 8             # one sentence this many times in one generation is a loop
+      min_words: 5            # shorter sentences only count toward a short run
+      short_run: 24           # this many short sentences in a row…
+      short_distinct: 6       # …with at most this many different ones is a loop
+      window_sentences: 48    # any this many sentences in a row…
+      window_distinct: 12     # …with at most this many different ones is a loop
+      forget_after: 10        # good steps in a row that forget a loop; 0: never
+```
+
+Not watched:
+
+- thinking that arrives as answer text: Gemma 4 on the raw-prompt path (no
+  close marker), a chat provider that puts `<think>` in the content;
+- a chat host with streaming off (no chunks);
+- loops in the visible answer;
+- a runaway without sentences, such as an endless comma list of numbers: it
+  ends at the output cap as an empty answer, which `retry.empty_answer`
+  retries after the fact.
+
+A real small model's circular re-checking that repeats one sentence 8 times
+is cut even if it would have found an answer later; `max_same` sets how
+patient that is.
+
+Not caught (yet):
+
+- near-duplicates, such as `find . -name 'config*'` after `'config.yml'`;
+- loops across turns;
+- alternating calls (A, B, A, B) that each return something new.
+
+## The cost-cap bundle
+
+`chi bundle install cost-cap` installs the bundle shipped with chi (`chi bootstrap` installs it with the `core`
+profile; an existing install gets it with `chi update`). It caps what one session spends, so neither you nor the
+model has to watch `chi sessions stats`: the harness watches the money and the model never sees any of it (no tool,
+no steer, no prompt text). It is inert without a cap, and there is none by default.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  cost-cap:
+    default: 5.00     # USD cap for a session with none set; absent/0/off: no cap
+    child: 2.00       # for delegate children; absent: default
+    warn_at: 0.8      # tell the user (only) once at this share of the cap; 0/off: no warning
+```
+
+- **What counts:** `ctx.cost`'s total: what the provider reported (`usage.cost`), else the estimate from the
+  model's configured price (`hosts.<name>.models.<id>.price`), plus side requests (the idle recap, `/btw`,
+  `ask_model`), including what earlier workers of the session spent.
+- **When it checks:** before each generation, so before the money is spent. A generation that crosses the cap is
+  caught at the start of the next one: the overshoot is at most one generation (plus any side requests between).
+  A turn whose last generation crossed it ends normally, and the next turn's first generation asks.
+- **At `warn_at` of the cap** you get one notice, `cost-cap> $2.41 of $3.00 spent (80%)`; a raised cap warns again.
+- **At the cap** the turn pauses on a question (header "Cost cap"): `Cost cap reached: $3.04 spent of $3.00.
+  Continue raises it to $6.00.` with **Continue** (another cap's worth: $3 → $6 → $9, as many steps as it takes to
+  pass the spend, saved for the session) and **Stop** (the turn stops, `canceled` with `stopped_by: cost-cap`, and a
+  card shows the spend, reported, estimated and side). With no one to ask (`--non-interactive`) it stops. A parent
+  agent answering it (`chi answer`) may Continue under `guardrails.parent_answers: soft` or `standard`, and only Stop
+  under `hard` (config.yml's, or the session's own when stricter) (Continue is tagged `:spend`; see [Guardrails](guardrails.md#answers-from-a-parent-agent)). `/cap N` is
+  a command, not an answer: a parent that sends it (`chi send ID -m '/cap 10'`) raises the cap under any strategy.
+- **The cap of a session:** the one `/cap` or a Continue set for it, else its own `cap:` (`chi --set
+  cost-cap.cap=3`, `chi send --new --set cost-cap.cap=3`; `--set cost-cap.cap=off`, `0` or a negative number for none), else `child:` for a
+  delegate child, else `default:`. A cap is a number (`3`, `.5`, `1e1`; in config.yml and `/cap`, `"$2"` too, which `--set` refuses). `--set` refuses
+  another value (`cost-cap.cap=five`: exit 2); one in config.yml (or set before this check) that doesn't read
+  (`default: five`) gets one notice, `cost-cap: default: "five" isn't a number or off; no cap`, and a `cap:` or
+  `child:` that doesn't read gives way to the next key (`…; using default: ($5.00)`), never a silent no cap. Delegates and continued links each have their own cap (a continued link keeps
+  the `--set` cap, not a `/cap` or Continue); there is no family cap.
+- **A host it can't watch:** a model that reports no cost and has no configured price (a local server, a free
+  model that reports 0) reads unknown: one notice, `the $3.00 cap can't be enforced: <model> reports no cost and has
+  no price`, and it never stops for an unknown cost. A session with some priced generations counts the unpriced
+  ones as $0.
+
+**`/cap`** (works while a turn runs; the next generation reads it):
+
+- `/cap`: `cost-cap: $1.20 spent of $3.00 (reported $1.10, estimated $0.10, side $0.02)`, or `cost-cap: no cap
+  ($1.20 spent)`, with `(can't be enforced: no cost reported or priced)` when it can't be.
+- `/cap 5`, `/cap $5` or `/cap .5`: the cap (and what Continue adds) becomes $5.00 for this session. A cap at or under the
+  spend is allowed: the next generation asks.
+- `/cap off` (or `/cap 0`): no cap for this session, over the config's `default:`.
+
+A parent agent starts a session with a cap of its own with `--set` (`chi send --new --set cost-cap.cap=3 -m "task"`;
+`cost-cap.cap` is the bundle's one session setting), or by sending `/cap N` as a first message
+(`chi send --new -m '/cap 3'`).
+At the cap, `chi send --wait` exits 3 with a question of kind `hook` (header "Cost cap"); `chi answer ID --question
+Q --option Continue` (or `--option 1`) goes on, `--option Stop` stops the turn ([sub-agent.md](sub-agent.md)). A
+parent may Continue: nothing restricts it, as with the step limit. A background delegate child at its cap waits on
+its own card and doesn't wake its parent ([sessions.md](sessions.md#delegating)).
+
+The state is one file per session, `state.json` in `ctx.session_dir` (`{"cap": 3.0, "step": 3.0}`), removed
+with the session. A file that is there but doesn't read (not JSON, or not a mapping) is logged
+(`costcap_state_unreadable`) and gets one notice, `cost-cap: <path> doesn't read, its /cap cap is ignored; using
+default: ($5.00)`: the settings' cap is used, never a silent drop; the next `/cap` or Continue rewrites it, logged
+(`costcap_state_replaced`) and said (`cost-cap: <path> didn't read; replaced with the new cap`).
+
+Its sibling for work instead of money, tool calls and active minutes across the session's turns, is
+[the work-cap bundle](#the-work-cap-bundle): the cap a local model (no cost) can have.
+
+## The work-cap bundle
+
+`chi bundle install work-cap` installs the bundle shipped with chi (`chi bootstrap` installs it with the `core`
+profile; an existing install gets it with `chi update`). It caps the work one session does across its turns: tool
+calls and active minutes. The per-turn meters reset every turn (the step limit, check-in, loop-guard), and a
+Continue on the step-limit question starts the next 300 steps; a parent agent may answer that Continue itself
+(`chi answer`), so a child it keeps continuing has no overall bound but cost-cap's `$`, and on a local model none.
+work-cap is that bound, with cost-cap's shape: the harness watches, the model never sees any of it. It is inert
+without a cap, and there is none by default.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  work-cap:
+    child: {tool_calls: 500, minutes: 90}   # delegate children with no own value
+    default: {}         # every other session (and a delegate without child:); empty: no cap
+    warn_at: 0.8        # tell the user (only) once at this share of a cap; 0/off: no warning
+    ignore_tools: [task_wait, task_get, delegate, delegate_result]   # not counted: waiting
+```
+
+- **What counts** (`ctx.usage`): **tool calls**, the session's own across its turns and workers, less
+  `ignore_tools` (the waiting tools by default, `delegate` among them since it blocks on its child, so a session
+  waiting on a long task or a child isn't capped for waiting); and **active minutes**, work time: the generations' time plus the finished tool calls' time (less
+  `ignore_tools`' time), never a wait (a question, its own included, an approval, the user's answer to
+  `ask_user_question`), so idle time and a Continue answered hours later don't count.
+- **When it checks:** before each generation, like cost-cap: the overshoot is at most one generation's tool calls.
+  When the step limit and a work cap fall in the same turn, the work cap asks first, and its Stop ends the turn.
+- **At `warn_at` of a cap** you get one notice per meter, `work-cap> 320 of 400 tool calls (80%)`; a raised cap
+  warns again.
+- **At a cap** the turn pauses on a question (header "Work cap") that names the session's totals, so a parent
+  answering it decides on the whole picture: `Work cap reached: 412 tool calls of 400 (6 turns, 47 min active,
+  $1.20). Continue raises it to 800.` **Continue** raises the cap by another cap's worth (as many steps as it
+  takes to pass the work, saved for the session), **Stop** stops the turn (`canceled` with `stopped_by: work-cap`)
+  with a card showing the totals. Both meters at once: one question naming both, Continue raises each. With no one
+  to ask (`--non-interactive`) it stops. Continue is tagged `:spend`, as cost-cap's: a parent agent may Continue
+  under `guardrails.parent_answers: soft` or `standard`, only Stop under `hard` (see
+  [Guardrails](guardrails.md#answers-from-a-parent-agent)).
+- **The caps of a session**, each meter on its own: the one `/workcap` or a Continue set, else its own value (`chi
+  --set work-cap.tool_calls=400`, `work-cap.minutes=60`, `chi send --new --set …`; `off`, `0` or a negative number
+  for none), else `child:`'s for a delegate child, else `default:`'s. Minutes in config.yml read `90`, `90m` or
+  `1.5h`. A value that doesn't read (`tool_calls: many`, a `default:` that isn't a mapping) gets one notice,
+  `work-cap: tool_calls: "many" isn't a number or off; using default.tool_calls: (400)`, and the next value is used,
+  never a silent no cap.
+
+**`/workcap`** (works while a turn runs; the next generation reads it):
+
+- `/workcap`: `work-cap: 320 of 400 tool calls (6 turns, 47 min active, $1.20)`, or `work-cap: no cap (…)` with the
+  totals.
+- `/workcap 400`: the tool-call cap (and what Continue adds) becomes 400 for this session; `/workcap 90m` or
+  `/workcap 2h`: the active-minutes cap.
+- `/workcap off` (or `/workcap 0`): no work cap for this session, over the config.
+
+The state is one file per session, `state.json` in `ctx.session_dir` (`{"tool_calls": {"cap": 800, "step":
+400}}`, a meter's `"cap": null` for off). A file that is there but doesn't read (not JSON, or not a mapping) is
+logged (`workcap_state_unreadable`) and gets one notice, `work-cap: <path> doesn't read, its /workcap caps are
+ignored; using default.tool_calls: (400)`: the settings' caps are used, never a silent drop; the next `/workcap` or
+Continue rewrites it, logged (`workcap_state_replaced`) and said (`work-cap: <path> didn't read; replaced with the
+new cap`).
+
+## The check-in bundle
+
+`chi bundle install check-in` installs the bundle shipped with chi (`chi
+bootstrap` installs it with the `core` profile). It is
+written only against this API (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/check-in/plugin.rb`):
+`chi.on` hooks, `ctx.card`, `ctx.steer`, `ctx.stop_turn` and one anytime
+command. It has no memory file.
+
+A turn can run a long time on its own, reading and searching, without saying
+what it has found. check-in counts the turn's tool calls, and when there are
+`after` of them with no answer yet (then every `every` more) it checks in:
+
+- **`mode: ask`** (the default): a card, one per turn, updated in place at
+  each check-in: "50 tool calls, no answer yet", how long the turn has run
+  and its last few tools, and three actions:
+  - **Nudge** (`/checkin nudge`): puts `message` into the running turn
+    (`ctx.steer`); the model reads it at its next step and answers or says
+    what is left. Every UI shows `check-in> nudged: …`. One nudge per
+    check-in: another click (or a typed `/checkin nudge`) answers
+    "check-in: already nudged at N tool calls".
+  - **Keep going** (`/checkin later`): closes the card until the next
+    check-in.
+  - **Stop** (`/checkin stop`): stops the turn.
+
+  When the turn ends the card loses its actions ("The turn ended after N tool
+  calls"), so no stale buttons stay; a card left by a worker that exited
+  mid-turn comes back without them too. In the attached terminal the actions are
+  `→ /checkin nudge` lines to type; the command runs beside the turn.
+- **`mode: nudge`**: nudges the model by itself, with a notice line.
+- **`mode: notify`**: a notice line only.
+
+The count is per turn: a new turn (a prompt, a continue, a reminder) starts
+from zero; steering merged into the running turn doesn't reset it (a cap
+across the session's turns is [the work-cap bundle](#the-work-cap-bundle)). The polling
+tools are not counted. A nudge that arrives after the model's final answer is
+dropped (logged), never restarting a turn that is done; the card's "Nudged the
+model at N tool calls" then becomes "The answer came first; nudge not sent."
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  check-in:
+    after: 50          # tool calls in one turn before the first check-in
+    every: 50          # then again every this many more
+    mode: ask          # ask | nudge | notify
+    message: "You've made {calls} tool calls in this turn without answering. Say briefly what you've found so far and what's left, then answer now or continue."
+    ignore_tools: [task_wait, task_get, delegate_result]
+```
+
+`{calls}` in `message` is the count. The default asks for what has been found
+and what is left, not "how's it going?": a small model tends to answer that
+with a line and carry on unchanged.
+
+`/checkin` (anytime) for this session. What it changes (on/off, the mode,
+the threshold) is saved with the session, in the bundle's data dir
+(`plugins/check-in/sessions/<id>/state.json`), so it outlasts a worker's restart
+and goes with the session; another session starts from config.yml:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| `/checkin` | on or off, the mode, the threshold and this turn's count |
+| `/checkin on` / `off` | check in, or not |
+| `/checkin 30` | check in after 30 tool calls, then every 30 |
+| `/checkin mode ask` / `nudge` / `notify` | the mode |
+| `/checkin nudge` / `later` / `stop` | the card's actions, also by hand |
+
+**Asking System 1 (audit).** Each check-in also asks the cheap judgment model
+`check-in.progress` — "Is this turn still making progress toward what the user
+asked?" — on a side thread, with the owner's prompt, the calls since the last
+check-in (each cut as it is captured, about 4 KB in all), the count and the
+elapsed time. It is off until you give it a mode in
+[`system_one.judgments`](configuration.md#bundles-judgments), and nothing is
+acted on: the answer is saved, and so is what the user then did with the card
+(`nudge`, `keep_going`, `stop`, or `turn_stopped` when the card was still open
+when the turn ended), as a label on that run for a later look. The card, the
+nudge and the notice are the same either way. See
+[System 1's saved runs](system-one.md).
+
+## The slow-commands bundle
+
+`chi bundle install slow-commands` installs the bundle shipped with chi (`chi
+bootstrap` installs it with the `core` profile). It is written only against
+this API (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/slow-commands/plugin.rb`), with `chi.on`
+hooks and a `/slow-commands` command, and has no memory file.
+
+At its limit (120 s, `execute.timeout_sec`) `execute` hands a command still
+running over as a background task (`execute.on_timeout: task`, the default),
+or kills it (`kill`). A full test suite or a build takes longer, so each run
+first blocks the turn for those two minutes (and, in kill mode, loses them,
+then starts again with `task_create` and `task_wait`); the next session does
+the same. slow-commands remembers such a command for the project:
+
+- An `execute` that **timed out** or was **handed over** at the limit, or ran **`warn_ratio` of the limit** or
+  longer (default 0.8, so 96 s of 120), is recorded as slow. A later run of
+  it under half the limit **with exit 0** drops the entry; a fast failure (a
+  load error) doesn't, since it says nothing about how long the suite takes.
+  Nor does one through a filter the key leaves out (`rspec 2>&1 | tail -30`
+  exits with `tail`'s 0, and a `| head` can end it early).
+  A call the user stopped, or that was denied, records nothing.
+- The **next identical `execute`** is **denied** with advice:
+
+  ```
+  [execute] Error: denied by guardrail (bundle slow-commands): slow command. The user was not asked. This command ran past the execute limit (120 s) here on 2026-10-09. Start it with task_create, then task_wait (timeout 600). A finished task of this command took 4m10s.
+  ```
+
+  The last sentence is there when a task of the same command (and cwd)
+  finished with exit 0 in the project's `tmp/tasks`; a longer one raises the
+  `task_wait` timeout it suggests. The user sees one line:
+  `slow-commands> execute bundle exec rspec: ran past 120 s before, denied`.
+- **Once per command per turn**: the same `execute` again in that turn runs.
+  The model insisting is a signal (maybe the suite got faster), and that run
+  records the new truth. A new turn denies again.
+- In kill mode (`execute.on_timeout: kill`), a **`timeout N` past the limit**
+  is denied up front, with no history: execute stops the command first, so
+  `timeout` never fires. In task mode it runs on as a task until `timeout`
+  fires. `timeout`'s exit codes (124, 137) mean nothing special here.
+
+A command is the same when its project and its text match. The project is
+the session's git checkout (else its working directory). The text is the
+command's words and operators (`a && b` is not `a b`), the call's `cwd:`
+folded in as `cd web && …`, and a trailing `2>&1`, `| tail …`, `| head …`
+or `| grep …` dropped (they don't change how long it runs). Arguments stay:
+`bundle exec rspec` (the suite) is slow, `bundle exec rspec
+spec/foo_spec.rb` isn't the same command, and stays the fast path. A
+command that ends inside a quote, `$(` or heredoc is never recorded, nor
+one with a `$(…)`, backticks or a heredoc `cat` or `tee` reads (the key
+can't tell two of those apart). A heredoc script (`python3 - <<'EOF'`)
+keeps its body in the key, so each script is its own command.
+
+Wrappers a model adds by habit don't make a new command: at the start of
+each simple command (so after a leading `cd X &&` too), `time [-p]` and
+`timeout`/`gtimeout` with its options and duration are left out, so
+`timeout 300 bundle exec rspec` and `bundle exec rspec` are one entry. `X=…`
+assignments stay, sorted (`SPEC=… rake spec` is not `rake spec`), except
+`NO_COLOR`, `FORCE_COLOR` and `TERM` (`CI` stays: jest or vitest without it
+can sit in watch mode); a plain `env X=… cmd` is `X=…
+cmd`, and an `env` with an option (`-C`, `-i`, `-u`) stays as typed. The
+list shows each entry as it was last typed.
+
+Since 0.2.0 (chi 0.59.0) a hand-over counts as timed out, and the advice's
+duration also reads a handed-over task, whose `exit_code` file is in the
+state dir (the record's `exit_code_path`).
+
+Entries live in `$XDG_STATE_HOME/samagotchi/plugins/slow-commands/commands.json`,
+shared by every session (another session's record counts at once) and
+forgotten after `ttl_days`.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  slow-commands:
+    mode: deny        # deny | notify (warn the user, never deny)
+    warn_ratio: 0.8   # a run this share of the execute limit or longer is slow
+    ttl_days: 14      # entries older than this are forgotten
+```
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| `/slow-commands` | this project's slow commands, numbered |
+| `/slow-commands forget 2` / `forget all` | drop one (a wrong entry) or all of them |
+
+## The agents-md bundle
+
+`chi bundle install agents-md` (or the `core` profile) installs the bundle shipped
+with chi (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/agents-md/plugin.rb`): two `chi.on` hooks
+(`:before_turn` rebuilds the steered set, `:after_tool_call` steers), and no memory file.
+
+chi's system prompt holds only the `AGENTS.md` chain from the checkout top down
+to the session's cwd, so an `AGENTS.md` in a directory the session doesn't run
+in (say `pkg/inner/` while the session runs in `pkg/`) is never seen. The
+bundle closes that gap in history, not in the system prompt: the first `read`,
+`write` or `edit` (its `tools` setting) of a file under a directory with an
+`AGENTS.md` steers that file into the running turn, at the loop's next
+boundary, as its own user message — with a first line that says which
+directory it belongs to:
+
+```
+AGENTS.md for pkg/inner/ (applies to work under pkg/inner/):
+<content>
+```
+
+- It steers the **outermost candidates first** (each directory from the
+  touched file's directory up to, but not including, the checkout top), so a
+  deep file can bring in several `AGENTS.md`s at once, outermost to nearest.
+- It **never re-injects**: each directory steers once per session, and a
+  `before_turn` pass over the conversation rebuilds that set from the steers
+  already there. A steer the model answered past (never injected) is absent,
+  so it fires again on the next touch; a resume, a woken worker or a fork
+  pick the set up from their messages. It never stops generation or thinking.
+- **Scope:** the touched file's own git root must be the session's checkout:
+  a file in another repository, a nested repository or a submodule is
+  ignored. Paths compare by `File.realpath`, so a symlinked cwd (a macOS
+  `/tmp`) still matches.
+- Directories whose `AGENTS.md` is already in the system prompt (`ctx.prompt_files`:
+  the chain and appended files) are skipped, as is a file at the checkout top
+  (its `AGENTS.md` is the chain's first).
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  agents-md:
+    tools: [read, write, edit]   # the calls that count as a touch
+    max_chars: 16000            # the content is cut here, with a "[cut at N
+                                # of M chars: read <absolute path> for the rest]" last line
+```
+
+`skip_agents_md: true` disables the bundle, as it does the chain's loading
+(see [Configuration](configuration.md#project-specific-description)).
+
+## The skills bundle
+
+`chi bundle install skills` (or the `dev` profile) installs the bundle shipped with chi
+(`lib/samagotchi/bundles/skills/plugin.rb`): one anytime command, `chi.on`
+hooks, `ctx.sessions.send`, `ctx.notify` and `ctx.steer`. It has no memory
+file; skills themselves work without it ([docs/memory.md](memory.md#skills)).
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| `/skill save [name] [--system]` | sends this session a request to save what was just done as `skill_<name>` (chi picks a name when none is given), project scope unless `--system`. The request holds the skill's shape, so the result is the same with a model that never read the memory guide. It runs as a turn; sent while a turn runs, it joins that turn at its next step (the request says to finish the task first). An existing skill is updated. In a `--no-shared` REPL, which takes no messages, the command shows the request to send yourself |
+| `/skill list` | the `skill_*` memories of both scopes, with the date and description from the index |
+| `/skill show <name>` | one skill as saved (project first, as `memory_read` looks) |
+| `/skill diff <name> [N]` | the skill now against its N-th newest older version (default 1: before the last change), unified |
+
+**History.** Before `memory_write`, `write` or `edit` changes a
+`skill_<name>.md` in a memories folder, the file as it was is kept under
+`$XDG_STATE_HOME/samagotchi/plugins/skills/history/<scope>/<name>/` (`system`,
+or `project-<project folder>`), the newest `history_keep`. It is state, not a
+memory: `chi bundle build` and a synced `~/.config` never see it. After the
+call a line says what happened:
+
+```
+skills> skill release saved (project, 14 lines)
+skills> skill release updated (+2 −1): 1. Run `scripts/verify.sh`; stop if it fails. · /skill diff release
+```
+
+The line is the file on disk changing, whatever the tool answered; a denied
+write shows nothing.
+
+A skill read in the turn is also watched for changes made another way (an
+`execute` running `sed`, a script): after each other tool call, and at the
+turn's end, its file is compared with the content last seen (at the read, or
+after the last write). A change shows the same line, keeps the content last
+seen as a version (so `/skill diff` has it) and counts as the skill updated.
+A plain read keeps no version.
+
+**The nudge** (`nudge: true`). Some models, finding a skill's step broken,
+skip it and go on without fixing the skill. In a turn that read a skill
+(`memory_read` of a `skill_*` name, or `read` of its file), the first failing
+tool call after it (an `execute` that exited non-zero, except a grep-family
+search that found nothing, a tool error) steers
+the model once (a call a guardrail or the user denied doesn't count as a
+failed step): *"A step of skill release failed. Find out why before skipping
+it; if the skill is out of date, fix it now: edit the step that changed in
+its file (or memory_write the whole skill) and add a Changelog line."* No
+steer once a skill read this turn has changed, by any tool. If the turn ends
+with a failed step and no skill read changed, one line says so: `skill
+release was followed, a step failed, the skill wasn't updated`. A failure
+unrelated to the skill (a test
+meant to fail) can set it off too: once per turn, and only after a skill was
+read.
+
+```yaml
+# config.yml
+bundles:
+  skills:
+    history_keep: 20   # older versions kept per skill
+    nudge: true        # steer once when a followed skill's step fails
+```
+
+## The github-pr bundle
+
+```sh
+chi bundle install github-pr      # in the dev profile; needs gh, logged in
+```
+
+Proposes the branch's open GitHub pull request to a session as a candidate
+`pr-<n>` when its worker starts (not in a scratch session; quietly nothing
+without `gh`, a repository or an open PR): it is attached once you mention it
+(`#N`, the branch or its URL; [Candidates](context.md#candidates)). It resolves
+PR URLs for `chi context add`. Its script prints the PR as text
+and a summary of what changed in counts, authors and states only; it wakes
+the session for a review requesting changes, checks turning red, or the PR
+merged or closed. In the web, a `path:line` in a worker's answer links to
+that line of the session's PR ([Line links](context.md#line-links); `line_links:
+always` for the REPL and `chi -p` too), and its ref menu offers the file
+here and a "PR diff" action (`event[:refs]`). `auto_attach: attach` attaches
+it at once (the old default), `off` does nothing ([Propose, attach or
+off](context.md#propose-attach-or-off)).
+See [Attached context](context.md#github-prs-the-github-pr-bundle).
+
+## The coordinator bundle
+
+```sh
+chi bundle install coordinator    # in the dev profile
+```
+
+chi as a coordinator of parallel work, the way you would run several agents
+yourself: split the work, one git worktree and child session per task, keep
+talking while they run, check each report, and merge only with your OK. It
+works in a session with a worker (plain `chi`, the web). A `--no-shared` REPL
+or `-p` gets no delegate reports, so the children's replies wouldn't come back
+by themselves there.
+
+- **The skill.** `skill_coordinator` (system scope; its index line says what
+  it is for, from the manifest's `description:`) holds the steps. The model
+  creates each worktree with `execute` (`git worktree add ../<repo>-<task> -b
+  <branch>`), starts a child there with `delegate wait: false, cwd:`, tells
+  you what started and ends its turn. When a child's report comes, it checks
+  the branch (`git log`, `git diff --stat`, the tests the child names) before
+  telling you. It asks before each merge (`ask_user_question`), checks that its
+  own folder is on the default branch and that branch's log first (another
+  agent may have merged the branch already), merges `--ff-only` and never
+  pushes unless you ask. After a merge it stops the
+  child and removes only the worktrees and branches it made.
+- **A handoff memory.** The conversation is lost when the session ends, so
+  the skill keeps a project memory `handoff_<epic-slug>` with only what git
+  and the session list can't rebuild: the split (branch, worktree, child id
+  per task), your decisions, its verdicts and the follow-ups. Its index
+  description is the status, descriptive only and naming the session that
+  owns it ("OPEN coordinator handoff calc-v2 (session ab12cd34): 2/3 merged",
+  later "DONE: …"): every session in the repo sees that line. The model saves
+  a decision there before acting on it, and changes the status with
+  `memory_write`'s description-only form. When everything is done it marks
+  the handoff DONE and asks whether to remove it (`memory_write remove:
+  true`, which the guardrails bundle asks you to confirm). Children are told
+  not to touch it.
+- **Resume.** A new coordinator session (or one asked "where were we?")
+  reads the open handoff, checks it against git and the session list (git
+  wins; mismatches are reported) and goes on from the first open step.
+- **`/coordinate <goal>`** sends this session a turn asking the model to
+  follow the skill for the goal (in a `--no-shared` REPL it shows the text to
+  send yourself). Asking "do this in parallel" works too: the index line leads
+  the model to the skill. **`/coordinate resume`** asks it to resume this
+  project's open handoff; with several open it shows a card with a Resume
+  action each (`/coordinate resume <name>` picks one), with none it says so.
+  **`/coordinate end`** ends the day: the model checks each branch, brings
+  its handoff up to date (state per branch, decisions, verdicts,
+  follow-ups, each open child's id, branch and worktree), keeps it OPEN unless everything is done, and gives a short
+  report ending with the `/coordinate resume <slug>` to pick it up next
+  time. It starts, merges and stops nothing: running children stay running
+  and are named in the report.
+- **Sprint review (experimental, 0.6.0).** **`/coordinate review [name]`**
+  starts a review session of this coordinator session (`ctx.sessions.review`:
+  its recap, never its transcript; this session keeps running) seeded with the
+  open handoff's body (the one named, the only one, or a card with a Review
+  action each when several are open; with none, the recap alone), and prints
+  the `chi share <id> --name NAME` line. A participant (a manager, a teammate)
+  brings new context there; the skill's Sprint review section (copied into
+  the seed: a participant's turn reads project memories only, and the skill
+  is a system one) has the review's model answer it with a **hand-off diff** (the handoff's lines as
+  they would change, in a `diff` block, and what it means per branch), in a
+  turn that may only read. Your **Apply** under it (the web's) quotes the
+  diff in your turn there: the model brings the handoff up to date and
+  re-plans in words, and starts, stops or merges nothing from the review
+  session: the coordinator session picks the change up from the handoff,
+  merges still asked. Experimental: it may go if it doesn't earn its place.
+- **The coordinator toolkit.** The bundle declares `coordinator`: `lean`
+  plus `delegate`, `delegate_result` and `list_sessions`
+  ([Toolkits](configuration.md#toolkits)). `/coordinate` puts a fresh session
+  on it before it asks the model (`ctx.use_toolkit`). When chi refuses (a reply
+  or a turn already there) and the session's toolkit has no `delegate`, the
+  reply says to run `/toolkit coordinator`. A continue of a coordinator link
+  keeps the toolkit.
+- **The coding toolkit.** The bundle (0.5.0) also declares `coding`: `child`
+  with the prompt text `- Be concise in your responses` / `- Show file paths
+  clearly when working with files`. The skill starts build and fix children
+  on it (`delegate` with `toolkit: "coding"`); reviews, research and plans
+  stay on `toolkit.child`, as they need the length.
+- **`/children [all]`** shows the session's children as a card, newest first,
+  one line each: `` `ab12cd34` · running · fix/flaky · "fix the flaky spec" ``,
+  `` `9a8b7c6d` · done · feat/x · reported · "All 12 specs pass" `` (`not
+  reported yet` when the parent wasn't given that reply), `` `77aa66bb` ·
+  waiting (approval) · open it: chi --attach 77aa66bb ``. A fork is marked
+  `fork`; `all` adds archived children. It runs during a turn too. The card
+  has Refresh and a `Stop <id>` per running or waiting child (up to 5);
+  `/children stop <id>` stops one of this session's own children (by session
+  id, as `chi sessions stop` does) and shows the card again.
+- **Children stay in their worktree.** A child asks before it changes
+  anything outside its worktree (your checkout, a sibling's), in every
+  guardrails mode and without the guardrails bundle ([a delegate child's
+  boundary](guardrails.md#a-delegate-childs-boundary)); you answer on its
+  card, or on the parent's while it waits.
+- **Merges.** The parent's merge in its own checkout is a plain `git
+  merge`; to be asked before every merge, add a rule ([Rules in
+  config.yml](guardrails.md#rules-in-configyml)):
+
+  ```yaml
+  guardrails:
+    rules:
+      - id: git-merge
+        tool: shell
+        command: '\bgit\s+merge\b'
+        verdict: ask
+        reason: merging a child's branch
+  ```
+
+## The claude-peer bundle
+
+```sh
+chi bundle install claude-peer    # in the dev profile
+```
+
+A live link between a chi session and a Claude Code session you already work
+with: chi sends it a part of the work (a plan step, a diff, a finding) to
+validate or as context, and Claude's answer comes back into chi. This is
+Claude with the context it has, not a fresh review run. Nothing runs until a
+Claude pairs; without one the bundle costs one tool declaration.
+
+- **Pairing is Claude's.** chi can't see Claude's inbox, so Claude attaches
+  two pushed sources to the chi session: `claude-inbox`, whose hint is its
+  per-session inbox socket (`CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_SOCKET`, Claude Code
+  2.1.224 or later), and `claude-outbox`, where its answers come. You never
+  run that yourself:
+  1. `/claude install-skill` (once) shows a card with the target,
+     `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/skills/chi-peer/SKILL.md` (else `~/.claude/…`),
+     whether one is there and, when it differs, a short diff; its Install (or
+     Replace) button runs `/claude install-skill --yes`, which copies the
+     bundle's `scripts/chi-peer-SKILL.md` there with the installed
+     `scripts/pair` path written in. The copy happens inside chi, where no
+     guardrail sees it: the button is your consent. The card also offers the
+     Claude Code permission rule `Read(~/.local/state/samagotchi/plugins/claude-peer/**)`
+     (your state folder), so Claude isn't asked before reading a long part's
+     file; chi never writes Claude's settings.
+  2. In Claude Code you say "pair with chi <id or chi web URL>". The skill runs
+     `sh <bundle>/scripts/pair <id or URL>`, which attaches `claude-inbox` (the
+     socket as its hint, pushed as JSON so a re-pair after a Claude restart
+     refreshes it) and `claude-outbox`, and lists the session's context. A
+     re-pair keeps Claude's last answer.
+  3. Claude answers a validate or a question with a JSON push to
+     `claude-outbox` (`text`, `summary`, `wake: true`), which wakes chi, the
+     first answer too (on chi 0.62 the first one arrives as a note without
+     waking); the model reads it with `context_read claude-outbox`.
+- **The tool `claude_send(kind, title, text)`**, `kind` being `validate`,
+  `context` or `question`, writes one JSON line to that socket. The message
+  starts with a header, `chi <id> · <kind> · <title>`. A text up to 4,000
+  characters follows inline; a longer one goes to a file,
+  `$XDG_STATE_HOME/samagotchi/plugins/claude-peer/sessions/<id>/<HHMMSS>-<slug>.md`
+  (removed with the session), and the message names it (`payload: <path>`).
+  The tool is declared whether or not a Claude is paired, so pairing doesn't
+  change the prompt. Its errors say what to do: no `claude-inbox` (pair from
+  Claude), the socket gone or refusing (that Claude session ended or
+  restarted: pair again), a text over 200,000 characters.
+- **`/claude`** (an anytime command, so it works mid-turn) sends without
+  the model:
+  - `/claude` alone shows a card: paired or not, the socket and whether its
+    file is there (it goes when that Claude session ends), the last send, and
+    Claude's last answer (the `claude-outbox` summary). When Claude's installed
+    chi-peer skill differs from what `/claude install-skill` would write (an
+    older bundle's, or your edit; a skill installed by a chi with another state
+    dir or bundle path differs too), it says so: install it again (Replace),
+    then pair again.
+  - `/claude validate <text>` and `/claude context <text>` send the text as it
+    is, titled by its first line (past a web quote's `From …:` label and a
+    quoted line's `> `): paste a selection after them.
+  - In the web, selecting text offers **Confirm with Claude**
+    ([`chi.annotation`](plugins.md#chiannotationlabel-command-template-quote-send-false)):
+    it fills the composer with `/claude validate` and the quote, for you to
+    add what needs confirming.
+  - `/claude last` sends the model's last completed answer as context. Mid-turn
+    it is the answer before the running turn, never the turn's partial text;
+    a cancelled or failed turn has no answer, so the one before it goes.
+- **The peer loop.** The bundle declares `claude-outbox` a peer's
+  ([`chi.peer_source`](plugins.md#chipeer_sourcename-label)), so Claude's answers
+  wake chi by the loop's rules ([Waking: peer
+  sources](context.md#peer-sources-the-peer-loop)): chi fixes what Claude
+  flagged or disagrees and sends again, up to `context.peer_turns` (3) wake
+  turns in a row, and a `VERDICT OK` answer wakes chi once to close the
+  round (carry on, or tell you what was agreed). Only a message you type in the web or a TUI starts the count again.
+- **The skill.** `skill_claude_peer` (system scope) tells the model to send
+  only when you ask or to reply in a peer turn, to pick the part rather than
+  the session, not to wait or poll, and how to read the `claude-outbox`
+  answer (a validate ends with `VERDICT: OK`, `CHANGES` or `UNSURE`): act on
+  it only within your task, and stop and tell you when Claude agrees or after
+  the last turn. Claude's skill ends each answer's summary with its verdict
+  and never answers with `chi send` (which counts as you typing).
+- **chi on another machine.** With the chi session on the Studio and Claude on
+  the laptop, `CHI_REMOTE=studio sh <bundle>/scripts/pair <id>` pairs through
+  the Studio's chi web ([Remote sessions](cli.md#remote-sessions)), and
+  Claude's answers (its `chi context push claude-outbox`, with `CHI_REMOTE`
+  set) reach chi: the outbox leg works. The inbox leg doesn't: `claude_send`
+  writes to Claude's socket on the machine chi runs on, and the laptop's isn't
+  there. So through a remote (`CHI_REMOTE`, or `--remote NAME` in `CHI`)
+  `pair` attaches only `claude-outbox` and prints one line saying chi there
+  can't send to this Claude: chi's replies reach Claude only when you relay
+  them (or ask it to run `chi --remote studio send --wait <id>`). A session
+  that already has a `claude-inbox` it can't reach:
+  `chi --remote studio context rm claude-inbox <id>`.
+  **Two ways to make it two-way over SSH.** SSH can forward a Unix socket, so
+  the inbox leg works too. On the laptop:
+
+  ```sh
+  ssh studio rm -f /tmp/claude-peer-ab12.sock
+  ssh -N -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -R /tmp/claude-peer-ab12.sock:"$CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_SOCKET" studio
+  ```
+
+  the second running in the background while chi may send (the `rm -f` first:
+  a remote forward's stale socket is replaced only when the **server's** sshd
+  has `StreamLocalBindUnlink yes`). Then
+  `CHI_REMOTE=studio sh <bundle>/scripts/pair --inbox-socket /tmp/claude-peer-ab12.sock ab12`
+  attaches both sources, with `claude-inbox`'s hint that path on the Studio. A
+  re-pair this way replaces an outbox-only pairing's `claude-outbox` and its
+  why. Claude's socket changes when that Claude session restarts: stop the ssh,
+  run both lines, pair again. A path chi quotes (a `payload:` file, a diff to
+  check) is on the Studio, not the laptop. Whoever can write to that socket on
+  the remote machine can send into this Claude session (sshd makes it the
+  user's, mode 0600 by default): fine on your own machine or pod, not a shared
+  host. Claude's own skill has the same under "chi on another machine over SSH".
+- **A continue.** The pairing's two sources are pushed, so they stay with
+  the old session when you continue it ([Movable
+  context](context.md#peers-and-a-continue)). The new session's worker posts
+  Claude one message, from a quiet init task, to the socket the old
+  `claude-inbox` last had:
+
+  ```
+  chi <old> · moved · continued as <new id>
+  This chi session was continued as <new id>. Pair with <new id> the way you paired with <old>, then answer there (chi context push claude-outbox <new id>).
+  ```
+
+  Claude's skill pairs again with the new id the same way it paired before
+  (the same `CHI_REMOTE` and `--inbox-socket`). It is posted once (a marker
+  under the bundle's `sessions/<id>/`, so a worker restart doesn't post it
+  again); a post that fails (that Claude session ended) is logged and
+  dropped. An outbox-only pairing has no inbox to post to: Claude's next
+  answer to the old id is refused with the new one (`<old> was continued as
+  <id>`), and the skill pairs again and pushes the answer there. The new
+  session's note says which: `Left with 3f2a9c1e: claude-inbox, claude-outbox
+  (Claude's pairing: chi asks Claude to pair again with this session).`, or
+  `(Claude pairs again when it next answers)`.
+- **Asking first.** The tool has no `targets:`, so guardrails match it by name
+  only: to be asked before each send, add a rule ([Rules in
+  config.yml](guardrails.md#rules-in-configyml)):
+
+  ```yaml
+  guardrails:
+    rules:
+      - id: claude-send
+        tool: claude_send
+        verdict: ask
+        reason: sends session content to Claude Code
+  ```
+
+- **Limits.** The socket's format (`{"type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":"…"}}`)
+  is undocumented: it was found in, and checked on, Claude Code 2.1.296. A
+  line Claude Code can't parse is dropped silently, so a Claude Code update
+  could break this without an error. No auth line is sent: it is optional on
+  macOS and Linux, and native Windows, which needs it, isn't supported.
+  Claude's `crossSessionInbound` setting decides what it does with a peer
+  message: an interactive auto-mode session delivers it; a session that
+  bypasses permissions holds it for approval (in `-p` it expires after 5
+  minutes). It is local only (a Unix socket), but it does hand session
+  content to another agent: only what the model or you picked.
+- **Needs chi 0.67.0** for the loop (`chi update`): the plugin is built on
+  `Samagotchi::Plugin::Peer` (lib/samagotchi/plugin/peer.rb), the base both
+  peer bundles share (the tool, `/claude`, the cards, payloads), and each
+  bundle sets its strings and transport.
+
+## The codex-peer bundle
+
+```sh
+chi bundle install codex-peer    # in the dev profile
+```
+
+The [claude-peer bundle](#the-claude-peer-bundle) for an OpenAI Codex CLI
+session: chi sends the Codex session you work with a part of the work to
+validate or as context, and Codex's answer comes back into chi. It is a copy
+of claude-peer with the transport swapped; what differs is below, the rest
+(kinds, payload files, the last send, `/codex last`, the status card, the
+skill install card) works the same.
+
+- **Sending is `codex queue`.** `codex_send(kind, title, text)` and
+  `/codex validate|context <text>` run
+  `codex queue --thread <uuid> --message <text>` (an argv, no shell), which
+  wakes an idle Codex TUI: the message runs there as a new user turn (checked
+  on Codex 0.162.1; a message queued mid-turn runs after the turn). The
+  thread is the `codex-inbox` context's hint, Codex's `CODEX_THREAD_ID`, which
+  must look like a UUID. `codex` is `$CODEX`, else `codex` on the PATH: a
+  worker started by `chi web` or launchd may have another PATH than your
+  shell, so set `CODEX=` where chi runs if the error says there's no codex.
+  The tool and the anytime `/codex` wait for `codex queue` up to 10 s; a
+  queue that takes longer is killed (its process group) and the send fails
+  with a timeout error, never a hang. Other errors say what to do: no
+  `codex-inbox` (pair from Codex), a thread Codex has no record of (that
+  Codex session is gone: pair again), an ephemeral thread
+  (`codex exec --ephemeral` can't take queued messages), or `codex queue`'s
+  first error line. A Codex session that was closed (`/quit`) is not gone:
+  Codex's app-server still takes the queue (exit 0), chi says sent, and no
+  answer comes; the message waits for that session (`codex resume` there, or
+  pair again from a new one). The status card shows the thread id and says
+  so; there is no cheap check that the session is open.
+- **Codex's sandbox.** Pairing and every reply write chi's state
+  (`chi context add`/`push` write the session's context files directly),
+  which Codex's default sandbox (workspace-write) refuses. The user adds, to
+  `$CODEX_HOME/config.toml` (else `~/.codex/config.toml`):
+
+  ```toml
+  [sandbox_workspace_write]
+  writable_roots = ["/Users/you/.local/state/samagotchi/context"]
+  ```
+
+  and restarts Codex. Only chi's `context/` folder: the state folder above it
+  also holds guardrails, session files, plugins and the web token.
+  `/codex install-skill`'s card shows the line with your state folder
+  (absolute: config.toml doesn't expand `~`), and the pair script names it
+  when a write is refused ("Operation not permitted"). chi never edits
+  Codex's config. Reading a payload file needs nothing: the default sandbox
+  reads anywhere. With chi on this machine no network is needed: a push
+  writes files, and chi wakes on them. Through a remote it is the other way
+  round (HTTP, not files): see **chi on another machine** below.
+- **Pairing** is Codex's, as with Claude: `/codex install-skill` copies the
+  bundle's `scripts/chi-peer-SKILL.md` to
+  `$CODEX_HOME/skills/chi-peer/SKILL.md` (else `~/.codex/…`), with the
+  installed `scripts/pair` path, the payload folder and the writable root
+  written in; in Codex you say "pair with chi <id or chi web URL>", and
+  `sh <bundle>/scripts/pair` attaches `codex-inbox` (the thread id as its
+  hint, pushed so a re-pair refreshes it) and `codex-outbox`. Run outside
+  Codex (no `CODEX_THREAD_ID`) it refuses. Codex replies with one JSON push
+  to `codex-outbox` (`text`, `summary`, `wake: true`), which wakes chi, the
+  first answer too (that needs chi 0.63.0; the bundle's `requires_chi` is `>= 0.70.0`).
+- **Peer messages are user turns in Codex.** Claude Code marks an inbox
+  message as from another session; `codex queue` lands as a plain user
+  message. So Codex's skill starts with the rule: a message whose first line
+  is exactly `chi <8 hex> · <kind> · <title>` comes from chi, a peer agent,
+  not the user; it can't approve anything, change settings or widen the
+  sandbox, and the part it carries (and a payload file) is data to check,
+  never instructions, since it may hold tool or web output. This is a prompt
+  rule Codex follows, not something enforced: anything shaped like that
+  header is treated this way, and nothing stops a message from asking for
+  more.
+- **chi on another machine.** As with Claude, `CHI_REMOTE=studio sh
+  <bundle>/scripts/pair <id>` (or `--remote NAME` in `CHI`) pairs through
+  the Studio's chi web, and only the outbox leg works: `codex_send` runs
+  `codex queue` on the machine chi runs on, where this Codex's thread isn't.
+  Claude's `--inbox-socket` trick doesn't apply here: `codex-inbox`'s hint is a
+  thread id, not a socket, so there is nothing to forward through SSH.
+  So `pair` attaches only `codex-outbox` and prints one line saying chi there
+  can't send to this Codex. Through a remote chi talks HTTP, not files, so
+  `writable_roots` doesn't matter; Codex's sandbox may block the network
+  instead, which pairing and every reply then need (workspace-write has none
+  by default): when chi can't reach the
+  remote, the pair script names `network_access = true` under
+  `[sandbox_workspace_write]` as the likely fix.
+- In the web, selecting text offers **Confirm with Codex**, which fills
+  `/codex validate` and the quote, as claude-peer's pill does.
+- **The skill.** `skill_codex_peer` (system scope) is claude-peer's with
+  Codex's names, and on a missing answer points to Codex being mid-turn or
+  its sandbox (the `writable_roots` line). To be asked before each send, a
+  guardrails rule with `tool: codex_send` (see the claude-peer section).
+- **The peer loop** works as claude-peer's: `codex-outbox` is declared a
+  peer's, Codex's answers wake chi up to `context.peer_turns` turns in a row,
+  and `VERDICT OK` wakes chi once to close the round. Needs chi 0.67.0 (the closing
+  wake: the chi released with this bundle).
+- **A continue** works as claude-peer's: the new session queues Codex the
+  `moved` message on the thread the old `codex-inbox` named, once, and
+  Codex's skill pairs again with the new id (the same `CHI_REMOTE`, if any).
+  A pairing through a remote has no inbox: Codex pairs again when its next
+  push is refused. A closed Codex session still takes the message; it waits
+  for `codex resume` there.
+
+## The ruby bundle
+
+`chi bundle install ruby` (or the `dev` profile) installs the bundle shipped
+with chi (`lib/samagotchi/bundles/ruby/plugin.rb`): one `chi.on` hook
+(`:after_tool_call`), and no memory file.
+
+An RSpec run that finds no examples prints `0 examples, 0 failures`, which
+reads green: the model takes the suite as passing and moves on with code no
+test ever loaded. It usually means a path that matched no file, a filter
+(`-e`, `--tag`) that matched no example, or a `.rspec --pattern` that hid
+the specs (a nested project's `.rspec` overrides one). The bundle notices
+that run and steers a hint into the running turn, which the user sees as
+`ruby> nudged: …`:
+
+```
+rspec ran 0 examples: check the path, the filter (-e/--tag) or the .rspec --pattern
+```
+
+It is a nudge for the model, not a denial: the turn goes on, and the model
+can say why the run was empty. It never runs anything.
+
+- **The command.** Only an `execute` counts, and its command must run
+  rspec: one of its simple commands (`&&`, `||`, `;`, `|`, a newline, so
+  after a leading `cd x &&` too) starts with `rspec`, a path ending in
+  `/rspec` (`bin/rspec`, `./bin/rspec`), or `parallel_rspec`, once a leading
+  `X=…` assignment, `bundle exec` and `time` are left out. A command that
+  only names rspec (`grep rspec README`, `echo "bundle exec rspec"`) is not
+  a run.
+- **The output.** Every `<N> examples, <M> failures` line in the execute's
+  output counts (RSpec's summary, with or without `, N pending`), and the
+  hint comes when all of them are 0. `parallel_rspec` prints one per
+  process, so a single process with examples leaves its 0 out of the total.
+- **No summary line, no hint.** A spec that fails to load, a path that
+  doesn't exist, a command killed at its limit: the output already says what
+  is wrong, and the hint would only repeat it.
+
+Nothing is remembered, so the next 0-example run hints again: it can be
+the same mistake on another command, or a different one. A hint the model
+answers before joining the turn is dropped, as any steer is.
+
+## The model-notes bundle
+
+`chi bundle install model-notes` (or the `dev` profile) installs reviewed
+[model notes](memory.md#model-notes) into the system scope: working habits
+for one model family, loaded into the prompt only for the models a note's
+`models:` line names. It has no plugin or hook. It ships two notes:
+
+| note | models | for |
+|---|---|---|
+| `model_notes_deepseek` | `*deepseek-v4*` | DeepSeek V4 / V4.1: explore briefly then act, commit one item at a time, stop digging, `memory_read` for memories, file tools rather than heredocs that guardrail rules ask about |
+| `model_notes_tone` | `*` | every model: answer first, in plain words; no preambles, restated questions or closing offers; lists only for steps or parallel items |
+
+- **Reviewed before it ships.** A note is generic (no repo or machine facts),
+  says nothing the harness already does (a tool's description, an alias),
+  talks to the model as "you", stays under 1,500 characters, and the user
+  approves its text. A model may propose one; it never edits the bundle.
+  `notes/README.md` in the bundle records each note's sources, the
+  `script/model_notes_report.rb` numbers and the approval.
+- **Globs per measured version.** A glob is tried against the id with no host
+  prefix and against its model key, case-insensitively, and `*` also matches
+  `/`: `*deepseek-v4*` covers `deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash` on any provider,
+  MLX and GGUF names, but not `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B`.
+- **Tested.** `lib/samagotchi/bundles/model-notes/spec/model_ids.yml` lists real id forms and the exact notes
+  each loads (negative rows included); the spec installs the bundle and
+  resolves each through `sandbox.model_notes_for`
+  ([Testing a bundle](plugins.md#testing-a-bundle-experimental)). It also checks each
+  note's shape, size and that the tools it names are ones chi declares.
+- **Your own notes:** a same-name note you have wins and keeps its place
+  through upgrades; other notes stack with the bundle's
+  ([Model notes](memory.md#model-notes)).
+