@animalabs/agent-framework 0.7.4 → 0.8.0

package/dist/src/framework.js

@@ -157,6 +157,61 @@ const PROSE_HELP_TOOL = {
 };
 /** Strip the `server--` MCPL prefix from a tool name. */
 const bareToolName = (n) => n.split('--').pop();
+/** The single slot behind which every rarely-used capability lives. Only
+ *  advertised when at least one module contributes utilities — with none
+ *  registered the surface is byte-identical to before this existed. */
+const UTILS_TOOL = {
+    name: 'utils',
+    description: 'Rarely-used utilities, behind one slot instead of each costing a tool. ' +
+        '"list" names them all with one-liners; "describe" returns one utility\'s full ' +
+        'input schema; "run" invokes it (args are validated against that schema — a ' +
+        'miss bounces back with the schema and the specific error).',
+    inputSchema: {
+        type: 'object',
+        properties: {
+            action: { type: 'string', enum: ['list', 'describe', 'run'], description: 'What to do.' },
+            name: { type: 'string', description: 'Utility name from list (required for describe/run).' },
+            args: { type: 'object', description: "Arguments for run, per the utility's schema." },
+        },
+        required: ['action'],
+    },
+};
+/** First sentence (or line) of a description — what `utils list` shows. */
+const utilityOneLiner = (description) => {
+    const line = description.split('\n')[0];
+    const dot = line.indexOf('. ');
+    return (dot >= 0 ? line.slice(0, dot + 1) : line).slice(0, 160);
+};
+/** Shallow validation of run args against a utility's declared inputSchema:
+ *  required keys, primitive types, enums. Deliberately not a full JSON-Schema
+ *  engine — handlers still hand-validate (they always did); this layer exists
+ *  so an arg-shape miss teaches by bounce instead of failing deep in a handler
+ *  with a less instructive message. Returns an error string or null. */
+function validateUtilityArgs(input, schema) {
+    if (input === null || typeof input !== 'object' || Array.isArray(input)) {
+        return 'args must be an object';
+    }
+    const obj = input;
+    for (const req of schema.required ?? []) {
+        if (!(req in obj) || obj[req] === undefined)
+            return `missing required "${req}"`;
+    }
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
+        const param = schema.properties?.[key];
+        if (!param || value === undefined)
+            continue; // unknown keys: handler's business
+        if (param.enum && !param.enum.includes(value)) {
+            return `"${key}" must be one of ${JSON.stringify(param.enum)}`;
+        }
+        if (param.type) {
+            const actual = Array.isArray(value) ? 'array' : value === null ? 'null' : typeof value;
+            const expected = param.type === 'integer' ? 'number' : param.type;
+            if (actual !== expected)
+                return `"${key}" must be ${param.type}, got ${actual}`;
+        }
+    }
+    return null;
+}
 import { CheckpointManager } from './mcpl/checkpoint-manager.js';
 import { isToolAllowed } from './mcpl/tool-policy.js';
 import { EventGate } from './gate/event-gate.js';
@@ -398,6 +453,24 @@ export class AgentFramework {
     // Messages deferred while an agent is waiting_for_tools (to preserve
     // tool_use → tool_result adjacency required by the Anthropic API).
     deferredMessages = [];
+    // Turn-alive markers (2026-07-31 Mythos phantom-skip incident): agentName →
+    // token of the turn currently in progress. Set at startAgentStream ENTRY —
+    // before hooks, compile, and stream setup, all of which await — and cleared
+    // token-matched when that turn's teardown finishes (driveStream finally /
+    // terminal failure path), so a successor turn's marker survives a
+    // predecessor's late finally. A turn is alive from dequeue to settled
+    // teardown: strictly longer than `activeStreams` membership, which begins
+    // only after the stream exists. Guarding addMessage on stream-liveness
+    // alone left the compile window open — a deferred message flushed by the
+    // previous turn's finally landed in the window MID-COMPILE of the turn its
+    // own wake had started: positioned before the new turn's blocks yet absent
+    // from its wire request. The agent then "skipped" a message it never saw
+    // (falsified history — it later confabulated an apology for the skip), and
+    // every subsequent compile diverged from the live prefix at that message
+    // (KV bust). Invariant: nothing enters the window between a turn's dequeue
+    // and its settle except that turn's own blocks.
+    activeTurnTokens = new Map();
+    nextTurnToken = 1;
     // Undo/redo state
     turnCounters = new Map(); // agentName → next turnIndex
     redoStacks = new Map(); // agentName → redo entries
@@ -438,6 +511,15 @@ export class AgentFramework {
      *  deferred and applied to the final code_execution result instead of
      *  cancelling the stream mid-script (which would wedge the turn). */
     scriptDeferredEndTurn = new Set();
+    /** Background (daemon) scripts: model-authored watchers that outlive their
+     *  spawning turn. Each gets a DEDICATED PyRunner; wake_agent() injects a
+     *  provenance envelope + payload and requests inference. Keyed by script id. */
+    backgroundScripts = new Map();
+    backgroundScriptCounter = 0;
+    /** Ephemeral per-agent override of the tool-result inline cap (chars).
+     *  Set via agent_settings `tool_result_inline_max_chars`; NOT persisted —
+     *  the lift is meant as a temporary gate, reverts on restart/reset. */
+    toolResultInlineMaxCharsOverride = new Map();
     mcplTools = [];
     mcplToolRefreshInFlight = false;
     mcplToolRefreshPending = false;
@@ -495,7 +577,12 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             queryMessages: (filter) => this.queryMessages(filter),
             pushEvent: (event) => this.pushEvent(event),
             onTrace: (listener) => this.onTrace(listener),
-            callTool: (call) => this.executeToolCall(call),
+            // The ONLY entry that confers module origin — a private closure the
+            // framework hands to its own module registry. The public
+            // executeToolCall() is shared with model/ephemeral callers and always
+            // stamps agent origin (see there).
+            callTool: (call) => this.executeToolCallFrom(call, { kind: 'module' }),
+            notifyOps: (kind, agentName, message, data) => this.notifyOps(kind, agentName, message, data),
         });
     }
     /**
@@ -745,6 +832,17 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             runner.dispose();
         }
         this.codeExecutionRunners.clear();
+        // Background daemons die with the process (documented limitation) —
+        // mark cancelled FIRST so their settle path stays silent (no crash-wake
+        // into a framework that is shutting down).
+        for (const record of this.backgroundScripts.values()) {
+            if (record.status === 'running') {
+                record.cancelled = true;
+                record.status = 'cancelled';
+            }
+            record.runner.dispose();
+        }
+        this.backgroundScripts.clear();
         // Cancel all active streams
         for (const agent of this.agents.values()) {
             if (agent.state.status === 'streaming' ||
@@ -1003,6 +1101,8 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             : [];
         return [
             ...moduleTools,
+            // Utilities collapse into one slot; absent entirely when none exist.
+            ...(this.moduleRegistry.getAllUtilities().length > 0 ? [UTILS_TOOL] : []),
             ...this.mcplTools,
             ...channelTools,
             ...gateTools,
@@ -1038,6 +1138,15 @@ export class AgentFramework {
     collectAgentSettingsExtensions() {
         const result = new Map();
         const taken = new Set(AgentFramework.AGENT_SETTINGS_CORE_KEYS);
+        // Framework-owned extension: the tool-result inline cap lift. Registered
+        // through the same extension surface modules use so get/update/reset all
+        // work with zero extra plumbing. EPHEMERAL by design (a temporary gate —
+        // reverts on restart), unlike module extensions which persist their own.
+        {
+            const ext = this.spillSettingsExtension();
+            ext.keys.forEach((k) => taken.add(k));
+            result.set('_framework', ext);
+        }
         for (const module of this.moduleRegistry.getAllModules()) {
             const ext = module.getAgentSettingsExtension?.();
             if (!ext)
@@ -1052,6 +1161,39 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         }
         return result;
     }
+    /** agent_settings extension for the spill gate (see spillOrTruncate). */
+    spillSettingsExtension() {
+        return {
+            properties: {
+                tool_result_inline_max_chars: {
+                    type: 'number',
+                    description: 'Inline size cap (chars) for tool results and background-script wake payloads. ' +
+                        'Content over the cap is written to a workspace file under tool-results/ and ' +
+                        'replaced by a truncated preview + file reference. Raise it temporarily when you ' +
+                        'genuinely want a large result inline; reset restores the default (derived from ' +
+                        'your strategy). Ephemeral — reverts on host restart.',
+                },
+            },
+            keys: ['tool_result_inline_max_chars'],
+            get: (agentName) => ({
+                tool_result_inline_max_chars: this.toolResultInlineMaxCharsOverride.get(agentName) ?? null,
+            }),
+            update: (agentName, patch) => {
+                const n = Number(patch.tool_result_inline_max_chars);
+                if (!Number.isFinite(n) || n < 1000) {
+                    throw new Error('tool_result_inline_max_chars must be a number >= 1000');
+                }
+                this.toolResultInlineMaxCharsOverride.set(agentName, Math.floor(n));
+                return { tool_result_inline_max_chars: Math.floor(n) };
+            },
+            reset: (agentName, keys) => {
+                if (!keys || keys.includes('tool_result_inline_max_chars')) {
+                    this.toolResultInlineMaxCharsOverride.delete(agentName);
+                }
+                return { tool_result_inline_max_chars: null };
+            },
+        };
+    }
     captureInferenceToolSnapshot(agent) {
         return {
             sameRoundThinkTextPolicy: agent.getEffectiveSameRoundThinkTextPolicy(),
@@ -1564,6 +1706,12 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             // ephemeral agents leave checkpoint-tree keys and diagnostics map
             // entries behind for the life of the store/session.
             this.evictTurnCheckpoints(agent.name);
+            // Turn-alive marker, same spawn-and-dispose logic: a stalled ephemeral
+            // (watchdog fired, driveStream's terminal event lost) would strand its
+            // token forever — no wedge (ephemeral names are unique per run) but
+            // unbounded map growth. Blind delete is safe: the agent is already out
+            // of the map, and a late driveStream finally token-match no-ops.
+            this.activeTurnTokens.delete(agent.name);
         }
     }
     /**
@@ -2847,6 +2995,18 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                     }
                     // Compute truncation limit from agent's strategy (maxMessageTokens * 4 chars)
                     const maxChars = this.getMaxToolResultChars(agent);
+                    // Oversized results spill to a workspace file (truncated preview +
+                    // file reference) instead of being blind-truncated. Computed ONCE
+                    // per call and reused for both the history copy and the live wire
+                    // copy below — the two must stay byte-matched (the window stores
+                    // what the membrane sends; divergence breaks the compile prefix).
+                    const spilled = new Map();
+                    const dateLabel = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+                    for (const tc of currentState.toolResults) {
+                        if (tc.result.isError)
+                            continue;
+                        spilled.set(tc.id, await this.spillOrTruncate(toolResultDataToHistoryString(tc.result.data, undefined), maxChars, `${dateLabel}-${tc.id}`, agent.name));
+                    }
                     // Store tool results as a user message (tool_result blocks).
                     // Use the history serializer so MCP image blocks become a short
                     // `[image: type, size]` placeholder instead of megabytes of base64
@@ -2856,7 +3016,7 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                         toolUseId: tc.id,
                         content: tc.result.isError
                             ? tc.result.error ?? 'Unknown error'
-                            : toolResultDataToHistoryString(tc.result.data, maxChars),
+                            : spilled.get(tc.id) ?? toolResultDataToHistoryString(tc.result.data, maxChars),
                         isError: tc.result.isError,
                     }));
                     agent.getContextManager().addMessage('user', toolResultContent);
@@ -2923,6 +3083,66 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                     const overBudget = currentState.stream
                         && agent.lastStreamInputTokens > 0
                         && agent.lastStreamInputTokens > agent.maxStreamTokens;
+                    // Addressed re-pin (2026-07-31 Mythos misroutes, antra-ratified):
+                    // when someone ADDRESSES the agent mid-turn from another channel
+                    // (mention / reply / DM — the same chat:addressed signal the
+                    // turn-START batch policy prefers), the agent's subsequent plain
+                    // prose almost always answers THEM. Six recorded misroutes
+                    // delivered those answers to the stale frozen locus instead (the
+                    // LabClaude answer into #hospital_commons mid-examination; the
+                    // hospital scene into antra's DM). Re-pin the turn locus to the
+                    // LAST addressed conversational injection, at segment granularity:
+                    // prose routed in earlier rounds already went to the old pin,
+                    // which was correct when it was delivered. Ambient chatter,
+                    // reactions, and system markers still cannot move the pin — the
+                    // 2026-07-21 Cairn hijack protection is unchanged; this extends
+                    // the ratified addressed-outranks-ambient principle from turn
+                    // start to boundaries. Locus mode only (explicit mode has no pin).
+                    // Skipped on endTurn/overBudget: no further prose this stream, and
+                    // a stale "for this turn" notice would be pure noise.
+                    //
+                    // The notice rides the SAME injection batch — stored right after
+                    // the flushed messages and appended to midTurnInjections — so the
+                    // window byte-matches the wire (short event-style notice: the
+                    // classifier-safe D-class from the 2026-07-24 ablation). It also
+                    // updates lastAnnouncedLocus so the next turn's announce-on-change
+                    // diffs against what the agent was actually last told.
+                    if (agent.proseRouting !== 'explicit' &&
+                        !shouldEndTurn && !overBudget && currentState.stream) {
+                        const lastAddressed = [...midTurnInjections].reverse().find((inj) => {
+                            const m = inj.metadata;
+                            return (isConversationalInjection(inj.metadata) &&
+                                typeof m?.channelId === 'string' &&
+                                isAddressedMessage(m.tags, m));
+                        });
+                        const newLocus = lastAddressed?.metadata
+                            ?.channelId;
+                        if (newLocus && this.turnLocusPins.get(agent.name) !== newLocus) {
+                            const prevPin = this.turnLocusPins.get(agent.name) ?? null;
+                            this.turnLocusPins.set(agent.name, newLocus);
+                            this.lastAnnouncedLocus.set(agent.name, newLocus);
+                            const label = this.channelRegistry?.getDescriptor(newLocus)?.label;
+                            const shown = label && label !== newLocus
+                                ? `${label.startsWith('#') ? label : `#${label}`} (${newLocus})`
+                                : newLocus;
+                            const noticeContent = [{
+                                    type: 'text',
+                                    text: `[routing] You were just addressed from ${shown} — your plain ` +
+                                        'speech now lands there for the rest of this turn. Other ' +
+                                        'channels need an explicit send tool.',
+                                }];
+                            const noticeMeta = { system: true, kind: 'routing-notice' };
+                            try {
+                                const id = agent.getContextManager().addMessage('user', noticeContent, noticeMeta);
+                                this.emitTrace({ type: 'message:added', messageId: id, source: 'routing-notice' });
+                                midTurnInjections.push({ participant: 'user', content: noticeContent, metadata: noticeMeta });
+                                console.error(`[routing] ${agent.name}: mid-turn addressed re-pin ${prevPin ?? '(none)'} -> ${newLocus}`);
+                            }
+                            catch (err) {
+                                console.error('mid-turn locus re-pin: failed to record routing notice:', err);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
                     if (shouldEndTurn) {
                         // endTurn: messages already stored above, cancel stream, reset to idle.
                         if (currentState.stream) {
@@ -2948,6 +3168,16 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                         // endTurn above).
                         if (currentState.stream) {
                             this.frameworkCancelledStreams.set(`${agent.name}:${agent.streamId}`, 'budget_restart');
+                            // Cancel the LIVE stream object directly (like the endTurn
+                            // branch above): at a tool boundary the state machine reads
+                            // 'ready', and Agent.cancelStream only signals the stream from
+                            // 'streaming'/'waiting_for_tools' — so the old call left the
+                            // provider stream parked forever awaiting tool results that
+                            // would never come (zombie: driveStream's finally never ran,
+                            // its activeStreams entry survived until the restart's stream
+                            // overwrote it). Harmless by accident before turn-alive
+                            // tracking; a genuine teardown leak after it.
+                            currentState.stream.cancel();
                         }
                         agent.cancelStream();
                         this.emitTrace({
@@ -2969,7 +3199,7 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                         // Mid-turn messages collected above ride along as injected user
                         // messages (membrane ≥0.5.72) — appended after the tool_result
                         // envelope so the next round of THIS turn hears them.
-                        const membraneResults = currentState.toolResults.map(tc => this.toMembraneToolResult(tc.id, tc.result, maxChars));
+                        const membraneResults = currentState.toolResults.map(tc => this.toMembraneToolResult(tc.id, tc.result, maxChars, spilled.get(tc.id)));
                         currentState.stream.provideToolResults(membraneResults, midTurnInjections.length > 0 ? { injectedMessages: midTurnInjections } : undefined);
                         agent.setStreaming(currentState.stream);
                         this.emitTrace({
@@ -3576,8 +3806,24 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                 console.error(`[inference-dropped] agent=${agentName} reason=agent_not_found requests=${requests.length}`);
                 continue;
             }
-            // Skip if agent is busy (inferring, streaming, or waiting for tools)
-            if (agent.state.status === 'inferring' || agent.state.status === 'streaming' || agent.state.status === 'waiting_for_tools') {
+            // Skip if agent is busy (inferring, streaming, or waiting for tools) —
+            // or if a turn is alive at all (activeTurnTokens): the state machine
+            // goes idle at endTurn's reset while driveStream teardown is still
+            // pending, and a successor turn dequeued in that gap compiles while the
+            // predecessor's deferred flush can still write (2026-07-31 Mythos).
+            // Turn-alive spans dequeue → settled teardown; wakes wait it out.
+            //
+            // EXCEPT a context-budget restart: it CONTINUES the turn whose token is
+            // held — queueing it behind its own turn's teardown is a deadlock when
+            // that teardown lags (the cancelled stream's `aborted` event is
+            // asynchronous and, historically, not even guaranteed — see the
+            // overBudget branch). The restart's startAgentStream overwrites the
+            // token; the predecessor frame's late finally no-ops via token-match.
+            // This mirrors how the restart has always overwritten activeStreams
+            // rather than waiting for the old stream's teardown.
+            const isBudgetRestart = requests.some((r) => r.reason === 'context_budget_restart');
+            const turnAlive = !isBudgetRestart && this.activeTurnTokens.has(agentName);
+            if (turnAlive || agent.state.status === 'inferring' || agent.state.status === 'streaming' || agent.state.status === 'waiting_for_tools') {
                 // Re-queue requests, but warn if they've been pending too long
                 const oldest = Math.min(...requests.map(r => r.timestamp));
                 if (now - oldest > STALE_REQUEST_MS &&
@@ -3587,14 +3833,21 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                     // (up to 100/sec after the scheduler backoff), adding avoidable work
                     // precisely while the agent was already under pressure.
                     this.staleWarnAt.set(agentName, now);
+                    // Surface turn-alive separately from the state machine: status can
+                    // read 'idle' while a turn's teardown is pending, and a LEAKED turn
+                    // token would look exactly like this — permanently requeued wakes.
+                    // This line is the wedge's tell (idle+turn-alive, forever).
+                    const shownStatus = turnAlive && agent.state.status === 'idle'
+                        ? 'idle+turn-alive'
+                        : agent.state.status;
                     this.emitTrace({
                         type: 'inference:request_stale',
                         agentName,
-                        agentStatus: agent.state.status,
+                        agentStatus: shownStatus,
                         requestCount: requests.length,
                         oldestRequestAge: now - oldest,
                     });
-                    console.error(`[inference-stale] agent=${agentName} busy (${agent.state.status}) — ` +
+                    console.error(`[inference-stale] agent=${agentName} busy (${shownStatus}) — ` +
                         `${requests.length} request(s) waiting ${Math.round((now - oldest) / 1000)}s`);
                 }
                 this.pendingRequests.push(...requests);
@@ -3897,6 +4150,75 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         }
     }
     async startAgentStream(agent, trigger, attempt = 0) {
+        // Mark the turn alive before ANYTHING awaits (hooks, compile, stream
+        // setup): from here until this turn's teardown, cross-turn writers defer
+        // (addMessage guard) instead of appending — nothing may enter the window
+        // between a turn's dequeue and its settle except the turn's own blocks.
+        // A retry re-enters with a fresh token; teardown clears token-matched.
+        //
+        // The try/finally is the leak-proofing: a token whose owner never clears
+        // it permanently requeues every wake for the agent (the 'idle+turn-alive'
+        // wedge — worse than any single lost turn). Ownership is handed off
+        // exactly once, to driveStream, the moment the stream handle is
+        // registered; on every other exit — including a throw from the turn-start
+        // flush, recordTurnCheckpoint, or locus resolution, none of which the
+        // inner catch covers (ENOSPC-class store writes live there) — the finally
+        // clears our own token. Token-matched, so when a retry frame has replaced
+        // the token, or the terminal-failure branch already deleted it, this
+        // no-ops instead of clobbering a successor's marker.
+        const turnToken = this.nextTurnToken++;
+        this.activeTurnTokens.set(agent.name, turnToken);
+        let tokenHandedOff = false;
+        try {
+            tokenHandedOff = await this.beginAgentTurn(agent, trigger, attempt, turnToken);
+        }
+        finally {
+            if (!tokenHandedOff && this.activeTurnTokens.get(agent.name) === turnToken) {
+                this.activeTurnTokens.delete(agent.name);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Body of startAgentStream, split out so the caller's try/finally owns the
+     * turn token unconditionally. Returns true iff the token was handed off to
+     * driveStream (whose finally then owns clearing it).
+     */
+    async beginAgentTurn(agent, trigger, attempt, turnToken) {
+        // Flush messages deferred during the PREVIOUS turn — before the
+        // checkpoint, the locus announcement, and the compile — so a turn started
+        // by a queued wake actually CONTAINS the message that woke it. (2026-07-31
+        // Mythos: a DM's wake fired a turn whose compile ran before the deferred
+        // DM flushed; the model saw only the routing-shift notice, reasonably
+        // skipped, and the DM then landed before the skip in the window — false
+        // "saw it and ignored it" history plus KV divergence. Flushed here, the
+        // payload rides its own wake, and the notice/payload can never split.)
+        // Primary agent only — deferred messages are framework-level, meant for
+        // the main conversation (same target rule as the tool-boundary flush).
+        // Fresh turns only: a context-budget restart continues the same logical
+        // turn, and flushing there would insert messages between its rounds.
+        // Before recordTurnCheckpoint: these are the turn's inputs, not its
+        // products — undoing the turn must not destroy them.
+        if (attempt === 0 &&
+            trigger?.reason !== 'context_budget_restart' &&
+            this.deferredMessages.length > 0) {
+            const target = (this.primaryAgentName ? this.agents.get(this.primaryAgentName) : undefined) ?? agent;
+            if (target === agent) {
+                const deferred = this.deferredMessages.splice(0);
+                for (const msg of deferred) {
+                    // Per-message try/catch (mirrors announceLocusIfChanged): one
+                    // poison message — or a transient store-write failure — must not
+                    // abort the turn or drop the messages behind it in the queue.
+                    try {
+                        const id = agent.getContextManager().addMessage(msg.participant, msg.content, msg.metadata);
+                        this.emitTrace({ type: 'message:added', messageId: id, source: 'deferred-flush:turn-start' });
+                    }
+                    catch (err) {
+                        console.error(`[deferred-flush] turn-start flush failed to store a message for ${agent.name} ` +
+                            `(participant=${msg.participant}):`, err);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
         // Record turn checkpoint before inference (only on first attempt, not retries)
         if (attempt === 0) {
             this.recordTurnCheckpoint(agent.name);
@@ -4023,6 +4345,9 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             const { stream, request: compiledRequest } = await agent.startStreamWithInjections(tools, injections);
             const handle = this.driveStream(agent, stream, requestSnapshot, trigger, attempt, compiledRequest);
             this.activeStreams.set(agent.name, handle);
+            // Handoff: driveStream captured the token in its synchronous prefix;
+            // its finally now owns clearing it. The caller's finally must not.
+            return true;
         }
         catch (error) {
             // The early typing indicator has no driveStream `finally` on this path —
@@ -4040,9 +4365,19 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             const action = this.errorPolicy.onInferenceError(err, agent.name, attempt);
             if (action.retry) {
                 await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, action.delayMs));
+                // The retry re-enters startAgentStream, which replaces this frame's
+                // turn token with its own; cleanup belongs to the innermost frame.
                 await this.startAgentStream(agent, trigger, attempt + 1);
             }
             else {
+                // Terminal failure with no driveStream: this frame owns teardown.
+                // Token-matched (like the finally in driveStream) so a stale frame
+                // can never clear a successor turn's marker. A leaked token would
+                // permanently requeue every wake for this agent (same wedge shape as
+                // the eventGate `inferring` leak) — every exit path must clear it.
+                if (this.activeTurnTokens.get(agent.name) === turnToken) {
+                    this.activeTurnTokens.delete(agent.name);
+                }
                 this.settleAgent(agent.name, {
                     stopReason: 'exhausted',
                     speech: '',
@@ -4066,12 +4401,22 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                     this.pushEvent(action.emit);
                 }
             }
+            // No handoff on either failure branch: the terminal branch deleted the
+            // token above; the retry branch's recursive startAgentStream replaced
+            // it with the inner frame's token. Returning false lets the caller's
+            // token-matched finally no-op in both cases (and actually clear it if
+            // something above threw before either branch ran).
+            return false;
         }
     }
     async driveStream(agent, stream, requestSnapshot, trigger, attempt = 0, compiledRequest) {
         const startTime = Date.now();
         const requestId = `${agent.name}-${startTime}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8)}`;
         const myStreamId = agent.streamId;
+        // This turn's alive-marker, set at startAgentStream entry. Safe to read
+        // from the map here: the turn-alive busy check in processInferenceRequests
+        // means no successor turn can have replaced it while we compiled.
+        const myTurnToken = this.activeTurnTokens.get(agent.name);
         let hadToolCalls = false;
         // ---- Present-while-acting turn state ---------------------------------
         // Output locus for the WHOLE logical turn: frozen in startAgentStream
@@ -4872,6 +5217,16 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             if (this.closingConversationAgents.has(agent.name)) {
                 this.disposeConversationAgent(agent.name);
             }
+            // The turn is torn down — release the turn-alive marker BEFORE the
+            // deferred flush below, so the flush appends at the settled tail.
+            // Token-matched: if a successor turn already owns the agent (endTurn
+            // reset the state machine before this finally ran — the 2026-07-31
+            // interleave), leave its marker alone; the guarded addMessage below
+            // then re-defers, and the successor's own turn-start flush / boundary
+            // injection / teardown delivers the messages at a correct position.
+            if (myTurnToken !== undefined && this.activeTurnTokens.get(agent.name) === myTurnToken) {
+                this.activeTurnTokens.delete(agent.name);
+            }
             // Flush any deferred messages (e.g. if stream failed while tools were pending)
             if (this.deferredMessages.length > 0 && this.pendingAssistantBlocks.size === 0) {
                 const deferred = this.deferredMessages.splice(0);
@@ -4885,8 +5240,22 @@ export class AgentFramework {
      * Execute a tool call and return the result.
      * Routes to the appropriate handler (module registry or MCPL).
      * Used by SubagentModule to dispatch tool calls for ephemeral agents.
+     *
+     * This public entry always carries AGENT origin. Ephemeral/promise-based
+     * callers are models, and provenance must identify which internal path a
+     * call entered through — a public method shared with model callers can
+     * never confer module trust, whatever the input claims. Module origin
+     * exists only through the private closure handed to ModuleRegistry
+     * (ctx.callTool → executeToolCallFrom with {kind:'module'}). Callers that
+     * don't identify themselves fail safe to agent semantics too.
      */
     async executeToolCall(call) {
+        return this.executeToolCallFrom(call, {
+            kind: 'agent',
+            agentName: call.callerAgentName ?? '__ephemeral__',
+        });
+    }
+    async executeToolCallFrom(call, origin) {
         // Client-side programmatic tool calling for promise-based callers
         // (SubagentModule ephemerals). Keyed by callerAgentName so each ephemeral
         // gets its own interpreter state.
@@ -4905,6 +5274,25 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                 }
             }
         }
+        // Synthesized channel tools. This route was missing: when
+        // subscription-GC moved off the retired MCPL unsubscribe tool onto the
+        // generic channel_close (discord-mcpl b095a9f), module-originated
+        // closes started failing downstream as "Invalid tool name format" —
+        // the janitor had been silently broken since. `origin` is trusted
+        // dispatch context established at the call boundary above, not
+        // inferred from which method was used: only the ModuleRegistry closure
+        // carries module provenance (see handleToolClose). The agent-only
+        // synthesized verbs (think, skip_reply) are deliberately not routed
+        // here.
+        if (call.name.startsWith('channel_') && this.channelRegistry) {
+            return this.channelRegistry.handleChannelToolCall(call.name, call.input, origin);
+        }
+        // The utils meta-tool — programmatic callers (code_execution scripts,
+        // ephemerals, ModuleContext.callTool) reach utilities the same way the
+        // model does.
+        if (call.name === 'utils') {
+            return this.handleUtilsToolCall(call.callerAgentName ?? '__ephemeral__', call);
+        }
         // Module tools
         return this.moduleRegistry.handleToolCall(call);
     }
@@ -5000,6 +5388,43 @@ export class AgentFramework {
      */
     async runCodeExecution(agentName, call) {
         const input = (call.input ?? {});
+        // Management surface: the agent's own daemon fleet is inspectable and
+        // killable through the same tool that spawns it.
+        if (input.action === 'list') {
+            const scripts = [...this.backgroundScripts.values()]
+                .filter((s) => s.agentName === agentName)
+                .map((s) => ({
+                script_id: s.id,
+                status: s.status,
+                started_at: new Date(s.startedAt).toISOString(),
+                wakes: s.wakes,
+                last_wake_at: s.lastWakeAt ? new Date(s.lastWakeAt).toISOString() : null,
+                log: s.logPath,
+            }));
+            return { success: true, data: { background_scripts: scripts } };
+        }
+        if (input.action === 'cancel') {
+            if (typeof input.script_id !== 'string') {
+                return { success: false, error: 'cancel requires `script_id`', isError: true };
+            }
+            const record = this.backgroundScripts.get(input.script_id);
+            if (!record || record.agentName !== agentName) {
+                return { success: false, error: `no background script '${input.script_id}'`, isError: true };
+            }
+            if (record.status === 'running') {
+                record.cancelled = true;
+                record.status = 'cancelled';
+                record.runner.abort('cancelled by agent');
+                record.runner.dispose();
+            }
+            return {
+                success: true,
+                data: { script_id: record.id, status: record.status, log: record.logPath },
+            };
+        }
+        if (input.action !== undefined && input.action !== 'run') {
+            return { success: false, error: `unknown action ${JSON.stringify(input.action)}`, isError: true };
+        }
         if (typeof input.code !== 'string' || input.code.trim() === '') {
             return {
                 success: false,
@@ -5012,6 +5437,9 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             ? this.getToolsForAgent(agentName).filter((t) => agent.canUseTool(t.name))
             : this.getAllTools(); // ephemeral agents: full surface, matching executeToolCall
         const injected = buildInjectedTools(surface.map((t) => t.name).filter((name) => name !== CODE_EXECUTION_TOOL_NAME));
+        if (input.background === true) {
+            return this.startBackgroundScript(agentName, input.code, injected);
+        }
         const runner = this.getOrCreateScriptRunner(agentName);
         this.scriptDeferredEndTurn.delete(agentName);
         const exec = await runner.exec(input.code, injected);
@@ -5023,6 +5451,255 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             ...(endTurn ? { endTurn: true } : {}),
         };
     }
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Background (daemon) scripts — model-authored watchers that outlive the turn
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    /**
+     * Start a background script: dedicated interpreter, output journaled to a
+     * workspace file, wake_agent() available in-script. The tool result
+     * returns immediately; the script runs until it ends, hits the lifetime
+     * ceiling, or is cancelled. Scripts DIE WITH THE HOST PROCESS — that
+     * limitation is stated in the tool description so agents can calibrate
+     * how much to rely on an armed wake.
+     */
+    startBackgroundScript(agentName, code, injected) {
+        // v1: primary-agent-only. A conversation fork's or ephemeral's daemon
+        // would outlive its owner and its wake would land in the primary
+        // conversation anyway — refuse loudly instead of surprising anyone.
+        if (this.primaryAgentName && agentName !== this.primaryAgentName) {
+            return {
+                success: false,
+                error: 'background scripts are available to the primary agent only',
+                isError: true,
+            };
+        }
+        const cfg = this.codeExecutionConfig;
+        const maxScripts = cfg?.maxBackgroundScripts ?? 3;
+        const runningCount = [...this.backgroundScripts.values()]
+            .filter((s) => s.agentName === agentName && s.status === 'running').length;
+        if (runningCount >= maxScripts) {
+            return {
+                success: false,
+                error: `background script limit reached (${maxScripts} running). ` +
+                    'Use code_execution {"action": "list"} to inspect and {"action": "cancel", "script_id": ...} to free a slot.',
+                isError: true,
+            };
+        }
+        const scriptId = `bg-${++this.backgroundScriptCounter}`;
+        const lifetimeMs = cfg?.backgroundMaxLifetimeMs ?? 86_400_000;
+        // Journal: a file under the agent's first read-write workspace mount so
+        // their existing read/grep/shell tools work on it. Python appends
+        // directly to the materialized path; watch-mode mounts sync it back to
+        // the chronicle tree on their usual cadence.
+        let logPath = null;
+        let logAbsPath = null;
+        const workspace = this.getWorkspaceModule();
+        if (workspace) {
+            const mountName = this.firstWritableMountName(workspace);
+            if (mountName) {
+                logPath = `${mountName}/background-scripts/${scriptId}.log`;
+                logAbsPath = workspace.resolveAbsolutePath(logPath);
+            }
+        }
+        const runner = new PyRunner({
+            pythonPath: cfg?.pythonPath,
+            toolCallTimeoutMs: cfg?.toolCallTimeoutMs,
+            scriptTimeoutMs: cfg?.scriptTimeoutMs,
+            idleReclaimMs: 0, // dedicated runner; lifetime is the exec deadline
+            label: `${agentName}:${scriptId}`,
+            onToolCall: (toolName, args) => this.handleScriptToolCall(agentName, toolName, args),
+        });
+        const record = {
+            id: scriptId,
+            agentName,
+            runner,
+            code,
+            startedAt: Date.now(),
+            wakes: 0,
+            lastWakeAt: null,
+            logPath,
+            status: 'running',
+            cancelled: false,
+        };
+        this.backgroundScripts.set(scriptId, record);
+        this.emitTrace({
+            type: 'tool:started', module: 'code_execution', tool: `background:${scriptId}`,
+            callId: scriptId, input: { lines: code.split('\n').length },
+        });
+        void runner
+            .exec(code, injected, {
+            logPath: logAbsPath,
+            lifetimeMs,
+            onWake: (line, payload) => this.handleScriptWake(record, line, payload),
+        })
+            .then((exec) => this.settleBackgroundScript(record, exec))
+            .catch((err) => {
+            // exec never rejects by contract; this is the belt-and-suspenders.
+            console.error(`[pytc:${agentName}:${scriptId}] background exec rejected: ${String(err)}`);
+            this.settleBackgroundScript(record, {
+                stdout: '', stderr: String(err), returnCode: 1, aborted: true,
+            });
+        });
+        return {
+            success: true,
+            data: {
+                status: 'background script started',
+                script_id: scriptId,
+                log: logPath ?? 'no writable workspace mount — output is not retrievable; only wake_agent() reaches you',
+                lifetime_hours: Math.round(lifetimeMs / 3_600_000 * 10) / 10,
+                note: 'The script dies if the host process restarts. Manage with code_execution {"action": "list"|"cancel"}.',
+            },
+        };
+    }
+    /** First read-write mount name, or null. */
+    firstWritableMountName(workspace) {
+        const mounts = workspace.getMounts?.();
+        if (mounts) {
+            const rw = mounts.find((m) => m.mode !== 'read-only');
+            return rw?.name ?? null;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    /**
+     * wake_agent() from a background script: enforce the per-script wake cap
+     * and rate floor (delay, not drop — the script awaits the ack), then
+     * inject the provenance envelope + payload and request inference.
+     * Resolves null on delivery; an error string refuses the wake (raises
+     * RuntimeError inside the script).
+     */
+    async handleScriptWake(record, line, payload) {
+        if (record.cancelled)
+            return 'script was cancelled';
+        const cfg = this.codeExecutionConfig;
+        const maxWakes = cfg?.maxWakesPerScript ?? 100;
+        if (record.wakes >= maxWakes) {
+            return `wake limit reached (${maxWakes} per script)`;
+        }
+        const floorMs = cfg?.wakeMinIntervalMs ?? 60_000;
+        if (record.lastWakeAt !== null) {
+            const wait = record.lastWakeAt + floorMs - Date.now();
+            if (wait > 0) {
+                await new Promise((r) => {
+                    const t = setTimeout(r, wait);
+                    t.unref?.();
+                });
+                if (record.cancelled)
+                    return 'script was cancelled';
+            }
+        }
+        record.wakes += 1;
+        record.lastWakeAt = Date.now();
+        const elapsedMin = Math.round((Date.now() - record.startedAt) / 60_000);
+        const payloadJson = payload === undefined || payload === null
+            ? 'null'
+            : JSON.stringify(payload, null, 1) ?? String(payload);
+        const agent = this.agents.get(record.agentName);
+        const maxChars = agent ? this.getMaxToolResultChars(agent) : undefined;
+        const payloadText = await this.spillOrTruncate(payloadJson, maxChars, `${record.id}-wake${record.wakes}`);
+        const envelope = `[background script ${record.id}] Woke you: wake_agent() called at line ${line} of your script, ` +
+            `${elapsedMin}m after you started it (wake ${record.wakes} of ${maxWakes}).\n` +
+            `Arguments:\n${payloadText}\n` +
+            (record.logPath ? `Script output so far: workspace file ${record.logPath}\n` : '') +
+            `Script status: still running`;
+        this.injectScriptWake(record, envelope);
+        return null;
+    }
+    /** Background script ended (clean, crash, deadline, cancel/dispose). */
+    settleBackgroundScript(record, exec) {
+        record.runner.dispose();
+        if (record.status === 'running') {
+            record.status = exec.returnCode === 0 ? 'finished' : 'died';
+        }
+        this.emitTrace({
+            type: 'tool:completed', module: 'code_execution', tool: `background:${record.id}`,
+            callId: record.id, durationMs: Date.now() - record.startedAt,
+        });
+        // Crash honesty: a resident sleeping on a promise must never have that
+        // promise die silently. Deliberate cancels/disposes stay silent (the
+        // agent or host chose them); clean exits stay silent (the null path).
+        if (record.status === 'died' && !record.cancelled) {
+            const tail = (exec.tail ?? exec.stderr ?? '').slice(-2000);
+            const elapsedMin = Math.round((Date.now() - record.startedAt) / 60_000);
+            const envelope = `[background script ${record.id}] Your background script DIED ${elapsedMin}m after start ` +
+                `(it did not call wake_agent and is no longer watching).\n` +
+                `Last output:\n${tail || '(none)'}\n` +
+                (record.logPath ? `Full journal: workspace file ${record.logPath}` : '');
+            this.injectScriptWake(record, envelope);
+        }
+        // Keep a short memory of settled scripts for {"action":"list"}, then drop.
+        const settled = [...this.backgroundScripts.values()]
+            .filter((s) => s.agentName === record.agentName && s.status !== 'running');
+        for (const old of settled.slice(0, Math.max(0, settled.length - 5))) {
+            this.backgroundScripts.delete(old.id);
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Deliver a background-script event: provenance envelope into the agent's
+     * context + an inference request. Deliberately does NOT consult the event
+     * gate — the agent armed this wake themselves (wake-through-sleep
+     * authority); it enters tagged so gate policies could be taught about it
+     * later if that ever needs revisiting.
+     */
+    injectScriptWake(record, envelope) {
+        try {
+            const messageId = this.addMessage('user', [{ type: 'text', text: envelope }], {
+                source: 'background-script',
+                scriptId: record.id,
+                tags: ['script:wake'],
+            });
+            this.pendingRequests.push({
+                agentName: record.agentName,
+                reason: 'script:wake',
+                source: 'code_execution',
+                timestamp: Date.now(),
+            });
+            this.emitTrace({
+                type: 'message:added',
+                messageId,
+                source: `background-script:${record.id}`,
+            });
+        }
+        catch (err) {
+            console.error(`[pytc:${record.agentName}:${record.id}] wake injection failed: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Oversized content policy (antra, 2026-07-31): never hit the agent in
+     * the face with a huge blob, never silently destroy it either. Content
+     * over the inline cap is materialized to a workspace file (readable with
+     * the agent's own tools) and replaced by a truncated head + a trailing
+     * file reference. Falls back to plain truncation when there is no
+     * writable workspace. The cap can be lifted temporarily via
+     * agent_settings `tool_result_inline_max_chars`.
+     */
+    async spillOrTruncate(content, maxChars, label, agentName) {
+        const override = agentName !== undefined
+            ? this.toolResultInlineMaxCharsOverride.get(agentName)
+            : undefined;
+        const cap = override ?? maxChars;
+        if (!cap || content.length <= cap)
+            return content;
+        const workspace = this.getWorkspaceModule();
+        const mountName = workspace ? this.firstWritableMountName(workspace) : null;
+        if (workspace && mountName) {
+            const safeLabel = label.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9._-]/g, '_').slice(0, 80);
+            const path = `${mountName}/tool-results/${safeLabel}.txt`;
+            try {
+                const result = await workspace.writeBinary(path, Buffer.from(content, 'utf8'), 'text/plain');
+                if (result.success) {
+                    return safeSlice(content, 0, cap)
+                        + `\n\n[truncated — showing ${cap} of ${content.length} chars; full content: workspace file ${path}. `
+                        + 'Read/grep it with your file tools, or raise the inline cap temporarily via '
+                        + 'agent_settings update tool_result_inline_max_chars.]';
+                }
+            }
+            catch {
+                // fall through to plain truncation
+            }
+        }
+        return safeSlice(content, 0, cap)
+            + '\n\n[truncated — original was ' + content.length + ' chars]';
+    }
     getOrCreateScriptRunner(agentName) {
         let runner = this.codeExecutionRunners.get(agentName);
         if (!runner) {
@@ -5064,9 +5741,10 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         }
         if (result.data === undefined)
             return '';
-        const agent = this.agents.get(agentName);
-        const maxChars = agent ? this.getMaxToolResultChars(agent) : undefined;
-        return toolResultDataToHistoryString(result.data, maxChars);
+        // Scripts get (nearly) full data — the script environment IS the spill:
+        // filtering big results in code is the whole point. 5MB protocol safety
+        // cap only; no context-cap truncation, no file spill.
+        return toolResultDataToHistoryString(result.data, 5_000_000);
     }
     /**
      * Dispatch a script-inner tool call through the NORMAL dispatch path and
@@ -5114,7 +5792,10 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             runner.abort(reason);
         }
     }
-    toMembraneToolResult(callId, afResult, maxChars) {
+    toMembraneToolResult(callId, afResult, maxChars, 
+    /** Pre-spilled string from the history path — used for the non-image
+     *  path so the live wire copy byte-matches what the window stored. */
+    precomputed) {
         if (afResult.isError) {
             return { toolUseId: callId, content: afResult.error ?? 'Unknown error', isError: true };
         }
@@ -5126,6 +5807,9 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         if (blocks) {
             return { toolUseId: callId, content: blocks, isError: false };
         }
+        if (precomputed !== undefined) {
+            return { toolUseId: callId, content: precomputed, isError: false };
+        }
         // JSON.stringify returns the VALUE undefined (not a string) for undefined
         // input — a module tool returning `{ success: true }` with no data would
         // otherwise make `content.length` below throw a TypeError mid-turn.
@@ -5292,6 +5976,10 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             return;
         }
         // Route the agent's typed, allowlisted hot-settings surface.
+        if (enrichedCall.name === 'utils') {
+            this.dispatchUtilsToolCall(agentName, enrichedCall);
+            return;
+        }
         if (enrichedCall.name === 'agent_settings') {
             this.dispatchAgentSettingsToolCall(agentName, enrichedCall);
             return;
@@ -5427,15 +6115,25 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         }
         // Defer non-tool_result messages while a tool cycle is mid-flight
         // (pendingAssistantBlocks: preserves tool_use → tool_result adjacency)
-        // OR while the target agent has a live stream at all. A message stored
-        // mid-stream lands BEFORE the turn's assistant blocks in the window even
-        // though the live conversation never saw it — so the next compile
-        // diverges from the live prefix (prompt-cache bust) and the message
-        // misses mid-turn injection. Deferred messages flush at the agent's next
-        // tool boundary (where they are ALSO injected into the live stream —
-        // hear-while-acting) or in driveStream's finally when the turn ends.
+        // OR while the target agent has a turn in progress AT ALL. A message
+        // stored mid-turn lands BEFORE the turn's assistant blocks in the window
+        // even though the live conversation never saw it — so the next compile
+        // diverges from the live prefix (prompt-cache bust), the message misses
+        // mid-turn injection, and the window falsely testifies the agent saw it
+        // and moved on. Turn-alive (activeTurnTokens) is the guard, not stream-
+        // alive: a turn exists from dequeue through hooks + compile before its
+        // stream registers in activeStreams, and the 2026-07-31 Mythos incident
+        // was precisely a deferred flush landing inside that compile window.
+        // (activeStreams is kept as a belt-and-suspenders backstop.) Deferred
+        // messages flush at the next turn's START (before its compile — riding
+        // their own wake), at the agent's next tool boundary (where they are
+        // ALSO injected into the live stream — hear-while-acting), or in
+        // driveStream's finally when the turn ends.
         const hasToolResult = content.some(b => b.type === 'tool_result');
-        if (!hasToolResult && (this.pendingAssistantBlocks.size > 0 || this.activeStreams.has(agent.name))) {
+        if (!hasToolResult &&
+            (this.pendingAssistantBlocks.size > 0 ||
+                this.activeTurnTokens.has(agent.name) ||
+                this.activeStreams.has(agent.name))) {
             this.deferredMessages.push({ participant, content, metadata });
             return ''; // Deferred — flushed at the next boundary
         }
@@ -6889,7 +7587,7 @@ export class AgentFramework {
         }
         this.emitTrace({ type: 'tool:started', module: 'channels', tool: call.name, callId: call.id, input: call.input });
         const startTime = Date.now();
-        this.channelRegistry.handleChannelToolCall(call.name, call.input)
+        this.channelRegistry.handleChannelToolCall(call.name, call.input, { kind: 'agent', agentName })
             .then((result) => {
             const durationMs = Date.now() - startTime;
             this.emitTrace({ type: 'tool:completed', module: 'channels', tool: call.name, callId: call.id, durationMs });
@@ -7102,6 +7800,31 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                 if (typeof input.path !== 'string' || input.path.length === 0) {
                     throw new Error('read_image: `path` (mount-prefixed) is required');
                 }
+                // Anthropic rejects images >5MB (and >8000px); guard the hard byte
+                // limit here — resizing is out of scope without an image library.
+                const MAX_IMAGE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
+                // Prefer the workspace module's own read_image handler when it exists:
+                // it reads tree-first with a FILESYSTEM FALLBACK, so binaries that live
+                // only on disk (shell-created files, pre-fix mangled tree blobs) still
+                // render. The legacy tree-only path below stays for older workspace
+                // modules that don't advertise the tool.
+                if (typeof workspace.handleToolCall === 'function' &&
+                    typeof workspace.getTools === 'function' &&
+                    workspace.getTools().some((tool) => tool.name === 'read_image')) {
+                    const result = await workspace.handleToolCall({ ...call, name: 'read_image' });
+                    if (result.success && Array.isArray(result.data)) {
+                        const image = result.data.find((block) => typeof block === 'object' && block !== null &&
+                            block.type === 'image' &&
+                            typeof block.data === 'string');
+                        const byteLength = image ? Math.floor((image.data.length * 3) / 4) : 0;
+                        if (byteLength > MAX_IMAGE_BYTES) {
+                            throw new Error(`read_image: "${input.path}" is ~${byteLength} bytes — ` +
+                                `over the ${MAX_IMAGE_BYTES}-byte model limit`);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    finish(result);
+                    return;
+                }
                 const read = await workspace.readBinary(input.path);
                 if ('error' in read)
                     throw new Error(read.error);
@@ -7110,9 +7833,6 @@ export class AgentFramework {
                     throw new Error(`read_image: "${input.path}" does not look like a supported image ` +
                         '(png/jpeg/gif/webp — checked by magic bytes, not extension)');
                 }
-                // Anthropic rejects images >5MB (and >8000px); guard the hard byte
-                // limit here — resizing is out of scope without an image library.
-                const MAX_IMAGE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
                 if (read.data.byteLength > MAX_IMAGE_BYTES) {
                     throw new Error(`read_image: "${input.path}" is ${read.data.byteLength} bytes — ` +
                         `over the ${MAX_IMAGE_BYTES}-byte model limit`);
@@ -7274,6 +7994,81 @@ export class AgentFramework {
             }
         })();
     }
+    /** The `utils` meta-tool: list/describe/run over module utilities
+     *  (Module.getUtilities). Shared by the model-facing dispatcher and the
+     *  programmatic path (executeToolCall), so code_execution scripts and
+     *  ephemerals reach utilities too. */
+    async handleUtilsToolCall(agentName, call) {
+        const input = (call.input ?? {});
+        const utilities = this.moduleRegistry.getAllUtilities();
+        const available = () => utilities.length ? utilities.map((u) => u.name).join(', ') : '(none registered)';
+        switch (input.action) {
+            case 'list':
+                return {
+                    success: true,
+                    data: utilities.map((u) => ({ name: u.name, description: utilityOneLiner(u.description) })),
+                };
+            case 'describe': {
+                const def = utilities.find((u) => u.name === input.name);
+                if (!def) {
+                    return { success: false, isError: true, error: `No utility "${String(input.name)}". Available: ${available()}` };
+                }
+                return { success: true, data: def };
+            }
+            case 'run': {
+                const def = utilities.find((u) => u.name === input.name);
+                if (!def) {
+                    return { success: false, isError: true, error: `No utility "${String(input.name)}". Available: ${available()}` };
+                }
+                const args = input.args ?? {};
+                const problem = validateUtilityArgs(args, def.inputSchema);
+                if (problem) {
+                    // Teach by bounce: the error carries the schema, so the retry needs
+                    // no describe round-trip.
+                    return {
+                        success: false,
+                        isError: true,
+                        error: `${problem}. Schema for ${def.name}: ${JSON.stringify(def.inputSchema)}`,
+                    };
+                }
+                // Same dispatch as a first-class tool call — the module cannot tell
+                // which surface the call came through.
+                return this.moduleRegistry.handleToolCall({
+                    id: call.id,
+                    name: def.name,
+                    input: args,
+                    callerAgentName: agentName,
+                });
+            }
+            default:
+                return { success: false, isError: true, error: 'action must be "list", "describe", or "run"' };
+        }
+    }
+    dispatchUtilsToolCall(agentName, call) {
+        this.emitTrace({ type: 'tool:started', module: 'framework', tool: 'utils', callId: call.id, input: call.input });
+        const startedAt = Date.now();
+        void this.handleUtilsToolCall(agentName, call)
+            .catch((err) => ({
+            success: false,
+            error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
+            isError: true,
+        }))
+            .then((result) => {
+            if (result.success) {
+                this.emitTrace({ type: 'tool:completed', module: 'framework', tool: 'utils', callId: call.id, durationMs: Date.now() - startedAt });
+            }
+            else {
+                this.emitTrace({ type: 'tool:failed', module: 'framework', tool: 'utils', callId: call.id, error: result.error ?? 'unknown error' });
+            }
+            this.pushEvent({
+                type: 'tool-result',
+                callId: call.id,
+                agentName,
+                moduleName: 'framework',
+                result,
+            });
+        });
+    }
     dispatchAgentSettingsToolCall(agentName, call) {
         this.emitTrace({
             type: 'tool:started',