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+title: p3: Feature Set and Work Packages (prep for the design meeting)
+cover: p3 / Features
+kicker: Meeting prep · p3 on Chord v2 · 2026-11-03
+subtitle: What p2 does today (in pictures), what p3 should ship first, how hands, sync and the plugin API fit, and a first cut into work packages
+stats:
+  - 28 | feature areas in p2 today
+  - 21 | model-facing tools in p2
+  - 78 | coding-agent extension examples checked against the p3 plugin API
+  - 12 | proposed work packages
+note: |
+  Written by the redesign session for the meeting on 2026-11-03, from three research passes over p2
+  (`apps/p2` at `b7af55ace`), the coding agent's extension examples and p2's environments and Radius code
+  (`/tmp/p3-prep/features.md`, `extensions.md`, `envs.md`), the owner's notes and Armin's summary of the 2026-11-02
+  meeting. Chord v2's slices 1-13 are built (the app kit included); slice 11 (web and TUI) is building. Everything
+  marked "proposed" is for the meeting to decide.
+colophon: p3 Feature Set and Work Packages · meeting prep · 2026-11-03
+---
+
+# Before we begin {.preface}
+
+p2 grew feature by feature on the phone: 33 plugins, about 65,000 lines, a web shell and a TUI. p3 is its rewrite on
+Chord v2, with an app kit that already gives hosts, workers, HTTP with sessions and pairing, plugins with versioned
+APIs, files and export. The meeting's job is to decide what p3 ships first, what waits, and how the work splits.
+
+Some of it was settled yesterday (Armin's summary): sessions sync to R2 through Radius by commit log, the session index
+is a replicated Chord table, every host kind loads plugins through registries, hands connect proactively. The owner
+added: voice waits; environments turn around into hands; continuing a local session on Radius is core; subagents and
+handoff are in, artifacts are questionable; the plugin API stays small enough to evolve.
+
+## Ten things to know
+
+:::findings
+1. **Proposed base:** sessions (with delete), the agent and conversations, subagents, history and handoff, code mode,
+   shell commands, models and login, prompt resources, workspace (read and review), file index, status and notices,
+   search through the index, the web shell and the TUI, hands, session sync and continue-on-Radius.
+2. **Proposed later:** voice, terminals (need channels and hands), artifacts, port forwards, chat mode and guest
+   sharing, MCP and `tool_search`.
+3. **Hands replace SSH-dialled daemons:** a long-lived daemon dials the server (or Radius), is enrolled once by a
+   pairing code, and carries p2's existing daemon protocol over one multiplexed WebSocket.
+4. **The sync handshake needs a driver identity.** Two machines writing one session both push "from Radius's last
+   seq" and silently diverge; an epoch or lease per session (Chord's rule S7) closes it.
+5. **The index has two writers** once a session continues on Radius; three options, one recommended (derive rows from
+   session stores).
+6. **Tools in base:** `read`, `write`, `edit`, `bash`, `codemode`, `subagent`, `team`, `agent`, `conversations`,
+   `history_*`, location tools, `rename_session`, `send_file`; artifacts, ports and `reload_plugins` wait or change.
+7. **One CLI, no environment variables:** `p3 serve`, `p3 tui`, `p3 hand`, `p3 owner-link`, `p3 install`; settings as
+   arguments and files, per the app kit.
+8. **The plugin API v1 is seven clusters,** almost all already existing: Durable's extension, a `Conversation`
+   contract, input transforms, environments and models, questions, UI registries, objects for state.
+9. **Litmus test:** all 78 coding-agent extension examples are expressible; Doom needs two small fixes (frame splitting
+   in the TUI bridge, a path for large plugin assets); streaming frames from a worker and raw terminal ownership do
+   not fit, by design.
+10. **Twelve work packages,** with p3's skeleton on the app kit and the session/index/sync core first.
+:::
+
+## Words used throughout
+
+A **hand** is a daemon on a machine that connects out to a p3 server or to Radius and offers execution (commands,
+files, watching, terminals). A **driver** is the single host allowed to write a session's store at a time; a
+**replica** follows its commits. An **epoch** numbers driver changes. The **index** is the table of session metadata
+(title, status, idle state) the session list reads. The **app kit** is Chord's `startApp`/`startWorker` layer.
+
+# p2 in Pictures {#pictures lede="What each feature area looks like today, on the web, the phone and in the terminal."}
+
+All content is invented (a small shop project, the owner Dana, a guest), the models are a fake provider's, tools ran
+for real on a demo repository. Stills are from the web on a desktop and a phone and from the TUI; the clips loop.
+
+## Sessions
+
+{{img:sessions-list-desktop.webp|The sidebar: sessions grouped by directory, subagent counts, footer buttons.}}
+{{img:sessions-drawer-phone.webp|The drawer on the phone, a subagent expanded.}} {{img:sessions-create-phone.webp|A new session on the phone.}}
+{{img:sessions-create-directory-picker.webp|The directory picker for a new session: environment, path, folders, recent.}}
+{{img:sessions-options-sheet.webp|The session sheet: title, share, working directory, pin, archive.}}
+{{img:tui-session-selector.webp|The TUI's session selector, subagents threaded under their session.}}
+
+## Conversations and the agent
+
+{{clip:clip-streaming.mp4|Sending a question: thinking, a read card, a table and code stream in.}}
+{{img:conversation-thinking.webp|A turn with thinking expanded and read, write and edit cards.}}
+{{img:conversation-edit-diff-card.webp|An edit card with its diff.}}
+{{img:conversation-bash-card.webp|A bash card with its output, then the answer.}}
+{{img:conversation-streaming.webp|While an answer streams: the busy dot, the Steer composer, the stop button.}}
+{{img:conversation-transcript-phone.webp|The transcript on the phone.}} {{img:conversation-model-picker-phone.webp|The model sheet on the phone.}}
+{{img:conversation-cost-sheet.webp|The cost sheet: totals, cost and cache hits per response.}}
+{{img:tui-transcript-tools.webp|The same agent in the TUI: thinking, tools, the answer, editor and footer.}}
+
+## Subagents, history and handoff, code mode
+
+{{img:subagents-spawn-and-report.webp|A spawned subagent in the parent's transcript, and its report.}}
+{{img:subagents-conversation.webp|The subagent's own conversation, selected in the sidebar.}}
+{{img:history-handoff-card.webp|A handoff: the continuation text, then a new context.}}
+{{img:history-search-card.webp|history_search with its hits.}}
+{{img:codemode-card.webp|A code mode script with three nested tool calls.}}
+
+## Shell commands and chat mode
+
+{{img:shell-command-tui.webp|A shell command run from the TUI with its output (the web can only show it).}}
+{{img:chatmode-two-people.webp|Chat mode: owner and guest talk, an @pi mention gets a digest and an answer.}}
+
+## Sharing, devices, providers
+
+{{img:sharing-sheet.webp|The share sheet: read-only and read/write links, a connected guest.}}
+{{img:sharing-join-page.webp|Joining through a share link.}} {{img:sharing-guest-view-phone.webp|The session as the guest sees it.}}
+{{img:devices-sheet.webp|The devices sheet (the one-time token masked).}}
+{{img:providers-login.webp|A provider's login methods.}}
+
+## Workspace, @ completion, terminals
+
+{{clip:clip-workspace-review.mp4|Changes, a diff, a line comment, Send all; the agent answers the review.}}
+{{img:workspace-files.webp|Files: tree, sizes, upload.}}
+{{img:workspace-changes.webp|Changes: branch, uncommitted files, commits.}}
+{{img:workspace-search.webp|Text search across the project.}}
+{{clip:clip-at-completion.mp4|@ completion in the composer.}}
+{{img:terminals-web.webp|A web terminal panel with tabs and a key row.}}
+{{img:tui-slash-changes-diff.webp|The TUI's /changes diff (read-only).}}
+
+## Environments, artifacts, attachments, search
+
+{{img:environments-panel.webp|The environments sheet: SSH environments and the ports entry.}}
+{{img:artifacts-preview.webp|An artifact in the sandboxed preview.}}
+{{img:attachments-message.webp|A message with an image attachment.}}
+{{img:search-results.webp|Sidebar search: message hits for "rounding".}}
+
+## Status, notices, logs, voice, ports
+
+{{img:status-footer-viewers.webp|The composer footer: model, viewers, cache hit rate, cost, context.}}
+{{img:notices-owner-notice.webp|An owner notice after a worker was killed, with Show logs.}}
+{{img:logs-sheet.webp|The logs sheet following the server's log.}}
+{{img:voice-sheet.webp|The voice sheet (later in p3).}}
+{{img:ports-panel.webp|The ports panel without Radius (later in p3).}}
+
+## The web shell and the TUI
+
+{{clip:clip-phone-sheets.mp4|The phone: drawer, switching sessions, the session sheet, the share sheet, Back.}}
+{{img:webshell-phone-sheet-2-directory.webp|The sheet stack on the phone: a second sheet pushed on the first.}}
+{{clip:clip-tui-palette.mp4|The TUI's F1 palette: filter, run a command, the model selector.}}
+{{img:tui-slash-commands.webp|/ command completion in the TUI.}}
+{{img:tui-theme-picker.webp|The TUI's theme picker with preview.}} {{img:tui-theme-light.webp|The light theme.}}
+
+Not shown: clone and fork (TUI only, not run), SSH environments connected (no network in the capture), Radius and
+public ports (off), voice in use (no microphone), dev mode reload pills, provider OAuth flows.
+
+# p2 Today, and the Proposed Cut {#features lede="Every feature area, what it is, and where it goes in p3."}
+
+Sizes are non-test lines in p2. "Base" means p3's first release; "later" means designed for, built after; "drop" means
+not carried over.
+
+| Area | What it does | p2 size | Proposed |
+| --- | --- | ---: | --- |
+| Sessions | list by machine and directory, create, rename, pin, archive, relocate, clone, fork, unread, automatic titles | 2,186 | **base**, plus delete and in-session branches (`/tree`); clone and fork in the web too |
+| Conversations and agent | transcript, send, steer, follow-up, outbox, stop, model and thinking, cost, compaction | 3,682 + web 2,700 | **base** |
+| Subagents, one-shot agents, cross-session messages | named background agents, `team`, `agent` from scripts, `conversations` | 2,182 | **base** (owner: "awesome") |
+| History and handoff | re-read earlier entries after compaction, hand off with a continuation | 533 | **base** |
+| Code mode | scripts calling tools as nested durable calls | 155 + Durable | **base** (small, Durable owns it) |
+| Shell commands | `!cmd` and `!!cmd` in the conversation's environment | in chat | **base**, web too (TUI only today) |
+| Chat mode | people talk without a turn, `@pi` mentions | 876 | later |
+| Sharing and guests | share links, guest names, revocation | 1,047 | later (the app kit's users and invites cover the start) |
+| Devices and owner login | owner links, device cookies | 684 | **base**, replaced by the app kit's sessions and pairing |
+| Models, credentials, provider login | picker, scope, API keys, OAuth flows | 3,828 | **base** |
+| Settings | `settings.json`, hot reload | 87 | **base** |
+| Prompt resources | AGENTS.md, skills, templates, read in the session's environment | 958 | **base** |
+| Workspace | files, git status, diffs, search, review comments | 2,655 + web 1,341 | **base** (read and review; uploads later) |
+| File index and `@` | ranked file completion | 242 | **base** |
+| Terminals | detached PTYs, ghostty-vt in the web | 3,518 | later (channels, hands) |
+| Environments and locations | SSH environments, directory picker, agents moving themselves | 2,546 | **base, redesigned as hands** |
+| Artifacts and files | attachments, `send_file`, versioned artifacts with previews | 1,713 | attachments and `send_file` base (app kit `Files`); artifacts later |
+| Search | sidebar search over titles and messages (FTS5) | 775 | **base** over the index; message text search through the same sync mechanism later |
+| Status and presence | busy, tasks, usage, viewers, worker failures | 566 | **base** (feeds the index) |
+| Logs and notices | owner log viewer, notices | 487 | **base** |
+| Voice | rooms, barge-in, speech service | 3,770 + Python | later (owner) |
+| Radius relay and port forwards | brain WebSocket, up to 50 forwards | 2,000 | relay **base** (as the hands/sync link), forwards later |
+| Web shell | PWA, sheets, navigation, reconnect | 9,252 | **base**, rebuilt on slice 11 ("look and feel great") |
+| TUI | launcher, sandbox, 40 commands, themes, keybindings | 6,720 + launcher | **base** on slice 11 |
+| Dev and reload | supervisor, dirty marks, reload tool | 468 + scripts | **base** as the app kit's "apply changes"; the supervisor goes |
+| Fake provider, `PI_MOBILE_*` aliases, `P2_DEV_RESUME` | test and legacy leftovers | 218 | drop |
+| `tool_search`, MCP | not installed in p2 | - | later |
+
+Rough edges p3 should not inherit: features only in the TUI (shell commands, clone, fork, compact, new context), no
+session delete, terminals and voice without a TUI side, docs that drifted from code (voice routes, TUI notes), the
+plugin loader's module leak on reload (solved by Chord's plugin component).
+
+# Hands {#hands lede="Environments turned around: the machine connects to the server, not the other way."}
+
+## What p2 does
+
+p2's server and workers start a daemon (`pi-env`) over SSH on demand, one connection per session and per use (four
+connection pools: each worker, the directory picker, the connection test, the terminal host). The daemon is
+stateless and kills its commands 30 seconds after its connection goes quiet. Its frame protocol (exec, files, watch,
+file listing, PTYs) does not depend on SSH.
+
+## What a hand is (proposed)
+
+| | p2's daemon | hand |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| who dials | the server, over SSH | the hand, over WSS, to the server or to Radius |
+| needs | sshd, a key, a network path to the machine | outbound HTTPS only |
+| lifetime | per connection | a service (systemd, launchd, Termux:Boot), reconnecting |
+| install | deployed and verified at each start | installed once, signed updates |
+| machine identity | SSH host key | a hand key pair, enrolled once |
+| connections | one per session and use | one per hand and server, multiplexed |
+
+- **Enrollment:** `p3 hand enroll <server>` shows a code; the owner approves it in the UI (the app kit's device
+  pairing); the server pins the hand's public key; fingerprints shown on both sides. Revocation in a Hands panel.
+- **Reachability:** a hand reaches the owner's own server directly (LAN, own tunnel) or through Radius, which relays
+  hands to whichever host drives a session (the upsell: no tunnel to set up; Radius can also offer sandboxed machines
+  and hands of its own).
+- **Protocol:** p2's daemon protocol over the WebSocket, unchanged in shape; two changes: several sessions share one
+  connection (cancellation, handles and backpressure per session), and a disconnect starts a grace period instead of
+  killing everything (detached commands and PTYs reattach on reconnect; this moves the terminal host's job into the
+  hand).
+- **Binding:** a session's location becomes `{ hand, cwd }`; one server object holds the hand connections and the
+  `HarnessEnvironments` entry resolves a hand id to an execution environment; workers reach hands through the server's
+  links. An SSH machine stays possible as a hand kind the server dials.
+- **Offline:** an operation needing an offline hand fails with a clear error the model sees; the hand's status shows
+  in the session list.
+
+# Session Sync and the Index {#sync lede="What was decided yesterday, and the three gaps it leaves."}
+
+## Decided
+
+The worker updates the session index from events and sends it to the server; sessions sync to R2 through Radius:
+Radius reports per session its last sequence number, pi uploads the commit log from there; R2 holds the SQLite file
+and the commit log, a SQLite Durable Object applies them; sessions have an owner id; the index is a Chord table
+replicated like a session, its row updated only on metadata, session idle and subagent idle changes.
+
+Chord v2 has the pieces: a versioned outbox written in each commit's transaction, export archives, batch apply that
+refuses gaps and divergence, export and import per address (app kit). Missing (the sync layer): upload and trim,
+epochs, pull-back after a power loss, the split, starting from an archive.
+
+## Gap 1: who is the driver
+
+Two machines both write session X (the laptop resumed it while Radius continued it). Both ask Radius for its last
+seq, both upload from there; Radius applies whichever arrives first and refuses the other as "not following". The
+copies have now diverged and nobody knows.
+
+**Proposed:** a driver epoch per session, handed out by Radius. An upload names its epoch; an old epoch is refused;
+the refused copy becomes a new session (Chord's rule S7: a split, never a rollback, because tools already ran).
+"Continue on Radius" is an epoch change: the local driver waits for idle, uploads the tail and the session's files,
+Radius bumps the epoch and starts the agent from its store, the local side becomes a replica or closes. Back is the
+reverse.
+
+## Gap 2: two writers of the index
+
+When a session continues on Radius, Radius writes its index row, and so does the local server.
+
+| Option | How | Cost |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| a. one index per writer | each host keeps its own index, Radius merges per owner, newest epoch wins per row | a second merge rule |
+| b. rows derived from session stores | every host computes a session's row from the session's own commits | no index sync at all; each host needs the session's commits |
+| c. rows tagged `{ epoch, seq }` | Radius keeps the highest per row | rows must carry their source position |
+
+**Recommended:** (b) where the session's commits are present (Radius has them all), with (c)'s tag on the rows a local
+server writes for sessions it drives, so a list without the session store still sorts correctly.
+
+## Gap 3: what else moves
+
+Files outside the store (uploads, sent files, the app kit's `Files`) must sync as blobs before the batches naming
+them, R2 as their home. Model access and secrets for a session continued on Radius: Radius's own models, or the
+owner's provider keys stored on Radius (decide). Local prompt resources (the device's `AGENTS.md`, skills) must be read
+through a hand or synced. Closed sessions have no worker: the server reads a session's outbox without starting it, or
+starts it to sync.
+
+## The sync example
+
+`packages/chord/test/examples/60-session-sync/` (uncommitted, in `/home/badlogic/pi-sync-ex`) plays the decided
+protocol with Chord's real store pieces (the outbox, `applyBatch`, export archives) and a small in-memory stand-in for
+Radius. Its output, step by step:
+
+```text
+1. laptop s1: lastSeq 4 outbox floor 0
+2. sync: uploaded 1..4, Radius at 4, trimmed through it
+3. laptop s1: lastSeq 6 - sync: uploaded 5..6, Radius at 6, trimmed through it
+4. laptop s2: lastSeq 3 outbox floor 3 - sync: archive uploaded (737 bytes), Radius imported it at 3
+   laptop s2: lastSeq 4 - sync: uploaded 4..4
+5. Radius takes over, epoch 2; Radius writes seq 7
+   stale laptop: lastSeq 7 - push: refused for an old epoch: this copy is now s1~split@6
+5b. no epoch check - stale push: refused: does not follow seq 7
+   stale sync: nothing to send, Radius at 7 - outbox floor 7       (its own commit 7 trimmed)
+   stale:  ... 5 assistant: (stale laptop) added a different test
+   Radius: ... 5 assistant: (on Radius) added a test                (same seq, different data)
+6. laptop takes epoch 3, pulls 7..7: same values: true; its next commit syncs at epoch 3
+```
+
+:::sequence animate | The decided handshake (steps 1-3), then continuing on Radius (5) and back (6).
+actor laptop "laptop" "driver, epoch 1" accent
+actor radius "Radius" "replica per session"
+laptop -> radius: which sessions do you have?
+radius --> laptop: s1 at seq 4, epoch 1
+laptop => radius: commits 5..6 (epoch 1)
+radius --> laptop: s1 at seq 6 (acknowledged: trim through 6)
+divider "continue on Radius"
+radius -> radius: epoch 2, Radius drives, writes seq 7
+laptop -> radius: commit 7 (epoch 1)
+radius --> laptop: refused: old epoch (the copy splits)
+divider "back to the laptop"
+laptop -> radius: take epoch 3
+laptop => radius: pull 7..7, apply
+:::
+
+What it shows: the handshake works and only the tail moves; a session Radius lacks starts from an archive; without
+epochs a second writer's commit is lost silently (5b), with them it splits; taking a session back is a pull plus an
+epoch. One more finding: `applyBatch` refuses while a host holds the store open, so the sync layer stops the session's
+worker, applies, restarts it (decided 2026-11-02: usually nothing runs at that moment). The example lists nine things
+its stand-ins fake that the sync layer must build (authenticated handshake, persisted epochs, the batch wire format,
+retries, streaming bootstrap with files, the DO and R2 side, the continue fence, the split's new id, pull-back after a
+power loss).
+
+# Branches and Subagent Context {#branches lede="pi's /tree, fork and clone, and subagents that start from the parent's context."}
+
+pi branches three ways; p2 has two, in the TUI only:
+
+| pi | What it does | p2 |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `/tree` | branch inside the session: pick an earlier message, edit and resubmit; the old branch stays; leaving a branch can summarize it into the one entered | missing |
+| `/fork` | a new session from an earlier user message | TUI only, main conversation only |
+| `/clone` | a copy of the active branch as a new session | TUI only |
+
+Durable already has the building block: `conversation.fork(at)` creates a conversation in the same session store that
+shares every entry up to `at`, without copying. Proposed for p3:
+
+- **Base:** editing an earlier message forks the conversation there (an in-session branch); a branch list switches
+  between them; fork and clone to a new session; all in the web and the TUI.
+- **Later:** a full tree navigator and branch summaries.
+- **Index and sync:** branches are conversations inside one session store, so sync carries them for free; the index
+  marks the active branch and tells branches from subagents.
+
+**Subagents with the parent's context** (owner, 2026-11-02): `subagent({ action: "spawn", ..., context: "inherit" })`
+forks the parent conversation at the last entry before the assistant message holding the spawning call. The child
+knows everything the parent knew; its model, tools and location may differ; with the same model the shared prefix is
+usually a prompt-cache hit, otherwise it is paid in full (the tool's description says so). Base in p3.
+
+# Tools Built In {#tools lede="p2's 21 model-facing tools, and which ship with p3."}
+
+| Tool | p2 plugin | Proposed |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `read`, `write`, `edit`, `bash` | coding-tools (Durable) | base |
+| `powershell` | powershell | base (deferred tool, Windows hands) |
+| `codemode` | codemode | base |
+| `agent` (from scripts) | agent | base |
+| `subagent`, `team` | subagents | base |
+| `conversations` | conversations | base |
+| `history_search`, `history_read`, `history_handoff` | history | base |
+| `location_envs`, `location_dirs`, `location_move` | locations | base, renamed around hands (`hands`, `hand_dirs`, `move`) |
+| `rename_session` | sessions | base |
+| `send_file` | send-file | base (on the app kit's `Files`) |
+| `artifact` | artifacts | later (owner: maybe not as useful) |
+| `ports` | ports | later (with forwards) |
+| `reload_plugins` | dev-tools | base as an "apply changes" tool for the owner, not tied to a checkout |
+| `tool_search` | Durable | later (with MCP) |
+
+Every tool is a plugin in the app's own root, so any of them can be removed, replaced or added without touching base
+code (the app kit's rule: base code is the API, bootstrap and a start-data facet).
+
+# Running p3 {#running lede="Starting the server, the CLI, themes and keybindings."}
+
+## The CLI (proposed)
+
+One binary, `p3`, and no environment variables (app kit decision); settings are arguments or files in the data
+directory.
+
+| Command | Does |
+| --- | --- |
+| `p3 serve [--data-dir <dir>] [--host <addr>] [--port <n>]` | starts the server (`startServer`); prints the one-time owner link |
+| `p3 owner-link` | prints a new owner link for a running server (through the owner token file) |
+| `p3 tui [url] [--pair]` | the sandboxed TUI; on the same machine it uses the owner token file, elsewhere device pairing |
+| `p3 hand enroll <url>`, `p3 hand run` | enrolls this machine as a hand, runs it (or installs a service) |
+| `p3 radius login` | signs the server into Radius (device code) |
+| `p3 install <git:...|npm:...>` | installs a plugin into the user's root |
+| `p3 export <session> <file>`, `p3 import <file>` | the app kit's `exportData`/`importData` (a running session is not stopped) |
+
+The data directory defaults to `~/.p3`. Its files: `settings.json`, `models.json`, `auth.json` (locked),
+`AGENTS.md`, `skills/`, `prompts/`, `plugins/` (the user's root), the server store, a directory per session worker,
+`owner-token`, `logs/`. Plugin-specific configuration moves into plugin objects (documents) instead of more files.
+
+## Themes and keybindings
+
+Themes follow the looks-and-themes proposal (decided 2026-11-02): design tokens as CSS variables on the web, roles in
+the TUI, one `Themes` registry plugins contribute to, one dark and one light choice per user. Keybindings: commands are
+registry entries with default keys (p2's `TuiCommands` with `when` conditions, 78 binding ids); the user's overrides
+live in a preferences document (per user, synced like any data), not in files on each client; the web gets the same
+command registry with its own key handling.
+
+# The Plugin API {#api lede="The smallest surface that still expresses everything the coding agent's extensions do."}
+
+## The rule
+
+Offer few things, each stable: what an API offers, it must keep (versioned in the import path, `@p3/app/v1`). Every
+cluster below is a registry or a contract that already exists in Chord, Durable or p2; p3 v1 publishes those and
+nothing else. Legacy concepts of the old extension API are not carried: CLI flags, an event bus, RPC-mode UI, `hasUI`
+checks, "destructive switch" gates, `pi.exec` running locally regardless of the environment.
+
+## Seven clusters
+
+| Cluster | Host | Mechanism | Covers |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| A. The agent's turn | worker | Durable's `Extension` in `HarnessExtensions`: tools, `beforeTool`/`afterTool`, `beforeRequest`, sections, wraps, `onYield`, `afterRun`, `beforeCompact` | 20 examples: hello, permission-gate, protected-paths, tool-override, plan-mode, todo, custom-compaction, ... |
+| B. Conversation control | worker object | a `Conversation` contract: `submit`, `configure`, `append` (typed entries), `compact`, `fork`, `rename`; state: busy, agent, usage | send-user-message, file-trigger, session-name, preset, handoff, qna, ... |
+| C. Input | worker | `InputTransforms` registry (rewrite or answer input before the model) | input-transform, inline-bash |
+| D. Environments and models | worker, server | `HarnessEnvironments` (ssh, gondolin, hands as kinds), `HarnessModels` (providers, virtual models), `LoginProviders` | ssh, gondolin, custom providers, jev-router |
+| E. Asking the user | server object, UI renderers | `Questions.ask` from worker code; `QuestionKinds` per UI kind | permission-gate, question, questionnaire, timed-confirm, project-trust |
+| F. UI | tui, web | registries: `Commands` (slash, palette, keys), `ToolRenderers`, `EntryRenderers`, `Slots` (header, footer, status, widgets), overlays through the UI context, editor extension points | every UI-only example, the games |
+| G. State and standing behaviour | any | `local` objects owning natives, documents for state | file-trigger's watcher, gondolin's VM, game saves |
+
+```ts
+// a plugin with a tool, a gate and a renderer: plugins/todo/
+// worker.ts
+self.contribute(HarnessExtensions, { name: "todo", tools: [todoTool], hooks: [hook(ToolTask, { beforeTool: guard })] });
+// tui.ts
+self.contribute(TuiToolRenderers, { todo: { call: (args) => todoCall(args), result: (r) => todoList(r.details) } });
+self.contribute(TuiCommands, { "todo.show": { slash: { name: "todos" }, run: (ui) => ui.overlay("todos", new TodoView(ui)) } });
+// web.tsx: the same registries with React components
+```
+
+## The litmus test
+
+All 78 examples map onto the seven clusters (table in `/tmp/p3-prep/extensions.md`). The examples that mix agent and
+UI split into a worker facet and a tui/web facet sharing a contract file: a tool that wants a dialog asks the
+`Questions` object, which works from any client, several clients or none.
+
+- **Snake, Space Invaders, tic-tac-toe:** a command plus an overlay in `tui.ts` and a canvas in `web.tsx`, engine in a
+  shared file, saves in a user-keyed document. Fit today.
+- **Doom:** fits with two fixes in the TUI: the sandbox bridge caps a frame at 64 KiB and a Doom frame is about 160 KB
+  (split writes at escape boundaries), and the sandbox has no files or network, so large plugin assets (a 4 MB WAD)
+  need a documented "asset of my plugin" path (chunked reads through the plugin's server facet).
+- **Does not fit, by design:** streaming 35 FPS frames from a worker to clients (objects carry state; needs channels),
+  engine state surviving an in-place reload (needs an explicit save), raw terminal ownership (`interactive-shell`
+  becomes a terminal view; terminal notifications need a launcher action).
+
+## What v1 leaves out
+
+Editor replacement (extension points only), raw provider stream events and response headers, a fork hook, a
+`turn_start` hook, an event bus. Each has one or two examples; add when a real plugin needs it.
+
+# Work Packages {#packages lede="A first cut, in dependency order, for the meeting to rearrange."}
+
+| # | Package | Contains | Depends on |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| 1 | p3 skeleton | `startServer` with p3's API v1 modules (shared, web, tui, worker), core plugins in the app's root, `p3` CLI | Chord slices 11-13 |
+| 2 | Sessions and conversations | Durable on the Chord store, session lifecycle with delete, the conversation contract, subagents, history and handoff, code mode, shell commands | 1 |
+| 3 | Session index | the index table, worker-to-server updates on metadata and idle changes, the session list, search over it | 2 |
+| 4 | Session sync to Radius | outbox upload and trim, epochs, pull-back, split, files as blobs, continue on Radius and back | 2, 3, Radius side |
+| 5 | Radius side | per-session SQLite DO, commit log and SQLite on R2, epochs, the sync handshake, hand relay | with 4 |
+| 6 | Hands | daemon as an outbound service, enrollment by pairing, multiplexed protocol, reattach after disconnects, server hand pool, `HarnessEnvironments` kind, SSH as a hand kind | 1 |
+| 7 | Web shell | p2's layout and flows rebuilt on slice 11 ("look and feel great"), themes | 1, slice 11 |
+| 8 | TUI | p2's TUI on slice 11's sandbox, frame splitting, plugin assets path, keybindings and themes | 1, slice 11 |
+| 9 | Models and settings | catalog, credentials, provider login flows, settings, prompt resources | 1 |
+| 10 | Workspace | files, git, diffs, search, review comments, file index and `@`, through hands | 6 |
+| 11 | Plugin API v1 and docs | the seven clusters published in `@p3/app/v1`, authoring guide, ported examples as the litmus (hello, permission-gate, todo, plan-mode, snake, doom) | 1, 2, 7, 8 |
+| 12 | Access and status | owner, devices and pairing (app kit), notices, logs, status and presence | 1 |
+
+Later: voice, terminals (channels and hands), artifacts, port forwards, chat mode and guest sharing, MCP and
+`tool_search`.
+
+# Open Questions {.epilogue lede="To decide in the meeting."}
+
+1. The proposed cut: base versus later per area (first table).
+2. Driver identity: epochs per session, handed out by Radius, with splits on conflict?
+3. The index with two writers: derived rows plus `{ epoch, seq }` tags, or one of the other options?
+4. Who syncs a closed session (the server reading its outbox, or starting its worker)?
+5. Files outside the store as blobs on R2, uploaded before their batch?
+6. Models and secrets for sessions continued on Radius: Radius's own models, or the owner's keys stored there?
+7. Hands: through Radius as a relay to the driver, and may one hand serve the local server and Radius at once?
+8. Do hands keep commands and terminals alive across disconnects (absorbing p2's terminal host)?
+9. Hand install and updates: signed binary, service install, version negotiation.
+10. Is SSH kept as a hand kind for machines without a service?
+11. Plugin API v1: the seven clusters as listed, and what is explicitly left out?
+12. Work package owners and order.
+
+# Sources {.appendix}
+
+| Source | What |
+| --- | --- |
+| `/tmp/p3-prep/features.md` | p2's feature areas with files, sizes, tools, rough edges; the CLI, environment variables and data files |
+| `/tmp/p3-prep/extensions.md` | all 78 extension examples, the capability matrix, the clusters with sketches, the hard cases |
+| `/tmp/p3-prep/envs.md` | p2's environments and Radius link, Chord's sync pieces, the sync and hands sketches, open questions |
+| `apps/p2/docs/p3-functions/` | the functionality map (partly outdated) |
+| `packages/chord/docs/` | design, decisions (2026-11-02 meeting summary), app kit and plugin model, theming |