@yaklabs-ai/plugin-sdk 0.54.2 → 0.55.1

package/README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ it under the name your plugin code actually imports:
 ```json
 {
   "dependencies": {
-    "@bonsai/plugin-sdk": "npm:@yaklabs-ai/plugin-sdk@^0.54.2"
+    "@bonsai/plugin-sdk": "npm:@yaklabs-ai/plugin-sdk@^0.55.1"
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Every tool the entrypoint registers is declared in the manifest too:
   "description": "Greets people by name.",
   "version": "0.1.0",
   "namespace": "widgets",
-  "compatibility": { "sdk": "^0.54.2" },
+  "compatibility": { "sdk": "^0.55.1" },
   "targets": {
     "kay": {
       "agent": {
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ naming both versions, instead of loading it and finding no `activate`.
 | `@bonsai/plugin-sdk/system-one`         | The types and error class for `api.systemOne` / `app.systemOne`, from 0.13.8                                  |
 | `@bonsai/plugin-sdk/zod`                | `z` (the host's in the daemon), on an entry with no other import, from 0.13.9                                 |
 
-A plugin that imports these subpaths declares the current supported SDK range (`^0.54.2`).
+A plugin that imports these subpaths declares the current supported SDK range (`^0.55.1`).
 The rows record when each subpath appeared, not retained runtime compatibility. `vendored-mcp` builds the plugin's URI module (its link cards and help); hosting the
 vendor's MCP server itself is a separate host decision: Bonsai hosts it once a person approves
 the plugin's `mcp.host-server` grant for that server's name and URL. A server that needs an OAuth
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ sign-in names one of the plugin's auth services in `authService`; that service m
 one `delegated` scheme, which Bonsai uses to sign the person in to the server. Bonsai declares that
 scheme at runtime; the plugin's code must not declare it again. From 0.16.2 a plugin's code can also
 call the server's tools through `api.vendoredMcp.port(<server>)`, typed by this subpath's
-`VendoredMcpPort` and `VendoredMcpOutcome` (declare `^0.54.2`).
+`VendoredMcpPort` and `VendoredMcpOutcome` (declare `^0.55.1`).
 
 From 0.13.10 the manifest schema carries two facts Bonsai reads for its own plugins only; another
 plugin's are ignored, with a load diagnostic. An `external-cli` auth scheme's `cli` says how Bonsai
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Provider schemas remain authoritative; declaring a dependency grants no authorit
 through `app.uri`, parse returned Markdown in the consuming plugin, and retain the read's
 revision (or `contentDigest` from `/uri`) for edits. The old `memory.read` and `memory.write`
 grants do not authorize the replacement scheme-and-verb calls. Contracts before 0.49.0 are
-refused; migrate and declare `^0.54.2`. The current host also serves the 0.49.0 resource contract.
+refused; migrate and declare `^0.55.1`. The current host also serves the 0.49.0 resource contract.
 
 ## What this package is, and is not, at runtime
 

package/THIRD-PARTY-INVENTORY.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "schemaVersion": 1,
   "package": "@yaklabs-ai/plugin-sdk",
-  "version": "0.54.2",
+  "version": "0.55.1",
   "target": "npm",
   "firstPartyLicense": "MIT",
   "bundled": [

package/dist/disclosure.d.ts

@@ -2673,8 +2673,15 @@ declare const KAY_PLUGIN_PROTOCOL_VERSION: "kay.plugin.v1";
  * optional `attachments`: each file's name, media type, size and the address its bytes are read
  * from, never the bytes. Gmail lists a mail's attachments there, so Flows can file them. Additive:
  * a plugin that publishes attachments declares ^0.54.2.
+ *
+ * 0.55.0 carries managed MCP calls over resource writes in both daemon and plugin-host code.
+ * Existing agent and background MCP call shapes remain supported.
+ *
+ * 0.55.1 adds canonical path resources on declared tool permissions, asynchronous display-only
+ * tool previews with cancellation, app-scoped availability snapshots and app-target output
+ * artifact usage declarations. A plugin using these declares ^0.55.1.
  */
-declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.54.2";
+declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.55.1";
 
 declare const KAY_PLUGIN_TARGET_NAMES: readonly ["kay.agent", "kay.app", "kay.ui"];
 
@@ -3132,13 +3139,8 @@ declare interface KayAgentVendoredMcp {
      * The port to `server`, a name this plugin declares in its `kay.app` target's
      * `contributes.mcpServers`. Throws when the plugin declares no server of that name. A declared
      * server that Bonsai does not host for this plugin still returns a port; each call then answers
-     * `unknown-server`. Its message names the plugin that holds the name, or else lists the possible
-     * reasons (no approved `mcp.host-server` grant, a sign-in the server cannot use, or a name that
-     * a plugin Bonsai ships or another installed plugin also claims) and points at the plugin's load
-     * diagnostic.
-     *
-     * A port reaches this plugin's own server only. To use another plugin's data, declare that
-     * plugin in the manifest's `dependencies.plugins`; a later SDK surface reaches it.
+     * `unknown-server`. Each invocation uses the resource caller's exact `kay.agent` `uri.call`
+     * grant for `mcp` / `write`; MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
      */
     port<TTool extends string = string>(server: string): VendoredMcpPort<TTool>;
 }
@@ -8376,9 +8378,10 @@ declare interface ToolPermissionHint {
      * labelled facts. Render-only: never matched against a rule, never one-tap approval grounds.
      * The tool says what its input claims, so the gate shows it as the tool's claim, not as the
      * daemon's attestation. The host admits only display-safe text; a throw, a blank title or an
-     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before.
+     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before. A promise is
+     * bounded by the host description timeout; forward its optional cancellation signal to reads.
      */
-    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined;
+    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>, signal?: AbortSignal) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined | Promise<ToolPreviewDescription | undefined>;
     readonly kind?: ToolActionKind;
     readonly scheme?: string;
     readonly ruleKey?: string;
@@ -10639,7 +10642,7 @@ declare interface Usage {
 /**
  * ---
  * responsibility: The one interface through which a vendored-MCP plugin's code calls a tool on its
- *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the daemon that implements the port
+ *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the SDK that implements the port
  *   agree on the same shape by construction.
  * owns:
  *   - {@link VendoredMcpPort} - what a plugin's URI module and tools call.
@@ -10647,8 +10650,8 @@ declare interface Usage {
  *     must surface to the agent rather than swallow.
  * does_not_own:
  *   - The implementation. A plugin never dials MCP itself: it takes the port from
- *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the daemon binds to the
- *     plugin's own hosted server over its MCP host. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
+ *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the SDK binds through
+ *     resource calls to the plugin's own hosted server. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
  *     under test substitutes a fake port.
  *   - Which tool names exist. `TTool` is the plugin's own union of the vendor tools it calls; the
  *     port is generic so a typo in a tool name fails typecheck inside the plugin.
@@ -10684,8 +10687,8 @@ declare type VendoredMcpOutcome =
 
 /**
  * One vendored MCP server, as the plugin that declares it calls it. `invoke` calls any tool the
- * server has, whether it reads or writes. The port checks no permission of its own: a call is as
- * permitted as the plugin tool or URI verb that makes it.
+ * server has, whether it reads or writes. The resource caller checks the target's exact
+ * `uri.call` grant, and MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
  */
 declare interface VendoredMcpPort<TTool extends string = string> {
     invoke(input: {

package/dist/kay-agent-testing.d.ts

@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ declare interface DerivedToolClassification {
  * `execute`: name, parameters, auth binding and permission all come from the manifest, as in a
  * session.
  */
-export declare function describedToolForTest(contract: ResolvedPluginContractV1, localId: string, execute: KayAgentToolExecute): ToolDefinition;
+export declare function describedToolForTest(contract: ResolvedPluginContractV1, localId: string, execute: KayAgentToolExecute, environment?: ToolPermissionEnvironment): ToolDefinition;
 
 declare const Digit: TDigit;
 
@@ -2727,8 +2727,15 @@ declare const KAY_PLUGIN_PROTOCOL_VERSION: "kay.plugin.v1";
  * optional `attachments`: each file's name, media type, size and the address its bytes are read
  * from, never the bytes. Gmail lists a mail's attachments there, so Flows can file them. Additive:
  * a plugin that publishes attachments declares ^0.54.2.
+ *
+ * 0.55.0 carries managed MCP calls over resource writes in both daemon and plugin-host code.
+ * Existing agent and background MCP call shapes remain supported.
+ *
+ * 0.55.1 adds canonical path resources on declared tool permissions, asynchronous display-only
+ * tool previews with cancellation, app-scoped availability snapshots and app-target output
+ * artifact usage declarations. A plugin using these declares ^0.55.1.
  */
-declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.54.2";
+declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.55.1";
 
 declare const KAY_PLUGIN_TARGET_NAMES: readonly ["kay.agent", "kay.app", "kay.ui"];
 
@@ -3183,13 +3190,8 @@ declare interface KayAgentVendoredMcp {
      * The port to `server`, a name this plugin declares in its `kay.app` target's
      * `contributes.mcpServers`. Throws when the plugin declares no server of that name. A declared
      * server that Bonsai does not host for this plugin still returns a port; each call then answers
-     * `unknown-server`. Its message names the plugin that holds the name, or else lists the possible
-     * reasons (no approved `mcp.host-server` grant, a sign-in the server cannot use, or a name that
-     * a plugin Bonsai ships or another installed plugin also claims) and points at the plugin's load
-     * diagnostic.
-     *
-     * A port reaches this plugin's own server only. To use another plugin's data, declare that
-     * plugin in the manifest's `dependencies.plugins`; a later SDK surface reaches it.
+     * `unknown-server`. Each invocation uses the resource caller's exact `kay.agent` `uri.call`
+     * grant for `mcp` / `write`; MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
      */
     port<TTool extends string = string>(server: string): VendoredMcpPort<TTool>;
 }
@@ -5139,9 +5141,9 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
             resource: "resource";
             storage: "storage";
             uriModule: "uriModule";
+            app: "app";
             authService: "authService";
             command: "command";
-            app: "app";
             skill: "skill";
             converter: "converter";
             artifactUriModule: "artifactUriModule";
@@ -5915,6 +5917,7 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
         displayName: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
         authServiceId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
         authSchemeId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        requiredScopes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
         knownResources: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
         describesOperations: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
         looksUpWebLinks: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
@@ -5973,6 +5976,9 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
             resourcePrefix: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
             resourceArgs: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
             resourceTrim: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+            resourcePathNormalization: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+                preserveUriSchemes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>>;
             defaultPermission: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
                 never: "never";
                 allow: "allow";
@@ -5999,6 +6005,209 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
         globalId: z.ZodString;
         toolName: z.ZodString;
     }, z.core.$strict>>>;
+    kayAppArtifacts: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+        outputs: z.ZodLiteral<true>;
+    }, z.core.$strict>>;
+    kayAppUriModules: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
+        revisionBacked: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        mailCalibrationSource: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        screenActions: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            scheme: z.ZodString;
+            hosts: z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>;
+            paths: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+            apps: z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>;
+            options: z.ZodRecord<z.ZodString, z.ZodDiscriminatedUnion<[z.ZodObject<{
+                kind: z.ZodLiteral<"exact">;
+                description: z.ZodString;
+                verb: z.ZodEnum<{
+                    read: "read";
+                    write: "write";
+                    edit: "edit";
+                    delete: "delete";
+                }>;
+                uri: z.ZodString;
+            }, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+                kind: z.ZodLiteral<"catch-all">;
+                description: z.ZodString;
+                verb: z.ZodEnum<{
+                    read: "read";
+                    write: "write";
+                    edit: "edit";
+                    delete: "delete";
+                }>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>], "kind">>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        claims: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodDiscriminatedUnion<[z.ZodObject<{
+            kind: z.ZodLiteral<"scheme">;
+            scheme: z.ZodString;
+        }, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+            kind: z.ZodLiteral<"uriPattern">;
+            pattern: z.ZodObject<{
+                protocol: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                hostname: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                pathname: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                search: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>;
+            normalizeTo: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            route: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            sourceUrl: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            title: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            examples: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+            kind: z.ZodLiteral<"urlPattern">;
+            pattern: z.ZodObject<{
+                protocol: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                hostname: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                pathname: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                search: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>;
+            normalizeTo: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            route: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            examples: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>], "kind">>>;
+        templates: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
+            uri: z.ZodString;
+            description: z.ZodString;
+            operations: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodEnum<{
+                search: "search";
+                read: "read";
+                list: "list";
+                write: "write";
+                edit: "edit";
+                delete: "delete";
+                help: "help";
+            }>>>;
+            operationDocs: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodRecord<z.ZodEnum<{
+                search: "search";
+                read: "read";
+                list: "list";
+                write: "write";
+                edit: "edit";
+                delete: "delete";
+                help: "help";
+            }> & z.core.$partial, z.ZodString>>;
+            operationDefaults: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodRecord<z.ZodEnum<{
+                search: "search";
+                read: "read";
+                list: "list";
+                write: "write";
+                edit: "edit";
+                delete: "delete";
+                help: "help";
+            }> & z.core.$partial, z.ZodEnum<{
+                never: "never";
+                allow: "allow";
+                ask: "ask";
+            }>>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>>;
+        verbs: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            readable: z.ZodBoolean;
+            writable: z.ZodBoolean;
+            editable: z.ZodBoolean;
+            deletable: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodBoolean>;
+            listable: z.ZodBoolean;
+            searchable: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodBoolean>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        verbDocs: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            read: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            list: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            search: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            write: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            edit: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            delete: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        permissionDefaults: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            read: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
+                never: "never";
+                allow: "allow";
+                ask: "ask";
+            }>>;
+            write: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
+                never: "never";
+                allow: "allow";
+                ask: "ask";
+            }>>;
+            edit: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
+                never: "never";
+                allow: "allow";
+                ask: "ask";
+            }>>;
+            delete: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
+                never: "never";
+                allow: "allow";
+                ask: "ask";
+            }>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        authActions: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            actions: z.ZodRecord<z.ZodString, z.ZodObject<{
+                purpose: z.ZodString;
+                alternatives: z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
+                    allOf: z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
+                        scope: z.ZodString;
+                        reason: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                    }, z.core.$strict>>;
+                }, z.core.$strict>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>>;
+            rules: z.ZodArray<z.ZodUnion<readonly [z.ZodObject<{
+                action: z.ZodString;
+                operations: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodEnum<{
+                    search: "search";
+                    read: "read";
+                    list: "list";
+                    write: "write";
+                    edit: "edit";
+                    delete: "delete";
+                    help: "help";
+                }>>>;
+                routes: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+                query: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodRecord<z.ZodString, z.ZodString>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+                public: z.ZodLiteral<true>;
+                operations: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodEnum<{
+                    search: "search";
+                    read: "read";
+                    list: "list";
+                    write: "write";
+                    edit: "edit";
+                    delete: "delete";
+                    help: "help";
+                }>>>;
+                routes: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+                query: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodRecord<z.ZodString, z.ZodString>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>]>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        requiresConnection: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        acceptsSourceCopy: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodLiteral<false>>;
+        acceptsWriteSources: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        acceptsBytes: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        ownsLineSelectors: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        description: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        agentHint: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            summary: z.ZodString;
+            commonFlows: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
+                label: z.ZodString;
+                when: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+                example: z.ZodString;
+            }, z.core.$strict>>>;
+            helpUri: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodString>;
+            triggers: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+                keywords: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+                patterns: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>>;
+            skills: z.ZodExactOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
+        localId: z.ZodString;
+        adapterId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        globalId: z.ZodString;
+        schemes: z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>;
+        displayName: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        authServiceId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        authSchemeId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+        requiredScopes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        knownResources: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        describesOperations: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        looksUpWebLinks: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+    }, z.core.$strict>>>;
     kayAppTools: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
         description: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
         toolName: z.ZodString;
@@ -6023,6 +6232,9 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
             resourcePrefix: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
             resourceArgs: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
             resourceTrim: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+            resourcePathNormalization: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+                preserveUriSchemes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+            }, z.core.$strict>>;
             defaultPermission: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
                 never: "never";
                 allow: "allow";
@@ -6046,6 +6258,9 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
             }, z.core.$strict>>>;
         }, z.core.$strict>>;
         globalId: z.ZodString;
+        availability: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            scope: z.ZodLiteral<"app">;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
     }, z.core.$strict>>>;
     kayAppApprovalTypes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodObject<{
         kind: z.ZodLiteral<"message">;
@@ -6406,6 +6621,7 @@ declare const ResolvedPluginContractV1: z.ZodObject<{
                 "connect-flows.read": "connect-flows.read";
                 "connect-flows.dismiss": "connect-flows.dismiss";
                 "support.report": "support.report";
+                "report-evidence.read": "report-evidence.read";
                 "navigation.open-page": "navigation.open-page";
                 "sessions.create": "sessions.create";
                 "models.complete": "models.complete";
@@ -9758,6 +9974,11 @@ declare interface ToolExecutionPolicyDefaults {
  */
 declare type ToolParametersWire = unknown;
 
+/** Explicit host environment used to expand manifest permission paths. */
+declare interface ToolPermissionEnvironment {
+    readonly homeDirectory: string;
+}
+
 /**
  * A tool's own declaration of how a call to it should classify, supplied on the tool
  * definition (the same shape of author-declared, kernel-read fact as `requiresAuth` and
@@ -9781,9 +10002,10 @@ declare interface ToolPermissionHint {
      * labelled facts. Render-only: never matched against a rule, never one-tap approval grounds.
      * The tool says what its input claims, so the gate shows it as the tool's claim, not as the
      * daemon's attestation. The host admits only display-safe text; a throw, a blank title or an
-     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before.
+     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before. A promise is
+     * bounded by the host description timeout; forward its optional cancellation signal to reads.
      */
-    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined;
+    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>, signal?: AbortSignal) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined | Promise<ToolPreviewDescription | undefined>;
     readonly kind?: ToolActionKind;
     readonly scheme?: string;
     readonly ruleKey?: string;
@@ -12044,7 +12266,7 @@ declare interface Usage {
 /**
  * ---
  * responsibility: The one interface through which a vendored-MCP plugin's code calls a tool on its
- *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the daemon that implements the port
+ *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the SDK that implements the port
  *   agree on the same shape by construction.
  * owns:
  *   - {@link VendoredMcpPort} - what a plugin's URI module and tools call.
@@ -12052,8 +12274,8 @@ declare interface Usage {
  *     must surface to the agent rather than swallow.
  * does_not_own:
  *   - The implementation. A plugin never dials MCP itself: it takes the port from
- *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the daemon binds to the
- *     plugin's own hosted server over its MCP host. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
+ *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the SDK binds through
+ *     resource calls to the plugin's own hosted server. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
  *     under test substitutes a fake port.
  *   - Which tool names exist. `TTool` is the plugin's own union of the vendor tools it calls; the
  *     port is generic so a typo in a tool name fails typecheck inside the plugin.
@@ -12089,8 +12311,8 @@ declare type VendoredMcpOutcome =
 
 /**
  * One vendored MCP server, as the plugin that declares it calls it. `invoke` calls any tool the
- * server has, whether it reads or writes. The port checks no permission of its own: a call is as
- * permitted as the plugin tool or URI verb that makes it.
+ * server has, whether it reads or writes. The resource caller checks the target's exact
+ * `uri.call` grant, and MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
  */
 declare interface VendoredMcpPort<TTool extends string = string> {
     invoke(input: {

package/dist/kay-agent-testing.js

@@ -123,8 +123,12 @@ function createKayPluginLog(write, bound = {}) {
 }
 
 // packages/plugin-sdk/dist/kay-agent/declared-tool.js
-function declaredToolPermission(permission) {
-  const { kind, ruleKey, resourceArgs, scheme, resourcePrefix, resourceTrim, defaultPermission, classificationRules } = permission;
+import { isAbsolute, join, normalize, resolve } from "node:path";
+function declaredToolPermission(permission, environment) {
+  const { kind, ruleKey, resourceArgs, scheme, resourcePrefix, resourceTrim, resourcePathNormalization, defaultPermission, classificationRules } = permission;
+  if (resourcePathNormalization !== void 0 && environment === void 0) {
+    throw new Error("Path-normalized tool resources require a home directory.");
+  }
   return {
     kind,
     ...scheme === void 0 ? {} : { scheme },
@@ -145,14 +149,22 @@ function declaredToolPermission(permission) {
     ...resourceArgs === void 0 ? {} : {
       deriveResources: (input) => resourceArgs.flatMap((arg) => {
         const value = input[arg];
-        return typeof value === "string" ? [
-          `${resourcePrefix ?? ""}${resourceTrim === true ? value.trim() : value}`
-        ] : [];
+        if (typeof value !== "string")
+          return [];
+        let resource = resourceTrim === true ? value.trim() : value;
+        if (resourcePathNormalization !== void 0 && environment !== void 0) {
+          const preserved = resourcePathNormalization.preserveUriSchemes?.some((preservedScheme) => resource.toLowerCase().startsWith(`${preservedScheme.toLowerCase()}://`)) ?? false;
+          if (!preserved) {
+            const expanded = resource === "~" ? environment.homeDirectory : resource.startsWith("~/") ? join(environment.homeDirectory, resource.slice(2)) : resource;
+            resource = isAbsolute(expanded) ? resolve(expanded) : normalize(expanded);
+          }
+        }
+        return [`${resourcePrefix ?? ""}${resource}`];
       })
     }
   };
 }
-function declaredToolDefinition(tool, execute) {
+function declaredToolDefinition(tool, execute, environment) {
   const { parameters, description, requiresAuth, permission } = tool;
   if (parameters === void 0 || description === void 0) {
     throw new Error(`Tool '${tool.toolName}' declares no parameters in kay-plugin.json, so its definition comes from code.`);
@@ -171,7 +183,7 @@ function declaredToolDefinition(tool, execute) {
         ...requiresAuth.schemeId === void 0 ? {} : { schemeId: requiresAuth.schemeId }
       }
     },
-    ...permission === void 0 ? {} : { permission: declaredToolPermission(permission) },
+    ...permission === void 0 ? {} : { permission: declaredToolPermission(permission, environment) },
     execute
   };
 }
@@ -405,12 +417,12 @@ function defaultTestToolContext() {
 async function invokeToolForTest(tool, params, ctx = defaultTestToolContext()) {
   return tool.execute("test-call", params, void 0, void 0, ctx);
 }
-function describedToolForTest(contract, localId, execute) {
+function describedToolForTest(contract, localId, execute, environment) {
   const tool = contract.kayAgentTools?.find((declared) => declared.localId === localId);
   if (tool === void 0) {
     throw new Error(`The contract declares no kay.agent tool '${localId}'.`);
   }
-  return declaredToolDefinition(tool, execute);
+  return declaredToolDefinition(tool, execute, environment);
 }
 function producedResourcesForTest(result) {
   const recorded = recordProducedResources(result.details).details;

package/dist/kay-agent.d.ts

@@ -3081,8 +3081,15 @@ declare const KAY_PLUGIN_PROTOCOL_VERSION: "kay.plugin.v1";
  * optional `attachments`: each file's name, media type, size and the address its bytes are read
  * from, never the bytes. Gmail lists a mail's attachments there, so Flows can file them. Additive:
  * a plugin that publishes attachments declares ^0.54.2.
+ *
+ * 0.55.0 carries managed MCP calls over resource writes in both daemon and plugin-host code.
+ * Existing agent and background MCP call shapes remain supported.
+ *
+ * 0.55.1 adds canonical path resources on declared tool permissions, asynchronous display-only
+ * tool previews with cancellation, app-scoped availability snapshots and app-target output
+ * artifact usage declarations. A plugin using these declares ^0.55.1.
  */
-declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.54.2";
+declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.55.1";
 
 declare const KAY_PLUGIN_TARGET_NAMES: readonly ["kay.agent", "kay.app", "kay.ui"];
 
@@ -3580,13 +3587,8 @@ export declare interface KayAgentVendoredMcp {
      * The port to `server`, a name this plugin declares in its `kay.app` target's
      * `contributes.mcpServers`. Throws when the plugin declares no server of that name. A declared
      * server that Bonsai does not host for this plugin still returns a port; each call then answers
-     * `unknown-server`. Its message names the plugin that holds the name, or else lists the possible
-     * reasons (no approved `mcp.host-server` grant, a sign-in the server cannot use, or a name that
-     * a plugin Bonsai ships or another installed plugin also claims) and points at the plugin's load
-     * diagnostic.
-     *
-     * A port reaches this plugin's own server only. To use another plugin's data, declare that
-     * plugin in the manifest's `dependencies.plugins`; a later SDK surface reaches it.
+     * `unknown-server`. Each invocation uses the resource caller's exact `kay.agent` `uri.call`
+     * grant for `mcp` / `write`; MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
      */
     port<TTool extends string = string>(server: string): VendoredMcpPort<TTool>;
 }
@@ -9807,9 +9809,10 @@ declare interface ToolPermissionHint {
      * labelled facts. Render-only: never matched against a rule, never one-tap approval grounds.
      * The tool says what its input claims, so the gate shows it as the tool's claim, not as the
      * daemon's attestation. The host admits only display-safe text; a throw, a blank title or an
-     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before.
+     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before. A promise is
+     * bounded by the host description timeout; forward its optional cancellation signal to reads.
      */
-    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined;
+    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>, signal?: AbortSignal) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined | Promise<ToolPreviewDescription | undefined>;
     readonly kind?: ToolActionKind;
     readonly scheme?: string;
     readonly ruleKey?: string;
@@ -11852,6 +11855,7 @@ export declare class UriProviderError extends UriError {
     readonly uri: string;
     readonly status?: number;
     readonly providerCode?: string;
+    readonly serviceId?: string;
     readonly retryable?: boolean;
     /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
     readonly retryAfterMs?: number;
@@ -11869,6 +11873,8 @@ export declare interface UriProviderErrorOptions {
     readonly message: string;
     readonly status?: number;
     readonly providerCode?: string;
+    /** Service to reconnect when the provider requires sign-in. */
+    readonly serviceId?: string;
     readonly retryable?: boolean;
     /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
     readonly retryAfterMs?: number;
@@ -12340,7 +12346,7 @@ declare interface Usage {
 /**
  * ---
  * responsibility: The one interface through which a vendored-MCP plugin's code calls a tool on its
- *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the daemon that implements the port
+ *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the SDK that implements the port
  *   agree on the same shape by construction.
  * owns:
  *   - {@link VendoredMcpPort} - what a plugin's URI module and tools call.
@@ -12348,8 +12354,8 @@ declare interface Usage {
  *     must surface to the agent rather than swallow.
  * does_not_own:
  *   - The implementation. A plugin never dials MCP itself: it takes the port from
- *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the daemon binds to the
- *     plugin's own hosted server over its MCP host. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
+ *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the SDK binds through
+ *     resource calls to the plugin's own hosted server. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
  *     under test substitutes a fake port.
  *   - Which tool names exist. `TTool` is the plugin's own union of the vendor tools it calls; the
  *     port is generic so a typo in a tool name fails typecheck inside the plugin.
@@ -12385,8 +12391,8 @@ declare type VendoredMcpOutcome =
 
 /**
  * One vendored MCP server, as the plugin that declares it calls it. `invoke` calls any tool the
- * server has, whether it reads or writes. The port checks no permission of its own: a call is as
- * permitted as the plugin tool or URI verb that makes it.
+ * server has, whether it reads or writes. The resource caller checks the target's exact
+ * `uri.call` grant, and MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
  */
 declare interface VendoredMcpPort<TTool extends string = string> {
     invoke(input: {

package/dist/kay-agent.js

@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ var UriProviderError = class extends UriError {
   uri;
   status;
   providerCode;
+  serviceId;
   retryable;
   /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
   retryAfterMs;
@@ -439,6 +440,8 @@ var UriProviderError = class extends UriError {
       this.status = options.status;
     if (options.providerCode !== void 0)
       this.providerCode = options.providerCode;
+    if (options.serviceId !== void 0)
+      this.serviceId = options.serviceId;
     if (options.retryable !== void 0)
       this.retryable = options.retryable;
     if (options.retryAfterMs !== void 0) {

package/dist/kay-app.d.ts

@@ -153,6 +153,80 @@ declare const AgentRuntimeAutomationFactSource: z.ZodEnum<{
 
 declare type AgentRuntimeAutomationFactSource = z.infer<typeof AgentRuntimeAutomationFactSource>;
 
+/**
+ * The failure record the automation lane mints for a failure it observed itself (domain
+ * `automation`). A producer passes `AgentRuntimeAutomationFailureCode`, so an undeclared code
+ * fails to compile; the reader takes any `automation.` code, so a stored run still reads after
+ * a code is renamed.
+ */
+declare type AgentRuntimeAutomationFailure<Code extends string = string> = FailureOccurrence<AgentRuntimeAutomationFailureCause, Code, "automation">;
+
+declare const AgentRuntimeAutomationFailure: z.ZodType<AgentRuntimeAutomationFailure>;
+
+/**
+ * The cause on a failure the automation lane observes itself: the closed facts the daemon saw,
+ * keyed by the same `kind` as its `AutomationFailureCause`, plus the engine's own
+ * ({@link AgentRuntimeAutomationEngineFailureCause}). No message, stderr, URI or path: these
+ * records are exported with the run's log rows. A script's stderr tail stays on the outcome's
+ * `message`.
+ */
+declare const AgentRuntimeAutomationFailureCause: z.ZodDiscriminatedUnion<[z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"effect_threw">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"effect_unsupported">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"switched_off_across_restart">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"probe_failed">;
+    consecutiveFailures: z.ZodNumber;
+    retired: z.ZodBoolean;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"run_start_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"plugin_revision_moving">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"owner_unsupported">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"turn_target_missing">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"target_missing">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"declaration_gone">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"turn_delivery_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"handler_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"network_unreachable">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_timed_out">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_cwd_unset">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_result_invalid">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"turn_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"workflow_failed">;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"surface_unavailable">;
+    why: z.ZodEnum<{
+        starting: "starting";
+        script_unreadable: "script_unreadable";
+    }>;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_exited">;
+    signal: z.ZodNullable<z.ZodString>;
+}, z.core.$strict>, z.ZodObject<{
+    kind: z.ZodLiteral<"script_process_error">;
+    errorCode: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
+    cwdExists: z.ZodBoolean;
+}, z.core.$strict>], "kind">;
+
+declare type AgentRuntimeAutomationFailureCause = z.infer<typeof AgentRuntimeAutomationFailureCause>;
+
 /** One automation run's provenance detail (RFC Release 2). */
 declare const AgentRuntimeAutomationRunDetail: z.ZodObject<{
     run: z.ZodObject<{
@@ -324,7 +398,7 @@ declare const AgentRuntimeAutomationRunDetail: z.ZodObject<{
                 retryable: z.ZodBoolean;
                 retryAfterMs: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodNumber>;
             }, z.core.$strict>>;
-            failure: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodType<RunFailureOccurrence<string, string>, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<RunFailureOccurrence<string, string>, unknown>>>;
+            failure: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodUnion<readonly [z.ZodType<RunFailureOccurrence<string, string>, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<RunFailureOccurrence<string, string>, unknown>>, z.ZodType<AgentRuntimeAutomationFailure<string>, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<AgentRuntimeAutomationFailure<string>, unknown>>]>>;
             sessionId: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
             retryAtMs: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodNumber>;
             tries: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodNumber>;
@@ -2511,7 +2585,7 @@ declare interface Decision<Q extends DecideQuestions = DecideQuestions> {
 }
 
 /** Builds an app tool from manifest facts, retaining its execution, availability and preview callbacks. */
-export declare function declaredAppToolDefinition(tool: ToolContribution, implementation: KayAppToolImplementation): KayAppToolDefinition;
+export declare function declaredAppToolDefinition(tool: ToolContribution, implementation: KayAppToolImplementation, environment?: ToolPermissionEnvironment): KayAppToolDefinition;
 
 /** Createsa  uni-directional Codec with Decode only. The Decode function is called on Value.Decode */
 declare function Decode<Type extends TSchema, Callback extends TDecodeCallback<StaticDecode<Type>, unknown>>(type: Type, callback: Callback): TCodec<Type, ReturnType<Callback>>;
@@ -4309,8 +4383,15 @@ declare const KAY_PLUGIN_PROTOCOL_VERSION: "kay.plugin.v1";
  * optional `attachments`: each file's name, media type, size and the address its bytes are read
  * from, never the bytes. Gmail lists a mail's attachments there, so Flows can file them. Additive:
  * a plugin that publishes attachments declares ^0.54.2.
+ *
+ * 0.55.0 carries managed MCP calls over resource writes in both daemon and plugin-host code.
+ * Existing agent and background MCP call shapes remain supported.
+ *
+ * 0.55.1 adds canonical path resources on declared tool permissions, asynchronous display-only
+ * tool previews with cancellation, app-scoped availability snapshots and app-target output
+ * artifact usage declarations. A plugin using these declares ^0.55.1.
  */
-declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.54.2";
+declare const KAY_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION: "0.55.1";
 
 declare const KAY_PLUGIN_TARGET_NAMES: readonly ["kay.agent", "kay.app", "kay.ui"];
 
@@ -15925,6 +16006,9 @@ export declare const ToolContribution: z.ZodObject<{
         resourcePrefix: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
         resourceArgs: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
         resourceTrim: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodLiteral<true>>;
+        resourcePathNormalization: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+            preserveUriSchemes: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        }, z.core.$strict>>;
         defaultPermission: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodEnum<{
             never: "never";
             allow: "allow";
@@ -15947,6 +16031,9 @@ export declare const ToolContribution: z.ZodObject<{
             ruleKey: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
         }, z.core.$strict>>>;
     }, z.core.$strict>>;
+    availability: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodObject<{
+        scope: z.ZodLiteral<"app">;
+    }, z.core.$strict>>;
     localId: z.ZodString;
     toolName: z.ZodString;
     displayName: z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString>;
@@ -16073,6 +16160,11 @@ declare interface ToolExecutionPolicyDefaults {
  */
 export declare type ToolParametersWire = unknown;
 
+/** Explicit host environment used to expand manifest permission paths. */
+export declare interface ToolPermissionEnvironment {
+    readonly homeDirectory: string;
+}
+
 /**
  * A tool's own declaration of how a call to it should classify, supplied on the tool
  * definition (the same shape of author-declared, kernel-read fact as `requiresAuth` and
@@ -16096,9 +16188,10 @@ export declare interface ToolPermissionHint {
      * labelled facts. Render-only: never matched against a rule, never one-tap approval grounds.
      * The tool says what its input claims, so the gate shows it as the tool's claim, not as the
      * daemon's attestation. The host admits only display-safe text; a throw, a blank title or an
-     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before.
+     * unsafe string costs the description and the call is asked about as before. A promise is
+     * bounded by the host description timeout; forward its optional cancellation signal to reads.
      */
-    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined;
+    readonly describePreview?: (input: Record<string, unknown>, signal?: AbortSignal) => ToolPreviewDescription | undefined | Promise<ToolPreviewDescription | undefined>;
     readonly kind?: ToolActionKind;
     readonly scheme?: string;
     readonly ruleKey?: string;
@@ -18270,6 +18363,7 @@ export declare class UriProviderError extends UriError {
     readonly uri: string;
     readonly status?: number;
     readonly providerCode?: string;
+    readonly serviceId?: string;
     readonly retryable?: boolean;
     /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
     readonly retryAfterMs?: number;
@@ -18287,6 +18381,8 @@ export declare interface UriProviderErrorOptions {
     readonly message: string;
     readonly status?: number;
     readonly providerCode?: string;
+    /** Service to reconnect when the provider requires sign-in. */
+    readonly serviceId?: string;
     readonly retryable?: boolean;
     /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
     readonly retryAfterMs?: number;
@@ -18799,7 +18895,7 @@ declare type UserShellCommandMessage = CustomMessage<UserShellCommandDetails> &
 /**
  * ---
  * responsibility: The one interface through which a vendored-MCP plugin's code calls a tool on its
- *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the daemon that implements the port
+ *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the SDK that implements the port
  *   agree on the same shape by construction.
  * owns:
  *   - {@link VendoredMcpPort} - what a plugin's URI module and tools call.
@@ -18807,8 +18903,8 @@ declare type UserShellCommandMessage = CustomMessage<UserShellCommandDetails> &
  *     must surface to the agent rather than swallow.
  * does_not_own:
  *   - The implementation. A plugin never dials MCP itself: it takes the port from
- *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the daemon binds to the
- *     plugin's own hosted server over its MCP host. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
+ *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the SDK binds through
+ *     resource calls to the plugin's own hosted server. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
  *     under test substitutes a fake port.
  *   - Which tool names exist. `TTool` is the plugin's own union of the vendor tools it calls; the
  *     port is generic so a typo in a tool name fails typecheck inside the plugin.

package/dist/kay-app.js

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ var UriProviderError = class extends UriError {
   uri;
   status;
   providerCode;
+  serviceId;
   retryable;
   /** Provider-directed delay before retrying, in milliseconds. */
   retryAfterMs;
@@ -72,6 +73,8 @@ var UriProviderError = class extends UriError {
       this.status = options.status;
     if (options.providerCode !== void 0)
       this.providerCode = options.providerCode;
+    if (options.serviceId !== void 0)
+      this.serviceId = options.serviceId;
     if (options.retryable !== void 0)
       this.retryable = options.retryable;
     if (options.retryAfterMs !== void 0) {
@@ -1004,8 +1007,12 @@ function refusedCountOf(error) {
 }
 
 // packages/plugin-sdk/dist/kay-agent/declared-tool.js
-function declaredToolPermission(permission) {
-  const { kind, ruleKey, resourceArgs, scheme, resourcePrefix, resourceTrim, defaultPermission, classificationRules } = permission;
+import { isAbsolute, join, normalize, resolve } from "node:path";
+function declaredToolPermission(permission, environment) {
+  const { kind, ruleKey, resourceArgs, scheme, resourcePrefix, resourceTrim, resourcePathNormalization, defaultPermission, classificationRules } = permission;
+  if (resourcePathNormalization !== void 0 && environment === void 0) {
+    throw new Error("Path-normalized tool resources require a home directory.");
+  }
   return {
     kind,
     ...scheme === void 0 ? {} : { scheme },
@@ -1026,16 +1033,24 @@ function declaredToolPermission(permission) {
     ...resourceArgs === void 0 ? {} : {
       deriveResources: (input) => resourceArgs.flatMap((arg) => {
         const value = input[arg];
-        return typeof value === "string" ? [
-          `${resourcePrefix ?? ""}${resourceTrim === true ? value.trim() : value}`
-        ] : [];
+        if (typeof value !== "string")
+          return [];
+        let resource = resourceTrim === true ? value.trim() : value;
+        if (resourcePathNormalization !== void 0 && environment !== void 0) {
+          const preserved = resourcePathNormalization.preserveUriSchemes?.some((preservedScheme) => resource.toLowerCase().startsWith(`${preservedScheme.toLowerCase()}://`)) ?? false;
+          if (!preserved) {
+            const expanded = resource === "~" ? environment.homeDirectory : resource.startsWith("~/") ? join(environment.homeDirectory, resource.slice(2)) : resource;
+            resource = isAbsolute(expanded) ? resolve(expanded) : normalize(expanded);
+          }
+        }
+        return [`${resourcePrefix ?? ""}${resource}`];
       })
     }
   };
 }
 
 // packages/plugin-sdk/dist/kay-app/declared-tool.js
-function declaredAppToolDefinition(tool, implementation) {
+function declaredAppToolDefinition(tool, implementation, environment) {
   if (tool.parameters === void 0 || tool.description === void 0) {
     throw new Error(`Tool '${tool.toolName}' declares no parameters or description.`);
   }
@@ -1050,7 +1065,7 @@ function declaredAppToolDefinition(tool, implementation) {
     ...tool.promptGuidelines === void 0 ? {} : { promptGuidelines: tool.promptGuidelines },
     ...tool.permission === void 0 ? {} : {
       permission: {
-        ...declaredToolPermission(tool.permission),
+        ...declaredToolPermission(tool.permission, environment),
         ...preview?.describePreview === void 0 ? {} : { describePreview: preview.describePreview }
       }
     }

package/dist/vendored-mcp.d.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+export declare function createKayAgentVendoredMcp(pluginId: string, servers: readonly string[], uri: PluginUriCaller): KayAgentVendoredMcp;
+
+export declare function createKayAppMcp(pluginId: string, servers: readonly string[], uri: PluginUriCaller): KayAppMcp;
+
+export declare function createVendoredMcpPort(server: string, uri: PluginUriCaller): VendoredMcpPort;
+
 /**
  * The URI module for one vendored-MCP integration plugin.
  *
@@ -44,6 +50,35 @@ declare type JsonValue = JsonPrimitive | {
     readonly [key: string]: JsonValue;
 } | readonly JsonValue[];
 
+/**
+ * Calls tools on the plugin's own vendored MCP servers. See {@link KayAgentPluginApi.vendoredMcp}.
+ */
+declare interface KayAgentVendoredMcp {
+    /**
+     * The port to `server`, a name this plugin declares in its `kay.app` target's
+     * `contributes.mcpServers`. Throws when the plugin declares no server of that name. A declared
+     * server that Bonsai does not host for this plugin still returns a port; each call then answers
+     * `unknown-server`. Each invocation uses the resource caller's exact `kay.agent` `uri.call`
+     * grant for `mcp` / `write`; MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
+     */
+    port<TTool extends string = string>(server: string): VendoredMcpPort<TTool>;
+}
+
+/** Calls tools on this plugin's manifest-declared MCP servers through Bonsai's managed connection. */
+declare interface KayAppMcp {
+    /**
+     * Uses the current app-wide server set, without a session or working directory.
+     * Refuses undeclared or no-longer-hosted servers. Sign-in and tool failures return typed outcomes;
+     * credentials remain with the host. Like the agent-side vendored MCP API, calls can read or write
+     * and do not use the agent's per-tool approval path.
+     */
+    callTool(input: {
+        readonly server: string;
+        readonly tool: string;
+        readonly args: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>;
+    }): Promise<VendoredMcpOutcome>;
+}
+
 declare interface LineRange {
     readonly start: number;
     readonly end: number;
@@ -127,6 +162,38 @@ declare interface ObservationMaterial {
     readonly retainForMs?: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Sessionless resource calls. Each call checks the calling target's exact scheme and verb grant.
+ * Results retain provider bytes, metadata and revisions; provider failures retain their URI tags.
+ * A cancellation or lost response does not prove a mutation was not applied.
+ */
+declare interface PluginUriCaller {
+    read(input: string, options?: PluginUriReadOptions): Promise<RawResource>;
+    list(input: string, params?: UriListParams, options?: PluginUriCallOptions): Promise<UriListResult>;
+    search(input: string, params: UriSearchParams, options?: PluginUriCallOptions): Promise<UriSearchResult>;
+    write(input: string, content?: UriPayload | Uint8Array, options?: PluginUriWriteOptions): Promise<UriMutationResult | void>;
+    edit(input: string, payload: UriPayload, options?: PluginUriMutationOptions): Promise<UriMutationResult>;
+    delete(input: string, options?: PluginUriMutationOptions): Promise<UriMutationResult>;
+}
+
+declare interface PluginUriCallOptions {
+    readonly cwd?: string;
+    readonly signal?: AbortSignal;
+}
+
+declare interface PluginUriMutationOptions extends PluginUriCallOptions {
+    readonly expectedRevision?: string;
+}
+
+declare interface PluginUriReadOptions extends PluginUriCallOptions {
+    readonly knownRevision?: string;
+}
+
+declare interface PluginUriWriteOptions extends PluginUriMutationOptions {
+    readonly sources?: readonly UriWriteSource[];
+    readonly writeSource?: UriSourceDescriptor;
+}
+
 declare interface RawResource {
     readonly uri: string;
     readonly content: string | Uint8Array;
@@ -1246,7 +1313,7 @@ declare type VendoredMcpFactClaim = {
 /**
  * ---
  * responsibility: The one interface through which a vendored-MCP plugin's code calls a tool on its
- *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the daemon that implements the port
+ *   own vendored MCP server, so every read-through plugin and the SDK that implements the port
  *   agree on the same shape by construction.
  * owns:
  *   - {@link VendoredMcpPort} - what a plugin's URI module and tools call.
@@ -1254,8 +1321,8 @@ declare type VendoredMcpFactClaim = {
  *     must surface to the agent rather than swallow.
  * does_not_own:
  *   - The implementation. A plugin never dials MCP itself: it takes the port from
- *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the daemon binds to the
- *     plugin's own hosted server over its MCP host. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
+ *     `api.vendoredMcp.port(server)` (`@bonsai/plugin-sdk/kay-agent`), which the SDK binds through
+ *     resource calls to the plugin's own hosted server. Plugin source stays host-free, and a plugin
  *     under test substitutes a fake port.
  *   - Which tool names exist. `TTool` is the plugin's own union of the vendor tools it calls; the
  *     port is generic so a typo in a tool name fails typecheck inside the plugin.
@@ -1291,8 +1358,8 @@ export declare type VendoredMcpOutcome =
 
 /**
  * One vendored MCP server, as the plugin that declares it calls it. `invoke` calls any tool the
- * server has, whether it reads or writes. The port checks no permission of its own: a call is as
- * permitted as the plugin tool or URI verb that makes it.
+ * server has, whether it reads or writes. The resource caller checks the target's exact
+ * `uri.call` grant, and MCP checks the host-stamped caller against server ownership.
  */
 export declare interface VendoredMcpPort<TTool extends string = string> {
     invoke(input: {

package/dist/vendored-mcp.js

@@ -480,6 +480,30 @@ var UriPayloadContractSchema = z2.strictObject({
   examples: z2.array(z2.unknown()).optional()
 });
 
+// packages/herd-uri/dist/payloads.js
+function isJsonPrimitive(value) {
+  return value === null || typeof value === "string" || typeof value === "boolean" || typeof value === "number" && Number.isFinite(value);
+}
+function isJsonValue(value) {
+  return isJsonValueInner(value, /* @__PURE__ */ new WeakSet());
+}
+function isJsonValueInner(value, seen) {
+  if (isJsonPrimitive(value))
+    return true;
+  if (typeof value !== "object" || value === null)
+    return false;
+  if (seen.has(value))
+    return false;
+  seen.add(value);
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    return value.every((item) => isJsonValueInner(item, seen));
+  }
+  const prototype = Object.getPrototypeOf(value);
+  if (prototype !== Object.prototype && prototype !== null)
+    return false;
+  return Object.values(value).every((item) => isJsonValueInner(item, seen));
+}
+
 // packages/herd-uri/dist/text-edit.js
 import { z as z3 } from "zod";
 var findReplaceArm = z3.strictObject({
@@ -664,7 +688,70 @@ function createVendoredMcpUriModule(descriptor) {
     }
   };
 }
+
+// packages/plugin-sdk/dist/vendored-mcp.js
+function createVendoredMcpPort(server, uri) {
+  return {
+    async invoke({ cwd, tool, args }) {
+      try {
+        if (!isJsonValue(args)) {
+          return {
+            ok: false,
+            reason: "failed",
+            message: "MCP tool arguments must be JSON-compatible."
+          };
+        }
+        const result = await uri.write(`mcp://${encodeURIComponent(server)}/tools/${encodeURIComponent(tool)}`, args, { cwd });
+        if (result === void 0 || result.resource === void 0) {
+          return {
+            ok: false,
+            reason: "failed",
+            message: `MCP server '${server}' returned no tool result.`
+          };
+        }
+        return { ok: true, value: result.resource };
+      } catch (error) {
+        const failure = error;
+        const code = failure?.providerCode;
+        const reason = failure?._tag === "UriProviderError" && failure.moduleId === "mcp.servers" && (code === "needs-auth" || code === "unknown-server" || code === "unknown-tool" || code === "failed") ? code : "failed";
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          reason,
+          message: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
+          ...typeof failure?.serviceId === "string" ? { serviceId: failure.serviceId } : {}
+        };
+      }
+    }
+  };
+}
+function createKayAgentVendoredMcp(pluginId, servers, uri) {
+  return {
+    port(server) {
+      if (!servers.includes(server)) {
+        throw new Error(`Plugin '${pluginId}' declares no MCP server '${server}' in its kay.app target's contributes.mcpServers, so api.vendoredMcp has no port to it.`);
+      }
+      return createVendoredMcpPort(server, uri);
+    }
+  };
+}
+function createKayAppMcp(pluginId, servers, uri) {
+  return {
+    async callTool({ server, tool, args }) {
+      if (!servers.includes(server)) {
+        return {
+          ok: false,
+          reason: "unknown-server",
+          message: `Plugin '${pluginId}' does not declare MCP server '${server}'.`
+        };
+      }
+      return createVendoredMcpPort(server, uri).invoke({ cwd: "", tool, args });
+    }
+  };
+}
 export {
+  createKayAgentVendoredMcp,
+  createKayAppMcp,
+  createVendoredMcpPort,
   createVendoredMcpUriModule,
   vendoredMcpUriModuleFacts
 };

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@yaklabs-ai/plugin-sdk",
-  "version": "0.54.2",
+  "version": "0.55.1",
   "description": "The Kay plugin SDK — types and helpers for authoring a Kay directory plugin.",
   "author": "YakLabs",
   "type": "module",