talon-agent 5.0.1 → 5.2.0

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  1. package/README.md +3 -1
  2. package/bin/talon.js +35 -0
  3. package/package.json +3 -3
  4. package/prompts/identity.md +10 -2
  5. package/prompts/system/agent-brief.md +43 -0
  6. package/src/app.ts +19 -26
  7. package/src/backend/builtins.ts +26 -7
  8. package/src/backend/claude-sdk/handler.ts +191 -69
  9. package/src/backend/claude-sdk/one-shot.ts +30 -7
  10. package/src/backend/claude-sdk/stream.ts +9 -0
  11. package/src/backend/codex/one-shot.ts +18 -4
  12. package/src/backend/remote-server/index.ts +6 -4
  13. package/src/backend/remote-server/model-catalog/index.ts +4 -10
  14. package/src/backend/remote-server/model-catalog/provider.ts +3 -3
  15. package/src/backend/remote-server/one-shot.ts +16 -3
  16. package/src/backend/remote-server/profiles/bind.ts +225 -0
  17. package/src/backend/remote-server/profiles/index.ts +10 -0
  18. package/src/backend/remote-server/profiles/kilo.ts +82 -0
  19. package/src/backend/remote-server/profiles/opencode.ts +61 -0
  20. package/src/backend/remote-server/server-bindings.ts +3 -4
  21. package/src/backend/runtime/one-shot-hooks.ts +45 -0
  22. package/src/bootstrap.ts +15 -1
  23. package/src/cli/chat.ts +5 -0
  24. package/src/cli/events.ts +9 -0
  25. package/src/core/agent-runtime/agent-host.ts +7 -6
  26. package/src/core/agent-runtime/capabilities.ts +3 -0
  27. package/src/core/agents/context.ts +48 -0
  28. package/src/core/agents/delivery.ts +167 -0
  29. package/src/core/agents/index.ts +37 -0
  30. package/src/core/agents/prompt.ts +116 -0
  31. package/src/core/agents/registry.ts +426 -0
  32. package/src/core/agents/runner.ts +448 -0
  33. package/src/core/agents/types.ts +124 -0
  34. package/src/core/background/cron/job-oneshot.ts +7 -12
  35. package/src/core/background/cron/job-prompt.ts +1 -1
  36. package/src/core/background/{cron/isolated-agent.ts → isolated-agent.ts} +45 -24
  37. package/src/core/background/run-log.ts +33 -0
  38. package/src/core/bus/events.ts +49 -2
  39. package/src/core/config/index.ts +25 -0
  40. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/agents/control.ts +299 -0
  41. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/agents/index.ts +31 -0
  42. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/agents/report.ts +107 -0
  43. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/index.ts +30 -0
  44. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/exec-remote.ts +1 -1
  45. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/exec.ts +1 -1
  46. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/read.ts +1 -1
  47. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/search.ts +1 -1
  48. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/teleport.ts +1 -1
  49. package/src/core/engine/gateway-actions/native/write.ts +1 -1
  50. package/src/core/engine/gateway-routes.ts +12 -0
  51. package/src/core/engine/gateway.ts +96 -25
  52. package/src/core/frontend-runtime/capabilities.ts +18 -0
  53. package/src/core/frontend-runtime/index.ts +4 -0
  54. package/src/core/frontend-runtime/lifecycle.ts +33 -0
  55. package/src/core/frontend-runtime/registry.ts +3 -3
  56. package/src/core/frontend-runtime/run-loop.ts +59 -0
  57. package/src/core/mcp-hub/children.ts +21 -5
  58. package/src/core/mesh/{registry.ts → devices/registry.ts} +4 -4
  59. package/src/core/mesh/{service.ts → devices/service.ts} +13 -10
  60. package/src/core/mesh/{teleport.ts → devices/teleport.ts} +2 -2
  61. package/src/core/mesh/index.ts +6 -2
  62. package/src/core/mesh/{bridge-links.ts → links/bridge-links.ts} +1 -1
  63. package/src/core/mesh/{companion-pairing.ts → links/companion-pairing.ts} +1 -1
  64. package/src/core/mesh/{node-binaries.ts → links/node-binaries.ts} +5 -5
  65. package/src/core/mesh/{node-provision.ts → links/node-provision.ts} +1 -1
  66. package/src/core/mesh/{common.ts → tool-surface.ts} +7 -2
  67. package/src/core/mesh/{device-files.ts → transfers/device-files.ts} +5 -5
  68. package/src/core/prompt/embedded-prompts.ts +38 -36
  69. package/src/core/tasks/types.ts +2 -2
  70. package/src/core/tools/index.ts +5 -0
  71. package/src/core/tools/ops/agents.ts +195 -0
  72. package/src/core/tools/ops/bridge.ts +4 -0
  73. package/src/core/tools/types.ts +1 -0
  74. package/src/core/types.ts +12 -1
  75. package/src/frontend/discord/commands/info.ts +1 -1
  76. package/src/frontend/discord/render.ts +1 -1
  77. package/src/frontend/native/bridge/routes/mesh.ts +1 -1
  78. package/src/frontend/native/index.ts +2 -0
  79. package/src/frontend/presentation/reports.ts +1 -1
  80. package/src/frontend/teams/index.ts +4 -3
  81. package/src/frontend/telegram/commands/info.ts +61 -20
  82. package/src/frontend/telegram/index.ts +27 -4
  83. package/src/frontend/telegram/render/reports.ts +1 -1
  84. package/src/frontend/terminal/index.ts +6 -2
  85. package/src/frontend/whatsapp/connection/connection.ts +62 -11
  86. package/src/frontend/whatsapp/index.ts +25 -1
  87. package/src/frontend/whatsapp/runtime.ts +7 -0
  88. package/src/util/log.ts +1 -0
  89. package/src/backend/kilo/factory.ts +0 -53
  90. package/src/backend/kilo/handler/index.ts +0 -2
  91. package/src/backend/kilo/handler/message.ts +0 -44
  92. package/src/backend/kilo/index.ts +0 -61
  93. package/src/backend/kilo/model-provider.ts +0 -36
  94. package/src/backend/kilo/models/index.ts +0 -55
  95. package/src/backend/kilo/one-shot.ts +0 -42
  96. package/src/backend/kilo/server.ts +0 -98
  97. package/src/backend/kilo/sessions.ts +0 -37
  98. package/src/backend/opencode/factory.ts +0 -53
  99. package/src/backend/opencode/handler/index.ts +0 -2
  100. package/src/backend/opencode/handler/message.ts +0 -44
  101. package/src/backend/opencode/index.ts +0 -42
  102. package/src/backend/opencode/model-provider.ts +0 -36
  103. package/src/backend/opencode/models/index.ts +0 -54
  104. package/src/backend/opencode/one-shot.ts +0 -42
  105. package/src/backend/opencode/server.ts +0 -80
  106. package/src/backend/opencode/sessions.ts +0 -35
  107. /package/src/core/mesh/{transfers.ts → transfers/transfers.ts} +0 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
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+ /**
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+ * OpenCode — a remote-server profile.
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+ *
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+ * The whole driver is `bindRemoteProfile` over the constants below: the
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+ * `@opencode-ai/sdk` constructors, port 4096, the text-preferred
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+ * delivery contract, the fuzzy `provider/model` parser, and the
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+ * Telegram-sized model picker budget.
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+ *
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+ * Text-preferred delivery: plain assistant text is the reply; tools only
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+ * for genuine side effects. Single-sourced from the shared contract
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+ * templates (prompts/system/contract-text-preferred.md).
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+ */
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+
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+ import {
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+ createOpencodeClient,
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+ createOpencodeServer,
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+ type OpencodeClient,
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+ } from "@opencode-ai/sdk/v2";
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+ import {
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+ normalizeModelLookup,
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+ parseRemoteModelQuery,
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+ } from "../model-catalog/index.js";
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+ import type { RemoteModelSelection } from "../server-bindings.js";
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+ import { bindRemoteProfile, type RemoteProfile } from "./bind.js";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Parse the stored model-selection string into a `{providerID?, modelID}`
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+ * pair. The parser is fuzzy — it tries to extract a provider hint from the
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+ * prefix while preserving the full model id when ambiguous. See
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+ * `remote-server/model-catalog/` for the underlying `parseRemoteModelQuery`.
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+ */
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+ function parseStoredOpenCodeModelSelection(
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+ value: string,
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+ ): RemoteModelSelection {
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+ const { providerQuery, modelQuery } = parseRemoteModelQuery(value);
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+ return {
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+ providerID: providerQuery ? normalizeModelLookup(providerQuery) : undefined,
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+ modelID: modelQuery,
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+ };
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+ }
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+
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+ export const opencodeProfile: RemoteProfile<OpencodeClient> =
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+ bindRemoteProfile<OpencodeClient>({
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+ id: "opencode",
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+ label: "OpenCode",
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+ sdkPackage: "@opencode-ai/sdk",
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+ defaultPort: 4096,
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+ portEnv: "OPENCODE_PORT",
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+ deliveryContract: "text-preferred",
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+ createClient: (baseUrl) =>
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+ createOpencodeClient({ baseUrl, throwOnError: true }),
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+ createServer: ({ hostname, port, timeout }) =>
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+ createOpencodeServer({ hostname, port, timeout }),
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+ parseModelSelection: parseStoredOpenCodeModelSelection,
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+ // OpenCode's model picker renders through Telegram inline keyboards —
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+ // callback_data caps at 64 bytes and the keyboard is tight, so quick
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+ // picks stay at 4 and only short separator-free ids are embedded raw.
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+ maxCallbackIdLength: 48,
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+ allowCallbackSeparators: false,
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+ quickPickLimit: 4,
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+ });
@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@
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  * of hand-written pass-through wrappers around the shared helpers. They
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  * drifted in the small ways copies do (one documented the port override,
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  * the other didn't; one exported `errMsg`, the other aliased it) while
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- * doing exactly the same thing. Now a backend's `server.ts` declares its
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- * profile and re-exports these bindings under the historical names —
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- * the surface the models module, the tests, and
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- * `vi.mock("../backend/<name>/server.js")` all address.
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+ * doing exactly the same thing. Those wrapper files are gone:
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+ * `profiles/bind.ts` calls this once per driver and hands the result
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+ * straight to `createRemoteBackendFactory`.
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  */
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  import type { TalonConfig } from "../../core/config/index.js";
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+ /**
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+ * One-shot run hooks — the shared, throw-proof call site for
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+ * `OneShotAgentParams.onAssistantText`.
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+ *
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+ * Every backend's isolated runner (`BackgroundRunner.runOneShotAgent`) already
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+ * renders the model's assistant text into the run log as markdown. The hook is
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+ * the same text as data, so a caller (the sub-agent runner) can take a run's
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+ * result without parsing the log back apart. It lives here rather than in each
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+ * backend so all four report it identically: same "final answer only" meaning,
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+ * same empty-string skip, same swallow-and-log on a throwing callback.
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+ *
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+ * Contract:
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+ * - Final assistant text only. Reasoning/thinking blocks and tool-call
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+ * payloads are log-only; they never reach the hook.
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+ * - Synchronous. The runner does not await the consumer, so a hook that
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+ * wants to do async work owns its own queueing.
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+ * - Never throws into the run. A consumer bug must not abort a heartbeat.
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+ */
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+
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+ import type { OneShotAgentParams } from "../../core/types.js";
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+ import { logWarn } from "../../util/log.js";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Report one assistant text segment to the run's optional consumer.
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+ *
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+ * No-ops when there is no hook (the heartbeat/dream/cron path) or when the
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+ * text is empty — the backends guard their log appends the same way, so the
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+ * hook sees exactly the segments the log does.
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+ */
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+ export function emitAssistantText(
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+ onAssistantText: OneShotAgentParams["onAssistantText"],
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+ text: string,
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+ ): void {
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+ if (!onAssistantText || !text) return;
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+ try {
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+ onAssistantText(text);
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+ } catch (err) {
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+ logWarn(
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+ "agent",
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+ `one-shot onAssistantText hook threw (ignored): ${
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+ err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)
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+ }`,
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+ );
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+ }
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+ }
package/src/bootstrap.ts CHANGED
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  initTriggers,
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  resumeAfterRestart as resumeTriggersAfterRestart,
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  } from "./core/background/triggers/index.js";
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+ import { initAgents } from "./core/agents/index.js";
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  import { initDream, maybeStartDream } from "./core/background/dream/index.js";
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  import { initHeartbeat } from "./core/background/heartbeat/index.js";
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  import { log, logWarn, logDebug } from "./util/log.js";
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  model: config.heartbeatModel ?? config.model ?? null,
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  }),
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  });
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- initTriggers({ execute: dispatcherExecute });
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+ initWakeSubsystems(config);
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  resumeTriggersAfterRestart().catch((err) =>
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  log("triggers", `resumeAfterRestart failed: ${err}`),
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  );
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  }
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+ /**
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+ * Wire the two subsystems that wake a chat with a synthetic turn: trigger
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+ * scripts firing, and sub-agents reporting. Same dependency (the dispatcher),
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+ * same delivery shape, so they are wired together.
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+ */
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+ function initWakeSubsystems(config: TalonConfig): void {
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+ initTriggers({ execute: dispatcherExecute });
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+ initAgents({
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+ execute: dispatcherExecute,
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+ ...(config.agents ? { caps: config.agents } : {}),
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+ });
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+ }
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+
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  /**
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package/src/cli/chat.ts CHANGED
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  process.exit(0);
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  });
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+ // start() resolves once the prompt is up (the frontend lifecycle
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+ // contract); readline drives the session from its own callbacks after
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+ // that, so hold this entry point open until /exit or SIGINT exits the
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+ // process.
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+ await new Promise<never>(() => {});
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  }
package/src/cli/events.ts CHANGED
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  return `chat=${event.chatId} ${event.backendId}/${event.model} (${event.source})`;
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  case "turn.completed":
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  return `chat=${event.chatId} ${event.durationMs}ms in=${event.inputTokens} out=${event.outputTokens}`;
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+ case "agent.spawned":
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+ return (
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+ `${event.agentId} "${event.label}" ${event.backendId}/${event.model} ` +
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+ `depth=${event.depth} parent=${event.parent}`
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+ );
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+ case "agent.settled":
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+ return `${event.agentId} "${event.label}" → ${event.state} (${event.durationMs}ms)`;
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+ case "agent.message":
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+ return `${event.from} → ${event.to} (${event.kind})`;
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+ * - `OneShotAgentParams` carries an `AbortController` and two
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+ * callbacks (`appendLog`, `onAssistantText`). `HostOneShotParams`
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+ * is the serialisable subset; Phase 2 maps `appendLog` onto `log`
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+ * notices, `onAssistantText` onto a notice of its own, and the
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+ * `appendLog` and `onAssistantText` are host-local concerns (see the file
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+ * sub-agent runner) that need a result rather than a markdown log.
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+ /**
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+ *
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+ * A one-shot run carries a `contextLabel` (`OneShotAgentParams`) that every
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+ * layer downstream keys on: the backend picks the MCP server set from it, the
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+ * MCP hub binds a tool session to it, and the bridge sends it back to the
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+ * gateway recognises a tool call as coming from that agent rather than from a
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+ * chat.
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+ import { log, logWarn, logError } from "../../util/log.js";
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+ import { agentRegistry } from "./registry.js";
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+ import type { AgentMessage, AgentParent, AgentRecord } from "./types.js";
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+ export type AgentDeliveryDeps = {
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+ };
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+ }
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+ "agents",
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+ `delivery not initialised — dropped a report for ${chatId}`,
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+ );
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ try {
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+ await deps.execute({
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+ chatId,
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+ numericChatId,
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+ prompt,
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+ senderName: "Agent",
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+ isGroup: false,
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+ source: "agent",
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+ });
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+ } catch (err) {
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+ logError("agents", `wake dispatch failed for chat ${chatId}`, err);
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /** Push into a live agent's mailbox, or say why it could not be delivered. */
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+ function pushToAgent(
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+ parentAgentId: string,
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+ message: AgentMessage,
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+ what: string,
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+ ): void {
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+ if (!agentRegistry.isLive(parentAgentId)) {
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+ logWarn(
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+ "agents",
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+ `dropped ${what} from ${message.from}: parent ${parentAgentId} has already settled`,
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+ );
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ if (!agentRegistry.push(parentAgentId, message)) {
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+ logWarn(
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+ "agents",
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+ `dropped ${what} from ${message.from}: parent ${parentAgentId}'s inbox is full`,
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+ );
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Send an instruction down to a live agent. Returns false when the agent is
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+ * gone or its mailbox is full — the caller turns that into a tool error, so
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+ * a parent always learns that its instruction did not land.
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+ */
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+ export function deliverToAgent(
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+ from: string,
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+ agentId: string,
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+ text: string,
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+ ): boolean {
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+ if (!agentRegistry.isLive(agentId)) return false;
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+ if (!agentRegistry.push(agentId, { from, text, at: Date.now() }))
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+ return false;
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+ bus.publish({
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+ type: "agent.message",
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+ from,
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+ to: agentId,
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+ kind: "message",
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+ });
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+ return true;
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+ }
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+
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+ /** Deliver a settled agent's report to its parent. */
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+ export async function deliverSettlement(record: AgentRecord): Promise<void> {
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+ const prompt = buildSettlementPrompt(record);
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+ bus.publish({
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+ type: "agent.message",
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+ from: record.id,
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+ to: parentKey(record.parent),
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+ kind: "result",
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+ });
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+ if (record.parent.kind === "chat") {
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+ log(
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+ "agents",
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+ `${record.id} "${record.label}" ${record.state} — waking chat ${record.parent.chatId}`,
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+ );
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+ await wakeChat(record.parent.chatId, record.parent.numericChatId, prompt);
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ pushToAgent(
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+ record.parent.agentId,
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+ { from: record.id, text: prompt, at: Date.now() },
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+ "a report",
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+ );
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+ }
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+
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+ /** Deliver an interim `message_parent` note. */
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+ export async function deliverMessage(
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+ record: AgentRecord,
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+ text: string,
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+ ): Promise<void> {
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+ bus.publish({
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+ type: "agent.message",
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+ from: record.id,
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+ to: parentKey(record.parent),
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+ kind: "message",
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+ });
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+ if (record.parent.kind === "chat") {
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+ await wakeChat(
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+ record.parent.chatId,
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+ record.parent.numericChatId,
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+ buildMessagePrompt(record, text),
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+ );
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+ return;
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+ }
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+ pushToAgent(
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+ record.parent.agentId,
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+ { from: record.id, text: buildMessagePrompt(record, text), at: Date.now() },
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+ "a message",
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+ );
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+ }
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1
+ /**
2
+ * Sub-agents — the public surface.
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+ *
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+ * Talon's own delegation mechanism: any chat turn, on any backend, can spawn
5
+ * an isolated agent with its own backend and model, talk to it while it runs,
6
+ * and be woken with its report. See `docs/agents.md` for the model and
7
+ * `registry` / `runner` / `delivery` for the three moving parts.
8
+ *
9
+ * Wiring points: `initAgents` at the composition root (bootstrap),
10
+ * `shutdownAgents` on daemon teardown (app), the `agents` tool family
11
+ * (`core/tools/ops/agents.ts`) through `core/engine/gateway-actions/agents/`,
12
+ * and `GET /agents` on the gateway.
13
+ *
14
+ * `context.ts` is imported directly by `backend/claude-sdk` and the gateway:
15
+ * it is a dependency-free leaf on purpose, so knowing what an `agent:<id>`
16
+ * label looks like never drags the runner (and the backend pool) along.
17
+ */
18
+
19
+ export { agentContextLabel, agentIdFromContextLabel } from "./context.js";
20
+ export { AgentRegistry, agentRegistry } from "./registry.js";
21
+ export {
22
+ DEFAULT_AGENT_CAPS,
23
+ clampTimeout,
24
+ getAgentCaps,
25
+ initAgents,
26
+ killAgent,
27
+ shutdownAgents,
28
+ spawnAgent,
29
+ } from "./runner.js";
30
+ export {
31
+ deliverMessage,
32
+ deliverSettlement,
33
+ deliverToAgent,
34
+ initAgentDelivery,
35
+ } from "./delivery.js";
36
+ export { describeParent } from "./prompt.js";
37
+ export type { AgentCaps, AgentParent, AgentRecord } from "./types.js";
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1
+ /**
2
+ * Pure helpers for a sub-agent run — its system prompt, its activation
3
+ * prompt, its log path and the prompt headers its parent sees.
4
+ *
5
+ * Kept free of side effects (no fs, no backend, no registry) so the wording
6
+ * every other subsystem asserts on is trivially unit-testable, and so the
7
+ * runner stays about lifecycle.
8
+ */
9
+
10
+ import { resolve } from "node:path";
11
+ import { dirs } from "../../util/paths.js";
12
+ import { loadSystemTemplate } from "../prompt/templates.js";
13
+ import type { AgentParent, AgentRecord } from "./types.js";
14
+
15
+ /** Where sub-agent run logs live: `~/.talon/workspace/logs/agents/`. */
16
+ const AGENT_LOGS_DIR = resolve(dirs.logs, "agents");
17
+
18
+ /** Absolute path of one agent's run log. */
19
+ export function agentLogPath(agentId: string): string {
20
+ return resolve(AGENT_LOGS_DIR, `${agentId}.md`);
21
+ }
22
+
23
+ /** How a parent is named to its child and in wake prompts. */
24
+ export function describeParent(parent: AgentParent): string {
25
+ return parent.kind === "chat"
26
+ ? `chat ${parent.chatId}`
27
+ : `sub-agent ${parent.agentId}`;
28
+ }
29
+
30
+ /**
31
+ * The agent's system prompt: who it is, how to report, how to talk to its
32
+ * parent, and what it may not do. The brief itself is the *user* prompt —
33
+ * same split as the isolated cron/trigger jobs, so the framing half stays
34
+ * identical (and cacheable) across every run.
35
+ */
36
+ export function buildAgentSystemPrompt(args: {
37
+ agentId: string;
38
+ label: string;
39
+ parent: AgentParent;
40
+ depth: number;
41
+ maxDepth: number;
42
+ }): string {
43
+ return loadSystemTemplate("agent-brief", {
44
+ agentId: args.agentId,
45
+ label: args.label,
46
+ parent: describeParent(args.parent),
47
+ depth: String(args.depth),
48
+ maxDepth: String(args.maxDepth),
49
+ canSpawn: args.depth < args.maxDepth ? "yes" : "",
50
+ });
51
+ }
52
+
53
+ /** The activation prompt — the brief, framed as the job to start on. */
54
+ export function buildAgentPrompt(brief: string): string {
55
+ return (
56
+ `[System: AGENT BRIEF. Work this to a conclusion, then call ` +
57
+ `report_result exactly once.]\n\n${brief}`
58
+ );
59
+ }
60
+
61
+ /** Header line of a run log. */
62
+ export function agentLogHeader(record: AgentRecord, model: string): string {
63
+ return (
64
+ `# sub-agent ${record.id} "${record.label}" — ${new Date().toISOString()}\n` +
65
+ `**Parent:** ${describeParent(record.parent)} ` +
66
+ `**Backend:** ${record.backendId} **Model:** ${model} ` +
67
+ `**Depth:** ${record.depth}\n\n` +
68
+ `## Brief\n\n${record.brief}\n\n`
69
+ );
70
+ }
71
+
72
+ /** One-line token summary for the report a parent chat is woken with. */
73
+ function usageLine(record: AgentRecord): string {
74
+ const usage = record.usage;
75
+ if (!usage) return "";
76
+ return (
77
+ `\n\nTokens: in=${usage.inputTokens} out=${usage.outputTokens} ` +
78
+ `cache_read=${usage.cacheRead} cache_write=${usage.cacheWrite}`
79
+ );
80
+ }
81
+
82
+ /**
83
+ * The wake prompt a parent chat receives when one of its agents settles.
84
+ * Shaped like the trigger wake-up: a `[System: …]` header telling the model
85
+ * what this is and that it must decide what to do, then the payload.
86
+ */
87
+ export function buildSettlementPrompt(record: AgentRecord): string {
88
+ const body = record.result
89
+ ? record.result.details
90
+ ? `${record.result.summary}\n\n${record.result.details}`
91
+ : record.result.summary
92
+ : (record.error ?? "(the agent produced no result)");
93
+ const duration = record.endedAt
94
+ ? Math.round(
95
+ (record.endedAt - (record.startedAt ?? record.createdAt)) / 1000,
96
+ )
97
+ : 0;
98
+ return (
99
+ `[System: AGENT FINISHED. Sub-agent ${record.id} "${record.label}" ` +
100
+ `ended as "${record.state}" after ${duration}s. This is the report from ` +
101
+ `an agent you spawned earlier. Decide whether to act on it, tell the ` +
102
+ `user, or do nothing.]\n\n` +
103
+ `[Agent "${record.label}" (${record.id}) — ${record.state}]\n\n` +
104
+ `${body}${usageLine(record)}`
105
+ );
106
+ }
107
+
108
+ /** The wake prompt for an interim `message_parent` note. */
109
+ export function buildMessagePrompt(record: AgentRecord, text: string): string {
110
+ return (
111
+ `[System: AGENT MESSAGE from ${record.id} "${record.label}". ` +
112
+ `This is an interim note from an agent you spawned; it is still ` +
113
+ `running. Decide whether to act, reply with send_to_agent, or do ` +
114
+ `nothing.]\n\n${text}`
115
+ );
116
+ }