- use_session_applies_persisted_mcp_tools_immediately now loads a session
file from disk through the real use_session, proving the post-assignment
filter refresh applies a re-attached session's persisted allowlist.
- New use_rag_does_not_drop_role_filters loads a yaml-driver RAG through
the real use_rag and proves the tool-scope rebuild recomputes the role's
filter layer instead of dropping it.
- Seed the process-wide client/model registries in a pre-main ctor (new
ctor dev-dependency) so model resolution is deterministic across test
orderings; the seed exposes only an embedding model so tests that assert
'no chat model available' keep their premise.
The user-scope MCP config historically lived at
<config-dir>/functions/mcp.json, a leftover from when MCP support was
part of the llm-functions tooling. It now resolves through a single
choke point with these semantics:
- Preferred location: <config-dir>/mcp.json (created there on first run)
- Historical <config-dir>/functions/mcp.json still honored when the
preferred file does not exist, so existing installs are unchanged
- If both exist, the preferred location wins
--info/.info now reports the resolved location as mcp_config_file, and
the --scope help text plus config.agent.example.yaml reference the new
default. This also removes the asymmetry with the workspace scope,
which already used .coyote/mcp.json directly.
The supervisor registry went kind-generic (TaskHandle::Agent | Job)
earlier in this branch, but the module holding the agent__* handlers
and two model-facing error strings still carried the old name:
- src/function/supervisor.rs -> src/function/agents.rs (it contains
only agent__* tool handlers, pairing with function/jobs.rs; the
kind-generic src/supervisor/ registry keeps its name)
- 'Supervisor tool failed' -> 'Agent tool failed'
- 'Unknown supervisor action' -> 'Unknown agent action'
Two long-standing agent-facing defects:
1. bash -e aborted the model's script at the first intermediate
non-zero status (grep with no matches exits 1, inspecting a failing
test run, a probing subshell), so trailing guards like '; exit 0'
never executed and output was partially or entirely lost. Dropped
-e: the last statement now decides the exit code, matching the
interactive-shell semantics models expect. pipefail is kept so a
failing pipeline stage still surfaces in the exit code.
2. Only stdout was redirected into $LLM_OUTPUT, and the harness
returns just $LLM_OUTPUT on success, so commands whose useful
output goes to stderr (git push, cargo progress, curl -v) returned
empty on success. Added 2>&1.
Graph LLM nodes now own the jobs they start, on every exit path. A new
node_job_scope on RequestContext records job ids started while a node
runs: the turn-end guardrail nags only about the node's own jobs
(parallel branches no longer see each other's), and the node executor
reaps — cancels and deregisters — anything left registered when the
node exits, including error, timeout, and retry-exhaustion paths.
Cross-node job handoff is no longer possible; a crashed node takes its
in-flight jobs with it.
With inheritance gone, job__* declarations are gated on capability:
the family is only declared when at least one declared tool would pass
job__start's whitelist (shared predicate: is_backgroundable_tool). One
carve-out — while a context still owns registered jobs (job started,
tool disabled mid-session), the lifecycle verbs stay declared so a
running job can never become unreachable; job__start alone disappears.
A graph node with tools: [] now sees no job__* tools at all.
Prompt instructions, tool declarations, and graph.example.yaml updated
to the node-local semantics; +7 tests, 8 visibility pins rewritten.
The executor integration-test module hoisted job-test paths into
module-level imports, but their only consumer is a #[cfg(unix)] test —
on Windows the imports went unused and failed -D warnings.
Graph agents could only inherit the app-wide job budget; the agent-level
header in graph.yaml now accepts max_concurrent_jobs alongside
model/temperature, flowing through AgentConfig::from_graph into the
run-wide supervisor. Deliberately graph-wide, not per-node: jobs outlive
the node that started them.
job__collect's 50k-char tail cap is a safety default, but collect is
consume-once and the cap was mandatory — a model that genuinely needed
the complete output had no recourse. Add a full_result boolean that
skips the cap (tail_lines still honored; the session-wide
max_tool_result_chars limit still applies downstream), teach the
truncation banner to name the recourse, and point job__check's
output_bytes_captured at the collect decision.
Since the supervisor registry became kind-generic (agents AND jobs),
'supervisor' naming on the agent__* tool plumbing was misleading:
job__* handlers operate on the same supervisor. Rename
SUPERVISOR_FUNCTION_PREFIX -> AGENT_FUNCTION_PREFIX,
supervisor_function_declarations -> agent_function_declarations,
handle_supervisor_tool -> handle_agent_tool. No behavior change.
memory_config() only reports enabled when a global memory index or a
workspace memory store exists on disk, so asserting the handler's
'name is required' detail was environment-dependent even with the
memory pref forced on. The routing test now accepts either
memory-handler-owned message: the 'Memory tool failed' prefix alone
proves the memory__ prefix reached the memory handler.
The eval_routes_memory_prefix_to_memory_handler characterization test
inherited the host machine's memory configuration: on runners without a
memory setup, should_register_memory_tools() gates the handler off and the
error message differs. Force memory = Some(true) at ctx construction so
the test asserts the same handler path everywhere.
- Extend the injected Background Jobs prompt guidance: system_notifications
push on completion, collect-only-when-idle wait protocol, and the graph
LLM-node collect-before-final-turn rule
- Mention the system_notifications push in the agent spawning guidance and
in the sisyphus/architect wait-protocol text (agent completions push
notifications too)
- config.example.yaml: max_concurrent_jobs (default 5, 0 = disabled)
- README: features-list entry pointing at the Background-Jobs wiki page
The spawned-agent task now pushes an agent_completed/agent_failed event
into the spawning context's notification queue before returning, so a
parent that keeps working learns mid-turn that a child finished instead
of discovering it only at the turn-end guardrail. Cancelled or
already-collected agents are suppressed by the existing drain-time
registration filter. This delivery applies regardless of whether
background jobs are enabled.
- add NotificationQueue/SystemNotification: every context owns a fresh
queue (children never inherit the parent's, avoiding first-drainer-wins
races between transcripts)
- job tasks push job_completed/job_failed events on completion, failure,
and timeout; a panic skips the push and is surfaced by the guardrail's
finished-handle enumeration and collect's JoinError mapping instead
- events for jobs already collected or cancelled are dropped at drain time
by filtering against live supervisor registration
- replace inject_escalation_notification with single-pass
merge_system_channel: pending_escalations (root-only) ordered before
system_notifications (any depth) on the last tool result of a batch;
byte-identical output when notifications are empty, proven by the
unmodified pre-merger characterization tests
Reject fast built-in file tools (fs_* / ast_grep) in job__start per the
backgroundable-tools whitelist; clean up env-snapshot temp files on every
exit of run_process_job via a drop guard; bound the output-pump awaits and
abort them on the failure path; treat signal death (no exit code) as a
failure with a teaching message; bound job__collect's post-drain join with
a SIGKILL escalation so a TERM-ignoring process cannot hang collect after
a Ctrl-C teardown; document the unguarded SIGTERM pid-reuse window; give
the injected Background Jobs prompt section a fresh line on both sides;
extract the MCP server name with strip_prefix instead of replace.
Capacity-0 audit for jobs-disabled contexts: REPL displays have no
supervisor consumers (only Ctrl-C/exit cancel_recursive at
repl/mod.rs:460,473, kind-agnostic); session save/load does not persist
supervisor state (src/config/session.rs has no supervisor references) --
nothing to test for either.
Agents whose function pool includes job__* declarations get a Background
Jobs section teaching start/check/collect/cancel discipline and the
snapshot/no-persistence semantics. Presence of the declarations doubles
as the jobs_enabled predicate, so a context with function calling off or
max_concurrent_jobs 0 sees no job prompt text.
Detached tokio::process runner with a frozen JobEnvSnapshot (env-derived
bin dirs, vault-interpolated agent envs, COYOTE_TOOL_TIMEOUT resolved at
start), process_group(0) with pgid-guarded SIGTERM/SIGKILL escalation,
capture-only ring-buffer telemetry, and LLM_OUTPUT read after wait().
MCP jobs snapshot a single-entry McpRuntime holding only the validated
server and render through the same free fn as the foreground path.
job__start enforces its gates synchronously before any spawn:
jobs_enabled, the backgroundable whitelist with directionality teaching
errors, the per-request declared-names stash captured in
before_chat_completion, then capacity (lazy supervisor get-or-init in
plain sessions). job__check/list read the shared JobState cell without
consuming; job__collect blocks with the escalation early-out and applies
a tail-biased char-boundary cap plus optional tail_lines; job__cancel
kills the group with a 5s grace.
Job declarations are injected iff jobs are enabled at agent init, the
plain-session function-init sites, and the exit_agent rebuild; job__ is
carved out of enabled_tools filtering and excluded from
concrete_tool_names so REPL toggles cannot grant or revoke it.
When max_chars landed inside a multi-byte UTF-8 character of the
serialized output, s.get(..max_chars) returned None and the code fell
back to the FULL untruncated string while still prepending the
truncation marker — the "truncated" output actually grew. The cut is
now floored to the previous char boundary so the prefix is always a
valid, genuinely truncated slice.
agent__check on a finished agent delegated to agent__collect, which
returned the full (unbounded) result and consumed the handle. That
contradicted the tool's own docs and broke the check-then-collect
pattern: a second collect on the same id failed.
check now reports { status: finished } with a pointer to
agent__collect and leaves the handle registered; collect is the single
retrieval verb. The tool description and prompt table are updated to
stop promising that check returns the result.
The turn-end guardrail only counted still-running agents, so an agent
that finished before the turn ended was invisible: its uncollected
result was silently dropped. Jobs were never counted at all.
The guardrail now enumerates every registered task (running and
finished, agents and jobs) via Supervisor::list_tasks and renders a
kind-aware prompt with two sections: still-running tasks to reclaim,
and completed-but-uncollected tasks with the exact collect command.
At the force-terminate cap, finished-but-uncollected handles are
explicitly discarded with a warning naming the lost ids, so the
guardrail cannot loop forever on handles nobody will collect.
Implements T1 of plans/background-jobs-design.md (§6, R7/R8/R9):
- Supervisor.handles is now HashMap<String, TaskHandle> where
TaskHandle = Agent(AgentHandle) | Job(JobHandle); agent-facing
accessors (active_count, effective_active_count, is_finished, take,
inbox, abort_signal_for, list_agents) match only Agent variants,
preserving all existing external behavior byte-for-byte.
- New JobHandle/JobState/JobStatus/JobResult types with pgid-guarded
process-group kill discipline: Drop and cancel_all/cancel_recursive
kill the group only while state.pgid is still set (pid-reuse guard),
via libc::killpg on unix and JoinHandle::abort elsewhere.
- Per-kind job capacity: Supervisor carries max_concurrent_jobs
(builder-set, default 0); job registration rejects at capacity.
- Cross-kind teaching errors at the four agent-lookup miss sites
(agent__check/collect/cancel/send_message) when the id is a
registered job or job_-prefixed; genuinely-unknown ids keep their
existing messages.
- Supervisor init condition is now can_spawn_agents || jobs_enabled in
use_agent and both child-agent spawn paths, with agent capacity 0 in
jobs-only contexts; use_agent cancels the old supervisor recursively
before replacing it.
- max_concurrent_jobs config plumbing: global Config field, AgentConfig
override + accessor, all four AppConfig touch points including the
COYOTE_MAX_CONCURRENT_JOBS env override; shared
effective_max_concurrent_jobs/jobs_enabled predicates
(agent override -> global -> default 5; 0 disables).
- Stage dependency-free RingBuf (64 KiB default) in src/function/jobs.rs
for the upcoming job output pump.
- New sanctioned dependency: libc 0.2 under cfg(unix).
Completes the .prompt/.temp-role split: --prompt set an ad-hoc system
role, which is what .temp-role now means everywhere. The --prompt name
is left unbound so a future one-shot MCP prompt flag can take it with
properly designed non-interactive semantics. use_prompt follows the
rename as use_temp_role.
BREAKING CHANGE: invocations using --prompt <text> must switch to
--temp-role <text>; clap rejects the old flag loudly.
Dark-Alex-17
Alex Clarke