deepseek-harness/packages/subagent
Tianyi Cui 84f3019310 refactor(subagent): drop the agentType lifecycle field
Address review: `agentType` was a Claude-Code concept (`subagent_type`) that
does not fit our own subagent seam — nothing in the harness interprets it, and
its only consumer was the CC-dialect hook bridge. Rather than let a foreign
concept sit on the core seam, remove it:

- `SubagentStartRequest`, `SubagentRunInfo`, `SubagentRunEndInfo`: drop the
  `agentType` field; the `subagent/start`/`subagent/end` payloads now carry
  `provider`/`id` (+ end `stopReason`/`lastAssistantMessage`) only.
- `dsh-tool-subagent`: drop `Config.agentType` and its request plumbing.
- Tests: keep the lastAssistantMessage / clone-containment / reject-path
  coverage (rewritten to not assert agentType); delete the two tool-subagent
  tests that only exercised agentType forwarding (dead behavior).
- Docs: retitle + rewrite the subagent-observe-enrich RFC to the one shipped
  enrichment (lastAssistantMessage), with a note on why agentType was dropped;
  update rfc/README index title, both subagent READMEs, and the
  core-data-structures/subagent.md type-equiv block + prose; regenerate catalog.

The CC bridge (PR-F) will feed Claude Code's own default matcher value
"general-purpose" for its SubagentStart/Stop agent_type matcher instead.
2026-07-02 05:52:02 +08:00
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subagent refactor(subagent): drop the agentType lifecycle field 2026-07-02 05:52:02 +08:00
subagent-acp Settle ACP cancel without the child's cooperation; preserve flattened errors (review feedback) 2026-06-22 16:57:38 +08:00
subagent-fork Persist the seed boundary so fork-child replay routes correctly 2026-06-22 20:55:32 +08:00
subagent-inprocess Persist the seed boundary so fork-child replay routes correctly 2026-06-22 20:55:32 +08:00
subagent-spawn Apply the ts-build-config (lib/types) convention to the new subagent packages 2026-06-22 14:43:51 +08:00
tool-subagent refactor(subagent): drop the agentType lifecycle field 2026-07-02 05:52:02 +08:00
README.md Merge branch 'worktree-subagent-seam-pr2.5' into worktree-subagent-seam-pr3 2026-06-22 14:58:03 +08:00

subagent/ — subagent capability family

The subagent seam: an agent delegating work to a child agent. Like the bash and llm families this is a capability seam (see capability seams) — but with one defining difference: multiple provider implementations coexist in one context, registered by name, rather than the single-implementation bash shape. The registry mirrors the LLM adapter registry.

Package Role ctx key
subagent/ Abstract subagent seam: named-provider registry + vocabulary ctx.subagents
subagent-inprocess/ Shared in-process run driver (pure lib; registers nothing) —
subagent-spawn/ In-process backend: a fresh child agent (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-fork/ In-process backend: a child seeded with the parent's completed-turn prefix (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-acp/ Out-of-process backend: a child agent in a spawned subprocess, driven over ACP (registers on ctx.subagents)
tool-subagent/ Model-facing subagent delegation tool over ctx.subagents (registers on ctx.tools)

The interface lives at subagent/subagent/. The in-process subagent-spawn / subagent-fork backends share the subagent-inprocess driver (a pure library — both depend on it, neither on the other), and the out-of-process subagent-acp backend ships alongside them here; the test-only dsh-subagent-mock (in support) is separate. All product packages except the mock.

The proposal and design rationale: docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md.