mecha-cli 0.1.7

The mecha CLI: an agent harness for local models.
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//! Turning CLI flags plus config into a ready-to-run [`Agent`].
//!
//! Every command that runs an agent goes through here, so precedence is
//! defined once: config file, then environment, then flags.

use crate::approve::TerminalApprover;
use crate::GlobalOpts;
use anyhow::{Context, Result};
use mecha_core::agent::Agent;
use mecha_core::config::SearchBackendConfig;
use mecha_core::config::{Config, PermissionMode};
use mecha_core::mcp::{self, McpClient};
use mecha_core::search::{Exa, SearchBackend, SearchChain, Searxng, Tavily, WebSearch};
use mecha_core::subagent::{Subagent, SubagentProfile};
use mecha_core::tool::{Approver, ModeApprover, Registry, ToolCtx};
use std::path::PathBuf;
use std::sync::Arc;

pub struct Prepared {
    pub agent: Agent,
    pub provider_name: String,
    pub model: String,
    pub workspace: PathBuf,
    /// The resolved config, for commands that need to build a *second*
    /// connection — `eval` and its judge model.
    pub config: Config,
    /// The active sandbox, for surfaces that describe what `shell` actually
    /// is — the TUI's /tools modal. The tools themselves already hold it.
    pub sandbox: Arc<mecha_core::sandbox::Sandbox>,
    /// The todo tool the agent is actually using, for the TUI's live pane.
    pub todo: Option<Arc<mecha_core::tool::todo::TodoTool>>,
    /// The messaging route, when `[messages]` is enabled — the front-end
    /// sets this run's identity on it once the session exists, and reads
    /// the store for waiting-mail notices.
    pub mailbox: Option<Arc<mecha_core::mailbox::MailboxRoute>>,
    /// Held for the lifetime of the run: dropping a client kills its server.
    pub _mcp: Vec<Arc<McpClient>>,
}

/// Everything except the model connection. Split out so `mecha tools` can list
/// what an agent *would* have without needing provider credentials.
pub struct PreparedTools {
    pub registry: Registry,
    pub sandbox: Arc<mecha_core::sandbox::Sandbox>,
    pub workspace: PathBuf,
    pub config: Config,
    pub approver: Arc<dyn Approver>,
    /// A concrete handle onto the registered todo tool, so a UI can poll
    /// `items()` live. `None` when the tool is disabled or an MCP server
    /// shadowed it.
    pub todo: Option<Arc<mecha_core::tool::todo::TodoTool>>,
    /// The messaging route, when `[messages]` is enabled — `message_send`
    /// holds a clone, the agent's context gets it attached in `build`, and
    /// the front-end sets the run's identity on it once a session exists.
    pub mailbox: Option<Arc<mecha_core::mailbox::MailboxRoute>>,
    pub _mcp: Vec<Arc<McpClient>>,
}

/// Build an agent. `interactive` decides whether an un-approved tool call can
/// prompt a human or must fall back to the configured [`PermissionMode`].
pub async fn prepare(opts: &GlobalOpts, interactive: bool) -> Result<Prepared> {
    build(prepare_tools(opts, interactive).await?, opts)
}

/// Build an agent that asks a caller-supplied approver.
///
/// The TUI needs this: its approver talks to the event loop over a channel, and
/// `prepare` would otherwise install one that writes prompts straight to a
/// terminal the interface has taken over. The approver is still only consulted
/// in `Ask` mode — a run configured read-only stays read-only.
pub async fn prepare_with_approver(
    opts: &GlobalOpts,
    approver: Arc<dyn Approver>,
) -> Result<Prepared> {
    let mut tools = prepare_tools(opts, true).await?;
    if tools.config.tools.permission_mode == PermissionMode::Ask {
        tools.approver = approver;
    }
    build(tools, opts)
}

fn build(tools: PreparedTools, opts: &GlobalOpts) -> Result<Prepared> {
    let cfg = tools.config;

    let (provider_name, provider_cfg) = cfg.provider(opts.provider.as_deref())?;
    let mut provider = mecha_core::provider::build(provider_cfg)?;

    let model = opts
        .model
        .clone()
        .or_else(|| provider_cfg.model.clone())
        .unwrap_or_else(|| provider.default_model().to_string());

    // Fallbacks, resolved at startup so a typo'd name fails on every start
    // rather than only on the outage that needed it. `--no-fallback` is the
    // strictness switch; eval forces it, because a scorecard produced by a
    // different model than the one it names measures nothing.
    if !provider_cfg.fallbacks.is_empty() && !opts.no_fallback {
        let mut fallbacks = Vec::new();
        for name in &provider_cfg.fallbacks {
            anyhow::ensure!(
                name != &provider_name,
                "provider {provider_name:?} lists itself as a fallback"
            );
            let (fb_name, fb_cfg) = cfg.provider(Some(name)).with_context(|| {
                format!("fallback {name:?} of provider {provider_name:?} is not configured")
            })?;
            fallbacks.push((fb_name, mecha_core::provider::build(fb_cfg)?));
        }
        provider = Box::new(mecha_core::provider::Failover::new(provider, fallbacks));
    }

    let ctx = ToolCtx {
        workspace: tools.workspace.clone(),
        shell_timeout: std::time::Duration::from_secs(cfg.tools.shell_timeout_secs),
        security: cfg.security.clone(),
        // Resolved against the *primary* provider's window; a turn served by
        // a narrower fallback inherits a budget sized for the primary. Known
        // and accepted — fallbacks are turn-local and empty by default, and a
        // budget that flapped per-turn would make transcripts incomparable.
        output_budget_bytes: cfg
            .tools
            .resolved_output_budget(provider_cfg.context_window),
        ..ToolCtx::default()
    };

    // Validated even when --no-hooks skips installing them: a typo in a hook's
    // event name should fail on every start, not only on the runs that use it.
    let hooks = mecha_core::hooks::HookSet::from_config(&cfg.hooks)?;
    let hooks = (!opts.no_hooks && !hooks.is_empty()).then(|| Arc::new(hooks));

    // The outbox route. Opening the store here — not lazily at first stage —
    // makes an unwritable outbox a startup error instead of a mid-run
    // surprise on the one call that mattered.
    let outbox = if !opts.no_outbox && !cfg.outbox.tools.is_empty() {
        let root = match &cfg.outbox.dir {
            Some(dir) => dir.clone(),
            None => mecha_core::outbox::OutboxStore::default_root()?,
        };
        let store = mecha_core::outbox::OutboxStore::open(root)?;
        Some(Arc::new(mecha_core::outbox::OutboxRoute::new(
            store,
            cfg.outbox.tools.iter().cloned(),
            cfg.outbox.publish_tools.iter().cloned(),
        )))
    } else {
        None
    };

    // Subagents are built from the same tool pool but get their own registry —
    // an allowlist, not an inheritance. Do this before the parent takes
    // ownership of the registry.
    let mut registry = tools.registry;
    for profile in &cfg.subagents {
        // `--tool` narrows the pool deliberately, and a subagent whose profile
        // names something the narrowing excluded is not a misconfiguration —
        // it is a subagent the caller has just said they do not want. Skip it,
        // loudly. Failing here instead made `--tool` unusable on any machine
        // with a subagent configured: `mecha run --tool fs_read` died on
        // `research` needing `web_search`, which is not what the flag means.
        //
        // The distinction is what keeps `build_subagent`'s error worth having:
        // a name that is missing *without* an active allowlist is still a
        // typo, and still fatal.
        {
            let excluded = excluded_by_allowlist(&profile.tools, &opts.tools);
            if !excluded.is_empty() {
                eprintln!(
                    "mecha: subagent `{}` not registered — `--tool` excludes {}",
                    profile.name,
                    excluded.join(", ")
                );
                continue;
            }
        }
        // A profile may point at a different provider entry entirely.
        let (_, child_provider_cfg) = cfg.provider(profile.provider.as_deref())?;
        let child = build_subagent(
            profile,
            &registry,
            &cfg,
            child_provider_cfg,
            &ctx,
            hooks.as_ref(),
            outbox.as_ref(),
        )?;
        registry.insert(Arc::new(child));
    }

    let mut agent = Agent::new(
        provider,
        registry,
        tools.approver,
        ctx,
        cfg.agent.clone(),
        Some(model.clone()),
    )?
    .with_pricing(provider_cfg.pricing())
    .with_context_window(provider_cfg.context_window);

    if let Some(hooks) = hooks {
        agent.set_hooks(hooks);
    }
    if let Some(outbox) = outbox {
        // A typo in `[outbox] tools` means the *real* tool executes unrouted,
        // silently — the degrading-sandbox shape. It cannot be a hard error
        // (a routed tool's MCP server may be legitimately off today), so say
        // it out loud on every start instead.
        //
        // Except when `--tool` excluded it: that is the caller naming exactly
        // what they want, not a mistake, and a warning that fires every
        // morning on a deliberately narrowed run is how a real typo later
        // gets ignored.
        for name in outbox.routed() {
            let narrowed_out =
                !excluded_by_allowlist(std::slice::from_ref(&name.to_string()), &opts.tools)
                    .is_empty();
            if agent.registry().get(name).is_none() && !narrowed_out {
                eprintln!(
                    "mecha: [outbox] routes `{name}`, which is not a registered tool — \
                     check the spelling, or this routing protects nothing"
                );
            }
        }
        // A name declared a publish but not routed is worse than a typo: the
        // tool executes for real, unstaged, while config reads as though it
        // were under review. Same shape as the warning above, and it fires on
        // every start for the same reason.
        for name in outbox.publishes() {
            if !outbox.routes(name) {
                eprintln!(
                    "mecha: [outbox] calls `{name}` a publish but does not route it — \
                     add it to `tools`, or it executes unstaged"
                );
            }
        }
        agent.set_outbox(outbox);
    }
    if let Some(mb) = &tools.mailbox {
        agent.set_mailbox(Arc::clone(mb));
    }

    Ok(Prepared {
        agent,
        provider_name,
        model,
        workspace: tools.workspace,
        config: cfg,
        sandbox: tools.sandbox,
        todo: tools.todo,
        mailbox: tools.mailbox,
        _mcp: tools._mcp,
    })
}

/// Which of `wanted` an active `--tool` allowlist leaves out.
///
/// Empty when there is no allowlist, which is the load-bearing case: `--tool`
/// unset means "every tool", not "no tools", and reading it the other way is
/// what made `--tool` unusable on any machine with a subagent configured.
fn excluded_by_allowlist<'a>(wanted: &'a [String], allowlist: &[String]) -> Vec<&'a str> {
    if allowlist.is_empty() {
        return Vec::new();
    }
    wanted
        .iter()
        .filter(|t| !allowlist.iter().any(|kept| kept == *t))
        .map(String::as_str)
        .collect()
}

/// One line saying what `shell` actually is right now. Shared between
/// `mecha tools` and the TUI's /tools modal, so the two cannot disagree about
/// the fact an operator most needs.
pub fn sandbox_line(sandbox: &mecha_core::sandbox::Sandbox) -> String {
    if sandbox.is_enabled() {
        format!(
            "sandbox: {} · network {} · reads {}",
            sandbox.backend().as_str(),
            // Landlock's "on" is a property of the backend, not a setting the
            // operator chose — say so, or the line reads like a config error.
            if sandbox.backend() == mecha_core::sandbox::Backend::Landlock {
                "reachable (landlock cannot close UDP)"
            } else if sandbox.can_reach_network() {
                "on"
            } else {
                "off"
            },
            if sandbox.reaches_beyond_workspace() {
                "beyond the workspace"
            } else {
                "the workspace only"
            }
        )
    } else {
        "sandbox: none — commands run as you, with your credentials".to_string()
    }
}

/// Resolve config, workspace, tools, and the approval policy.
pub async fn prepare_tools(opts: &GlobalOpts, interactive: bool) -> Result<PreparedTools> {
    let cwd = std::env::current_dir().context("cannot determine the working directory")?;
    let mut cfg = if opts.global_config_only {
        Config::load_global()?
    } else {
        Config::load(&cwd)?
    };

    // --- flags override config ---
    if let Some(effort) = opts.effort {
        cfg.agent.effort = Some(effort);
    }
    if let Some(max_turns) = opts.max_turns {
        cfg.agent.max_turns = max_turns;
    }
    if opts.max_output_tokens.is_some() {
        cfg.agent.max_output_tokens = opts.max_output_tokens;
    }
    if opts.max_cost.is_some() {
        cfg.agent.max_cost_usd = opts.max_cost;
    }
    if opts.compact_at.is_some() {
        cfg.agent.compact_at_tokens = opts.compact_at;
    }
    if opts.no_thinking {
        cfg.agent.thinking = false;
        // Disabling thinking above `high` effort is rejected by the API. The
        // user asked for no thinking, so honour that and cap the effort.
        if matches!(
            cfg.agent.effort,
            Some(mecha_core::Effort::XHigh) | Some(mecha_core::Effort::Max)
        ) {
            cfg.agent.effort = Some(mecha_core::Effort::High);
        }
    }
    if let Some(system) = &opts.system {
        cfg.agent.system_prompt = Some(read_maybe_file(system)?);
        cfg.agent.system_prompt_file = None;
    }
    // Today's date, because a model has no clock and every calendar or mail
    // question is relative to one. Found by running it: asked for "the next
    // three days" the model queried a window in January, six months stale,
    // and the tool dutifully returned nothing wrong — just nothing useful.
    //
    // It goes before the learned rules so it stays adjacent to the user's own
    // prompt, and it is the one part of the cached prefix that legitimately
    // changes daily. `RunConfig` records it, so a replay reproduces the date
    // the run actually saw rather than today's.
    {
        let base = cfg.agent.resolve_system_prompt()?.unwrap_or_default();
        // In the user's zone, not the machine's. A server runs in UTC, and
        // answering "what's on Thursday" four hours off is wrong in the worst
        // way — internally consistent, so it reads as correct.
        let stamp = match cfg.agent.timezone() {
            Some(tz) => {
                let now = chrono::Utc::now().with_timezone(&tz);
                format!(
                    "Today is {}, and the user's timezone is {tz} (currently {}). \
                     Give times in that zone unless asked otherwise, and work out \
                     relative dates (\"next Tuesday\", \"this week\") from today \
                     rather than guessing.",
                    now.format("%A, %-d %B %Y"),
                    now.format("%Z, UTC%:z")
                )
            }
            None => format!(
                "Today is {}. Work out relative dates (\"next Tuesday\", \
                 \"this week\") from it rather than guessing.",
                chrono::Local::now().format("%A, %-d %B %Y")
            ),
        };
        cfg.agent.system_prompt = Some(if base.is_empty() {
            stamp
        } else {
            format!("{base}\n\n{stamp}")
        });
        cfg.agent.system_prompt_file = None;
    }
    // Learned rules ride at the end of the system prompt — still inside the
    // cached prefix, and they only change at consolidation time. Read-only:
    // an agent that has learned nothing yet must not create state by starting.
    if !opts.no_learned_rules {
        if let Some(store) = mecha_core::learning::LearningStore::open_existing_default() {
            // The cap's warning half (the gate in `mecha learn` is the
            // refusal half): a domain over budget degrades every run this
            // block rides in, so it is said where the run starts — the
            // routed-name-matches-no-tool precedent.
            for (domain, n) in store.over_budget_domains().unwrap_or_default() {
                eprintln!(
                    "mecha: learned rules for `{domain}` number {n}, over the cap of {}\
                     adherence degrades; `mecha learn` will consolidate before it may add",
                    mecha_core::learning::MAX_ACTIVE_RULES_PER_DOMAIN
                );
            }
            // A domain holding rules that ride in no prompt is silent by
            // construction — same shape as a routed outbox name matching no
            // tool, and said at the same moment for the same reason.
            // Measured against every domain something loads, not just what a
            // *run* carries: `triage` is read by the mail classifier's own
            // pass, so warning about it would be false, permanent, and — worse
            // — the place a genuinely unrouted domain would hide.
            let routed = mecha_core::learning::routed_domains();
            for domain in store.unrouted_domains(&routed).unwrap_or_default() {
                eprintln!(
                    "mecha: rules for `{domain}` are never loaded — nothing carries that \
                     domain, so they cannot fire. Check the filename, or route it."
                );
            }
            if let Some(block) = store.rules_prompt_block_for(mecha_core::learning::RUN_DOMAINS)? {
                let base = cfg.agent.resolve_system_prompt()?.unwrap_or_default();
                cfg.agent.system_prompt = Some(if base.is_empty() {
                    block
                } else {
                    format!("{base}\n\n{block}")
                });
                cfg.agent.system_prompt_file = None;
            }
        }
    }
    if !opts.tools.is_empty() {
        cfg.tools.enabled = opts.tools.clone();
    }
    if opts.yes {
        cfg.tools.permission_mode = PermissionMode::Allow;
    }
    if opts.read_only {
        cfg.tools.permission_mode = PermissionMode::ReadOnly;
    }

    let workspace = opts
        .workspace
        .clone()
        .or_else(|| cfg.tools.workspace.clone())
        .unwrap_or(cwd);
    let workspace = workspace
        .canonicalize()
        .with_context(|| format!("workspace {} does not exist", workspace.display()))?;
    // A jail rooted where the secrets live is close to no jail. `$HOME`
    // contains `~/.mecha/` — the mail OAuth tokens, every transcript, the
    // learning store — so `mecha chat` started from a home directory could
    // `fs_read` all of it. Caught here rather than per-front-end, so it covers
    // every future interface too.
    mecha_core::work::ensure_outside_mecha_home(&workspace)?;

    // --- tools ---
    let sandbox = Arc::new(mecha_core::sandbox::Sandbox::new(cfg.sandbox.clone()));
    let mut registry = Registry::new().with_builtins(&cfg.tools, Arc::clone(&sandbox));

    // A concrete handle onto the todo tool, for a UI that renders the list
    // live — `TodoTool::items()` exists for exactly that, but the registry
    // type-erases on insert. Shadow-insert a fresh instance (same type, so
    // the spec the model sees is byte-identical and the prompt-cache prefix
    // and eval surface are untouched) and keep the handle. Gated on the name:
    // config may have disabled the tool, and then there is nothing to watch.
    // Before subagents are built, so a child that allowlists `todo` shares
    // the same list.
    let todo = registry.get("todo").is_some().then(|| {
        let handle = Arc::new(mecha_core::tool::todo::TodoTool::new());
        registry.insert(Arc::clone(&handle) as Arc<dyn mecha_core::tool::Tool>);
        handle
    });

    // Search is only registered when a backend is configured — an agent with a
    // `web_search` tool that always errors is worse than no tool at all.
    if !cfg.search.is_empty() {
        let (chain, errors) = build_search_chain(&cfg.search);
        for error in errors {
            eprintln!("mecha: search backend unavailable — {error}");
        }
        if !chain.is_empty() {
            let allowed = opts.tools.is_empty() || opts.tools.iter().any(|t| t == "web_search");
            if allowed {
                registry.insert(Arc::new(WebSearch::new(Arc::new(chain))));
            }
        }
    }
    let mut clients = Vec::new();
    // Named servers are dropped before connecting rather than after: a server
    // that is off should not have been spawned, since spawning it is what runs
    // third-party code.
    let wanted: Vec<_> = cfg
        .mcp
        .iter()
        .filter(|c| !opts.no_mcp_servers.iter().any(|n| n == &c.name))
        .cloned()
        .collect();
    if !opts.no_mcp && !wanted.is_empty() {
        let (tools, connected, errors) = mcp::connect_all(&wanted, &sandbox, &workspace).await;
        for error in errors {
            // A dead server is worth saying out loud, but it shouldn't stop the
            // run — the other tools still work.
            eprintln!("mecha: MCP server unavailable — {error}");
        }
        for tool in tools {
            // `--tool` filters MCP tools too, so a run can be narrowed to
            // exactly one remote capability.
            if opts.tools.is_empty() || opts.tools.iter().any(|t| t == tool.name()) {
                // A prefixed MCP tool always contains `__` (the prefix is the
                // marker) and shadowing through it keeps its existing
                // semantics. An UNPREFIXED tool arrived on a promise of
                // distinct names — `prefix_tools = false` — and a collision
                // is that promise broken: fail the start rather than let one
                // tool silently replace another, which is the
                // silently-degrading-sandbox shape wearing a tool name.
                if !tool.name().contains("__") && registry.get(tool.name()).is_some() {
                    anyhow::bail!(
                        "MCP tool `{}` collides with an already-registered tool; its \
                         server sets `prefix_tools = false`, which promises distinct \
                         names. Restore the prefix or rename the tool.",
                        tool.name()
                    );
                }
                registry.insert(tool);
            }
        }
        clients = connected;
    }

    // The messaging route. Opened here like the outbox — an unwritable store
    // fails at startup, not on the one send that mattered. Built whenever
    // `[messages]` is enabled, delivery or not: the route is also what stamps
    // outgoing taint, and a surface that can send must never send unstamped.
    let mailbox = if !opts.no_messages && cfg.messages.enabled {
        let store = mecha_core::mailbox::MailboxStore::from_config(&cfg.messages)?;
        // The inbound decision: config's word wins; otherwise a *scheduled*
        // run (the trigger runner is the only caller that sets
        // `global_config_only`) accepts — nobody is coming to release a hold,
        // and its own defaults (read-only mode, outbox staging, the interlock
        // plus merged sender taint) govern what a message can provoke — while
        // everything a person drives (chat, tui, and a one-shot `run`,
        // whether or not its stdin is a pipe) holds and reports the backlog.
        // Keyed on `global_config_only`, deliberately not on `interactive`:
        // the latter is the approval-mode signal, and a piped `run --json` is
        // unattended for approvals but must still *hold* mail rather than fold
        // a stray message into a scripted task.
        use mecha_core::mailbox::InboundPolicy;
        let inbound = cfg.messages.inbound.unwrap_or(if opts.global_config_only {
            InboundPolicy::Accept
        } else {
            InboundPolicy::Hold
        });
        // `refuse` is reserved and behaves as `hold` today; say so rather than
        // letting a config author believe sends are being turned away.
        if inbound == InboundPolicy::Refuse {
            eprintln!(
                "mecha: [messages] inbound = \"refuse\" is not yet implemented and \
                 behaves as \"hold\" — messages accumulate pending until the cap"
            );
        }
        let deliver = inbound == InboundPolicy::Accept;
        let route = Arc::new(mecha_core::mailbox::MailboxRoute::new(store, deliver));
        // `--tool` filters this like it filters MCP tools: an active
        // allowlist that does not name it has said no.
        if opts.tools.is_empty() || opts.tools.iter().any(|t| t == "message_send") {
            registry.insert(Arc::new(mecha_core::mailbox::MessageSendTool::new(
                Arc::clone(&route),
            )));
        }
        Some(route)
    } else {
        None
    };

    let approver: Arc<dyn Approver> =
        if interactive && cfg.tools.permission_mode == PermissionMode::Ask {
            Arc::new(TerminalApprover::default())
        } else {
            Arc::new(ModeApprover {
                mode: cfg.tools.permission_mode,
            })
        };

    // An MCP server may legitimately shadow `todo` (registered after the
    // built-ins, deliberately). The handle would then be live but frozen —
    // watching a list nothing writes to — so drop it unless the registered
    // tool is still ours.
    let todo = todo.filter(|handle| {
        registry.get("todo").is_some_and(|registered| {
            // Data pointers, not Arc::ptr_eq: comparing a concrete Arc with a
            // trait-object Arc through ptr_eq compares vtables too, which is
            // the documented footgun.
            std::ptr::eq(
                Arc::as_ptr(registered) as *const (),
                Arc::as_ptr(handle) as *const (),
            )
        })
    });

    // Prove the sandbox works before the agent can call anything, and refuse
    // to start if it doesn't. Falling back to unconfined execution would be
    // worse than never having configured one: `shell` declares narrower
    // capabilities when confined, and the loop's interlock trusts that claim.
    if sandbox.is_enabled() && registry.get("shell").is_some() {
        sandbox
            .preflight(&workspace)
            .await
            .context("sandbox preflight failed — refusing to run `shell` unconfined")?;
    }

    Ok(PreparedTools {
        registry,
        sandbox,
        workspace,
        config: cfg,
        approver,
        todo,
        mailbox,
        _mcp: clients,
    })
}

/// Build the search chain in configured order, skipping backends that cannot
/// be constructed (usually a missing key) rather than failing the whole run.
fn build_search_chain(configs: &[SearchBackendConfig]) -> (SearchChain, Vec<String>) {
    let mut backends: Vec<Box<dyn SearchBackend>> = Vec::new();
    let mut errors = Vec::new();

    for cfg in configs.iter().filter(|c| !c.disabled) {
        let built: Result<Box<dyn SearchBackend>> = match cfg.kind.as_str() {
            "exa" => cfg
                .resolve_api_key()
                .context("no API key (set api_key_env, e.g. EXA_API_KEY)")
                .and_then(|k| {
                    Ok(Box::new(Exa::new(k, cfg.base_url.clone())?) as Box<dyn SearchBackend>)
                }),
            "tavily" => cfg
                .resolve_api_key()
                .context("no API key (set api_key_env, e.g. TAVILY_API_KEY)")
                .and_then(|k| {
                    Ok(Box::new(Tavily::new(k, cfg.base_url.clone())?) as Box<dyn SearchBackend>)
                }),
            "searxng" => cfg
                .base_url
                .clone()
                .context("searxng needs `base_url` pointing at your instance")
                .and_then(|u| Ok(Box::new(Searxng::new(u)?) as Box<dyn SearchBackend>)),
            other => Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
                "unknown search backend {other:?} (expected: exa, tavily, searxng)"
            )),
        };

        match built {
            Ok(b) => backends.push(b),
            Err(e) => errors.push(format!("{}: {e}", cfg.kind)),
        }
    }

    (SearchChain::new(backends), errors)
}

/// Build one subagent: a child [`Agent`] with a restricted registry, wrapped as
/// a tool the parent can call.
fn build_subagent(
    profile: &SubagentProfile,
    pool: &Registry,
    cfg: &Config,
    provider_cfg: &mecha_core::config::ProviderConfig,
    ctx: &ToolCtx,
    hooks: Option<&Arc<mecha_core::hooks::HookSet>>,
    outbox: Option<&Arc<mecha_core::outbox::OutboxRoute>>,
) -> Result<Subagent> {
    let mut child_registry = Registry::new();
    for wanted in &profile.tools {
        // A subagent cannot safely send inter-agent mail: its message_send
        // would stamp the taint of its *own* fresh conversation (or, unwatched,
        // a frozen snapshot of the parent's) rather than what actually entered
        // the context that asked for the send — either way a laundering path
        // around the taint forwarding the whole feature rests on. So it is not
        // offered to children at all, and a profile that asks for it is a hard
        // error rather than a silent strip. The parent sends, based on the
        // prose the subagent returns.
        if wanted == "message_send" {
            anyhow::bail!(
                "subagent `{}` asks for `message_send`, which is not available to \
                 subagents: a child cannot stamp inter-agent messages with the \
                 taint of the context that requested them. Have the parent send \
                 based on the child's returned answer.",
                profile.name
            );
        }
        match pool.get(wanted) {
            Some(tool) => child_registry.insert(Arc::clone(tool)),
            // A typo here silently produces a child that cannot do its job, so
            // say so rather than starting a crippled agent.
            None => anyhow::bail!(
                "subagent `{}` asks for tool `{wanted}`, which is not available. \
                 Available: {}",
                profile.name,
                pool.iter().map(|t| t.name()).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(", ")
            ),
        }
    }

    // A child cannot prompt anyone, so `ask` degrades to read-only rather than
    // to a blanket denial that would make the child useless.
    let mode = match cfg.tools.permission_mode {
        PermissionMode::Ask => PermissionMode::ReadOnly,
        other => other,
    };

    let mut child_cfg = cfg.agent.clone();
    child_cfg.max_turns = profile.max_turns;
    child_cfg.system_prompt = profile.system_prompt.clone();
    child_cfg.system_prompt_file = None;

    let mut child = Agent::new(
        mecha_core::provider::build(provider_cfg)?,
        child_registry,
        Arc::new(ModeApprover { mode }),
        ToolCtx {
            workspace: ctx.workspace.clone(),
            shell_timeout: ctx.shell_timeout,
            security: ctx.security.clone(),
            output_budget_bytes: ctx.output_budget_bytes,
            // A subagent is its own isolation domain; the default derives a
            // fresh spill directory rather than sharing the parent's.
            ..ToolCtx::default()
        },
        child_cfg,
        // Profile model wins; otherwise the child uses its provider's default.
        profile.model.clone().or_else(|| provider_cfg.model.clone()),
    )?;
    // The parent's hooks apply to the child too, or delegating would be the
    // way around a pre_tool policy.
    if let Some(hooks) = hooks {
        child.set_hooks(Arc::clone(hooks));
    }
    // Same rule for the outbox: a child's send stages like the parent's, or
    // delegating becomes the way to send unstaged.
    if let Some(outbox) = outbox {
        child.set_outbox(Arc::clone(outbox));
    }

    Subagent::new(profile.clone(), Arc::new(child))
}

/// Register the recall tool over this session's transcript, so the run can
/// search its own recorded history — including what a compaction summarised
/// away — instead of re-running tools or re-living the dropped stretch.
///
/// Call this *before* appending the session's `Record::Config`: that record
/// captures the registry's tool list for replay, and a list missing `recall`
/// would make every replay diff against a surface the run never had.
///
/// Where it belongs is decided by what the transcript can hold (see
/// `mecha_core::tool::recall`): chat and the TUI always (their sessions span
/// runs, and prior turns are exactly what compaction removes), a resumed
/// `mecha run` (the resumed file holds the history). Not fresh one-shots or
/// triggers — a per-run session's record is empty until the run ends, so the
/// tool would be a dead spec in the prompt. And not Slack: one shared agent
/// serves every thread while sessions are per-run, so a per-run insert into
/// the shared registry would point one thread's recall at another thread's
/// transcript — a cross-conversation read the fixed path exists to prevent.
pub fn register_recall(agent: &mut Agent, session: &mecha_core::session::Session) {
    agent
        .registry_mut()
        .insert(Arc::new(mecha_core::tool::recall::Recall::new(
            session.path.clone(),
        )));
}

/// `@path` reads from a file; anything else is the literal value. Lets
/// `--system @prompts/reviewer.md` work without a second flag.
pub fn read_maybe_file(value: &str) -> Result<String> {
    match value.strip_prefix('@') {
        Some(path) => std::fs::read_to_string(path)
            .with_context(|| format!("reading system prompt from {path}")),
        None => Ok(value.to_string()),
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::excluded_by_allowlist;

    /// The bug this pins: `--tool fs_read` used to abort the whole run because
    /// the configured `research` subagent wants `web_search`. Narrowing the
    /// tool surface is the caller saying what they want, not a typo — the
    /// subagent is dropped, and only a name missing *without* an allowlist is
    /// still an error.
    #[test]
    fn an_absent_allowlist_excludes_nothing_and_a_present_one_excludes_what_it_omits() {
        let wanted: Vec<String> = ["web_search", "http_fetch", "todo"]
            .iter()
            .map(|s| s.to_string())
            .collect();

        assert!(
            excluded_by_allowlist(&wanted, &[]).is_empty(),
            "no --tool means every tool, not no tools"
        );

        let narrow: Vec<String> = vec!["fs_read".into()];
        assert_eq!(
            excluded_by_allowlist(&wanted, &narrow),
            vec!["web_search", "http_fetch", "todo"]
        );

        let full: Vec<String> = ["web_search", "http_fetch", "todo", "fs_read"]
            .iter()
            .map(|s| s.to_string())
            .collect();
        assert!(
            excluded_by_allowlist(&wanted, &full).is_empty(),
            "an allowlist that covers the profile keeps it"
        );
    }
}