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//! Layered configuration.
//!
//! Later layers win, field by field:
//! 1. built-in defaults
//! 2. `~/.mecha/config.toml`
//! 3. `./mecha.toml` in the working directory (project-local)
//! 4. environment variables
//! 5. CLI flags (applied by the caller, not here)
use crate::message::Effort;
use anyhow::{Context, Result};
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct Config {
/// Which entry in `providers` to use when `--provider` isn't given.
pub default_provider: String,
pub providers: BTreeMap<String, ProviderConfig>,
pub agent: AgentConfig,
pub tools: ToolsConfig,
pub security: SecurityConfig,
/// How `shell` is confined. See [`crate::sandbox`].
pub sandbox: crate::sandbox::SandboxConfig,
/// MCP servers to connect to at startup.
#[serde(rename = "mcp")]
pub mcp: Vec<McpServerConfig>,
/// Subagents the parent may delegate to, each exposed as one tool.
#[serde(rename = "subagent")]
pub subagents: Vec<crate::subagent::SubagentProfile>,
/// Search backends, in preference order. The chain falls through on
/// failure, which is what makes stacking two free tiers viable.
#[serde(rename = "search")]
pub search: Vec<SearchBackendConfig>,
/// User commands run at loop lifecycle points. See [`crate::hooks`].
#[serde(rename = "hook")]
pub hooks: Vec<HookConfig>,
/// Outbound tools staged for user review instead of executed. See
/// [`crate::outbox`].
pub outbox: OutboxConfig,
/// Retention for `~/.mecha/work/`. See [`crate::work`].
pub work: WorkConfig,
/// Tunables for `mecha slack`. Global-file only; see [`SlackConfig`].
pub slack: SlackConfig,
/// Inter-agent messages between mecha sessions on this machine. See
/// [`crate::mailbox`].
pub messages: MessagesConfig,
}
/// Messaging between this machine's own mecha sessions.
///
/// Receiver-side policy, so it loads from the global file only, never a
/// project's `mecha.toml`: a cloned repository must not be able to set
/// `inbound = "accept"` on someone's session. Enforced structurally:
/// `merge_file` strips the section from project layers, loudly.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct MessagesConfig {
/// Off by default, like outbox routing: a mailbox is a policy decision.
pub enabled: bool,
/// Where messages live. Defaults to `~/.mecha/messages`
/// (or `$MECHA_MESSAGES_DIR`).
pub dir: Option<PathBuf>,
/// What a run does with inbound messages: `accept` folds them in at turn
/// boundaries, `hold` leaves them for `mecha msg`. Unset — the default —
/// resolves per surface: attended front-ends hold, unattended runs
/// accept. See [`crate::mailbox::InboundPolicy`].
pub inbound: Option<crate::mailbox::InboundPolicy>,
/// Pending messages one recipient may hold before senders are refused.
pub pending_cap: usize,
/// Largest message body, in bytes.
pub max_body_bytes: usize,
/// Resolved (delivered/dismissed) messages kept per recipient before the
/// oldest are pruned. Retention, so the per-turn claim scan stays bounded.
pub keep: usize,
}
impl Default for MessagesConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
MessagesConfig {
enabled: false,
dir: None,
inbound: None,
pending_cap: crate::mailbox::DEFAULT_PENDING_CAP,
max_body_bytes: crate::mailbox::DEFAULT_MAX_BODY_BYTES,
keep: crate::mailbox::DEFAULT_KEEP_RESOLVED,
}
}
}
/// Which tools are outbox-routed, and where staged items live.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct OutboxConfig {
/// Registry names (`email__send`, `web__fetch`). A call to one of these
/// is staged as a draft the user reviews with `mecha outbox`; the tool
/// itself never runs until they release it. Empty means the outbox is
/// off, which is the default — routing a tool is a policy decision.
pub tools: Vec<String>,
/// Where items are staged. Defaults to `~/.mecha/outbox`
/// (or `$MECHA_OUTBOX_DIR`).
pub dir: Option<PathBuf>,
/// Which of the routed names are *publications* rather than messages
/// (`factory__bundle_publish`, `factory__bundle_alias`). They stage
/// identically; they are **reviewed** differently — the reviewable object
/// is the rendered page, `edit` is refused, and the writing-reflection
/// miner skips them so a changed directory path never becomes a voice
/// rule. See [`crate::outbox::OutboxKind`].
///
/// Config's to declare, not the tool's: the loop must not learn what a
/// publish is, and a third-party MCP server cannot be trusted to say.
pub publish_tools: Vec<String>,
}
/// How much of a producer's generated output survives a `mecha work clean`.
///
/// A policy rather than an intention: the lesson of this project is that
/// anything without one becomes a pile nobody opens. The number is small on
/// purpose — the directory is scratch, and what matters is published.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct WorkConfig {
/// Entries kept per producer, newest first.
pub keep: usize,
}
/// `[slack]` — tunables for the Slack remote control. **Nothing here grants
/// anything.** Who may drive the agent lives in `~/.mecha/slack/binding.json`,
/// a store rather than config, for the reason `[messages]` is global-only and
/// then some: a project file arrives with a cloned repository, and a repo that
/// could name a Slack owner would have been handed the remote control.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(default)]
pub struct SlackConfig {
/// Threads that may have a run in flight at once. At the cap the connector
/// refuses and says so, rather than queueing: a run that starts twenty
/// minutes later against a workspace that has moved is worse than an
/// honest refusal.
pub max_concurrent: usize,
/// How long an approval card waits before the call is refused as
/// unanswered. Never a denial by the user — see `Decision::Blocked`.
pub approval_timeout_secs: u64,
/// `ask` (the default), `allow`, or `read-only`, for a thread nobody has
/// set a mode on.
pub default_mode: String,
pub max_turns: u32,
pub max_cost_usd: Option<f64>,
/// Flush a streamed chunk once this much text has accumulated, or this
/// long has passed — whichever comes first. Size first is Slack's own
/// guidance; the timer is so a slow model still shows progress.
pub stream_flush_chars: usize,
pub stream_flush_ms: u64,
/// Largest attachment fetched into a run's workspace. Slack allows 1 GB;
/// a remote control does not need to.
pub max_upload_mb: u64,
/// Narrow the tool surface for Slack-driven runs.
///
/// Empty means "everything configured", which is the default and is
/// usually too much: measured on the first live run, the schemas of every
/// wired MCP server cost ~7–8k input tokens *per turn* before any work
/// happened — against a 32k window whose compaction threshold is 21,845,
/// a run starts a third of the way there. A phone rarely needs the mail
/// and the calendar and the factory at once, and naming what it does need
/// is the cheapest context this system has to give.
pub tools: Vec<String>,
}
impl Default for SlackConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
SlackConfig {
max_concurrent: 3,
approval_timeout_secs: 600,
default_mode: "ask".into(),
max_turns: 40,
max_cost_usd: None,
stream_flush_chars: 800,
stream_flush_ms: 1000,
max_upload_mb: 25,
tools: Vec::new(),
}
}
}
impl Default for WorkConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
WorkConfig {
keep: crate::work::DEFAULT_KEEP,
}
}
}
/// One hook: a command run at a lifecycle point, with the event payload as
/// JSON on stdin.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct HookConfig {
/// `pre_tool` | `post_tool` | `session_end`. An unknown event is a startup
/// error, not a warning — a policy hook that never fires because its event
/// name has a typo is the silently-degrading-sandbox mistake again.
pub event: String,
/// Run via `sh -c`, as the user, in the workspace.
pub command: String,
/// Only fire for these tools (`pre_tool`/`post_tool`). Empty means all.
pub tools: Vec<String>,
/// Kill the hook after this long. The default is deliberately short: a
/// `pre_tool` hook is on the critical path of every call it matches.
pub timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
}
impl Default for Config {
fn default() -> Self {
let mut providers = BTreeMap::new();
providers.insert(
"anthropic".to_string(),
ProviderConfig {
kind: "anthropic".to_string(),
model: Some(crate::provider::anthropic::DEFAULT_MODEL.to_string()),
api_key_env: Some("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY".to_string()),
api_key: None,
base_url: None,
input_price_per_mtok: None,
output_price_per_mtok: None,
temperature: None,
seed: None,
context_window: None,
max_retries: None,
retry_after_cap_secs: None,
fallbacks: Vec::new(),
},
);
Config {
default_provider: "anthropic".to_string(),
providers,
agent: AgentConfig::default(),
tools: ToolsConfig::default(),
security: SecurityConfig::default(),
sandbox: crate::sandbox::SandboxConfig::default(),
mcp: Vec::new(),
subagents: Vec::new(),
search: Vec::new(),
hooks: Vec::new(),
outbox: OutboxConfig::default(),
work: WorkConfig::default(),
slack: SlackConfig::default(),
messages: MessagesConfig::default(),
}
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct ProviderConfig {
/// `anthropic` | `openai` | `local`
pub kind: String,
pub model: Option<String>,
/// Environment variable holding the key. Preferred over `api_key`.
pub api_key_env: Option<String>,
/// Inline key. Convenient, but it lands in a file on disk — prefer the env var.
pub api_key: Option<String>,
pub base_url: Option<String>,
/// Per-million-token prices, so budgets and reporting can be in dollars.
/// Leave unset for a local model — the marginal cost really is zero.
pub input_price_per_mtok: Option<f64>,
pub output_price_per_mtok: Option<f64>,
/// Sampling temperature, sent verbatim by providers that accept one. Unset
/// means the server's default. Do not reach for 0.0 to get repeatability:
/// measured on qwen3.6, greedy decoding walks into verbatim repetition
/// loops that sampling noise would have broken. Pin the server's own
/// default value and set `seed` instead — same distribution, repeatable
/// draws. The Anthropic API rejects the parameter, so setting this on an
/// `anthropic` provider is a startup error rather than a silent no-op.
pub temperature: Option<f64>,
/// Sampling seed, for repeatable draws at a nonzero temperature. Only as
/// deterministic as the backend: llama-server repeats exactly when requests
/// run one at a time, and does not once concurrent requests share a batch.
/// Rejected on `anthropic` for the same reason as `temperature`.
pub seed: Option<u64>,
/// How many tokens this model's context holds — for a local server, the
/// `-c` it was started with.
///
/// Nothing here can discover this: a provider reports how many tokens a
/// prompt *used*, never how many are left. Without it the compaction
/// threshold has to be an absolute number somebody remembers to set, and
/// when nobody does, a long session dies on a raw
/// `exceed_context_size_error` from the server with the whole run lost.
/// With it, [`AgentConfig::compact_at`] derives a threshold and the CLI
/// can show how much room is left.
pub context_window: Option<u64>,
/// Retries per request on transient failures — 429, 5xx, transport. 0
/// disables. Unset means 3. Auth, billing, invalid-request and
/// context-overflow errors are never retried: the same payload fails the
/// same way, and overflow belongs to the compaction path.
pub max_retries: Option<u32>,
/// A `Retry-After` above this many seconds is surfaced as a failure
/// instead of slept through (default 60) — a provider can name a wait
/// long enough that the process is simply asleep, and control never
/// returns to a layer that could fall back instead.
pub retry_after_cap_secs: Option<u64>,
/// Provider entries to try, in order, when this one exhausts its retries
/// on a *transient* failure. Turn-local: the next turn starts from this
/// provider again. Each fallback answers with its own model. Empty —
/// the default — means strict: fail rather than silently answer with a
/// different model. `mecha eval` never falls back regardless: a
/// scorecard grades the model it names.
pub fallbacks: Vec<String>,
}
impl ProviderConfig {
/// Prices, if configured. Both halves are required: knowing one is worse
/// than knowing neither, because it silently under-reports.
pub fn pricing(&self) -> Option<crate::message::Pricing> {
match (self.input_price_per_mtok, self.output_price_per_mtok) {
(Some(input), Some(output)) => Some(crate::message::Pricing {
input_per_mtok: input,
output_per_mtok: output,
..Default::default()
}),
_ => None,
}
}
pub fn resolve_api_key(&self) -> Option<String> {
if let Some(var) = &self.api_key_env {
if let Ok(v) = std::env::var(var) {
if !v.is_empty() {
return Some(v);
}
}
}
self.api_key.clone().filter(|k| !k.is_empty())
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct AgentConfig {
pub system_prompt: Option<String>,
/// Read the system prompt from a file. Wins over `system_prompt`.
pub system_prompt_file: Option<PathBuf>,
/// Hard stop on runaway loops: how many model turns one run may take.
pub max_turns: u32,
pub max_tokens: u32,
pub effort: Option<Effort>,
pub thinking: bool,
/// Mark the tools + system prefix as cacheable.
pub cache_prompt: bool,
/// When the turn budget runs out, spend one more turn with the tools
/// removed so the model has to answer with what it has. Without this a
/// model that never stops searching returns nothing at all.
pub force_final_answer: bool,
/// Stop once this many output tokens have been generated in one run.
/// `max_turns` bounds the number of round trips; this bounds their size,
/// which is what actually runs up a bill.
pub max_output_tokens: Option<u64>,
/// Stop once one run has cost this much. Requires prices on the provider.
pub max_cost_usd: Option<f64>,
/// Summarise the middle of the conversation once the prompt passes this
/// many tokens.
///
/// Measured against what the provider *reported* for the last turn rather
/// than an estimate, so it tracks the real prompt including cached tokens.
/// Unset by default: compaction is lossy, and silently paraphrasing
/// someone's conversation because it got long is a decision they should
/// make. Set it to roughly two thirds of the model's context window — or
/// set `context_window` on the provider and let
/// [`AgentConfig::compact_at`] work it out.
pub compact_at_tokens: Option<u64>,
/// IANA timezone name for the user, e.g. `America/New_York`. Unset means
/// the machine's. See [`AgentConfig::timezone`].
pub timezone: Option<String>,
/// Turns kept verbatim after a compaction. The recent ones are where the
/// work is; a summary of the last two turns is worse than the turns.
pub compact_keep_recent: usize,
/// Stop a run that repeats an identical tool call, with an identical
/// result, right after a compaction (`StopCause::Loop`).
///
/// On by default — the asymmetry is deliberate. A general repeated-call
/// detector would need a measurement to justify watching all of ordinary
/// work; this one exists to escape the specific loop that burns unbounded
/// tokens at the largest prompts a run will ever send, and a no-config
/// user should get that protection. Identical arguments with a *changing*
/// result is polling and never trips it.
pub loop_guard: bool,
/// Check each summary against the transcript it replaces before
/// installing it, and regenerate once with the omissions named.
///
/// Summaries fail by *omission* — they preserve what is true and drop
/// task-critical specifics — and the producer cannot see its own gaps.
/// A separate grounded comparison can: it reads both texts side by side,
/// which is a different task from generating either. Measured elsewhere
/// (Slipstream) at +6.4–8.8 points on SWE-bench Verified for under 1%
/// latency, with ~90% of catches being omissions. Costs one extra
/// request per compaction, two when a regeneration is needed.
pub compact_validate: bool,
}
impl Default for AgentConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
AgentConfig {
system_prompt: None,
system_prompt_file: None,
max_turns: 40,
// Streaming is the default, so there's no HTTP-timeout reason to
// keep this small; leave room for thinking plus the answer.
max_tokens: 64_000,
effort: Some(Effort::High),
thinking: true,
cache_prompt: true,
force_final_answer: true,
// Unset by default: a ceiling that surprises you mid-task is worse
// than no ceiling. Set them once you run things unattended.
max_output_tokens: None,
max_cost_usd: None,
compact_at_tokens: None,
timezone: None,
compact_keep_recent: 6,
loop_guard: true,
compact_validate: true,
}
}
}
impl AgentConfig {
/// The user's IANA timezone (`America/New_York`), when it is not the
/// machine's.
///
/// A server runs in UTC and the model has no clock, so without this every
/// "what's on Thursday" is answered in the wrong zone — and wrongly in a
/// way that looks right, since the times are internally consistent. An
/// IANA name rather than an offset, because an offset is wrong twice a
/// year.
pub fn timezone(&self) -> Option<chrono_tz::Tz> {
let name = self.timezone.as_deref()?;
match name.parse::<chrono_tz::Tz>() {
Ok(tz) => Some(tz),
Err(_) => {
tracing::warn!("unknown [agent] timezone `{name}`; using the machine's");
None
}
}
}
/// Fraction of a known context window at which to start compacting.
///
/// Two thirds, because the threshold is checked *between* turns against
/// what the last one reported: the next turn still has to fit the model's
/// reply, and a burst of parallel tool results can add several thousand
/// tokens before anything gets to look again. Leaving a third of the
/// window is what makes the reactive check safe.
pub const COMPACT_FRACTION: f64 = 0.66;
/// Where compaction kicks in for a run: the explicit setting if there is
/// one, otherwise derived from the provider's context window.
///
/// Deriving it is what turns compaction from something you must remember
/// to configure into something that just works — and the failure it
/// prevents is total, not gradual: one turn over the window and the
/// server refuses the request outright.
pub fn compact_at(&self, context_window: Option<u64>) -> Option<u64> {
self.compact_at_tokens
.or_else(|| context_window.map(|w| (w as f64 * Self::COMPACT_FRACTION) as u64))
}
pub fn resolve_system_prompt(&self) -> Result<Option<String>> {
if let Some(path) = &self.system_prompt_file {
let text = std::fs::read_to_string(path)
.with_context(|| format!("reading system_prompt_file {}", path.display()))?;
return Ok(Some(text));
}
Ok(self.system_prompt.clone())
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct ToolsConfig {
/// Built-in tools to register. Empty means "all of them".
pub enabled: Vec<String>,
/// Built-in tools to withhold, applied after `enabled`.
pub disabled: Vec<String>,
/// Filesystem tools refuse to touch anything outside this root.
pub workspace: Option<PathBuf>,
/// Default answer when nothing is watching to approve a call.
pub permission_mode: PermissionMode,
pub shell_timeout_secs: u64,
/// The byte budget one turn's tool results share, divided across the
/// batch. Oversized results are spilled to a file in full and cut in the
/// transcript, with the marker naming the path and the line to resume
/// from. Unset means derive it from the provider's context window — see
/// [`ToolsConfig::resolved_output_budget`].
pub output_budget_bytes: Option<usize>,
}
impl ToolsConfig {
/// Ceiling when nothing pins the budget: right for the wide-window
/// frontier models the number was originally chosen against.
const OUTPUT_BUDGET_MAX: usize = 24_000;
/// Floor: below this, a single `cargo build` error listing stops fitting
/// and every result arrives pre-truncated — a budget that starves the
/// model of its own results is worse than a tight window.
const OUTPUT_BUDGET_MIN: usize = 6_000;
/// The per-turn tool-output budget, window-proportional when unpinned.
///
/// An eighth of the window in tokens, ~3 bytes per token. The constraint
/// it serves: the between-turns compaction check reads the *previous*
/// turn's prompt size, so one turn's results must not leap the gap
/// between the threshold (two thirds of the window) and the window
/// itself — a third of the window, shared with the model's own output.
/// The old flat 24 KB is ~8–12k tokens of numeric data, *larger* than
/// that gap at a 32k window: on the 2026-08-07 Terminal-Bench subset a
/// trial jumped from under the threshold to 45k tokens in one turn and
/// died on the overflow. An eighth of the window (12,288 bytes at 32k)
/// keeps even token-dense results inside the gap with room for output.
pub fn resolved_output_budget(&self, context_window: Option<u64>) -> usize {
if let Some(pinned) = self.output_budget_bytes {
return pinned;
}
match context_window {
Some(window) => {
((window as usize / 8) * 3).clamp(Self::OUTPUT_BUDGET_MIN, Self::OUTPUT_BUDGET_MAX)
}
None => Self::OUTPUT_BUDGET_MAX,
}
}
}
impl Default for ToolsConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
ToolsConfig {
enabled: Vec::new(),
disabled: Vec::new(),
workspace: None,
permission_mode: PermissionMode::Ask,
shell_timeout_secs: 120,
output_budget_bytes: None,
}
}
}
/// Defenses against the *lethal trifecta*: private data, untrusted content, and
/// a way to send data out. An agent holding all three can be turned into an
/// exfiltration tool by instructions hidden in the content it reads — a
/// calendar invite title, an email footer, a web page.
///
/// The mitigation is structural, not a filter: once both private data and
/// untrusted content have entered a conversation, refuse to let it send.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct SecurityConfig {
pub trifecta: TrifectaPolicy,
/// Refuse HTTP requests to loopback, private, and link-local addresses.
/// Without this, `http_fetch` reaches your LAN and cloud metadata endpoints.
pub block_private_ips: bool,
/// If non-empty, HTTP requests may only go to these hosts (suffix match).
pub allowed_domains: Vec<String>,
/// Hosts that are always refused, checked before `allowed_domains`.
pub blocked_domains: Vec<String>,
/// Wrap third-party content in a marker telling the model to treat it as
/// data rather than instructions. Weak on its own — defense in depth.
pub mark_untrusted_output: bool,
/// Block *every* outbound call once private data is in context, whether or
/// not untrusted content has arrived.
///
/// This is a different control from `trifecta`, guarding a different
/// threat. The trifecta interlock stops an *injection* turning the agent
/// into an exfiltration tool; it deliberately allows sends that happen
/// before any third-party content exists, because nothing could have
/// influenced them yet. That still lets the agent put your private data
/// into a search query because you asked it to, or because it judged that
/// helpful — an ordinary privacy leak rather than an attack.
///
/// Turn this on when private data must not leave at all. It is
/// restrictive: it makes "read my notes, then look something up" fail.
pub block_sends_after_private: bool,
}
impl Default for SecurityConfig {
fn default() -> Self {
SecurityConfig {
trifecta: TrifectaPolicy::Block,
block_private_ips: true,
allowed_domains: Vec::new(),
blocked_domains: Vec::new(),
mark_untrusted_output: true,
// Off by default: it breaks common, legitimate workflows, and the
// right answer for most people is capability separation (put
// search in a subagent with no filesystem access) rather than a
// blanket ban.
block_sends_after_private: false,
}
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
pub enum TrifectaPolicy {
/// Refuse the send outright. The default.
Block,
/// Ask a human. Only meaningful when someone is watching.
Ask,
/// Allow it. Appropriate only when the "untrusted" content is in fact
/// trusted — e.g. an allowlist of internal hosts.
Allow,
}
/// Capabilities to force on a server's tools. Absent flags leave the server's
/// own declaration alone; there is deliberately no way to switch one off.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct CapabilityOverride {
pub private_data: bool,
pub untrusted_input: bool,
pub external_send: bool,
pub destructive: bool,
}
impl From<CapabilityOverride> for crate::tool::Capabilities {
fn from(o: CapabilityOverride) -> Self {
crate::tool::Capabilities {
private_data: o.private_data,
untrusted_input: o.untrusted_input,
external_send: o.external_send,
destructive: o.destructive,
}
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
pub enum PermissionMode {
/// Prompt before anything that isn't read-only.
Ask,
/// Run everything without asking. For trusted, headless work.
Allow,
/// Read-only tools run; everything else is refused.
ReadOnly,
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct SearchBackendConfig {
/// `exa` | `tavily` | `searxng`
pub kind: String,
/// Environment variable holding the key. Preferred over `api_key`.
pub api_key_env: Option<String>,
pub api_key: Option<String>,
/// Required for `searxng` (your instance); optional override elsewhere.
pub base_url: Option<String>,
pub disabled: bool,
}
impl SearchBackendConfig {
pub fn resolve_api_key(&self) -> Option<String> {
if let Some(var) = &self.api_key_env {
if let Ok(v) = std::env::var(var) {
if !v.is_empty() {
return Some(v);
}
}
}
self.api_key.clone().filter(|k| !k.is_empty())
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(default, deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct McpServerConfig {
/// Prefixed onto every tool the server exposes, so two servers can both
/// have a `search` without colliding.
pub name: String,
pub command: String,
pub args: Vec<String>,
/// Values handed to the server explicitly. Use this for a token the server
/// needs, so granting it is a decision written down rather than a
/// side-effect of what happened to be exported.
pub env: BTreeMap<String, String>,
/// Variables inherited from mecha's own environment, by name.
///
/// Empty by default, and that default is the point: an MCP server is
/// third-party code, and a process that inherits your whole environment
/// inherits every provider key in it. `PATH`, `HOME`, `LANG`, `LC_ALL` and
/// `TZ` always pass through — without them most runtimes cannot start.
pub env_passthrough: Vec<String>,
/// Confine this server with the configured `[sandbox]` backend.
///
/// Off by default because a confined server sees only the workspace and,
/// unless allowed, no network — which is wrong for most of the servers
/// people actually run. Worth turning on for anything you did not write.
pub sandbox: bool,
/// Network for this server alone, overriding `[sandbox] network`.
///
/// The case this exists for: a third-party server that has to reach its own
/// API, confined, while `shell` still has no way off the machine. With one
/// shared switch you would have to open `shell` to satisfy the server.
pub network: Option<bool>,
/// Capabilities forced onto every tool this server exposes, on top of
/// whatever it declares for itself.
///
/// MCP capability flags come from the server's own `annotations`, which
/// means a third-party server decides how much the interlock distrusts it.
/// An unannotated tool is treated as private-but-trusted — wrong in the
/// dangerous direction for anything that reaches the open world. A Google
/// Docs server is the worked example: a document someone shared with you is
/// third-party text, and writing into a document an attacker can read is an
/// exfiltration channel, so it is all three legs at once and says none of
/// them.
///
/// Only ever widens — see [`crate::tool::Capabilities::union`].
pub capabilities: CapabilityOverride,
/// Skip this server without deleting its config.
pub disabled: bool,
}
impl Config {
pub fn global_path() -> Option<PathBuf> {
crate::work::mecha_home()
.ok()
.map(|h| h.join("config.toml"))
}
pub const PROJECT_FILE: &'static str = "mecha.toml";
/// Load defaults, then the global file, then the project file, then env.
pub fn load(project_dir: &Path) -> Result<Self> {
let mut cfg = Config::default();
if let Some(path) = Self::global_path() {
if path.exists() {
cfg.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Global)?;
}
}
let project = project_dir.join(Self::PROJECT_FILE);
if project.exists() {
cfg.merge_file(&project, LayerTrust::Project)?;
}
cfg.merge_env();
Ok(cfg)
}
/// Defaults plus `~/.mecha/config.toml` plus env — no project layer.
///
/// For runs that must not be configurable by whatever directory they happen
/// to start in. A `mecha.toml` arrives with a cloned repository, and it can
/// name MCP servers to spawn, hooks to execute and tools to enable; that is
/// a reasonable bargain when a person is sitting there having just decided
/// to work in that repository, and not one at all for a
/// [`crate::trigger`] firing at 03:00 with nobody watching.
pub fn load_global() -> Result<Self> {
let mut cfg = Config::default();
if let Some(path) = Self::global_path() {
if path.exists() {
cfg.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Global)?;
}
}
cfg.merge_env();
Ok(cfg)
}
fn merge_file(&mut self, path: &Path, trust: LayerTrust) -> Result<()> {
let text =
std::fs::read_to_string(path).with_context(|| format!("reading {}", path.display()))?;
let mut layer: ConfigLayer =
toml::from_str(&text).with_context(|| format!("parsing {}", path.display()))?;
// `[messages]` is receiver-side admission policy, and a project file
// arrives with a cloned repository — it must not be able to switch a
// session's inbound handling to `accept`. Dropped loudly rather than
// silently: an ignored section that looks applied is the
// silently-degrading-sandbox shape.
if trust == LayerTrust::Project && layer.messages.take().is_some() {
tracing::warn!(
"[messages] in {} is ignored — messaging policy loads from the \
global config only",
path.display()
);
}
// `[slack]` for the same reason, and a stronger one: a project file
// arrives with a cloned repository, and Slack is the remote control.
if trust == LayerTrust::Project && layer.slack.take().is_some() {
tracing::warn!(
"[slack] in {} is ignored — the Slack surface loads from the \
global config only",
path.display()
);
}
layer.apply(self);
Ok(())
}
fn merge_env(&mut self) {
if let Ok(v) = std::env::var("MECHA_PROVIDER") {
self.default_provider = v;
}
if let Ok(v) = std::env::var("MECHA_MODEL") {
let name = self.default_provider.clone();
if let Some(p) = self.providers.get_mut(&name) {
p.model = Some(v);
}
}
if let Ok(v) = std::env::var("MECHA_EFFORT") {
if let Ok(e) = v.parse() {
self.agent.effort = Some(e);
}
}
}
pub fn provider(&self, name: Option<&str>) -> Result<(String, &ProviderConfig)> {
let name = name.unwrap_or(&self.default_provider).to_string();
let cfg = self.providers.get(&name).with_context(|| {
format!(
"no provider named {name:?}. Configured: {}",
self.providers
.keys()
.cloned()
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(", ")
)
})?;
Ok((name, cfg))
}
/// Write this config to `path`, creating parent directories.
pub fn save(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)?;
}
let text = toml::to_string_pretty(self)?;
std::fs::write(path, text).with_context(|| format!("writing {}", path.display()))?;
Ok(())
}
}
/// Which file a layer came from, deciding what it may set.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum LayerTrust {
Global,
Project,
}
/// A partially-specified config file. Every field is optional so a project file
/// can override one setting without restating the rest.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct ConfigLayer {
default_provider: Option<String>,
providers: Option<BTreeMap<String, ProviderConfig>>,
agent: Option<AgentLayer>,
tools: Option<ToolsLayer>,
security: Option<SecurityLayer>,
#[serde(rename = "mcp")]
mcp: Option<Vec<McpServerConfig>>,
#[serde(rename = "subagent")]
subagents: Option<Vec<crate::subagent::SubagentProfile>>,
#[serde(rename = "search")]
search: Option<Vec<SearchBackendConfig>>,
#[serde(rename = "hook")]
hooks: Option<Vec<HookConfig>>,
sandbox: Option<SandboxLayer>,
outbox: Option<OutboxLayer>,
work: Option<WorkLayer>,
slack: Option<SlackLayer>,
messages: Option<MessagesLayer>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct MessagesLayer {
enabled: Option<bool>,
dir: Option<PathBuf>,
inbound: Option<crate::mailbox::InboundPolicy>,
pending_cap: Option<usize>,
max_body_bytes: Option<usize>,
keep: Option<usize>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct WorkLayer {
keep: Option<usize>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct SlackLayer {
max_concurrent: Option<usize>,
approval_timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
default_mode: Option<String>,
max_turns: Option<u32>,
max_cost_usd: Option<f64>,
stream_flush_chars: Option<usize>,
stream_flush_ms: Option<u64>,
max_upload_mb: Option<u64>,
tools: Option<Vec<String>>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct OutboxLayer {
tools: Option<Vec<String>>,
dir: Option<PathBuf>,
publish_tools: Option<Vec<String>>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct AgentLayer {
system_prompt: Option<String>,
system_prompt_file: Option<PathBuf>,
max_turns: Option<u32>,
max_tokens: Option<u32>,
effort: Option<Effort>,
thinking: Option<bool>,
cache_prompt: Option<bool>,
force_final_answer: Option<bool>,
max_output_tokens: Option<u64>,
max_cost_usd: Option<f64>,
compact_at_tokens: Option<u64>,
compact_keep_recent: Option<usize>,
compact_validate: Option<bool>,
loop_guard: Option<bool>,
timezone: Option<String>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct SecurityLayer {
trifecta: Option<TrifectaPolicy>,
block_private_ips: Option<bool>,
allowed_domains: Option<Vec<String>>,
blocked_domains: Option<Vec<String>>,
mark_untrusted_output: Option<bool>,
block_sends_after_private: Option<bool>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct SandboxLayer {
kind: Option<crate::sandbox::Backend>,
network: Option<bool>,
writable: Option<Vec<PathBuf>>,
readable: Option<Vec<PathBuf>>,
env: Option<Vec<String>>,
image: Option<String>,
memory_mb: Option<u64>,
cpus: Option<f64>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
struct ToolsLayer {
enabled: Option<Vec<String>>,
disabled: Option<Vec<String>>,
workspace: Option<PathBuf>,
permission_mode: Option<PermissionMode>,
shell_timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
output_budget_bytes: Option<usize>,
}
impl ConfigLayer {
fn apply(self, cfg: &mut Config) {
if let Some(v) = self.default_provider {
cfg.default_provider = v;
}
// Providers merge by key so a project file can add a local endpoint
// without redeclaring the Anthropic one.
if let Some(providers) = self.providers {
cfg.providers.extend(providers);
}
if let Some(a) = self.agent {
let t = &mut cfg.agent;
if a.system_prompt.is_some() {
t.system_prompt = a.system_prompt;
}
if a.system_prompt_file.is_some() {
t.system_prompt_file = a.system_prompt_file;
}
if let Some(v) = a.max_turns {
t.max_turns = v;
}
if let Some(v) = a.max_tokens {
t.max_tokens = v;
}
if a.effort.is_some() {
t.effort = a.effort;
}
if let Some(v) = a.thinking {
t.thinking = v;
}
if let Some(v) = a.cache_prompt {
t.cache_prompt = v;
}
if let Some(v) = a.force_final_answer {
t.force_final_answer = v;
}
if a.max_output_tokens.is_some() {
t.max_output_tokens = a.max_output_tokens;
}
if a.max_cost_usd.is_some() {
t.max_cost_usd = a.max_cost_usd;
}
if a.compact_at_tokens.is_some() {
t.compact_at_tokens = a.compact_at_tokens;
}
if let Some(v) = a.compact_keep_recent {
t.compact_keep_recent = v;
}
if let Some(v) = a.compact_validate {
t.compact_validate = v;
}
if let Some(v) = a.loop_guard {
t.loop_guard = v;
}
if a.timezone.is_some() {
t.timezone = a.timezone;
}
}
if let Some(x) = self.tools {
let t = &mut cfg.tools;
if let Some(v) = x.enabled {
t.enabled = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.disabled {
t.disabled = v;
}
if x.workspace.is_some() {
t.workspace = x.workspace;
}
if let Some(v) = x.permission_mode {
t.permission_mode = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.shell_timeout_secs {
t.shell_timeout_secs = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.output_budget_bytes {
t.output_budget_bytes = Some(v);
}
}
if let Some(x) = self.security {
let t = &mut cfg.security;
if let Some(v) = x.trifecta {
t.trifecta = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.block_private_ips {
t.block_private_ips = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.allowed_domains {
t.allowed_domains = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.blocked_domains {
t.blocked_domains = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.mark_untrusted_output {
t.mark_untrusted_output = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.block_sends_after_private {
t.block_sends_after_private = v;
}
}
if let Some(x) = self.sandbox {
let t = &mut cfg.sandbox;
if let Some(v) = x.kind {
t.kind = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.network {
t.network = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.writable {
t.writable = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.readable {
t.readable = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.env {
t.env = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.image {
t.image = v;
}
if x.memory_mb.is_some() {
t.memory_mb = x.memory_mb;
}
if x.cpus.is_some() {
t.cpus = x.cpus;
}
}
// MCP servers replace wholesale — merging lists by name would make it
// impossible for a project to turn a global server off.
if let Some(v) = self.mcp {
cfg.mcp = v;
}
if let Some(v) = self.subagents {
cfg.subagents = v;
}
if let Some(v) = self.search {
cfg.search = v;
}
// Wholesale, like MCP servers and for the same reason: a project that
// cannot turn a global hook off cannot be trusted to run anything.
if let Some(v) = self.hooks {
cfg.hooks = v;
}
if let Some(x) = self.outbox {
let t = &mut cfg.outbox;
// Wholesale: a project must be able to un-route a tool the global
// config routes, and vice versa.
if let Some(v) = x.tools {
t.tools = v;
}
if x.dir.is_some() {
t.dir = x.dir;
}
if let Some(v) = x.publish_tools {
t.publish_tools = v;
}
}
if let Some(x) = self.work {
if let Some(v) = x.keep {
cfg.work.keep = v;
}
}
// Only ever reached from the global layer, like `[messages]`.
if let Some(x) = self.slack {
let t = &mut cfg.slack;
if let Some(v) = x.max_concurrent {
t.max_concurrent = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.approval_timeout_secs {
t.approval_timeout_secs = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.default_mode {
t.default_mode = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.max_turns {
t.max_turns = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.max_cost_usd {
t.max_cost_usd = Some(v);
}
if let Some(v) = x.stream_flush_chars {
t.stream_flush_chars = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.stream_flush_ms {
t.stream_flush_ms = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.max_upload_mb {
t.max_upload_mb = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.tools {
t.tools = v;
}
}
// Only ever reached from the global layer: `merge_file` strips this
// section from a project file before applying, with a warning.
if let Some(x) = self.messages {
let t = &mut cfg.messages;
if let Some(v) = x.enabled {
t.enabled = v;
}
if x.dir.is_some() {
t.dir = x.dir;
}
if x.inbound.is_some() {
t.inbound = x.inbound;
}
if let Some(v) = x.pending_cap {
t.pending_cap = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.max_body_bytes {
t.max_body_bytes = v;
}
if let Some(v) = x.keep {
t.keep = v;
}
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn layer_overrides_only_named_fields() {
let mut cfg = Config::default();
let layer: ConfigLayer = toml::from_str(
r#"
[agent]
max_turns = 5
"#,
)
.unwrap();
layer.apply(&mut cfg);
assert_eq!(cfg.agent.max_turns, 5);
// Untouched fields keep their defaults.
assert_eq!(cfg.agent.max_tokens, 64_000);
assert_eq!(cfg.default_provider, "anthropic");
}
#[test]
fn providers_merge_by_key() {
let mut cfg = Config::default();
let layer: ConfigLayer = toml::from_str(
r#"
[providers.local]
kind = "local"
base_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
"#,
)
.unwrap();
layer.apply(&mut cfg);
assert!(cfg.providers.contains_key("anthropic"));
assert!(cfg.providers.contains_key("local"));
}
#[test]
fn hooks_configure_from_a_file() {
let mut cfg = Config::default();
let layer: ConfigLayer = toml::from_str(
r#"
[[hook]]
event = "pre_tool"
tools = ["shell"]
command = "policy.sh"
"#,
)
.unwrap();
layer.apply(&mut cfg);
assert_eq!(cfg.hooks.len(), 1);
assert_eq!(cfg.hooks[0].event, "pre_tool");
assert_eq!(cfg.hooks[0].tools, ["shell"]);
}
/// An explicit threshold always wins; otherwise a known window derives
/// one. The derived value must leave real headroom — the check happens
/// *between* turns, so the next request has to fit the reply and whatever
/// a burst of parallel tool results adds.
#[test]
fn the_compaction_threshold_derives_from_a_known_context_window() {
let mut cfg = AgentConfig::default();
assert_eq!(cfg.compact_at(None), None, "unknowable stays unset");
// The DGX's llama-server runs -c 32768; two thirds of that.
let derived = cfg.compact_at(Some(32768)).unwrap();
assert_eq!(derived, 21626);
assert!(
derived < 32768 - 8192,
"must leave room for a reply and a burst of tool results: {derived}"
);
cfg.compact_at_tokens = Some(9000);
assert_eq!(cfg.compact_at(Some(32768)), Some(9000), "explicit wins");
}
/// One turn's tool results must not leap the gap between the compaction
/// threshold and the window — the flat 24 KB budget was ~8–12k tokens of
/// numeric data against a 10.9k-token gap at 32k, and a 2026-08-07
/// Terminal-Bench trial died on exactly that jump.
#[test]
fn the_output_budget_derives_from_a_known_context_window() {
let mut cfg = ToolsConfig::default();
// Unknowable window: the ceiling, which is the old flat default.
assert_eq!(cfg.resolved_output_budget(None), 24_000);
// The DGX's llama-server runs -c 32768: an eighth of the window in
// tokens, ~3 bytes each — and comfortably inside the threshold gap
// even at one byte per token.
let derived = cfg.resolved_output_budget(Some(32768));
assert_eq!(derived, 12_288);
// Wide windows keep the old number; tiny ones keep results usable.
assert_eq!(cfg.resolved_output_budget(Some(200_000)), 24_000);
assert_eq!(cfg.resolved_output_budget(Some(8_192)), 6_000);
cfg.output_budget_bytes = Some(1_000);
assert_eq!(
cfg.resolved_output_budget(Some(32768)),
1_000,
"explicit wins"
);
}
/// A `mecha.toml` arrives with a cloned repository, and it can name MCP
/// servers to spawn, hooks to run and tools to enable. That is a reasonable
/// bargain for someone who just decided to work in that repository, and no
/// bargain at all for a trigger firing at 03:00 — so the scheduled path
/// loads the global layer only. Verified as a *difference*, because the
/// same call on a machine with no project file proves nothing.
#[test]
fn the_project_layer_is_reachable_from_load_and_not_from_load_global() {
let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("mecha-config-scope-{}", std::process::id()));
std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
std::fs::write(
dir.join(Config::PROJECT_FILE),
"default_provider = \"contributed-by-the-repository\"\n",
)
.unwrap();
let with_project = Config::load(&dir).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
with_project.default_provider,
"contributed-by-the-repository"
);
let global_only = Config::load_global().unwrap();
assert_ne!(
global_only.default_provider, "contributed-by-the-repository",
"a scheduled unattended run must not take its configuration from \
whatever directory it happens to start in"
);
let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
}
#[test]
fn a_project_layer_slack_section_is_stripped_but_a_global_one_is_kept() {
// The same boundary as `[messages]`, and a sharper one: Slack is the
// remote control, and a mecha.toml arrives with a cloned repository.
// Nothing in `[slack]` grants access — who may drive lives in the
// binding store — but a repo must not get to widen the default mode or
// the budget of runs someone drives from their phone.
let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("mecha-slack-scope-{}", std::process::id()));
std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
let path = dir.join("layer.toml");
std::fs::write(
&path,
"[slack]\ndefault_mode = \"allow\"\nmax_turns = 999\n",
)
.unwrap();
let mut from_project = Config::default();
from_project.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Project).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
from_project.slack.default_mode, "ask",
"a project file must not widen the default mode"
);
assert_eq!(from_project.slack.max_turns, 40);
let mut from_global = Config::default();
from_global.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Global).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
from_global.slack.default_mode, "allow",
"the global file is authoritative"
);
assert_eq!(from_global.slack.max_turns, 999);
std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
}
#[test]
fn a_project_layer_messages_section_is_stripped_but_a_global_one_is_kept() {
// The security boundary: a cloned repo's mecha.toml must not be able to
// set `inbound = "accept"` (or enable messaging at all) on someone's
// session. `merge_file` strips the section on a project layer and keeps
// it on a global one — this pins both halves, and that the strip is a
// strip rather than a broken apply.
let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("mecha-msg-scope-{}", std::process::id()));
std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
let path = dir.join("layer.toml");
std::fs::write(&path, "[messages]\nenabled = true\ninbound = \"accept\"\n").unwrap();
let mut from_project = Config::default();
from_project.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Project).unwrap();
assert!(
!from_project.messages.enabled,
"a project file must not enable messaging"
);
assert!(
from_project.messages.inbound.is_none(),
"a project file must not set inbound policy"
);
let mut from_global = Config::default();
from_global.merge_file(&path, LayerTrust::Global).unwrap();
assert!(
from_global.messages.enabled,
"the global file is authoritative"
);
assert_eq!(
from_global.messages.inbound,
Some(crate::mailbox::InboundPolicy::Accept)
);
let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
}
#[test]
fn every_field_of_config_is_reachable_from_a_file() {
// The bug this exists for: `hooks` was added to `Config` and not to
// `ConfigLayer`, so `[[hook]]` in any config file was a hard parse
// error and the whole feature was unreachable — while every unit test
// passed, because they all built the type directly.
//
// Serialising the default config produces one entry per top-level
// field; `ConfigLayer` denies unknown fields, so parsing it back is a
// standing check that the two structs still agree. Any field added to
// one and not the other fails here rather than in someone's config.
let rendered = toml::to_string(&Config::default()).unwrap();
let parsed = toml::from_str::<ConfigLayer>(&rendered);
assert!(
parsed.is_ok(),
"Config has a field ConfigLayer cannot read: {parsed:?}"
);
}
}