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1//! ReAct agent loop with self-correction.
2//!
3//! Minimal v0.0.1 implementation:
4//! - Applies guides once at the start.
5//! - Sends `Context` (with `tools`) to the model.
6//! - Dispatches each returned tool call via [`ToolRegistry`].
7//! - Runs `Sensor::SelfCorrect` sensors after each action; auto-fix patches are
8//!   applied directly to the world, blocking signals are fed back to the model.
9//! - Stops when the model returns no tool calls, when `policy.max_iters` is
10//!   hit, or when a stuck-detector ([`StuckPolicy`], [`MonotonyPolicy`]) says
11//!   the run is spinning.
12
13// ── crates that used to be their own ───────────────────────────────────────
14// Ten of them, and not one carried a dependency a caller would want to avoid.
15// The boundaries bought nothing and cost every release ten more publishes and
16// every host ten more version pins; a crate boundary here has to name a
17// dependency you might not want, and these did not.
18pub mod blueprint;
19pub mod compactor;
20pub mod daemon;
21pub mod experience;
22pub mod hooks;
23pub mod loop_engine;
24pub mod orchestrator;
25pub mod sandbox;
26pub mod scheduler;
27pub mod templates;
28
29pub mod acceptance;
30pub mod goal;
31pub mod learning;
32pub mod memory_layer;
33pub mod meters;
34#[cfg(feature = "otel")]
35pub mod otel;
36pub mod profile_guide;
37pub mod recall_layer;
38pub mod receipt;
39pub mod registry;
40pub mod seal;
41pub use acceptance::{Acceptance, FilesExist, NonEmptyAnswer, Verdict};
42pub use goal::{Goal, GoalStore, Phase, PhaseStatus};
43pub use receipt::{Receipt, ReceiptBuilder};
44pub use seal::{SealBreach, SealSet};
45/// The token `AgentLoop::with_cancellation` takes, re-exported so a caller can
46/// cancel a run without depending on `tokio-util` directly.
47pub use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
48pub mod replay;
49pub mod subagent;
50pub mod telemetry;
51pub mod timeline;
52pub mod trajectory;
53pub use trajectory::{
54    GoldenDiff, Report, Rule, RuleSet, Step, Trajectory, TrajectoryCheck, Violation,
55};
56
57pub use learning::*;
58pub use memory_layer::*;
59pub mod boundary_guide;
60pub use boundary_guide::*;
61pub mod events;
62pub use events::{HostEvent, NoticeGuide};
63pub use profile_guide::*;
64pub use recall_layer::*;
65pub use registry::*;
66pub use replay::*;
67pub use subagent::*;
68pub use telemetry::*;
69
70use crate::compactor::{CALIBRATION_KEY, DefaultCompactor};
71use crate::hooks::HookBus;
72use harness_core::{
73    Action, Block, CompactionStage, Compactor, Context, Event, Guide, HarnessError, HookOutcome,
74    Model, ModelDelta, ModelOutput, ResponseFormat, Sensor, SessionSource, SignalSet, Stage, Task,
75    ToolCall, ToolResult, Turn, TurnRole, World,
76};
77use std::collections::HashMap;
78use std::sync::Arc;
79use std::time::Duration;
80use tracing::Instrument;
81use tracing::field::Empty;
82
83/// What a finished model call leaves behind: fields on its `chat` span, and
84/// its duration and tokens as metrics.
85fn finish_chat(
86    span: &tracing::Span,
87    info: &harness_core::ModelInfo,
88    started: std::time::Instant,
89    result: Option<Result<&ModelOutput, String>>,
90) {
91    let end = match &result {
92        Some(Ok(out)) => {
93            span.record("gen_ai.usage.input_tokens", out.usage.input_tokens)
94                .record("gen_ai.usage.output_tokens", out.usage.output_tokens)
95                .record(
96                    "gen_ai.usage.cached_input_tokens",
97                    out.usage.cached_input_tokens,
98                )
99                .record(
100                    "gen_ai.response.finish_reasons",
101                    format!("{:?}", out.stop_reason),
102                )
103                .record("tool_calls", out.tool_calls.len());
104            meters::ModelCallEnd::Done(&out.usage)
105        }
106        Some(Err(e)) => {
107            span.record("otel.status_code", "error")
108                .record("otel.status_message", e.as_str());
109            meters::ModelCallEnd::Failed
110        }
111        None => {
112            span.record("otel.status_message", "cancelled");
113            meters::ModelCallEnd::Cancelled
114        }
115    };
116    meters::model_call(info, started.elapsed(), end);
117}
118
119/// A tool call's result and when it ran, by the World clock — the figures
120/// behind [`Event::ToolTimed`].
121struct Dispatched {
122    result: ToolResult,
123    started_ms: i64,
124    finished_ms: i64,
125}
126
127/// The span one model call runs in. Named `chat {model}` for OTLP backends,
128/// which group by span name; fields per the GenAI conventions.
129fn chat_span(info: &harness_core::ModelInfo) -> tracing::Span {
130    tracing::info_span!(
131        target: "harness.telemetry",
132        "chat",
133        "otel.name" = %format!("chat {}", info.model),
134        "otel.kind" = "client",
135        "otel.status_code" = Empty,
136        "otel.status_message" = Empty,
137        "gen_ai.operation.name" = "chat",
138        "gen_ai.provider.name" = %info.provider,
139        "gen_ai.request.model" = %info.model,
140        "gen_ai.usage.input_tokens" = Empty,
141        "gen_ai.usage.output_tokens" = Empty,
142        "gen_ai.usage.cached_input_tokens" = Empty,
143        "gen_ai.response.finish_reasons" = Empty,
144        tool_calls = Empty,
145    )
146}
147
148/// Governs the loop's stuck-detector. When the model repeats the *same* tool
149/// call (name + args) round after round without making progress, the loop first
150/// nudges it to change approach, then terminates cleanly with [`Outcome::Stuck`]
151/// rather than burning the rest of the budget spinning on a loop.
152///
153/// Enabled by default with conservative thresholds — the calls must be
154/// *byte-identical*, so genuine "read the same file twice" work never trips it.
155#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
156pub struct StuckPolicy {
157    pub enabled: bool,
158    /// Consecutive identical tool-call rounds before injecting a "you are
159    /// repeating yourself, change your approach" feedback signal.
160    pub nudge_after: u32,
161    /// Consecutive identical rounds before terminating with [`Outcome::Stuck`].
162    pub abort_after: u32,
163}
164
165impl Default for StuckPolicy {
166    fn default() -> Self {
167        Self {
168            enabled: true,
169            nudge_after: 3,
170            abort_after: 6,
171        }
172    }
173}
174
175/// A second stuck signal, orthogonal to [`StuckPolicy`]: the model calls *one*
176/// tool round after round — a different argument every time, so nothing ever
177/// repeats — and never moves on to anything else.
178///
179/// [`StuckPolicy`] cannot see this and must not be changed so that it can. It
180/// keys on *byte-identical consecutive* rounds precisely so that genuine "read
181/// the same file twice" work never trips it, and `graph_find("Xen")` followed
182/// by `graph_find("KVM")` is correctly not a repeat — the request changed. Two
183/// identical calls in a row and one tool worked for twenty rounds are different
184/// shapes, and want different thresholds and different reasons.
185///
186/// Measured on a real run: asked which platforms a product integrates with, an
187/// agent that could not retrieve the anchor entity began guessing candidates
188/// and looking them up one at a time — `graph_find("Nomad")`,
189/// `graph_find("Docker")`, `graph_find("VMware")`, `graph_find("Xen")`,
190/// `graph_find("KVM")` — twelve calls to one tool across twenty rounds, each
191/// with a different argument, none of them useful. Every individual call looked
192/// like progress. The *shape* did not, and the shape is something the loop can
193/// see without knowing anything about what `graph_find` means.
194///
195/// **Off by default, and it has to be.** The predicate is "one tool, many
196/// rounds, nothing else", and there is a large class of healthy agents whose
197/// every round is one tool: give an agent a shell and nothing else and
198/// `run_shell` is the only name it will ever emit, thirty rounds running,
199/// legitimately. No threshold rescues that — the false positive is unbounded in
200/// N, not merely rare — so a default-on version of this guard would terminate
201/// working agents, which is worse than the problem it fixes. A host that knows
202/// its agent has several tools and is meant to use them can switch it on;
203/// nobody else pays anything for its existence.
204#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
205pub struct MonotonyPolicy {
206    /// Off by default. See the type docs for why no default-on threshold is
207    /// safe for this predicate.
208    pub enabled: bool,
209    /// Consecutive single-tool rounds before injecting a "you are working one
210    /// tool and nothing else" feedback signal.
211    ///
212    /// 8, argued rather than rounded. The honest single-tool runs are surveys —
213    /// read five files, grep four paths — and a survey ends by using a
214    /// *different* tool, which resets the count; reaching eight rounds of one
215    /// name with nothing else touched is already past what surveying does. The
216    /// cost of being wrong here is one sentence of feedback, not a terminated
217    /// run, which is why the nudge can sit this close to ordinary work. This is
218    /// also the half of the policy that does the work: in the measured case a
219    /// nudge at round eight arrives with two thirds of the budget unspent.
220    pub nudge_after: u32,
221    /// Consecutive single-tool rounds before terminating with [`Outcome::Stuck`].
222    ///
223    /// 16 — twice the nudge, mirroring [`StuckPolicy`]'s own 3→6 ratio, and
224    /// 2.6× its abort so the two can never race: a byte-identical spiral is
225    /// always caught by the older policy first, under its own reason. Deliberately
226    /// generous, because this end of the policy is fatal and its only job is to
227    /// be a backstop for budgets long enough that the nudge was ignored.
228    pub abort_after: u32,
229}
230
231impl Default for MonotonyPolicy {
232    fn default() -> Self {
233        Self {
234            enabled: false,
235            nudge_after: 8,
236            abort_after: 16,
237        }
238    }
239}
240
241/// A ceiling on how much of one tool result reaches the context.
242///
243/// A single call can return more than the whole conversation: a lock file, a
244/// `SELECT *`, an MCP tool the framework does not control. Measured on a real
245/// run, "search these files for a word" cost 53,487 input tokens because one
246/// `read_file` returned a lock file — the model then paid for it on every
247/// subsequent turn, and compaction started throwing away real history to make
248/// room. A per-result ceiling is the only place to stop that: the tools cannot
249/// all be trusted (third-party MCP), and the compactor only runs after the
250/// damage is in the context.
251#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
252pub struct ToolResultPolicy {
253    /// Max serialized bytes of a single tool result. `None` disables the guard.
254    /// Default ~24 KiB — roughly 6k tokens of English, generous for a file page
255    /// or a query result, far below what blows a window.
256    pub max_bytes: Option<usize>,
257    /// Replace the payload of a read-only call that exactly repeats an earlier
258    /// one in the same run, when nothing has modified the world in between.
259    ///
260    /// [`StuckPolicy`] only sees *consecutive* identical rounds. Reading a file
261    /// at iteration 1 and again at iteration 5 is not that, and looks like
262    /// progress — but the same bytes land in the context twice and the model
263    /// learns nothing the second time. Measured on a real run, model wait was
264    /// 36.7s against 3ms of tool execution: a repeat costs context, not time,
265    /// so what is suppressed is the payload, not the call.
266    ///
267    /// Only `ToolRisk::ReadOnly` qualifies (`Network` is a separate risk, and an
268    /// external endpoint may answer differently), and any non-read-only call
269    /// clears the record — after a write, re-reading is the correct move.
270    ///
271    /// **Off by default, on the evidence.** Measured on the completion
272    /// benchmark: ceilings alone solved 6/6 tasks for 160k effective tokens;
273    /// adding repeat-suppression cut that to 32k — and lost a task. An agent
274    /// working through a file larger than one page re-reads it because it cannot
275    /// hold it, gets told it already has the answer, and does not: the content
276    /// was paged away. Five times cheaper is not worth a task a framework could
277    /// otherwise do, so this is opt-in for callers who would rather have the
278    /// tokens. (Suppressing from the *third* identical call rather than the
279    /// second would likely keep most of the saving without the failure — it
280    /// needs measuring before it becomes the default.)
281    pub dedupe_repeats: bool,
282    /// When a result exceeds `max_bytes`, save the *full* payload to a file
283    /// under `.harness/spill/` in the workspace and inline a bounded preview
284    /// plus the path, instead of cutting the tail off and throwing it away.
285    ///
286    /// Truncation destroys information: the model is told "narrow your
287    /// request", but the bytes it needed may be exactly the ones dropped, and
288    /// the only recovery is re-running the call to be truncated again.
289    /// Measured on the completion benchmark, that loop is visible as a single
290    /// task paying 184k input tokens. Spilling keeps the ceiling — the context
291    /// gets a preview, never the flood — while the whole result stays
292    /// retrievable through the file tools the agent already has (`read_file`
293    /// with offset/limit, `grep` on the spill path), because the spill lives
294    /// inside the workspace jail. Borrowed from DeepSeek Harness's `spill`
295    /// family (preview + retrieval locator), which is the same judgement.
296    ///
297    /// Costs nothing until it fires: the write happens only on the oversized
298    /// path, which the default ceiling makes rare. When the write fails (e.g.
299    /// read-only workspace) the guard falls back to plain truncation.
300    pub spill: bool,
301}
302
303impl Default for ToolResultPolicy {
304    fn default() -> Self {
305        Self {
306            max_bytes: Some(24 * 1024),
307            dedupe_repeats: false,
308            spill: true,
309        }
310    }
311}
312
313/// Governs *when* and *how far* the loop compacts context. Hysteresis: only
314/// start compacting once usage crosses `high_water`, and stop as soon as it's
315/// back under `target` — instead of running every stage above a threshold on
316/// every turn. This avoids over-compacting (needlessly reaching the lossy,
317/// main-model `AutoCompact` stage) and, because compaction rewrites history and
318/// invalidates the provider prefix cache, avoids nibbling the context every
319/// single turn.
320#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
321pub struct CompactPolicy {
322    /// Start compacting when `used/window` exceeds this. Default 0.75.
323    pub high_water: f32,
324    /// Stop as soon as `used/window` is back at/under this. Default 0.55.
325    pub target: f32,
326}
327
328impl Default for CompactPolicy {
329    fn default() -> Self {
330        Self {
331            high_water: 0.75,
332            target: 0.55,
333        }
334    }
335}
336
337/// Inline preview size for a spilled result. Deliberately smaller than the
338/// ceiling: the point of spilling is that the context gets a *glimpse* and a
339/// path, not four-fifths of the flood.
340/// How often a streamed model call reports progress / a heartbeat.
341const MODEL_PROGRESS_EVERY: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
342const MODEL_HEARTBEAT_EVERY: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30);
343/// Turns in a row the model may be cut off by the output-token limit, with no
344/// tool call to show for it, before the run is ended as [`Outcome::Stuck`].
345/// Each one is sent back with an instruction to stop deliberating and act.
346const MAX_TRUNCATED_TURNS: u32 = 2;
347/// What a turn cut off by the output-token limit is told before it retries.
348const TRUNCATED_TURN_NUDGE: &str = "Your previous turn hit the output token limit before \
349     you produced an answer or a tool call, so nothing from it was used. Do not repeat that \
350     reasoning. Act now: either call the next tool you need, or write the final answer \
351     directly and keep it short.";
352
353const SPILL_PREVIEW_BYTES: usize = 4 * 1024;
354
355/// Told to the model when the step budget ran out and the loop stripped its
356/// tools. See `force_final_synthesis`.
357const BUDGET_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT: &str = "[system: budget exhausted] \
358    You have run out of budget for tool calls. Write your final answer \
359    NOW using only the tool results already in this conversation. Do not \
360    request more tools. Mark facts you could not verify as UNKNOWN. \
361    Include source URLs for every claim that is not UNKNOWN.";
362
363/// Told to the model when [`MonotonyPolicy`] stopped the run. Deliberately
364/// names the shape it was caught in: the failure mode this ends is a model
365/// guessing arguments to one tool, and such a model has usually *found*
366/// something it never got round to reporting. "Say what you could not
367/// determine" is the instruction it needs; "mark it UNKNOWN" is the same
368/// instruction the budget prompt gives for the same reason.
369const MONOTONY_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT: &str = "[system: stopped — no progress] \
370    You have called the same tool many rounds in a row without using any other \
371    tool, so no further tool calls will be granted. Write your final answer NOW \
372    using only the tool results already in this conversation. Do not request \
373    more tools. State plainly which parts you could not determine instead of \
374    guessing at them.";
375
376/// First `n` bytes of `s`, cut on a char boundary.
377fn head_of(s: &str, n: usize) -> &str {
378    let mut end = n.min(s.len());
379    while end > 0 && !s.is_char_boundary(end) {
380        end -= 1;
381    }
382    &s[..end]
383}
384
385/// The string field that dominates an oversized result, if one does.
386///
387/// Most oversized results are one big string in a small envelope — a file
388/// body, a command's stdout — and the right spill for those is the *raw text*:
389/// multi-line, so `read_file`'s line paging and `grep`'s line matching work on
390/// it. Spilling the serialized JSON instead would fold the whole payload onto
391/// one escaped line that line-oriented tools can neither page nor match
392/// (`read_file` pages by line; a 68 KB single-line file is unreachable past
393/// the first 16 KB). Returns the dotted path and the string when one field is
394/// ≥ 80% of the serialized size.
395fn dominant_string(v: &serde_json::Value, total: usize) -> Option<(String, &str)> {
396    fn walk<'a>(v: &'a serde_json::Value, path: &str, best: &mut Option<(String, &'a str)>) {
397        match v {
398            serde_json::Value::String(s) => {
399                if best.as_ref().is_none_or(|(_, b)| s.len() > b.len()) {
400                    *best = Some((path.to_string(), s.as_str()));
401                }
402            }
403            serde_json::Value::Object(m) => {
404                for (k, x) in m {
405                    let p = if path.is_empty() {
406                        k.clone()
407                    } else {
408                        format!("{path}.{k}")
409                    };
410                    walk(x, &p, best);
411                }
412            }
413            serde_json::Value::Array(a) => {
414                for (i, x) in a.iter().enumerate() {
415                    walk(x, &format!("{path}[{i}]"), best);
416                }
417            }
418            _ => {}
419        }
420    }
421    let mut best = None;
422    walk(v, "", &mut best);
423    best.filter(|(_, s)| s.len() * 5 >= total * 4)
424}
425
426/// Replace the value at a `dominant_string` dotted path with `with`.
427fn replace_at(v: &mut serde_json::Value, path: &str, with: serde_json::Value) {
428    let mut cur = v;
429    let mut rest = path;
430    loop {
431        // Next segment: `key`, `key[i]`, or a bare `[i]`.
432        let (seg, tail) = match rest.find('.') {
433            Some(dot) => (&rest[..dot], &rest[dot + 1..]),
434            None => (rest, ""),
435        };
436        let (key, idx) = match seg.find('[') {
437            Some(b) => (&seg[..b], seg[b + 1..seg.len() - 1].parse::<usize>().ok()),
438            None => (seg, None),
439        };
440        if !key.is_empty() {
441            match cur.get_mut(key) {
442                Some(next) => cur = next,
443                None => return,
444            }
445        }
446        if let Some(i) = idx {
447            match cur.get_mut(i) {
448                Some(next) => cur = next,
449                None => return,
450            }
451        }
452        if tail.is_empty() {
453            *cur = with;
454            return;
455        }
456        rest = tail;
457    }
458}
459
460/// Persist an oversized result under `.harness/spill/` in the workspace and
461/// build the inline marker. `None` on any IO failure — the caller falls back
462/// to truncation, because a guard that can error a run to protect a context
463/// window has its priorities backwards.
464fn spill_oversized(
465    action: &Action,
466    content: &serde_json::Value,
467    serialized: &str,
468    root: &std::path::Path,
469) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
470    let dir = root.join(".harness").join("spill");
471    std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).ok()?;
472    let id: String = action
473        .call_id
474        .chars()
475        .filter(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '-' | '_'))
476        .take(48)
477        .collect();
478    let id = if id.is_empty() { "call".into() } else { id };
479
480    let (rel, preview, meta) = match dominant_string(content, serialized.len()) {
481        // One big string in a small envelope: spill the raw text, keep the
482        // envelope inline with the big field swapped for a pointer.
483        Some((field, text)) => {
484            let rel = format!(".harness/spill/{id}-{}.txt", action.tool);
485            std::fs::write(root.join(&rel), text).ok()?;
486            let mut meta = content.clone();
487            replace_at(
488                &mut meta,
489                &field,
490                serde_json::Value::String(format!("[{} bytes spilled to {rel}]", text.len())),
491            );
492            (
493                rel,
494                head_of(text, SPILL_PREVIEW_BYTES).to_string(),
495                Some(meta),
496            )
497        }
498        // Structured payload (e.g. a long match list): spill pretty-printed,
499        // one element per line, so line-oriented retrieval still works.
500        None => {
501            let rel = format!(".harness/spill/{id}-{}.json", action.tool);
502            let pretty =
503                serde_json::to_string_pretty(content).unwrap_or_else(|_| serialized.to_string());
504            std::fs::write(root.join(&rel), &pretty).ok()?;
505            (rel, head_of(&pretty, SPILL_PREVIEW_BYTES).to_string(), None)
506        }
507    };
508    tracing::warn!(
509        target: "harness.telemetry",
510        event = "tool.result.spilled",
511        "gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool,
512        bytes = serialized.len(),
513        path = %rel,
514    );
515    let mut marker = serde_json::json!({
516        "spilled": true,
517        "tool": action.tool,
518        "bytes_total": serialized.len(),
519        "path": rel,
520        "preview": preview,
521        "note": format!(
522            "This result was {} bytes — too large to inline, so the FULL content was \
523             saved to '{rel}' (workspace-relative). Nothing was lost. Retrieve exactly \
524             the part you need: grep(path=\"{rel}\", pattern=...) or \
525             read_file(path=\"{rel}\", offset=..., limit=...). Do not repeat the \
526             original call — it will spill again.",
527            serialized.len()
528        ),
529    });
530    // The envelope metadata (paths, flags) rides along when it is small; a
531    // pathological envelope that is itself oversized is dropped, not inlined.
532    if let Some(meta) = meta
533        && meta.to_string().len() <= SPILL_PREVIEW_BYTES
534    {
535        marker["meta"] = meta;
536    }
537    Some(marker)
538}
539
540/// A stable fingerprint of a round's tool calls (names + args, ignoring the
541/// volatile call id). Two rounds with the same fingerprint asked for the exact
542/// same actions — the signal the stuck-detector keys on.
543fn tool_call_fingerprint(calls: &[ToolCall]) -> String {
544    calls
545        .iter()
546        .map(|c| format!("{}({})", c.name, c.args))
547        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
548        .join("|")
549}
550
551/// The one tool a round asked for, when the whole round asked for exactly one
552/// *name*. `None` when the round mixed names — reaching for a second tool is,
553/// on its own, evidence the model is still moving, and resets
554/// [`MonotonyPolicy`]'s count.
555///
556/// Several parallel calls to the same tool count as one round of that tool:
557/// reading four files in one round is efficient work, not monotony, and the
558/// policy's threshold is in *rounds* precisely so that batching is never
559/// punished.
560fn sole_tool(calls: &[ToolCall]) -> Option<&str> {
561    let first = calls.first()?.name.as_str();
562    calls.iter().all(|c| c.name == first).then_some(first)
563}
564
565/// Cheap identity for one tool result, for the stuck detector's "did anything
566/// change" test. Not a checksum anyone depends on — only equality between two
567/// consecutive rounds of the same process matters.
568fn result_digest(tool: &str, content: &serde_json::Value) -> u64 {
569    use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
570    let mut h = std::collections::hash_map::DefaultHasher::new();
571    tool.hash(&mut h);
572    content.to_string().hash(&mut h);
573    h.finish()
574}
575
576/// Where a run finished. Each variant is `#[non_exhaustive]` so new *fields*
577/// don't break downstream matches — always include `..` when destructuring.
578#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
579pub enum Outcome {
580    /// Model returned text with no tool calls (natural end).
581    #[non_exhaustive]
582    Done {
583        text: Option<String>,
584        iters: u32,
585        tools_called: u32,
586        usage: harness_core::Usage,
587        /// What the acceptance checks said. `None` means nothing was asked —
588        /// so "the model stopped" is all this outcome claims.
589        verified: Option<Verdict>,
590        /// The sealed contract as it stood before the model's first turn.
591        ///
592        /// Carried out of the run because a receipt has to say *what* was
593        /// measured, not only that the measurement held. Empty when nothing
594        /// was sealed.
595        contract: crate::seal::SealSet,
596        /// Set when a sealed acceptance contract changed during the run.
597        ///
598        /// Distinct from a plain failed `verified` because the two mean
599        /// different things to a caller: a failed check is work not finished,
600        /// this is the measuring instrument having been moved. A host may want
601        /// to fail a build on the first and page someone on the second.
602        seal_breach: Option<String>,
603    },
604    /// Policy budget exhausted before the model stopped requesting tools.
605    /// Carries everything we know so the caller can recover partial work
606    /// (saved notes, files written by tools, the last assistant text, etc.)
607    /// instead of seeing a single bare "budget out" string.
608    #[non_exhaustive]
609    BudgetExhausted {
610        iters: u32,
611        last_text: Option<String>,
612        tools_called: u32,
613        usage: harness_core::Usage,
614        /// True when `Task::deadline` stopped the run rather than `max_iters`.
615        /// Both end the same way — a forced final answer — but "ran out of
616        /// time" and "ran out of steps" call for different responses from the
617        /// caller, and an unattended long run only ever hits the first.
618        deadline_reached: bool,
619    },
620    /// The agent got stuck and the loop terminated early to save the rest of
621    /// the budget. Carries partial work (last text, files already written by
622    /// tools) like `BudgetExhausted`.
623    ///
624    /// Two independent detectors end here, and `reason` says which: it repeated
625    /// the *same* tool call for `StuckPolicy::abort_after` rounds without
626    /// progress, or it worked a *single* tool for `MonotonyPolicy::abort_after`
627    /// rounds without touching anything else. Only the second forces a final
628    /// synthesis before returning — see the abort site for why.
629    #[non_exhaustive]
630    Stuck {
631        /// Human-readable reason, e.g. "repeated `read_file(...)` 6× without progress"
632        /// or "called `graph_find` for 16 consecutive rounds without using any
633        /// other tool".
634        reason: String,
635        /// How many consecutive rounds the detector counted before aborting.
636        repeated: u32,
637        iters: u32,
638        last_text: Option<String>,
639        tools_called: u32,
640        usage: harness_core::Usage,
641    },
642    /// The caller stopped the run through [`AgentLoop::with_cancellation`]
643    /// before the model reached a natural end. Carries partial work like
644    /// `Stuck` does, because the user who pressed Ctrl-C still wants what was
645    /// done. The loop makes **no** further model call after this — not even
646    /// the forced final synthesis the other early exits perform.
647    ///
648    /// A tool that was mid-flight when the token fired may still finish its
649    /// side effects — a file write on a blocking thread completes, a child
650    /// process keeps running unless its runner kills it on drop — but its
651    /// result is discarded before it reaches history. The dispatch is still
652    /// counted in `tools_called` — the telemetry `run.end` line reconciles
653    /// against that number.
654    #[non_exhaustive]
655    Cancelled {
656        /// Iterations completed before the cancel. `0` means the token was
657        /// already cancelled on entry.
658        iters: u32,
659        last_text: Option<String>,
660        tools_called: u32,
661        usage: harness_core::Usage,
662    },
663}
664
665/// The agent loop.
666pub struct AgentLoop<M: Model> {
667    pub model: M,
668    pub tools: ToolRegistry,
669    pub guides: Vec<Arc<dyn Guide>>,
670    pub sensors: Vec<Arc<dyn Sensor>>,
671    pub hooks: HookBus,
672    pub compactor: Arc<dyn Compactor>,
673    /// A deadline on each individual tool call. One hung call — a network tool
674    /// on a dead endpoint, a shell command waiting on stdin — otherwise takes
675    /// the whole run down with it, and the host's only recourse is a run-level
676    /// timeout that throws away every turn of finished work (measured on the
677    /// completion benchmark: a run that had already done the job was billed as
678    /// a 0-token timeout). A per-call deadline converts the hang into an error
679    /// *result* the model sees and can route around. `None` disables. The
680    /// default is generous — 120s covers a slow build — because a false
681    /// deadline on a legitimately long tool is worse than a late one.
682    pub tool_timeout: Option<Duration>,
683    /// Default response format applied to every run unless overridden by
684    /// `run_typed`. See [`ResponseFormat`].
685    pub response_format: ResponseFormat,
686    /// When `true` (the default), the loop drives each model turn, including
687    /// the forced final synthesis, via `Model::stream()` instead of
688    /// `complete()`, firing `Event::ModelTokenDelta` for each text fragment.
689    /// Tool-call deltas are still assembled inside the loop; only the terminal
690    /// `ModelOutput` shape is observable downstream. `with_streaming(false)`
691    /// is the explicit opt-out.
692    pub streaming: bool,
693    /// Stops the run from outside. Checked at the top of every iteration and
694    /// raced against the model step and every tool dispatch, so a cancel
695    /// lands within one await point rather than at the next iteration
696    /// boundary. Defaults to a token nobody holds, which never fires.
697    pub cancel: CancellationToken,
698    /// Optional cross-session recall store. When set, the loop captures every
699    /// turn and the `session_search` tool is registered. See `with_recall`.
700    pub recall: Option<Arc<dyn harness_core::RecallStore>>,
701    /// When true (and `recall` is set), a `RecallGuide` auto-injects top-k
702    /// past context at session start.
703    pub recall_auto_inject: bool,
704    pub learning: Option<LearningConfig>,
705    /// Loop-detection policy. Enabled by default — see [`StuckPolicy`].
706    pub stuck: StuckPolicy,
707    /// Second, independent loop-detection signal: one tool worked round after
708    /// round with nothing else touched. Off by default — see [`MonotonyPolicy`].
709    pub monotony: MonotonyPolicy,
710    /// Ceiling on context tokens, overriding the model's own window. `None`
711    /// (default) sizes the budget to `ModelInfo::context_window`.
712    pub max_input_tokens: Option<u32>,
713    /// Context-compaction hysteresis. See [`CompactPolicy`].
714    pub compaction: CompactPolicy,
715    /// Ceiling on a single tool result. See [`ToolResultPolicy`].
716    pub tool_results: ToolResultPolicy,
717    /// Conditions the run must satisfy before the loop reports success. The
718    /// model stopping is evidence it *believes* it is finished; these say
719    /// whether it is. See [`acceptance`].
720    pub acceptance: Vec<Arc<dyn Acceptance>>,
721    /// How many times a failed acceptance is handed back to the model before
722    /// the loop gives up and reports what there is. One is usually enough: a
723    /// model that ignores the first correction rarely takes the second.
724    pub acceptance_retries: u32,
725    /// System instruction injected into every run's `Context.system` (unless the
726    /// built context already carries its own). Set via [`with_system`](Self::with_system).
727    pub system: Vec<Block>,
728    /// Named auxiliary models for side tasks — compaction, memory synthesis,
729    /// judging, subagents — so the main conversation stays on one model (and
730    /// keeps its provider prompt-cache prefix intact) while cheap or specialist
731    /// work goes elsewhere. Populated via [`with_model_role`](Self::with_model_role),
732    /// read via [`model_for`](Self::model_for). An unregistered role means
733    /// "use the main model" — components fall back rather than fail.
734    pub model_roles: std::collections::HashMap<String, Arc<dyn Model>>,
735    /// True once the host installed its own compactor via
736    /// [`with_compactor`](Self::with_compactor). Guards the `"compactor"`
737    /// model-role convenience from overwriting an explicit choice.
738    pub compactor_custom: bool,
739}
740
741impl AgentLoop<harness_core::DynModel> {
742    /// Build a loop from a boxed model — what every model factory hands back
743    /// (`ApiKind::build`, a router, anything stored behind a trait object).
744    ///
745    /// `Arc<dyn Model>` deliberately does not implement `Model` (see
746    /// [`DynModel`](harness_core::DynModel) for why), so `AgentLoop::new` cannot
747    /// take one. Without this constructor every caller writes the wrapper
748    /// themselves, and the first thing a new user meets is a trait-bound error
749    /// naming a type they have never heard of.
750    ///
751    /// ```ignore
752    /// let model = ApiKind::OpenAI.build(base_url, model_id, key);
753    /// let agent = AgentLoop::boxed(model).with_tool(Arc::new(ReadFile));
754    /// ```
755    pub fn boxed(model: Arc<dyn Model>) -> Self {
756        Self::new(harness_core::DynModel(model))
757    }
758}
759
760impl<M: Model> AgentLoop<M> {
761    pub fn new(model: M) -> Self {
762        Self {
763            model,
764            tools: ToolRegistry::new(),
765            guides: Vec::new(),
766            sensors: Vec::new(),
767            hooks: HookBus::new(),
768            compactor: Arc::new(DefaultCompactor::new()),
769            tool_timeout: Some(Duration::from_secs(120)),
770            response_format: ResponseFormat::Free,
771            streaming: true,
772            cancel: CancellationToken::new(),
773            recall: None,
774            recall_auto_inject: false,
775            learning: None,
776            stuck: StuckPolicy::default(),
777            monotony: MonotonyPolicy::default(),
778            max_input_tokens: None,
779            compaction: CompactPolicy::default(),
780            // On by default, because the failure it catches is invisible: a
781            // turn that produced nothing is reported as a turn that finished.
782            tool_results: ToolResultPolicy::default(),
783            acceptance: vec![Arc::new(acceptance::NonEmptyAnswer)],
784            acceptance_retries: 1,
785            system: Vec::new(),
786            model_roles: std::collections::HashMap::new(),
787            compactor_custom: false,
788        }
789    }
790
791    /// Register an auxiliary model under a role name — the loop's seam for
792    /// "side tasks don't have to run on the main model".
793    ///
794    /// The main conversation stays pinned to one model, which keeps its
795    /// provider prompt-cache prefix byte-stable; compaction summaries, memory
796    /// synthesis, judging, and subagents can go to a cheaper or specialist
797    /// model instead. Components read roles via [`model_for`](Self::model_for)
798    /// and fall back to the main model when a role is unregistered.
799    ///
800    /// One role is wired automatically: registering `"compactor"` upgrades the
801    /// default structural compactor to a [`ModelBackedCompactor`] on that
802    /// model — unless the host already installed its own via
803    /// [`with_compactor`](Self::with_compactor), which always wins regardless
804    /// of call order.
805    ///
806    /// ```ignore
807    /// let agent = AgentLoop::boxed(main)
808    ///     .with_model_role("compactor", cheap.clone())
809    ///     .with_model_role("judge", strong);
810    /// ```
811    pub fn with_model_role(mut self, role: impl Into<String>, model: Arc<dyn Model>) -> Self {
812        let role = role.into();
813        if role == "compactor" && !self.compactor_custom {
814            self.compactor = Arc::new(crate::compactor::ModelBackedCompactor::new(model.clone()));
815        }
816        self.model_roles.insert(role, model);
817        self
818    }
819
820    /// Look up an auxiliary model by role. `None` means "no model registered
821    /// for this role — use the main model"; callers fall back rather than fail,
822    /// so wiring stays optional everywhere.
823    pub fn model_for(&self, role: &str) -> Option<Arc<dyn Model>> {
824        self.model_roles.get(role).cloned()
825    }
826
827    /// Set a system instruction applied to every run (into `Context.system`) —
828    /// e.g. "answer only via the governed tools; never claim you can't access
829    /// data; never invent numbers". This is the first-class seam for a system
830    /// prompt; small local models in particular need it to reliably call tools
831    /// instead of refusing or hallucinating.
832    pub fn with_system(mut self, text: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
833        self.system = vec![Block::Text(text.into())];
834        self
835    }
836
837    /// Cap context tokens below the model's own window.
838    ///
839    /// Compaction fires at a fraction of this, so it is also the only way to
840    /// exercise the compaction path without first paying for a hundred
841    /// thousand tokens of real conversation — which is how "does a long run
842    /// survive being compacted" stayed untested.
843    pub fn with_max_input_tokens(mut self, n: u32) -> Self {
844        self.max_input_tokens = Some(n);
845        self
846    }
847
848    /// Override the loop-detection policy (thresholds, or disable entirely).
849    pub fn with_stuck_policy(mut self, policy: StuckPolicy) -> Self {
850        self.stuck = policy;
851        self
852    }
853
854    /// Opt in to (or retune) the single-tool monotony signal. Independent of
855    /// [`with_stuck_policy`](Self::with_stuck_policy): both detectors run, with
856    /// their own thresholds and their own `Outcome::Stuck` reason.
857    ///
858    /// ```ignore
859    /// let agent = AgentLoop::boxed(model)
860    ///     .with_monotony_policy(MonotonyPolicy { enabled: true, ..Default::default() });
861    /// ```
862    pub fn with_monotony_policy(mut self, policy: MonotonyPolicy) -> Self {
863        self.monotony = policy;
864        self
865    }
866
867    /// Override the compaction hysteresis policy. See [`CompactPolicy`].
868    /// Set the ceiling on a single tool result. See [`ToolResultPolicy`].
869    pub fn with_tool_result_policy(mut self, policy: ToolResultPolicy) -> Self {
870        self.tool_results = policy;
871        self
872    }
873
874    pub fn with_compact_policy(mut self, policy: CompactPolicy) -> Self {
875        self.compaction = policy;
876        self
877    }
878
879    /// Streaming is the default; pass `false` to opt out and use one
880    /// non-streaming `Model::complete()` per turn. Streamed turns go through
881    /// `Model::stream()`, and hooks subscribed to `Event::ModelTokenDelta` see
882    /// each fragment as it arrives; the rest of the loop is unchanged.
883    pub fn with_streaming(mut self, enable: bool) -> Self {
884        self.streaming = enable;
885        self
886    }
887
888    /// Hand the run a token the caller can cancel from anywhere.
889    ///
890    /// The token belongs to the **loop, not to one run**, and cancellation is
891    /// **one-way**: once `cancel()` has been called, every later `run` (and
892    /// every later `Session::turn`) on this loop returns `Outcome::Cancelled`
893    /// immediately, with `iters: 0`. That is right for a loop built for one
894    /// job and wrong for one that serves many turns. For per-turn cancellation
895    /// give each turn its own token — either rebuild the loop, or keep a parent
896    /// and hand out `parent.child_token()`, dropping the child when the turn
897    /// ends so the parent stays live:
898    ///
899    /// ```ignore
900    /// let token = CancellationToken::new();
901    /// let agent = AgentLoop::new(model).with_cancellation(token.clone());
902    /// // … later, from anywhere — this loop is now finished with, permanently:
903    /// token.cancel();
904    /// ```
905    ///
906    /// The field is public, so the simplest per-turn form is to assign
907    /// `loop_.cancel = fresh_token` before each run, which is what
908    /// `harness code` does.
909    ///
910    /// Cloning a `CancellationToken` shares it, so keep one and pass a clone.
911    pub fn with_cancellation(mut self, token: CancellationToken) -> Self {
912        self.cancel = token;
913        self
914    }
915
916    /// Add a condition the run must satisfy before it can report success.
917    pub fn with_acceptance(mut self, a: Arc<dyn Acceptance>) -> Self {
918        self.acceptance.push(a);
919        self
920    }
921
922    /// Replace the acceptance set outright (including the default).
923    pub fn with_acceptance_set(mut self, set: Vec<Arc<dyn Acceptance>>) -> Self {
924        self.acceptance = set;
925        self
926    }
927
928    pub fn with_acceptance_retries(mut self, n: u32) -> Self {
929        self.acceptance_retries = n;
930        self
931    }
932
933    pub fn with_tool_timeout(mut self, t: Option<Duration>) -> Self {
934        self.tool_timeout = t;
935        self
936    }
937
938    pub fn with_compactor(mut self, c: Arc<dyn Compactor>) -> Self {
939        self.compactor = c;
940        // An explicit compactor always wins over the "compactor" model-role
941        // convenience, in either call order.
942        self.compactor_custom = true;
943        self
944    }
945
946    pub fn with_tool(mut self, t: Arc<dyn harness_core::Tool>) -> Self {
947        self.tools.insert(t);
948        self
949    }
950
951    pub fn with_guide(mut self, g: Arc<dyn Guide>) -> Self {
952        self.guides.push(g);
953        self
954    }
955
956    pub fn with_sensor(mut self, s: Arc<dyn Sensor>) -> Self {
957        self.sensors.push(s);
958        self
959    }
960
961    pub fn with_hook(mut self, h: Arc<dyn harness_core::Hook>) -> Self {
962        self.hooks.register(h);
963        self
964    }
965
966    /// Pull in every `#[hook]`-registered hook.
967    pub fn with_macro_hooks(mut self) -> Self {
968        self.hooks = self.hooks.with_macro_hooks_take();
969        self
970    }
971
972    /// Enable cross-session recall: capture every turn into `store` and
973    /// register the `session_search` tool. Owner + session id are read from
974    /// `world.profile.extra["recall_owner"|"recall_session"]` at run time.
975    pub fn with_recall(mut self, store: Arc<dyn harness_core::RecallStore>) -> Self {
976        self.tools
977            .insert(Arc::new(crate::SessionSearchTool::new(store.clone())));
978        self.recall = Some(store);
979        self
980    }
981
982    /// Capture every turn into `store` **without** registering a search tool.
983    ///
984    /// Ingest and retrieval are separate concerns that [`with_recall`] happens
985    /// to bundle, and the bundling is a trap: capture only ever happens when
986    /// `self.recall` is set, so a host that wants a different search tool — one
987    /// scoped per tenant, or one that copes with a language the backend's index
988    /// does not — has no way to get the writes without also getting
989    /// `session_search`, and ends up offering the model two overlapping tools
990    /// to choose between.
991    ///
992    /// Use this, then register whichever retrieval tool suits the deployment.
993    pub fn with_recall_ingest(mut self, store: Arc<dyn harness_core::RecallStore>) -> Self {
994        self.recall = Some(store);
995        self
996    }
997
998    /// After `with_recall`, also auto-inject top-k relevant past context at
999    /// session start (off by default — tool-only is prompt-cache friendly).
1000    pub fn auto_inject(mut self) -> Self {
1001        self.recall_auto_inject = true;
1002        self
1003    }
1004
1005    /// Enable the self-evolving learning loop: after a session that made
1006    /// `>= cfg.nudge_interval` tool calls, fork a review subagent (white-listed to
1007    /// `cfg.tools`) to update skills + memory from the transcript. Best-effort.
1008    pub fn with_learning_loop(mut self, cfg: LearningConfig) -> Self {
1009        self.learning = Some(cfg);
1010        self
1011    }
1012
1013    /// Set the default response format for all runs through this loop. See
1014    /// [`ResponseFormat`]. For typed deserialisation, prefer `run_typed::<T>()`.
1015    pub fn with_response_format(mut self, fmt: ResponseFormat) -> Self {
1016        self.response_format = fmt;
1017        self
1018    }
1019
1020    /// Shortcut for `with_response_format(ResponseFormat::JsonSchema { name, schema })`.
1021    /// Accepts a raw `serde_json::Value` so callers can hand-roll the schema or
1022    /// pull it from `schemars::schema_for!(T)`.
1023    pub fn with_response_schema(self, name: impl Into<String>, schema: serde_json::Value) -> Self {
1024        self.with_response_format(ResponseFormat::JsonSchema {
1025            name: name.into(),
1026            schema,
1027        })
1028    }
1029
1030    pub async fn run(&self, task: Task, world: &mut World) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1031        let max = harness_core::Policy::default().max_iters;
1032        self.run_with_max_iters(task, world, max).await
1033    }
1034
1035    /// Run, and hand back the evidence alongside the result.
1036    ///
1037    /// The [`Receipt`] is built here rather than by the caller because the loop
1038    /// already knows the two things a caller would otherwise have to restate —
1039    /// the task and the model — and restating them is how a receipt ends up
1040    /// describing a different run than the one that happened. `now_ms` stays a
1041    /// parameter: this crate does not read the clock, so a receipt is
1042    /// reproducible in a test.
1043    pub async fn run_receipted(
1044        &self,
1045        task: Task,
1046        world: &mut World,
1047        now_ms: i64,
1048    ) -> Result<(Outcome, Receipt), HarnessError> {
1049        let description = task.description.clone();
1050        let handle = self.model.info().handle;
1051        let outcome = self.run(task, world).await?;
1052        let receipt = ReceiptBuilder::new(description, handle, now_ms).build(&outcome);
1053        Ok((outcome, receipt))
1054    }
1055
1056    /// Advance a [`Goal`] by one phase, recording the result durably.
1057    ///
1058    /// Returns `None` when every phase is done — so a resume loop is
1059    /// `while let Some(..) = loop_.run_goal(..).await?`.
1060    ///
1061    /// The phase is marked `Running` and **saved before the model starts**, so
1062    /// a process that dies mid-run leaves a goal that says where it was rather
1063    /// than one that looks untouched. It is saved again afterwards on both
1064    /// paths. That second save on the failure path is the whole reason this
1065    /// method exists: written out by hand at each call site it is four lines,
1066    /// and the failure branch is the one that gets forgotten — which loses
1067    /// exactly the run you most wanted a record of.
1068    pub async fn run_goal(
1069        &self,
1070        goal: &mut Goal,
1071        store: &GoalStore,
1072        world: &mut World,
1073        now_ms: i64,
1074    ) -> Result<Option<(Outcome, Receipt)>, HarnessError> {
1075        let Some(i) = goal.start_current(now_ms) else {
1076            return Ok(None);
1077        };
1078        let _ = store.save(goal);
1079
1080        let task = Task {
1081            description: goal.brief(),
1082            source: None,
1083            deadline: None,
1084        };
1085        let result = self.run_receipted(task, world, now_ms).await;
1086
1087        match &result {
1088            Ok((_, receipt)) => {
1089                if receipt.passed {
1090                    goal.finish(i, receipt.summary(), now_ms);
1091                } else {
1092                    goal.fail(i, receipt.summary(), now_ms);
1093                }
1094            }
1095            // A run that errored outright still happened, and the goal has to
1096            // say so or a resume will retry it as though it were untouched.
1097            Err(e) => goal.fail(i, format!("the run errored: {e}"), now_ms),
1098        }
1099        let _ = store.save(goal);
1100
1101        result.map(Some)
1102    }
1103
1104    pub async fn run_with_max_iters(
1105        &self,
1106        task: Task,
1107        world: &mut World,
1108        max_iters: u32,
1109    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1110        self.run_with_seed_history(task, Vec::new(), world, max_iters)
1111            .await
1112    }
1113
1114    /// Run the agent and deserialise the terminal reply into `T`.
1115    ///
1116    /// The schema for `T` is derived via `schemars::schema_for!(T)` and
1117    /// installed as `ResponseFormat::JsonSchema` for this run only — any
1118    /// pre-existing `self.response_format` is ignored. On success the
1119    /// returned `T` is parsed from `Outcome::Done.text` (or, on budget
1120    /// exhaustion, from `Outcome::BudgetExhausted.last_text`).
1121    ///
1122    /// Errors:
1123    /// - `HarnessError::Other` if the model returns no text at all
1124    /// - `HarnessError::Other` if `serde_json::from_str::<T>(text)` fails —
1125    ///   the original text is included in the message for debugging.
1126    pub async fn run_typed<T>(&self, task: Task, world: &mut World) -> Result<T, HarnessError>
1127    where
1128        T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned + schemars::JsonSchema + 'static,
1129    {
1130        let max = harness_core::Policy::default().max_iters;
1131        self.run_typed_with_max_iters::<T>(task, world, max).await
1132    }
1133
1134    /// Like `run_typed` but with explicit `max_iters`.
1135    pub async fn run_typed_with_max_iters<T>(
1136        &self,
1137        task: Task,
1138        world: &mut World,
1139        max_iters: u32,
1140    ) -> Result<T, HarnessError>
1141    where
1142        T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned + schemars::JsonSchema + 'static,
1143    {
1144        let schema_root = schemars::schema_for!(T);
1145        let schema = serde_json::to_value(&schema_root)
1146            .map_err(|e| HarnessError::Other(format!("response schema: {e}")))?;
1147        let name = std::any::type_name::<T>()
1148            .rsplit("::")
1149            .next()
1150            .unwrap_or("response")
1151            .to_string();
1152        let fmt = ResponseFormat::JsonSchema { name, schema };
1153        let outcome = self
1154            .run_with_response_format(task, world, max_iters, fmt)
1155            .await?;
1156        let text = match outcome {
1157            Outcome::Done { text: Some(t), .. }
1158            | Outcome::BudgetExhausted {
1159                last_text: Some(t), ..
1160            }
1161            | Outcome::Stuck {
1162                last_text: Some(t), ..
1163            }
1164            | Outcome::Cancelled {
1165                last_text: Some(t), ..
1166            } => t,
1167            Outcome::Done { text: None, .. } => {
1168                return Err(HarnessError::Other(
1169                    "run_typed: model returned no text".into(),
1170                ));
1171            }
1172            Outcome::Stuck {
1173                last_text: None, ..
1174            } => {
1175                return Err(HarnessError::Other(
1176                    "run_typed: agent stuck with no text".into(),
1177                ));
1178            }
1179            Outcome::BudgetExhausted {
1180                last_text: None, ..
1181            } => {
1182                return Err(HarnessError::Other(
1183                    "run_typed: budget exhausted with no text".into(),
1184                ));
1185            }
1186            Outcome::Cancelled {
1187                last_text: None, ..
1188            } => {
1189                return Err(HarnessError::Other(
1190                    "run_typed: run cancelled with no text".into(),
1191                ));
1192            }
1193        };
1194        serde_json::from_str::<T>(&text).map_err(|e| {
1195            HarnessError::Other(format!(
1196                "run_typed: decode {} failed: {e} — raw text was: {text}",
1197                std::any::type_name::<T>()
1198            ))
1199        })
1200    }
1201
1202    /// Run with a one-off `ResponseFormat` override (doesn't touch `self`).
1203    pub async fn run_with_response_format(
1204        &self,
1205        task: Task,
1206        world: &mut World,
1207        max_iters: u32,
1208        fmt: ResponseFormat,
1209    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1210        // Borrow checker won't let us swap `self.response_format` because
1211        // `self` is `&`. Easiest workaround: hand-roll the same setup that
1212        // `run_with_seed_history` does, but with our `fmt`. We do this by
1213        // calling through a private helper.
1214        self.run_with_seed_history_and_format(task, Vec::new(), world, max_iters, Some(fmt))
1215            .await
1216    }
1217
1218    async fn run_with_seed_history_and_format(
1219        &self,
1220        task: Task,
1221        seed: Vec<Turn>,
1222        world: &mut World,
1223        max_iters: u32,
1224        fmt_override: Option<ResponseFormat>,
1225    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1226        let mut ctx = Context::new(task);
1227        ctx.policy.max_iters = max_iters;
1228        ctx.tools = self.tools.schemas();
1229        ctx.history = seed;
1230        ctx.response_format = fmt_override.unwrap_or_else(|| self.response_format.clone());
1231        self.run_built_context(ctx, world).await
1232    }
1233
1234    /// Like `run_with_max_iters` but seeds `ctx.history` with `seed` **before**
1235    /// the current user task is appended. Use this for multi-turn REPLs so
1236    /// prior conversation lives in `ctx.history` (where the Compactor can see
1237    /// it) instead of being concatenated into `task.description` (where it
1238    /// previously bypassed compaction entirely — see audit #2).
1239    pub async fn run_with_seed_history(
1240        &self,
1241        task: Task,
1242        seed: Vec<Turn>,
1243        world: &mut World,
1244        max_iters: u32,
1245    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1246        self.run_with_seed_and_metadata(task, seed, Default::default(), world, max_iters)
1247            .await
1248    }
1249
1250    /// Like [`run_with_seed_history`](Self::run_with_seed_history) but also seeds
1251    /// `ctx.metadata` with per-request key/values. Hooks and a
1252    /// [`ModelRouter`](harness_models::ModelRouter) read this map — e.g.
1253    /// `audit.actor` / `audit.session` for the audit trail, or
1254    /// `router.keep_local` to pin a request to the local model. This is the
1255    /// entry point a serving layer uses to pass caller identity and routing
1256    /// flags into a single, shared, reused loop.
1257    pub async fn run_with_seed_and_metadata(
1258        &self,
1259        task: Task,
1260        seed: Vec<Turn>,
1261        metadata: std::collections::BTreeMap<String, serde_json::Value>,
1262        world: &mut World,
1263        max_iters: u32,
1264    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1265        let mut ctx = Context::new(task);
1266        ctx.policy.max_iters = max_iters;
1267        ctx.tools = self.tools.schemas();
1268        ctx.history = seed;
1269        ctx.metadata = metadata;
1270        ctx.response_format = self.response_format.clone();
1271        self.run_built_context(ctx, world).await
1272    }
1273
1274    /// Start a persistent multi-turn [`Session`]. Each `turn` re-runs the loop
1275    /// against the accumulated history with a **stable prefix** (system +
1276    /// name-sorted tool schemas), so a provider's prefix cache (e.g. DeepSeek's,
1277    /// ~10% price on cache-hit tokens) hits across turns instead of paying full
1278    /// price to re-read the same bytes every round. For maximum hit rate, keep
1279    /// your guides' output stable (put per-turn volatile context in the message,
1280    /// not a recomputed system guide).
1281    pub fn session(&self) -> Session<'_, M> {
1282        Session {
1283            loop_: self,
1284            history: Vec::new(),
1285            max_iters: harness_core::Policy::default().max_iters,
1286        }
1287    }
1288
1289    /// Inner ReAct loop on an already-prepared `Context`. Use the public
1290    /// `run*` methods unless you need to inject a non-standard `Context`
1291    /// (e.g. `run_with_response_format` does to apply a one-off
1292    /// `ResponseFormat` without mutating `self`).
1293    ///
1294    /// The run executes inside an `agent_run` span, and every model call and
1295    /// tool call inside a child span of it (`chat`, `execute_tool`). The loop
1296    /// owns these rather than a hook, because only the loop knows when a call
1297    /// really starts and ends: read-only tools are dispatched in parallel
1298    /// *before* their `PreToolUse` fires, so a hook timing them would see a
1299    /// zero-length call. Spans cost nothing without a subscriber; with an OTLP
1300    /// layer (feature `otel`) they are the trace waterfall.
1301    async fn run_built_context(
1302        &self,
1303        ctx: Context,
1304        world: &mut World,
1305    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1306        let info = self.model.info();
1307        let span = tracing::info_span!(
1308            target: "harness.telemetry",
1309            "agent_run",
1310            "gen_ai.operation.name" = "invoke_agent",
1311            "gen_ai.provider.name" = %info.provider,
1312            "gen_ai.request.model" = %info.model,
1313            outcome = Empty,
1314            "otel.status_code" = Empty,
1315            "otel.status_message" = Empty,
1316        );
1317        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
1318        let r = self.run_in_span(ctx, world).instrument(span.clone()).await;
1319        let outcome = match &r {
1320            Ok(Outcome::Done { .. }) => "done",
1321            Ok(Outcome::BudgetExhausted { .. }) => "budget_exhausted",
1322            Ok(Outcome::Stuck { .. }) => "stuck",
1323            Ok(Outcome::Cancelled { .. }) => "cancelled",
1324            Err(e) => {
1325                span.record("otel.status_code", "error")
1326                    .record("otel.status_message", e.to_string());
1327                "error"
1328            }
1329        };
1330        span.record("outcome", outcome);
1331        meters::run(outcome, started.elapsed());
1332        r
1333    }
1334
1335    async fn run_in_span(
1336        &self,
1337        mut ctx: Context,
1338        world: &mut World,
1339    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
1340        if ctx.system.is_empty() && !self.system.is_empty() {
1341            ctx.system = self.system.clone();
1342        }
1343
1344        // Size the context budget to the model actually in use.
1345        //
1346        // Compaction fires at a fraction of `max_input_tokens`, so a value
1347        // unrelated to the model is wrong in one of two directions: too high and
1348        // the provider rejects the request before the compactor ever runs (a 32k
1349        // model under the 150k default would need 112,500 tokens to trigger, and
1350        // it cannot hold that many); too low and the loop discards history it
1351        // could have kept. Nothing read `ModelInfo::context_window` before this —
1352        // the framework's own defaults disagreed, 150,000 against 128,000.
1353        //
1354        // Only when the caller left the default in place; an explicit policy is
1355        // a decision and stays untouched. The output allowance is reserved,
1356        // because the window is shared between the prompt and the reply.
1357        if let Some(n) = self.max_input_tokens {
1358            // An explicit cap wins over both the default and the model window.
1359            ctx.policy.max_input_tokens = n.max(1);
1360        } else if ctx.policy.max_input_tokens == harness_core::Policy::default().max_input_tokens {
1361            let window = self.model.info().context_window;
1362            if window > 0 {
1363                // Reserve room for the reply, but never let the reservation eat
1364                // the window: an 8k model with the default 8k output allowance
1365                // would leave 0 tokens for input, and every turn — a 26-token
1366                // one included — would run all five compaction stages against a
1367                // budget of 1. Cap the reservation at a quarter of the window.
1368                let reserve = ctx.policy.max_output_tokens.min(window / 4);
1369                ctx.policy.max_input_tokens = window.saturating_sub(reserve).max(1);
1370            }
1371        }
1372
1373        self.hooks.fire(
1374            &Event::SessionStart {
1375                source: SessionSource::Startup,
1376            },
1377            world,
1378        );
1379
1380        // ── recall: resolve owner/session, ensure the session row ──
1381        let (recall_owner, recall_session) = if self.recall.is_some() {
1382            use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
1383            let owner = crate::recall_owner(world);
1384            let session = world
1385                .profile
1386                .extra
1387                .get("recall_session")
1388                .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
1389                .map(|s| s.to_string())
1390                .unwrap_or_else(|| {
1391                    format!(
1392                        "sess-{}-{}",
1393                        world.clock.now_ms(),
1394                        RECALL_SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst)
1395                    )
1396                });
1397            if let Some(store) = &self.recall {
1398                let meta = harness_core::SessionMeta::new(&session, world.clock.now_ms());
1399                if let Err(e) = store.ensure_session(&owner, &session, &meta).await {
1400                    tracing::warn!(error = %e, "recall ensure_session failed");
1401                }
1402            }
1403            (owner, session)
1404        } else {
1405            (String::new(), String::new())
1406        };
1407
1408        let recall_guide: Option<Arc<dyn Guide>> = if self.recall_auto_inject {
1409            if self.recall.is_none() {
1410                tracing::warn!(
1411                    "auto_inject() set but no recall store — call with_recall(store) first; skipping recall guide"
1412                );
1413                None
1414            } else {
1415                self.recall
1416                    .clone()
1417                    .map(|s| Arc::new(crate::RecallGuide::new(s)) as Arc<dyn Guide>)
1418            }
1419        } else {
1420            None
1421        };
1422        let all_guides: Vec<&Arc<dyn Guide>> =
1423            self.guides.iter().chain(recall_guide.iter()).collect();
1424        for g in &all_guides {
1425            if g.scope().matches(&ctx.task) {
1426                self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreGuide { guide: g.id() }, world);
1427                g.apply(&mut ctx, world).await?;
1428                self.hooks.fire(&Event::PostGuide { guide: g.id() }, world);
1429            }
1430        }
1431
1432        ctx.history.push(Turn {
1433            role: TurnRole::User,
1434            blocks: vec![Block::Text(ctx.task.description.clone())],
1435        });
1436
1437        if self.recall.is_some() {
1438            self.recall_append(
1439                &recall_owner,
1440                &recall_session,
1441                harness_core::RecallMessage::new(
1442                    "user",
1443                    ctx.task.description.clone(),
1444                    world.clock.now_ms(),
1445                ),
1446            )
1447            .await;
1448        }
1449
1450        // Running totals — surface to caller even on BudgetExhausted.
1451        let mut tools_called: u32 = 0;
1452        let mut total_usage = harness_core::Usage::default();
1453        let mut last_text: Option<String> = None;
1454
1455        // Stuck-detector state: the previous round's tool-call fingerprint and
1456        // how many consecutive rounds have repeated it.
1457        let mut last_fingerprint: Option<String> = None;
1458        let mut repeat_count: u32 = 0;
1459        // Monotony state: the tool that has been the round's only tool, and for
1460        // how many consecutive rounds. Separate counter from `repeat_count` on
1461        // purpose — the two detectors answer different questions.
1462        let mut monotone_tool: Option<String> = None;
1463        let mut monotone_rounds: u32 = 0;
1464        // Read-only calls already answered this run, cleared whenever anything
1465        // mutates the world. See `ToolResultPolicy::dedupe_repeats`.
1466        let mut answered: std::collections::HashSet<String> = std::collections::HashSet::new();
1467        // How many times the model has stopped mid-work with nothing to show.
1468        let mut acceptance_retries_left = self.acceptance_retries;
1469        // Consecutive turns cut off by the output-token limit with nothing to
1470        // act on. Such a turn is not an answer, however the loop ends.
1471        let mut truncated_turns: u32 = 0;
1472
1473        // The contract as it stood before the model touched anything. Taken
1474        // now, not at verdict time, because the whole point is to compare
1475        // against a state the model has not had the chance to influence.
1476        // Set once a sealed file is found to have moved; makes the failure
1477        // terminal and carries the reason out to the caller.
1478        let mut seal_breached: Option<String> = None;
1479        let sealed_before: crate::seal::SealSet = {
1480            let paths: Vec<std::path::PathBuf> =
1481                self.acceptance.iter().flat_map(|a| a.seals()).collect();
1482            if paths.is_empty() {
1483                crate::seal::SealSet::default()
1484            } else {
1485                crate::seal::SealSet::capture(&world.repo.root, paths)
1486            }
1487        };
1488
1489        // How far the loop actually got. Equal to `max_iters` on a normal
1490        // budget exhaustion, less when the wall clock stopped it first.
1491        let mut iters_done = ctx.policy.max_iters;
1492        let mut deadline_reached = false;
1493
1494        for iter in 0..ctx.policy.max_iters {
1495            if self.cancel.is_cancelled() {
1496                tracing::info!(iter, "run cancelled by caller");
1497                self.hooks.fire(&Event::Cancelled, world);
1498                self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
1499                return Ok(Outcome::Cancelled {
1500                    iters: iter,
1501                    last_text,
1502                    tools_called,
1503                    usage: total_usage,
1504                });
1505            }
1506
1507            // ── wall-clock budget ───────────────────────────────────────
1508            // `max_iters` bounds *steps*, which says nothing about elapsed
1509            // time: one iteration can be a 100ms read or a 20-minute build.
1510            // An unattended run is bounded in hours, not rounds, so a task
1511            // may carry a deadline — and reaching it goes through the same
1512            // forced-synthesis exit as a spent step budget, so the caller
1513            // gets the conclusion of the work rather than a dropped future.
1514            if let Some(at) = ctx.task.deadline
1515                && world.clock.now_ms() >= at
1516            {
1517                tracing::warn!(
1518                    iter,
1519                    deadline = at,
1520                    "task deadline reached — forcing a final answer"
1521                );
1522                iters_done = iter;
1523                deadline_reached = true;
1524                break;
1525            }
1526            self.hooks.fire(&Event::Heartbeat { iter }, world);
1527
1528            // Compaction with hysteresis: only once over the high-water mark,
1529            // then escalate stage-by-stage, re-estimating after each, and stop
1530            // the moment we're back under target. Avoids over-compacting to the
1531            // lossy AutoCompact stage and avoids rewriting history (→ prefix
1532            // cache miss) every turn. Token estimate is calibrated against the
1533            // last real `input_tokens` via `CALIBRATION_KEY`.
1534            let mut budget = self.compactor.budget(&ctx);
1535            if budget.ratio() > self.compaction.high_water {
1536                for stage in CompactionStage::ALL {
1537                    if budget.ratio() <= self.compaction.target {
1538                        break;
1539                    }
1540                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreCompact { stage }, world);
1541                    let before = budget.used;
1542                    let turns_before = ctx.history.len();
1543                    self.compactor.compact(stage, &mut ctx).await?;
1544                    budget = self.compactor.budget(&ctx);
1545                    // Compaction used to leave no trace anywhere: not in the
1546                    // log, not in the transcript. That is a bad property for
1547                    // the one mechanism that rewrites the conversation, and it
1548                    // is how a compaction bug that killed long runs stayed
1549                    // invisible — the only symptom was a provider error with
1550                    // no hint of what had touched the history.
1551                    tracing::info!(
1552                        stage = ?stage,
1553                        tokens_before = before,
1554                        tokens_after = budget.used,
1555                        turns_before,
1556                        turns_after = ctx.history.len(),
1557                        "compacted context"
1558                    );
1559                    meters::compaction(stage, before, budget.used);
1560                    self.hooks.fire(
1561                        &Event::PostCompact {
1562                            stage,
1563                            before,
1564                            after: budget.used,
1565                        },
1566                        world,
1567                    );
1568                }
1569            }
1570
1571            // Per-iteration guides — recall-style adapters that want to
1572            // refresh their injected context every turn (e.g. MemoryGuide
1573            // re-recalling against the latest user message). Default
1574            // `apply_before_iter` is a no-op, so this loop is cheap for
1575            // guides that don't override it.
1576            for g in &all_guides {
1577                if g.scope().matches(&ctx.task)
1578                    && let Err(e) = g.apply_before_iter(&mut ctx, world).await
1579                {
1580                    tracing::warn!(guide = %g.id(), error = %e, "apply_before_iter failed; continuing");
1581                }
1582            }
1583
1584            self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreModel { ctx: &ctx }, world);
1585            let mut partial = String::new();
1586            let Some(out) = self.model_step(&ctx, world, &mut partial, iter).await? else {
1587                tracing::info!(iter, "run cancelled during model step");
1588                // What the stream delivered before the cancel is what the person
1589                // saw; it belongs to the outcome, not to the dropped future.
1590                if !partial.is_empty() {
1591                    last_text = Some(std::mem::take(&mut partial));
1592                }
1593                self.hooks.fire(&Event::Cancelled, world);
1594                self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
1595                return Ok(Outcome::Cancelled {
1596                    iters: iter + 1,
1597                    last_text,
1598                    tools_called,
1599                    usage: total_usage,
1600                });
1601            };
1602            self.hooks.fire(&Event::PostModel { out: &out }, world);
1603
1604            // Calibrate the compactor against ground truth: `ctx` still holds
1605            // exactly what we just sent, so `budget().used` is the estimate for
1606            // it. Nudge the stored correction so estimate·correction ≈ the
1607            // model's real `input_tokens` next time. Self-correcting (converges
1608            // even as the raw estimate drifts); clamped so one odd turn can't
1609            // blow it up. This is what makes compaction fire at the right moment
1610            // for *this* model + language instead of a blind char heuristic.
1611            if out.usage.input_tokens > 0 {
1612                let used = self.compactor.budget(&ctx).used;
1613                if used > 0 {
1614                    let prev = ctx
1615                        .metadata
1616                        .get(CALIBRATION_KEY)
1617                        .and_then(|v| v.as_f64())
1618                        .filter(|f| f.is_finite() && *f > 0.0)
1619                        .unwrap_or(1.0);
1620                    let next =
1621                        (prev * out.usage.input_tokens as f64 / used as f64).clamp(0.1, 10.0);
1622                    ctx.metadata
1623                        .insert(CALIBRATION_KEY.into(), serde_json::json!(next));
1624                }
1625            }
1626
1627            // Accumulate usage even if the run later exhausts budget.
1628            total_usage.input_tokens += out.usage.input_tokens;
1629            total_usage.output_tokens += out.usage.output_tokens;
1630            total_usage.cached_input_tokens += out.usage.cached_input_tokens;
1631            total_usage.cache_write_input_tokens += out.usage.cache_write_input_tokens;
1632            if let Some(t) = &out.text {
1633                last_text = Some(t.clone());
1634            }
1635            ctx.push_model_output(&out);
1636
1637            if self.recall.is_some() {
1638                let calls = if out.tool_calls.is_empty() {
1639                    None
1640                } else {
1641                    serde_json::to_string(&out.tool_calls).ok()
1642                };
1643                let mut m = harness_core::RecallMessage::new(
1644                    "assistant",
1645                    out.text.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
1646                    world.clock.now_ms(),
1647                );
1648                m.tool_calls = calls;
1649                self.recall_append(&recall_owner, &recall_session, m).await;
1650            }
1651
1652            if out.tool_calls.is_empty() && out.stop_reason == harness_core::StopReason::MaxTokens {
1653                // The provider cut the turn off. Whatever came out (usually
1654                // all reasoning, sometimes half an answer) is not the model
1655                // saying "done", so it must never become `Outcome::Done`.
1656                truncated_turns += 1;
1657                tracing::warn!(
1658                    truncated_turns,
1659                    max_output_tokens = ctx.policy.max_output_tokens,
1660                    "model turn hit the output token limit without a tool call"
1661                );
1662                if truncated_turns <= MAX_TRUNCATED_TURNS && iter + 1 < ctx.policy.max_iters {
1663                    ctx.history.push(Turn {
1664                        role: TurnRole::User,
1665                        blocks: vec![Block::Text(TRUNCATED_TURN_NUDGE.into())],
1666                    });
1667                    continue;
1668                }
1669                let reason = format!(
1670                    "the model hit the output token limit ({} tokens) {truncated_turns} turn(s) \
1671                     in a row without producing an answer or a tool call",
1672                    ctx.policy.max_output_tokens
1673                );
1674                self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
1675                return Ok(Outcome::Stuck {
1676                    reason,
1677                    repeated: truncated_turns,
1678                    iters: iter + 1,
1679                    last_text: out.text.filter(|t| !t.trim().is_empty()),
1680                    tools_called,
1681                    usage: total_usage,
1682                });
1683            }
1684            truncated_turns = 0;
1685
1686            if out.tool_calls.is_empty() {
1687                // The model stopping is its opinion that the work is done.
1688                // Before taking it as fact, run whatever the caller said
1689                // "done" actually means. A failure goes back as an instruction
1690                // and the loop carries on; the retry cap keeps a model that
1691                // ignores corrections from eating the budget.
1692                let mut verdict: Option<Verdict> = None;
1693                if !self.acceptance.is_empty() {
1694                    // Record this turn first — the checks read the transcript.
1695                    let mut probe = ctx.clone();
1696                    probe.history.push(Turn {
1697                        role: TurnRole::Assistant,
1698                        blocks: out
1699                            .text
1700                            .as_deref()
1701                            .filter(|t| !t.trim().is_empty())
1702                            .map(|t| vec![Block::Text(t.to_string())])
1703                            .unwrap_or_default(),
1704                    });
1705                    for check in &self.acceptance {
1706                        let v = check.check(&probe, world).await;
1707                        self.hooks.fire(
1708                            &Event::AcceptanceChecked {
1709                                name: check.name(),
1710                                passed: v.passed,
1711                                reason: &v.reason,
1712                            },
1713                            world,
1714                        );
1715                        if !v.passed {
1716                            tracing::info!(
1717                                check = check.name(),
1718                                reason = %v.reason,
1719                                "acceptance failed"
1720                            );
1721                            verdict = Some(v);
1722                            break;
1723                        }
1724                    }
1725                    // Everything passed. Say so explicitly: "checked, and it
1726                    // holds up" is a different claim from "nobody looked", and
1727                    // the host has to be able to tell them apart.
1728                    verdict = verdict.or_else(|| Some(Verdict::passed()));
1729                }
1730
1731                // A pass is only worth the contract it was measured against.
1732                // Re-read the sealed files and refuse if any moved.
1733                if !sealed_before.is_empty() && verdict.as_ref().is_some_and(|v| v.passed) {
1734                    let paths: Vec<std::path::PathBuf> =
1735                        self.acceptance.iter().flat_map(|a| a.seals()).collect();
1736                    let now = crate::seal::SealSet::capture(&world.repo.root, paths);
1737                    let breaches = sealed_before.breaches(&now);
1738                    if !breaches.is_empty() {
1739                        let what = breaches
1740                            .iter()
1741                            .map(|b| b.describe())
1742                            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
1743                            .join("; ");
1744                        tracing::error!(
1745                            breaches = %what,
1746                            "acceptance contract changed during the run — refusing the pass"
1747                        );
1748                        self.hooks
1749                            .fire(&Event::SealBreached { detail: &what }, world);
1750                        // Deliberately NOT a retry. Every other acceptance
1751                        // failure is handed back as an instruction because the
1752                        // model can act on it; this one would be handing back
1753                        // "you edited the gate", to the party that edited it,
1754                        // with the file still writable. The run is over.
1755                        seal_breached = Some(what);
1756                        verdict = Some(Verdict::failed(
1757                            "the acceptance contract was modified during this run",
1758                        ));
1759                    }
1760                }
1761
1762                if let Some(v) = verdict.clone().filter(|v| !v.passed)
1763                    && seal_breached.is_none()
1764                    && acceptance_retries_left > 0
1765                    && iter + 1 < ctx.policy.max_iters
1766                {
1767                    acceptance_retries_left -= 1;
1768                    ctx.history.push(Turn {
1769                        role: TurnRole::User,
1770                        blocks: vec![Block::Text(v.reason)],
1771                    });
1772                    continue;
1773                }
1774
1775                self.hooks.fire(&Event::TaskCompleted, world);
1776                self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
1777                self.run_learning_review(&ctx, world, tools_called).await;
1778                // Thinking models (e.g. Qwen3 via Ollama) sometimes emit the
1779                // whole answer into the reasoning channel and leave `text`
1780                // empty. Fall back to the reasoning so the turn isn't blank —
1781                // but `verified` says whether anyone agreed it was done.
1782                let text = out
1783                    .text
1784                    .filter(|t| !t.trim().is_empty())
1785                    .or_else(|| out.reasoning.filter(|r| !r.trim().is_empty()));
1786                return Ok(Outcome::Done {
1787                    text,
1788                    iters: iter + 1,
1789                    tools_called,
1790                    usage: total_usage,
1791                    verified: verdict,
1792                    contract: sealed_before.clone(),
1793                    seal_breach: seal_breached,
1794                });
1795            }
1796
1797            // Stuck detection runs *after* dispatch — see the block below the
1798            // tool loop, which needs this round's results to judge progress.
1799
1800            // Parallel-safe prefetch: dispatch the *leading run* of read-only
1801            // tool calls concurrently (a mutating tool is a serial barrier).
1802            // The sequential loop below still processes every call in order —
1803            // hooks, sensors, and history stay ordered — only the dispatch IO
1804            // overlaps. Reads before any write are safe; anything at/after the
1805            // first mutating call runs on the normal path.
1806            // Digest of what each tool handed back this round, for the stuck
1807            // check below. Digests rather than the payloads: results are
1808            // already capped, but a per-round copy of every one of them is
1809            // still a cost the detector does not need to pay.
1810            let mut round_results: Vec<u64> = Vec::new();
1811
1812            let mut prefetched: HashMap<String, Dispatched> = HashMap::new();
1813            {
1814                let lead: Vec<&_> = out
1815                    .tool_calls
1816                    .iter()
1817                    .take_while(|c| {
1818                        self.tools.risk(&c.name) == Some(harness_core::ToolRisk::ReadOnly)
1819                    })
1820                    .collect();
1821                if lead.len() > 1 {
1822                    let futs = lead.iter().map(|c| {
1823                        let mut w = world.clone();
1824                        let action = Action {
1825                            tool: c.name.clone(),
1826                            call_id: c.id.clone(),
1827                            args: c.args.clone(),
1828                        };
1829                        async move {
1830                            let r = self.dispatch_bounded(&action, &mut w).await;
1831                            (action.call_id, r)
1832                        }
1833                    });
1834                    let results = tokio::select! {
1835                        biased;
1836                        _ = self.cancel.cancelled() => Vec::new(),
1837                        rs = futures::future::join_all(futs) => rs,
1838                    };
1839                    for (id, r) in results {
1840                        prefetched.insert(id, r);
1841                    }
1842                }
1843            }
1844
1845            for call in &out.tool_calls {
1846                let action = Action {
1847                    tool: call.name.clone(),
1848                    call_id: call.id.clone(),
1849                    args: call.args.clone(),
1850                };
1851
1852                // PreToolUse hook can deny destructive actions
1853                if let HookOutcome::Deny { reason } = self
1854                    .hooks
1855                    .fire(&Event::PreToolUse { action: &action }, world)
1856                {
1857                    ctx.history.push(Turn {
1858                        role: TurnRole::Tool,
1859                        blocks: vec![Block::ToolResult {
1860                            call_id: action.call_id.clone(),
1861                            content: serde_json::json!({
1862                                "ok": false,
1863                                "denied_by_hook": reason,
1864                            }),
1865                        }],
1866                    });
1867                    if self.recall.is_some() {
1868                        self.recall_append(
1869                            &recall_owner,
1870                            &recall_session,
1871                            harness_core::RecallMessage::new(
1872                                "tool",
1873                                format!("[denied by hook] {reason}"),
1874                                world.clock.now_ms(),
1875                            )
1876                            .with_tool_name(action.tool.clone()),
1877                        )
1878                        .await;
1879                    }
1880                    continue;
1881                }
1882
1883                // Use the concurrently-prefetched result if we have one;
1884                // otherwise dispatch now.
1885                let Dispatched {
1886                    result,
1887                    started_ms,
1888                    finished_ms,
1889                } = if let Some(r) = prefetched.remove(&action.call_id) {
1890                    r
1891                } else {
1892                    self.dispatch_bounded(&action, world).await
1893                };
1894                tools_called += 1;
1895
1896                if self.cancel.is_cancelled() {
1897                    tracing::info!(iter, "run cancelled during tool dispatch");
1898                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::Cancelled, world);
1899                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
1900                    return Ok(Outcome::Cancelled {
1901                        iters: iter + 1,
1902                        last_text,
1903                        tools_called,
1904                        usage: total_usage,
1905                    });
1906                }
1907
1908                // Decide the final payload *before* announcing the result, so
1909                // hooks, telemetry and the context all describe the same thing:
1910                // an audit that logs a 200 KB blob the model never saw is not an
1911                // audit of what happened.
1912                let result = ToolResult {
1913                    content: self.shape_result(&action, &result, &mut answered, &world.repo.root),
1914                    ..result
1915                };
1916                self.hooks.fire(
1917                    &Event::ToolTimed {
1918                        action: &action,
1919                        started_ms,
1920                        finished_ms,
1921                    },
1922                    world,
1923                );
1924                self.hooks.fire(
1925                    &Event::PostToolUse {
1926                        action: &action,
1927                        result: &result,
1928                    },
1929                    world,
1930                );
1931
1932                round_results.push(result_digest(&action.tool, &result.content));
1933
1934                ctx.history.push(Turn {
1935                    role: TurnRole::Tool,
1936                    blocks: vec![Block::ToolResult {
1937                        call_id: action.call_id.clone(),
1938                        content: result.content.clone(),
1939                    }],
1940                });
1941
1942                if self.recall.is_some() {
1943                    let body = serde_json::to_string(&result.content).unwrap_or_default();
1944                    self.recall_append(
1945                        &recall_owner,
1946                        &recall_session,
1947                        harness_core::RecallMessage::new("tool", body, world.clock.now_ms())
1948                            .with_tool_name(action.tool.clone()),
1949                    )
1950                    .await;
1951                }
1952
1953                // run self-correct sensors
1954                let mut all_signals = Vec::new();
1955                for s in &self.sensors {
1956                    if s.stage() != Stage::SelfCorrect {
1957                        continue;
1958                    }
1959                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreSensor { sensor: s.id() }, world);
1960                    let sigs = s.observe(&action, world).await.unwrap_or_else(|e| {
1961                        tracing::warn!(?e, "sensor failed");
1962                        Vec::new()
1963                    });
1964                    self.hooks.fire(
1965                        &Event::PostSensor {
1966                            sensor: s.id(),
1967                            signals: &sigs,
1968                        },
1969                        world,
1970                    );
1971                    all_signals.extend(sigs);
1972                }
1973                if !all_signals.is_empty() {
1974                    let bundle = SignalSet::new(all_signals);
1975                    let (patches, remaining) = bundle.partition_auto_fix();
1976
1977                    // audit #7: each patch goes through PreAutoFix.
1978                    // Hooks can Deny (skip silently). Default safelist on
1979                    // RunCommand catches the obvious misuses with no hook.
1980                    let approved: Vec<harness_core::FixPatch> = patches.into_iter().filter(|p| {
1981                        if !is_default_safe_fix(p) {
1982                            tracing::warn!(?p, "auto-fix rejected by default safelist (use PreAutoFix hook to override)");
1983                            self.hooks.fire(&Event::PostAutoFix { patch: p, applied: false }, world);
1984                            return false;
1985                        }
1986                        match self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreAutoFix { patch: p }, world) {
1987                            HookOutcome::Deny { reason } => {
1988                                tracing::warn!(?p, %reason, "auto-fix denied by hook");
1989                                self.hooks.fire(&Event::PostAutoFix { patch: p, applied: false }, world);
1990                                false
1991                            }
1992                            _ => true,
1993                        }
1994                    }).collect();
1995
1996                    let applied = apply_patches(&approved, world).await;
1997                    // Emit PostAutoFix for each approved patch with the application result.
1998                    for (i, p) in approved.iter().enumerate() {
1999                        self.hooks.fire(
2000                            &Event::PostAutoFix {
2001                                patch: p,
2002                                applied: i < applied.len(),
2003                            },
2004                            world,
2005                        );
2006                    }
2007                    if !applied.is_empty() {
2008                        ctx.push_feedback(vec![harness_core::Signal {
2009                            severity: harness_core::Severity::Hint,
2010                            origin: "auto-fix".into(),
2011                            message: format!(
2012                                "applied {} auto-fix patch(es): {applied:?}",
2013                                applied.len()
2014                            ),
2015                            agent_hint: Some(
2016                                "re-check the affected files before continuing".into(),
2017                            ),
2018                            auto_fix: None,
2019                            location: None,
2020                        }]);
2021                    }
2022                    if remaining.has_blocking() {
2023                        ctx.push_feedback(remaining.signals);
2024                    }
2025                }
2026            }
2027
2028            // ── stuck detection ─────────────────────────────────────────
2029            // A round repeats when the request AND what came back were both
2030            // identical. The same call whose *result moved* is the model
2031            // watching something progress — polling a build, a background
2032            // job, a queue — not spinning, which is why this runs after
2033            // dispatch: before it, this round's results do not exist yet and
2034            // the check could only compare the request. Judging on the
2035            // request alone aborted runs that were making progress, and a
2036            // long unattended task is mostly made of such waits.
2037            //
2038            // A poll whose result never changes still counts, and still
2039            // aborts: burning model calls on a thing that is not moving is
2040            // exactly what this guard is for. What bounds a *legitimate*
2041            // long wait is `max_iters`, not this.
2042            if self.stuck.enabled {
2043                let fp = format!(
2044                    "{}#{}",
2045                    tool_call_fingerprint(&out.tool_calls),
2046                    round_results
2047                        .iter()
2048                        .map(u64::to_string)
2049                        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
2050                        .join(",")
2051                );
2052                if last_fingerprint.as_ref() == Some(&fp) {
2053                    repeat_count += 1;
2054                } else {
2055                    repeat_count = 1;
2056                    last_fingerprint = Some(fp);
2057                }
2058
2059                if repeat_count >= self.stuck.abort_after {
2060                    let reason = format!(
2061                        "repeated the same tool call {repeat_count}× with an unchanging result"
2062                    );
2063                    tracing::warn!(repeated = repeat_count, "stuck: aborting run");
2064                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
2065                    return Ok(Outcome::Stuck {
2066                        reason,
2067                        repeated: repeat_count,
2068                        iters: iter + 1,
2069                        last_text,
2070                        tools_called,
2071                        usage: total_usage,
2072                    });
2073                }
2074
2075                if repeat_count == self.stuck.nudge_after {
2076                    tracing::warn!(
2077                        repeated = repeat_count,
2078                        "stuck: nudging model to change approach"
2079                    );
2080                    ctx.push_feedback(vec![harness_core::Signal {
2081                        severity: harness_core::Severity::Warn,
2082                        origin: "stuck-detector".into(),
2083                        message: format!(
2084                            "You have issued the same tool call {repeat_count} rounds in a row \
2085                             and the result has not changed."
2086                        ),
2087                        agent_hint: Some(
2088                            "Stop repeating it. Inspect the actual tool result/error, try a \
2089                             different approach, or give your final answer with no tool call. \
2090                             If you are waiting on something, wait inside one call rather than \
2091                             polling in a tight loop."
2092                                .into(),
2093                        ),
2094                        auto_fix: None,
2095                        location: None,
2096                    }]);
2097                }
2098            }
2099
2100            // ── monotony detection ──────────────────────────────────────
2101            // The second signal, and deliberately not part of the block above:
2102            // that one asks "did this round repeat?", this one asks "has the
2103            // model been working a single tool and nothing else?". A guessing
2104            // spiral answers no to the first and yes to the second, which is
2105            // why the byte-identical policy stays exactly as strict as it is.
2106            //
2107            // Off unless the host asked for it — see `MonotonyPolicy` for why
2108            // no threshold is safe by default. Independent of `stuck.enabled`,
2109            // so a host can run either, both, or neither.
2110            if self.monotony.enabled {
2111                match sole_tool(&out.tool_calls) {
2112                    // Same single tool as last round: the run continues.
2113                    Some(name) if monotone_tool.as_deref() == Some(name) => monotone_rounds += 1,
2114                    // A different single tool: a new run of one.
2115                    Some(name) => {
2116                        monotone_tool = Some(name.to_string());
2117                        monotone_rounds = 1;
2118                    }
2119                    // A mixed round. Reaching for a second tool is movement,
2120                    // and movement is what this detector is looking for.
2121                    None => {
2122                        monotone_tool = None;
2123                        monotone_rounds = 0;
2124                    }
2125                }
2126
2127                if monotone_rounds >= self.monotony.abort_after {
2128                    let name = monotone_tool.clone().unwrap_or_default();
2129                    let reason = format!(
2130                        "called `{name}` for {monotone_rounds} consecutive rounds \
2131                         without using any other tool"
2132                    );
2133                    tracing::warn!(tool = %name, rounds = monotone_rounds, "monotony: aborting run");
2134
2135                    // Force the final answer before returning. A model caught
2136                    // here is by definition one that will not stop calling
2137                    // tools on its own, so terminating it without asking for
2138                    // text hands the caller the same empty partial answer the
2139                    // detector exists to prevent — earlier, and therefore
2140                    // worse. Stripping the tools and asking once is the exit
2141                    // the model could not find; it costs one model call and no
2142                    // prompt bytes at all. (The budget-exhausted path has done
2143                    // this since it existed; this is the same exit, reached
2144                    // sooner.)
2145                    match self
2146                        .force_final_synthesis(
2147                            &mut ctx,
2148                            world,
2149                            &mut total_usage,
2150                            MONOTONY_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT,
2151                        )
2152                        .await
2153                    {
2154                        Synthesis::Text(Some(t)) => last_text = Some(t),
2155                        Synthesis::Text(None) => {}
2156                        // Stop means stop: the synthesis is a model call like
2157                        // any other, and the run owes the caller a `Cancelled`
2158                        // rather than the `Stuck` it was on its way to.
2159                        Synthesis::Cancelled => {
2160                            tracing::info!(iter, "run cancelled during final synthesis");
2161                            self.hooks.fire(&Event::Cancelled, world);
2162                            self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
2163                            return Ok(Outcome::Cancelled {
2164                                iters: iter + 1,
2165                                last_text,
2166                                tools_called,
2167                                usage: total_usage,
2168                            });
2169                        }
2170                    }
2171
2172                    self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
2173                    return Ok(Outcome::Stuck {
2174                        reason,
2175                        repeated: monotone_rounds,
2176                        iters: iter + 1,
2177                        last_text,
2178                        tools_called,
2179                        usage: total_usage,
2180                    });
2181                }
2182
2183                if monotone_rounds == self.monotony.nudge_after {
2184                    let name = monotone_tool.clone().unwrap_or_default();
2185                    tracing::warn!(
2186                        tool = %name,
2187                        rounds = monotone_rounds,
2188                        "monotony: nudging model to change approach"
2189                    );
2190                    ctx.push_feedback(vec![harness_core::Signal {
2191                        severity: harness_core::Severity::Warn,
2192                        origin: "monotony-detector".into(),
2193                        message: format!(
2194                            "You have called `{name}` for {monotone_rounds} rounds in a row \
2195                             and used no other tool. A different argument each time is not \
2196                             the same thing as making progress."
2197                        ),
2198                        agent_hint: Some(
2199                            "If you are guessing at arguments to see which one lands, stop: \
2200                             report what you did find and say plainly what you could not \
2201                             determine. Otherwise reach for a different tool, or give your \
2202                             final answer with no tool call."
2203                                .into(),
2204                        ),
2205                        auto_fix: None,
2206                        location: None,
2207                    }]);
2208                }
2209            }
2210        }
2211        // ── Budget exhausted ─────────────────────────────────────────
2212        // Force a final synthesis pass with tools DISABLED. Otherwise the
2213        // model often spins on tool calls right up to the budget cap and
2214        // never emits a text conclusion, leaving the caller with nothing
2215        // but `last_text` from some earlier intermediate turn (or None).
2216        //
2217        // The synthesis call is "free" — it costs one extra model call
2218        // beyond max_iters but doesn't count toward `iters`. The result
2219        // lands in `last_text` so callers display it as the answer.
2220        //
2221        // Signal to any observer (LiveProgressHook, SessionRecorder, custom
2222        // hooks) that we've used 100% of the budget and are about to force
2223        // synthesis. Pre-existing `BudgetWarning` event was unused; this is
2224        // its natural home.
2225        self.hooks.fire(&Event::BudgetWarning { ratio: 1.0 }, world);
2226        match self
2227            .force_final_synthesis(&mut ctx, world, &mut total_usage, BUDGET_SYNTHESIS_PROMPT)
2228            .await
2229        {
2230            Synthesis::Text(Some(t)) => last_text = Some(t),
2231            Synthesis::Text(None) => {}
2232            // A cancel that lands here has to win: this is the last model call
2233            // of the run, and it is made after the loop's last cancel check.
2234            // No learning review either — it is one more model call, and the
2235            // other cancel exits all skip it.
2236            Synthesis::Cancelled => {
2237                tracing::info!(iter = iters_done, "run cancelled during final synthesis");
2238                self.hooks.fire(&Event::Cancelled, world);
2239                self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
2240                return Ok(Outcome::Cancelled {
2241                    iters: iters_done,
2242                    last_text,
2243                    tools_called,
2244                    usage: total_usage,
2245                });
2246            }
2247        }
2248
2249        self.hooks.fire(&Event::SessionEnd, world);
2250        self.run_learning_review(&ctx, world, tools_called).await;
2251        Ok(Outcome::BudgetExhausted {
2252            iters: iters_done,
2253            last_text,
2254            tools_called,
2255            usage: total_usage,
2256            deadline_reached,
2257        })
2258    }
2259
2260    /// One model call, racing the run's cancellation token.
2261    ///
2262    /// `None` means the token fired first. Dropping the un-awaited future is
2263    /// what cancels the underlying HTTP request (reqwest aborts on drop) or
2264    /// the SSE stream, so the model stops generating rather than finishing
2265    /// into a void. `biased` so a token already cancelled wins a tie.
2266    ///
2267    /// `partial` collects streamed text so a cancel can hand it to the outcome.
2268    async fn model_step(
2269        &self,
2270        ctx: &Context,
2271        world: &mut World,
2272        partial: &mut String,
2273        iter: u32,
2274    ) -> Result<Option<ModelOutput>, HarnessError> {
2275        let info = self.model.info();
2276        let span = chat_span(&info);
2277        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
2278        let r = async {
2279            tokio::select! {
2280                biased;
2281                _ = self.cancel.cancelled() => Ok(None),
2282                r = self.model_call(ctx, world, partial, iter) => r.map(Some),
2283            }
2284        }
2285        .instrument(span.clone())
2286        .await;
2287        let end = match &r {
2288            Ok(Some(out)) => Some(Ok(out)),
2289            Ok(None) => None,
2290            Err(e) => Some(Err(e.to_string())),
2291        };
2292        finish_chat(&span, &info, started, end);
2293        r
2294    }
2295
2296    /// One model request: streamed unless the loop was opted out with
2297    /// `with_streaming(false)`.
2298    async fn model_call(
2299        &self,
2300        ctx: &Context,
2301        world: &mut World,
2302        partial: &mut String,
2303        iter: u32,
2304    ) -> Result<ModelOutput, HarnessError> {
2305        if self.streaming {
2306            self.complete_via_stream(ctx, world, partial, iter).await
2307        } else {
2308            self.model
2309                .complete(ctx)
2310                .await
2311                .map_err(harness_core::HarnessError::Model)
2312        }
2313    }
2314
2315    /// Drive `Model::stream()` and assemble the result into a `ModelOutput`,
2316    /// firing `Event::ModelTokenDelta` for each text fragment along the way.
2317    ///
2318    /// Adapters without a real `stream()` fall back to the default trait impl,
2319    /// which runs `complete()` and emits the whole reply as a single delta, so
2320    /// streaming is safe regardless of which provider the user picked. The
2321    /// assembly itself is [`harness_core::collect_stream_observed`], shared
2322    /// with the adapters' own `complete()`.
2323    ///
2324    /// While the stream runs, a `model_progress` custom event fires about every
2325    /// 5s and a `Heartbeat` about every 30s, both driven by arriving deltas.
2326    ///
2327    /// `sink` is where the text accumulates, owned by the caller so that a
2328    /// cancel — which drops this future mid-stream — does not drop the chunks
2329    /// already delivered along with it. A completed stream leaves it empty.
2330    ///
2331    /// Tool-call deltas need no such rescue: they fire no hook, and no dispatch
2332    /// happens until after the output is pushed, so a cancel mid-tool-call
2333    /// loses nothing anyone observed.
2334    async fn complete_via_stream(
2335        &self,
2336        ctx: &Context,
2337        world: &mut World,
2338        sink: &mut String,
2339        iter: u32,
2340    ) -> Result<ModelOutput, HarnessError> {
2341        let stream = self
2342            .model
2343            .stream(ctx)
2344            .await
2345            .map_err(harness_core::HarnessError::Model)?;
2346        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
2347        let mut last_progress = started;
2348        let mut last_heartbeat = started;
2349        let (mut chars, mut deltas) = (0usize, 0usize);
2350        let hooks = &self.hooks;
2351        let out = harness_core::collect_stream_observed(stream, |delta| {
2352            deltas += 1;
2353            match delta {
2354                ModelDelta::Text(t) if !t.is_empty() => {
2355                    chars += t.chars().count();
2356                    hooks.fire(&Event::ModelTokenDelta { text: t }, world);
2357                    sink.push_str(t);
2358                }
2359                ModelDelta::Reasoning(t) => chars += t.chars().count(),
2360                ModelDelta::ToolCallArgs { partial_json, .. } => {
2361                    chars += partial_json.chars().count()
2362                }
2363                _ => {}
2364            }
2365            // Driven by arriving deltas, so a heartbeat means "bytes are
2366            // still flowing", and its absence in a trace means stuck.
2367            let now = std::time::Instant::now();
2368            if now.duration_since(last_heartbeat) >= MODEL_HEARTBEAT_EVERY {
2369                last_heartbeat = now;
2370                hooks.fire(&Event::Heartbeat { iter }, world);
2371            }
2372            if now.duration_since(last_progress) >= MODEL_PROGRESS_EVERY {
2373                last_progress = now;
2374                let elapsed = now.duration_since(started).as_secs_f64();
2375                let data = serde_json::json!({
2376                    "elapsed_s": elapsed,
2377                    "chars": chars,
2378                    "deltas": deltas,
2379                    "chars_per_s": if elapsed > 0.0 { chars as f64 / elapsed } else { 0.0 },
2380                });
2381                hooks.fire(
2382                    &Event::Custom {
2383                        name: "model_progress",
2384                        data: &data,
2385                    },
2386                    world,
2387                );
2388            }
2389        })
2390        .await
2391        .map_err(harness_core::HarnessError::Model)?;
2392        // Completed: the output now owns the text; only a cancel needs the sink.
2393        sink.clear();
2394        Ok(out)
2395    }
2396
2397    /// One tool call, under the per-call deadline and the run's cancellation
2398    /// token. A timeout becomes an error *result* — the model sees it and routes
2399    /// around it — never a hung run. A cancel drops the tool's future unpolled
2400    /// and returns a result the loop discards before it reaches history, so the
2401    /// model never sees that one at all. Errors are folded the same way: the
2402    /// loop's contract is that a tool call always produces a result turn.
2403    ///
2404    /// Dropping the future stops *this* side of the work. What it stops on the
2405    /// other side depends on the tool: an HTTP request aborts, a `spawn_blocking`
2406    /// file write runs to completion, and a child process is only killed if its
2407    /// runner asked for `kill_on_drop`.
2408    ///
2409    /// Runs in an `execute_tool` span, so parallel calls show up as overlapping
2410    /// bars in a trace and a failed one is marked as an error.
2411    async fn dispatch_bounded(&self, action: &Action, world: &mut World) -> Dispatched {
2412        let span = tracing::info_span!(
2413            target: "harness.telemetry",
2414            "execute_tool",
2415            "otel.name" = %format!("execute_tool {}", action.tool),
2416            "otel.status_code" = Empty,
2417            "otel.status_message" = Empty,
2418            "gen_ai.operation.name" = "execute_tool",
2419            "gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool,
2420            "gen_ai.tool.call.id" = %action.call_id,
2421            ok = Empty,
2422        );
2423        let clock = world.clock.clone();
2424        let started_ms = clock.now_ms();
2425        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
2426        let r = self
2427            .dispatch_bounded_in_span(action, world)
2428            .instrument(span.clone())
2429            .await;
2430        let finished_ms = clock.now_ms();
2431        meters::tool_call(&action.tool, r.ok, started.elapsed());
2432        span.record("ok", r.ok);
2433        if !r.ok {
2434            span.record("otel.status_code", "error");
2435            if let Some(msg) = r.content.get("error").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) {
2436                span.record("otel.status_message", msg);
2437            }
2438        }
2439        Dispatched {
2440            result: r,
2441            started_ms,
2442            finished_ms,
2443        }
2444    }
2445
2446    async fn dispatch_bounded_in_span(&self, action: &Action, world: &mut World) -> ToolResult {
2447        let fut = self.tools.dispatch(action, world);
2448        let bounded = async {
2449            match self.tool_timeout {
2450                Some(deadline) => match tokio::time::timeout(deadline, fut).await {
2451                    Ok(r) => r,
2452                    Err(_) => {
2453                        tracing::warn!(
2454                            target: "harness.telemetry",
2455                            event = "tool.deadline",
2456                            "gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool,
2457                            seconds = deadline.as_secs(),
2458                        );
2459                        Ok(ToolResult {
2460                            ok: false,
2461                            content: serde_json::json!({
2462                                "error": format!(
2463                                    "tool call exceeded its {}s deadline and was cancelled; \
2464                                     the operation may be too broad — narrow it or try a \
2465                                     different approach",
2466                                    deadline.as_secs()
2467                                ),
2468                                "timeout": true,
2469                            }),
2470                            trace: None,
2471                        })
2472                    }
2473                },
2474                None => fut.await,
2475            }
2476        };
2477        // `biased` so that a token already cancelled wins even when the tool
2478        // future is also ready — the caller said stop, and a result produced
2479        // after that would be work the run is about to throw away anyway.
2480        let dispatched = tokio::select! {
2481            biased;
2482            _ = self.cancel.cancelled() => {
2483                tracing::info!("gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool, "tool call dropped: run cancelled");
2484                return ToolResult {
2485                    ok: false,
2486                    content: serde_json::json!({"error": "run cancelled", "cancelled": true}),
2487                    trace: None,
2488                };
2489            }
2490            r = bounded => r,
2491        };
2492        dispatched.unwrap_or_else(|e| ToolResult {
2493            ok: false,
2494            content: serde_json::json!({"error": e.to_string()}),
2495            trace: None,
2496        })
2497    }
2498
2499    /// What a tool result contributes to the context: repeat suppression first,
2500    /// then the size ceiling. A repeat that is also oversized collapses to the
2501    /// pointer rather than to a truncated copy of what the model already holds.
2502    fn shape_result(
2503        &self,
2504        action: &Action,
2505        result: &ToolResult,
2506        answered: &mut std::collections::HashSet<String>,
2507        root: &std::path::Path,
2508    ) -> serde_json::Value {
2509        if !(self.tool_results.dedupe_repeats && result.ok) {
2510            return self.cap_result(action, &result.content, root);
2511        }
2512        match self.tools.risk(&action.tool) {
2513            Some(harness_core::ToolRisk::ReadOnly) => {
2514                let fp = format!("{}({})", action.tool, action.args);
2515                if answered.contains(&fp) {
2516                    tracing::info!(
2517                        target: "harness.telemetry",
2518                        event = "tool.result.repeat",
2519                        "gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool,
2520                    );
2521                    serde_json::json!({
2522                        "repeat_of_earlier_call": true,
2523                        "tool": action.tool,
2524                        "note": "You already made this exact call in this run and nothing has \
2525                                 changed the workspace since. The earlier result above still \
2526                                 stands — use it rather than asking again.",
2527                    })
2528                } else {
2529                    answered.insert(fp);
2530                    self.cap_result(action, &result.content, root)
2531                }
2532            }
2533            // A write invalidates every earlier read.
2534            _ => {
2535                answered.clear();
2536                self.cap_result(action, &result.content, root)
2537            }
2538        }
2539    }
2540
2541    /// Enforce [`ToolResultPolicy`] on one result before it reaches the context.
2542    ///
2543    /// Over the ceiling, the guard prefers to *spill*: full payload to a file
2544    /// inside the workspace, bounded preview plus the path inline — nothing is
2545    /// lost, and the model retrieves slices with the file tools it already has.
2546    /// Only when spilling is off (or the write fails) does it fall back to
2547    /// destructive truncation: a byte-level cut handed back as a marker object
2548    /// rather than mangled JSON, saying how much was dropped and what to do
2549    /// instead.
2550    fn cap_result(
2551        &self,
2552        action: &Action,
2553        content: &serde_json::Value,
2554        root: &std::path::Path,
2555    ) -> serde_json::Value {
2556        let Some(max) = self.tool_results.max_bytes else {
2557            return content.clone();
2558        };
2559        let serialized = content.to_string();
2560        if serialized.len() <= max {
2561            return content.clone();
2562        }
2563        if self.tool_results.spill
2564            && let Some(marker) = spill_oversized(action, content, &serialized, root)
2565        {
2566            return marker;
2567        }
2568        // Cut on a char boundary so the kept head is valid UTF-8.
2569        let mut end = max;
2570        while end > 0 && !serialized.is_char_boundary(end) {
2571            end -= 1;
2572        }
2573        tracing::warn!(
2574            target: "harness.telemetry",
2575            event = "tool.result.truncated",
2576            "gen_ai.tool.name" = %action.tool,
2577            bytes = serialized.len(),
2578            max_bytes = max,
2579        );
2580        serde_json::json!({
2581            "truncated": true,
2582            "tool": action.tool,
2583            "bytes_total": serialized.len(),
2584            "bytes_kept": end,
2585            "head": serialized[..end],
2586            "note": format!(
2587                "This result was {} bytes and was cut to {} to protect the context window. \
2588                 Do not ask for it again unchanged — narrow it: request a smaller range, \
2589                 a filter, or a specific field.",
2590                serialized.len(), end
2591            ),
2592        })
2593    }
2594
2595    async fn recall_append(&self, owner: &str, session: &str, msg: harness_core::RecallMessage) {
2596        if let Some(store) = &self.recall
2597            && let Err(e) = store.append(owner, session, &msg).await
2598        {
2599            tracing::warn!(error = %e, "recall append failed");
2600        }
2601    }
2602
2603    /// Best-effort post-session review. Never affects the finished run.
2604    async fn run_learning_review(&self, ctx: &Context, world: &mut World, tools_called: u32) {
2605        let Some(cfg) = &self.learning else { return };
2606        if tools_called < cfg.nudge_interval {
2607            return;
2608        }
2609        let transcript = crate::render_transcript(&ctx.history, 12_000);
2610        let task = harness_core::Task {
2611            description: format!(
2612                "{}\n\n## Conversation transcript\n{}",
2613                cfg.review_prompt, transcript
2614            ),
2615            source: None,
2616            deadline: None,
2617        };
2618        let mut spec =
2619            crate::SubagentSpec::new("learning-review", task).with_max_iters(cfg.max_iters);
2620        for t in &cfg.tools {
2621            spec = spec.with_tool(t.clone());
2622        }
2623        let sub = crate::Subagent::new(harness_core::DynModel(cfg.review_model.clone()), spec);
2624        // Box::pin breaks the recursive async-future cycle: AgentLoop<M> →
2625        // run_learning_review → Subagent<DynModel>::run →
2626        // AgentLoop<Arc<dyn Model>>::run_built_context. Without pinning the
2627        // compiler rejects the infinite-sized future.
2628        if let Err(e) = Box::pin(sub.run(world)).await {
2629            tracing::warn!(error = %e, "learning review failed");
2630        }
2631    }
2632
2633    /// One final model call with tools removed, asking it to write the
2634    /// best-effort conclusion from whatever it has already gathered.
2635    ///
2636    /// Errors from the model are swallowed — observability is best-effort
2637    /// here, and a transport blip during synthesis should not turn a
2638    /// near-complete run into a hard failure.
2639    ///
2640    /// The call is raced against the run's cancellation token like every
2641    /// other model call: a cancel before or during it produces no text,
2642    /// leaves the context as it was, and is reported as
2643    /// [`Synthesis::Cancelled`] so the caller can return `Outcome::Cancelled`
2644    /// instead of pretending the run ended on its own terms.
2645    ///
2646    /// `prompt` says *why* the loop stopped granting tool calls. Budget
2647    /// exhaustion is not the only way a run can end with the model still
2648    /// reaching for tools — a detected loop is another — and the model writes a
2649    /// better final answer when it is told which one happened.
2650    async fn force_final_synthesis(
2651        &self,
2652        ctx: &mut Context,
2653        world: &mut World,
2654        total_usage: &mut harness_core::Usage,
2655        prompt: &str,
2656    ) -> Synthesis {
2657        // Snapshot + clear tool schemas so the model has no choice but text.
2658        let saved_tools = std::mem::take(&mut ctx.tools);
2659        ctx.history.push(Turn {
2660            role: TurnRole::User,
2661            blocks: vec![Block::Text(prompt.into())],
2662        });
2663
2664        self.hooks.fire(&Event::PreModel { ctx }, world);
2665        // `biased` with the token first means an already-cancelled token wins
2666        // the race outright, so no separate `is_cancelled()` pre-check is
2667        // needed here — the select is the check.
2668        let info = self.model.info();
2669        let span = chat_span(&info);
2670        let started = std::time::Instant::now();
2671        let mut partial = String::new();
2672        let iter = ctx.policy.max_iters;
2673        let result = tokio::select! {
2674            biased;
2675            _ = self.cancel.cancelled() => None,
2676            r = self
2677                .model_call(ctx, world, &mut partial, iter)
2678                .instrument(span.clone()) => Some(r),
2679        };
2680        finish_chat(
2681            &span,
2682            &info,
2683            started,
2684            result
2685                .as_ref()
2686                .map(|r| r.as_ref().map_err(|e| e.to_string())),
2687        );
2688        ctx.tools = saved_tools;
2689
2690        let Some(result) = result else {
2691            // Drop the synthesis prompt pushed above. Nothing answered it, and
2692            // leaving it would hand the next reader of this context a dangling
2693            // user turn.
2694            ctx.history.pop();
2695            return Synthesis::Cancelled;
2696        };
2697
2698        match result {
2699            Ok(out) => {
2700                self.hooks.fire(&Event::PostModel { out: &out }, world);
2701                total_usage.input_tokens += out.usage.input_tokens;
2702                total_usage.output_tokens += out.usage.output_tokens;
2703                total_usage.cached_input_tokens += out.usage.cached_input_tokens;
2704                total_usage.cache_write_input_tokens += out.usage.cache_write_input_tokens;
2705                ctx.push_model_output(&out);
2706                Synthesis::Text(out.text)
2707            }
2708            Err(_) => Synthesis::Text(None),
2709        }
2710    }
2711}
2712
2713/// What the forced final synthesis produced.
2714enum Synthesis {
2715    /// The model answered (or errored — errors are swallowed, see the fn doc).
2716    Text(Option<String>),
2717    /// The run's token fired before or during the call; no text was produced
2718    /// and nothing was pushed to the context.
2719    Cancelled,
2720}
2721
2722/// A persistent multi-turn conversation over one [`AgentLoop`].
2723///
2724/// Holds the append-only history and, on each [`turn`](Session::turn), re-runs
2725/// the loop against a **stable prefix** (system + name-sorted tool schemas).
2726/// That byte-stable prefix is what lets a provider's prefix cache hit across
2727/// turns — the difference between paying full price to re-read the same context
2728/// every round and paying ~10% for the cached bytes (DeepSeek).
2729pub struct Session<'a, M: Model> {
2730    loop_: &'a AgentLoop<M>,
2731    history: Vec<Turn>,
2732    max_iters: u32,
2733}
2734
2735impl<'a, M: Model> Session<'a, M> {
2736    pub fn with_max_iters(mut self, n: u32) -> Self {
2737        self.max_iters = n;
2738        self
2739    }
2740    /// Preload prior turns (e.g. resumed from disk).
2741    pub fn with_seed(mut self, seed: Vec<Turn>) -> Self {
2742        self.history = seed;
2743        self
2744    }
2745    /// The accumulated conversation so far.
2746    pub fn history(&self) -> &[Turn] {
2747        &self.history
2748    }
2749    /// Start over (branch): drop the accumulated turns.
2750    pub fn reset(&mut self) {
2751        self.history.clear();
2752    }
2753
2754    /// Send one user message. Runs the ReAct loop against the accumulated
2755    /// history, then appends this user turn + the assistant reply so the next
2756    /// turn extends the same cached prefix.
2757    pub async fn turn(
2758        &mut self,
2759        message: impl Into<String>,
2760        world: &mut World,
2761    ) -> Result<Outcome, HarnessError> {
2762        let message = message.into();
2763        let task = Task {
2764            description: message.clone(),
2765            source: None,
2766            deadline: None,
2767        };
2768        let outcome = self
2769            .loop_
2770            .run_with_seed_history(task, self.history.clone(), world, self.max_iters)
2771            .await?;
2772        let reply = match &outcome {
2773            Outcome::Done { text, .. } => text.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
2774            Outcome::BudgetExhausted { last_text, .. }
2775            | Outcome::Stuck { last_text, .. }
2776            | Outcome::Cancelled { last_text, .. } => last_text.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
2777        };
2778        self.history.push(Turn {
2779            role: TurnRole::User,
2780            blocks: vec![Block::Text(message)],
2781        });
2782        self.history.push(Turn {
2783            role: TurnRole::Assistant,
2784            blocks: vec![Block::Text(reply)],
2785        });
2786        Ok(outcome)
2787    }
2788}
2789
2790/// Audit #7: default safelist for `FixPatch::RunCommand`.
2791///
2792/// Sensors emitting `RunCommand` patches would otherwise be a silent
2793/// arbitrary-code-execution channel. We restrict the *program* by name to a
2794/// short list of well-known, side-effect-bounded formatters/fixers. Anything
2795/// else returns false and the patch is rejected (write your own `PreAutoFix`
2796/// hook returning `HookOutcome::Allow` to widen the policy).
2797///
2798/// `ReplaceFile` and `UnifiedDiff` are not restricted here — they only touch
2799/// files inside the workspace and are covered by the symlink-safe path
2800/// resolution in `harness-tools-fs`.
2801pub fn is_default_safe_fix(patch: &harness_core::FixPatch) -> bool {
2802    use harness_core::FixPatch;
2803    match patch {
2804        FixPatch::ReplaceFile { .. } | FixPatch::UnifiedDiff { .. } => true,
2805        FixPatch::RunCommand { program, args, .. } => match program.as_str() {
2806            // Cargo subcommands proven side-effect-bounded.
2807            "cargo" => matches!(
2808                args.first().map(String::as_str),
2809                Some("fmt" | "clippy" | "fix"),
2810            ),
2811            "rustfmt" | "gofmt" | "prettier" | "ruff" | "black" => true,
2812            _ => false,
2813        },
2814        // Future FixPatch variants: deny by default — review and add to the list above.
2815        _ => false,
2816    }
2817}
2818
2819/// Monotonic counter for `.harness-patch-*.diff` temp filenames — millisecond
2820/// resolution alone collides under parallel agent runs.
2821static PATCH_SEQ: std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64 = std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64::new(0);
2822
2823/// Monotonic counter for fallback recall session ids (no `uuid` dep).
2824static RECALL_SEQ: std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64 = std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64::new(0);
2825
2826/// Apply auto-fix patches; return short descriptions of those that succeeded.
2827///
2828/// Made `pub` (was `pub(crate)`) so integration tests can call it directly.
2829pub async fn apply_patches(patches: &[harness_core::FixPatch], world: &mut World) -> Vec<String> {
2830    use harness_core::FixPatch;
2831    let mut applied = Vec::new();
2832    for p in patches {
2833        match p {
2834            FixPatch::ReplaceFile { path, content } => {
2835                let abs = world.repo.root.join(path);
2836                if let Some(parent) = abs.parent() {
2837                    let _ = tokio::fs::create_dir_all(parent).await;
2838                }
2839                if tokio::fs::write(&abs, content).await.is_ok() {
2840                    applied.push(format!("replaced {}", path.display()));
2841                }
2842            }
2843            FixPatch::UnifiedDiff { diff } => {
2844                if try_apply_diff(world, diff).await {
2845                    applied.push("unified diff applied".into());
2846                }
2847            }
2848            FixPatch::RunCommand { program, args, cwd } => {
2849                let cwd_ref = cwd.as_deref().unwrap_or(world.repo.root.as_path());
2850                let args_ref: Vec<&str> = args.iter().map(String::as_str).collect();
2851                if let Ok(out) = world.runner.exec(program, &args_ref, Some(cwd_ref)).await
2852                    && out.status == 0
2853                {
2854                    applied.push(format!("ran `{program} {}`", args.join(" ")));
2855                }
2856            }
2857            // FixPatch is `#[non_exhaustive]`; unknown variants are skipped.
2858            _ => tracing::warn!("apply_patches: unknown FixPatch variant — skipped"),
2859        }
2860    }
2861    applied
2862}
2863
2864/// Write `diff` to a unique temp file and try `patch -p1` first, then `-p0`.
2865/// Returns whether either succeeded. The `-p1`-then-`-p0` order matches the
2866/// reality that most agent-emitted diffs are git-style (need `-p1`) but some
2867/// hand-rolled diffs use repo-relative paths (need `-p0`).
2868async fn try_apply_diff(world: &mut World, diff: &str) -> bool {
2869    use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
2870    use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
2871
2872    let seq = PATCH_SEQ.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
2873    let pid = std::process::id();
2874    let now = world.clock.now_ms();
2875    let tmp = world
2876        .repo
2877        .root
2878        .join(format!(".harness-patch-{pid}-{now}-{seq}.diff"));
2879
2880    let mut f = match tokio::fs::File::create(&tmp).await {
2881        Ok(f) => f,
2882        Err(e) => {
2883            tracing::warn!(error=%e, path=%tmp.display(), "could not create patch tempfile");
2884            return false;
2885        }
2886    };
2887    if let Err(e) = f.write_all(diff.as_bytes()).await {
2888        tracing::warn!(error=%e, "could not write patch tempfile");
2889        let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&tmp).await;
2890        return false;
2891    }
2892    drop(f);
2893
2894    let tmp_str = tmp.to_string_lossy().to_string();
2895    let mut applied = false;
2896    for strip in ["-p1", "-p0"] {
2897        match world
2898            .runner
2899            .exec(
2900                "patch",
2901                &[strip, "--silent", "-i", tmp_str.as_str()],
2902                Some(world.repo.root.as_path()),
2903            )
2904            .await
2905        {
2906            Ok(out) if out.status == 0 => {
2907                tracing::info!(strip, "patch applied");
2908                applied = true;
2909                break;
2910            }
2911            Ok(out) => {
2912                tracing::debug!(strip, stderr=%out.stderr, "patch failed; trying next strip level");
2913            }
2914            Err(e) => {
2915                tracing::warn!(error=%e, "patch command not available");
2916                break; // patch tool missing — no point trying other strip
2917            }
2918        }
2919    }
2920    let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&tmp).await;
2921    applied
2922}