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objectiveai_cli/command/agents/
spawn.rs

1//! `agents spawn` — in-process chunk-or-id streaming handler.
2//!
3//! The agent input is the shared [`AgentSelector`] — a direct ref
4//! (inline / file / python / remote), a tag, or an existing
5//! instance. Tags resolve first: BOUND → the live hierarchy
6//! (historic case), GROUPED → the group's stored spec plus the tag
7//! threaded into the conduit for the BOUND upgrade, ABSENT → error.
8//!
9//! Stream-true (`dangerous_advanced.stream = Some(true)`): resolve
10//! + lock + drive the SDK streaming WS connection inside this cli
11//! process. The INITIAL lock (try_acquire, failure = error; skipped
12//! when `dangerous_advanced.skip_lock` says a parent already
13//! transferred the claim into this process): historic case → the
14//! AIH lock, un-upgraded tag case → the tag lock, plain ref → no
15//! initial lock. Historic spawns load their agent params +
16//! continuation from the stored session. Mid-stream, every newly
17//! revealed hierarchy gets a best-effort AIH claim
18//! ([`AgentInstanceRegistry::observe`]); the first success releases
19//! the tag claim. End-of-stream: if the hierarchy has undelivered
20//! `message_queue` rows, restart with the latest continuation —
21//! restart passes flow into the same output stream.
22//!
23//! Stream-false (the default): re-invoke `objectiveai-cli agents
24//! spawn ...` as a **detached subprocess** with the same arguments
25//! plus `stream = true` (so the resolution + locking above runs in
26//! the child), read the first `ResponseItem::Id` line off the
27//! child's stdout, yield it, and return. The subprocess runs
28//! orphaned to completion (Unix: kernel re-parents to init;
29//! Windows: `DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP` keeps
30//! it alive past parent exit).
31//!
32//! `params.stream` on the wire is always `Some(true)`; the
33//! `dangerous_advanced.stream` setting only controls cli-side
34//! output.
35
36use std::pin::Pin;
37
38use futures::Stream;
39use futures::StreamExt;
40use objectiveai_sdk::agent::InlineAgentBaseWithFallbacksOrRemoteCommitOptional;
41use objectiveai_sdk::agent::completions::message::{Message, UserMessage};
42use objectiveai_sdk::agent::completions::request::AgentCompletionCreateParams;
43use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::selector::{AgentRef, AgentSelector};
44use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::spawn::{
45    Request, RequestDangerousAdvanced, ResponseItem,
46};
47use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::{BinaryExecutor, CommandExecutor};
48
49use crate::context::Context;
50use crate::error::Error;
51use crate::websockets::agent_hierarchies::ChunkAgentHierarchies;
52use crate::websockets::agent_registry::AgentInstanceRegistry;
53
54type ItemStream = Pin<Box<dyn Stream<Item = Result<ResponseItem, Error>> + Send>>;
55
56pub async fn execute(
57    ctx: &Context,
58    request: Request,
59) -> Result<ItemStream, Error> {
60    let want_stream = request
61        .dangerous_advanced
62        .as_ref()
63        .and_then(|a| a.stream)
64        .unwrap_or(false);
65    if want_stream {
66        execute_streaming(ctx, request).await
67    } else {
68        execute_detached(request).await
69    }
70}
71
72/// Stream-false: re-invoke `objectiveai-cli agents spawn`
73/// as a detached subprocess with `stream = true`, capture the
74/// first `ResponseItem::Id` off the child's stdout, yield it, and
75/// return. The subprocess outlives this call — its
76/// `tokio::process::Child` handle is dropped without kill (the
77/// SDK's `BinaryExecutor` default + Windows `DETACHED_PROCESS`
78/// flag).
79async fn execute_detached(request: Request) -> Result<ItemStream, Error> {
80    // Re-invoke with stream=true so the child runs the real
81    // streaming path. Same argv otherwise — `BinaryExecutor` will
82    // ask `Request::into_command()` for it.
83    let mut child_request = request;
84    match child_request.dangerous_advanced.as_mut() {
85        Some(adv) => adv.stream = Some(true),
86        None => {
87            child_request.dangerous_advanced = Some(RequestDangerousAdvanced {
88                stream: Some(true),
89                ..Default::default()
90            })
91        }
92    }
93    // The child is a re-exec of this CLI — it must not inherit the
94    // parent's transform / token budget (timeout survives).
95    crate::command::reexec::strip_inherited(&mut child_request.base);
96
97    // Self-respawn: point the executor at *this* binary (whichever
98    // path the OS recorded for the current process), then arm
99    // Windows-detach so the child survives parent exit. Unix gets
100    // re-parent-to-init for free via the default kill_on_drop=false.
101    let exe = std::env::current_exe()
102        .map_err(|e| Error::Spawn("current_exe".into(), e))?;
103    let executor = BinaryExecutor::from_path(exe).detach(true);
104
105    let mut stream = executor
106        .execute::<Request, ResponseItem>(child_request, None)
107        .await
108        .map_err(|e| Error::Instance(format!(
109            "self-respawn for agents spawn: {e}"
110        )))?;
111
112    // Take exactly the first ResponseItem (the LogStreamReady Id),
113    // yield it, return. Drop the rest of the stream + the Child
114    // handle without kill. On Windows the detach flags keep the
115    // child running; on Unix the kernel re-parents to init.
116    let first = stream
117        .next()
118        .await
119        .ok_or(Error::EmptyStream)?
120        .map_err(|e| Error::Instance(format!(
121            "self-respawn for agents spawn: {e}"
122        )))?;
123    Ok(Box::pin(
124        objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::StreamOnce::new(Ok(first)),
125    ))
126}
127
128/// Spawn modes after selector resolution: a fresh agent (direct
129/// ref, or a GROUPED tag carrying the tag name for the conduit
130/// upgrade) or an existing hierarchy resumed via its stored
131/// session + continuation.
132enum Mode {
133    Fresh {
134        agent: InlineAgentBaseWithFallbacksOrRemoteCommitOptional,
135        tag: Option<String>,
136    },
137    Historic {
138        hierarchy: String,
139    },
140}
141
142async fn execute_streaming(
143    ctx: &Context,
144    request: Request,
145) -> Result<ItemStream, Error> {
146    // Required user-message slot — gets wrapped into a single
147    // `Message::User` at the head of the API call's `messages`
148    // array. Reuses `agents message`'s `resolve_message`
149    // so the five wire variants (`Simple` / `Inline(RichContent)`
150    // / `File` / `PythonInline` / `PythonFile`) round-trip
151    // identically. EMPTY resolved content (`--simple ""`, an empty
152    // Inline text, empty parts) means a wake-up/resume turn: send an
153    // EMPTY `messages` array — never a user message with an empty
154    // string — and let the API drive from the continuation + the
155    // conduit's queue drain.
156    let content = super::message::resolve_message(ctx, request.message).await?;
157    let messages = if content.is_empty() {
158        Vec::new()
159    } else {
160        vec![Message::User(UserMessage {
161            content,
162            name: None,
163        })]
164    };
165    let seed = request.dangerous_advanced.as_ref().and_then(|a| a.seed);
166    let skip_lock = request
167        .dangerous_advanced
168        .as_ref()
169        .and_then(|a| a.skip_lock)
170        .unwrap_or(false);
171
172    let mode = match request.agent {
173        AgentSelector::Ref { agent } => Mode::Fresh {
174            agent: resolve_agent_ref(ctx, agent).await?,
175            tag: None,
176        },
177        AgentSelector::Tag { agent_tag } => {
178            match crate::db::tags::lookup(ctx.db_client().await?, &agent_tag).await? {
179                crate::db::tags::LookupState::Bound { agent_instance_hierarchy } => {
180                    Mode::Historic {
181                        hierarchy: agent_instance_hierarchy,
182                    }
183                }
184                crate::db::tags::LookupState::Grouped { agent_spec, .. } => {
185                    let agent = agent_spec;
186                    Mode::Fresh {
187                        agent,
188                        tag: Some(agent_tag),
189                    }
190                }
191                crate::db::tags::LookupState::Absent => {
192                    return Err(Error::TagNotFound(agent_tag));
193                }
194            }
195        }
196        AgentSelector::Instance {
197            parent_agent_instance_hierarchy,
198            agent_instance,
199        } => {
200            let parent = parent_agent_instance_hierarchy
201                .as_deref()
202                .unwrap_or(&ctx.config.agent_instance_hierarchy);
203            Mode::Historic {
204                hierarchy: format!("{parent}/{agent_instance}"),
205            }
206        }
207    };
208
209    // Initial lock + params assembly. try_acquire only — a held lock
210    // means the agent (or another spawn of the tag) is already live,
211    // and this spawn errors out. `skip_lock` skips exactly this step:
212    // the parent `agents message` already holds the lock through the
213    // handles it transferred into this process (re-acquiring would
214    // fail against ourselves). Mid-stream best-effort AIH claims in
215    // `run_multi_pass` are unaffected.
216    let state_dir = ctx.filesystem.state_dir();
217    let mut registry = AgentInstanceRegistry::new(state_dir.clone());
218    let (agent, agent_tag, continuation) = match mode {
219        Mode::Fresh { agent, tag } => {
220            if !skip_lock {
221                if let Some(tag) = &tag {
222                    let (dir, key) = super::locks::agent_tag_lock(&state_dir, tag);
223                    match objectiveai_sdk::lockfile::try_acquire(&dir, &key, "").await {
224                        Some(claim) => registry.hold_tag_claim(claim),
225                        None => return Err(Error::AgentTagActive { tag: tag.clone() }),
226                    }
227                }
228            }
229            (agent, tag, None)
230        }
231        Mode::Historic { hierarchy } => {
232            if !skip_lock {
233                let (dir, key) = super::locks::agent_instance_lock(&state_dir, &hierarchy);
234                match objectiveai_sdk::lockfile::try_acquire(&dir, &key, "").await {
235                    Some(claim) => registry.preseed(hierarchy.clone(), claim),
236                    None => {
237                        return Err(Error::AgentInstanceActive {
238                            agent_instance_hierarchy: hierarchy,
239                        });
240                    }
241                }
242            }
243            let lookup = crate::db::logs::lookup_session(ctx.db_client().await?, &hierarchy)
244                .await?
245                .ok_or(Error::AgentNoPriorRequest {
246                    agent_instance_hierarchy: hierarchy,
247                })?;
248            (lookup.agent, None, lookup.continuation)
249        }
250    };
251
252    let params = AgentCompletionCreateParams {
253        messages,
254        provider: None,
255        agent,
256        response_format: None,
257        seed,
258        stream: Some(true),
259        continuation,
260    };
261
262    // Message-queue delivery to the live API happens through the
263    // conduit's `read_pending_and_upgrade_tag` call — the API
264    // pulls pending rows on demand as the stream runs and stamps
265    // their ids onto the first emitted assistant chunk's
266    // `request_message_ids`. No pre-spawn drain + prepend here.
267    let ctx_clone = ctx.clone();
268    Ok(Box::pin(run_multi_pass(ctx_clone, params, agent_tag, registry)))
269}
270
271/// Drives one or more stream passes until no seen hierarchy has
272/// pending `message_queue` items. Each pass opens a fresh WS
273/// stream + log writer + MCP server + conduit; the
274/// [`AgentInstanceRegistry`] (carrying any initial AIH/tag claim)
275/// persists across passes so an agent's lock stays held for the
276/// whole spawn lifetime, not per-pass — and is released when the
277/// stream (and with it the registry) drops.
278pub(crate) fn run_multi_pass(
279    ctx: Context,
280    initial_params: AgentCompletionCreateParams,
281    agent_tag: Option<String>,
282    mut registry: AgentInstanceRegistry,
283) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<ResponseItem, Error>> + Send {
284    async_stream::try_stream! {
285        let mut params = initial_params;
286        // A spawn has exactly one `(agent_instance_hierarchy,
287        // agent_full_id)` pair — set by the API on the very first
288        // chunk and never changes across restart passes. Capture
289        // once; reuse forever. `None` until the first chunk lands.
290        let mut identity: Option<(String, String)> = None;
291        // Has `ResponseItem::Id` been yielded yet? Persists across
292        // restart passes — the spawn-id handshake is a one-time
293        // event, gated on the LogWriter's `written_once` signal so
294        // the caller only sees the Id after at least one log row
295        // has been persisted.
296        let mut id_emitted = false;
297        // Resolve the MCP client tuning once for the whole spawn; every
298        // pass's conduit reuses these (cheap to pass per pass).
299        let mcp_timeout_ms = ctx.resolve_mcp_timeout_ms().await?;
300        let backoff_max_elapsed_time_ms =
301            ctx.resolve_backoff_max_elapsed_time_ms().await?;
302
303        loop {
304            // Per-pass resources. New WS connection, new log writer,
305            // new conduit + MCP server. The registry survives across
306            // passes (see above).
307            let mcp_server =
308                crate::websockets::mcp_server::spawn(ctx.clone());
309            let conduit =
310                crate::websockets::conduit::ConduitMcpHandler::new(
311                    mcp_server,
312                    ctx.clone(),
313                    agent_tag.clone(),
314                    mcp_timeout_ms,
315                    backoff_max_elapsed_time_ms,
316                );
317            // Spawn.rs doesn't need the primary-id ready signal —
318            // it yields `ResponseItem::Id` from
319            // `chunk.agent_instance_hierarchy` directly on the first
320            // chunk. Drop the receiver.
321            let (log_writer, _ready_rx) = crate::db::logs::write_agent_completion(
322                ctx.db_client().await?,
323                &params,
324                ctx.config.agent_instance_hierarchy.clone(),
325            )
326            .map_err(|e| Error::Instance(format!(
327                "failed to build agent-completion log writer: {e}"
328            )))?;
329
330            let (sdk_stream, notifier) =
331                objectiveai_sdk::agent::completions::create_agent_completion_streaming(
332                    ctx.api_client().await?,
333                    params.clone(),
334                    conduit.clone(),
335                )
336                .await
337                .map_err(|e| Error::Instance(format!(
338                    "failed to open agent-completion stream: {e}"
339                )))?;
340            conduit.install_notifier(notifier);
341
342            let mut sdk_stream = Box::pin(sdk_stream);
343            let mut last_continuation: Option<String> = None;
344            // Per-pass buffer of chunks held back until the
345            // LogWriter confirms it has persisted at least once.
346            // Only meaningful for pass 1 — pass 2+ already has
347            // `id_emitted = true` from a prior pass, so the buffer
348            // gate never triggers and chunks flow through directly.
349            let mut buffered: Vec<
350                objectiveai_sdk::agent::completions::response::streaming::AgentCompletionChunk,
351            > = Vec::new();
352            let mut stream_err: Option<String> = None;
353
354            while let Some(item) = sdk_stream.next().await {
355                let chunk = match item {
356                    Ok(c) => c,
357                    Err(e) => {
358                        stream_err = Some(format!("agent stream item error: {e}"));
359                        break;
360                    }
361                };
362
363                // First chunk EVER (first pass, first chunk):
364                // capture the spawn's identity + claim the lock
365                // file. Tag-group upgrade is owned by the conduit's
366                // `read_pending_and_upgrade_tag`, which the API
367                // fires before the very first chunk is produced —
368                // no upgrade fan-out is needed here. The
369                // `ResponseItem::Id` handshake itself fires later,
370                // gated on `log_writer.written_once()`.
371                if identity.is_none() {
372                    let hier = chunk.agent_instance_hierarchy.clone();
373                    let full_id = chunk.agent_full_id.clone();
374                    registry.observe(&hier).await;
375                    identity = Some((hier, full_id));
376                }
377
378                // Latest continuation seen on the wire — what we
379                // use to restart if pending messages turn up at
380                // EOF. Only the terminal chunk usually carries one.
381                if let Some(c) = chunk.continuation.as_deref() {
382                    last_continuation = Some(c.to_string());
383                }
384
385                // Upsert any `(AIH, continuation)` pairs the chunk
386                // carries into the `agent_continuations` registry
387                // (cumulative chunks always yield exactly one pair;
388                // the Vec is 0-or-1 long depending on whether
389                // `continuation` is `Some`). Awaited before the
390                // log-writer send + downstream yield so the registry
391                // row is visible by the time the chunk leaves this
392                // body.
393                let mut continuation_upserts: Vec<_> = Vec::new();
394                for (hier, continuation) in chunk.agent_instance_hierarchies() {
395                    if let Some(c) = continuation {
396                        continuation_upserts.push(
397                            crate::db::agent_continuations::upsert(ctx.db_client().await?, hier, c),
398                        );
399                    }
400                }
401                if let Err(e) =
402                    futures::future::try_join_all(continuation_upserts).await
403                {
404                    stream_err =
405                        Some(format!("agent_continuations upsert: {e}"));
406                    break;
407                }
408
409                // Log + forward. The write is a synchronous mpsc
410                // send into the LogWriter's listener task — DB IO
411                // happens off this critical path. Clone the chunk
412                // for the listener; the original yields downstream
413                // (or sits in the buffer until the Id gate opens).
414                if let Err(e) = log_writer.write(chunk.clone()) {
415                    stream_err = Some(format!("log writer error: {e}"));
416                    break;
417                }
418
419                // Id gate: once the LogWriter signals it has
420                // persisted at least one batch, yield the Id and
421                // drain any chunks buffered up to this point. The
422                // gate flips exactly once per spawn (across all
423                // passes) — `id_emitted` persists outside the
424                // restart loop.
425                if !id_emitted && log_writer.written_once() {
426                    let (hier, _) = identity
427                        .as_ref()
428                        .expect("identity set above on the first chunk");
429                    yield ResponseItem::Id(hier.clone());
430                    for c in buffered.drain(..) {
431                        yield ResponseItem::Chunk(c);
432                    }
433                    id_emitted = true;
434                }
435
436                if id_emitted {
437                    yield ResponseItem::Chunk(chunk);
438                } else {
439                    buffered.push(chunk);
440                }
441            }
442
443            // Post-stream: if the SDK closed before the LogWriter
444            // ever flipped `written_once` true (e.g. very fast EOF
445            // ahead of the listener's first batch), wait for the
446            // first persistence to land, then emit the Id + drain
447            // any held chunks. Only fires when we actually have
448            // chunks queued behind the gate.
449            if !id_emitted && !buffered.is_empty() {
450                if let Err(e) = log_writer.wait_written_once().await {
451                    stream_err.get_or_insert_with(|| format!("log writer wait: {e}"));
452                } else {
453                    let (hier, _) = identity
454                        .as_ref()
455                        .expect("identity set on the first chunk");
456                    yield ResponseItem::Id(hier.clone());
457                    for c in buffered.drain(..) {
458                        yield ResponseItem::Chunk(c);
459                    }
460                    id_emitted = true;
461                }
462            }
463
464            // Finalize the log writer (consumes it; drops the
465            // sender; awaits the listener task). By construction
466            // this returns only after the queue is empty AND no
467            // work is in flight.
468            if let Err(e) = log_writer.finalize().await {
469                stream_err.get_or_insert_with(|| format!("log writer finalize: {e}"));
470            }
471            drop(sdk_stream);
472            drop(conduit);
473
474            if let Some(e) = stream_err {
475                Err(Error::Instance(e))?;
476            }
477
478            // End-of-pass: a pure EXISTS check against the spawn's
479            // single hierarchy. The conduit already promoted every
480            // sibling tag in the group during its in-stream reads
481            // via `read_pending_and_upgrade_tag` — so this check
482            // sees the post-upgrade `tags` state and catches
483            // anything queued mid-stream against a now-BOUND
484            // sibling. On `false`, fall through to the implicit
485            // registry drop on function return (no explicit destroy
486            // needed — there's only one claim and we're done with it).
487            let Some((hier, _full_id)) = identity.as_ref() else {
488                // Empty stream — nothing was claimed, nothing to
489                // restart. Just exit.
490                break;
491            };
492            let pending = crate::db::message_queue::check_any_pending(
493                ctx.db_client().await?, hier,
494            )
495            .await
496            .unwrap_or(false);
497            if !pending {
498                break;
499            }
500
501            // Restart with the latest continuation only. No new
502            // messages — the API picks up state from the
503            // continuation token.
504            params.messages = Vec::new();
505            params.continuation = last_continuation;
506        }
507    }
508}
509
510/// Resolve an [`AgentRef`] into a typed agent. `Resolved` passes
511/// through; `File` / `PythonInline` / `PythonFile` run their IO /
512/// Python here via the shared 5-variant resolver (the `simple`
513/// slot is never populated for agent refs — `--agent <ref>`
514/// strings parse at the clap layer).
515pub(crate) async fn resolve_agent_ref(
516    ctx: &Context,
517    agent: AgentRef,
518) -> Result<InlineAgentBaseWithFallbacksOrRemoteCommitOptional, Error> {
519    let (file, python_inline, python_file) = match agent {
520        AgentRef::Resolved(resolved) => return Ok(resolved),
521        AgentRef::File(p) => (Some(p), None, None),
522        AgentRef::PythonInline(code) => (None, Some(code), None),
523        AgentRef::PythonFile(p) => (None, None, Some(p)),
524    };
525    crate::source_resolver::resolve_source(
526        ctx,
527        None,
528        None,
529        file,
530        python_inline,
531        python_file,
532        |_| unreachable!("agent refs have no plain-text variant"),
533    )
534    .await
535}
536
537pub mod request_schema {
538    use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::spawn as sdk;
539    use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::spawn::request_schema::{Request, Response};
540
541    use crate::context::Context;
542    use crate::error::Error;
543
544    pub async fn execute(_ctx: &Context, _request: Request) -> Result<Response, Error> {
545        Ok(objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::ResponseSchema(schemars::schema_for!(sdk::Request)))
546    }
547}
548
549pub mod response_schema {
550    use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::spawn as sdk;
551    use objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::agents::spawn::response_schema::{Request, Response};
552
553    use crate::context::Context;
554    use crate::error::Error;
555
556    pub async fn execute(_ctx: &Context, _request: Request) -> Result<Response, Error> {
557        Ok(objectiveai_sdk::cli::command::ResponseSchema(schemars::schema_for!(sdk::Response)))
558    }
559}