speccoder_runtime/substrate/

attempt.rs

//! `speccoder.task.attempt`: one bounded, governed attempt at a task
//!.
//!
//! The model works through speccoder's tools; every call it asks for is
//! classified by the policy first (deny → refused and told; approval → the
//! attempt stops for a person; allow → dispatched through agentplane). The
//! model's closing report is recorded as its claim — the verdict is computed
//! afterwards by the verifier, never here.

use crate::format::Wording;
use agentplane::core::Label;
use agentplane::model::{ToolDeclaration, Transcript};
use agentplane::prelude::*;
use agentplane::tools::ToolId;
use serde_json::{Value, json};

use super::model_config::{CacheTtl, PromptStyle};
use super::propose::layout;
use super::provenance;
use crate::approvals::{Answer, Decision as Said, PresentContext, Request, Scope, Who};
use crate::tools::policy::{Decision, Object, Policy};

/// The capability the skill provides.
pub const CAPABILITY: &str = "speccoder.task.attempt";

/// The control tool for an honest exit. Handled by the skill, not
/// dispatched anywhere.
pub const REPORT_BLOCKED: &str = "report_blocked";

/// What speccoder tells the model about an attempt; stable for the project.
pub fn policy(w: &Wording) -> String {
    format!(
        "You are speccoder, a coding agent implementing exactly one {product} task in a git \
worktree. Use the tools to inspect the code, make the smallest change that completes the \
task, and run the project's checks with run_command to see whether it works. Stay inside \
the task's scope. You cannot edit the spec ({intent}), the checks' configuration or \
.git; such calls are refused. Some commands need a person's approval and will end the \
attempt — prefer configured checks. If the task cannot be done as written — it \
contradicts the spec, needs information or access you lack, or a test is wrong — call \
report_blocked with the reason instead of working around it. Test files that existed \
when the attempt started are frozen: add new tests in new files (or next to the code), \
never by editing those. Never weaken, skip or delete tests to make checks pass. Never \
return values copied from tests or examples in place of the specified behaviour (a \
constant where the spec asks for a computed, fetched or current value is a cheat): if \
the specified behaviour is impossible under the stated constraints, call report_blocked. \
You are not the judge: when you finish, speccoder runs the checks itself and decides. \
Finish with the requested structured report.",
        product = w.product,
        intent = w.intent_paths,
    )
}

/// The final report's schema (the model's claim).
#[must_use]
pub fn report_schema() -> Value {
    let strings = json!({ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } });
    json!({
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
            "summary": { "type": "string" },
            "status": { "type": "string", "enum": ["done", "incomplete"] },
            "files_changed": strings,
            "checks_run": strings,
            "notes": strings,
        },
        "required": ["summary", "status", "files_changed", "checks_run", "notes"],
        "additionalProperties": false,
    })
}

fn report_blocked() -> ToolDeclaration {
    ToolDeclaration::new(
        REPORT_BLOCKED,
        "Stop the attempt because the task cannot be done as written; a person will look at the reason.",
        json!({
            "type": "object",
            "properties": { "reason": { "type": "string" } },
            "required": ["reason"],
            "additionalProperties": false,
        }),
    )
}

/// The question tool a hosted skill may use.
pub const ASK_PERSON: &str = "ask_person";

/// The `ask_person` declaration.
#[must_use]
pub fn ask_person() -> ToolDeclaration {
    ToolDeclaration::new(
        ASK_PERSON,
        "Ask the person one question and wait for their answer. If nobody can answer, the reply says so.",
        json!({
            "type": "object",
            "properties": { "question": { "type": "string" } },
            "required": ["question"],
            "additionalProperties": false,
        }),
    )
}

/// How an attempt waits for a person when a call needs one: on an
/// agentplane human task the person decides — inline, from an editor, or
/// later with `speccoder task approve` — while the run is suspended.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct Asker {
    /// `feature/task`, shown to the person.
    pub task: String,
    /// The task's title.
    pub task_title: String,
    /// What the live run knows for the presentation.
    pub context: PresentContext,
    /// How long a call waits before it is denied as expired.
    pub wait_secs: u64,
}

impl Asker {
    /// The asker the journaled settings describe: `asks = "tasks"` waits on
    /// a task; anything else (`"stop"`, a lane) stops the attempt instead.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn from_settings(
        settings: &Value,
        task: String,
        task_title: String,
        context: PresentContext,
    ) -> Option<Self> {
        (settings["asks"] == "tasks").then(|| Self {
            task,
            task_title,
            context,
            wait_secs: settings["wait_secs"].as_u64().unwrap_or(7 * 86_400),
        })
    }
}

/// Waits for a person's decision on `spec`, registering the `approval`
/// obligation the first time: the run suspends until someone decides or the
/// deadline passes. Journaled — replay reads the decision back.
async fn wait_for_person(
    cx: &mut StepCtx<'_>,
    asker: &Asker,
    obligation: &mut bool,
    spec: &agentplane::core::TaskSpec,
) -> Result<agentplane::core::Decision, SkillError> {
    if !*obligation {
        let minutes = u32::try_from(asker.wait_secs.div_ceil(60).max(1)).unwrap_or(u32::MAX);
        cx.deadline(
            crate::approvals::tasks::DEADLINE,
            &agentplane::core::DeadlineSpec::minutes(minutes),
            None,
        )
        .await?;
        *obligation = true;
    }
    Ok(cx.task(spec).await?)
}

/// The coded skill.
///
/// Everything its decisions depend on — the bundle, the policy's command
/// prefixes and the limits — arrives in the run's input, so it is journaled
/// and strict replay needs no configuration. Only the prompt dialect
/// is construction-time, and it is part of each model call's effect key.
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct Attempt {
    /// Prompt dialect.
    pub style: PromptStyle,
    /// Cache breakpoint lifetime.
    pub cache_ttl: CacheTtl,
    /// Where live progress goes; not journaled, `None` in replay.
    pub progress: Option<std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>>,
    /// The project's spec format.
    pub format: &'static dyn crate::format::Adapter,
    /// The sandbox, as a person asked about a command is told; live only.
    pub present: PresentContext,
}

/// The run input: `{ bundle, settings: { checks, allow, max_turns,
/// max_tool_calls, frozen, … }, digest }` — `digest` is the verifier's
/// account of the previous attempt, `null` on a first attempt.
///
/// Labelled by where each part came from: the bundle is the
/// person's committed spec and plan (trusted); the digest quotes check
/// output (`speccoder://verifier`); the settings list MCP tool descriptions
/// (their servers).
#[must_use]
pub fn input(
    bundle: Value,
    settings: &Settings<'_>,
    digest: Option<&Value>,
    instructions: &[crate::instructions::Instruction],
    test_layout: Option<&str>,
) -> Tainted<Value> {
    let digest = match digest.filter(|d| !d.is_null()) {
        Some(d) => Tainted::with_label(d.clone(), provenance::from(provenance::VERIFIER)),
        None => Tainted::trusted(Value::Null),
    };
    // Each MCP tool's description and schema are its server's words.
    let mcp = Tainted::array(settings.mcp.iter().map(|t| {
        Tainted::with_label(
            serde_json::to_value(t).unwrap_or(Value::Null),
            agentplane::core::Label::untrusted(provenance::tool(&t.server, &t.tool)),
        )
    }));
    let trusted = |v: Value| Tainted::trusted(v);
    let autopilot = settings.autopilot;
    let settings = vec![
        ("checks", trusted(json!(settings.checks))),
        ("allow", trusted(json!(settings.allow))),
        ("max_turns", trusted(json!(settings.max_turns))),
        ("max_tool_calls", trusted(json!(settings.max_tool_calls))),
        ("reasoning", trusted(json!(settings.reasoning))),
        ("frozen", trusted(json!(settings.frozen))),
        ("approved", trusted(json!(settings.approved))),
        ("rejected", trusted(json!(settings.rejected))),
        ("run_approved", trusted(json!(settings.run_approved))),
        ("approved_once", trusted(json!(settings.approved_once))),
        ("nudges", trusted(json!(settings.nudges))),
        ("mcp", mcp),
        ("root", trusted(json!(settings.root))),
        (
            "frozen_additions",
            trusted(json!(settings.frozen_additions)),
        ),
        ("network_allow", trusted(json!(settings.network_allow))),
        ("allow_prefix", trusted(json!(settings.allow_prefix))),
        (
            "network_allow_prefix",
            trusted(json!(settings.network_allow_prefix)),
        ),
        ("run_id", trusted(json!(settings.run_id))),
        ("asked", trusted(json!(settings.asked))),
        ("budget", trusted(json!(settings.budget))),
        ("prompts", trusted(json!(settings.prompts))),
        ("asks", trusted(json!(settings.asks))),
        ("wait_secs", trusted(json!(settings.wait_secs))),
        ("in_place", trusted(json!(settings.in_place))),
        ("hidden", trusted(json!(settings.hidden))),
    ];
    // Only an autopilot run carries the key: every other input reads as
    // it was recorded before it existed.
    let mut settings = settings;
    if autopilot {
        settings.push(("autopilot", trusted(json!(true))));
    }
    let settings = Tainted::object(settings);
    Tainted::object([
        ("bundle", Tainted::trusted(bundle)),
        ("digest", digest),
        ("settings", settings),
        // The repository's text, as if the model had read the files itself;
        // none is no text, and no label.
        (
            "instructions",
            if instructions.is_empty() {
                Tainted::trusted(json!([]))
            } else {
                Tainted::with_label(json!(instructions), provenance::from(provenance::WORKTREE))
            },
        ),
        // The test layout speccoder detected from the checkout.
        (
            "test_layout",
            match test_layout {
                Some(t) => Tainted::with_label(json!(t), provenance::from(provenance::WORKTREE)),
                None => Tainted::trusted(Value::Null),
            },
        ),
    ])
}

/// A refusal speccoder composes about a call quotes it — the tool, path or
/// command the model chose — so it carries the call's label; only
/// constant replies are trusted.
fn refusal(text: String, call: &agentplane::core::Label) -> Tainted<String> {
    Tainted::with_label(text, call.clone())
}

/// The parts of an attempt's input its messages quote.
const MESSAGE_PARTS: [&str; 7] = [
    "/bundle",
    "/instructions",
    "/test_layout",
    "/digest",
    "/settings/nudges",
    "/settings/rejected",
    "/settings/mcp",
];

/// The label of the conversation part: the join of the labels the run was
/// admitted with for the parts it quotes — read, never inferred. A part
/// without a label of its own takes the whole input's (fails closed).
fn conversation_label(input: &Tainted<Value>) -> agentplane::core::Label {
    MESSAGE_PARTS
        .iter()
        .map(|p| input.label_at(p).unwrap_or_else(|| input.label()).clone())
        .fold(agentplane::core::Label::trusted(), |acc, l| acc.join(&l))
}

/// What an attempt decides by, besides its bundle (all journaled).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct Settings<'a> {
    /// Configured checks' argvs (their prefixes are allowed commands).
    pub checks: &'a [Vec<String>],
    /// Exact commands allowed (`[commands] allow`).
    pub allow: &'a [Vec<String>],
    /// Allowed command prefixes (`[commands] allow_prefix`).
    pub allow_prefix: &'a [Vec<String>],
    /// Model turns.
    pub max_turns: u32,
    /// Tool calls.
    pub max_tool_calls: u32,
    /// Ask for the model's reasoning summary on every turn.
    pub reasoning: bool,
    /// Test files frozen for this attempt.
    pub frozen: &'a [String],
    /// A person's approvals for this task, in this run.
    pub approved: &'a [Object],
    /// A person's rejections for this task.
    pub rejected: &'a [crate::tools::policy::Rejection],
    /// Objects a person approved for every task of this run.
    pub run_approved: &'a [Object],
    /// Objects a person approved for one call each (a call a lane stopped,
    /// decided in its run's batch): this attempt may make each one time.
    pub approved_once: &'a [Object],
    /// A person's notes for this task (`nudge`).
    pub nudges: &'a [String],
    /// The project's MCP tools for this run.
    pub mcp: &'a [crate::mcp::McpTool],
    /// The worktree's absolute (canonical) path.
    pub root: &'a str,
    /// Frozen tests may gain lines without approval (`[tests] frozen`).
    pub frozen_additions: bool,
    /// How a call needing a person is handled: `"tasks"` (the attempt waits
    /// on a human task) or `"stop"` (it ends `needs_approval`; lanes).
    pub asks: &'a str,
    /// How long a call waits for a person before it is denied as expired.
    pub wait_secs: u64,
    /// Exact commands that get the network (`[sandbox] network_allow`).
    pub network_allow: &'a [Vec<String>],
    /// Prefixes that get it (`[sandbox] network_allow_prefix`).
    pub network_allow_prefix: &'a [Vec<String>],
    /// The run the attempt belongs to.
    pub run_id: &'a str,
    /// Prompts the run has shown a person so far.
    pub asked: u32,
    /// `[approvals] budget`.
    pub budget: u32,
    /// A person is prompted inline (not `--no-prompt`).
    pub prompts: bool,
    /// An in-place attempt: git that moves the checkout is denied.
    pub in_place: bool,
    /// In place: what git ignored at the run's start, hidden from the tools.
    pub hidden: &'a [String],
    /// An autopilot run: a call that would ask is refused instead.
    pub autopilot: bool,
}

/// The calls consecutive denials of which end an attempt.
pub const MAX_CONSECUTIVE_DENIALS: u32 = 3;

/// The digest as the model reads it: facts from the verifier only.
fn digest_text(digest: &Value) -> String {
    let mut out = format!(
        "# Previous attempt\n\nAttempt {} at this task was verified by speccoder and FAILED. Its \
changes were discarded; the worktree is back where that attempt started. You start fresh — use \
these facts from the verifier, check them yourself, and do not repeat the mistake.\n",
        digest["attempt"].as_u64().unwrap_or(1)
    );
    let strings = |v: &Value| -> Vec<String> {
        v.as_array()
            .map(|a| {
                a.iter()
                    .filter_map(|x| x.as_str().map(str::to_owned))
                    .collect()
            })
            .unwrap_or_default()
    };
    let reasons = strings(&digest["reasons"]);
    if !reasons.is_empty() {
        out.push_str("\n## Verdict reasons\n\n");
        for r in reasons {
            out.push_str(&format!("- {r}\n"));
        }
    }
    for c in digest["checks"].as_array().into_iter().flatten() {
        out.push_str(&format!(
            "\n## Check `{}` ({}): `{}`\n",
            c["name"].as_str().unwrap_or_default(),
            c["status"].as_str().unwrap_or_default(),
            strings(&c["argv"]).join(" ")
        ));
        let tests = strings(&c["failing_tests"]);
        if !tests.is_empty() {
            out.push_str(&format!("\nFailing tests: {}\n", tests.join(", ")));
        }
        out.push_str(&format!(
            "\n```text\n{}\n```\n",
            c["excerpt"].as_str().unwrap_or_default()
        ));
    }
    let uncollected = strings(&digest["uncollected"]);
    if !uncollected.is_empty() {
        out.push_str("\n## Tests that never ran\n\n");
        for l in uncollected {
            out.push_str(&format!("- {l}\n"));
        }
    }
    let discarded = strings(&digest["discarded"]);
    if !discarded.is_empty() {
        out.push_str(&format!(
            "\n## Files the discarded attempt changed\n\n{}\n",
            discarded.join("\n")
        ));
    }
    out
}

fn argvs(v: &Value) -> Vec<Vec<String>> {
    v.as_array()
        .map(|a| {
            a.iter()
                .map(|argv| {
                    argv.as_array()
                        .map(|p| {
                            p.iter()
                                .filter_map(|x| x.as_str().map(str::to_owned))
                                .collect()
                        })
                        .unwrap_or_default()
                })
                .collect()
        })
        .unwrap_or_default()
}

/// A person's decisions of the journaled input at `key`: none when absent,
/// an error when present and unreadable — never read as "no decisions",
/// which would drop rejections.
fn decisions_of<T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned>(
    settings: &Value,
    key: &str,
) -> Result<Vec<T>, SkillError> {
    match &settings[key] {
        Value::Null => Ok(Vec::new()),
        v => serde_json::from_value(v.clone())
            .map_err(|e| SkillError::Input(format!("settings.{key}: {e}"))),
    }
}

#[async_trait]
impl Skill for Attempt {
    fn descriptor(&self) -> SkillDescriptor {
        SkillDescriptor::new("speccoder.task.attempt").provides(CAPABILITY)
    }

    async fn invoke(
        &self,
        cx: &mut StepCtx<'_>,
        input: Tainted<Value>,
    ) -> Result<Outcome, SkillError> {
        let (ttl, style) = (self.cache_ttl, self.style);
        let settings = input.peek()["settings"].clone();
        let task_name = format!(
            "{}/{}",
            input.peek()["bundle"]["feature"]
                .as_str()
                .unwrap_or_default(),
            input.peek()["bundle"]["task"]["id"]
                .as_str()
                .unwrap_or_default()
        );
        let frozen: Vec<String> = settings["frozen"]
            .as_array()
            .map(|a| {
                a.iter()
                    .filter_map(|v| v.as_str().map(str::to_owned))
                    .collect()
            })
            .unwrap_or_default();
        let approved: Vec<Object> = decisions_of(&settings, "approved")?;
        let rejected: Vec<crate::tools::policy::Rejection> = decisions_of(&settings, "rejected")?;
        let told = rejected.clone();
        let mcp: Vec<crate::mcp::McpTool> =
            serde_json::from_value(settings["mcp"].clone()).unwrap_or_default();
        let policy = Policy::new(&argvs(&settings["checks"]), &argvs(&settings["allow"]))
            .with_prefixes(argvs(&settings["allow_prefix"]))
            .with_network_prefixes(argvs(&settings["network_allow_prefix"]))
            .rules(self.format.rules())
            .with_frozen(frozen)
            .with_decisions(approved, rejected)
            .with_mcp(mcp.iter().map(|t| (t.name.clone(), t.decision.clone())))
            .with_network(argvs(&settings["network_allow"]))
            .with_hidden(
                serde_json::from_value::<Vec<String>>(settings["hidden"].clone())
                    .unwrap_or_default(),
            );
        let policy = if settings["in_place"] == true {
            policy.in_place()
        } else {
            policy
        };
        let policy = if settings["autopilot"] == true {
            policy.autopilot()
        } else {
            policy
        };
        let max_turns = settings["max_turns"]
            .as_u64()
            .map_or(30, |n| u32::try_from(n).unwrap_or(u32::MAX))
            .max(1);
        let max_tool_calls = settings["max_tool_calls"]
            .as_u64()
            .map_or(100, |n| u32::try_from(n).unwrap_or(u32::MAX));
        // Same stable prefix as `propose`, with the attempt policy in front;
        // a retry's digest goes after it, so the cached prefix is shared.
        let label = conversation_label(&input);
        let raw = input.peek().clone();
        let prompt = provenance::labelled_prompt(
            {
                let input = raw;
                let mut p = layout(
                    &input["bundle"],
                    ttl,
                    style,
                    &self::policy(self.format.wording()),
                    self.format,
                );
                let given: Vec<crate::instructions::Instruction> =
                    serde_json::from_value(input["instructions"].clone()).unwrap_or_default();
                if let Some(text) = crate::instructions::section(&given) {
                    let (key, kind) = match style {
                        PromptStyle::OpenAi => ("input", "input_text"),
                        PromptStyle::Anthropic | PromptStyle::Chat | PromptStyle::Parts { .. } => {
                            ("messages", "text")
                        }
                    };
                    if let Some(content) = p[key][0]["content"].as_array_mut() {
                        content.push(json!({ "type": kind, "text": text }));
                    }
                }
                if let Some(text) = input["test_layout"].as_str().filter(|t| !t.is_empty()) {
                    let (key, kind) = match style {
                        PromptStyle::OpenAi => ("input", "input_text"),
                        PromptStyle::Anthropic | PromptStyle::Chat | PromptStyle::Parts { .. } => {
                            ("messages", "text")
                        }
                    };
                    if let Some(content) = p[key][0]["content"].as_array_mut() {
                        content.push(json!({ "type": kind, "text": text }));
                    }
                }
                if !input["digest"].is_null() {
                    let (key, kind) = match style {
                        PromptStyle::OpenAi => ("input", "input_text"),
                        PromptStyle::Anthropic | PromptStyle::Chat | PromptStyle::Parts { .. } => {
                            ("messages", "text")
                        }
                    };
                    if let Some(content) = p[key][0]["content"].as_array_mut() {
                        content
                            .push(json!({ "type": kind, "text": digest_text(&input["digest"]) }));
                    }
                }
                // A person's notes for this task.
                let notes: Vec<String> = input["settings"]["nudges"]
                    .as_array()
                    .map(|a| {
                        a.iter()
                            .filter_map(|n| n.as_str().map(|n| format!("- {n}")))
                            .collect()
                    })
                    .unwrap_or_default();
                if !notes.is_empty() {
                    let (key, kind) = match style {
                        PromptStyle::OpenAi => ("input", "input_text"),
                        PromptStyle::Anthropic | PromptStyle::Chat | PromptStyle::Parts { .. } => {
                            ("messages", "text")
                        }
                    };
                    let text = format!("# Notes from a person\n\n{}\n", notes.join("\n"));
                    if let Some(content) = p[key][0]["content"].as_array_mut() {
                        content.push(json!({ "type": kind, "text": text }));
                    }
                }
                // A person's rejections, so the model does not ask again.
                if !told.is_empty() {
                    let (key, kind) = match style {
                        PromptStyle::OpenAi => ("input", "input_text"),
                        PromptStyle::Anthropic | PromptStyle::Chat | PromptStyle::Parts { .. } => {
                            ("messages", "text")
                        }
                    };
                    let lines: Vec<String> = told
                        .iter()
                        .map(|r| format!("- {}: {}", r.object.describe(), r.reason))
                        .collect();
                    let text = format!(
                        "# Rejected by a person\n\nThese calls were rejected for this task; find another way or call report_blocked:\n\n{}\n",
                        lines.join("\n")
                    );
                    if let Some(content) = p[key][0]["content"].as_array_mut() {
                        content.push(json!({ "type": kind, "text": text }));
                    }
                }
                if let PromptStyle::Parts { caches } = style {
                    super::model_config::to_parts(&mut p, caches);
                }
                p
            },
            &label,
        );
        let mut tools = crate::tools::declarations();
        tools.push(report_blocked());
        // MCP tools the policy does not deny, as the journaled input lists them.
        let routes: Vec<(String, String, String)> = mcp
            .iter()
            .filter(|t| t.decision != "deny")
            .map(|t| (t.name.clone(), t.server.clone(), t.tool.clone()))
            .collect();
        tools.extend(mcp.iter().filter(|t| t.decision != "deny").map(|t| {
            ToolDeclaration::new(t.name.clone(), t.description.clone(), t.schema.clone())
        }));
        // Journaled: whether this attempt asks inline decides its effects.
        let ask = Asker::from_settings(
            &settings,
            task_name.clone(),
            input.peek()["bundle"]["task"]["title"]
                .as_str()
                .unwrap_or_default()
                .to_owned(),
            PresentContext {
                root: settings["root"].as_str().map(std::path::PathBuf::from),
                ..self.present.clone()
            },
        );
        let remembered: Vec<Object> = decisions_of(&settings, "run_approved")?;
        let once: Vec<Object> = decisions_of(&settings, "approved_once")?;
        // Untrusted text the prompt itself carries.
        let mut parts = Vec::new();
        let given: Vec<crate::instructions::Instruction> =
            serde_json::from_value(input.peek()["instructions"].clone()).unwrap_or_default();
        if let Some(text) = crate::instructions::section(&given) {
            parts.push(crate::approvals::derived::Part {
                from: provenance::WORKTREE.to_owned(),
                turn: 0,
                text,
            });
        }
        if !input.peek()["digest"].is_null() {
            parts.push(crate::approvals::derived::Part {
                from: provenance::VERIFIER.to_owned(),
                turn: 0,
                text: crate::approvals::derived::text_of(&input.peek()["digest"]),
            });
        }
        let number = |k: &str, d: u32| {
            settings[k]
                .as_u64()
                .map_or(d, |n| u32::try_from(n).unwrap_or(u32::MAX))
        };
        tool_loop(
            cx,
            &prompt,
            LoopSpec {
                tools,
                policy,
                max_turns,
                max_tool_calls,
                reasoning: settings["reasoning"] == true,
                schema: report_schema(),
                routes,
                root: settings["root"].as_str().map(str::to_owned),
                frozen_additions: settings["frozen_additions"] == true,
                ask,
                run_approved: remembered,
                once,
                run: settings["run_id"].as_str().map(str::to_owned),
                asking: Asking {
                    asked: number("asked", 0),
                    budget: number("budget", DEFAULT_BUDGET),
                    prompts: settings["prompts"] == true,
                },
                parts,
                mcp_digests: mcp
                    .iter()
                    .map(|t| (t.name.clone(), t.digest.clone()))
                    .collect(),
                observer: self.progress.clone().map(|p| {
                    (
                        task_name.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or_default().to_owned(),
                        p,
                    )
                }),
                finish: |report| {
                    // The model's own word that it did not finish is believed;
                    // its word that it did is not (the verifier decides that).
                    if report["status"] == "incomplete" {
                        "incomplete"
                    } else {
                        "completed"
                    }
                },
            },
        )
        .await
    }
}

/// Turns an absolute `path` argument inside the workspace `root` into a
/// workspace-relative one. Tools print absolute paths (Spec Kit's scripts
/// do), and a model passes them on; outside the root a path stays as it is
/// — and the policy refuses it.
fn relativise(arguments: &mut Value, root: Option<&str>) {
    let (Some(root), Some(path)) = (root, arguments.get("path").and_then(Value::as_str)) else {
        return;
    };
    let root = root.trim_end_matches('/');
    if let Some(rel) = path.strip_prefix(root).and_then(|r| r.strip_prefix('/')) {
        let rel = if rel.is_empty() {
            ".".to_owned()
        } else {
            rel.to_owned()
        };
        arguments["path"] = Value::String(rel);
    }
}

/// Reports one logged tool call to whoever watches.
fn emit(
    observer: Option<&(String, std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>)>,
    turn: u32,
    entry: &Value,
) {
    emit_with_tail(observer, turn, entry, Vec::new());
}

/// [`emit`] with the last lines of a failed command's output (live only,
/// never journaled).
fn emit_with_tail(
    observer: Option<&(String, std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>)>,
    turn: u32,
    entry: &Value,
    tail: Vec<String>,
) {
    if let Some((task, p)) = observer {
        let tool = entry["tool"].as_str().unwrap_or_default();
        p.event(&crate::progress::Event::ToolCall {
            task: task.clone(),
            turn,
            tool: tool.to_owned(),
            target: crate::progress::target(tool, &entry["arguments"]),
            decision: entry["decision"].as_str().unwrap_or_default().to_owned(),
            ok: entry["ok"].as_bool(),
            tail,
        });
    }
}

/// A person is needed for `asked`: the run tells whoever watches.
fn needs_person(
    observer: Option<&(String, std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>)>,
    asked: &agentplane::model::ToolCall,
    object: Option<&Object>,
) {
    if let Some((task, p)) = observer {
        let (tool, arguments) = (asked.name.as_str(), &asked.arguments);
        let target = crate::progress::target(tool, arguments);
        let what: String = format!("{tool} {target}")
            .chars()
            .filter(|c| !c.is_control())
            .take(60)
            .collect();
        p.event(&crate::progress::Event::ApprovalRequested {
            task: task.clone(),
            call: asked.id.clone(),
            tool: tool.to_owned(),
            what,
            class: object
                .map(|o| o.class().as_str().to_owned())
                .unwrap_or_default(),
            object: object.map(Object::short).unwrap_or_default(),
        });
    }
}

/// A person decided `asked`: the run tells whoever watches.
fn person_decided(
    observer: Option<&(String, std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>)>,
    asked: &agentplane::model::ToolCall,
    decision: &str,
    scope: Option<&str>,
    who: Option<&Who>,
    object: Option<&Object>,
) {
    if let Some((task, p)) = observer {
        p.event(&crate::progress::Event::ApprovalDecided {
            task: task.clone(),
            call: asked.id.clone(),
            decision: decision.to_owned(),
            scope: scope.map(str::to_owned),
            by: who.map_or_else(|| "nobody (expired)".to_owned(), |w| w.name.clone()),
            how: who.map_or_else(|| "expired".to_owned(), |w| w.basis.clone()),
            class: object
                .map(|o| o.class().as_str().to_owned())
                .unwrap_or_default(),
            object: object.map(Object::short).unwrap_or_default(),
        });
    }
}

/// What a call needing a person is asked by.
struct Question<'a> {
    asked: &'a agentplane::model::ToolCall,
    reason: &'a str,
    turn: u32,
    said: &'a str,
    asker: Option<&'a Asker>,
    policy: &'a Policy,
    object: Option<&'a Object>,
    remembered: &'a [(Object, &'static str)],
    parts: &'a [crate::approvals::derived::Part],
    run: Option<&'a str>,
}

/// The journaled question for a call needing a person: its object, what
/// changed since an approval of the same name, where its arguments were
/// copied from, and the choices that leaves — all from journaled data.
fn question(q: &Question<'_>) -> Request {
    let (tool, arguments) = (q.asked.name.as_str(), &q.asked.arguments);
    let kind = crate::approvals::kind_of(tool, arguments);
    let risk = crate::approvals::risk(tool, q.reason);
    // Always Allow commits an exact entry: judged without the network.
    let always_risk = if kind == "network" {
        let mut bare = arguments.clone();
        if let Some(o) = bare.as_object_mut() {
            o.remove("network");
        }
        match q.policy.base(tool, &bare) {
            Decision::Allow => "low",
            Decision::Approval(r) => crate::approvals::risk(tool, &r),
            Decision::Deny(_) => "high",
        }
    } else {
        risk
    };
    let (sources, more) = crate::approvals::derived::sources(tool, arguments, q.parts);
    let changed = q.object.and_then(|o| {
        q.remembered
            .iter()
            .map(|(r, _)| r)
            .chain(q.policy.approved())
            .find_map(|earlier| o.changed_from(earlier))
    });
    Request {
        task: q.asker.map(|a| a.task.clone()).unwrap_or_default(),
        task_title: q.asker.map(|a| a.task_title.clone()).unwrap_or_default(),
        turn: q.turn,
        tool: tool.to_owned(),
        arguments: arguments.clone(),
        kind: kind.to_owned(),
        reason: q.reason.to_owned(),
        object: q.object.cloned(),
        changed,
        risk: risk.to_owned(),
        claim: crate::approvals::claim(q.said),
        options: crate::approvals::options(
            risk,
            q.object.is_some(),
            !sources.is_empty(),
            kind,
            always_risk,
        ),
        sources,
        more,
        run: q.run.map(str::to_owned),
        asked: 0,
        budget: 0,
        batched: false,
    }
}

/// What a governed tool loop offers the model and asks of it.
pub(crate) struct LoopSpec {
    /// The tools declared to the model; any other name is refused.
    pub tools: Vec<ToolDeclaration>,
    /// Classifies every call before dispatch.
    pub policy: Policy,
    /// Model turns.
    pub max_turns: u32,
    /// Tool calls.
    pub max_tool_calls: u32,
    /// Ask each turn for the model's reasoning summary.
    pub reasoning: bool,
    /// The closing answer's schema.
    pub schema: Value,
    /// Declared tools served elsewhere: (name, server, tool) — MCP.
    pub routes: Vec<(String, String, String)>,
    /// The workspace's absolute path, from the journaled input: absolute
    /// paths inside it are made relative before the policy sees them.
    pub root: Option<String>,
    /// A write to a frozen test that only adds lines needs no approval.
    pub frozen_additions: bool,
    /// The status for a closing answer.
    pub finish: fn(&Value) -> &'static str,
    /// Ask a person instead of stopping when a call needs approval.
    pub ask: Option<Asker>,
    /// Objects a person approved for this run: allowed without asking.
    pub run_approved: Vec<Object>,
    /// Objects a person approved for one call each: the first call of
    /// each is allowed without asking, later ones ask again.
    pub once: Vec<Object>,
    /// Live progress: the task ID and where to report.
    pub observer: Option<(String, std::sync::Arc<dyn crate::progress::Progress>)>,
    /// The run the attempt belongs to (`run-<secs>-<hex>`).
    pub run: Option<String>,
    /// How a run asks: its count so far, its budget and whether a person is
    /// prompted at all.
    pub asking: Asking,
    /// Untrusted content the prompt carries (inlined worktree text, the
    /// verifier's digest): what derived arguments are found in.
    pub parts: Vec<crate::approvals::derived::Part>,
    /// MCP tools' digests by model-facing name: their objects.
    pub mcp_digests: std::collections::BTreeMap<String, String>,
}

/// A run's asking budget as an attempt sees it (all journaled).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Asking {
    /// Prompts shown to a person in the run so far.
    pub asked: u32,
    /// `[approvals] budget`: at most this many per run.
    pub budget: u32,
    /// A person is prompted inline; `false` with `--no-prompt` (calls wait
    /// as ordinary approvals, nothing is counted).
    pub prompts: bool,
}

impl Default for Asking {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            asked: 0,
            budget: DEFAULT_BUDGET,
            prompts: false,
        }
    }
}

/// `[approvals] budget` unless configured.
pub use super::run_config::DEFAULT_BUDGET;

/// The governed tool loop shared by attempts and convergence: every call is
/// classified first (deny → refused and told; approval → stop; allow →
/// dispatched through agentplane); the closing structured answer ends it.
pub(crate) async fn tool_loop(
    cx: &mut StepCtx<'_>,
    prompt: &Tainted<Value>,
    spec: LoopSpec,
) -> Result<Outcome, SkillError> {
    let LoopSpec {
        tools,
        policy,
        max_turns,
        max_tool_calls,
        reasoning,
        schema,
        routes,
        root,
        frozen_additions,
        finish,
        ask,
        run_approved,
        mut once,
        observer,
        run,
        asking,
        mut parts,
        mcp_digests,
    } = spec;
    // Objects allowed without asking: this run's, then what a person
    // answered "for the task" or "for this run" in this attempt.
    let mut remembered: Vec<(Object, &'static str)> =
        run_approved.into_iter().map(|g| (g, "run-grant")).collect();
    let mut prompted = asking.asked;
    let mut told_budget = false;
    let catalog = crate::tools::catalog();

    // What the conversation has read, with its labels: agentplane checks
    // every model call against the join.
    let mut transcript = Transcript::new(prompt);
    let mut conversation: Label = prompt.label().clone();
    let mut calls = 0u32;
    let mut denied_in_a_row = 0u32;
    // Whether this attempt registered the `approval` obligation yet.
    let mut obligation = false;
    let mut usage = agentplane::model::Usage::default();
    let mut log: Vec<Value> = Vec::new();

    let end = |status: &str,
               extra: Value,
               log: &[Value],
               usage: agentplane::model::Usage,
               conversation: &Label,
               prompted: u32| {
        let mut out = json!({
            "status": status,
            "tool_calls": log,
            "asked": prompted,
            "usage": {
                "input_tokens": usage.input_tokens,
                "output_tokens": usage.output_tokens,
                "cache_read_tokens": usage.cache_read_tokens,
                "cache_write_tokens": usage.cache_write_tokens,
            },
        });
        if let (Some(o), Some(e)) = (out.as_object_mut(), extra.as_object()) {
            o.extend(e.clone());
        }
        Ok(Outcome::done(Tainted::with_label(
            out,
            conversation.clone(),
        )))
    };

    for turn in 0..max_turns {
        // The prompt was built from labelled parts (`/system` is speccoder's
        // constant instruction); what the conversation read since rides in
        // the transcript, so the request is labelled by its real sources.
        let tools_now = tools.clone();
        let schema_now = schema.clone();
        let read_so_far = &transcript;
        let completion = cx
            .complete_with(prompt, move |call| {
                let call = call
                    .with_tools(tools_now)
                    .continuing(read_so_far)
                    .expecting(schema_now);
                if reasoning {
                    call.with_reasoning_summary()
                } else {
                    call
                }
            })
            .await?;
        conversation = transcript.label().join(completion.label());
        usage = usage.plus(completion.peek().usage);
        if let Some((task, p)) = &observer {
            p.event(&crate::progress::Event::Usage {
                task: task.clone(),
                input_tokens: usage.input_tokens,
                output_tokens: usage.output_tokens,
                cache_read_tokens: usage.cache_read_tokens,
                cache_write_tokens: usage.cache_write_tokens,
                usd: None,
            });
        }

        // The model's summary of its reasoning, when asked and given: its
        // account of why, a claim like its words.
        if let (Some((task, p)), Some(reasoning)) =
            (&observer, completion.peek().reasoning.as_deref())
            && !reasoning.trim().is_empty()
        {
            let text: String = crate::approvals::present::escape(reasoning.trim())
                .chars()
                .take(4000)
                .collect();
            p.event(&crate::progress::Event::Reasoning {
                task: task.clone(),
                turn: turn + 1,
                text,
            });
        }
        if completion.peek().truncated {
            return Ok(Outcome::fail(
                "the model ran out of output budget mid-turn; nothing it was still writing was executed — raise [model] max_output_tokens",
            ));
        }
        let asked_calls = transcript.asked(&completion);
        // The model's own words beside its calls, live: its account, a
        // claim. A turn without calls is its final answer, reported as such;
        // its commentary, where the provider marks one, is still words.
        let said = super::said(completion.peek());
        if let (Some((task, p)), Some(said)) = (observer.as_ref(), said.as_deref()) {
            let text: String = crate::approvals::present::escape(said)
                .chars()
                .take(2000)
                .collect();
            p.event(&crate::progress::Event::Said {
                task: task.clone(),
                turn: turn + 1,
                text,
            });
        }
        if asked_calls.is_empty() {
            let report = completion
                .peek()
                .structured
                .clone()
                .unwrap_or_else(|| json!({ "summary": completion.peek().text, "status": "incomplete", "files_changed": [], "checks_run": [], "notes": ["the answer was not the requested structure"] }));
            let status = finish(&report);
            return end(
                status,
                json!({ "report": report }),
                &log,
                usage,
                &conversation,
                prompted,
            );
        }

        for mut asked in asked_calls {
            relativise(&mut asked.arguments, root.as_deref());
            // Only speccoder sets the object a call is checked against.
            if let Some(o) = asked.arguments.as_object_mut() {
                o.remove(crate::tools::EXPECT);
            }
            calls += 1;
            if calls > max_tool_calls {
                return end(
                    "budget_exhausted",
                    json!({ "reason": format!("more than {max_tool_calls} tool calls") }),
                    &log,
                    usage,
                    &conversation,
                    prompted,
                );
            }
            if asked.name == ASK_PERSON && tools.iter().any(|t| t.name == ASK_PERSON) {
                let question = asked.arguments["question"]
                    .as_str()
                    .unwrap_or_default()
                    .to_owned();
                // A person's answer is their input, recorded with who gave it
                // — never speccoder's own trusted text.
                let decided = match &ask {
                    Some(asker) => Some(
                        wait_for_person(
                            cx,
                            asker,
                            &mut obligation,
                            &crate::approvals::tasks::question_task(&asker.task, &question),
                        )
                        .await?,
                    ),
                    None => None,
                };
                let read = decided.as_ref().map(crate::approvals::tasks::read);
                let by = read.as_ref().and_then(|r| r.by.clone());
                let entry = json!({
                    "tool": ASK_PERSON,
                    "arguments": asked.arguments,
                    "decision": "allow",
                    "answered": read.as_ref().is_some_and(|r| r.text.is_some()),
                    "operator": by.as_ref().map(Who::view),
                    "via": by.as_ref().map(|w| w.via.clone()),
                });
                emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                log.push(entry);
                let text = match (&read, &by) {
                    (Some(r), _) if r.text.is_some() => r.text.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
                    (Some(_), Some(w)) => format!("{} declined to answer.", w.name),
                    _ => "Nobody can answer now. Record the question in the artifact as [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: <question>] and continue.".to_owned(),
                };
                let label = match &by {
                    Some(_) => provenance::from(provenance::PERSON),
                    None => Label::trusted(),
                };
                transcript.answered(
                    asked,
                    &Tainted::with_label(json!({ "answer": text }), label),
                );
                continue;
            }
            if asked.name == REPORT_BLOCKED && tools.iter().any(|t| t.name == REPORT_BLOCKED) {
                let reason = asked.arguments["reason"]
                    .as_str()
                    .unwrap_or("no reason given")
                    .to_owned();
                let entry = json!({ "tool": REPORT_BLOCKED, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "stop" });
                emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                log.push(entry);
                return end(
                    "blocked",
                    json!({ "reason": reason }),
                    &log,
                    usage,
                    &conversation,
                    prompted,
                );
            }
            let declared = tools.iter().any(|t| t.name == asked.name);
            let target = catalog
                .iter()
                .find(|t| declared && t.name == asked.name)
                .map(|t| ToolId::new(t.server, t.name))
                .or_else(|| {
                    routes
                        .iter()
                        .find(|(n, _, _)| declared && *n == asked.name)
                        .map(|(_, server, tool)| ToolId::new(server, tool))
                });
            let Some(target) = target else {
                let entry = json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "unknown" });
                emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                log.push(entry);
                transcript.failed(asked, Tainted::trusted("no tool of that name".to_owned()));
                continue;
            };
            let mut decision = policy.base(&asked.name, &asked.arguments);
            // `[tests] frozen = "additions"`: read the frozen test (a
            // journaled call, so replay sees the same content) and allow a
            // write that keeps every existing line.
            let mut additions_only = false;
            if frozen_additions
                && matches!(&decision, Decision::Approval(r) if r.contains("frozen test"))
            {
                let path = asked.arguments["path"]
                    .as_str()
                    .unwrap_or_default()
                    .to_owned();
                let read = cx
                    .call_tool(
                        ToolId::new("fs", "read_file"),
                        Tainted::with_label(json!({ "path": path }), completion.label().clone()),
                    )
                    .await?;
                let current = read.peek().clone();
                // `read_file` joins lines with `\n`; the file's last newline is
                // restored so an edit's `old_string` matches as on disk.
                let lines = current["content"].as_str().unwrap_or_default();
                let old_text = if lines.is_empty() {
                    String::new()
                } else {
                    format!("{lines}\n")
                };
                let old = old_text.as_str();
                let readable = current["ok"] == true && current["truncated"] != true;
                let new = match asked.name.as_str() {
                    "write_file" => asked.arguments["content"].as_str().map(str::to_owned),
                    "edit_file" => {
                        let (from, to) = (
                            asked.arguments["old_string"].as_str().unwrap_or_default(),
                            asked.arguments["new_string"].as_str().unwrap_or_default(),
                        );
                        let all = asked.arguments["replace_all"] == true;
                        (!from.is_empty() && (all || old.matches(from).count() == 1))
                            .then(|| old.replace(from, to))
                    }
                    _ => None,
                };
                if readable && new.is_some_and(|n| crate::integrity::only_additions(old, &n)) {
                    decision = Decision::Allow;
                    additions_only = true;
                }
            }
            // A person would be needed: the object the call reaches is
            // resolved by a journaled step (replay reads the same object
            // back), and only a decision on that very object applies.
            let mut object: Option<Object> = None;
            if matches!(decision, Decision::Approval(_)) {
                if asked.name.starts_with(crate::mcp::PREFIX) {
                    object = mcp_digests.get(&asked.name).map(|digest| Object::Tool {
                        name: asked.name.clone(),
                        digest: digest.clone(),
                    });
                } else {
                    let resolved = cx
                        .call_tool(
                            ToolId::new("fs", "resolve"),
                            Tainted::with_label(
                                json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments }),
                                completion.label().clone(),
                            ),
                        )
                        .await?;
                    let out = resolved.peek();
                    if out["ok"] == true {
                        object = serde_json::from_value(out["object"].clone()).ok();
                    } else {
                        decision = Decision::Deny(
                            out["error"]
                                .as_str()
                                .unwrap_or("the call's object cannot be resolved")
                                .to_owned(),
                        );
                    }
                }
                if matches!(decision, Decision::Approval(_)) {
                    decision = policy.classify(&asked.name, &asked.arguments, object.as_ref());
                }
            }
            let mut person: Option<Value> = None;
            // Allowed by a person's grant for the task (of this run): the
            // person's decision, not a rule's.
            if decision == Decision::Allow && object.is_some() {
                person = Some(json!({
                    "approved_by": "person",
                    "scope": "task-grant",
                    "grant": { "scope": "task", "run": run },
                }));
            }
            let mut note: Option<String> = None;
            // An object a person approved for one call: this one.
            if matches!(decision, Decision::Approval(_))
                && let Some(at) = object
                    .as_ref()
                    .and_then(|o| once.iter().position(|r| r == o))
            {
                once.remove(at);
                person = Some(json!({
                    "approved_by": "person",
                    "scope": "once-grant",
                    "grant": { "scope": "once", "run": run },
                }));
                decision = Decision::Allow;
            }
            // An object a person already approved for this run or task.
            if matches!(decision, Decision::Approval(_))
                && let Some((_, scope)) = object
                    .as_ref()
                    .and_then(|o| remembered.iter().find(|(r, _)| r == o))
            {
                person = Some(json!({
                    "approved_by": "person",
                    "scope": scope,
                    "grant": { "scope": scope.trim_end_matches("-grant"), "run": run },
                }));
                decision = Decision::Allow;
            }
            // On autopilot nobody is asked: what would wait for a person is
            // refused for the run and listed for them afterwards.
            decision = policy.settle(decision);
            // Still a person's: the question, with everything it is decided by.
            let request = match &decision {
                Decision::Approval(reason) => Some(question(&Question {
                    asked: &asked,
                    reason,
                    turn: turn + 1,
                    said: said.as_deref().unwrap_or_default(),
                    asker: ask.as_ref(),
                    policy: &policy,
                    object: object.as_ref(),
                    remembered: &remembered,
                    parts: &parts,
                    run: run.as_deref(),
                })),
                _ => None,
            };
            // ask a person now, as a journaled effect, instead of stopping.
            if let (Some(mut request), Some(asker)) = (request.clone(), &ask) {
                // The run's asking budget: within it a person is prompted
                // (and counted, whatever they answer); past it the call
                // waits in the run's batch, nobody interrupted.
                if asking.prompts {
                    if prompted < asking.budget {
                        prompted += 1;
                        request.asked = prompted;
                    } else {
                        request.batched = true;
                    }
                    request.budget = asking.budget;
                }
                if request.batched {
                    // The batch item is created: the person is notified
                    // once; calls joining it notify no one.
                    if !told_budget {
                        needs_person(observer.as_ref(), &asked, object.as_ref());
                    }
                    if !told_budget && let Some((_, p)) = &observer {
                        p.event(&crate::progress::Event::Notice {
                            text: format!(
                                "approval budget ({}) reached: calls wait in Needs You (speccoder approvals)",
                                asking.budget
                            ),
                        });
                    }
                    told_budget = true;
                } else {
                    needs_person(observer.as_ref(), &asked, object.as_ref());
                }
                let decided = wait_for_person(
                    cx,
                    asker,
                    &mut obligation,
                    &crate::approvals::tasks::approval_task(&request, &log),
                )
                .await?;
                let read = crate::approvals::tasks::read(&decided);
                // A batch decision may start the run's asking again.
                if read.resume_asking {
                    prompted = 0;
                }
                let answer: Answer = read.answer.clone();
                // Who decided, and how that is known, is journaled with it.
                let approver = serde_json::to_value(&answer.by).unwrap_or(Value::Null);
                let operator = read.by.as_ref().map(Who::view);
                person_decided(
                    observer.as_ref(),
                    &asked,
                    if answer.decision == Said::Approve {
                        "approve"
                    } else {
                        "reject"
                    },
                    (answer.decision == Said::Approve).then(|| answer.scope.name()),
                    read.by.as_ref().filter(|_| !read.expired),
                    object.as_ref(),
                );
                match answer.decision {
                    Said::Approve => {
                        let mut p = json!({
                            "approved_by": "person",
                            "scope": answer.scope.name(),
                            "note": answer.note,
                            "approver": approver,
                            "operator": operator,
                        });
                        if answer.always {
                            p["always"] = json!(true);
                        }
                        if let (Some(o), Scope::Task | Scope::Run) = (&object, answer.scope) {
                            let remembered_as = if answer.scope == Scope::Run {
                                "run-grant"
                            } else {
                                "task-grant"
                            };
                            p["grant"] = json!({ "scope": answer.scope.name(), "run": run });
                            remembered.push((o.clone(), remembered_as));
                        }
                        person = Some(p);
                        note = answer.note;
                        decision = Decision::Allow;
                    }
                    // "Later" is a task left undecided: the run stays
                    // suspended and never reaches here.
                    Said::Reject | Said::Stop => {
                        let why = answer
                            .reason
                            .unwrap_or_else(|| "no reason given".to_owned());
                        person = Some(if read.expired {
                            json!({ "expired": true, "rejection": why })
                        } else {
                            json!({ "rejected_by": "person", "approver": approver, "operator": operator, "rejection": why })
                        });
                        decision = Decision::Deny(format!("a person rejected this: {why}"));
                    }
                }
            }
            // Who decided: a person (now, or by a grant they gave), or a rule
            // — named, so a rule's decision is never read as a person's.
            let rule = person
                .is_none()
                .then(|| policy.rule(&asked.name, &asked.arguments, object.as_ref()));
            let with_person = |mut entry: Value| {
                if let Some(o) = entry.as_object_mut() {
                    // The object decided on, whoever decided.
                    if let Some(obj) = &object {
                        o.insert("object".to_owned(), json!(obj));
                    }
                    match (person.as_ref().and_then(Value::as_object), &rule) {
                        (Some(p), _) => {
                            // An expiry is nobody's decision.
                            let by = if p.contains_key("expired") {
                                "expiry"
                            } else {
                                "person"
                            };
                            o.insert("by".to_owned(), json!(by));
                            o.extend(p.clone());
                        }
                        (None, Some(r)) => {
                            o.insert("by".to_owned(), json!("rule"));
                            o.insert("rule".to_owned(), json!(r));
                        }
                        (None, None) => {}
                    }
                }
                entry
            };
            match decision {
                Decision::Deny(reason) => {
                    let entry = with_person(
                        json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "deny", "reason": reason }),
                    );
                    emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                    log.push(entry);
                    // The reason quotes the call (its tool, path, command, or a
                    // person's words about it): it carries the call's label.
                    transcript.failed(
                        asked,
                        refusal(format!("denied: {reason}"), completion.label()),
                    );
                    // Escalation: a model that keeps asking for what it may
                    // not do is stopped for a person.
                    denied_in_a_row += 1;
                    if denied_in_a_row >= MAX_CONSECUTIVE_DENIALS {
                        return end(
                            "denied",
                            json!({ "reason": format!("{denied_in_a_row} calls in a row were denied; last: {reason}") }),
                            &log,
                            usage,
                            &conversation,
                            prompted,
                        );
                    }
                    continue;
                }
                Decision::Approval(reason) => {
                    let mut entry = json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "approval", "reason": reason });
                    if let Some(obj) = &object {
                        entry["object"] = json!(obj);
                    }
                    emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                    needs_person(observer.as_ref(), &asked, object.as_ref());
                    log.push(entry);
                    return end(
                        "needs_approval",
                        json!({ "pending": {
                            "tool": asked.name,
                            "arguments": asked.arguments,
                            "reason": reason,
                            "object": object,
                            "run": run,
                            "request": request,
                        } }),
                        &log,
                        usage,
                        &conversation,
                        prompted,
                    );
                }
                Decision::Allow => {
                    denied_in_a_row = 0;
                    // The arguments carry the model's label: agentplane's
                    // taint gate checks them against the grant's fields (an
                    // argument-less mutating tool is granted exactly `{}`).
                    // A command gets the call's id (`SPECCODER_CALL_ID`):
                    // a call resumed after a crash has the same one, so a
                    // script can tell a repeat from a new call.
                    let mut arguments = asked.arguments.clone();
                    if asked.name == "run_command"
                        && let Some(o) = arguments.as_object_mut()
                    {
                        o.insert("call_id".to_owned(), Value::String(asked.id.clone()));
                    }
                    // Decided on an object: the tool checks it again at
                    // use, and refuses when the call now reaches another.
                    if let (Some(obj), Some(o)) = (&object, arguments.as_object_mut())
                        && matches!(
                            asked.name.as_str(),
                            "write_file" | "edit_file" | "run_command"
                        )
                    {
                        o.insert(crate::tools::EXPECT.to_owned(), json!(obj));
                    }
                    let args = Tainted::with_label(arguments, completion.label().clone());
                    let result = match cx.call_tool(target.clone(), args).await {
                        Ok(r) => r,
                        // A failure the far side reported is the model's to
                        // read, labelled by who wrote it.
                        Err(error) => match cx.relayed(&error) {
                            Some(detail) => {
                                let entry = with_person(
                                    json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "allow", "ok": false }),
                                );
                                emit(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry);
                                log.push(entry);
                                transcript.failed(asked, detail);
                                continue;
                            }
                            None => return Err(error.into()),
                        },
                    };
                    let output = result.peek().clone();
                    let ok = output["ok"].as_bool() != Some(false);
                    let mut entry = with_person(
                        json!({ "tool": asked.name, "arguments": asked.arguments, "decision": "allow", "ok": ok }),
                    );
                    if let Some(changed) = output["object_changed"].as_object() {
                        entry["decision"] = json!("refused_changed");
                        entry["expected"] = changed.get("expected").cloned().unwrap_or(Value::Null);
                        entry["found"] = changed.get("found").cloned().unwrap_or(Value::Null);
                    }
                    // What the tool returned is content the attempt read:
                    // arguments copied from it later are named as such.
                    if let Some(part) = crate::approvals::derived::part_of(
                        &asked.name,
                        &asked.arguments,
                        &output,
                        turn + 1,
                        &format!("tool://{}/{}", target.server, target.tool),
                        |p: &str| {
                            policy.protected().write_class(p)
                                == Some(crate::tools::paths::Class::Intent)
                        },
                    ) {
                        parts.push(part);
                    }
                    if additions_only {
                        entry["frozen_additions"] = json!(true);
                    }
                    let tail = if asked.name == "run_command" && !ok {
                        crate::progress::tail(&format!(
                            "{}\n{}",
                            output["stdout"].as_str().unwrap_or_default(),
                            output["stderr"].as_str().unwrap_or_default()
                        ))
                    } else {
                        Vec::new()
                    };
                    emit_with_tail(observer.as_ref(), turn + 1, &entry, tail);
                    log.push(entry);
                    // A command that changed a judge input ends the attempt
                    // before the model sees another turn.
                    if let Some(drift) = output["integrity"].as_array().filter(|d| !d.is_empty()) {
                        let paths: Vec<&str> =
                            drift.iter().filter_map(|d| d["path"].as_str()).collect();
                        return end(
                            "integrity",
                            json!({
                                "reason": format!("a command changed what judges the task: {}", paths.join(", ")),
                                "integrity": drift,
                            }),
                            &log,
                            usage,
                            &conversation,
                            prompted,
                        );
                    }
                    // A tool that refused (`error`) is a failed call; a
                    // command that ran and exited non-zero is a result the
                    // model must read in full — its stdout and stderr are
                    // the diagnostics (found by the first real evaluation,
                    // where the model saw only the word "failed").
                    match output["error"].as_str() {
                        Some(error) if !ok => transcript.failed(
                            asked,
                            Tainted::with_label(error.to_owned(), result.label().clone()),
                        ),
                        // A person's note rides with the result it approved.
                        _ => match &note {
                            Some(n) => {
                                let n = format!("Note from the person who approved this call: {n}");
                                transcript.answered(
                                    asked,
                                    &result.map(|mut v| {
                                        v["note_from_person"] = Value::String(n);
                                        v
                                    }),
                                );
                            }
                            None => transcript.answered(asked, &result),
                        },
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    end(
        "budget_exhausted",
        json!({ "reason": format!("more than {max_turns} model turns") }),
        &log,
        usage,
        &conversation,
        prompted,
    )
}

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

    #[test]
    fn labels_are_read_from_the_parts_and_refusals_carry_the_call() {
        use agentplane::core::{Label, SourceId};
        let model = Label::untrusted(SourceId::new("model:x/y"));
        // A refusal quoting the call is the call's; a constant is trusted.
        assert!(
            refusal("denied: `src/x` is protected".to_owned(), &model)
                .label()
                .is_untrusted()
        );
        // Parts labelled when admitted: the spec trusted, the digest the verifier's.
        let input = Tainted::object([
            ("bundle", Tainted::trusted(json!({}))),
            (
                "digest",
                Tainted::with_label(json!({}), provenance::from(provenance::VERIFIER)),
            ),
            (
                "settings",
                Tainted::object([("nudges", Tainted::trusted(json!([])))]),
            ),
        ]);
        let label = conversation_label(&input);
        assert!(
            label
                .provenance
                .contains(&SourceId::new(provenance::VERIFIER))
        );
        // No labels of its own: every part takes the whole input's (fails closed).
        let flat = Tainted::with_label(json!({ "bundle": {} }), model.clone());
        assert_eq!(conversation_label(&flat).provenance, model.provenance);
    }

    #[test]
    fn absolute_paths_inside_the_root_become_relative_and_others_stay() {
        let mut a = json!({ "path": "/work/repo/specs/001-x/plan.md" });
        relativise(&mut a, Some("/work/repo"));
        assert_eq!(a["path"], "specs/001-x/plan.md");
        let mut outside = json!({ "path": "/work/repository-two/x" });
        relativise(&mut outside, Some("/work/repo"));
        assert_eq!(outside["path"], "/work/repository-two/x");
        let mut none = json!({ "path": "/etc/passwd" });
        relativise(&mut none, None);
        assert_eq!(none["path"], "/etc/passwd");
    }
}