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protocol.rs

1//! The kernel's request/event interface — one protocol for every peer.
2//!
3//! The kernel already exposes one half of a protocol: [`AgentEvent`] is a
4//! typed, serializable stream of everything a session does (text deltas, tool
5//! lifecycle, turn boundaries). This module adds the inbound half, [`Request`],
6//! and a versioned, addressed envelope, [`Frame`], so that a client and a peer
7//! become the same kind of thing:
8//!
9//! - a **request** goes into a session's mailbox,
10//! - an **event** comes out of its stream.
11//!
12//! A TUI client, a script, and another session differ only in which address
13//! ([`Frame::session`]) they hold and how they render the stream — not in the
14//! protocol they speak. That is what lets the client seam and the future
15//! agent-to-agent seam share one implementation.
16//!
17//! Transport is deliberately absent: today the seam is an in-process
18//! `tokio::mpsc`; framing and sockets live above the kernel (a future
19//! `wcode-protocol` crate). This module is serde types only, so it adds no
20//! behavior — it is the shape the actor (S1) and the socket (S2) will speak.
21//!
22//! See `docs/interface-protocol-brainstorm.md` for the design and the staged
23//! path that lands these types.
24
25use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
26
27use crate::event::AgentEvent;
28
29/// Wire-protocol major version. Bumped only by a breaking change; additive
30/// changes leave it alone. [`Request`] already carries a [`Request::Unknown`]
31/// fallback so an older peer survives a newer request; the matching catch-all
32/// on the event side lands with the actor (S1), where an unknown event can be
33/// handled rather than silently dropped.
34pub const PROTOCOL_VERSION: u32 = 1;
35
36/// The well-known address of the human peer (brainstorm §5.2): the sender an
37/// in-process actor attributes an inbound message to until addressing lands
38/// (S4-2).
39pub const USER: &str = "user";
40
41/// Whether `request` is an A2A inbound message — the delivery verbs a peer sends
42/// (`Notify`/`Interrupt`/`Wake`), as opposed to a local command. The actor runs
43/// its `before_inbound` policy on exactly these.
44pub fn is_inbound(request: &Request) -> bool {
45    matches!(
46        request,
47        Request::Notify { .. } | Request::Interrupt { .. } | Request::Wake { .. }
48    )
49}
50
51/// A session's stable address.
52///
53/// Reuses the id already written in `SessionEntry::Header`, so a session is
54/// reachable by the same name it persists under. Transitively serialized as a
55/// bare string. Newtypes a plain `String` only to keep addressing legible at
56/// call sites — the conventions (the human is `"user"`, a peer is
57/// `"agent:<id>"`) are not encoded in the type yet.
58#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
59#[serde(transparent)]
60pub struct SessionId(pub String);
61
62impl SessionId {
63    pub fn new(id: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
64        Self(id.into())
65    }
66
67    /// The well-known address of the human peer (see [`USER`]).
68    pub fn user() -> Self {
69        Self(USER.to_string())
70    }
71
72    /// A peer session's address: `"agent:<id>"` (§5.2).
73    pub fn agent(id: impl AsRef<str>) -> Self {
74        Self(format!("agent:{}", id.as_ref()))
75    }
76
77    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &str {
78        &self.0
79    }
80}
81
82impl From<String> for SessionId {
83    fn from(id: String) -> Self {
84        Self(id)
85    }
86}
87
88impl From<&str> for SessionId {
89    fn from(id: &str) -> Self {
90        Self(id.to_string())
91    }
92}
93
94impl std::fmt::Display for SessionId {
95    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
96        f.write_str(&self.0)
97    }
98}
99
100/// A session's run-state — the server-side liveness fact (bug 2).
101///
102/// The wire twin of the TUI's client-local `TeamState`: born at the actor's
103/// `run()` boundary (actor.rs), mirrored into the registry roster, and carried
104/// on [`SessionInfo`] so it RIDES the existing
105/// [`crate::event::AgentEvent::Sessions`] push — no new `Request`/`Reply`
106/// variant is needed for the query (`Request::ListSessions` already returns
107/// `Sessions`; making it `state`-aware is the whole poll path).
108///
109/// serde shape: `snake_case` — `"idle" | "running" | "done" | "failed"`.
110/// `Default = Idle`, so an older server's [`SessionInfo`] (no `state` key)
111/// still deserializes.
112#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
113#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
114pub enum MemberState {
115    /// Not running and never has — a fresh worker before its first turn.
116    #[default]
117    Idle,
118    /// A run (a `Submit`/`Wake` turn) is in flight right now.
119    Running,
120    /// The last run finished normally; idle but not virgin.
121    Done,
122    /// The last run ended on a run-failure (`StopReason::Error`); sticky
123    /// across the run boundary, cleared by the next start.
124    Failed,
125}
126
127impl MemberState {
128    /// Lowercase label the roster push / `peers` listing render.
129    pub fn label(self) -> &'static str {
130        match self {
131            MemberState::Idle => "idle",
132            MemberState::Running => "running",
133            MemberState::Done => "done",
134            MemberState::Failed => "failed",
135        }
136    }
137}
138
139// Follow-on (not this change): the map from `MemberState` to the TUI's
140// `TeamState` does NOT live here — the harness must not depend on `wcode-tui`
141// (layering). That map, and the glyph styling it drives, is a separate TUI
142// change outside the roster work.
143
144#[cfg(test)]
145mod member_state_tests {
146    use super::*;
147    use serde_json::json;
148
149    #[test]
150    fn serde_is_snake_case() {
151        assert_eq!(
152            serde_json::to_value(MemberState::Running).unwrap(),
153            json!("running")
154        );
155        assert_eq!(
156            serde_json::from_str::<MemberState>("\"failed\"").unwrap(),
157            MemberState::Failed
158        );
159        assert_eq!(MemberState::Done.label(), "done");
160    }
161
162    #[test]
163    fn absent_state_field_defaults_to_idle() {
164        let info: SessionInfo = serde_json::from_value(json!({"id": "agent:w1"})).unwrap();
165        assert_eq!(info.id, SessionId::agent("w1"));
166        assert_eq!(info.state, MemberState::Idle);
167    }
168}
169/// A served session's address plus the little metadata a roster shows: today
170/// only its **effective model**. Carried by
171/// [`crate::event::AgentEvent::Sessions`], so a client can label each member by
172/// its own model instead of substituting the root's.
173#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
174pub struct SessionInfo {
175    pub id: SessionId,
176    /// The session's effective model id, when the server knows one (a worker
177    /// registered with its model); `None` for a peer whose model is unknown.
178    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
179    pub model: Option<String>,
180    /// Server-side liveness (see [`MemberState`] above). `#[serde(default)]`
181    /// keeps an older peer's `SessionInfo` (no `state` key) round-tripping as
182    /// `Idle`.
183    #[serde(default)]
184    pub state: MemberState,
185}
186
187/// Inbound intent: the requests a session's mailbox accepts.
188///
189/// Every variant maps one-to-one onto an existing [`crate::agent::Agent`]
190/// method, so the current session behavior is expressible without the actor
191/// inventing anything new:
192///
193/// | `Request` | today |
194/// |-----------|-------|
195/// | `Submit` | `Agent::run` |
196/// | `Notify` | `Agent::notify` (append, no turn) |
197/// | `Interrupt` | `Agent::steer` |
198/// | `Wake` | run — a turn even when idle |
199/// | `Cancel` | `Agent::cancel` |
200/// | `SetModel` | `Agent::set_model` |
201/// | `SetEffort` | `Agent::set_effort` |
202/// | `Compact` | `Agent::compact` |
203///
204/// The one exception is [`Request::ListSessions`]: a transport-level probe the
205/// server answers, not an `Agent` method.
206///
207/// Inbound payloads carry user **content**, not an `AgentMessage`: a remote peer
208/// must not be able to inject an `Assistant`/`ToolResult` message and impersonate
209/// the model. The session wraps content as a user message, exactly as
210/// `Agent::run` does. `GetHistory` is a read: it carries no payload and its
211/// answer comes back as [`AgentEvent::History`]
212/// (with the other replies — [`AgentEvent::Ack`],
213/// and [`AgentEvent::Error`] — alongside it).
214/// These reply variants are never *streamed*: they answer a specific request,
215/// which the transport correlates (an in-process oneshot today, the envelope's
216/// `reply_to` on the wire).
217#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
218#[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "snake_case")]
219pub enum Request {
220    /// Start a turn: persist the text as a user message and run the loop until
221    /// it stops. The run's progress and result stream back as [`AgentEvent`]s.
222    Submit { text: String },
223
224    /// Append `content` to the conversation *without* starting a turn (recorded
225    /// now if idle, or at the next turn boundary if a run is in flight). The
226    /// "tell, don't ask" delivery mode — `Agent::notify`.
227    Notify { content: String },
228
229    /// Inject `content` at the next turn boundary of the in-flight run — a soft
230    /// interrupt that does not cancel the run. Formerly `Steer`; `"steer"`
231    /// still deserializes here.
232    #[serde(alias = "steer")]
233    Interrupt { content: String },
234
235    /// Wake the session: run `content` as a turn **even if it is idle** (mid-run
236    /// it rides the follow-up channel instead). Formerly `FollowUp`;
237    /// `"follow_up"` still deserializes here.
238    /// `"follow_up"` still deserializes here.
239    #[serde(alias = "follow_up")]
240    Wake { content: String },
241
242    /// Cancel the in-flight run (and any retry/backoff wait). Idempotent.
243    Cancel,
244
245    /// Swap the model for subsequent turns.
246    SetModel { model: String },
247
248    /// Set the reasoning effort, or clear it (`None` = send nothing).
249    SetEffort { effort: Option<String> },
250
251    /// Summarize the older prefix of the conversation now, optionally focused
252    /// by `instructions`.
253    Compact { instructions: Option<String> },
254
255    /// Toggle plan mode. The actor flips the agent's shared `PlanModeHandle`
256    /// (removing mutating tools + mutating `bash`) and recomposes the system
257    /// prompt. Infallible — replies [`AgentEvent::Ack`].
258    SetPlanMode { on: bool },
259
260    /// Ask a side question (`/btw`): answer `text` tool-free, from the current
261    /// context, WITHOUT recording it. A read — carries user content, names no
262    /// `AgentMessage` (see the enum doc above). Reply:
263    /// [`AgentEvent::SideAnswer`]. A `SideAsk` arriving mid-run is answered from
264    /// the latest turn-boundary snapshot (like `GetHistory`), not refused.
265    SideAsk { text: String },
266    /// Read back the conversation so far. Reply:
267    /// [`AgentEvent::History`].
268    GetHistory,
269
270    /// A compact read of the session's latest activity — the text of its most
271    /// recent assistant message — WITHOUT shipping the transcript (unlike
272    /// [`Request::GetHistory`]). A `member`-style peek: the reply is one small
273    /// string, not the whole history. Reply: [`AgentEvent::Status`].
274    Status,
275
276    /// Ask the **transport** for the sessions a server serves — serve order,
277    /// root first. The one request that names no `Agent` method: an in-process
278    /// session has no roster, so the actor answers it with [`AgentEvent::Ack`]
279    /// (like [`Request::Unknown`]); a socket server intercepts it and replies
280    /// [`AgentEvent::Sessions`].
281    ListSessions,
282
283    /// Define a worker **on a served peer** (§8, S4). Like [`Request::ListSessions`]
284    /// it names no `Agent` method: a socket server intercepts it and asks an
285    /// injected handler to build a session, replying [`AgentEvent::Spawned`] with
286    /// its address (or a correlated [`AgentEvent::Error`]). Mirrors the CLI's
287    /// worker spec, so a peer can customize the worker's model, role, tool set,
288    /// `read_only`, `effort`, and provider. An in-process session has no
289    /// factory, so the actor answers
290    /// it with [`AgentEvent::Error`].
291    Define {
292        /// The worker's address; auto-assigned (`w1`, `w2`, …) when absent.
293        name: Option<String>,
294        /// Model id override; `None` inherits the server's model.
295        model: Option<String>,
296        /// Role text appended to the worker's system prompt.
297        role: Option<String>,
298        /// Tool allow-list; `None` = the full default set.
299        tools: Option<Vec<String>>,
300        /// Provider base URL override; `None` inherits the server's.
301        base_url: Option<String>,
302        /// Provider API key override; `None` inherits the server's.
303        api_key: Option<String>,
304        /// Enforce read-only for the defined worker (D1/D2); default false.
305        #[serde(default)]
306        read_only: bool,
307        /// Reasoning-effort override (D3); `None` inherits, synonyms clear.
308        #[serde(default)]
309        effort: Option<String>,
310    },
311
312    /// Forward-compatibility catch-all: an older peer must skip a request it
313    /// does not understand rather than fail the connection.
314    #[serde(other)]
315    Unknown,
316}
317
318/// Versioned, addressed envelope around a [`Request`] or an [`AgentEvent`].
319///
320/// Generic over the body so the same frame carries either direction: the
321/// request-to-a-session frame and the event-from-a-session frame have identical
322/// headers. The body is `#[serde(flatten)]`ed, so on the wire a frame is one
323/// flat JSON object — `{"v":1,"id":7,"session":"s1","type":"cancel"}`.
324#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
325pub struct Frame<P> {
326    /// Protocol major version ([`PROTOCOL_VERSION`]).
327    pub v: u32,
328    /// Sender-assigned id, monotonic per connection; answers echo it in
329    /// `reply_to`.
330    pub id: u64,
331    /// The request this frame answers, if any. Streaming events that are not
332    /// direct replies leave it absent.
333    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
334    pub reply_to: Option<u64>,
335    /// The session this frame concerns — the target of a request, the origin of
336    /// an event. The whole addressing scheme.
337    pub session: SessionId,
338    /// The sender's address, when it is not the transport's own client (an
339    /// in-process handle leaves it unset; an A2A peer sets its `"agent:<id>"`).
340    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
341    pub sender: Option<SessionId>,
342    #[serde(flatten)]
343    pub body: P,
344}
345
346impl<P> Frame<P> {
347    /// A fresh top-level frame at the current version, not a reply.
348    pub fn new(id: u64, session: SessionId, body: P) -> Self {
349        Self {
350            v: PROTOCOL_VERSION,
351            id,
352            reply_to: None,
353            session,
354            sender: None,
355            body,
356        }
357    }
358}
359
360/// A client-to-session frame.
361pub type RequestFrame = Frame<Request>;
362/// A session-to-client frame.
363pub type EventFrame = Frame<AgentEvent>;
364
365#[cfg(test)]
366mod tests {
367    use super::*;
368    use crate::event::{TodoItem, TodoStatus};
369    use serde::de::DeserializeOwned;
370    use serde_json::json;
371
372    fn roundtrip<P>(p: P, expected_tag: &str)
373    where
374        P: Serialize + DeserializeOwned + PartialEq + std::fmt::Debug,
375    {
376        let v = serde_json::to_value(&p).unwrap();
377        assert_eq!(v["type"], expected_tag);
378        let back: P = serde_json::from_value(v).unwrap();
379        assert_eq!(back, p);
380    }
381
382    #[test]
383    fn request_roundtrip_all_variants() {
384        roundtrip(Request::Submit { text: "hi".into() }, "submit");
385        roundtrip(Request::Cancel, "cancel");
386        roundtrip(Request::SetModel { model: "m1".into() }, "set_model");
387        roundtrip(
388            Request::SetEffort {
389                effort: Some("high".into()),
390            },
391            "set_effort",
392        );
393        roundtrip(Request::SetEffort { effort: None }, "set_effort");
394        roundtrip(
395            Request::Compact {
396                instructions: Some("focus on the parser".into()),
397            },
398            "compact",
399        );
400        roundtrip(Request::Compact { instructions: None }, "compact");
401        roundtrip(Request::SetPlanMode { on: true }, "set_plan_mode");
402        roundtrip(Request::Notify { content: "n".into() }, "notify");
403        roundtrip(Request::Interrupt { content: "i".into() }, "interrupt");
404        roundtrip(Request::Wake { content: "w".into() }, "wake");
405        roundtrip(Request::SideAsk { text: "why?".into() }, "side_ask");
406        roundtrip(Request::Status, "status");
407        roundtrip(Request::ListSessions, "list_sessions");
408        roundtrip(
409            Request::Define {
410                name: Some("w1".into()),
411                model: Some("m".into()),
412                role: Some("reviewer".into()),
413                tools: Some(vec!["read".into()]),
414                base_url: Some("http://w/v1".into()),
415                api_key: Some("k".into()),
416                read_only: true,
417                effort: Some("high".into()),
418            },
419            "define",
420        );
421        roundtrip(
422            Request::Define {
423                name: None,
424                model: None,
425                role: None,
426                tools: None,
427                base_url: None,
428                api_key: None,
429                read_only: false,
430                effort: None,
431            },
432            "define",
433        );
434    }
435
436    #[test]
437    fn legacy_verb_tags_deserialize_to_canonical_variants() {
438        let steer: Request = serde_json::from_str(r#"{"type":"steer","content":"s"}"#).unwrap();
439        assert_eq!(steer, Request::Interrupt { content: "s".into() });
440        let follow: Request = serde_json::from_str(r#"{"type":"follow_up","content":"f"}"#).unwrap();
441        assert_eq!(follow, Request::Wake { content: "f".into() });
442    }
443
444    #[test]
445    fn request_unknown_tag_is_caught_not_fatal() {
446        let back: Request = serde_json::from_str(r#"{"type":"from_the_future"}"#).unwrap();
447        assert_eq!(back, Request::Unknown);
448    }
449
450    #[test]
451    fn is_inbound_marks_only_the_delivery_verbs() {
452        assert!(is_inbound(&Request::Notify { content: "x".into() }));
453        assert!(is_inbound(&Request::Interrupt { content: "x".into() }));
454        assert!(is_inbound(&Request::Wake { content: "x".into() }));
455        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::Submit { text: "x".into() }));
456        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::GetHistory));
457        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::Status));
458        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::SideAsk { text: "x".into() }));
459        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::SetPlanMode { on: true }));
460        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::Cancel));
461        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::ListSessions));
462        assert!(!is_inbound(&Request::Define {
463            name: None,
464            model: None,
465            role: None,
466            tools: None,
467            base_url: None,
468            api_key: None,
469            read_only: false,
470            effort: None,
471        }));
472    }
473
474    #[test]
475    fn frame_flattens_body_and_omits_absent_reply_to() {
476        let f = Frame::new(7, SessionId::new("s1"), Request::Cancel);
477        let v = serde_json::to_value(&f).unwrap();
478        assert_eq!(
479            v,
480            json!({"v": PROTOCOL_VERSION, "id": 7, "session": "s1", "type": "cancel"})
481        );
482        let back: Frame<Request> = serde_json::from_value(v).unwrap();
483        assert_eq!(back, f);
484    }
485
486    #[test]
487    fn frame_carries_reply_to_and_an_event_body() {
488        let f = EventFrame {
489            v: PROTOCOL_VERSION,
490            id: 8,
491            reply_to: Some(7),
492            session: SessionId::from("s1"),
493            sender: None,
494            body: AgentEvent::AgentEnd,
495        };
496        let v = serde_json::to_value(&f).unwrap();
497        assert_eq!(
498            v,
499            json!({"v": PROTOCOL_VERSION, "id": 8, "reply_to": 7, "session": "s1", "type": "agent_end"})
500        );
501        // `AgentEvent` is not `PartialEq` (see event.rs); compare re-serialized
502        // JSON, matching that module's round-trip convention.
503        let back: EventFrame = serde_json::from_value(v.clone()).unwrap();
504        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&back).unwrap(), v);
505    }
506
507    #[test]
508    fn frame_carries_a_todo_event_body() {
509        let f = EventFrame {
510            v: PROTOCOL_VERSION,
511            id: 9,
512            reply_to: None,
513            session: SessionId::from("s1"),
514            sender: None,
515            body: AgentEvent::Todo {
516                todos: vec![TodoItem {
517                    content: "write tests".into(),
518                    status: TodoStatus::Pending,
519                }],
520            },
521        };
522        let v = serde_json::to_value(&f).unwrap();
523        assert_eq!(
524            v,
525            json!({
526                "v": PROTOCOL_VERSION, "id": 9, "session": "s1", "type": "todo",
527                "todos": [{"content": "write tests", "status": "pending"}],
528            })
529        );
530        let back: EventFrame = serde_json::from_value(v.clone()).unwrap();
531        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&back).unwrap(), v);
532    }
533
534    #[test]
535    fn session_id_serializes_transparently() {
536        assert_eq!(
537            serde_json::to_value(SessionId::new("abc")).unwrap(),
538            json!("abc")
539        );
540        assert_eq!(SessionId::new("abc").as_str(), "abc");
541        assert_eq!(SessionId::new("abc").to_string(), "abc");
542        assert_eq!(SessionId::from("x"), SessionId(String::from("x")));
543        assert_eq!(SessionId::user().as_str(), USER);
544        assert_eq!(SessionId::agent("abc").as_str(), "agent:abc");
545    }
546}