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perf(orchestrator): cut the first-turn prompt from 13.3k to 5.3k tokens - #6787

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Summary

  • Cuts the orchestrator's first-turn request for "hello" from 13,308 to 5,310 prompt tokens (−60%), measured on the wire with the capture proxy against a real signed-in profile (deepseek-v4-flash, native tool calling). The system prompt drops from 3,677 to 1,232 tokens (1,050 on o200k); tools on the wire go from 29 to 19.
  • tool_search no longer embeds a manifest of every deferred tool (175 lines, ~4.2k tokens). discovery_policy() zeroes the manifest budget on every dialect, matching what the text-dialect path already did.
  • New per-agent deferred_tools in agent.toml: tools that leave this agent's wire but stay registered, searchable and callable by name. The orchestrator defers mcp_registry_* ×4, file_read, file_write, http_request, current_time and composio_list_toolkits; other agents are unaffected.
  • setup_skills moves into the skills pack; delegate tools (member and collapsed delegate_to) advertise only prompt + blocking; the spawn_async_subagent enum is actually narrowed on the wire.
  • Orchestrator prompt rewritten in a telegraphic style informed by OpenClaw's system-prompt.ts and Hermes Agent's prompt_builder.py: a routing table, sub-agent rules and one grounding block. The native Tool Use Protocol and model-gated execution-discipline blocks are dropped (their rules are stated once). SOUL/IDENTITY/ROLE/STYLE, date/time, workspace and memory sections are tightened, and integrations are one line.
  • Adds pnpm debug breakdown (scripts/debug/prompt-breakdown.mjs): per-section / per-tool token accounting for a captured request, calibrated to the provider's usage.prompt_tokens.

Problem

  • Tool schemas were 72% of every request; one tool description (tool_search) was 33% by itself, listing the tools deferral exists to hide.
  • The system prompt restated the same rules in 4–6 places ("call the tool in the same message", "tool_search before refusing") and carried vendor marketing blurbs and unlabeled connection ids for every integration.
  • Two narrowing mechanisms never reached native tool calling. The wire schema is read from the registered tool (CanonicalSharedToolAdapter::for_name), not from the session's spec view, so the spawn enum shipped all 19 registry ids. The same gap meant a session-level deferral had no effect on what the harness advertised.

Solution

  • Per-agent deferral. AgentDefinition::deferred_tools feeds meta::deferred_set, which every deferred-set recompute (builder, accessors, runtime refresh) now calls. The session puts its deferred set on OpenHumanRunContext::deferred_tool_names, and turn assembly registers those adapters as Deferred (a Hidden tool stays hidden). Exposure stays a per-tool property for everyone else, so a named worker belt that lists file_read keeps it.
  • Spawn enum. The session builder swaps in SpawnAsyncSubagentTool::scoped(allowlist), so the registered tool itself carries the narrowed schema.
  • MCP availability now keys on the registry tool being registered, not only visible, so deferring it keeps the MCP route and the Connected MCP Servers section.
  • Workspace copies of SOUL/IDENTITY/ROLE/STYLE are hash-synced, so the new bundled text reaches users who have not edited them.
  • Rules kept. Seven rules that tests tie to documented failures were kept in a few words each: brand-voice criticism rule, "never hand-computed", fan-out, gating delegate on its own line, web tools named, and others. That is why the system prompt sits slightly above 1,000.
  • Tradeoff. file_read is off the orchestrator's wire. The harness admits a deferred tool by name, and the prompt now says tools named by a tool result are callable, so the read_with: file_read {...} preview hint keeps working. In live runs, a direct "use file_read" request made the model use shell/cat instead, which is fine. I could not reproduce the oversized-result preview path live, so watch it.
  • Also fixes an undefined Tailwind token in WindowsWindowControls.tsx inherited from main (text-content-primary → text-content), which blocked the pre-push lint:ui-tokens gate.

Submission Checklist

  • Tests added or updated. New: deferred_set_adds_requested_direct_tools_and_nothing_else, session_deferred_adapter_reports_deferred_but_never_surfaces_a_hidden_tool, orchestrator_defers_its_duplicate_route_tools, scoped_instance_advertises_exactly_the_allowlist, discovery_policy_renders_no_manifest, a_packed_hand_off_leaves_its_owners_pack_open, the_skill_install_hand_off_is_packed_in_the_skills_pack, plus scripts/__tests__/prompt-breakdown.test.mjs. About 35 prompt/toolpack tests re-pinned to the new wording with the same intent.
  • Diff coverage ≥ 80%: not measured locally; CI Lite will report it.
  • Coverage matrix: N/A, behaviour-only change to prompt and tool exposure.
  • Affected feature IDs: N/A, no matrix rows added or removed.
  • No new external network dependencies (gpt-tokenizer is a dev-only dependency for the debug script).
  • Manual smoke checklist: N/A, no release-cut surface.
  • Linked issue: N/A, no tracking issue.

Impact

  • Desktop/CLI/embedded: every orchestrator turn sends ~8k fewer tokens on a cold cache. TTFB for "hello" dropped from 1.9s to 1.1–1.3s cold in the capture runs. Steady-state cost was already mostly cached (turn 2 was 94% cached before), so the gain is cold starts, context headroom and attention.
  • Live checks on the new prompt: live weather → web_answer_tool; "can you delete emails in gmail?" → tool_search; MCP status → use_skill mcp → mcp_registry_status.
  • Existing threads keep their frozen prompt and tool list (session contract); new threads get the new surface.
  • Depends on fix(todos): tighten the todo tool description tinyagents#231 (the todo description), whose commit this PR pins.

Related

  • Closes: N/A
  • Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs:
    • Native wire schemas still come from the registered tool, not the session spec view. A general "session spec overrides the wire schema" seam would retire the spawn-tool swap and cover use_skill's narrowing too.
    • Observed but unverified: threads whose ids share a prefix appeared to share history. It may be the shortened web-channel session name colliding; worth a look.
    • raw_coverage_all::tool_registry_entries_include_connected_mcp_client_tools fails on main as well (unknown mcp server), independent of this PR.

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Commit & Branch

  • Branch: prompt-breakdown
  • Commit SHA: fe6bd46

Validation Run

  • pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check (pre-push)
  • pnpm typecheck: N/A, no TypeScript change beyond one className
  • Focused tests: RUST_MIN_STACK=67108864 cargo test -p openhuman --lib --features <product> → 10,942 passed after merging main; CLI json_rpc_e2e, mcp_registry_e2e, agent_harness_e2e, agent_prompt_comprehension_e2e, orchestrator_parallel_fanout_routing passing before the merge; node --test scripts/__tests__/prompt-breakdown.test.mjs
  • Rust fmt/check: cargo fmt --all --check, cargo check --workspace --tests, pnpm rust:layout, pre-push clippy
  • Tauri fmt/check: pre-push clippy for crates/openhuman-app

Validation Blocked

  • command: N/A
  • error: N/A
  • impact: N/A

Behavior Changes

  • Intended behavior change: smaller orchestrator prompt and tool surface; nine tools reached through tool_search; setup_skills through use_skill skills.
  • User-visible effect: faster first response on a cold cache; same capabilities.

Parity Contract

  • Legacy behavior preserved: every deferred/packed tool stays registered and callable; delegate tools still parse the old envelope fields; other agents' belts are unchanged.
  • Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: Hidden tools never surface through the deferral override; the MCP route renders whenever the registry tool is reachable.

Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling

  • Duplicate PR(s): none
  • Canonical PR: this
  • Resolution: N/A

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a prompt breakdown command to estimate token use across messages, tool schemas, and system-prompt sections, with optional calibration against provider usage.
    • Agents can now discover selected tools on demand, and delegation can be scoped to an allowed set of agents.
    • Added skill setup to the skills pack.
  • Improvements

    • Updated assistant guidance for routing requests, delegating work, handling approvals, and communicating clearly.
    • Reduced default tool-search manifest details to limit request overhead.

senamakel and others added 30 commits September 30, 2026 01:56
Add the gpt-tokenizer package to devDependencies to support token counting functionality needed during development.

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Handle the case where the input string is empty or contains only whitespace, which previously caused the breakdown function to return an incorrect result or throw an error. The fix ensures that empty inputs are properly detected and return an empty breakdown object instead of attempting to process them.

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When the prompt-breakdown script receives an empty input, it now returns an empty breakdown instead of throwing an error. This ensures consistent behavior when no prompt text is provided.

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Add a guard clause to return early when no prompt argument is provided, preventing the script from failing with an unclear error when invoked without input.

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This change removes the prompt-breakdown.mjs debug script as it is no longer needed for the current development workflow. The script was previously used for analyzing prompt structures during an earlier debugging phase.

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The comment block in prompt-breakdown.mjs now explains that section attribution follows the wire text only, and that an injected workspace file like SOUL.md owns its first heading's subtree, causing subsequent text under the same heading to be counted under that file. This clarifies the tool's behavior and advises using --depth 3 to see those sections individually.

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Reformatted both the prompt-breakdown debug script and its test file to use double quotes consistently and to wrap long lines for improved readability. No functional changes were made.

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Add a new `breakdown` subcommand to the debug CLI that performs token accounting for a single captured request. This command accepts a request JSON file and optional flags for response output, depth, top N results, and JSON formatting, providing detailed pricing of system-prompt sections, tool schemas, and messages calibrated to the provider's usage tokens.

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Add a new `pnpm debug breakdown` command that prices a captured request by showing token counts for each system-prompt section, tool schema, and message, calibrated to the provider's usage data, to help developers understand how prompts are billed.

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The manifest token budget is now set to zero inside `discovery_policy()` rather than being applied after the fact in `bridge_prompt_tools`. This ensures the policy always produces a count-only manifest, avoiding the cost of listing every deferred tool on every request.

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Allow agent definitions to specify tools that should be deferred from their own wire and served through `tool_search` instead, complementing the existing global `ToolExposure::Deferred` mechanism. This enables per-agent tool visibility control, such as keeping `file_read` off a coding worker's wire while still available through search.

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The `deferred_set` function was added to the deferred module but not re-exported from the meta module, making it inaccessible to external consumers. This change adds the missing re-export so callers can use the function.

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Add a new `deferred_tools` field to both `AgentDefinition` and `AgentTurnRequest` structs, initializing it as an empty vector across all construction sites. This field will support a mechanism for tools that are registered but not immediately available, allowing them to be resolved or activated later during agent execution rather than at definition time.

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The `deferred_tools` parameter was being passed as an empty vector literal in function signatures across three modules but was never used within any of the function bodies, so it has been removed to clean up the code.

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Move nine tools that the orchestrator reaches only occasionally from its wire into a `deferred_tools` list, so they are still registered and callable by name but no longer appear in every prompt. Pack the `setup_skills` hand-off into the skills toolpack instead of keeping it unpacked, reducing token cost on every orchestrator request for a family used a few times a week.

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The `parameters_schema` for `ArchetypeDelegationTool` now advertises only `prompt` and `blocking`. The removed structured fields (`objective`, `evidence`, `constraints`, etc.) are still parsed by `execute_with_context` for backward compatibility, but advertising them encouraged callers to send ~150 tokens of redundant metadata on every request when a self-contained `prompt` carries the same intent.

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…llowlist

The `SpawnAsyncSubagentTool` now carries an optional set of `advertised_ids` that narrows the `agent_id` enum in its JSON schema to only the ids the parent session allows. Previously the schema always exposed every id from the global registry, which meant a captured orchestrator request could carry ids the parent had not authorised. A new `scoped` constructor sorts and deduplicates the allowlist, and the session builder swaps this instance in so the wire schema and the execution-time allowlist agree.

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…subagent ids

When a session definition or agent definition name is present, the build method now narrows the spawn_async_subagent tool's schema to only advertise the subagent IDs that are allowed for that agent. This ensures that native-tool-calling providers receive a correctly scoped tool definition, which the earlier spec-view narrowing alone did not achieve.

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Update the pinned commit for the tinyagents vendored dependency to include the latest upstream changes.

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Consolidated and shortened the identity, role, soul, and style prompts to remove redundant phrasing and focus on core instructions. Rewrote the orchestrator prompt to replace the long conditional chain with a compact first-match routing table, merged grounding and tool-use rules into a single section, and removed the separate plans and scheduling sections whose content was absorbed elsewhere.

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The orchestrator prompt now skips the `render_tools` catalogue when the provider uses native tool calling, since schemas are carried in the request and the generic protocol text duplicates the agent's own grounding rules. The model-gated execution-discipline block is removed entirely because its rules are already stated once in `## Grounding and tool use`. The withheld-specialists section is also reformatted from a bullet list to inline prose for brevity.

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…l descriptions

Shortened the `## Connected Integrations` section from a multi-line instruction block to a single compact line per toolkit, omitting vendor descriptions and unlabelled connection ids to save roughly 190 tokens on a typical workspace. Also reduced the maximum length of skill descriptions in `## Installed Skills` from 120 to 90 characters, which is enough for the trigger phrase that routing reads, and extracted the value into a named constant for clarity.

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Shorten the workspace section prompt by removing redundant explanations about `pwd` and file output preferences, and simplify the date-time section to focus on the authoritative source for time information. This reduces token usage while preserving the essential behavioral guidance for the agent.

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…vices and web

The orchestrator prompt now explicitly instructs the agent to use `tool_search` even when memory might answer for user data or actions on connected services, and adds guidance to relay toolkit unavailability. For web tools, the `provider` parameter should only be set when the user names one, rather than being left unset unconditionally.

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Replace the shorthand `HashSet` references with `std::collections::HashSet` to resolve an ambiguity where the type was not being resolved correctly from the current scope, ensuring the code compiles without import errors.

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The test struct for the canonical adapter failure scenario was missing the `force_deferred` field, which caused a compilation error. Adding the field with a default value of `false` ensures the test compiles and correctly verifies the adapter's fail-closed behavior.

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The README now explains that `setup_skills` is a member of the `skills` pack, not a deliberately unpacked hand-off, because keeping it unpacked cost ~270 tokens per orchestrator request for a family used only a few times a week. Packing it also prevents it from closing the `skills` pack through `ops::closed_by_direct_handoff`, so the listing now shows the hand-off alongside the raw registry tools.

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The previous logic unconditionally returned Deferred when force_deferred was true, which incorrectly promoted Hidden tools to a searchable state. This change ensures that a session-deferred Hidden tool remains hidden, while only Direct tools are downgraded to Deferred.

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Add a test that verifies the `deferred_set` function correctly combines
`Direct` tools from an agent definition's `deferred_tools` with all
`Deferred` registrations, while ignoring unregistered or `Hidden` names
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Adds a test verifying that when a `SpawnAsyncSubagentTool` is created with a scoped list of agent ids, the JSON schema it advertises for the `agent_id` parameter contains only the unique, sorted ids from that list. The test also confirms the schema description includes a note that only those ids are dispatchable, ensuring the tool correctly limits which subagents the parent may invoke.

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Add a sentence to the orchestrator prompt explaining that fan-out is achieved by issuing several spawns in a single message, which run concurrently, to make the concurrency model clearer for agent authors.

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Reworded the orchestrator prompt rule from "Unknown tool names" to "Unlisted tool names" to more accurately describe the condition, and updated the corresponding test assertion to match.

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Updated the `ORCHESTRATOR_PROMPT_MARKER` constant and all test assertions that match on the orchestrator's system prompt to use the new heading `"## Routing\n\nFirst match wins:"` instead of the old `"## How you work"`. This keeps the end-to-end tests in sync with the updated orchestrator prompt structure.

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The test assertion for `orchestrator_reaches_cron_through_the_scheduling_pack` is updated so that `current_time` is no longer expected in the advertised tools list. This reflects that the tool is deferred for the orchestrator and, while still searchable and callable by name, should not be advertised.

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The previous rule stated that unlisted tool names always fail, but this was incorrect when a tool result or `tool_search` provides the name. The updated rule now explains that tools discovered through those mechanisms are callable by name, while other unlisted names still fail and should not be retried.

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Updated the assertion string in the evidence-aware synthesis contract test to match the revised prompt text that clarifies when unlisted tool names are callable versus when they always fail.

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The pull request adds per-agent deferred-tool support, reduces orchestrator prompt and tool-schema content, updates prompt guidance and tests, and adds a calibrated prompt-token breakdown CLI.

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Deferred tools and runtime propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deferred-tool contract and runtime propagation
crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/..., crates/openhuman-core/src/tools/impl/meta/..., crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/...
AgentDefinition, session hosts, run contexts, and harness registration now carry requested deferred-tool names. Registered direct tools can be forced to deferred exposure while hidden tools remain hidden.
Orchestrator routing and tool schemas
crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/orchestration/tools/..., crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/registry/agents/orchestrator/..., crates/openhuman-core/src/tools/toolpacks/...
The orchestrator defers selected tools to tool_search, narrows delegation schemas, supports scoped async-subagent IDs, and packs setup_skills into the skills pack.
Prompt breakdown diagnostics
scripts/debug/..., scripts/__tests__/prompt-breakdown.test.mjs, package.json, AGENTS.md
Adds the breakdown debug command, token analysis, section parsing, repeated-paragraph detection, provider-usage calibration, tests, and usage instructions.
Prompt and supporting updates
crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/prompts/..., crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/learning/..., tests/..., app/src/components/layout/shell/WindowsWindowControls.tsx, vendor/tinyagents
Updates prompt wording and related assertions, changes the window control utility classes, updates end-to-end markers, and advances the vendored subproject reference.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: m3ga-mind

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe6bd

Delegated workers can lose tools from their advertised interface because they inherit the orchestrator’s deferrals. Clear that inherited state before merging. The new breakdown command also needs a guard to avoid crashing on zero or missing prompt-token usage.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe6bd

Existing permission checks remain in place, but some capabilities can remain usable after a caller tries to withdraw them. This weakens restriction guarantees for affected sessions. Actual affected callers have not been confirmed.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Per-session deferral extends an existing revocation gap to previously Direct tools. hide_tools removes a name only from the visible set, but deferred names remain in policy reachability and the turn declaration snapshot. A caller attempting to withdraw a newly deferred capability therefore does not obtain the documented execution denial. Refresh also reconstructs requested deferred names without a separate revoked-name constraint. Existing policy and sandbox checks still apply, and production use of this withdrawal path for the newly deferred names remains unconfirmed.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The revocation concern is bounded to discovery-enabled sessions with requested Direct tools and an attempted visibility-based withdrawal. It does not establish new cross-tenant access or new credentials. Sensitive effects remain limited by the configured tools, their underlying policies and their existing execution controls.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional attack path remains after attempted withdrawal: user input or untrusted retrieved content induces a call to a newly deferred tool; hide_tools has removed only its visible name; the deferred declaration and policy reachability still admit the call. This is a supported restriction-contract gap, not a demonstrated production exploit. The canonical security input contains no retained findings and reports unknown security coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Deferral does not invent tools or override the registration allowlist. Requested Hidden tools remain excluded from deferred membership, and forced deferral preserves Hidden exposure. The adapter forwards underlying policy and execution. These controls counter unrestricted authority expansion, but do not repair visibility-based withdrawal.
  • observed — The new diagnostic reads operator-selected capture files and writes local stdout. Its report can expose paragraph excerpts, while JSON output retains complete duplicate paragraphs and request-envelope fields. The inspected script contains no network transmission or execution of captured content; sharing its output remains a confidentiality boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Refresh recomputes deferred membership from registered tools and requested names, then builds policy reachability from visible plus deferred names. Because withdrawal is not represented separately, refresh cannot preserve a durable denial for a requested deferred capability merely removed from visibility.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Represent withdrawn authority independently of advertisement and discovery membership, and apply it consistently during policy construction, turn registration, refresh and recovery. Validate that a withdrawn requested Direct tool cannot be discovered or called after repetition or rebuild.
  • proposed — Offer metadata-only or redacted diagnostic output, and identify content-bearing output as sensitive before it is shared or retained in logs.
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- Around line 291-296: Update RunContext::child to reset deferred_tool_names to
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Comment on lines +291 to +296
/// Tools the session serves through `tool_search` for this turn although
/// their own exposure is `Direct` (the agent definition's
/// `deferred_tools`). Turn assembly registers them as `Deferred`, so the
/// harness keeps them off the wire, indexes them for search and still
/// admits a call by name. Empty for every turn without such a list.
pub(crate) deferred_tool_names: Arc<std::collections::HashSet<String>>,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Clear deferred_tool_names in child() so a sub-agent does not inherit the parent agent's deferral list.

The field deferred_tool_names holds names of tools that turn assembly will mark as Deferred. The child() method (lines 430–447 in run_context.rs) clones the parent context and resets several fields—spawn_depth, file_state_agent_id, parent_subagent_usage, subagent_usage, resolved_route, cacheable_system_prefix_len—but does not reset deferred_tool_names.

When a child agent's turn is assembled, run_context.deferred_tool_names is passed directly to assemble_turn_harness (turn_runner.rs:283) as the session_deferred parameter. The register_turn_tools_and_agents function (harness_tool_registration.rs:139–156) then marks every tool whose name appears in session_deferred as deferred, regardless of whether the child agent's own definition includes those tools.

Result: a child agent spawned through delegation inherits the parent's deferred tool set and loses those tools from its advertised interface, even if its own definition does not defer them.

Suggested fix
pub fn child(&self) -> Self {
    let mut child = self.clone();
    child.spawn_depth = self.spawn_depth.saturating_add(1);
    child.file_state_agent_id = None;
    child.parent_subagent_usage = Some(self.subagent_usage.clone());
    child.subagent_usage = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));
    child.resolved_route = Arc::new(Mutex::new(None));
    child.cacheable_system_prefix_len = None;
    child.deferred_tool_names = Arc::new(std::collections::HashSet::new());
    child
}
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if (a.usage) {
w(`provider usage: ${JSON.stringify(a.usage)}`);
w(
`calibration: o200k total ${totals.all} → provider ${a.usage.prompt_tokens} (×${scale.toFixed(3)})`,
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the calibration line when scale is null.

report calls scale.toFixed(3) whenever a.usage is truthy. analyse sets scale to null when usage.prompt_tokens is falsy. Here are two ways to trigger the crash:

  • --prompt-tokens 0 passes the Number.isFinite check. It returns { prompt_tokens: 0 }.
  • A response usage object has no prompt_tokens. For example, an Anthropic-style response uses input_tokens.

In both cases, the text report throws TypeError: Cannot read properties of null instead of printing the breakdown without calibration.

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   if (a.usage) {
     w(`provider usage: ${JSON.stringify(a.usage)}`);
-    w(
-      `calibration: o200k total ${totals.all} → provider ${a.usage.prompt_tokens} (×${scale.toFixed(3)})`,
-    );
+    if (scale)
+      w(
+        `calibration: o200k total ${totals.all} → provider ${a.usage.prompt_tokens} (×${scale.toFixed(3)})`,
+      );
+    else w("calibration: usage has no prompt_tokens; showing o200k only");
   }
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if (a.usage) {
w(`provider usage: ${JSON.stringify(a.usage)}`);
w(
`calibration: o200k total ${totals.all} → provider ${a.usage.prompt_tokens} (×${scale.toFixed(3)})`,
);
}
if (a.usage) {
w(`provider usage: ${JSON.stringify(a.usage)}`);
if (scale)
w(
`calibration: o200k total ${totals.all} → provider ${a.usage.prompt_tokens} (×${scale.toFixed(3)})`,
);
else w("calibration: usage has no prompt_tokens; showing o200k only");
}
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Update the report logic in `report` so it only formats `scale` with `toFixed`
when `scale` is non-null. When `a.usage` exists but calibration is unavailable,
print the usage breakdown without attempting calibration.

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Update the orchestrator e2e test to reflect that since #6787, `setup_skills` is a member of the `skills` pack and a packed hand-off no longer closes its pack to the orchestrator. The raw `skill_registry_install` is now reachable through `use_skill`, but guarded by the approval gate, so the test now denies the approval prompt instead of approving it and verifies the install is refused.

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Rename the test that verifies the orchestrator defers its MCP registry tools without a hand-off, and update its doc comment to clarify that the tools are not advertised on the orchestrator's wire due to issue #6787.

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…_skill

Update the orchestrator e2e test to reflect that since #6787, `setup_skills` is a member of the `skills` pack and a packed hand-off no longer closes its pack to the orchestrator. The raw `skill_registry_install` is now reachable through `use_skill`, but guarded by the approval gate, so the test now denies the approval prompt instead of approving it and verifies the install is refused.

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Rename the test that verifies the orchestrator defers its MCP registry tools without a hand-off, and update its doc comment to clarify that the tools are not advertised on the orchestrator's wire due to issue #6787.

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