Alwaldend

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 1

Hypothesis

A small adapter around @deepseek-ai/cordis@4.0.1 can provide durable, transactional runtime packages behind a fixed MCP stdio surface without embedding DeepSeek Harness or restarting the MCP connection.

Exact inputs

Parent checkpoint: task-start state of branch t3code/runtime-modifiable-plugin
Cordis: @deepseek-ai/cordis@4.0.1
MCP server/client: @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0 and @modelcontextprotocol/client@2.0.0
Node: repository-pinned Node 24.13.0
Package source contract: one import-free JavaScript expression returning a Cordis plugin with apply(ctx)

Candidate plan

Add an ordinary Bazel package with a dedicated exact pnpm lock.
Persist definitions as content-addressed immutable source plus atomic manifests under explicit project and scratch roots.
Evaluate each generation in a worker, mount it through a real Cordis Context and Fiber, and register handlers through Cordis effects.
Activate transactionally: prove the candidate ready, swap the active pointer, drain in-flight calls, then dispose the prior Fiber exactly once.
Expose fixed MCP tools for list, inspect, define, run/reload, invoke, stop, remove, and promote; never rely on dynamic MCP schema refresh.
Seed and execute repo_context, git_worktree, and network_probe through the same runtime path.

Review packet

Explicit (scope, name) identities prevent hidden scratch/project shadowing.
Workspace root is an explicit CLI argument or BUILD_WORKSPACE_DIRECTORY, never inferred from a runfiles cwd.
A failed candidate never changes the active manifest or runtime pointer.
Package stdout/stderr cannot corrupt MCP stdout.
Disposable state remains under ignored out/mcp_cordis; reusable source is public project code.

Verdict

Refine. Candidate c9300c9887104777c8915e3d4f390196604e9bd18497bbec319415d1a4ad057f proved the architecture but failed acceptance criterion 7.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 2

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Targeted failure

Attempt 1’s repo_context_search cannot execute when ripgrep is unavailable from the runtime PATH, preventing all starter packages from passing their portable Bazel execution test.

Hypothesis

Keeping ripgrep as the preferred engine but falling back on a bounded Node filesystem search will preserve normal-machine speed and make the reusable package functional in hermetic or minimal environments.

Exact inputs and plan

Parent candidate: c9300c9887104777c8915e3d4f390196604e9bd18497bbec319415d1a4ad057f
Preserve all runtime, storage, MCP, and other starter-package code.
Add a bounded fallback with workspace path checks, file/byte/result limits, fixed or regex matching, context lines, and basic glob filtering.
Store it as a new immutable repo_context version; retain Attempt 1’s source version in its manifest history.
Rerun the starter test first, then the complete focused package checks.

Planned review packet

Search succeeds without rg in Bazel’s test PATH.
Traversal outside the workspace remains rejected.
All eight starter tools execute through loaded Cordis Fibers.
Previously passing lifecycle and real stdio checks remain green.

Verdict

Refine. The rebased candidate commit e3e74cb1e573867825347292bf17220a5b9a4a0c fixes criterion 7, but its final integrated regression failed because the lifecycle test used elapsed time to infer that an invocation remained in flight.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 3

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Targeted failure

The integrated lifecycle test assumes that a 150 ms invocation remains active after a new worker has started. Under parallel Bazel execution, the candidate can become ready only after that invocation has completed, making the expected drain count nondeterministic.

Hypothesis

A file-backed started/release handshake in the test package will establish the in-flight precondition independently of worker startup speed and prove that a generation swap reports and drains exactly one old invocation.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 4

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Targeted failures and scope

PR 32 commit 7cfef071 is remotely reproducible but is not a final candidate: three review findings are valid. The user also requires the four projects/agents changes from PR 24, whose missing decision-review package explains the current base’s dangling instruction reference.

Hypotheses

Applying PR 24’s changes three-way will preserve newer goal guidance while importing its result-first additions, Bazel batching guidance, and decision-review package.
Treating command overflow as bounded success will preserve useful prefixes for search and diff consumers without leaking child processes or invalid UTF-8.
Enforcing max_changes before every porcelain status record will bound all record kinds uniformly.
Closing admission, draining registered package locks, then disposing active workers will make shutdown linearizable with concurrent run/reload.

Exact inputs and boundaries

Current and published task commit: 7cfef0719075ad372c3bb257ad216b35770356b2.
Current base/direct parent: 7ad2704cd27757355ab36ec8eb1bb27ef9e1d91d.
PR 24 base/head: ada3ed90123c224729f9174c6127c50b933d2f48 / da2085f1807bfea1c7f3979730f6b7df0033fdce.
Import boundary: only paths beneath projects/agents changed by PR 24.
Review boundary: the three existing PR 32 threads and directly required regression coverage; no unrelated runtime redesign.
Preserve all immutable package versions already referenced by manifests.

Candidate plan

Merge the PR 24 bazel-agent and goal hunks into current files; add decision-review plus the offline eval structure required today.
Add black-box execution overflow coverage and implement bounded UTF-8-safe truncation while preserving timeout/spawn errors.
Add table-driven status-limit coverage and publish a new immutable git_worktree version with the limit check before record parsing.
Add a deterministic concurrent activation/shutdown gate and memoized shutdown sequence that waits for admitted locks before disposal.
Run focused tests first, then both affected packages, Buildifier, exact diff checks, delivery preparation, exact-candidate validation, publication, and review-thread replies/resolution.

Planned acceptance packet

PR 24 provenance maps exactly to the imported agent changes; newer main guidance remains present.
decision-review validates and its Promptfoo configuration loads offline.
Output at and beyond the cap is bounded, UTF-8 valid, truncation-marked, and stopped; under-cap and timeout behavior remain correct.
Every porcelain-v2 record kind obeys max_changes.
Shutdown cannot resolve before an already-admitted activation is owned and disposed, and later calls reject runtime_closed.
All previous MCP lifecycle, restart, package, and stdio regressions remain green on the exact delivered commit.

Progress, approach, and process audit

Remote publication improved delivery evidence but exposed three absolute correctness failures; validation success alone was insufficient.
The PR 24 request resolves an upstream packaging inconsistency and is independent enough to integrate before runtime corrections.
The current representation remains viable: every defect has a narrow controlling mechanism and deterministic test. No evidence supports replacing Cordis, the worker boundary, or content-addressed persistence.

Work performed

Imported all four PR 24 agent-tree changes three-way and added the offline validation files required by current repository policy.
Changed ctx.exec() overflow from an output-limit rejection to a bounded, UTF-8-valid success result with explicit process-group cleanup and a truncation flag.
Published the corrected Git parser as new immutable version de978... while retaining 70d8... as permanent rollback history.
Made shutdown join admitted activation locks before its final active-worker snapshot and added closure checks around initialization storage awaits.
Added direct regressions plus an actual git_compare cap integration case.

Verification evidence

Four focused Bazel tests: pass.
Complete MCP package plus three skill eval-config targets: ten of ten pass.
Complete MCP package build plus three skill libraries: pass; all skill validation aspects pass.
Root //:buildifier_test: pass.
JavaScript syntax, exact new version SHA-256, quick skill validation, and git diff --check: pass.

Final verdict

Refine. The product and packaging gates were green, but independent review found silent output-loss and exact-limit semantics that those gates did not exercise. Preserve the architectural changes; Attempt 5 changes the affected contracts and tests rather than discarding the worker/runtime design.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 5

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Targeted failures

Attempt 4 passed every recorded command but independent review disproved four completeness claims: malformed UTF-8 loss was unmarked, built-in consumers silently accepted partial host output, Git status truncation was inferred from capacity rather than omission and missed newline paths, and imported skill evals did not cover their added behavior.

Hypotheses and plan

Have UTF-8 decoding report whether it dropped any retained bytes and OR that fact into truncated; cover malformed output below and above the cap.
Publish new immutable versions for each reusable package whose result fields need host-truncation propagation. Preserve every previously tracked version byte-for-byte and make partial fields explicit rather than hiding signal termination as ordinary success.
Parse status records before deciding whether an additional logical change was omitted, capture NUL-delimited paths with newline-safe expressions, and cover exact-one, max-two, max-one-of-two, copy, and newline cases.
Add offline cases that exercise compatible multi-target Bazel batching, immutable exact-hash candidate promotion/regression, and durable task-owned push behavior that excludes disposable output and reports blockers.
Track disposal of an activation removed by #handleUnavailable() as a retirement so shutdown cannot return before its worker teardown completes.
Rerun each focused target, all affected package/skill tests and builds, Buildifier, and another independent review before freezing a commit.

Boundaries

Retain the Cordis/worker/storage architecture and the shutdown correction.
Do not modify historical hash-named version bytes.
Do not import any PR 24 path outside projects/agents.
Do not add live, billable eval targets; these cases extend the existing offline-validated behavioral configurations.
Do not prepare, commit, or publish until the new review is clean.

Planned acceptance packet

Every discarded output byte makes truncated true.
Each Git/context field that can be partial exposes that fact; bounded diff and search remain successful.
Shutdown joins teardown for generations that become unavailable immediately before shutdown, not only those still present in the active map.
Exactly maximum status changes reports complete, while an actual additional parseable change reports truncated; valid newline paths round-trip.
Eval configs validate with cases for every material imported behavior.
A second independent read-only review reports no remaining actionable issue.

Working-tree result

ctx.exec() now retains a combined bounded prefix, marks byte overflow and malformed UTF-8 loss as truncated, and stops the child before resolving.
repo_context activates immutable version abd0db3e...; root, HEAD, status, and ripgrep results propagate host truncation explicitly.
git_worktree retains original version 70d8f28d... unchanged and activates sole new version 8853aa20.... The rejected intermediate de978... file is absent. Exact-limit status, newline paths, incomplete NUL records, revision discovery, history, name-status, diff, and aggregate flags are covered.
Runtime shutdown is memoized, closes admission, joins admitted package operations, and tracks disposal after an unavailable activation leaves the active map.
PR 24’s projects/agents subtree is integrated as bazel-agent, goal, and packaged decision-review changes only. Newer goal-record and delegation policy is preserved; added eval cases exercise every material imported rule.

Validation evidence

Focused Bazel regression/eval batch: 8 of 8 tests pass.
Entire affected MCP package plus skill evals: 12 of 12 tests pass.
Entire MCP package and all three skill libraries build; every skill validation aspect passes.
Root //:buildifier_test: 1 of 1 passes.
git diff --check, JavaScript syntax checks, and every retained/new reusable package content hash pass.

Progress, approach, and process audit

Attempt 5 materially closes every falsified completeness claim from Attempt 4 without replacing the accepted architecture. New versions are confined to the two reusable packages whose public result contract changed; historical bytes remain intact. The test packet now observes semantic completeness rather than only byte caps or array lengths. The remaining critical path is review and exact-candidate delivery, not additional implementation.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 6

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Why Attempt 5 was rejected

Attempt 5 passed every repository gate, but the required second independent review found release-blocking lifecycle and compatibility defects: worker termination could orphan detached ctx.exec() children, promotion was outside shutdown admission, unavailable candidates could cross the persistence/swap boundary, and the new always-partial output contract made retained package versions lie about completeness. The same review found narrower package and imported-skill correctness gaps. The candidate is rejected despite green tests.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 7

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Why Attempt 6 was rejected

The user correctly identified that each package’s manifest.json, content-addressed versions/ directory, and active/latest pointers were a custom package manager rather than an MCP or Cordis standard. That mechanism made reusable source look temporary, duplicated Cordis loader responsibilities, and drove much of the worker-generation complexity. Green tests cannot justify shipping the wrong extension model.

Decision review

Verdict: revise and proceed. The published DeepSeek Cordis packages provide the missing standard mechanisms directly:

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 8

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Trigger

The fresh hosted review of the delivered standard-Cordis candidate found three valid starter-package defects: the JavaScript search fallback recursively read ignored and hidden files when ripgrep was absent, fallback submatch offsets used UTF-16 code units instead of ripgrep-compatible UTF-8 bytes, and a bounded textual HTTP body could end with a replacement character when the byte limit split a multibyte sequence.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 9

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Trigger

The user rejected the growing HMR race-handling layer and explicitly requested the simplest robust way for an MCP server to load DeepSeek/Cordis plugins. The published parent is bc4e5ae97ef9ea968c01b1b2a55403ae032a6a8d. An unpublished polling experiment is rejected rather than promoted.

Hypothesis

Atomic persistence plus the official Cordis Include and HMR services is the smallest reliable boundary. If MCP source mutations stop claiming synchronous activation or transactional on-disk rollback, the runtime can delete its source-marker protocol and every dependency on Loader internals while still loading, invoking, and eventually hot-reloading normal Cordis plugins without restarting the MCP connection.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 10

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Trigger

Independent review of Attempt 9 reproduced a lost update in pinned @deepseek-ai/cordis-plugin-hmr 1.0.16. A slow top-level-await replacement followed by a second source write left the latest bytes on disk while the earlier generation remained live. The public HMR surface has no module-failure event, so a wrapper-side single-flight gate cannot be both safe and recoverable.

Hypothesis

The narrowest robust correction belongs in HMR’s own reload scheduler. A standard pnpm dependency patch can serialize partialReload() calls, snapshot each observed change set, and drain changes arriving during an in-flight reload. mcp_cordis then remains a thin persistence and invocation gateway without source markers, Loader-cache inspection, polling, or acknowledgement state.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attempt 11: exact consolidated rebase

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Objective

Replace the nine task-owned feature commits with one aggregate commit, rebase that exact candidate onto the current remote base, preserve the incoming goal and skill-discovery layouts, and establish publish-ready evidence without bypassing repo_delivery.

Reconciliation

The fetched base advanced to 63e7b9f0be1e054373415914ff3d2ea2282aa3da and added the reusable projects/goal project, per-skill discovery links, decision-review, and exact-head remote-review waiting rules.
The old agent-local goal skill remains deleted. The durable MCP goal stays under projects/mcp_cordis/goals/runtime_extensions.
The branch keeps the upstream root discovery target, including decision-review and projects/goal/skills/goal, and combines the incoming review-waiting policy with the branch’s correctness-revalidation policy.

Delivery adapter corrections

The authorized consolidation path exposed four fail-closed edge cases during the real rebase: