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PR #553 implements and documents four #519 areas: participant listing, stopping, sending, and selected upstream tool admission. The tests cover the changed behavior. The linked issue requires a broade… |
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Check name Status Explanation Out of Scope Changes check The handler, delivery, contract, registration, test, schema, and product-documentation changes support the four #519outcomes. Removing the duplicate attachment tool, admitting the selected upstream t…Title check The title clearly identifies the main changes: agent-tool updates for listing, stopping, sending, and admitted upstream tools. It is specific and concise enough for the change set. Description check The description is complete and structured around the required template. It explains the problem, implementation, testing, live-test results and limitations, upstream impact, checklist status, and doc…
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#553implements and documents four#519areas: participant listing, stopping, sending, and selected upstream tool admission. The tests cover the changed behavior. The linked issue requires a broader tool-by-tool evaluation with an outcome and carrying-cost analysis. The PR explicitly defers spawn changes and peer-server steering or restart, and it does not establish decisions for the other tools listed by#519. The reviewed documentation records D2 and D4 changes, but it does not complete the wider evaluation.
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🟠 Major · Use queue dispatch for queue-mode Astra peer sends. · DeliveryTransport.ts:588-607
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse queue dispatch for queue-mode Astra peer sends.
When
steeringRunis present, the queue-mode Astra-peer path dispatches withsteer_active. This can change the recipient's active run before its current turn ends, so the sender's queue request is not honored. Use the queue dispatch mode at this boundary.Suggested fix
- dispatchMode: { type: "steer_active", targetRunId: steeringRun.id }, + dispatchMode: { type: "queue" },🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Project global human rows onto the requested project. · handlers.ts:642-643
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winProject global human rows onto the requested project.
When
j5_list_participantslists an alternate local project, it retains the global human row but serializes the caller’srow.projectIdand project title. A consumer can therefore associate the human with the wrong project or filter it out. Use the selectedprojectIdfor both fields.Suggested fix
- project_id: row.projectId, - project_title: projectTitles.get(row.projectId) ?? null, + project_id: projectId, + project_title: projectTitles.get(projectId) ?? null,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Use the registered attachment delivery workflow. · tools.ts:36
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the registered attachment delivery workflow.
t3_thread_send_attachmentsis not registered in the J5 catalog. An agent that follows this description can upload the bytes but cannot deliver the attachment. Direct the agent to pass the upload metadata and returned ID toj5_send_messageinstead.Suggested fix
- "Create the app's signed upload URL. POST the exact bytes to relativeUrl on this MCP server's HTTP origin, then pass the attachment metadata and returned ID to t3_thread_send_attachments. Upload is separate from sending; provider attachment support is decided by its adapter.", + "Create the app's signed upload URL. POST the exact bytes to relativeUrl on this MCP server's HTTP origin, then pass the attachment metadata and returned ID in j5_send_message's attachments. Upload is separate from sending; provider attachment support is decided by its adapter.",🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 588-607: In the queue-mode Astra-peer path, update the
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use queue dispatch instead of steer_active, preserving the existing message
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- Around line 642-643: Update the project fields serialized by
j5_list_participants to use the selected projectId for both project_id and the
projectTitles lookup, rather than row.projectId.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/attachment/tools.ts:
- Line 36: Update the attachment upload instructions to direct agents to pass
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…p, send and admitted tools Jackson and I walked every J5 agent tool against upstream's at pin 29980a3 (#519). This lands the four pieces that are built: - j5_list_participants lists one project a page at a time, with upstream's cursor, limit and filters. It returned every participant on the server in one answer. - j5_stop_agent reaches any agent on this server and follows upstream's rule that the target may not run with broader permission modes than the caller. A Captain stopping its own seat is exempt. - j5_send_message takes mode (queue, steer, restart) and attachments. J5's own version of t3_thread_send_attachments is no longer registered. - Upstream's t3_project_create, t3_project_update and t3_environment_preferences_update are admitted as upstream ships them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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J5 built its own agent tools when upstream's were more primitive, and nobody had re-checked them against what upstream ships now (#519). Jackson and I walked every tool against upstream's at pin
29980a3140and recorded the decisions on the issue: the decision record. This PR builds four of them. It does not close #519: the spawn changes and steering to peer servers follow in their own PRs.What changed
Listing.
j5_list_participantsreturned every participant on the server in one answer, 152 rows on the live install. It now lists one project a page at a time and follows the pattern of upstream's own listing tools:project_id(the caller's own when omitted),cursor,limit(default 50, maximum 100),name_contains, a three-waysettled, andinclude_archivedas before.next_cursorandtotal.server. The result names every server inservers, so an agent can find those names.Stop.
j5_stop_agentlooked its target up in the caller's project only, while a send already crossed projects. It now reaches any agent on this server. It also follows upstream's rule for a write to another thread: the target may not run with broader permission modes than the caller. A Captain stopping a seat of its own Crew is exempt.Send.
j5_send_messagegains two inputs:mode:queue(the default, and today's behavior),steerorrestart, with upstream's meanings. Upstream'sautois not offered, because it steers whenever it can. A receiver with no turn to steer or restart takes the message as any other.steerandrestartget the same permission rule as stop; a queued send has no check. Both reach an agent on this server only in this PR.attachments: files for an agent on this server, claimed into its thread before the message is committed.J5's own version of
t3_thread_send_attachmentsis no longer registered. It was a second, thinner send tool under upstream's name: no ask or reply, no retry key.t3_attachment_prepare_uploadis re-declared in a J5 file for one sentence of its description, which pointed at the retired tool, and still runs on upstream's handler.Admitted tools.
t3_project_create,t3_project_updateandt3_environment_preferences_updatewere hidden with no reason on record. They are registered as upstream ships them, andt3_project_clonehas upstream's description back.t3_project_deletestays hidden until #552 settles what deleting a project does to J5's state.How the landing mode travels
The mode is stored in the
message.sentevent, so a retried delivery lands the same way. Delivery already called upstream'ssendToThread; forsteerandrestartit dispatches upstream'ssteer_activeandrestart_activeon the receiver's steerable run, when the receiver's provider can do what was asked.Two details keep that safe:
DispatchModeLimit, so upstream checks it again under the receiver's lock at delivery. The receiver's modes can be raised between the send and the delivery.Things a reviewer should know
handlers.ts,tools.ts, their tests and several single-paragraph doc entries, and I could not split them into separately tested commits without re-editing those by hand. I chose one PR over four untested intermediate states. The sections above are the four pieces.j5_stop_agent(Bryant, 2026-09-14). Jackson decided the new rule on 2026-10-11, and the definition records it as a reversal forj5_stop_agentalone. A 2026-09-16 ruling, that J5 carries no permission ceiling between Peer Agents because a peer can be asked to act instead, argues against this rule and against the one onsteerandrestart. I have asked Jackson to confirm.envelopes.v1.jsongoes from 23 to 24 for the two rewritten tool descriptions.Review so far
An Astra peer reviewed the first commit and found four defects, all fixed in the second: the restart race above, the permission limit not surviving to delivery, claimed attachments not released for every kind of refusal, and a peer server that shares this server's name being unlistable. CodeRabbit found one more, fixed in the third: a project that could not be read was reported as missing.
A second round found two more on this PR, fixed in the fourth commit: cancelling a delivery did not look at an asked-for steer's own command, so a steer no provider took could be recorded as delivered; and a stop checked the target's modes only before dispatching. The stop now carries the caller's limit as upstream's
DispatchModeLimit, as an asked-for steer or restart does.Tests
DeliveryTransport.integration.test.ts. The permission check, and that a queued send has none, inhandlers.test.ts.Live testing
Verdict: pass, with two accepted findings (below). A tester agent ran the whole stack (#553, #557, #563) on a live-test server with real agents on Claude Haiku and GPT Luna, following the
j5-live-testskill. The full matrix ran on6b5d4c25a7, with focused re-tests after each later change:19016b3f48(a wording fix),e4900a23f7(the listing),07c7a32375(the rebase over #569) anda41318f23d, the head that merges. Report:test-reports/j5code-remote-steer-519.md.What ran live for this PR:
totalandnext_cursor, and found the agents of a second project by its id. A person's row carried the project being listed: the second project's id when that one was listed, and the agent's own project otherwise.One bug found and fixed. Asked in plain words to "interrupt" another agent, Claude Haiku sent an ordinary queued message with
intent: "interrupt"and then said it had interrupted, twice. The send tool's description now leads with interrupting and namesmodeas the way. In the retest, Haiku and Luna each chosesteerandrestartcorrectly from plain words, with no coaching, four cases out of four.After the rebase over #569 (a peer's ordinary message now enters a running turn on every Codex GPT 6 model), the re-tests found that three of this PR's texts said a message without
modealways waits. They now say ordinary delivery waits for most agents and goes into the running turn for Codex GPT 6 agents.queuestays the name of ordinary delivery (Jackson, 2026-10-12).Two findings the tester's report marks as failures, both accepted by Jackson on 2026-10-12 and not fixed here:
modeis inconsistent. Asked in plain words to interrupt, it chose correctly in four of six uncoached requests: two of three sessions got a steer and a restart right, and one got neither. Accepted as model variance.Not exercised live:
t3_environment_preferences_update, and a Captain stopping its own seat above its own modes. Neither was in the test matrix. The second is covered by a unit test.Nothing needs testing by hand.
Upstream impact
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/tools.ts: one J5 edit removed.t3_project_clone's description is upstream's again (FORK.md case 2).apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/registration.test.ts: the pinned tool list (FORK.md case 4).No upstream product behavior changes. The tools admitted here run as upstream ships them. Register D2 and D4 in
docs/j5/product/upstream.mdare updated: D4 is now only about the default, and its revisit is #538.Checklist
FORK.md(case text and file-table row) in this PRdocs/j5/product/upstream.mdAGENTS.md)docs/j5/product/and user docs rewritten where this changes themSurfaces that applied:
steerandrestartto an agent on a peer server are refused for now and follow in the next PR.docs/j5/product/a2a/agent-tools.md, the register, the convergence watchlist and FORK.md.Surfaces that did not apply: no client, contract or settings change, and no user docs describe these tools.
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