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Fixes #563.

Every tools-enabled startup selected two complete bundled manuals regardless of the session's role. A minimal assembled prompt reproduced at 53,850 bytes, with 53,836 bytes of source reference material. Memory extractor children take the ordinary Spawn path and are classified spawned; checkpoint summaries use dream. Excluding every system or dream session would also remove useful guidance from tool-capable task workers and curators.

With tools and skills enabled, startup now includes the existing bundled compozy router, with the complete manuals available through compozy__skill_view on demand. The router explicitly explains reference loading through the active harness and permits the discovery/descriptor/skill reads needed to bootstrap that loading. It also explains the existing workspace-scoped compozy__tool_artifact_read continuation when a reference result is offloaded. Operational calls still require the matching reference guidance.

The daemon carries the existing persisted spawn_role into startup, live harness resolution, and resume continuity. It omits the tools section only for the explicit memory-extractor, auto-title, and checkpoint-summary roles. The extractor and title generator reuse their existing roles; the actual checkpoint caller now stamps its role in the existing lineage record. Interactive sessions, system workers, dream curators, coordinators, ordinary spawned workers, and unknown roles retain the router when tools are enabled. This works independently of the configured background agent name and survives resume.

When tools are enabled but skills are disabled, capable sessions retain both complete manuals inline: their native reference-reading tool is unavailable. Two mutually exclusive section predicates select the router (16,000-character budget) or this existing-configuration fallback (64,000 characters), while the role gate omits either form for input-only routines. Tests require the complete router without truncation or duplication. Neither manual's contents changed.

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Implemented and reviewed by Codex (GPT-6-Astra). The owning suites exercise observable prompt selection, real session storage and resume, and complete native resource retrieval.

  • Reproduction: the existing composed-assembler suite failed before the production change, reporting a 53,850-byte startup and a missing router.
  • Focused race suite: CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race ./internal/daemon -run 'TestComposedAssembler|TestHarnessContextResolver|TestDaemonCheckpointSummarizer|TestForkedMemoryExtractor' -count=1 passed.
  • Existing integration suite: CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestHarnessContextIntegration' -count=1 -v passed all four scenarios. It uses real SQLite and the real session manager, including the actual extractor spawn caller, the checkpoint summarizer, and a stopped/resumed extractor.
  • Native resource contract: extended the existing skill catalog dispatch case to read both manuals through the real native registry and verify complete structured content and intentionally redacted display text. A smaller 32 KiB fixture budget verifies full recovery through native artifact pages, with production result limits unchanged. The capped follow-up passed in 40.600 seconds; boot feature-flag combinations and the complete role matrix also passed after the gate findings were corrected.
  • Runtime subprocess check: go test -race -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestDaemonE2EAutomationPromptTriggerCreatesCompletedSystemSession$' -count=1 -timeout=10m -v passed (65.48 seconds for the scenario), with the real daemon and ACP fixture in separate processes under the shared verification lock. Isolated runtime teardown reported clean.
  • Pinned local gate before initial publication (977d28f42): GOMAXPROCS=4 COMPOZY_GO_TEST_P=1 COMPOZY_GO_LINT_CONCURRENCY=2 mise exec -- make gate passed with zero lint issues (54 seconds) and all affected race-test packages green (438 seconds). Go 1.26.6 and golangci-lint 2.13.1. Pre-commit lint-staged tasks and commitlint also passed with stash disabled; the initial resulting tree exactly matched the checked tree. The author subsequently requested that final remediation gates run in CI.
  • Checked implementation head: 8beb507bdb6649ab7446a8c9bb8f24432f48b835. Current-head CI and both bot review dispositions are recorded below before final delivery.

QA scenario and measurement/verification report are co-shipped. The measured integration prompts were approximately 14 KB for capable sessions, 3.6 KB for extractor startup, and 3.4 KB for checkpoint summary; exact fixture counts and their measurement scope are in the report. These are prompt-byte observations, not a claim about provider billing or real-model reference-reading compliance.

The integration run also exposed two stale test assumptions: a task fixture missing the required profile identity, and reflect.DeepEqual applied to a policy containing function values. The fixture now supplies the owner profile. Resume compares filter behavior for the loaded catalog and compares every remaining policy field. No production validation was relaxed. Memory-dependent harness fixtures explicitly opt in to avoid relying on the defaults owned by #561.

The review follow-up adds the skills-disabled fallback, normalizes router matching, names every
resource subtest, and checks truncation state for each resource. The existing integration suite,
now exercising creation/resume with skills both enabled and disabled, and the native full-resource
suite passed together with go test -race -p=1 -parallel=4 -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestHarnessContextIntegration|^TestDaemonNativeTools/Should_dispatch_skill_catalog_tools_through_the_real_skill_registry$' -count=1 -v in 66.863 seconds. The boot/assembly fallback checks passed separately in 9.947 seconds.
The frontend failure was a removed documentation contract phrase; its instructional-authority
meaning is restored without modifying the owning test.

Impact

Cross-surface audit following docs/_memory/change-impact.md:

Surface Impact and compatibility
Native tools Startup guidance and discovery instructions change. Tool IDs, schemas, descriptors, registration, policy evaluation, approval requirements, and CLI/API fallbacks are unchanged. Suppressing guidance is not an authorization boundary.
Extensibility, hooks, config The official router teaches on-demand reads. Hosted MCP, skill resolution, hooks, provider routing, and tools.enabled keep their behavior. No new global switch.
Workspace data isolation Session-local context reads the existing lineage record. No new read/write routes or workspace lookups, and no authority is inferred from the advisory role. Integration fixtures use isolated homes and SQLite.
User state / SD-013 No database or JSON shape change. The existing free-form lineage role carries an additional internal value for newly created summaries. Older unmarked summaries keep guidance. No migration, configuration edits, or data loss.
Official skill skills/compozy/SKILL.md now documents bootstrap discovery and on-demand references. Both reference manuals remain unchanged and readable in full.
Web / Docs No Web routes, components, caches, or SDK contracts change. Updated the bundled-skill page, ET-049 startup contract, and QA report. No generated artifacts changed.

Memory/dreaming defaults and the extractor JSONL parser/lifecycle remain outside this PR and are owned by #561. No PR is merged by this delivery.


  • Initial make gate passed locally; final remediation gates run in CI at the author's request, and delivery requires green current-head checks
  • New or changed behavior is covered by tests, or I explained above why not
  • If an agent wrote or co-wrote this, I named it above and verified the result myself

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Walkthrough

The change propagates session spawn roles, assigns checkpoint summaries an input-only role, replaces bundled tool manuals with a compact router, gates tool guidance for input-only sessions, and expands startup, resume, and retained-resource tests.

Changes

Prompt scoping by session role

Layer / File(s) Summary
Spawn-role contracts and lineage propagation
internal/session/spawn.go, internal/session/prompt_overlay.go, internal/session/manager_start.go, internal/session/resume_replay.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_session.go, internal/daemon/checkpoint_summary_summarizer.go, internal/daemon/checkpoint_summary_summarizer_test.go
Adds the checkpoint-summary spawn role. Propagates normalized lineage roles through startup, resume, and harness session contexts. Assigns the role when creating checkpoint summary sessions.
Compact tool prompt and role gating
internal/daemon/harness_context.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_policy.go, internal/daemon/prompt_sections.go
Loads the compact Compozy router for the tools section. Excludes the tools section for memory extractors, checkpoint summarizers, and auto-title sessions.
Session and tool-resource validation
internal/daemon/composed_assembler_test.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_integration_test.go, internal/daemon/daemon_test.go, internal/daemon/native_tools_test.go
Tests role-specific router inclusion, startup and resume behavior, prompt ordering, and recovery of retained native-tool resources under bounded result budgets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 977d2

The production role-scoping change is covered, but two new tests can pass without validating the intended edge cases. Tightening those assertions improves confidence before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionManager
  participant HarnessContextResolver
  participant PromptComposer
  SessionManager->>HarnessContextResolver: Resolve startup or resume context with SpawnRole
  HarnessContextResolver->>PromptComposer: Resolve prompt sections
  PromptComposer-->>HarnessContextResolver: Compact router or role-scoped sections
  HarnessContextResolver-->>SessionManager: Startup prompt context
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #563. Input-only roles omit tool guidance, tool-capable roles receive the compact Compozy router, spawn roles persist through startup and resume paths, and tests cover prompt…
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This PR reduces capable-session startup prompts by replacing inline tool manuals with the bundled Compozy router, while retaining complete inline manuals when skills are disabled.

  • Propagates persisted spawn roles through startup, live prompt resolution, and resume.
  • Omits tool guidance for memory extraction, automatic title generation, and checkpoint summarization.
  • Adds role/configuration matrices, integration coverage, native resource continuation checks, QA documentation, and bundled-skill guidance.
  • The previous review finding concerning skills-disabled sessions is fully addressed.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the previous skills-disabled guidance regression is fixed and no new actionable defects remain.

Skills-enabled capable sessions receive the router, skills-disabled capable sessions receive both complete manuals inline, and persisted input-only roles omit either form across creation and resume. The previous finding was fully fixed and its thread was resolved.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
internal/daemon/prompt_sections.go Selects the compact router or complete inline manuals using mutually exclusive tools-and-skills predicates.
internal/daemon/harness_context_policy.go Suppresses tool guidance only for explicitly identified input-only session roles.
internal/daemon/harness_context.go Carries normalized spawn-role metadata into startup and live harness resolution.
internal/session/manager_start.go Includes normalized persisted lineage roles in startup prompt context.
internal/session/resume_replay.go Preserves spawn-role-based prompt selection during resumed-session replay.
internal/daemon/checkpoint_summary_summarizer.go Marks checkpoint summary sessions with the explicit input-only lineage role.
skills/compozy/SKILL.md Documents router bootstrap, on-demand reference loading, and the skills-disabled fallback.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Resolve persisted session role] --> B{Tools enabled?}
    B -- No --> C[Omit tool guidance]
    B -- Yes --> D{Input-only role?}
    D -- Yes --> C
    D -- No --> E{Skills registry enabled?}
    E -- Yes --> F[Inject bundled Compozy router]
    E -- No --> G[Inject complete tool manuals inline]
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- Line 546: Update assertLatestPrompt to trim the content returned by
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All four inline findings were investigated and addressed in 8beb507bdb6649ab7446a8c9bb8f24432f48b835, with individual evidence replies. The full initial local gate passed; the author requested that final remediation gates run in CI. The follow-up real-session integration and native paged-resource suite passed locally in 66.863 seconds. Current-head CI and both reviewers' follow-up dispositions are still being monitored.

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