Tool errors caused orchestrators to abandon spawned agents. Bare error
responses and the close_agent name framed delegation as one-shot: one
transient failure or timeout ended the work, and the orchestrator had no
way to recover or reuse agents.
Renames close_agent to interrupt_agent with a hidden backward-compatible
alias. wait_agent and message_agent return structured payloads instead
of bare errors, so the orchestrator can retry after a timeout, recover
from an error status, or redirect an idle agent. Adds list_agents so
orchestrators can rediscover spawned agents. Adds root-only
orchestration guidance for error recovery.
This PR makes the agent-pushed pinned snapshot
(`chat_context_resources`) the sole source of workspace context for
chats, completing the "Release 5" cleanup. It removes legacy mechanisms
now superseded by the snapshot that agents push over dRPC
(`PushContextState`) and refresh via `chat-context/refresh`.
Removed:
- **Live-read at turn time.** MCP tool discovery, skill live-body reads,
and the instruction/skill history fallback that dialed the workspace on
every turn.
- **Context injected as message history.** The
`persist_workspace_context` generation action and its decision-loop
guard.
- **The legacy write path.** `POST`/`DELETE
/api/v2/workspaceagents/me/experimental/chat-context`, the agentsdk
`AddChatContext`/`ClearChatContext` methods, and the CLI one-shot
writer.
- **The `chats.last_injected_context` column** and all of its plumbing
(migration `000529`, queries, `db2sdk`, `dbauthz`, audit table, and the
frontend `ContextUsageIndicator` fallback).
Subagent context inheritance no longer copies parent context messages;
children now hydrate the parent's pinned `chat_context_resources` on
create, which yields an identical pin for the same workspace and agent.
What stays (still served by the live agent connection, not the
snapshot): `read_skill_file` supporting-file reads, `read_skill`
supporting-file listing, and MCP tool execution.
> [!NOTE]
> Migration `000529` drops `chats.last_injected_context` and recreates
the `chats_expanded` view without it. The down migration restores both.
<details>
<summary>Decision log (D1-D5)</summary>
- **D1 (subagent inheritance):** Re-point inheritance from the legacy
message copy to a pinned hydrate. Children call
`hydrateChatContextOnCreate` instead of copying parent context messages.
- **D2 (`persist_workspace_context`):** Remove the generation action
entirely along with the decision-loop guard it existed to satisfy, since
context is never injected into history anymore.
- **D3 (legacy HTTP + CLI):** Remove the experimental `chat-context`
POST/DELETE endpoints, the agentsdk methods, and the CLI one-shot. The
dRPC push + `chat-context/refresh` replace them.
- **D4 (frontend fallback):** Remove the `last_injected_context`
fallback in `ContextUsageIndicator`; pinned `resources` are the sole
source.
- **D5 (sequencing):** Ship as a single PR rather than a stacked pair.
</details>
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Coder Agents generated on behalf of @kylecarbs.
GPT-class chat turns could eagerly create workspaces or repeat setup
such as cloning an existing repo because the system prompt framed setup
work as the default path.
This updates chatd prompt guidance and the `create_workspace` tool
description so agents reuse existing chat and workspace context, treat
injected workspace context as already read, avoid recloning present
repositories, and create or start workspaces only when workspace-backed
work is required. Delegated chats now report workspace needs to the
parent instead of trying to create one.
> Mux opened this PR on behalf of Mike.
My agent added `//nolint:testpackage` to a test file on one of my PRs.
Again. This PR cleans it up across the entire repo and updates the
in-repo conventions so future agents stop doing it.
The repo already has a precedent for white-box tests that need to touch
unexported symbols: `*_internal_test.go` (145+ existing files). The
`testpackage` linter's default `skip-regexp` exempts that filename
suffix, so the `//nolint:testpackage` directive is unnecessary in every
case where someone reached for it. This PR renames 51 such files to
`*_internal_test.go` via `git mv` so blame and history follow, and
strips the dead directive from 2 files that were already correctly named
(`coderd/oauth2provider/authorize_internal_test.go`,
`coderd/x/chatd/advisor_internal_test.go`).
`.claude/docs/TESTING.md` now documents the rule explicitly under *Test
Package Naming*, which is imported into the root `AGENTS.md` via
`@.claude/docs/TESTING.md`. The rule: prefer `package foo_test`; if you
need internal access, rename the file to `*_internal_test.go` rather
than adding a nolint directive.
Mathias Fredriksson