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Summary

  • Adds a typed visual tool capability/requirement contract behind visual intent decisions.
  • Makes required_visual_tool_names() the shared source for direct and Code Studio visual tool requirements.
  • Refactors visual tool pruning/narrowing so chart/article/app/artifact/Mermaid lanes do not drift into wrong visual tools.
  • Adds focused coverage for chart, simulation/app, artifact, Mermaid, text/no-force, analytical stripping, host-ui prose gating, and explicit web-search precedence.

Closes #623.

Scope

  • Backend visual intent resolver contract.
  • Backend direct and Code Studio tool collection/filtering.
  • Focused backend unit tests.

Non-Scope

  • No frontend UX or screenshot-bearing surface changes.
  • No LMS preview/apply mutation behavior changes.
  • No Code Studio scaffold/tool-round refactor in this PR.

Ownership / Agents

  • PR owner: Codex.
  • Agents involved: Codex only.
  • Owned paths: maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/**, focused backend tests.
  • Conflict risk: low to medium with concurrent backend runtime/tool-routing cleanup.

Verification

  • cd maritime-ai-service
  • uv run --python 3.12 --extra dev pytest tests/unit/test_tool_collection_host_ui.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_analytical.py tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_visual_requirements.py -q --tb=short -> 60 passed.
  • uv run --python 3.12 --extra dev pytest tests/unit/test_tool_collection_host_ui.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_analytical.py tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_visual_requirements.py tests/unit/test_graph_routing.py::TestCollectDirectTools tests/unit/test_sprint154_tech_debt.py::TestCodeStudioWave002 tests/unit/test_tutor_request_runtime.py tests/unit/test_direct_tool_rounds_runtime.py::test_select_direct_tool_followup_rebinds_visual_only_tools tests/unit/test_direct_tool_rounds_runtime.py::test_select_direct_tool_followup_skips_non_bindable_base_llm tests/unit/test_direct_tool_rounds_runtime.py::test_select_direct_tool_followup_keeps_auto_llm_after_visual_emits -q --tb=short -> 82 passed.
  • uv run --python 3.12 --extra dev ruff check app/engine/multi_agent/visual_intent_resolver.py app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_visual_requirements.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_analytical.py tests/unit/test_tool_collection_host_ui.py -> passed.
  • uv run --python 3.12 --extra dev ruff check app/ --select=E9,F63,F7 -> passed.
  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • git status --short --branch -> clean after commit.

Note: uv run created maritime-ai-service/uv.lock during verification; it was removed after verifying the resolved path was exactly E:\Sach\Sua\AI_v1_product\maritime-ai-service\uv.lock.

Risk

  • Backend runtime/tool-binding path. Incorrect narrowing could suppress visual generation or allow wrong-lane visual tools.
  • Web-search precedence is explicitly covered so @web-search does not get narrowed into visual generation when prompts also mention charts.
  • No LMS mutating path is changed; preview/apply approval contract is unaffected.

Rollback

  • Revert this PR to restore the previous visual tool filtering and required-tool logic.
  • No migration, data change, generated artifact, or config rollout is involved.

Reviewer Focus

  • Confirm required_visual_tool_names() remains the single source for visual required tools.
  • Confirm tool collection now consumes the typed requirement instead of repeating lane/tool mappings.
  • Confirm Mermaid and Code Studio app/artifact lanes cannot retain unrelated visual tools when structured visuals are enabled.

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This PR introduces a typed visual tool requirement contract to make visual intent routing deterministic and auditable. Visual tool capabilities are classified into lanes (chart, code-studio, mermaid, legacy), and a VisualToolRequirement encapsulates whether tools should be kept during pruning. Tool collection refactors direct and code-studio paths to compute and apply requirements instead of repeating visual tool logic. Focused unit tests validate chart, app, artifact, Mermaid, and text-turn tool binding.

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Visual tool requirement contract and refactored tool pruning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Visual tool capability contract and imports
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/visual_intent_resolver.py
Adds VisualToolCapabilityLane, VisualToolCapability, and VisualToolRequirement types, plus VISUAL_TOOL_CAPABILITIES and VISUAL_TOOL_CAPABILITY_NAMES constants to model tool capabilities and their classification into functional lanes. Imports refined to include only cues used for new selection logic while removing legacy-related exports.
Visual requirement resolution and tool filtering
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/visual_intent_resolver.py
Implements _resolve_preferred_tool with safe attribute access via getattr, rewrites required_visual_tool_names to return only the forced preferred tool (empty tuple otherwise), and refactors filter_tools_for_visual_intent to apply VisualToolRequirement.should_keep_tool_name logic instead of manual allowed-names sets and legacy tool exclusions.
Public API wrappers and internal helpers in tool_collection
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py
Adds build_visual_tool_requirement, required_visual_tool_names, and visual_tool_capability_names wrappers that delegate to visual_intent_resolver. Introduces _strip_visual_tool_capabilities (removes known visual tool capabilities, optionally preserving specified names) and _tools_matching_visual_requirement (selects tools by name match) helpers for pruning operations.
Direct tool collection refactored with visual requirement
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py
Computes visual_requirement from structured_visuals_enabled and visual_decision. Applies _strip_visual_tool_capabilities driven by capability enumeration instead of hard-coded tool name lists. Narrows tools to required_tool_names when visual forcing specifies a clear lane (article/figure/chart runtime), making first tool selection deterministic.
Code-studio tool collection refactored with visual requirement
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py
Computes visual_requirement and passes structured_visuals_enabled into visual-intent filtering. Narrows bound tools to requirement-matched names when the visual requirement is forced and fully specified for relevant presentation intents.
Required tool names inference updated for both lanes
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py
_direct_required_tool_names and _code_studio_required_tool_names now extend required lists with required_visual_tool_names(visual_decision) when visual forcing is enabled, centralizing visual tool name inference in the resolver.
Unit tests for visual requirement contract and tool filtering
maritime-ai-service/tests/unit/test_tool_collection_visual_requirements.py, maritime-ai-service/tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py
New test helpers (_tool, _tool_names) and unit tests validate build_visual_tool_requirement for chart/simulation/artifact intents, visual_tool_capability_names with legacy inclusion, lane-specific tool filtering (chart/app/artifact/Mermaid keeping only lane tools plus web search), text-turn tool preservation, and direct-tool collection with web-search override stripping visual capabilities.

Possibly related PRs

  • meiiie/wiii#434: Introduces select_direct_tool_followup() which uses the refactored required_visual_tool_names() function to filter tools during visual-commit follow-ups—directly coupled via the same visual-tool selection contract.

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maritime-ai-service/tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py (1)

329-525: 🛠️ Refactor suggestion | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add explicit fallback-path tests for structured_visuals_enabled=False.

Current additions only pin behavior when structured visuals are enabled. Add at least one requirement test and one filter test for disabled mode to lock fallback pruning semantics and prevent accidental over-pruning regressions.

As per coding guidelines, maritime-ai-service/app/engine/**: verify “routing correctness, source propagation, memory/tool boundaries, streaming parity, structured output robustness, and fallback behavior”.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@maritime-ai-service/tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py` around lines
329 - 525, Add tests that exercise the fallback when structured visuals are
disabled: call resolve_visual_intent("Vẽ biểu đồ KPI theo tháng") and then
build_visual_tool_requirement(decision, structured_visuals_enabled=False) and
assert that required_visual_tool_names(decision) and
requirement.required_tool_names include a legacy chart capability such as
"tool_generate_chart" (and that requirement.required_capabilities reflect the
chart lane instead of only "structured_visual"); and add a filter test that uses
filter_tools_for_visual_intent(tools, decision,
structured_visuals_enabled=False) with a tools list containing
_Tool("tool_generate_visual"), _Tool("tool_generate_chart"),
_Tool("tool_web_search") and assert _tool_names(filtered) still includes the
legacy "tool_generate_chart" (i.e. legacy chart tools are not pruned). Use
resolve_visual_intent, build_visual_tool_requirement,
required_visual_tool_names, filter_tools_for_visual_intent, _Tool and
_tool_names to locate code under test.
maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py (1)

797-812: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve retrieval tools when forcing the direct visual lane.

This replaces the bound bundle with only visual_requirement.required_tool_names. If the same turn also bound retrieval tools—e.g. tool_knowledge_search on Lines 631-637—those get dropped even though _direct_required_tool_names() can still require them on Lines 1003-1009. Mixed retrieval + chart/article turns will lose their source-producing path.

Risk: explicit visual requests over KB-backed data can render without the retrieval tool that supplies the facts and citations. Rollback: keep the preferred visual tool, but preserve any required non-visual tools instead of narrowing to a visual-only list.

Proposed fix
     if (
         visual_requirement.force_tool
         and visual_requirement.required_tool_names
         and visual_requirement.presentation_intent in {"article_figure", "chart_runtime"}
         and not (
             _needs_web_search(query)
             or _needs_datetime(query)
             or _needs_news_search(query)
             or _needs_legal_search(query)
             or _needs_lms_query(query)
             or web_search_forced
         )
     ):
-        preferred_tools = _tools_matching_visual_requirement(_direct_tools, visual_requirement)
+        required_names = set(visual_requirement.required_tool_names)
+        required_names.update(
+            name
+            for name in _direct_required_tool_names(query, user_role)
+            if name not in visual_tool_capability_names(include_legacy=True)
+        )
+        preferred_tools = [
+            tool for tool in _direct_tools if _tool_name(tool) in required_names
+        ]
         if preferred_tools:
             _direct_tools = preferred_tools

As per coding guidelines, "verify routing correctness, source propagation, memory/tool boundaries, streaming parity, structured output robustness, and fallback behavior".

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py` around lines
797 - 812, The current logic in the visual-routing block replaces _direct_tools
with only visual matches returned by _tools_matching_visual_requirement, which
drops previously-bound retrieval tools (e.g., tool_knowledge_search) and breaks
_direct_required_tool_names checks; instead, when preferred_tools is non-empty,
set _direct_tools to the union of preferred_tools and any non-visual required
tools originally bound (or returned by _direct_required_tool_names), preserving
retrieval/KB tools while still prioritizing the visual tool(s). Locate the
conditional using visual_requirement, _tools_matching_visual_requirement, and
_direct_tools and change the assignment to merge required non-visual tools
(exclude duplicates) rather than overwriting the bundle.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py`:
- Around line 936-943: The current replacement of _tools with preferred_tools
when visual_requirement.force_tool and presentation_intent is
"code_studio_app"/"artifact" drops non-visual tools required later; change the
logic so you compute preferred_visual =
_tools_matching_visual_requirement(_tools, visual_requirement) but then set
_tools to the union of preferred_visual plus any tools whose names are in
_code_studio_required_tool_names(...) (e.g., tool_generate_html_file,
tool_generate_word_document, tool_generate_excel_file, tool_execute_python,
tool_browser_snapshot_url) and any other non-visual capabilities originally
present; only prune unrelated visual-only tools while preserving required
non-visual tools and return/streaming-capable tools.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@maritime-ai-service/app/engine/multi_agent/tool_collection.py`:
- Around line 797-812: The current logic in the visual-routing block replaces
_direct_tools with only visual matches returned by
_tools_matching_visual_requirement, which drops previously-bound retrieval tools
(e.g., tool_knowledge_search) and breaks _direct_required_tool_names checks;
instead, when preferred_tools is non-empty, set _direct_tools to the union of
preferred_tools and any non-visual required tools originally bound (or returned
by _direct_required_tool_names), preserving retrieval/KB tools while still
prioritizing the visual tool(s). Locate the conditional using
visual_requirement, _tools_matching_visual_requirement, and _direct_tools and
change the assignment to merge required non-visual tools (exclude duplicates)
rather than overwriting the bundle.

In `@maritime-ai-service/tests/unit/test_visual_intent_resolver.py`:
- Around line 329-525: Add tests that exercise the fallback when structured
visuals are disabled: call resolve_visual_intent("Vẽ biểu đồ KPI theo tháng")
and then build_visual_tool_requirement(decision,
structured_visuals_enabled=False) and assert that
required_visual_tool_names(decision) and requirement.required_tool_names include
a legacy chart capability such as "tool_generate_chart" (and that
requirement.required_capabilities reflect the chart lane instead of only
"structured_visual"); and add a filter test that uses
filter_tools_for_visual_intent(tools, decision,
structured_visuals_enabled=False) with a tools list containing
_Tool("tool_generate_visual"), _Tool("tool_generate_chart"),
_Tool("tool_web_search") and assert _tool_names(filtered) still includes the
legacy "tool_generate_chart" (i.e. legacy chart tools are not pruned). Use
resolve_visual_intent, build_visual_tool_requirement,
required_visual_tool_names, filter_tools_for_visual_intent, _Tool and
_tool_names to locate code under test.
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44-60: ⚡ Quick win

No change needed: _collect_direct_tools loads get_chart_tools/get_visual_tools dynamically via _load_attr(import_module(...)), so monkeypatching chart_tools.get_chart_tools and visual_tools.get_visual_tools affects this test path.


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@meiiie meiiie force-pushed the codex/623-refactor-visual-tool-requirements branch from d9efc1e to f5c663f Compare May 24, 2026 16:14
- add typed visual tool capability and requirement contracts for visual intent decisions
- route direct and Code Studio tool pruning through the shared requirement contract
- cover chart, app, artifact, Mermaid, text, and web-search precedence cases
@meiiie meiiie force-pushed the codex/623-refactor-visual-tool-requirements branch from f5c663f to 7ff8fcc Compare May 24, 2026 16:26
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