feat(host): close the tool-call bracket (#88) and route the model pin (#89) - #100
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Two independent gaps in the host capability seam, both found by review on tinyhumansai/openhuman#5396 and both blocking that repo's Phase 4 repointing. ToolCallFinished (#88) ---------------------- `ProgressEvent::ToolCall` opened a tool but nothing closed it: `Started` and `Finished` bracket a run, and tool calls did not bracket at all. A host adapter therefore had no way to report a tool's outcome. That left two bad options — leave every timeline row running forever, or infer completion from the next event and assume success, which writes a fabricated `success: true` into both the timeline and the trace exporter. Wrong data is worse than missing data here: a row stuck running gets noticed, a confident lie does not. The module previously declared the omission deliberate, reasoning that tool results are large and can carry untrusted text. That is true of the payload, not of the outcome, so the payload concern is answered with policy on the `output` field — no truncation, no redaction, both explicitly host decisions — rather than by withholding whether the tool succeeded. Restates coarseness as the category test it always was: a variant is admissible when only the runtime can know it. All six variants pass that test; a chip, a footer or a retry badge does not, and stays host-side. `ToolCallFinished` is deliberately not terminal — a turn emits several before `Finished`, and treating it as terminal would tear a run's UI down at the first tool result. model_pin (#89) --------------- `AgentDefinition.model` records the model an agent pins, and `ModelResolveRequest` had no field to carry it, leaving `role` as the only string a wiring author could reach for. A host resolver reasonably reads `role` as a role vocabulary, so a model id placed there becomes an unrecognised role and falls back to a default — the pin dropped silently. `role` is a host taxonomy; `model_pin` is a concrete model id. Separate channels, so the ambiguity cannot arise. The pin is advisory: the host decides whether it can honour it, since the runtime has no view of credentials or provider health and would otherwise route to models the host cannot call. Blank-trims like `role()`, because `model = ""` means "no pin" and reaching a resolver as `Some("")` would turn a cosmetic config blank into a failed turn. Both additions are backward compatible — `model_pin` is `#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if)]`, and `ProgressEvent` gains a variant rather than changing one. Closes #88 Closes #89 Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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In `@src/harness/host/model_resolver.rs`:
- Around line 110-111: Update the model_pin serde handling in the model
resolver, including with_model_pin and the relevant serialize/deserialize paths,
so empty and whitespace-only strings normalize to None while nonblank pins
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Normalize blank model pins at the serde boundary.
with_model_pin("") stores Some(""). Lines 110-111 serialize that value as "model_pin":"" because only None is omitted. A consumer that reads the public field or JSON can treat the blank value as a concrete invalid pin.
Treat blank and whitespace-only pins as absent during serialization and deserialization. Add serde coverage for blank values.
Also applies to: 134-137, 394-405
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In `@src/harness/host/model_resolver.rs` around lines 110 - 111, Update the
model_pin serde handling in the model resolver, including with_model_pin and the
relevant serialize/deserialize paths, so empty and whitespace-only strings
normalize to None while nonblank pins remain unchanged. Ensure serialization
omits normalized blank pins and deserialization produces None for blank values,
and add serde tests covering both cases.
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Closes #88
Closes #89
Two independent gaps in the host capability seam, both found by review on tinyhumansai/openhuman#5396, and both blocking Phase 4 repointing in
openhuman'sdocs/specs/plan-agents.md. They are small and unrelated to each other, but they gate the same downstream work, so they ship together.ProgressEvent::ToolCallFinished(#88)ToolCallopened a tool and nothing closed it.Started/Finishedbracket a run; tool calls did not bracket at all, so a host adapter could not report a tool's outcome.That left two bad options, and the second is the dangerous one:
Runningforever, orsuccess: trueinto both the host timeline and the trace exporter.Wrong data is worse than missing data here: a row visibly stuck running gets noticed, a confident lie does not. The variant doc says so explicitly, so nobody later "fixes" the gap by defaulting
success.On the module's existing "no completion variant" note. That note was deliberate and I've replaced rather than ignored it. Its reasoning was that tool results are large and can carry untrusted text — true of the payload, not of the outcome. The payload concern is now answered with policy on the
outputfield (no truncation, no redaction, both explicitly host decisions) instead of by withholding whether the tool succeeded.I also restated the coarseness rule as the category test it always was: a variant is admissible when only the runtime can know it. All six variants pass that test; a chip, a footer, or a retry badge does not, and stays host-side. That reads as a more durable guard than a variant count, which invites arguing about the number rather than the category.
ToolCallFinishedis deliberately not terminal — a turn emits several beforeFinished, and treating it as terminal would tear a run's UI down at the first tool result. Pinned by a test.ModelResolveRequest.model_pin(#89)Shape A from the issue.
AgentDefinition.modelrecords the model an agent pins and the request had no field to carry it, leavingroleas the only string available. A host resolver reasonably readsroleas a role vocabulary, so a model id placed there becomes an unrecognised role and silently falls back to a default.roleis a host taxonomy;model_pinis a concrete model id. Separate channels, so the ambiguity cannot arise.The pin is advisory. The host decides whether to honour it — the model may be unconfigured, its credentials absent, its provider down — because the runtime has no view of any of that, and a runtime that honoured pins itself would route to models the host cannot call.
It blank-trims like
role(), and the consequence is worse than for roles: a definition withmodel = ""reaching a resolver asSome("")would be looked up as a model literally named empty-string and reported unroutable, turning a cosmetic config blank into a failed turn.The struct doc says it carries "identity and position, never policy". A pin is consistent with that rather than an exception: it is a declared fact about the definition, not a conclusion the runtime reached. I've written that reasoning into the doc so the next reader doesn't have to re-derive it.
Compatibility
Both additions are backward compatible:
model_pinis#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]— absent from the wire when unset, and existing payloads deserialize unchanged.ProgressEventgains a variant rather than changing one. Note it is a#[non_exhaustive]-less public enum, so a downstream exhaustivematchon it will need a new arm; the crate's ownrun_id()is the only such match here.Nothing in the crate constructs either type yet, so no runtime behaviour changes — this makes the seams expressible so the
openhumanadapters can go live.Verification
cargo test --all-features— 1719 lib tests pass, 0 failed; full integration suite greencargo clippy --all-features --all-targets— clean, no warningscargo fmt --check— cleanNew tests cover the things that would fail silently rather than loudly:
tool_completion_is_not_terminaltool_completion_correlates_with_its_opening_callfailure_is_representable_and_distinct_from_successsuccessstops carrying information; every failed tool renders as successfuluncaptured_output_is_representableserialized_events_are_internally_tagged_by_kindtool_call/tool_call_finishedtag collision merging open and closemodel_pin_is_a_separate_channel_from_roleblank_model_pin_reads_as_absentmodel = ""becoming a failed turnabsent_model_pin_is_omitted_and_restoredfixed_resolver_ignores_every_routing_fieldRFC (
docs/spec/host-capability-traits-rfc.md) updated for both, since it pinned the previous contract in §3.6–3.9 and §3.10.Follow-up, deliberately not in this PR
Neither type is emitted by the runtime yet — the agent loop still needs to produce
ToolCallFinished, and the subagent runner needs to populatemodel_pinfromAgentDefinition.model. Wiring those is a separate change against the loop, and doing it here would mix a contract addition with a behavioural one. Theopenhumanadapters are what consume these first.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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