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Closes #62

Summary

  • Pin the pi-subagents v0.35.0 block-list parsing contract that fixed upstream issue chore(deps): pin gentle-ai v2.5.0-rc.3 prerelease #507.
  • Verify every packaged agent produces clean tool tokens without collapsing newline-delimited entries.
  • Cover deny-all declarations, filesystem-tool retention, and equivalent MCP partitioning for block and comma forms.

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tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts Adds the package-level parsing compatibility regression test.

PR Type

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Documentation only
  • Code refactoring
  • Maintenance/tooling
  • Breaking change

Test Plan

  • node --experimental-strip-types --test tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts (1 passed)
  • pnpm run typecheck (no regressions)
  • pnpm run check:runtime-modules (6 generated modules match)
  • git diff --check
  • pnpm test currently exits 1 because tests/rdd-status-line.test.ts cancels 10 tests with a pending promise. The same cancellation reproduces when that file runs alone and without this new test; the new test passes in the combined run.

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  • Linked an approved issue.
  • Uses one conventional test(...) commit.
  • No scripts changed, so shellcheck is not applicable.
  • No runtime behavior or user-facing documentation changed.
  • No Co-Authored-By trailers.

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  • Tests
    • Added automated validation for packaged agent tool declarations.
    • Verifies consistent handling of direct MCP tools, ordinary tools, and comma-separated formats.
    • Confirms required filesystem access rules, web-only exceptions, and preservation of tools following deny-all markers.
    • Ensures at least one agent explicitly uses deny-all tool access.
    • Cross-checks declaration parsing behavior against the packaged parser, including block boundaries and tokenization.

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Maintainer action requested: please add the type:chore label. GitHub rejected the fork author’s label update due to repository permissions.

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The pull request adds a contract test for packaged agent tool declarations. The test validates YAML tool parsing, filesystem-tool requirements, deny-all behavior, and equivalent MCP declaration forms.

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Agent tool declaration contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Packaged agent tool parsing contract
tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts
Adds helpers and assertions that scan packaged agents, validate tool tokens, require filesystem tools except for web-only agents, preserve tools after deny-all markers, require a deny-all agent, and treat block and comma-separated MCP declarations equivalently.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 68897

The change is mergeable with a bounded test-coverage gap: the new test may miss an upstream parser regression that removes a declared agent tool.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 68897

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: package.json, tests

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Systems and components

  • observed — package.json (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — tests (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts: Added imports for node:assert/strict, filesystem, temp-dir, path, URL, and test utilities, plus constants for the agents directory, the web-only sdd-research.md exception set, and the "*": false deny-all marker.
  • observed — Modified behavior in tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts: Added vendored parseFrontmatterList and splitToolList helpers that split block or comma-separated entries, filter blanks, classify mcp: entries as direct MCP tools, and omit empty result fields.
  • observed — Modified behavior in tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts: Added readRawToolsBlock to extract the tools: block from frontmatter and assert it is nonempty, expectedBlockEntries to normalize block lines for comparison, and a agentFileFixture helper that builds frontmatter with flat keys and a trailing key proving the tools block terminates.
  • observed — Modified behavior in tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts: Added the packaged-agent contract test that validates parseFrontmatterList output matches expected entries via deepEqual, rejects newline-containing tokens, asserts the read filesystem tool is present for all agents except sdd-research.md, counts and validates deny-all agents whose marker must not swallow subsequent allowlisted tools, and confirms block and comma forms (with a synthetic mcp: entry) produce identical splitToolList partitions.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #62 requires packaged agents to receive declared tools such as read, grep, glob, and bash. The PR adds tests that verify the pi-subagents 0.37.1 parsing contract, including block-list … Update the runtime compatibility path for issue #62. Use a runtime pi-subagents version that supports the tested block-list contract, or change packaged agent declarations to the runtime-supported comma-separated form. Keep the regression…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding agent tool frontmatter parsing contract tests.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to a parser contract test and a pi-subagents development dependency. The test directly supports issue #62 by covering block-list parsing, comma-separated equivalence, filesys…
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Explanation

Issue #62 requires packaged agents to receive declared tools such as read, grep, glob, and bash. The PR adds tests that verify the pi-subagents 0.37.1 parsing contract, including block-list tokenization and filesystem-tool retention. The PR adds only a development dependency and does not change the runtime dependency, packaged frontmatter, or agent loading path. The changes therefore do not establish that installed packaged agents receive the required tools.

Resolution

Update the runtime compatibility path for issue #62. Use a runtime pi-subagents version that supports the tested block-list contract, or change packaged agent declarations to the runtime-supported comma-separated form. Keep the regression test aligned with the runtime path.

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Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts`:
- Line 69: Update expectedBlockEntries to normalize comma-separated tools using
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🟡 Minor · Exercise the external parser at the compatibility… · agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts:113-119

tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts:113-119
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the external parser at the compatibility boundary. The assertion at tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts:113-117 sends both forms only through the local vendored parseFrontmatterList and splitToolList helpers. package.json does not install pi-subagents, and lib/agents-config.ts provides a different parser. A regression in the external parser can therefore leave this test green while packaged MCP declarations are parsed incorrectly. Add a compatibility fixture that loads both forms through the supported pi-subagents consumer or production integration path. Do not substitute lib/agents-config.ts for that boundary test.

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In `@tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts` around lines 113 - 119, The
compatibility assertion should exercise the supported pi-subagents consumer or
production integration path for both block and comma-form tool declarations,
rather than only the local parseFrontmatterList and splitToolList helpers. Add a
fixture using the external parser boundary and verify both forms produce the
same tool partition; do not route this test through lib/agents-config.ts.
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In `@tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts`:
- Around line 113-119: The compatibility assertion should exercise the supported
pi-subagents consumer or production integration path for both block and
comma-form tool declarations, rather than only the local parseFrontmatterList
and splitToolList helpers. Add a fixture using the external parser boundary and
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…ity boundary

Address the CodeRabbit finding on the block/comma partition assertion:
the vendored parseFrontmatterList/splitToolList copies alone cannot
detect a regression in the external parser. Pin pi-subagents@0.37.1
(newest release installable under the repo supply-chain policy: attested
publisher, aged; list-parsing surface identical to current releases)
and stage its self-contained frontmatter.ts in a temp ESM module, since
Node refuses type stripping inside node_modules.

The new test runs every packaged agent declaration in both forms through
the real production path (parseFrontmatter -> parseFrontmatterList),
asserts identical tokens and mcp: partitions across forms, and keeps a
drift tripwire: the vendored contract must keep matching the pinned
external parser. Red/green verified: removing comma splitting from the
installed parser fails this test while the vendored-only test stays
green.
…ity boundary

Address the CodeRabbit finding on the block/comma partition assertion:
the vendored parseFrontmatterList/splitToolList copies alone cannot
detect a regression in the external parser. Pin pi-subagents@0.37.1
(newest release installable under the repo supply-chain policy: attested
publisher, aged; list-parsing surface identical to current releases)
and stage its self-contained frontmatter.ts in a temp ESM module, since
Node refuses type stripping inside node_modules.

The new test runs every packaged agent declaration in both forms through
the real production path (parseFrontmatter -> parseFrontmatterList),
asserts identical tokens and mcp: partitions across forms, and keeps a
drift tripwire: the vendored contract must keep matching the pinned
external parser. Red/green verified: removing comma splitting from the
installed parser fails this test while the vendored-only test stays
green.
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Rebased onto current main (the branch tip was a stale main refresh merge; the three content commits are unchanged and sit directly on current main now). Contract suite passes locally: 2/2.

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🔵 Trivial · Assert the complete declared token set. · agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts:190-201

tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts:190-201
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the complete declared token set.

The two equality assertions only compare block and scalar parser outputs. If both forms drop the same filesystem or shell tool, the test still passes. Add an assertion against entriesWithMcp, which contains every declared tool.

Suggested fix
 		assert.deepEqual(
 			blockTokens,
 			scalarTokens,
 			`${fileName} block and comma forms must produce the same tokens under the external parser`,
 		);
+		assert.deepEqual(
+			blockTokens,
+			entriesWithMcp,
+			`${fileName} external parser must preserve every declared tool`,
+		);
 		assert.deepEqual(
 			splitToolList(blockTokens),
 			splitToolList(scalarTokens),
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In `@tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts`:
- Around line 190-201: Update the parser contract test around `blockTokens` and
`scalarTokens` to assert that `blockTokens` equals `entriesWithMcp`, verifying
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The rebase merge left pi-subagents@0.37.1 resolved against the branch's
old 0.85.1 peer set while main moved to 0.87.1, so every CI job died in
Install dependencies with ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_MISSING_DEPENDENCY for
'@earendil-works/pi-agent-core@0.85.1(ws@8.21.3)'. Regenerating the
lockfile realigns the four pi peers to 0.87.1 (lockfile-only change).

Verified: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile passes; focused suite
tests/agent-tool-parsing-contract.test.ts 2/2 pass.

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bug(agents): YAML tools frontmatter leaves Gentle subagents without filesystem tools

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