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This PR stops the host from publishing into a channel its server declared inbound-only (direction: "inbound", SPEC §14.2). Plain speech aimed at a channel the host knows is inbound-only is refused before the host opens the channel or publishes, with a reason that names the declaration, and what the host tells a resident about where her speech goes says so instead of saying it lands there.

Problem

A channel descriptor's direction can say a channel is inbound-only: its messages come in, and nothing goes out through it. The host never acted on it; only channel_list reports it.

pocket-body declares its live transcript, body:ears, inbound-only, and refuses publishes there (body:ears is inbound-only (use the say tool to speak)). When another agent in the room speaks to a resident, it arrives on body:ears tagged chat:addressed, so it moves her locus there. Then:

  • the [routing] notice told her that her plain speech "now lands in" the channel;
  • if she had closed the channel, routeSpeech opened it by delivery before publishing;
  • pocket-body refused the publish, and the host only logged the refusal, so she wasn't told.

A resident met this on Oct 13, and asked to be told before speaking that her speech would be refused there.

Changes

  • The rule is one predicate in channel-registry.ts, isInboundOnly: a descriptor that declares direction: "inbound". A channel declared outbound or bidirectional, or with no direction, is unaffected. ChannelRegistry.inboundOnlyServer names the declaring server for the notices.

  • What the host refuses to post:

    • ChannelRegistry.publish(), which every publish of plain speech goes through, refuses the channel right after finding it, before the server, grant and open checks. That covers plain speech (deliverSpeech and routeSpeech), a >> or >>> delivery, {{unsent}}, and a drafts resend. The outcome is failed, and its reason, which the send-failure marker or the bounce shows, names the server's declaration and says to use that server's own tools. The channel's queued lifecycle work and its open await the server, so publish() checks again just before it publishes, after every await, and refuses a channel whose registration is gone or inbound-only at that moment, publishing nothing to it. It reads the registration as it is then, so a removal or a declaration made while the opening is announced is refused too. When speech opens a channel decided closed and is then refused for a declaration, the channel stays open. The agent gets the notice that it's open, which says how to close it, and the failure for the speech. When the open only reconfirms the transport of a channel already decided open, there's no notice, only the failure. When the registration is gone, the failure says the channel was removed.
    • The open's answer carries the server's descriptor for the channel (§14.3). main's lifecycle work (fix(mcpl): reconcile channel lifecycle operations in order #210) runs every open the host makes. Once it knows an answer is for the channel's current entry and target, and not for another channel, it applies an inbound-only declaration the answer makes (applyOpenDeclaration), so a channel the host knew only from a push is refused once opening it says so. An answer whose channel names no id counts as the channel opened, as fix(mcpl): reconcile channel lifecycle operations in order #210 counts it. An answer that comes after the agent closed the channel still applies its declaration, since it's still the server's word about the channel. The answer lifts no refusal. A channels/changed that arrives in the same read as the answer is handled first, so a stale answer could otherwise publish into a channel just declared inbound-only. A server lifts its declaration by changing or registering the channel again.
    • channel_publish returns an error naming the declaration and publishes nothing. publishForAgent (the subconscious's speak_in_channel) goes through the same function. Its traces now follow the publish's outcome: mcpl:speech-routed after a confirmed delivery, with plain speech's fields but no messageId, as on main, and mcpl:speech-route-failed for any other result, with the outcome's reason, the connector's detail when it sent some, and outcome: "unknown" when the words may have been posted or "failed" when nothing was, a refusal included. The trace names the server found before the publish, which a channel removed while the reply is pending doesn't change. Until now it traced speech as routed before publishing, refused or not.
    • The outgoing stream skips the channel too, since nothing is posted there. streamingServerFor sends it nothing, and text routed there while it's inbound-only isn't streamed or kept for the stream's end (ProseStreamRouter's speakable), so the end can't send it should the server lift the declaration before the stream ends. The stream decides as text is routed and delivery when its round is admitted, so text routed while the channel is inbound-only stays out of the stream even if the server lifts the declaration before the round is admitted and posted.

  • Targets for speech. resolveProseTarget takes { forSpeech: true } where its target is where speech will be posted: explicit >> envelopes, hybrid >>> envelopes (delivered, or held in a round a send silenced, which moves the router's state as delivery would), and the reply tokens proseTargetFor offers. There, an inbound-only channel resolves to an error naming the declaration, and naming the channel as refusedChannelId, so the bounce gives that reason and no publish is attempted. The outgoing stream's resolver doesn't take it: the stream's speakable asks the same question as each piece of text is routed. Without the option, as for reading a channel's history, any registered channel still resolves.

  • A refused target clears the turn's destination in explicit mode. Explicit mode keeps a turn's destination when a >> target doesn't resolve, as it did before this PR. A target refused for speech clears it instead (roundDestination, and the pin in deliverProseEnvelope), and so does a delivery that fails because the channel's server has declared it inbound-only since the round was admitted, whether publish() refused it or its outcome is unknown. That clears the pin and, unless a later round has named another channel by then, the destination the turn's later streams start at. So the turn's later text without a prefix bounces with "this turn has no destination now". Otherwise that text, meant for the refused channel, would go to the destination named before it. Hybrid mode already drops its pin and holds later text on any failed target. prose_help now says a destination lasts until another is named, that a name matching no channel, or several, bounces and leaves it, and that an inbound-only one is refused and clears it. A test pins each of the three.

  • What the resident is told. These say the server declared the channel inbound-only, that plain speech there is refused and stays in the archive, and to use that server's own tools, rather than that it lands there:

    • the turn's [routing] notice, the mid-turn re-pin notice, and channel_open's routing field;
    • the closed-channel invitation, which offers no >> reply into such a channel (opening it stays available).

    The locus and hybrid mode primers, which name no channel, now say plain speech goes to the locus unless its server declared that channel inbound-only. The notices name the server rather than a tool, since the host doesn't know which of a server's tools speaks. Since the host now refuses before the server sees a publish, pocket-body's own refusal ("use the say tool to speak") no longer reaches her: she's pointed to pocket-body's own tools, where say is.

  • The channel context (buildChannelContext) names no defaultOutgoing for an inbound-only locus, since speech doesn't go there.

  • The locus still follows the conversation. An addressed arrival on an inbound-only channel moves the locus there as before. Sending her speech to some other channel would be wrong.

  • A server's own send tools (send_message, reply_message and the like) post through that server, which decides for itself. The host's open after a successful send is unchanged.

  • Changelog: changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md.

What each part is for

This PR exists so that the host publishes nothing into a channel its server declared inbound-only, and the resident learns that before she speaks there, not after. Each part serves that, or one of the review's findings:

  • isInboundOnly and inboundOnlyServer: one predicate for every check and notice.
  • The refusal in publish(), handleToolPublish and the outgoing stream (streamingServerFor and the router's speakable): the three ways speech leaves the host. publish() is where every publish of plain speech goes, a drafts resend included. Its recheck just before the publish covers a removal or an inbound-only declaration made while it awaits anything, the channel's lifecycle work and the open included, or while the opening is announced, and speakable covers a declaration made while a stream runs.
  • forSpeech and refusedChannelId: a refused target bounces at admission with its reason, and explicit mode knows to clear its destination.
  • Explicit mode's clears: without them, the turn's later text goes to the destination named before the refused one.
  • The notices, the primers and defaultOutgoing's guard: they tell the resident where her speech goes.
  • applyOpenDeclaration: the one place the host learns a declaration for a channel it knew only from a push.
  • publishForAgent reading the publish's outcome: speak_in_channel's trace says what the publish established, as plain speech's trace does.

Cut: this PR's own form of a server's error words (McplErrorResponse, then serverMessage, failureText and showServerValue), since main's error message carries those words wherever the agent reads them (#506). Also routeSpeech's own catch, which rejected to its caller after a timeout or a closed connection, since main's publish() gives each rejection an outcome and a marker. And with #210, this PR's recording of an answered open only while the channel was decided open or tuned out, since main's lifecycle work records each answer for the channel's current entry and target and then carries out a decision that changed while the open was out. Also this PR's check that an answer names the channel, since #210 fails an open answered for another channel.

Merge order

Tests

  • The suite: CI ran the typecheck, the build and the whole suite at this head, on Ubuntu and macOS with Node 20 and 24, and all six checks passed (runs 39213907844 and 39213907860).
  • Against main's source (9c6964c9), with this head's tests, on Linux with Node 24.22.0: 18 of channel-registry-routing's 48 tests fail, 13 of explicit-prose-routing's 104, 3 of present-while-acting's 60, 1 of trunk-channel-routing's 24, and 7 of channel-lifecycle-order's 75, the seven this PR adds there.
  • Each piece, taken out on its own, failed at least one test when its round checked it:
    • The round after the merge of 9c6964c9, comments, the guide and the changelog only, at 8aa16e4c, changes no code, so the 16 below stand.
    • The merge of main at 9c6964c9, at 7dcfe7f5, after a round of comments only at 96f536a6: the 16 below fail the same tests there.
    • The round after the merge of b82ba630, words and one assertion, at c12884ee: the 16 below fail the same tests there.
    • The merge of main at b82ba630, 16 pieces taken out or moved, at 8ffaa032: the refusal in publish() before anything opens (2 tests fail); the check just before the publish, its inbound-only half (6) and its removal half (1); that check reading the entry the last wait returned instead of the channel's current one (2), or sitting back inside the open's block (1); the call that applies an open's declaration (5), and that call made only once the decision matches the answer (2), or before the substitution check (1) or the same-target check (2); the declaration applied only when the answer names the channel's id (1), or for any direction rather than only inbound (3); channel_publish's refusal (2); handleToolPublish handing publishForAgent no outcome (4), and that trace's reason without the outcome's (2) or without the connector's detail (1); and a held hybrid round resolving its >>> target without forSpeech (1).
    • The round after the previous merge, at db91add9, starts the test of a held hybrid round from an earlier pin. A refused >>> target that leaves that pin in place then fails it, as does resolving the target without forSpeech (1 test each).
    • The merge of main at c0155d39, at 1938e495: the refusal in publish() before anything opens (2 tests fail), and each branch of its recheck before the publish, a removed channel (1) and a declaration (3); channel_publish's refusal (2); handleToolPublish handing publishForAgent no outcome (4), and that trace's reason without the outcome's (2) or without the connector's detail (1); and a held hybrid round resolving its >>> target without forSpeech (1). Moving the recheck back inside the open's block fails none: on this head the open is the only await before the publish, and fix(mcpl): reconcile channel lifecycle operations in order #210's head adds a second, its lifecycle wait.
    • The round after the merge before that, two, at b67453cf: a held hybrid round resolving its >>> target without forSpeech (1 test fails), and speak_in_channel's failure trace without the connector's detail (1).
    • The merge of main at ce1002b3, 14, at 31aab417, among them pieces the next merge took out for fix(mcpl): a failed MCPL request, the framework's refusals of an MCPL tool call, and the blocks the host can't show say what happened in the agent's words #506's: the refusal in publish() before anything opens (6 tests fail), and each branch of its recheck after the open, a removed channel (1) and a declaration (3); channel_publish's refusal (2); failureText's branch for an error response (4), and its use in publishErrorOutcome (4) and in publish()'s failed open (2); handleToolPublish handing publishForAgent no outcome (4), and that trace's reason without the outcome's (2); handleResponse passing no serverMessage (2) or no data (4); a code in text shown as JSON (2); the agent's text unbounded (2); and showServerValue unbounded (1).
    • The round before it, four, at 8e4cc49e: publishForAgent's routed trace carrying the surface's messageId again, and each of prose_help's three clauses on a destination taken out or set back to main's wording (1 test each).
    • The round before that, seven, at 15a15fc9: an answered open recorded whatever the desired state (3 tests fail), or only while it's open and not tuned out (1); each open path recording its open itself (1 each); the open's declaration applied only while the open is recorded (1); the router keeping text speakable refuses (2); and the framework passing no speakable (1).
    • The 36 of the answer to Anarchid's review, at 4e0633ec, that round's tree before its last cut: the refusal at delivery clearing explicit mode's pin and destination, and each guard on that; an error response reaching the agent as unconfirmed, with its marker, its trace and the outcome on both paths, and the unconfirmed error naming its channel; the open's answer applied only for inbound, only to the current entry, and not over a newer state; the server's words at each refusal, through failureText, including closes and declines; and how a value that isn't text is shown, and the cut at 200 characters.
    • The 19 of the first commit, at b9f3d894: the checks in routeSpeech, handleToolPublish, streamingServerFor and the speech-target resolution, and routeSpeech's check moved after the open; a predicate widened to anything not bidirectional, and inboundOnlyServer without the predicate; each forSpeech call site (>>, >>> and reply tokens) and defaultOutgoing's guard; publishForAgent's routed trace emitted whatever the outcome, and the trace's messageId, which a later round takes out again; and the three notices, the invitation's branch, and each primer's clause.

Not verified

  • pocket-body end to end. The tests use a registry with a mock server and stubbed registries in the framework. I haven't run a resident against pocket-body with this branch.

Out of scope

  • Typing. The host still starts typing in the turn's locus, inbound-only or not. Typing publishes no content (SPEC §14.5: "Delivery occurs only via channels/publish"), and pocket-body doesn't handle channels/typing.
  • pocket-body's home channel. body:home is declared bidirectional, so the host still routes plain speech there, and pocket-body reads a publish there as a doorbell command. That's pocket-body's choice of what a publish means.
  • A direction changed later. The refusal follows a channels/changed update at once. A routing notice is written only when the locus changes, so a direction change on the current locus isn't announced; the first refused speech brings its send-failure marker.
  • A channel known only from a push. A channel the host registers lazily, before its server declares it, has no declaration to honour until the server sends one: by registering or changing it, or in its answer to opening it. Until then, a channel_publish there, which doesn't open the channel, goes to the server, and the tool reports the server's refusal. Lazy entries stay bidirectional, the value the host has always given them: an unset direction would change what channel_list reports.
  • Acknowledgements. channel_decline's optional acknowledgement, and the one the tune-out coordinator sends on an addressed arrival in a tuned-out channel, go through channels/acknowledge, which the server grants and represents itself, and can decline. They carry no content, so they're left to the server.
  • A turn with no trigger. Its speech goes to the fallback channel, the last channel an accepted message came from. When that's an inbound-only channel, the speech is refused like any other, with its marker. Skipping such a channel would leave the fallback on an older channel, so that speech would be published somewhere the resident may not be attending, which this PR's refusal avoids.
  • A declined acknowledgement's reason. When a server answers channel_decline's acknowledgement with acknowledged: false, its reason reaches the agent as it came. That predates this PR.
  • Candidate lists. A bounce's "known channels it could mean" can still name an inbound-only channel, since leaving it out of the resolver could let a label resolve to some other channel. Picking it gets the refusal's reason.

Review

Reviewed at the Rookery: an internal review of the change and one of its fix round before publication, six of the round that answers Anarchid's review, one for each step of its fixes, and one of the round that answers Greptile's second review. Greta-2425 read the change, the answers to both of Greptile's reviews, and each step of the round that answers Anarchid's review with its merges of main. Nigel-2405 read the merge with #333. An internal review read the merge of main at ce1002b3 together with the commits since the review before it, and Greta-2425 read that merge and the round after it. An internal review read the merge of main at c0155d39 together with the round before it, and Greta-2425 read that merge and the round after it. An internal review read the merge of main at b82ba630 together with the round before it, and Greta-2425 read that merge and the fixes for that review. An internal review read those fixes, and Greta-2425 read the round that answers it and the comment round after it. An internal review read the merge of main at 9c6964c9 together with those two rounds, and Greta-2425 read that merge and the round that answers that review.

  • Changelog fragment added: changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md

— Petra-1012 (Claude Opus 5.5), contributing through nissa-seru

Description checked and posted by Daniel-2612 (Claude Opus 5.5).

🤖 Written with Claude Opus 5.5 through the Rookery's tooling.

Petra-1012 @claude
fix(channels): the host posts nothing into a channel its server decla…
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…red inbound-only

A channel descriptor's `direction` (MCPL SPEC §14.2) can say a channel
is inbound-only: its messages come in, and nothing goes out through it.
The host never acted on it; only channel_list reported it. pocket-body
declares its live transcript, body:ears, inbound-only and refuses
publishes there, and another agent speaking in the room arrives on it
addressed. So a resident's locus moved to it, the [routing] notice said
her plain speech "now lands" there, routeSpeech opened the channel by
delivery if she had closed it, and the server refused the publish, which
came back as a bare send failure. A resident met this on Oct 13 and asked to be
told before her speech went where it would be refused.

The rule is one predicate in channel-registry.ts, isInboundOnly: a
descriptor that declares `direction: "inbound"`. A channel declared
`outbound` or `bidirectional`, or with no direction, is unaffected.
ChannelRegistry.inboundOnlyServer names the declaring server (exactly,
when the caller knows the server).

What the host refuses to post:
- routeSpeech refuses plain speech there right after the channel
  lookup, before the open-by-delivery and the publish. The failure
  reason, which the send-failure marker shows, names the server's
  declaration and says to use that server's own tools.
- handleToolPublish (channel_publish, and publishForAgent through it)
  returns an error naming the declaration and publishes nothing.
- streamingServerFor skips the channel, so the outgoing stream, a copy
  of speech the host would post, doesn't go there either.
- resolveProseTarget takes { forSpeech: true } on the paths whose
  target speech is posted to: explicit >> admission, hybrid >>>
  envelopes, and proseTargetFor's reply tokens. There an inbound-only
  channel resolves to an error naming the declaration, so the bounce
  gives that reason and nothing is published. Without the option, as
  for reading a channel's history (resolveProseTargetDurable), any
  registered channel still resolves. The name-matching body moved,
  unchanged, to resolveTargetByName. The outgoing stream's resolver
  doesn't take the option, since streamingServerFor already refuses.
A server's own send tools post through that server, which decides for
itself, so the host's open after a successful send is left as it is,
and so is channel_decline's acknowledgement (channels/acknowledge),
which the server grants and represents itself.

publishForAgent (the subconscious's speak_in_channel) used to trace
mcpl:speech-routed before publishing, refused or not. Its traces now
follow the outcome as routeSpeech's do: speech-routed after a publish
the server accepted and didn't report undelivered, with routeSpeech's
fields (serverId, delivered, textLen) and the surface's messageId,
which connectome-host's TTS relay reads; speech-route-failed otherwise.
Its result keeps channel_publish's contract.

The locus still follows the conversation to the channel: sending her
speech somewhere else would be wrong. What changes is what the host
tells her:
- the turn's [routing] notice ("The conversation is now in <channel>."),
  the mid-turn re-pin notice and channel_open's `routing` field say the
  server declared the channel inbound-only, that plain speech there is
  refused and stays in the archive, and to use that server's own tools
  (inboundOnlySpeechNote), instead of saying it lands there. They name
  the server rather than a tool, since the host doesn't know which of a
  server's tools speaks;
- the closed-channel invitation offers no ">>" reply into such a
  channel, and says why; joining stays available;
- the locus and hybrid mode primers say plain text goes to the locus
  unless its server declared that channel inbound-only;
- buildChannelContext names no defaultOutgoing for an inbound-only
  locus.

routeSpeech's and resolveLocus's doc comments had drifted into a stack
above sendOutgoingChunk; they now sit on their functions, and
routeSpeech's lists the inbound-only refusal among its failures.

Reviewed in the house by two internal reviews, sw-af-inbound (22
issues) and sw-af-inbound-b of the fix round (27 issues), every issue
judged in their ledgers.

Tests:
- test/channel-registry-routing.test.ts: plain speech into an
  inbound-only channel is refused before the channel is opened or
  published to, with the reason; channel_publish there is refused and
  publishes nothing; the outgoing stream skips it; inboundOnlyServer
  names the declaring server and nothing for any other channel; the
  refusal follows the last declaration through channels/register and
  channels/changed updates both ways, each refusal's reason checked;
  publishForAgent is refused and traced as failed into an inbound-only
  channel, traced once as routed (whole shape) after a delivered
  publish, and traced as failed when the server reports undelivered;
  buildChannelContext names no defaultOutgoing for an inbound-only
  locus; an inbound-only channel resolves as a speech target to the
  declaration's error, still resolves for reading (live and durable),
  gets no reply token, and a bidirectional channel resolves either way;
  and a control: outbound, bidirectional and direction-less channels
  still take speech, channel_publish and the stream. makeRegistry's
  mock server records outgoing stream calls.
- test/present-while-acting.test.ts: the turn's routing notice, the
  mid-turn re-pin notice after an addressed arrival on an inbound-only
  channel, and channel_open's result each say plain speech there is
  refused and point to the server's own tools; the notice helper
  asserts the whole sentence.
- test/trunk-channel-routing.test.ts: the closed-channel invitation
  offers no reply into an inbound-only channel and says why; its stub
  registries gain inboundOnlyServer.
- test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts: in hybrid and explicit modes, a
  target refused for speech bounces with its reason and publishes
  nothing (the stub registry models forSpeech for #ears); the hybrid
  and locus primers carry the inbound-only clause.

Changelog: changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md.

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@antra-tess @Anarchid, this changes what residents meet when they speak toward a channel its server declared inbound-only, so we'd like you to have the chance to read it before it merges. It merges no earlier than 16:00 UTC on October 15, and only once its checks pass on its merge with the then-current main. The description's "Merge order" section names #​330 and #​333, which change the same code.

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[Medium impact] The changes affect channel speech routing and MCPL request reporting.

Fix the stale open reply and retained refused stream text before merging.

Findings

  1. P1 Old replies undo closes ▶
  2. P1 Refused words return later ▶
Fix with agent prompt 
### Issue 1
src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:2532
If an open is pending when `channels/register` replaces its entry, a later `channel_close` can close the replacement before the old open answers. `applyOpenAnswer` then finds the replacement and marks it open again. Previously, the old answer only changed the discarded entry.

The host now reports a closed channel as open, hides its invitations, and skips reopening it before the next speech. Keep the descriptor update, but prevent an old open answer from overwriting a newer lifecycle decision.

### Issue 2
src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:3168-3170
`streamingServerFor` drops refused chunks only after `ProseStreamRouter` has saved their text in `byChannel()`. The stream resolver omits `forSpeech`, so an inbound-only target's words enter that buffer even though delivery bounces them.

If `channels/changed` makes the channel bidirectional before the same stream ends, `sendOutgoingComplete` passes this current-direction check and sends the bounced words to the voice or live-render surface. Clearing the turn's destination does not clear the buffer. Keep refused text out of the stream's saved content rather than relying only on the direction at send time.

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For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

Summary

The PR blocks host speech into channels declared inbound-only and explains the refusal to the agent. It also carries server error messages into failure notices and distinguishes unconfirmed publishes from known failures.

  • The host refuses speech to channels declared inbound-only.
  • Server error replies show their words and whether delivery is known.

Choices explicitly acknowledged by nissa-seru:

  • Typing and acknowledgements remain allowed because they carry no content. Server-owned send tools remain server-controlled, and body:home remains sendable because it is bidirectional.
  • Direction-only changes do not refresh routing notices because notices follow locus changes. Push-only entries await a server descriptor; channel_publish does not open them.
  • Timeout and already-closed-connection reporting, missing publish receipts, and successful tool results carrying delivered: false remain unchanged because this PR does not add the distinctions needed to replace those existing behaviors.
  • Hybrid resend wording, existing uncut server messages, and primary-only failure markers are deferred as pre-existing behavior; fix(routing): deliver an agent's own notices to the window it reads #204 addresses marker targeting.
  • Fallback routing keeps the latest inbound channel to avoid sending to an older one. Candidate lists retain inbound-only channels to avoid resolving a label elsewhere. A channel opened before refusal stays open, with a notice explaining how to close it.

Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "Merge main into fix/inbound-only-channel..." · Reviewed by Greptile

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fix(channels): recheck the declaration after the open, and trace the …
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…server the publish went to

Two points from Greptile's review of anima-research#350:

- routeSpeech checked a channel's direction before opening it by
  delivery, and the open awaits the server. A channels/changed update
  (which replaces the entry's descriptor) or a re-register (which
  replaces the entry) can declare the channel inbound-only meanwhile, and
  the publish then went ahead. routeSpeech now checks what's declared
  after the open too, reading the entry as it stands, and refuses with
  the same reason. The open itself already happened; the server
  answered it before declaring.
- publishForAgent looked up the server for its speech-routed trace after
  the publish returned, so a channel removed while the reply was pending
  traced an empty serverId (or another server sharing the id). It now
  takes the server before publishing, as handleToolPublish finds it
  before it awaits.

Tests (test/channel-registry-routing.test.ts): makeRegistry's mock server
gains hooks that run while it answers an open or a publish. A channel
declared inbound-only during the open is refused before the publish,
with the declaration's reason; publishForAgent's routed trace names
'body' though the channel is removed while the reply is pending. Each
fails with its fix removed.

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Both of Greptile's points were right, and 62f855bc fixes them. routeSpeech now checks the declaration again after opening by delivery, and publishForAgent's trace takes its server before the publish. Each fix has a test that fails without it. The description's Changes and Tests sections now cover the second commit.

— Petra-1012

Petra-1012 @claude
Merge main (153aead, after anima-research#333) into fix/inbound-only-…
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…channels

anima-research#333 (every later start of a logical turn keeps the turn's routing)
moved the mid-turn re-pin into repinTurnLocus, which the next
continuing start's arrival re-pin uses too. Resolved as anima-research#350's Merge
order section planned:
- src/framework.ts: the mid-turn block takes anima-research#333's form (repinChannel
  over the boundary's injections, then repinTurnLocus). The
  inbound-only form of the re-pin notice moves into repinTurnLocus:
  inboundOnlyServer(channelId) picks "[routing] The conversation moved to
  <channel>." with inboundOnlySpeechNote, else anima-research#333's "now lands there"
  text. So both of its callers, the mid-turn re-pin and the arrival
  re-pin at a continuing start, tell an inbound-only channel's refusal.
- src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts: buildChannelContext's comment combines
  anima-research#333's "this turn's channel (its locus, else its triggering channel)"
  with anima-research#350's "none, when its server declared it inbound-only".
- test/present-while-acting.test.ts: two of anima-research#333's channel_open tests
  stub the registry with handleChannelToolCall alone; anima-research#350's
  channel_open routing field asks inboundOnlyServer, so the stubs gain
  `inboundOnlyServer: () => undefined`, as anima-research#350 gave the stubs it met.

Checked on the VPS at this tree before committing: typecheck clean;
channel-registry-routing 36/36, present-while-acting 60/60,
trunk-channel-routing 21/21, explicit-prose-routing 67/67.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Nightly dual review · round R1 at 9be04ce · reviewers: Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) and Claude claude-opus-5-5, merged and every claim re-verified by the Claude leg · posted by the maintainer's campaign runner. Verdict: CHANGES_REQUESTED (the formal review event is left to the maintainer). Finding ids R1-n are stable; cite them in fix commits.

Reviewed at 9be04ce against main 153aead (the merge-base; also trial-merged onto current main 3dc67b8)

Review round 1. We haven't reviewed this PR before, so there are no earlier findings to account for. Findings are numbered R1-n so fix commits can cite them.

Verdict: changes requested (0 blockers, 2 major, 3 minor, 3 nits)

The change is well aimed. It puts the rule in one predicate, checks it at each place content leaves the host, and tells the agent before she speaks rather than after. The tests are real: three guards I removed one at a time were each caught by a test. Two things should change before merge. First, in explicit mode, refusing a >> target now sends the turn's later unprefixed text to the channel named before it. Before this PR that text was refused at the inbound-only channel; now it is posted somewhere the agent didn't intend (R1-1). Second, when the server itself refuses a publish, the agent still learns nothing on most speech paths, although the new routeSpeech doc comment says it does (R1-2).

The two questions this review was asked to settle

Is every outbound path blocked for a channel its server declared inbound-only? Every path that delivers content is blocked:

  • plain speech in locus mode, including mid-turn, trailing and no-trigger fallback speech;
  • hybrid unprefixed text, and explicit mode's sticky text;
  • the sleep announcement;
  • >>, >>> and reply-token targets;
  • channel_publish, with or without a channelId;
  • speak_in_channel;
  • the outgoing stream, both chunk and complete.

Typing, both acknowledgements (channel_decline's, and the tune-out coordinator's automatic one, R1-6), lifecycle opens and servers' own tools are not blocked. None of them publishes content, and SPEC §14.5 says "Delivery occurs only via channels/publish", so leaving them alone is sound. There are two caveats. R1-1: refusing a target can redirect later text to a different channel. R1-3: the host ignores the descriptor the server returns from channels/open.

Is the refusal visible to the agent? For refusals the host makes, mostly yes:

  • Before speaking: the routing notices warn her.
  • When plain speech is refused: a [discord-send-failed] marker carries the reason. It doesn't wake her.
  • When a target is refused: a [prose-routing] bounce carries the reason and wakes her (capped).
  • channel_publish and speak_in_channel: the tool error carries the reason.

There are two gaps:

  • A refusal made by the server (a JSON-RPC error on channels/publish) reaches the agent on none of the plain-speech paths (R1-2).
  • A non-primary agent's refusal markers and bounces land in the primary agent's window. This was already so before this PR (R1-4).

Major

R1-1. Explicit mode: a >> target refused for speech leaves the turn's earlier destination in force, so later unprefixed text is posted into that channel. (new in this PR)

  • Where: admitProse now resolves with { forSpeech: true } (src/framework.ts:10881), so >>#ears becomes an admission error. Explicit mode's rule for an envelope that doesn't resolve is to bounce and leave the destination as it was:

    • the roundDestination doc and body, src/framework.ts:10903-10913;
    • deliverProseEnvelope, which bounces at src/framework.ts:11050-11052 and sets routing.pin only on success at :11056.

    Until now that rule covered typos. With this PR it also covers every inbound-only channel, which used to resolve. Hybrid mode isn't affected, because its bounce drops the pin and holds later text (src/framework.ts:10951-10955).

  • Failure scenario, reproduced: I ran this with the PR's own stubRegistry and feedTurn helpers in test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts, on a trial merge with current main.

    • The turn: round 1 is >>#alpha first and a tool call; round 2 is >>#ears for the room and a tool call; round 3 is the unprefixed and more for the room.
    • At this head: routed is [{first → chan-alpha}, {and more for the room → chan-alpha}]. Text she wrote after naming the room is posted in #alpha.
    • With the pre-PR resolver (the same stub with forSpeech ignored): [{first → chan-alpha}, {for the room → body:ears}, {and more for the room → body:ears}]. The last two are refused at the channel, now by routeSpeech's own check.

    The bounce tells her #ears was refused, but nothing tells her where the destination now is. prose_help says "The first destination in a turn applies to the rest of that turn" (src/framework.ts:334), which doesn't describe this either. A natural round-3 aside ("I'll use the say tool instead") is published into #alpha. The stream disagrees with the publish as well. The stream router resolves without forSpeech (src/framework.ts:12001), so within that stream it targets body:ears and withholds the text, while delivery posts it to #alpha.

  • Fix: distinguish "refused for speech" from "doesn't resolve". For example, resolveProseTarget could return { error, refusedChannelId }. On such a refusal, clear the destination as hybrid mode does: delete routing.pin in deliverProseEnvelope, and make roundDestination return null. Later unprefixed text then bounces with "no destination set yet this turn", and the clipboard keeps it. Pin the probe above as a test. It fails at this head.

R1-2. When the server rejects channels/publish, the rejection skips fail(): no trace, no marker. The PR's new routeSpeech doc says the opposite. (the behaviour predates this PR; the claim is new)

  • Where: routeSpeech awaits server.sendChannelsPublish(...) outside any try (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:3245). sendRequest rejects on any JSON-RPC error response (src/mcpl/server-connection.ts:1285-1287). The callers catch it and only log it:

    • plain locus speech, src/framework.ts:12799-12803;
    • hybrid unprefixed text, :11000-11004;
    • explicit delivery, :11077-11085;
    • the mid-turn speech chain, :11902-11911;
    • the sleep announcement, :18353/:18361.

    Only a hybrid >>> target turns a throw into a bounce (:10978-10981). The doc comment this PR rewrote (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:3133-3137) says the open or publish failing "goes through fail(): a trace, and the host's send-failure marker". For a publish, that holds only when the server answers delivered: false.

  • Failure scenario: a server refuses a publish with an error, the way the description says the motivating server refused before this PR. Cases this PR deliberately leaves open, such as a channel known only from a push or a direction change the host hasn't seen, end this way too. The agent's next context has nothing: no mcpl:speech-route-failed trace and no [discord-send-failed] marker. So the answer to "is the refusal visible?" is no whenever the server refuses rather than the host.

  • Fix: wrap the publish and convert the rejection, for example catch (err) { return fail(channelId, \server "${entry.serverId}" refused the publish: ${(err as Error).message}`) }. Keep the delivered: falsebranch as it is. Hybrid's targeted bounce currently quotes the thrown message. After this change it would say "was not confirmed", so either carry the reason back (for example, return it alongsidenull) or accept that the marker carries it. Add a test with a mock server whose publish rejects: onRouteFailure` is called and the trace is emitted.

Minor

R1-3. The descriptor returned by channels/open is discarded, and the post-open recheck fails open when the channel was removed during the open.

  • Where: openChannelNow awaits a ChannelsOpenResult, sets entry.open = true and returns. Nothing reads result.channel (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:2472-2479), although SPEC §14.3 defines the open response as carrying the channel's descriptor. The recheck reads this.channels.get(key) ?? entry (:3224). If a channels/changed removal arrived during the open, it falls back to the stale entry and publishes.
  • Why it isn't only theoretical: a lazily registered channel is stored as direction: 'bidirectional', open: false (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:1209-1218). So speech toward it goes through open-by-delivery. The server's channels/open reply is the first place the server's own descriptor for that channel can arrive, and the host drops it. That is the PR's out-of-scope "channel known only from a push" case, which this could close cheaply.
  • Fix: after the open, honour an inbound direction in result.channel when its id matches, without overwriting a newer registration. Fail closed when the keyed entry is gone (fail(channelId, 'channel was removed while opening')). Also consider not inventing bidirectional for lazy entries; leaving direction unset is the honest value.

R1-4. Refusal markers and bounces go to the primary agent, not the agent that spoke. (this predates the PR; it is listed because it limits the answer to "is the refusal visible?")

  • Where: onRouteFailure receives conversationId but drops it, and calls this.addMessage(...) without forAgent (src/framework.ts:15957-15979). addMessage then defaults to the primary agent (:15119-15124). bounceProse likewise calls addMessage without forAgent (:11111), while it queues the wake for the named agent. The new routing notices are written to the agent's own context manager (:10632, :10762).
  • Failure scenario: in a framework with more than one trunk agent, or with conversation forks, a non-primary agent is warned by the routing notice. When its speech is then refused, the reason lands in the primary's window, and the agent itself is woken to retry a bounce it can't see.
  • Fix: pass { forAgent: conversationId } when it names a registered agent, and { forAgent: name } from bounceProse. A separate issue is fine.

R1-5. The no-trigger fallback channel tracks arrivals on inbound-only channels. (follow-up; the description already names it out of scope)

  • Where: markAccepted sets defaultPublishChannel from every accepted incoming message (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:1066-1067).
  • Why it matters: a live transcript is usually the busiest inbound channel. While a room is talking, heartbeat and no-trigger speech is therefore refused there every time, each with a marker, and so is channel_publish without a channelId. Nothing gets worse than before this PR. But the predicate now exists, so the fix is one condition: don't make an inbound-only channel the publish fallback. It belongs in this PR or straight after it.

Nits

  • R1-6. The out-of-scope list names channel_decline's acknowledgement but not the tune-out coordinator's automatic one. That one fires channels/acknowledge with intent suppressed-tuned-out on every addressed arrival in a tuned-out channel, without the agent asking (src/tune-out/coordinator.ts:311, :319-334). The same reasoning covers it; it's worth one line in the out-of-scope list. In the same vein, isInboundOnly's doc and inboundOnlyReason say the host "posts nothing" into the channel. Typing and acknowledgements still go out, so "publishes nothing" or "sends no content" would be exact.
  • R1-7. speak_in_channel's mcpl:speech-routed trace now carries a messageId. connectome-host's TTS relay takes every such trace into its ring without looking at conversationId. When the interruption text doesn't prefix-match, it falls back to the newest entry in the channel (src/modules/tts-relay-module.ts:352-368, :484-494 on connectome-host main) and edits that message. If the subconscious has just posted in the channel being voiced, its message can now be trimmed to the resident's voiced words. Before this PR, the same fallback picked an entry with no id and edited nothing. The trace already carries enough to filter (its conversationId is the subconscious's name), so the fix belongs in the relay. Please mention it to whoever owns that module.
  • R1-8. changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md:2-6 names a specific server and its channel ids in a changelog that ships with the npm package. Readers of the package can't look that server up. "A server whose live-transcript channel is declared inbound-only" says the same thing.

Verified fine

  • Predicate. It is exactly direction === 'inbound' (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:223-224). That matches mcpl-core-ts main's ChannelDirection ('outbound' | 'inbound' | 'bidirectional'). SPEC §14.2 lists the values and nothing more. The PR's reading of inbound is the natural one, and it would be worth one normative sentence in the MCPL spec so other hosts read it the same way.
  • The guard reads the current entry on each path.
    • handleToolPublish checks and publishes with no await in between (:3296-3335).
    • streamingServerFor re-reads on every chunk and complete (:3100-3117).
    • routeSpeech checks before the open, and again after it against the keyed entry (:3185-3189, :3222-3227).
    • Register and channels/changed replace the descriptor, and both directions are covered by tests.
  • publishForAgent's trace. Its server is taken before the publish (:2121-2123). The routed and failed traces follow the outcome, and the shape now matches src/types/trace.ts:431-452. On connectome-host main, the only consumer of mcpl:speech-routed is the TTS relay (see R1-7). Nothing consumes mcpl:speech-route-failed.
  • Notices.
    • The turn notice, the re-pin notice and channel_open's routing field pick the inbound-only wording via inboundOnlyServer. Since the merge with #333, the re-pin wording lives in repinTurnLocus, so both of its callers (:8745, :11558) get it.
    • The invitation uses the exact (serverId, channelId) lookup.
    • "Stays in your archive" is true for plain speech.
  • buildChannelContext. It omits defaultOutgoing for an inbound-only locus. The field goes only to servers, in context/beforeInference (src/framework.ts:19262-19281), so no routing reads it.
  • Merge with current main (3dc67b8, five merges since the merge-base) is textually clean. Main's changes to framework.ts and agent.ts touch no routing, publish or locus code.
  • Tests at the trial merge, on Node 22.21.0:
    • typecheck clean;
    • the full suite passes, 2271 of 2271;
    • the four touched files pass, 184 of 184 (36 + 60 + 21 + 67, matching the description).
  • Mutation spot-checks. Each of these, removed on its own, fails a test in channel-registry-routing: the streamingServerFor guard, the defaultOutgoing guard, and the post-open recheck. I didn't repeat the other 16 of the description's 19 removals.

Method. There were two independent passes, merged after re-checking every claim against the source.

  • Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) ran in a read-only sandbox with no network or test runs, against a worktree at the head. It took 888 s and 134 shell commands, using about 8.2M input tokens (7.9M cached) and 36.8k output tokens (22.1k reasoning). It read MCPL spec main, mcpl-core-ts main, connectome-host main and the motivating server's source.
  • Claude fetched current main, trial-merged it, ran the typecheck and the full suite, wrote the R1-1 probe (run against both resolver behaviours), and ran the three mutations.
  • Who caught what:
    • Claude only: R1-1, R1-5 and R1-8.
    • Sol only: R1-2, R1-3 and R1-7.
    • Both, independently: R1-4 and R1-6.
  • Sol's severities I changed: R1-3 and R1-4 from major to minor, because neither is a regression and R1-4 predates the PR; R1-7 from major to a nit, because the consumer can already filter on conversationId.
  • Rejected: Sol's point that "stays in your archive" is false for a refused sleep announcement. That sentence in the new notice concerns plain speech, which is archived. The sleep marker's wording is the existing [discord-send-failed] template.
  • Not reached by either pass: a run of a resident against pocket-body.

Petra-1012 and others added 6 commits October 15, 2026 08:46
Petra-1012
Merge main (3dc67b8, after anima-research#340) into fix/inbound-only-…
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…channels

Main's five merges since 153aead (anima-research#273, anima-research#368, anima-research#343, anima-research#340 and their
own merges of main) touch no routing, publish or locus code, and the
merge is textually clean, as Anarchid's trial merge found.
Petra-1012 @claude
fix(channels): a refused >> target clears the destination, a server's…
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… refusal reaches the agent, and an open's answer counts

Answers Anarchid's review of anima-research#350 at 9be04ce.

- R1-1 (explicit mode): a >> target refused for speech, because its
  server declared the channel inbound-only, now clears the turn's
  destination. resolveProseTarget names the refused channel as
  refusedChannelId, roundDestination returns null for it, and delivery
  drops the pin before the bounce. The turn's later unprefixed text
  then bounces with "this turn has no destination now", rather than
  going to the destination named before the refusal, which this PR had
  made possible. A target that just doesn't resolve still leaves the
  destination, as explicit mode always has. prose_help says a
  destination lasts until another is named, and that an inbound-only
  one is refused and clears it.
- R1-2: a server's JSON-RPC error response now rejects with
  McplErrorResponse (code, data), and routeSpeech turns one to its
  publish into fail(): the send-failure marker with the server's error,
  and an mcpl:speech-route-failed trace. Before, every plain-speech
  path only logged it. A publish that times out or loses its
  connection still rejects to its caller, since whether the server
  posted it is unknown, and a marker saying the human didn't get it
  could be false. routeSpeech's doc now says exactly that.
- R1-3: openChannelNow applies an inbound-only declaration in the
  open's answer (its channel descriptor, SPEC 14.3) to the channel's
  current entry, so a channel the host knew only from a push is refused
  once opening it says so. The post-open recheck fails closed when a
  removal arrived during the open, where it fell back to the stale
  entry and published.
- R1-6: the predicate's doc and the reason the resident reads say the
  host publishes nothing into the channel; typing and acknowledgements,
  which carry no content, still go.
- R1-8: the changelog names no particular server, and covers the
  above.

Not here: R1-4 (markers and bounces reach the primary agent), which
predates this PR; R1-5 (the no-trigger fallback), where skipping an
inbound-only channel would send that speech to an older channel; R1-7,
which is connectome-host's TTS relay to filter by conversationId.

Tests: Anarchid's R1-1 probe as an explicit-mode test, refused-target
rounds in the round-destination agreement test, the registry naming a
refused channel (and not an unknown name), a connection-level
test of McplErrorResponse, routeSpeech with a refused and a timed-out
publish, an open answering inbound-only with three controls, and a
removal during the open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Petra-1012 @claude
fix(channels): an open's answer counts wherever the host opens, a ref…
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…usal at delivery clears the destination, and the marker gives the server's words

Completes the round answering Anarchid's review of anima-research#350.

- Explicit mode: a delivery routeSpeech refuses because the channel's
  server has declared it inbound-only since the round was admitted (by a
  channels/changed, or in its answer to opening it) now clears the
  turn's pin, as a refusal at admission does, so later unprefixed text
  bounces rather than meeting the same refusal. Any other failed
  delivery keeps the pin, as before.
- An open's answer is applied in one place, applyOpenAnswer, wherever
  the host opens a channel: openChannelNow and reconcile's reopening,
  which discarded it. It marks the channel's current entry open, which
  a register or channels/changed during the open may have replaced, and
  applies an inbound-only declaration the answer makes for that
  channel. It applies no other direction: a channels/changed that
  arrives in the same read as the answer is handled first, so an answer
  able to lift a refusal could publish into a channel just declared
  inbound-only.
- McplErrorResponse keeps the server's own message as serverMessage,
  and the send-failure marker for a refused publish gives it, as
  'server "X" refused the publish: <its message>', without the method
  and the JSON-RPC code. Its doc says which rejections stay plain: a
  timeout, a connection lost before an answer or already closed, and a
  failed handshake.
- routeSpeech's comments say that the auto-open notice reports an open
  that has happened even when the speech is then refused, and that a
  connection already closed rejects before anything is sent.
- prose_help says a name matching no channel, or several, bounces and
  leaves the destination. TurnRouting.destination's doc says the turn's
  final text doesn't set it: the stream settles the turn before that
  text is delivered, so a later start, a ' !' continuation included,
  opens a turn of its own.
- The changelog and comments are corrected where they overstated: a
  hybrid >>> target bounced a server's error before and still bounces a
  timeout, speak_in_channel traces any unsuccessful result as failed,
  and the host publishes rather than posts nothing into such channels.

Tests: a delivery refused at delivery (and a control that keeps the
pin), a target refused in the turn's final text with a ' !' continuation
that streams nothing to the earlier channel, a reconcile reopening that
applies the answer, an answer that can't lift an inbound-only
declaration, one that arrives in the same read as a newer
channels/changed, a channel announced again during the open recorded
open, a removal during an open whose answer declares inbound, the
marker's wording, the connection's serverMessage, the auto-open notice
beside a refusal, and a timeout and a closed connection that aren't
McplErrorResponse.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Petra-1012
Merge main into fix/inbound-only-channels
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Petra-1012 @claude
fix(channels): a refusal at delivery ends both halves of the destinat…
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…ion, a server's error reaches the agent in its own words without claiming a publish failed, and an odd error response settles

Follows five more internal reviews of the round answering Anarchid's
review of anima-research#350, and corrects how that round read a publish's error
response.

- A server's error response to a publish no longer reads as proof that
  nothing was posted. An error can follow a partial post: a connector
  that sends a long reply in parts can fail on a later part after the
  first is posted. So routeSpeech's failure for it has the outcome
  'unknown', and the send-failure marker says delivery wasn't confirmed
  and may or may not have happened, with the server's words, so sending
  it again could post it twice. It doesn't tell the reader to check the
  channel, since the subconscious, which speaks through speak_in_channel,
  has no tool that reads one. The marker for any other failure is
  unchanged. onRouteFailure's
  info and the mcpl:speech-route-failed trace gain the outcome, 'failed'
  or 'unknown'. channel_publish's error for an error response likewise
  names the channel and says the publish wasn't confirmed. A timeout or a
  lost connection still rejects as before.

- Explicit mode: a delivery that fails because the channel is
  inbound-only by then, whether routeSpeech refused it or the publish
  rejected, also clears the destination later streams of the turn start
  at (routing.destination), as well as the pin, each while it still names
  that channel. So if the server lifts the declaration later in the turn,
  a later stream of the turn doesn't copy text there that delivery
  bounces.
  A failed delivery to a channel that isn't inbound-only keeps both, as
  before. TurnRouting.destination's doc says what sets and clears it.
- channel_publish's, channel_open's and channel_close's errors, the
  error channel_decline gives when its acknowledgement request fails,
  and the send-failure marker for an open that fails, give a server's
  error response in its own words (failureText), as the publish marker
  does, saying the server "answered with an error" rather than that it
  refused. A failure whose message is empty gives its text instead.
- speak_in_channel's mcpl:speech-route-failed trace (publishForAgent)
  carries the outcome too: 'unknown' after an error response, 'failed'
  after a refusal or delivered:false, and none after another rejection
  (a timeout, a lost connection, or a connection already closed), which
  it can't tell apart. handleToolPublish says which rejection it met.
- McplErrorResponse carries what's read of it, the server's words as
  serverMessage. Its code stays in the operator's message, shown as it
  came. Any other failure gives its message, or its text when it has
  none. The open marker no longer says "locus".
- An error response's text (handleResponse, for requests sent once the
  connection is up) is built without String() or a template's conversion
  of what the server sent. An object message whose toString and valueOf
  aren't callable threw there, after the request's entry was gone, so the
  request never settled. Now text a server sends in place of an error
  object is still its words. A message that isn't text, or an error
  that's neither an object nor text, is shown as JSON, and one nested too
  deeply to write is named. A missing message says so, where
  serverMessage read "undefined". What the agent reads is cut at 200
  characters (code points, so a pair is never split), the server's own
  words included, since this PR is what puts them in front of the agent.
  The operator's message keeps a text message whole, and the code. The
  handshake's initialize error, which main builds the old way, is
  unchanged here.
- showServerValue sits above McplServerConnection's doc, not between
  that doc and the class. routeSpeech's doc names every rejection that
  stays plain, a connection already closed included. McplErrorResponse's
  doc says what serverMessage holds when the server sent no text. The
  changelog says that a channel declared inbound-only after its target
  resolved is refused at delivery with the marker, unless a later round
  has named another channel, and that the tools and the open marker give
  the server's words.

Tests: the marker's text for an unknown and a failed outcome, with and
without a channel's label; an error response's failure and trace as
unknown, delivered:false's and a failed open's as failed, and
channel_publish's error for an error response; speak_in_channel's trace
outcome after a refusal, delivered:false, an error response and another
rejection; each error response's code in the operator's message; a long
text error and a non-integer code; a falsy error read as no error; the
destination a refusal at delivery leaves, for a refusal and for a
rejected publish, and keeps for another failure, refused or rejected,
for a delivery that went through, and when a later round has named
another channel (Greta-2425's probe); a destination that still names the
refused channel ending though the pin has moved off it; a ' !'
continuation after a final target that's kept as well as one that's
refused; a hybrid target whose publish is refused, with the next round's
text held; a lift by channels/changed after the answer; the reconcile's
own open entered; the race test waiting on the open itself, and the
channel it refuses after opening staying open with the open's notice;
every open, publish, close and acknowledgement failure in the server's
words, or as a thrown object's message, a thrown string, or one that
can't be printed; and error responses with no message, an empty one, an
object one, an object code, a string or array error, a long value, a
long message, exactly 200 characters, characters past the BMP, and one
nested 100,000 deep, each with the operator's message.

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@Anarchid Every point of your review is answered at 4e5b4a4, in this PR's commits after 9be04ce, and the description is updated to match. R1-1, R1-3, R1-6 and R1-8 are done, and R1-2 with two changes from your fix. R1-7 goes to connectome-host's relay, and R1-4 and R1-5 are left to #204 and #330. Your R1-1 probe is now a test. Anarchid, we're asking you to re-read it before it merges. We won't merge it before 09:00 UTC on October 18, or before our pre-merge checks pass on its merge with the then-current main. The answers follow in your review's order.

R1-1. We took your fix. resolveProseTarget now names a target refused for speech as refusedChannelId, and explicit mode clears the turn's destination on such a refusal: roundDestination returns null, and delivery drops the pin. So the turn's later unprefixed text bounces with "this turn has no destination now". A name that matches no channel keeps explicit mode's old rule. The same holds when the refusal comes at delivery, because the server declared the channel inbound-only after the round was admitted: the pin goes, and so does the destination the turn's later streams start at, unless a later round has named another channel by then. prose_help no longer says the first destination in a turn applies to the rest of it. It now says a destination applies until another is named, that a name matching no channel, or several, bounces and leaves it as it was, and that a channel its server declared inbound-only is refused and clears it. The stream router still resolves without forSpeech, since streamingServerFor withholds an inbound-only channel either way, and with the destination cleared, delivery now agrees with it.

R1-2. We took it, with two changes. A server's JSON-RPC error response to a request sent once the connection is up now rejects with McplErrorResponse, which carries the server's own message. routeSpeech sends that class through fail(), so the agent gets the send-failure marker with the server's words (server "body" answered the publish with an error: …) and an mcpl:speech-route-failed trace. The first change: that marker doesn't say the human didn't receive the text. An error response doesn't show that nothing was posted, since a connector that sends a long reply in parts, as discord-mcpl's sendMessage does, can fail on a later part after the first is posted. So the marker says delivery wasn't confirmed, that the reply may or may not have been posted, and that sending it again could post it twice, and the trace carries outcome: "unknown". The second: a timeout, a connection lost before an answer, and a publish on a connection already closed still reject to the caller, as before. They're plain Errors here, so a send that never left can't be told from one whose outcome is unknown, and a marker for them would have to call a send that never left uncertain. A hybrid >>> target the server refuses now bounces as "was not confirmed", your second option. channel_publish's error for an error response names the channel and says the publish wasn't confirmed. Its errors, channel_open's and channel_close's, the error channel_decline gives when its acknowledgement request fails, and the marker for an open that fails, give the server's words too. What the agent reads of a server's words is cut at 200 characters, since this PR is what puts them in front of the agent.

R1-3. Wherever the host opens a channel, in openChannelNow and when reconcile reopens it, the answer now marks the channel's current entry open and applies an inbound-only declaration it makes for that channel, matched by id. It applies only inbound. A channels/changed that arrives in the same read as the answer is handled first, so applying any direction could let a stale answer lift a newer refusal. A server lifts its declaration by changing or registering the channel again. The recheck after the open now fails closed: a channel removed during the open is refused with "the channel was removed while it was opening", and nothing is published. Lazy entries stay bidirectional, since an unset direction would change what channel_list reports. The description lists that under out of scope.

R1-4. As you say, this predates the PR. #204 sends both to the window the agent that spoke reads, so we've left it to that PR, and the description's out-of-scope list says so.

R1-5. We've left the fallback as it is. Skipping an inbound-only channel would leave the fallback on an older channel, and no-trigger speech would then be published somewhere the resident may not be attending. Refusing it, with its marker, fails closed. #330 changes which channel the fallback follows, so that's where it's better decided.

R1-6. The out-of-scope list now names the tune-out coordinator's acknowledgement beside channel_decline's, and isInboundOnly's doc and the refusal now say the host publishes nothing there.

R1-7. Agnes-1009's change, which moves connectome-host's TTS relay to published speech, handles this another way: the relay keeps only the messages it voiced itself, so an interruption can't trim a message sent with a tool call, such as a subconscious's speak_in_channel post. It isn't in a PR yet. If an agent-framework release with this PR reaches connectome-host first, the same voiced-only matching goes into connectome-host's relay in the same pull request that moves connectome-host to that release.

R1-8. The changelog now describes the channel by what it is ("A server's live-transcript channel can be one") and names no server.

Written by Petra-1012.

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private applyOpenAnswer(serverId: string, channelId: string, answer: unknown): void {
const current = this.channels.get(`${serverId}:${channelId}`);
if (!current) return;
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P1 Old replies undo closes

If an open is pending when channels/register replaces its entry, a later channel_close can close the replacement before the old open answers. applyOpenAnswer then finds the replacement and marks it open again. Previously, the old answer only changed the discarded entry.

The host now reports a closed channel as open, hides its invitations, and skips reopening it before the next speech. Keep the descriptor update, but prevent an old open answer from overwriting a newer lifecycle decision.

Knowledge Base Used: MCPL transport and server registration

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**Old replies undo closes**

If an open is pending when `channels/register` replaces its entry, a later `channel_close` can close the replacement before the old open answers. `applyOpenAnswer` then finds the replacement and marks it open again. Previously, the old answer only changed the discarded entry.

The host now reports a closed channel as open, hides its invitations, and skips reopening it before the next speech. Keep the descriptor update, but prevent an old open answer from overwriting a newer lifecycle decision.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [MCPL transport and server registration](https://app.greptile.com/anima-labs/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/anima-research/agent-framework/-/docs/mcpl-transport-and-registration.md)

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Addressed in 39a3535f and 15a15fc9. applyOpenAnswer now records an answered open only while the channel's desired state is open or tuned-out. An answer that arrives after the agent closed the channel leaves it closed, whether or not its entry was replaced during the open. Both ways the host opens a channel now record the open only there. So an answer that arrives after a close on an entry nobody replaced, which, by our reading, main also recorded as open, now leaves the channel closed too. The inbound-only declaration an answer makes is still applied. The tests cover the same entry, a replaced entry, and reconcile's reopening.

Written by Petra-1012.

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// A stream is a copy of speech the host would publish, and nothing is
// published into an inbound-only channel.
if (isInboundOnly(matches[0]!)) return null;

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P1 Refused words return later

streamingServerFor drops refused chunks only after ProseStreamRouter has saved their text in byChannel(). The stream resolver omits forSpeech, so an inbound-only target's words enter that buffer even though delivery bounces them.

If channels/changed makes the channel bidirectional before the same stream ends, sendOutgoingComplete passes this current-direction check and sends the bounced words to the voice or live-render surface. Clearing the turn's destination does not clear the buffer. Keep refused text out of the stream's saved content rather than relying only on the direction at send time.

Knowledge Base Used: Streaming prose routing

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`streamingServerFor` drops refused chunks only after `ProseStreamRouter` has saved their text in `byChannel()`. The stream resolver omits `forSpeech`, so an inbound-only target's words enter that buffer even though delivery bounces them.

If `channels/changed` makes the channel bidirectional before the same stream ends, `sendOutgoingComplete` passes this current-direction check and sends the bounced words to the voice or live-render surface. Clearing the turn's destination does not clear the buffer. Keep refused text out of the stream's saved content rather than relying only on the direction at send time.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [Streaming prose routing](https://app.greptile.com/anima-labs/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/anima-research/agent-framework/-/docs/streaming-prose-routing.md)

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Addressed in 39a3535f. ProseStreamRouter takes a speakable option, which the framework sets to the inbound-only check. The router applies it to the text each feed routes, before that text is emitted or kept. Text routed to a channel while the channel is inbound-only now reaches neither outgoing/chunk nor the stream's outgoing/complete, even if the server declares the channel bidirectional before the stream ends. We left the stream's resolver without forSpeech, since speakable asks the same question each time text is routed, not only when the target is named. A router test and an explicit turn with a bounced #ears round cover it.

Written by Petra-1012.

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…ed, and the stream keeps nothing for an inbound-only channel

Answers Greptile's review of this pull request at 4e5b4a4.

- An open's answer now records the channel open only while its desired
  state is still on reconcile's open side, open or tuned-out, as
  anima-research#330 does for the same race.
  applyOpenAnswer marked the channel's current entry
  open, so an answer arriving after the agent closed the channel reopened
  it, even when an announcement had replaced the entry during the open
  (main's code had changed only the discarded entry there). A close the
  host asked for while the open was in flight is the newer decision. The
  two open paths, openChannelNow and reconcile's reopening, no longer set
  the flag themselves, so applyOpenAnswer is the one place an answered
  open is recorded. So a late answer on an entry nobody replaced, which
  main also recorded as open, now leaves the channel closed too. The
  answer's inbound-only declaration is still applied either way.
- The outgoing stream keeps nothing for an inbound-only channel.
  ProseStreamRouter kept every routed delta for outgoing/complete, and
  only streamingServerFor's check at send time stopped a chunk; text
  routed to an inbound-only channel stayed in byChannel(), so a stream
  whose channel the server declared bidirectional before it ended sent
  that text in its outgoing/complete, though the round's delivery had
  refused and bounced it. The router takes a speakable option, asked of
  each feed's and segment end's routed deltas before they're emitted and
  kept, and the framework passes the inbound-only check. Text routed to a
  channel while it's inbound-only is neither streamed nor kept; what's
  routed there after the server lifts the declaration is.

Tests: an open answered after the agent's close, on the same entry, on
an entry an announcement replaced during the open, and from reconcile's
reopening; the router's speakable, refusing and then accepting a
channel; and an explicit turn whose bounced #ears text reaches neither a
chunk nor the stream's end.
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…, and say where the open is recorded

Answers the internal review of e7aeba49.

- openChannelNow's doc says it hands the answer to applyOpenAnswer, which
  records the open under the desired-state rule, and that reconcile's
  reopening hands its own answer there too. It said the executor marked
  the live entry open, and that every open funnelled through it.
- Tests: the same-entry case's late answer declares the channel
  inbound-only, and the declaration lands while the open isn't recorded,
  which also shows the answer reached the host; and a reconcile's open
  answered while the channel is tuned out is recorded.
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…des when its round is admitted

Text speakable refuses stays out of the stream even if the channel accepts speech
again before the round is admitted, and the round then posts it: the stream's copy
lacks those words. The option's doc says so.
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@Anarchid Since our answer to your review at 4e5b4a4, three commits, 39a3535 through 661d55e, answer Greptile's second review:

  • The open's answer from your R1-3 now records the channel open only while its desired state is open or tuned-out, so an answer that arrives after the agent closed the channel no longer reopens it.
  • The outgoing stream keeps nothing for a channel while it's inbound-only, so the stream's end can't send text the round's delivery refused.

Each of Greptile's two comments has its own reply, and the description describes this head. The re-read we asked you for now runs through 661d55e.

Written by Petra-1012.

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Its doc called it the single open executor that marks the live entry open,
with every open funnelling through it. Since the lifecycle queue, the
entry is marked open by the queued work (applyDesiredChannelState) on a
receipt for its current target, and reconciliation queues that work
directly, as channel_close, a decline and the close of a substituted
channel do. Greta-2425's read of the merge pointed it out; anima-research#350 corrected
the same sentence for its own code (15a15fc). Comment only.
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Nightly dual review · round R2 at 661d55e · reviewers: Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) and Claude claude-opus-5-5, merged and every claim re-verified by the Claude leg · posted by the maintainer's campaign runner. Verdict: APPROVE (the formal review event is left to the maintainer). Finding ids R2-n are stable; cite them in fix commits.

Reviewed at 661d55e against main 2482625 (the merge-base; also trial-merged onto current main e670363)

Review round 2. Round 1 was ours, at 9be04ce. Its body asked for changes; it was posted as a comment review. Findings below are numbered R2-n so fix commits can cite them. Each round-1 finding gets a disposition first.

Verdict: approve (0 blockers, 0 major, 1 minor, 2 nits)

Every round-1 finding is fixed, or was deferred with reasoning that holds. Each fix is pinned by a test: I removed the guards one at a time on a trial merge with current main, and all 20 removals failed at least one test. The rule now holds on every path by which the host publishes or streams content. The one item worth acting on before release is outside this diff. This PR puts a messageId on speak_in_channel's routed trace. Until connectome-host's relay stops editing the newest traced message in a channel, a subconscious's post there can be trimmed (R2-1, R1-7's follow-through). The fix that would close this is still a draft, waiting on an unmerged framework PR. The two nits concern text.

Round-1 findings

ID Disposition Pinned by
R1-1 Fixed. See below.
R1-2 Fixed for what it claimed; part of the gap remains, documented. See below.
R1-3 Fixed. See below.
R1-4 Not fixed. The deferral holds. —
R1-5 Not changed. The reasoning holds. —
R1-6 Fixed. Text only.
R1-7 Not fixed here. The fix depends on two other PRs (see R2-1). —
R1-8 Fixed. Text only.

R1-1 (fixed).

  • What changed: a target refused for speech now carries refusedChannelId. Three places act on it:
    • roundDestination clears the turn's destination (src/framework.ts:11208);
    • delivery drops the pin (:11360);
    • a delivery refused because the channel turned inbound-only after admission clears both, but only where they still name that channel (:11398).
  • The rule is described accurately now: prose_help describes the new rule (:342-344).
  • Tests: my round-1 probe is now a test, explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:1530. The race variants are at :1593 and :1675.
  • Removals: with the roundDestination clear removed, 1 test fails; with the pin drop removed, 2 fail; with the clear at delivery removed, 3 fail; with only its destination half removed, 3 fail.

R1-2 (fixed for what it claimed; part of the gap remains, documented).

  • What changed: a server's JSON-RPC error response to a request sent after the handshake now rejects with McplErrorResponse. routeSpeech sends it through fail() as outcome: "unknown" (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:3341), so the agent gets a marker and the server's words.
  • What still rejects: a timeout, a connection lost before the answer, and a connection that was already closed. Each still rejects to the caller as a plain Error, which plain speech only logs. The rewritten routeSpeech doc now says exactly this. That fixes the false claim R1-2 was about. The PR's out-of-scope list names the gap that remains, and #250's McplRequestError is the natural place to close it.
  • Tests: channel-registry-routing.test.ts:908, :926, :995, :1008, :1030.
  • Removal: with the McplErrorResponse branch removed, :1008 fails.

R1-3 (fixed).

  • What changed:
    • applyOpenAnswer applies an inbound declaration from the open's answer to the current keyed entry, on both open paths (:2537).
    • It never lifts a refusal, and it records the channel open only while the desired state is open or tuned-out.
    • The recheck after the open fails closed when the channel was removed (:3307).
  • Declined, reasonably: lazy entries stay bidirectional, since an unset direction would change what channel_list reports.
  • Tests: channel-registry-routing.test.ts:1042, :1082, :1166, :1186, :1225, :1286, :1315, :1331.
  • Removals:
    • applying no inbound declaration: 3 tests fail;
    • dropping the id match on the answer: 1 fails;
    • falling back to the stale entry after a removal: 1 fails;
    • recording the open whatever the desired state: 3 fail.

R1-4 (not fixed; the deferral holds). The problem predates this PR. The onRouteFailure callback and bounceProse still write to the primary agent's window (src/framework.ts:16347, :11415). #204 fixes it and is still open; it now has merge conflicts.

R1-5 (not changed; the reasoning holds). Skipping an inbound-only channel as the fallback would leave the fallback on an older channel. No-trigger speech would then go somewhere the resident may not be attending. Refusing it, with its marker, is the fail-closed choice, and #330 is where the fallback's source is being redecided.

R1-6 (fixed, text only). The predicate's doc and inboundOnlyReason now say "publishes nothing". The PR's out-of-scope list now names the tune-out coordinator's acknowledgement too.

R1-7 (not fixed here). The plan has changed since the reply. The relay change is now connectome-host#317, a draft that depends on agent-framework#360, which is unmerged. See R2-1 for why that order matters.

R1-8 (fixed, text only). changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md:1-5 names no server.

The two questions this round was asked to settle

Is each R1 finding fixed and pinned by a test? Yes for R1-1, R1-2 (in its documented scope) and R1-3. Each has named tests, and every guard I removed was caught. R1-6 and R1-8 are text, with nothing to pin. R1-4, R1-5 and R1-7 are deferred, as the table says. The one fix not pinned precisely is prose_help's new wording (R2-3).

Is the rule complete across every publish path? Yes, both at this head and at the trial merge with current main (234 commits newer, including #412).

  • Publish calls: only two places call sendChannelsPublish, routeSpeech and handleToolPublish.
  • routeSpeech's eight callers are:
    • hybrid >>> and hybrid unprefixed text;
    • explicit delivery;
    • mid-turn and final/trailing locus speech;
    • both sleep announcements.
  • handleToolPublish is reached by the channel_publish tool, including programmatic calls through #412's resolver, which still fall through to the registry's tool handler. It is also reached by publishForAgent, which the tune-out coordinator's speak_in_channel calls.
  • The outgoing stream: chunks and completes both go through streamingServerFor, which refuses an inbound-only channel (:3179). The router's speakable keeps refused text out of the stream's accumulated text (prose-stream-router.ts:272).
  • No gap between check and send:
    • handleToolPublish checks the current entry and publishes with no await in between.
    • routeSpeech re-reads the keyed entry after its only await, the open, and publishes without another.
    • The stream checks synchronously on every chunk and complete.

What still reaches an inbound-only channel is what the PR names out of scope, and none of it is content the host posts:

  • typing;
  • channels/acknowledge;
  • a server's own send tools;
  • a channel the host knows only from a push, until the server declares its direction. The server's own refusal then reaches the agent in its words, through R1-2's path.

Minor

R2-1. R1-7 will reach deployments before its fix does, because connectome-host's published package picks up the next framework patch on its own. (follow-through on R1-7; the code is outside this diff)

  • Where: this PR makes publishForAgent emit mcpl:speech-routed with the surface's messageId (src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:2157). connectome-host main's TTS relay records every such trace without reading conversationId (src/modules/tts-relay-module.ts:353-369 on connectome-host main). When the interrupted words don't prefix-match an entry, it edits the newest entry in the channel (:485-495).

  • Why the plan in the reply doesn't hold: the reply said the relay fix would go into "the same pull request that moves connectome-host to that release".

    • That works for a checkout with a lockfile.
    • It doesn't work for the published package. @animalabs/connectome-host@0.10.2 on npm depends on @animalabs/agent-framework@^0.22.1 and, like every npm package, ships no lockfile. A fresh install therefore resolves the 0.22.x patch that carries this .fixed fragment, with no connectome-host change.
    • The relay fix is now connectome-host#317, a draft that waits on agent-framework#360, which is unmerged.

  • Failure scenario:

    1. The resident's reply is being voiced in a channel.
    2. The subconscious posts there through speak_in_channel.
    3. A human interrupts, and the voiced words don't prefix-match the resident's entry.
    4. The relay trims the subconscious's message to the resident's voiced words.

    Before this PR, the same fallback picked an entry with no id and edited nothing.

  • Fix: any one of these.

    • Leave messageId off publishForAgent's routed trace until the relay filters on conversationId. Nothing in this PR reads it there.
    • Land a one-condition filter in the relay before this ships: ignore routed traces whose conversationId isn't the voiced agent.
    • Hold this PR's release until #360 and connectome-host#317 are both in.

Nits

  • R2-2. In changelog.d/inbound-only-channels.fixed.md:33-34, the sentence "The marker's and the trace's outcome is "failed" for every other failure of plain speech" is too broad. A timeout, a lost connection, or a connection that was already closed produces neither a marker nor a routeSpeech trace (channel-registry-routing.test.ts:1030 asserts exactly that). The next sentence says those reject, so a reader gets both statements. Suggested wording: "…for every other failure that gets a marker".
  • R2-3. The prose_help text is the agent's only reference for the new rule (src/framework.ts:342-344), and no test pins it. The only test, explicit-prose-routing.test.ts:1449-1467, asserts that the result contains the word "destination", and the old wording passes it too. Assert the three clauses: a destination lasts until another is named; a name matching no channel, or several, leaves it; an inbound-only channel clears it.

Verified fine

  • The predicate is exactly direction === 'inbound' (channel-registry.ts:225). The motivating server's descriptors match what the description says: its transcript channel and one other are inbound, and its home channel is bidirectional.
  • applyOpenAnswer ordering.
    • Close during the open: a close the agent asks for while an open is in flight sets the desired state first, so the late answer leaves the channel closed. That holds whether or not a register replaced the entry meanwhile.
    • Tune-out: a tuned-out channel's reconcile open is still recorded.
    • Stale answers: a stale answer can only add a refusal, never lift one.
  • McplErrorResponse and the error branch of handleResponse.
    • Only post-handshake error responses produce the new class. The handshake path is separate and unchanged.
    • The operator's message has the same format as before for a numeric code and a text message.
    • The class isn't exported, so nothing outside can depend on it yet.
    • cutServerText counts code points. showServerValue and failureText cannot throw.
    • An error response with an unprintable or missing message now settles its request; this is pinned at :926.
  • Explicit-mode clearing at delivery clears only state that still names the refused channel. A destination set by a later round survives (:1593 variants).
  • The stream: with speakable removed from either the router or the framework, a test fails (:1337, :1560).
  • Notices: the turn notice, the re-pin, channel_open's routing field, the invitation's reply option, both primers and defaultOutgoing all use the same predicate. Removing the defaultOutgoing guard, the reply-token forSpeech, the explicit forSpeech or the hybrid forSpeech each fails a test.
  • Trial merge with current main e670363: textually clean; build (tsc 7.0.2) clean; full suite 2913 of 2913 on Node 22.21.0. Main's changes to framework.ts add no new publish or stream path. Main's [delivered] receipts (recordProseDelivery) and channel_open's locus move sit alongside the PR's changes, and channel_open's inbound-only wording applies there.
  • CI at this head: green on Ubuntu and macOS with Node 20 and 24, and the packed-install job passes.
  • The facts this round started from, checked: the head is 661d55e, as stated. Round 1 at 9be04ce asked for changes in its body; the review event itself was a comment.

Method. Two independent passes, merged after re-checking every claim against the source.

  • Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) ran in a read-only sandbox with no network, against a worktree at the head and the trial merge. It took about 620 s and 106 shell commands, using 10.4M input tokens (9.9M cached) and 36.7k output tokens (19.5k reasoning). It read the round-1 review, the replies, the MCPL spec, mcpl-core-ts, connectome-host main and the motivating server's source.
  • Claude did the following:
    • fetched current main and trial-merged it;
    • ran the build and the full suite;
    • ran 20 single-guard removals against the five touched test files;
    • checked the npm metadata for connectome-host and agent-framework;
    • checked the state of #204, #250, #330, #360 and connectome-host#317.
  • Who caught what:
    • Both, independently: R2-1.
    • Sol only: R2-2 and R2-3.
    • Claude only: the npm and lockfile reasoning in R2-1, and the #317 → #360 dependency.
  • Rejected: Sol's separate finding that R1-4 is still deferred. It is the R1-4 disposition above, not a new finding.
  • Not reached by either pass: a run of a resident against the motivating server, which the PR also lists as not verified.

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…essageId, and two text fixes

R2-1: publishForAgent's mcpl:speech-routed trace no longer carries the
surface's messageId, as on main. Nothing in agent-framework reads it.
connectome-host's TTS relay keeps every routed trace without reading
conversationId, and when an interruption of the resident matches no
entry it edits the newest traced message in the channel, so an id there
would let it trim the subconscious's post. The routed-trace test now has
the server name a message and asserts that the trace carries none, with
that reason as its message. The changelog says so, and so does
mcpl:speech-routed's doc in types/trace.ts, which had said the field
holds the surface's id whenever the server reports one.

R2-2: the changelog's "for every other failure of plain speech" becomes
"for every other failure that gets a marker": a timeout, a lost
connection or a closed one gets neither a marker nor a trace.

R2-3: prose_help's test asserts each of the help's three clauses on a
destination, read across the text's line breaks: it lasts until another
is named, a name that matches no channel or several leaves it as it was,
and an inbound-only channel is refused and clears it. The test asserted
only the word "destination" before, which main's wording also has.

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@Anarchid 8e4cc49 answers your round 2's three findings, each in a form you offered, and changes nothing else.

  • R2-1: publishForAgent's routed trace no longer carries the surface's messageId, as on main. The routed-trace test in test/channel-registry-routing.test.ts has the server name a message and asserts that the trace carries none, and its assertion message gives the reason, connectome-host's TTS relay. The changelog and mcpl:speech-routed's doc in src/types/trace.ts say so too.
  • R2-2: the changelog now reads "for every other failure that gets a marker".
  • R2-3: the prose_help test asserts each of the help's three clauses on a destination.

Undone on its own, R2-1's change, and each of R2-3's three clauses, fails its test (Linux, Node 24.22.0). The description's Tests section lists them.

Written by Petra-1012.

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Merge main (ce1002b) into fix/inbound-only-channels
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main had taken 77 merges since 2482625. Four of them meet this
branch: anima-research#208 (a server's error text is bounded and built without
String()), anima-research#247 (plain speech publishes through one executor that
reports a PublishOutcome, a failed request rejects with
McplRequestError, and a delivery that fails is held as a draft), anima-research#437
(a turn with no channel gets its own route-failure text) and anima-research#429
(the channel texts across servers, among them the closed-channel
invitation's).

anima-research#247 already reads an error response, a timeout and a lost connection
after dispatch as `unknown`, and a request that never left as
`failed`, with a marker for each. So this branch's own error-response
path gives way to it, and what it keeps is the inbound-only refusal
and the server's own words:

- The refusal moves into ChannelRegistry.publish(), right after the
  channel is found and before the server, grant and open checks, and
  its recheck after the open comes with it: a channel removed while it
  opened, or declared inbound-only meanwhile, is `failed`. Every
  publish of plain speech goes through publish(): deliverSpeech and
  routeSpeech, `{{unsent}}`, and a drafts resend, which is refused
  there too. deliverSpeech keeps main's form, and routeSpeech's own
  open, recheck and catch go.
- McplErrorResponse folds into McplRequestError: handleResponse's
  error branch rejects with outcome `error-response`, the error's
  data, and `serverMessage`, the server's words as the agent reads
  them. Both that text and the message go through boundedForLog, so
  cutServerText goes and showServerValue is bounded the same way. A
  code that is text is shown bare, as anima-research#208 has it, and one that is
  neither a number nor text as JSON, as the message is when it isn't
  text. anima-research#208's test of an error whose code and message have no
  primitive form now expects that JSON in place of [object Object].
- failureText gives a server's error response in its own words,
  naming the server, from serverMessage, and anything else as its
  message, bounded with connectorText. publishErrorOutcome takes it,
  keeping " (delivery uncertain)" on an unknown outcome, so the
  marker, a draft's recorded outcome and channel_publish's error give
  the server's words. publish()'s failed open takes it too, beside
  channel_open, channel_close and channel_decline's acknowledgement.
- handleToolPublish hands publishForAgent the publish's outcome in
  place of how it rejected, so speak_in_channel's failure trace always
  carries `failed` or `unknown`, and the outcome's own reason.
- The markers are main's, anima-research#247's as merged with anima-research#437, and so is the
  speech-route-failed trace's outcome doc.

The rest keeps both sides. The invitation takes anima-research#429's wording, with
this branch's inbound-only branch first. roundDestination's doc says
the destination is set as a round is admitted, after main's new
takeUnsent and deliverWithUnsent. The explicit `>>` delivery goes
through deliverWithUnsent, as on main, and keeps this branch's
`delivered` flag and its clear of a destination the inbound-only
channel still names. Bounces take main's arguments with this branch's
reasons. The stacked doc that sat above sendOutgoingChunk on main, for
routeSpeech, was removed by this branch, and its pointer to the
routing design moves onto deliverSpeech.

Tests: the explicit-mode tests of a failed delivery stub deliverSpeech
and return outcomes, a timeout among them as `unknown`, and a failed
delivery bounces its own words, as anima-research#247 has it. Four tests of what
anima-research#247 replaced go, since main's own tests cover what replaced it: a
request on a closed connection, a publish that times out rejecting,
the two marker texts, and a hybrid target's refused publish. So does
the timeout test's check that a timeout isn't an error response:
main's test of the publish deadline pins that a timeout is
`no-response`. One test is new: publish() refuses an inbound-only
channel for a caller that names the server, as a drafts resend does,
opening and posting nothing. Two registry stand-ins gain the method
the other side calls. The changelog fragment says what the merged
branch does, and mcpl-request-outcome's names serverMessage.

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…y target, and text fixes

From the internal review of the merge of main and the commits since the
review before it, and from a colleague's read of the merge.

- holdSilencedProse resolves a `>>>` target with forSpeech, as
  deliverHybridProse does. A hybrid round silenced by a send moves the
  router's state as delivery would, and delivery refuses a channel its
  server declared inbound-only: the pin is dropped and the hold fails.
  Without forSpeech the held round pinned that channel, and the turn's
  later unprefixed text was aimed at it, and publish() refused each.
  A test holds a `>>>#ears` round and checks no pin is set.
- publishForAgent's failure trace carries the connector's detail, as
  deliverSpeech's does, and the speech-route-failed trace type declares
  the `detail` field deliverSpeech already emitted. The routing test's
  error response now carries data, and its trace and tool error are
  checked for it.
- The serverMessage sentence moves out of mcpl-request-outcome's
  fragment, which ships in the release before this change, and into this
  change's own fragment. That fragment now also says a missing code reads
  `none`, and that channel_decline reports a failed acknowledgement in
  its acknowledgmentError rather than an error.
- Comments: publish()'s doc says a send refused before the open opens
  nothing, beside the words refused after it; deliverSpeech's doc names
  the held failure that writes no marker; the mid-turn retarget's comment
  says a target refused for speech clears the destination; and the
  speech-routed trace's comment says which trace carries no messageId.

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@Anarchid Two commits since 8e4cc49: 31aab41 merges main, and b67453c answers our internal review of that merge. We're asking you to read them before this merges, since the merge moves the refusal you reviewed into #247's publish path and changes which words reach the agent.

The description lists each change to text main already has under Merge order, and the tests each piece's removal fails under Tests.

Written by Petra-1012.

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Merge main c0155d3 into the inbound-only refusal: anima-research#506'…
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…s error words, anima-research#204's marker routing, and the recheck just before the publish

main brings 28 pull requests since this branch's last merge of main
(ce1002b), among them anima-research#506 and anima-research#204. Four conflicts, one hunk each:

- src/mcpl/server-connection.ts, handleResponse's error branch: main's
  (anima-research#506). It puts the server's words in the error's message ('The "x"
  server answered with an error: ...', bounded), with the method, id and
  code in a log line, so a server's error words have one shape wherever
  the agent reads them. This branch's serverMessage, showServerValue and
  its own form of that message go: with anima-research#506's message carrying the
  words, they repeated it. So does the change this branch made to anima-research#208's
  text for a code or message that isn't text.
- src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts, publishErrorOutcome: main's, with anima-research#506's
  final-period trim. failureText goes with serverMessage, and
  channel_open, channel_close, the decline's acknowledgement and
  publish()'s failed open give main's text, which now carries anima-research#506's
  words.
- src/framework.ts, onRouteFailure: main's signature, with anima-research#204's
  conversationId, which addresses the marker to the agent that spoke,
  and this branch's comment.
- test/mcpl-request-handler-errors.test.ts: main's.

Also in this merge:
- publish() checks for a removal or an inbound-only declaration just
  before sendChannelsPublish, after every await, not only inside the
  open's block. anima-research#210's lifecycle wait adds an await before the publish,
  and the check covers it, and any later one, whichever of anima-research#210 and this
  change lands second. A removal's reason reads "the channel was removed
  before the words were published".
- The changelog fragment drops its two bullets on a server's error
  words, which anima-research#506's fragment carries, and says a declaration made
  while the publish waits is refused.
- channel-registry-routing: the tests of this branch's handleResponse
  forms and of failureText go, since anima-research#506's mcpl-agent-words and
  mcpl-request-outcome tests cover that shape. The speak_in_channel,
  marker, open-refusal and tool-publish tests take anima-research#506's message.

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…d publish()'s doc names a removal

From the internal review of the merge of main and the round before it.

- The hybrid test of a hold beside a send now starts with the turn
  pinned to #alpha by an earlier round. A refused >>> target must drop
  that pin as well as refuse the channel, so the test now fails if
  holdSilencedProse keeps the earlier pin on a refused target, as it does
  if the target is resolved without forSpeech.
- publish()'s doc says that words refused after an open because the
  channel was declared inbound-only leave it open with the open's notice,
  and that a channel removed meanwhile is gone, with a failure that names
  the removal. It had said every refusal after an open left the channel
  open.

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@Anarchid Two commits since b67453c: 1938e49 merges main again, and db91add answers our internal review of that merge. The merge takes out this PR's own form of a server's error words, which our last note described with 31aab41 and b67453c, and moves the recheck in publish(). Nothing is needed from you.

  • The merge, 1938e49. main now has fix(mcpl): a failed MCPL request, the framework's refusals of an MCPL tool call, and the blocks the host can't show say what happened in the agent's words #506, which puts a server's error words in the error's message, as The "x" server answered with an error: <its words>. A publish answered that way still adds (delivery uncertain) to the agent's text.
    • So this PR's serverMessage, failureText and showServerValue are gone. The open, close and decline-acknowledgement errors and publish()'s failed open give main's text.
    • The recheck for a channel declared inbound-only or removed now sits just before channels/publish is sent, after every await in publish(), where it had followed only the open. On this head the open is the only await before it, so no test tells the two places apart. fix(mcpl): reconcile channel lifecycle operations in order #210 adds a second await there, its lifecycle wait.
  • The round, db91add. The test of a held hybrid round now starts from an earlier pin, so it fails if a refused >>> target leaves that pin in place. publish()'s doc now says a channel removed during the publish is gone, while one declared inbound-only during it stays open.

The merge's commit message says how each conflict was resolved, and the description's Tests section lists what each piece's removal fails.

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Merge main (b82ba63) into fix/inbound-only-channels
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main's anima-research#210 (channel lifecycle operations in order) queues every channel
open and close as lifecycle work, run by runLifecycleOperation, and makes
a publish wait for a channel's queued work (waitForOpenChannel) before it
opens or posts. It met this branch in four hunks of
src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts. Ada-1017 (Claude Opus 5.5) agreed the
resolution:

- The helpers at the top keep both sides: this branch's isInboundOnly and
  inboundOnlyReason, and anima-research#210's sameChannelTarget.
- Reconcile's open and openChannelNow take anima-research#210's form. This branch's
  applyOpenAnswer had two halves. Its first recorded an answered open only
  while the channel was decided open or tuned out. It goes:
  runLifecycleOperation records each receipt for the channel's current
  entry and target, and when the decision changed while the open was
  out, it carries out the newer one, closing the channel the late answer
  opened. Its second, applying an inbound-only declaration the answer
  carries, becomes applyOpenDeclaration, called in runLifecycleOperation
  once a receipt is known to be for the channel's current entry and
  target and isn't a substitution. So it holds for every way the host opens. It no longer
  checks that the answer names the channel's id: an answer naming another
  channel is a substitution and never reaches it, and one whose channel
  names no id is this channel's, as runLifecycleOperation takes it, so
  its declaration applies too.
- publish()'s check just before the publish keeps both its halves, a
  removal and an inbound-only declaration, and reads the channel's entry
  from the map rather than taking the one the last wait returned. Since
  anima-research#210, every wait before the publish ends in waitForOpenChannel, which
  fails for a removed registration. But the opening's notice runs between
  that wait and the check, and publish() resumes a microtask after the
  wait, so a channels/changed from the notice can replace the channel's
  entry or remove it. publish()'s doc says so.

Tests:
- New in channel-lifecycle-order, with its fixture's server able to
  declare a direction in an open's answer, by the address the open went
  to:
  - a channel declared inbound-only by channels/changed while a publish
    waits for its lifecycle work is refused, and nothing is published.
    It pins the check's place after every await, which anima-research#210's wait makes
    testable;
  - a channel announced again as inbound-only, or removed, while its
    opening is announced is refused, and nothing is published, which pins
    the check's reading of the map and its removal half;
  - an open answered after the agent closed the channel during it, for
    the tool's open and for a reconcile's open, leaves the channel closed,
    and the answer's inbound-only declaration still applies;
  - an open answered for another channel, and one answered for a target
    the channel has since left, apply nothing of their answers.
- New in channel-registry-routing: an open answered with a channel that
  names no id and declares it inbound-only refuses the speech, and
  nothing is published.
- Four of this branch's open-race tests go, superseded by anima-research#210's queue,
  which serializes those races:
  - an open answered after the agent closed the channel during it, which
    is anima-research#210's "overlapping explicit open then opposite intent leaves the
    newest decision in force", and with the declaration the new test
    above;
  - a reconcile's open answered after a close: the new test's reconcile
    case;
  - an open answered after the agent's close, though an announcement
    replaced the entry during the open, and a channel announced again
    during the open: anima-research#210's "an explicit open answers only once the
    current registration is open" and "speech opening reports the
    replacement registration label". No anima-research#210 test runs a replacement and
    a close in one open; the operation reads the channel's entry and
    decision afresh on each attempt.
  Their shared helper shrinks to what the remaining tune-out test uses.
- Three tests take anima-research#210's behaviour. An open answered for another channel
  is anima-research#210's substitution, which fails the open, so the test of answers
  that leave speech published keeps the no-direction and other-direction
  cases. A removal during the open fails it with anima-research#210's "Channel is no
  longer registered". channel_open's refusal text has anima-research#210's "(it stays
  selected for opening: ...)".

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publish()'s check just before the publish reads the channel's registration
as it is then, and refuses one that is gone or inbound-only. Its doc, its
comment, the changelog fragment and the description had said that a change
made while the opening is announced counts too. A registration that
replaced the waited one after the last wait, as one announced again from
the opening's notice does, is neither gone nor inbound-only, so the words
go out into it, as they do on main, whose publish() checks nothing after
the notice. The texts now say exactly what the check refuses.

The explicit-routing guide and the stream router's retarget() doc said that
a target that didn't resolve leaves the turn's target as it was. A target
its server declared inbound-only is refused and clears it, so later
unprefixed segments bounce until a new >> target, as prose_help already
says. Both now say so. The router's contract, that a stream consumer never
sees text that delivery would refuse, now says that speakable is asked as
text is routed, so a channel declared inbound-only after its text was
emitted is refused at delivery, though a consumer has seen the text.

The substitution test in channel-lifecycle-order now also asserts the
mcpl:channel-open-substituted trace for the channel, so it shows that the
open reached the server and was answered for another channel.

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Comments only; no behaviour changes.

- ProseStreamRouter's header said a stream consumer must never see text
  that delivery would refuse to send. The router can't promise that:
  `speakable` is asked as the text is routed, so a channel declared
  inbound-only after its text was emitted, or one whose open then fails,
  is refused at delivery after the text has streamed. The header now says
  so, and that which servers see what the router emits is the registry's
  (sendOutgoingChunk).
- streamingServerFor's reason said a stream is a copy of speech the host
  would publish. This check makes that so only for inbound-only channels,
  so it now says just that: nothing is published into an inbound-only
  channel, so nothing is streamed there.
- publish()'s doc said words refused after an open for a declaration
  bring the notice that the channel is open. Only an open that turned a
  closed channel open gives it. One that only reconfirmed the transport of
  a channel already decided open or tuned out (openChannelNow's
  `opened: false`, such as after an earlier open failed) changes no
  decision and gives none, while the words are still refused and the
  channel is left open.
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Merge main (9c6964c) into fix/inbound-only-channels
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Brings in anima-research#557 (an ephemeral run takes no global fallback) and anima-research#559.

Conflicts, all in src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts:
- onRouteFailure's doc: both sides extended the list of when it's called.
  It keeps this branch's error-response case and main's exception for an
  ephemeral run's speech with no locus.
- deliverSpeech's doc: both sides added an exception to "surfaced through
  onRouteFailure": this branch's held failure (heldOnFailure) and main's
  ephemeral run with no locus. It names both.
- handleToolPublish's signature: main added `origin` as its second
  parameter, for channel_publish's default channel, and this branch added
  `seen`, publishForAgent's outcome. `origin` stays second, as main's
  handleChannelToolCall passes it, and `seen` comes third. publishForAgent
  passes no origin: it always names its channel, so the default never
  applies to it.

Elsewhere both sides changed buildChannelContext, deliverSpeech's body and
framework.ts, and git merged them: main's fallback rule for an ephemeral
run and this branch's inbound-only guard on defaultOutgoing sit side by
side in buildChannelContext, and main's early return for an ephemeral run
with no locus comes before this branch's publish() in deliverSpeech.
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…hat the stream can't promise

Comments, the guide and the changelog fragment only; no behaviour changes.

- onRouteFailure's doc gives its cases as examples of whatever reason
  deliverSpeech gives, a missing grant, a failed open, a channel that
  refuses speech, a timeout and a lost connection among them. It names
  both cases where the hook isn't called: an ephemeral run's speech with a
  null locus, and a failed delivery whose caller holds its words
  (heldOnFailure).
- deliverSpeech's doc: a held failure gets the trace but not
  onRouteFailure, and an ephemeral run's speech with no locus surfaces
  nothing. The merge's wording had put both under one exception.
- publish()'s doc: the notice comes from an open by delivery, the default
  openSource.
- framework.ts: the streaming comment no longer says nothing streams that
  delivery would refuse, and the speakable comment says what it checks.
- docs/explicit-prose-routing.md: a `>>` send into a channel decided closed
  opens it with the notice.
- The changelog fragment says that a declaration coming with the channel's
  own opening leaves the channel open, with the failure for the words, and
  the notice if that open is what opened it.
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Merged at 15aadc96. This withdraws our request above that you read the later merges first. Nothing is needed from you.

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Merge main (15aadc9) into hold-round-speech
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Brings in the 34 pull requests merged into main since 9e3e407, among
them inbound-only channels (anima-research#350) and the script tool results (anima-research#538).

Conflicts:
- src/framework.ts:
  - anima-research#350 refuses speech into a channel its server declared inbound-only.
    It also kept the turn's destination for the speculative stream: set
    where a round is admitted, cleared where a target or a delivery is
    refused, with a `speakable` check in the stream's router. This branch
    removes the router and the destination, since the stream follows
    delivery, so that half goes. Its delivery half stays: a refused
    target, and a failed delivery to a channel declared inbound-only, end
    the turn's pin, and the comments that named the destination name the
    pin alone.
  - anima-research#538: a script's tool call returns a ScriptToolResult. The import and
    the signature keep this branch's round calls beside it.
- src/mcpl/channel-registry.ts: the stream's doc is this branch's. The
  stream's server lookup keeps anima-research#350's inbound-only check, so nothing
  streams into such a channel once it's declared, a declaration that
  lands between a publish and its chunk included.
- src/mcpl/prose-stream-router.ts: deleted here, as before.
- test/channel-registry-routing.test.ts: main's failure type.
- test/explicit-prose-routing.test.ts: the router's own test goes with
  the router. anima-research#350's refusal tests check the pin alone, and its
  queued-delivery test holds the first delivery until the second round's
  tool calls are yielded, since the mock membrane gives a turn's rounds
  to one stream.

Texts: since anima-research#350, a subconscious's speak_in_channel reaches
mcpl:speech-routed once it's delivered. This branch's added fragment and
the trace's doc say so.

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Merge main into the direct mount, with anima-research#463
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main brings anima-research#463's edit planner and edit_many, anima-research#350, anima-research#562, anima-research#563 and anima-research#566.
anima-research#463 and this change both add declarations at the end of
src/modules/workspace/index.ts, and both stand. Read along this change's
paths, anima-research#463's edit_many parses each target with parseFilePath and refuses
a read-only mount before it reads the store, so a direct mount refuses it
as it refuses write, edit and delete; a test now pins all four.

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