fix(agent): let invoked child agents serve their own first-party tools - #4488
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A local invoke_agent child inherits the invoking runtime's remote tool sources, already constrained to the invoker's allowlist, and the matching source id suppressed the child's own bootstrap veryfront-api source. A child whose config named create_file or get_file resolved nothing and failed with unknown tool references even though its own agent definition authorized those tools. The child now builds its own bootstrap-identity source for its declared first-party tools; a host that injected sources explicitly still owns the boundary, and inherited sources with a self-served id are dropped to avoid duplicates. Part of veryfront-issue-inbox#1327 (secondary finding). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019B9SYdGjpN6sQ4424NLv91
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughRuntime MCP sources now track bootstrap identity through private weak-store state. Child runtimes distinguish bootstrap-owned sources from host-owned sources, preserve selected provenance through wrappers, and enforce run-level tool ceilings. Tests cover source selection, delegation, ownership, and sparse-array handling. ChangesBootstrap identity and source ownership
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ChildAgent
participant RuntimeSourceSelector
participant HostInjectedSource
participant RemoteToolSourceFactory
ChildAgent->>RuntimeSourceSelector: request MCP tool sources
RuntimeSourceSelector->>HostInjectedSource: check source ownership
alt Host-owned source exists
RuntimeSourceSelector-->>ChildAgent: reuse host source and filter bootstrap sibling
else Only bootstrap identity exists
RuntimeSourceSelector->>RemoteToolSourceFactory: create child-owned source
RemoteToolSourceFactory-->>RuntimeSourceSelector: return selected source
RuntimeSourceSelector-->>ChildAgent: expose permitted tools
end
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Review: 84/100 — solid, well-scoped fix; a couple of loose ends before merge
Traced the logic in getRuntimeRemoteToolSources end-to-end against the diff and the existing test suite. The core fix is correct and the security-sensitive boundary is handled carefully.
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- The root cause analysis is accurate:
selectedInjectedSources/configuredSourcespreviously suppressed a child's own bootstrapveryfront-apisource purely because an inherited source shared its id, with no way for the child's own declared tools to win. The newhostOwnedSourceBoundary/selfServedFirstPartyIdssplit fixes exactly that, only when there's no explicit host injection (__vfRemoteToolSources) — so hosted/multi-tenant behavior (the actual privilege boundary) is untouched. I verified this against the existing__vfRemoteToolSources-based tests (e.g. "reuses an injected Veryfront API source", "enforces policy on injected Veryfront API source") and they still hold under the new code path. - Good fallback behavior: when no bootstrap identity is available (
createVeryfrontApiMcpServerToolSourcereturnsundefined),selfServedFirstPartyIdsis never populated for that id, so the old inherited/policy-wrapped source is correctly retained instead of silently dropped. This is exercised (indirectly) by the pre-existing "constrains inherited sources to implicit named tools" test. - New test directly targets the fixed scenario (constrained inherited source + child's own bootstrap identity) with a clear red/green story per the PR description.
- Clear in-code comment explaining why the boundary split exists, not just what it does — will save the next reader from re-deriving this.
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- Unrelated lockfile churn:
deno.lockgains"npm:zod@*": "4.3.6"alongside the existing"npm:zod@4.3.6"entry, which is unrelated to this fix (nothing in the diff introduces a wildcard zod import). This looks like incidental drift from the local toolchain run. Worth regenerating/pruning before merge so it doesn't mask a real dependency change in a future diff. - No test for the "child declares only some of its needed tools" edge case: once a first-party source id is self-served, the corresponding inherited source for that id is dropped wholesale (
policyWrappedInjectedSourcesfilters it out). If a child relies on an ambient/inherited tool it does not itself declare intools(e.g. only declarescreate_file/get_filebut was implicitly relying on inheritedlist_files), that tool now silently disappears instead of being merged. This may be intended (tools should be declared on the child), but it's a behavior change worth a test and a callout in the PR description rather than leaving it implicit. - PR description says "End-to-end verification in progress" for the actual multi-agent demo pipeline — that's the most convincing validation of the real-world bug this is fixing, so it'd be good to confirm it completed successfully before merging rather than relying solely on the unit test.
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mergeable_stateis currentlyblockedand CI ispendingon the head SHA — nothing wrong with the code, just flagging that this isn't merge-ready yet independent of review.
Nothing here blocks approval in principle — items 1–2 are cheap to address, item 3 is about closing the loop on the author's own stated validation plan.
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Address review: a child config without __vfRemoteToolSources does not prove an unowned boundary — a hosted root's injected source reaches the child ambiently and must keep exclusive ownership of its id. Sources the runtime builds from the host bootstrap identity are now tracked by object identity through the constrain and credential-binding wrappers, and a child re-derives its own source only past ambient sources that all carry that provenance. With an ambient same-id source present, a missing bootstrap identity falls back to the inherited source instead of throwing. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019B9SYdGjpN6sQ4424NLv91
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943-943: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise bootstrap identity propagation through both wrappers.
Mark the raw source first. Pass it through
constrainRuntimeRemoteToolSourcesandbindRuntimeRemoteToolSourcesToCredentialOwnerbefore installing it withrunWithExactRuntimeRemoteToolSources. Direct marking lets this test pass when either wrapper stops propagating bootstrap identity; the composed path will fail because the child will retain the host-owned source instead of deriving its own tools.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/agent/runtime/mcp-server-tool-sources.ts`:
- Around line 434-439: Update the source-ID ownership filtering around
hostOwnsSourceId and sameIdSources so bootstrap-owned sources are excluded
whenever a non-bootstrap source with the same ID exists, preserving bootstrap
sources only when no host-owned sibling is present. Ensure downstream discovery
and execution use the host-owned source, and add a regression test covering
mixed bootstrap and non-bootstrap sources sharing an ID.
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In `@src/agent/runtime/mcp-server-tool-sources.test.ts`:
- Line 943: Update the test around inheritedSource to mark the raw source first,
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…d id aliasing Address review: provenance membership moves from a raw WeakSet to the private weak store so patched WeakSet prototype methods cannot launder a host-injected source into bootstrap ownership or break child tool resolution, and a bootstrap-owned sibling sharing a host-owned source id is dropped from the injected set so first-match tool execution cannot route around the host credential. Mixed-ownership regression test added. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019B9SYdGjpN6sQ4424NLv91
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The host-ownership pass iterated injected sources with for...of, which consults Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] and leaks the raw source to a patched iterator, as the remote-source projection intrinsics suite proves. Index the array directly like the surrounding private-array helpers. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019B9SYdGjpN6sQ4424NLv91
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489-496: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPropagate bootstrap identity through the policy wrapper
When bootstrap credentials are unavailable and an ambient same-ID source exists, the fallback wraps that bootstrap-marked source at line 494. The wrapper loses its bootstrap marker, so a nested child classifies it as host-owned and skips valid re-derivation. The parent policy can then hide the child’s declared first-party tools, leaving them unavailable. Return
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…the BDD wrapper A source this level retains and only policy-narrows keeps its bootstrap provenance, so a deeper delegation can still re-derive its own source for a tool an intermediate policy excluded. The three added cases move from Deno.test to it() per the repository test convention. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019B9SYdGjpN6sQ4424NLv91
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A ceiling stamped into __vfAllowedRemoteTools is an authorization cap, not an agent declaration: it is set only by a run (forwarded grants, a runtime tool allowlist, fork authorization, retirement limits). Carrying bootstrap provenance onto the ceiling wrapper let an invoked child classify the cap as replaceable and rebuild the API source from the process bootstrap identity, reaching a first-party tool the run's grant excluded. The cap now reads as owned, so the child stays inside it. Also skip non-own indexes when classifying injected-source ownership: a sparse ambient array could otherwise read a source off a patched Array.prototype and mark a real bootstrap-owned id as host-owned, which strips the child's remote tools when it cannot re-derive its own source. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Y3GHpusvEXDaStz6ko4br
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Problem
The secondary finding from veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1327: in local runtimes (
veryfront schedule run, local dev), everyinvoke_agentchild that declares first-party file tools fails withUnknown tool references: create_file, get_file— even though the child's own agent definition authorizes them and the host bootstrap credential is present. This makes multi-agent templates undemoable locally.Root cause
Nested tool execution wraps children in the invoking runtime's remote tool sources, constrained to the INVOKER's allowlist (
constrainRuntimeRemoteToolSources→runWithRuntimeRemoteToolSources). IngetRuntimeRemoteToolSources, the inherited source's id (veryfront-platform-mcp) then suppressed creation of the child's own bootstrap veryfront-api source, so a child of an orchestrator that only allowslist_filescan never reachcreate_file/get_file. Verified with instrumentation: child sawimplicit=["create_file","get_file"] inherited=1, then resolved zero file tools.Fix
A child agent whose config names first-party tools builds its own bootstrap-identity source for those tools — exactly what it does when no parent context is active. Two boundaries preserved:
__vfRemoteToolSources, the hosted/control-plane wiring) still owns the boundary — hosted behavior unchanged.Inherited sources whose id the child now self-serves are dropped to avoid duplicate source ids.
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serves a child agent's own named tools past a constrained inherited source: red on main (resolves[]), green with the patch (["create_file","get_file"]). All 29 tests in the file pass;deno check,deno lint,deno fmt --checkclean.Review rounds
Two further boundary defects were found in review and fixed on this branch:
__vfAllowedRemoteToolsis an authorization cap, never an agent declaration: it is set only by a run (forwarded grants intersected with a runtime tool allowlist, the hosted request handler, the hosted chat runtime, fork authorization, AG-UI retirement limits). Propagating bootstrap provenance onto that wrapper let a child classify the cap as replaceable and rebuild the API source from the process bootstrap identity, reaching a tool the run's grant excluded.constrainRuntimeRemoteToolSourcesno longer propagates provenance, so the cap reads as owned. Credential-owner binding and the retained-alias wrapper still do, which is what the local scenario needs: that path stamps no ceiling at all.private-array.ts. A sparse ambient array could otherwise read a source off a patchedArray.prototypeand mark a real bootstrap-owned id as host-owned, stripping the child's remote tools when it cannot re-derive.Both have regression tests verified red before the fix and green after. 34 tests in the touched file pass, plus 577 in
src/agent/runtime/, 176 intests/integration/agent/, 25 insrc/agent/streaming/, 13 insrc/internal-agents/.deno check src/agent/index.ts,deno lint src/agent/runtime/,deno fmt --checkand the repo's test-shape lints are clean.End-to-end verification in progress: the agentic-inbox-processing-outlook demo pipeline (orchestrator + 4 specialists, 6 emails) running locally against this branch.
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