//! The MCP tool surface: `start` / `continue` / `status` / `interrupt`, //! served directly over streamable-http — no stdio bridge, no round-trip //! socket. //! //! Two surfaces, two routes. `/mcp` is the parent's: the four tools above. //! `/signal/mcp` is the *subagent's*, and carries `goal_reached` and //! `need_help` only — it is what a subagent is handed in its own //! `--mcp-config` (see [`crate::mcp_config`]), so the ability to report on //! its own run can't be the ability to spawn a nested one. use std::sync::Arc; use rmcp::{ ServerHandler, handler::server::wrapper::Parameters, schemars::{self, JsonSchema}, tool, tool_handler, tool_router, }; use serde::Deserialize; use crate::session::{self, State}; #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct StartArgs { /// Session name — this daemon's tracking key while it's alive, and the /// identity to `continue`/`status`/`interrupt` it by afterward. Same /// identifier rules as the `bash` server's task names: lowercase, /// digits, hyphen, max 63 chars. Reusable once a prior *finished* /// session under that name is done — rejected while one under the same /// name is still running. name: String, /// Which model the subagent's own session runs. Omit for claude's own /// default. The `base:claude-subagents` skill's "cheaper-than-you" /// guidance still applies here. #[serde(default)] model: Option, /// Which reasoning effort level the subagent's own session runs at /// (`--effort`). Omit to default to `medium` — a deliberate hive /// policy for subagent work, not claude's own default (`high` on most /// models). Independent of `model`, so a cheap model at high effort or /// an expensive one at low effort are both valid combinations, not /// just the two extremes. See the `base:claude-subagents` skill for /// Anthropic's own guidance on choosing between levels. #[serde(default)] effort: Option, /// Path to a file holding the subagent's actual task instructions. A /// file, not an inline string, so a large recipe can't blow past a /// shell argument length limit. prompt_file: String, /// Written to the subagent's stdin as its first turn's prompt. Default: /// a generic "carry out your instructions" nudge — the real task detail /// belongs in `prompt_file`, not here. #[serde(default = "default_trigger")] trigger: String, /// Working directory for the subagent's session — e.g. a git worktree /// you've already prepared for it, so a parallel batch of subagents /// never race on the same working tree. Must exist. Omit to inherit /// this daemon's own working directory (today's default). The daemon /// remembers whichever `dir` you give here against `name`, so a later /// `continue`/`status` for the same name doesn't need to repeat it — /// only pass it there again if you want to point at a *different* /// directory. Forgotten on a daemon restart, same as everything else /// this daemon tracks in memory. #[serde(default)] dir: Option, /// What this subagent is working *toward*, in its own words — set it and /// the daemon keeps giving it turns until it says it's done, says it's /// stuck, or runs out. Omit it and the session is a single turn, exactly /// as before. Written for the subagent to read: it's quoted back at it /// verbatim at the start of every continued turn, so "get `cargo clippy /// --workspace` to pass with no warnings" continues far better than "fix /// the lints". #[serde(default)] goal: Option, /// How many turns the continuation may spend before the harness stops it /// itself. Default 5. Only meaningful alongside `goal` — without one /// there's nothing to re-prompt toward, so nothing to cap. The cap /// bounds *unattended* re-prompting: a `continue` you issue yourself /// starts the allowance over. #[serde(default)] max_turns: Option, /// Where the instructions in `prompt_file` told this subagent to write /// its report. The daemon appends the run's stop reason to that file when /// the run ends, so the artifact you were going to read anyway also says /// how it stopped. Nothing is inferred: if you don't pass it (and the /// subagent doesn't name it when it signals), no file is touched. #[serde(default)] report_file: Option, } fn default_trigger() -> String { "Carry out the task described in your instructions.".to_owned() } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct GoalReachedArgs { /// Your own session name — the one your brief and your continuation /// prompts address you by. name: String, /// Optionally, what you did. It's shown to whoever spawned you. #[serde(default)] msg: Option, /// Optionally, the path you wrote your report to, so the stop reason /// gets appended to it. #[serde(default)] report_file: Option, } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct NeedHelpArgs { /// Your own session name — the one your brief and your continuation /// prompts address you by. name: String, /// What is blocking you, specifically enough for someone else to act on /// it. This is the whole content of the signal, which is why it's /// required. msg: String, /// Optionally, the path you wrote your report to, so the stop reason /// gets appended to it. #[serde(default)] report_file: Option, } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct ContinueArgs { /// The existing session's name (from a prior `start`). name: String, /// The new turn's prompt, written to the subagent's stdin. prompt: String, /// Which model this turn runs. Omit to let claude fall back to its own /// default — this does not have to match whatever model `start` used. #[serde(default)] model: Option, /// Which reasoning effort level this turn runs at. Omit to default to /// `medium` (this daemon's own default, not claude's) — this does not /// have to match whatever effort `start` (or a prior `continue`) used. #[serde(default)] effort: Option, /// Omit to reuse whatever `dir` `start` (or a prior `continue`) used for /// this name — the daemon remembers it until it restarts, and a restart /// is exactly when you're most likely to be reaching for `continue`. So /// pass it when pointing the session at a *different* directory than /// last time, and pass it again after a restart if the session lives /// anywhere other than the daemon's own working directory. A resume that /// finds nothing says which directory it searched. #[serde(default)] dir: Option, } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct StatusArgs { /// The subagent name to check. name: String, /// Omit to use whatever `dir` was last remembered for this name (see /// `start`'s `dir` doc) — you only need this if nothing's running or /// reserved for `name` right now (the common "is it running" case never /// even looks at it) *and* you want to check a different directory's /// session than the one last remembered. #[serde(default)] dir: Option, } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema)] struct InterruptArgs { /// The running session's name to signal. name: String, /// `true` sends SIGKILL immediately; `false` (default) sends SIGINT, /// letting claude shut down cleanly if it's already mid-response. #[serde(default)] force: bool, } #[derive(Clone)] struct SubagentMcp { state: Arc, } #[tool_router] impl SubagentMcp { #[tool( description = "Start a fresh claude subagent session under `name`, running in the \ background. Returns as soon as the process is confirmed running — not once it \ finishes; this daemon pushes a todo when the turn ends, or use `continue` later to \ give it another turn. A prior *finished* session under the same name is archived \ first (real fresh start, not a silent resume); a *currently running* one is \ refused. Runs unattended — every tool-call permission prompt is pre-approved rather \ than interactively confirmed — with its MCP server set fixed to what this daemon \ configures for it. Pass `goal` to make this a multi-turn run: the daemon re-prompts \ the subagent toward that goal each time a turn ends, up to `max_turns` (default 5), \ stopping early when the subagent reports the goal reached or asks for help. Whichever \ way it stops, one todo is pushed at the end and `status` says which. See the \ `base:claude-subagents` skill for when to reach for this." )] fn start(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::start( &self.state, session::StartRequest { name: args.name, model: args.model, effort: args.effort, prompt_file: args.prompt_file, trigger: args.trigger, dir: args.dir, goal: args.goal, max_turns: args.max_turns, report_file: args.report_file, }, ) { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("start error: {e:#}"), } } #[tool( name = "continue", description = "Give an existing named subagent session a new turn — whether that's \ because its previous turn finished and you have a follow-up instruction, or you're \ reattaching after this daemon restarted (the session itself survives independently \ of the daemon that spawned it). Returns once the turn is underway rather than the \ instant the process exists — a second or so, not the length of the turn — so a \ reply saying the turn started means it started; a name already running is refused. \ A name with no session to resume is not refused up front, because claude's own \ `--resume` decides that: a miss comes back as this call's own error, naming the \ directory that was searched, so check `dir` before concluding the session is gone. \ Resuming a session whose last turn was killed is allowed — the reply says so, since \ that turn's work stopped wherever it had got to." )] async fn r#continue(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::continue_( &self.state, &args.name, args.prompt, args.model, args.effort, args.dir.as_deref(), ) .await { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("continue error: {e:#}"), } } #[tool( description = "Signal a currently-running subagent session to stop. Only works once \ it's actually running — a `start`/`continue` still in its brief window before the \ process is confirmed spawned refuses interrupt too (nothing to signal yet; retry \ shortly), same as a name with nothing tracked at all. `force: true` for SIGKILL, \ otherwise SIGINT." )] fn interrupt(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::interrupt(&self.state, &args.name, args.force) { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("interrupt error: {e:#}"), } } #[tool( description = "Report whether a subagent is currently running — a zero-cost check that \ never launches a process, unlike `continue`. The answer says what state it found \ and what to do about it. For a running one it also reports how long since that turn \ last produced any output, which is how you tell a subagent that's working from one \ that has wedged without resorting to `ps`. For a session started with a `goal` it \ reports which turn of the budget it is on, and — once the run has stopped — why it \ stopped: goal reported reached, blocked and needing help, or out of turns." )] fn status(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::status(&self.state, &args.name, args.dir.as_deref()) { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("status error: {e:#}"), } } } #[tool_handler] impl ServerHandler for SubagentMcp {} /// The surface a *subagent* gets, served on its own route: two tools, both /// of them ways for a running subagent to say how its own run should end. /// Separate handler rather than two more tools on [`SubagentMcp`] so the /// split is structural — there is no route a subagent holds that `start` is /// reachable from. #[derive(Clone)] struct SubagentSignalMcp { state: Arc, } #[tool_router] impl SubagentSignalMcp { #[tool( description = "Report that you have reached the goal you were given. Stops the harness \ from starting another turn to re-prompt you toward it, and extends the \"subagent \ done\" message your parent gets with what you say here. This records a claim, not a \ result: whoever spawned you reads the diff and the gate output regardless, so \ calling it does not make unfinished work finished. Call it when the goal is actually \ met — otherwise keep working, or call `need_help` if you can't proceed." )] fn goal_reached(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::goal_reached( &self.state, &args.name, args.msg, args.report_file.as_deref(), ) { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("goal_reached error: {e:#}"), } } #[tool( description = "Report that you cannot proceed, and why. Stops the harness from starting \ another turn to re-prompt you toward your goal, marks your session as blocked so \ whoever spawned you sees it in `status` without reading any file, and extends the \ \"subagent done\" message with your reason. Use it for a genuine block — a missing \ credential, a decision that isn't yours, an instruction that contradicts what you \ found — not for work that is merely hard. Say enough that someone else can act on it." )] fn need_help(&self, Parameters(args): Parameters) -> String { match session::need_help( &self.state, &args.name, args.msg, args.report_file.as_deref(), ) { Ok(msg) => msg, Err(e) => format!("need_help error: {e:#}"), } } } #[tool_handler] impl ServerHandler for SubagentSignalMcp {} /// Path the subagent-facing signal surface is served at, and the tail of the /// URL [`crate::session::State`] hands to every subagent it spawns. Kept /// here, next to the route that answers it, so the two can't drift. pub const SIGNAL_PATH: &str = "/signal/mcp"; /// Run the MCP server over HTTP (rmcp streamable-http transport) on `addr`. /// Loopback-only bind, one long-lived session — same shape as the bash and /// matrix daemons' own `serve_http`. /// /// Two routes off one listener: `/mcp` for the parent's four tools, and /// [`SIGNAL_PATH`] for the subagent's two. Separate session managers because /// they're separate MCP servers to separate clients — the parent's harness /// on one, each subagent's own claude on the other. /// /// # Errors /// /// Returns an error if the listener cannot bind `addr` or the HTTP server /// exits with a fatal error. pub async fn serve_http(addr: std::net::SocketAddr, state: Arc) -> anyhow::Result<()> { use rmcp::transport::streamable_http_server::{ StreamableHttpServerConfig, StreamableHttpService, session::local::LocalSessionManager, }; // A subagent turn can run considerably longer than a bash command — // same 24h keep-alive rationale as the bash/matrix daemons. let manager = || { let mut session_manager = LocalSessionManager::default(); session_manager.session_config.keep_alive = Some(std::time::Duration::from_hours(24)); std::sync::Arc::new(session_manager) }; let parent_state = Arc::clone(&state); let service = StreamableHttpService::new( move || { Ok(SubagentMcp { state: Arc::clone(&parent_state), }) }, manager(), StreamableHttpServerConfig::default(), ); let signal_service = StreamableHttpService::new( move || { Ok(SubagentSignalMcp { state: Arc::clone(&state), }) }, manager(), StreamableHttpServerConfig::default(), ); let app = axum::Router::new() .nest_service("/mcp", service) .nest_service(SIGNAL_PATH, signal_service); let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await?; tracing::info!( %addr, signal = SIGNAL_PATH, "serving hive-subagent MCP over streamable-http at /mcp" ); axum::serve(listener, app).await?; Ok(()) }