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Summary

  • keep extensions/subagents.ts as the compatibility entrypoint and lifecycle composition root
  • split subagent runtime state, tool registration, TUI components, model policy, transcript handling, usage accounting, formatting, and lifecycle predicates into focused modules under extensions/subagents/
  • preserve the existing public exports and add a registration smoke test for all tools, commands, events, and lifecycle hooks
  • make the Informant test image include the existing worktree safety test's lsof dependency and drain both child-process pipes in its async cleanup probe

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  • bun test — 204 passed
  • bun run check
  • bun run test in the pinned oven/bun:1.3.10 Linux container — 204 passed
  • focused independent review found no behavior, API, registration, or dependency-cycle regressions

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a subagent manager for creating, monitoring, messaging, configuring, and terminating isolated sessions.
    • Added a visual manager with agent lists, transcripts, navigation, model and effort selection, and action controls.
    • Added support for model selection, urgency options, usage tracking, retries, and session archiving.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved transcript and tool-output handling, including safe truncation.
    • Git and pull request metadata now refreshes after completed agent runs.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for subagent registration, UI behavior, output truncation, and asynchronous cleanup.

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  • extensions/subagents/format.ts
  • extensions/subagents/ui.ts
  • tests/subagents.test.ts
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Walkthrough

The subagent extension was split into dedicated modules for contracts, utilities, session management, tools, transcripts, usage, models, and TUI interactions. The entry point now wires these modules and re-exports their public APIs. Session metadata refresh and build validation were also updated.

Changes

Subagent management modularization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Subagent contracts and utilities
extensions/subagents/types.ts, extensions/subagents/format.ts, extensions/subagents/lifecycle.ts, extensions/subagents/models.ts, extensions/subagents/transcript.ts, extensions/subagents/usage.ts
Defines subagent state models and shared helpers for formatting, lifecycle decisions, model selection, transcript handling, and usage accounting.
Subagent manager and session flow
extensions/subagents/manager.ts
Adds SubagentManager for session creation, event processing, messaging, configuration, termination, reporting, usage tracking, and web-status publication.
Tool registration and extension wiring
extensions/subagents/tools.ts, extensions/subagents.ts, tests/subagents.test.ts
Adds manager-backed subagent tools and verifies extension registration, output truncation, and footer editor behavior.
TUI manager interactions
extensions/subagents/ui.ts
Adds footer navigation, agent list and detail dialogs, selection overlays, transcript display, messaging, configuration, and termination actions.
Session metadata and validation
web/server/index.ts, tests/web-server.test.ts, tests/web-worktrees.test.ts, .informant/config.toml, .informant/jobs/build.toml
Refreshes Git and pull request metadata after session completion and updates build and cleanup verification behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9380a

The refactor passes the supplied checks, but the current code still has bounded correctness and usability risks: some formatting inputs can throw or split Unicode, list-originated model and effort actions can open the wrong dialog, and transcript formatting adds avoidable CPU work. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SubagentTools
  participant SubagentManager
  participant AgentSession
  participant TUI
  User->>SubagentTools: create, read, send, configure, or terminate request
  SubagentTools->>SubagentManager: delegate operation
  SubagentManager->>AgentSession: create session or dispatch action
  AgentSession-->>SubagentManager: stream status, transcript, and usage events
  SubagentManager-->>SubagentTools: return bounded agent data
  TUI->>SubagentManager: view or update selected agent
  SubagentManager-->>TUI: provide snapshots and transcript data
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Possibly related PRs

  • Vessup/pi-kit#1: Both modify subagent model selection and lifecycle handling.
  • Vessup/pi-kit#3: Both modify subagent termination and status synchronization.

Poem

A rabbit sees the modules align,
Tools and sessions follow a clean design.
Models hop, transcripts flow,
The footer tells what agents know.
Build checks finish in a tidy line.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary refactor into focused subagent modules.
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Inline comments:
In `@extensions/subagents/format.ts`:
- Around line 75-81: Update truncateToolOutput to truncate via a UTF-8 byte
buffer and decode the bounded bytes with TextDecoder, instead of slicing
characters and repeatedly calling Buffer.byteLength. Preserve the byte limit,
avoid splitting surrogate pairs, and calculate the omitted-byte count from the
decoded output length.

In `@extensions/subagents/ui.ts`:
- Around line 282-302: Update the scroll-offset clamping in the detail view
rendering logic near maxOffset so the maximum offset is based on the remaining
content after a full DETAIL_VIEW_LINES page, rather than allLines.length - 1.
Preserve zero as the lower bound and ensure scrolling cannot leave unused
viewport space while transcript lines remain.
- Around line 416-443: Set detailId only for actions originating from the detail
dialog, not unconditionally before handling the result. Track the originating
view around the dialog-opening logic and restore detailId to the selected agent
ID only when the action came from AgentDetailDialog; otherwise clear it so
model, effort, and other list actions return to AgentListDialog.
- Around line 51-178: The FooterNavigationEditor wrapper must delegate the
wantsKeyRelease property to its wrapped base editor so key-release filtering
preserves the underlying editor’s behavior. Add getter and setter forwarding to
base alongside the other Component property proxies, without changing
handleInput or unrelated delegation.
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  • extensions/subagents.ts
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  • extensions/subagents/manager.ts
  • extensions/subagents/models.ts
  • extensions/subagents/tools.ts
  • extensions/subagents/transcript.ts
  • extensions/subagents/types.ts
  • extensions/subagents/ui.ts
  • extensions/subagents/usage.ts
  • tests/subagents.test.ts

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In `@extensions/subagents/format.ts`:
- Around line 31-38: Update stringifyCompact so the JSON.stringify result is
normalized when it returns undefined, ensuring text is always a string before
accessing text.length; preserve the existing String(value) fallback for thrown
serialization errors and the truncation behavior.

Apply the same fix in `@extensions/subagents/format.ts` around lines 41 - 42.

In `@extensions/subagents/ui.ts`:
- Around line 310-333: Update transcriptLines to cache the computed wrapped
lines, reusing the cache when width, this.agent.transcript.length, and
this.agent.streamingText are unchanged; invalidate and recompute only when any
of those values changes, while preserving the existing transcript formatting and
empty-state behavior.
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All actionable threads were addressed in 99db9cf and resolved; latest checks pass.

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