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refactor(agent): remove unused orchestrator prompt tools - #6669

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Summary

  • Remove request_plan_review, plan_exit, and update_memory_md from the orchestrator's direct tool list.
  • Remove the review_code and ask_docs delegate tools by dropping their subagent entries from this agent's allowlist.
  • Suppress index-update reminders and warnings when the agent lacks that tool, while preserving dedupe guidance.

Problem

These five tools were still advertised to the chat orchestrator despite the narrower direct workflow. Removing update_memory_md alone would also leave a tool-result reminder that asks the agent to call an unavailable tool.

Solution

Narrow only the orchestrator definition. The underlying plan, review, help, and memory tools remain registered for agents that use them. The memory-protocol middleware stays active and checks the turn's allowlist before suggesting an index update.

Submission Checklist

  • Tests added or updated (tool-scope regression test).
  • Diff coverage ≥ 80% — CI will verify changed-line coverage; full local coverage suites were not run.
  • Coverage matrix updated — N/A: behavior-only tool exposure change; no feature row added or removed.
  • Affected feature IDs listed under Related — 4.2.7 (plan-mode review exposure).
  • No new external network dependencies introduced.
  • Manual smoke checklist updated — N/A: no release-cut surface changed.
  • Linked issue closed — N/A: no issue was supplied.

Impact

The orchestrator receives fewer tool schemas. memory_store remains available; this agent no longer receives an in-turn index-update reminder that it cannot act on. Other agents retain their existing tool scopes.

Related

  • Coverage matrix: 4.2.7
  • Closes: N/A
  • Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs: N/A

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  • URL: N/A

Commit & Branch

  • Branch: remove-orchestrator-prompt-tools
  • Commit SHA: b0ebd5612fafc1f0d1a77c2561f22ebd72150f74

Validation Run

  • Focused tests: orchestrator_omits_removed_prompt_tools, memory_write_without_index_tool_still_gets_dedupe_guidance, and memory_write_without_index_read_gets_a_corrective_note (all passed after rebasing).
  • Rust fmt/check: cargo fmt --all -- --check and git diff --check passed.
  • Rust Clippy: cargo clippy -p openhuman --lib -- -D warnings passed after the middleware fix.
  • pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check — N/A: no app changes.
  • pnpm typecheck — N/A: no TypeScript changes.
  • Tauri fmt/check — N/A: no Tauri changes.

Validation Blocked

  • command: N/A
  • error: N/A
  • impact: N/A

Behavior Changes

  • Intended behavior change: stop advertising the five named tools to the orchestrator.
  • User-visible effect: fewer irrelevant tool choices and no impossible memory-index reminder.

Parity Contract

  • Legacy behavior preserved: tool implementations and specialist agent scopes are unchanged.
  • Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: the tool-scope regression test checks the parsed built-in definition.

Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling

  • Duplicate PR(s): None found for this branch.
  • Canonical PR: This PR.
  • Resolution: N/A

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Tiny Sweeper review

Tiny Sweeper reviewed this change across 6 lane(s) and found 3 active actionable finding(s). Detailed lane evidence and any incomplete work are listed below.

State: Reviewing pending checks
Priority: medium
Reviewed head: b0ebd5612faf
Updated: 1790353401 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface Files Review signal Count
Production 3 Active findings 3
Tests 3 Noted findings 0
Documentation 0 Resolved findings 0
Configuration 1 Pending checks/questions 4

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.

What changed

The review could not produce a supported behavioral summary; inspect the cited changed surface and lane details below.

Features

None identified with supported citations.

Tests

No supported feature-to-test mapping was produced. Test execution is not inferred.

Findings

  • medium · tests · Test end-of-run warning suppression with can_update_index false — The change conditions the end-of-run warning on `self.can_update_index`. When `can_update_index` is false, the warning is suppressed, but no test verifies this behaviour. A regress (crates/openhuman\-core/src/agent/tinyagents/middleware/memory\_protocol\.rs:144)
  • medium · tests · Match visible delegates test to agent.toml subagent list — The test expects "ask_docs" to not be in the visible delegates set, but the orchestrator's `agent.toml` still lists "ask_docs" as a subagent. Unless "ask_docs" is now a packed dele (crates/openhuman\-core/src/agent/registry/agents/orchestrator/prompt\_tests\_session\_routing\_tests\.rs:47)
  • medium · e2e · End-to-end job `Rust Feature-Gate Smoke (gates off)` will not run on this change — `Rust Feature-Gate Smoke (gates off)` in `.github/workflows/ci-lite.yml` will not run for this pull request: the forge reports it as skipped, so a job condition was false for this (\.github/workflows/ci\-lite\.yml)

Pending checks: Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)

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  • Wait for Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS).

How this fits together

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  n2["MemoryProtocolMiddleware<br/>changed<br/>1 finding"]:::flagged
  n3["run_cycle"]:::impacted
  n4["init_global_builtins"]:::impacted
  n5["render_withheld_specialists"]:::impacted
  n6["...s_name_the_hand_off_this_session_can_call"]:::impacted
  n7["...erated_block_has_no_stray_whitespace_runs"]:::impacted
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critique

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 6 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `e76e6d6c9a1e`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

security

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 6 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `e76e6d6c9a1e`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

tests

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: This PR adapts the memory protocol guidance for agents that lack the `update_memory_md` tool and removes several tools/subagents from the orchestrator configuration. The new tests cover the middleware behaviour when the index-update tool is absent and verify the orchestrator tool list removals, but the end-of-run warning suppression is untested and the prompt routing test incorrectly removes `ask_docs` from the expected visible set without a matching config change, risking test failure. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `e76e6d6c9a1e`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/openhuman\-core/src/agent/tinyagents/middleware/memory\_protocol\.rs — Test end-of-run warning suppression with can_update_index false
  • Evidence: crates/openhuman\-core/src/agent/registry/agents/orchestrator/prompt\_tests\_session\_routing\_tests\.rs — Match visible delegates test to agent.toml subagent list

commits

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Removes unused tools from the orchestrator agent and conditionally suppresses index‑update reminders when the agent lacks the tool. The changes are logically coherent, tests cover the new behaviour, and no repository rules are violated. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `e76e6d6c9a1e`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: This pull request refactors the memory protocol middleware to conditionally include index-update guidance based on whether the agent's tool set includes `update_memory_md`, and removes several tools and subagents from the orchestrator. All behavioural changes are internal to the agent harness or tested by new unit tests; no end-to-end test is required because the changes cannot regress silently or have no observable external surface. Waiting on end-to-end jobs: `Rust E2E (mock backend)`, `Build Playwright E2E Artifact`, `E2E (Playwright / web lane)`, `Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)`.
  • Unresolved questions/checks: Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)
  • Evidence: \.github/workflows/ci\-lite\.yml — End-to-end job `Rust Feature-Gate Smoke (gates off)` will not run on this change
Evidence and run details
  • Models: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek-v4-flash
  • Spend: $0.006793
  • Tokens: 253344 input · 18198 output · 15812 cached · 906 embedding
Head State Pass summary
b0ebd5612faf pending 3 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1790353401)

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Walkthrough

The orchestrator allowlist removes selected tools and the critic and help subagents. Harness assembly always installs memory protocol middleware. The middleware keeps missing-index-read guidance active and omits index-update reminders when update_memory_md is unavailable.

Changes

Orchestrator Scope

Layer / File(s) Summary
Orchestrator allowlist and tests
crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/registry/agents/orchestrator/agent.toml, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/registry/agents/loader_tests_builtin_registration_tests.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/registry/agents/orchestrator/prompt_tests_session_routing_tests.rs
The orchestrator allowlist removes update_memory_md, request_plan_review, plan_exit, critic, and help. Tests check these omissions and update the visible-tool set to exclude ask_docs.
Memory protocol guidance
crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/harness/memory_protocol.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/harness_assembly.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/middleware/memory_protocol.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/middleware_loop_guard_tests.rs
Harness assembly always installs the middleware and passes whether update_memory_md is available. When it is unavailable, the middleware retains missing-index-read guidance and omits index-update reminders. Tests cover both cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: m3ga-mind

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e94e6

Runs without the index-update tool can produce a misleading end-of-run warning. The impact is bounded, but the warning should be gated before merging if practical.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e94e6

A memory write can still succeed, but the same turn can no longer perform the index update that previously closed the workflow. Follow-up processing may handle it, but recovery after interruption has not been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: Removing the orchestrator’s index-update capability leaves successful direct memory writes dependent on an unverified later reconciliation and recovery path.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The direct authority removed from the orchestrator narrows its advertised actions; the memory-index concern is confined to writes that still succeed through its retained memory tools. No expansion of tool authority was evidenced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The turn allowlist determines the guidance flag. The memory middleware observes already-dispatched calls and appends result text; it does not grant the unavailable index-update tool.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Per-call correlation and mutex-protected observations limit local state races, but do not establish durable recovery of a pending index update after interruption.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish and verify an idempotent reconciliation owner for successful direct memory writes, including interrupted turns and failed post-turn processing.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: removing unused tools from the orchestrator prompt and tool scope.
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.map(|tracker| tracker.pending_index_update())
.unwrap_or(false);
if pending {
if self.can_update_index && pending {

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priority medium tests confident

Test end-of-run warning suppression with can_update_index false

The change conditions the end-of-run warning on self.can_update_index. When can_update_index is false, the warning is suppressed, but no test verifies this behaviour. A regression could cause the warning to appear again for agents without the update_memory_md tool, leading to noisy logs and confusing feedback. Add a test that runs a memory write cycle with can_update_index=false and asserts that the end-of-run warning is not emitted.

[RULE] untested-condition ·

// A visible set shaped like the live one: the advertised delegates are in,
// the packed ones are not.
let visible: HashSet<String> = ["research", "plan", "ask_docs", "file_read", "goal_complete"]
let visible: HashSet<String> = ["research", "plan", "file_read", "goal_complete"]

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priority medium tests confident

Match visible delegates test to agent.toml subagent list

The test expects "ask_docs" to not be in the visible delegates set, but the orchestrator's agent.toml still lists "ask_docs" as a subagent. Unless "ask_docs" is now a packed delegate (not advertised), the test will fail because the built prompt will include it. Either update agent.toml to remove "ask_docs" or restore it in the test set.

[RULE] test-data-mismatch ·

@tinysweeper tinysweeper Bot added the priority: p2 Soon. Real but survivable — a rough edge, a gap, a thing that will bite later. label Sep 25, 2026
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