panto-subagents.git/init.lua, branch main

Show full subagents.lua source when expanded; guide toward templated prompts

2026-09-03T13:57:03Z

The expanded progress board capped the executed Lua at 128 lines (and 32KB), so long workflow sources ended in an ellipsis even after Ctrl-O. Expanded now renders the whole source; collapsed still shows the first four lines. Add a "Program, don't transcribe" section to the system guidance so the primary writes shorter sources: one [[template]] with {name} placeholders filled by gsub with a table, loops over data instead of per-child copies, shared system prompts in `agents`, and file references instead of quoted contents. A single templating mechanism is named on purpose to remove choice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ETqhv5FVD8Z14BEBsXeHHC

Let the host fit extension header rows

2026-08-26T14:37:15Z

Return inventory entries as styled text chunks and remove the extension's byte-counting wrapper. The host now owns display-width measurement, wrapping and padding for these rows.

Discourage active waiting for background workflows

2026-08-25T21:18:34Z

Add workflow cancellation controls

2026-08-21T17:26:48Z

Expose workflow status to other extensions

2026-08-21T16:44:33Z

Expose a json codec to the subagents.lua sandbox

2026-08-20T21:32:46Z

Model-authored workflow Lua could reach string, table, math, and utf8 but had no way to parse an agent's report, so any fan-out over discovered work had to invent an ad-hoc line format and hand-roll string.gmatch. Hand the guest panto.ext.json instead. decode returns nil plus a message rather than raising: the sandbox deliberately has no pcall, so a raising decoder would let one malformed agent line kill an entire workflow. Teach the pattern in the injected guidance too: deterministic Lua owns the loops, counts, ordering, and gates, agents supply discovery and judgment, and a worker that feeds Lua ends its report with one parseable line. The existing static-graph example stays; a discover-then-fan-out example joins it.

Add background Lua workflows, inline child prompts, and layered config

2026-08-20T01:03:52Z

subagents.lua now starts a workflow on its own coroutine and returns a session-scoped id immediately, so fan-out continues while the primary keeps working; completion wakes the primary, and later calls read immutable records from subagents.workflows. Every ctx:agent takes a workflow-unique name so those records are addressable. A session_start guidance message tells the primary when to reach for run vs lua. Children no longer inherit the primary's system context: a child starts from the fixed child-role instruction plus its profile, and subagents.run/ctx:agent accept an inline system_prompt instead of a profile. The now-redundant `agent` form of subagents.models is gone. Concurrency defaults to five and is configurable through [subagents] max_concurrent in any layered config.toml; turn boundaries reap only settled jobs so background workflows survive, while interrupt and session end cancel. Config roots come from panto.ext.dirs.layers rather than a hand-rolled XDG lookup, which picks up the base and git-ignored local layers for both agents/ and workflows/. TOML workflows tighten up: the subagents.workflow tool takes a discovered name only (inline `steps` duplicated subagents.lua at less power), an optional top-level `output` array chooses the reported steps and their order instead of the terminal set, a step with no workflow input gets no empty input heading, and a workflow naming an undiscovered agent is rejected at discovery rather than part-way through a run.

Fix workflow progress pin lifecycle

2026-08-18T22:37:40Z

Persist and replay subagent progress across sessions

2026-08-18T20:20:28Z

Record durable child-turn metadata, restore bounded progress cards during startup replay, and keep settled cards attached to transcript entries. Add workflow-local Lua profiles and expose discovered agents and workflows in the session header.

subagents extension on the generic host surfaces

2026-08-18T02:31:29Z

The rock now owns all subagent policy on top of libpanto-lua's generic APIs: children are ordinary panto.agent instances over rock-constructed stores, started with agent:run_async and awaited by arming uv.new_poll on each job's wake_fd from the tool handler's coroutine. subagents/jobs.lua carries the session policy the host used to own: the concurrency gate (4 running, FIFO queue, cancel-while-queued never starts), the await contract (results in input order; "first" returns settled plus remaining by identity), and settle-time shaping. subagents/spawn.lua seeds new children (primary system context, child role, profile body with manifest metadata), resolves model/reasoning through panto.ext.resolve_model, filters subagents.* out of the inherited tool set via agent:set_tools, and reads resume defaults back from stored message metadata. One-shot structured workers are a null_store agent with a declaration-only output tool, tool_choice forced, dispatch_tools=false. subagents/progress.lua renders per-tool-entry cards through the component handle's invalidate seam; turn_interrupt cancels live children, turn_end closes them. Spec suite rewritten against fakes of the new surfaces (98 cases), including gate/queue/cancel bounds, resume-default extraction, one-shot capture via unresolved tool calls, tool filtering, and manifest seeding.