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What this does

The Tool trait and its types were declared here and, in near-identical form, in tinyagents. Both are now tinytools', which tinyagents depends on too — so a tool implemented against this crate's path and the trait the harness runs a loop over are the same trait, not structural twins with a hand-written seam between them.

  • src/openhuman/tools/traits.rs690 → 125 lines
  • src/openhuman/skills/types.rs338 → 127 lines

Both stay as the import paths their ~190 and ~14 call sites already name, so no consumer import changes.

Merge order. Depends on tinyhumansai/tinytools#1 and tinyhumansai/tinyagents#127. Both must merge first; vendor/tinyagents here points at that PR's branch and will be re-pointed at main before merge.

Three things needed a decision, not a move

1. Tools took a type tinytools cannot name

Option<&ToolExecutionContext> would have made tinytools depend on tinyagents, which depends on tinytools — a cycle. Tools now take Option<&dyn ToolRunContext>.

The trait's width was measured before it was chosen: across the 44 files touching the harness context, the only fields read were .workspace (24 sites), .thread_id (1) and .max_turn_output_tokens (1). So the erased trait is narrow by evidence rather than by hope. The run id, event sink and cancellation token stay harness-internal.

Test helpers that build a real ToolExecutionContext keep doing so — it coerces to &dyn ToolRunContext at the call.

2. Two trait methods named host types

pack_registry_handle and generated_runtime_context returned PackRegistryHandle and GeneratedToolRuntimeContext. Those are this host's concepts and a shared vocabulary has no business naming them.

They ride Tool::host_extension / host_call_extension as dyn Any now, with typed readers in traits.rs. Two tools and one test use them; every other tool returns None and pays nothing.

3. From<McpToolResult> for ToolResult became a free function

Once ToolResult was foreign, the orphan rule forbade the impl. It is now skills::types::tool_result_from_mcp — still written exactly once, for the reason its old doc comment gave: spelled out at each of its three call sites, it would be three chances to get the error flag the wrong way round.

Nothing that decides anything moved

tinytools lets a tool declare the privilege it needs and whether it reaches outside the machine. What to do about those declarations is still ours and stays in one auditable place: the SecurityPolicy, the approval gate, the sandbox, tools/policy.rs, tools/timeout/, tools/agent_policy/, tools/registry/, tools/toolpacks/, and tools/schemas.rs (RPC controllers bound to crate::core).

The vendor path is load-bearing — please don't "tidy" it

The dependency is vendor/tinyagents/vendor/tinytools/crates/tinytools — the exact path tinyagents itself declares, so both resolve to one cargo package.

A second vendor/tinytools submodule of our own would be a different package to cargo, and its ToolResult a different type; every tool here would stop satisfying the harness's trait, with a type error naming the same path twice that reads like a compiler bug.

Asserted, not assumed — cargo metadata reports exactly one tinytools package in the graph. After cloning: git submodule update --init --recursive vendor/.

Kernel floor raised — the one thing that needs a reviewer's judgement

scripts/kernel-floor.limits: 287 → 288 packages, 269 → 270 names, native builds unchanged at 2.

The delta is tinytools itself and nothing underneath it. Its whole dependency list is anyhow, async-trait, serde, serde_json — all four already resolved in this profile. Measured rather than assumed: the native build count is unchanged (libsqlite3-sys, ring) and every one of the 287 previous packages is still exactly one package.

It cannot be gated. src/openhuman/tools/ is kernel surface — shell.rs alone is reached from the agent turn path in every build — so the Tool trait compiles in every configuration and the vocabulary has no feature to hang off. Structurally the same situation as tinyjuice-bus. Justification is written into the limits file as that file requires.

Verification

Check Result
cargo check --all-targets (product features) clean
Disabled build --no-default-features clean — the only gate-drift catcher; its core tests 579/0
Kernel profile --features flows clean
Tauri shell (app/src-tauri) clean
cargo test --lib (product features) 11,644 passed / 0 failed
Feature Forwarding Gate green
scripts/check-kernel-floor.sh green at the raised limit
cargo metadata exactly one tinytools package

Upstream: tinytools 53 tests with 100% per-file line coverage; tinyagents 1782/0.

Clippy reports no new findings in the 52 files this branch touches. The remaining warnings (archivist_tests.rs, composio/ops_tests.rs, a duplicate_mod) are pre-existing at the branch point and untouched here.

One environmental note for whoever re-runs the suite

A full run fetches the tinymemory native module from GitHub releases and consumes close to the entire unauthenticated 60/hour API quota. Two runs back-to-back — or two in parallel — fail the second with:

module 'tinymemory' could not be loaded: module `github-release` refused:
GitHub release metadata could not be downloaded

That looks exactly like a code regression and is not one; ~/.cache/openhuman/modules/ is not retaining the artifact between runs. Unrelated to this PR, but it cost time here and will cost it again.

Docs

AGENTS.md gains a section covering the seam, the one-way dependency edge, the erased host extensions, and what deliberately did not move.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Refactor

    • Standardized tool execution context handling across filesystem, system, media, storage, memory, and delegation tools.
    • Shared tool result and metadata types are now used consistently, including improved MCP result conversion.
    • Workspace-aware operations continue to preserve existing security and behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Updated architecture and tool vocabulary documentation.
  • Chores

    • Updated vendored tooling configuration and compatibility limits.

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Point the vendored tinyagents submodule to the newer revision.

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Update the vendored tinyagents dependency to a newer commit.

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Update the vendored tinyagents reference to a newer revision that includes local changes.

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Configure both Cargo manifests to resolve tinytools from tinyagents' vendored checkout. This ensures the shell and core use the same Tool and ToolResult types without duplicate package identities.

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Use the shared `tinytools` result and content definitions instead of maintaining local duplicates. Replace the orphaned `From` implementation with a dedicated MCP conversion function while preserving error, markdown, and content mapping.

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Re-export the shared tool trait and metadata types from tinytools while preserving the host import path. Add helpers for retrieving host extensions and generated runtime context without coupling the shared vocabulary to OpenHuman-specific policy.

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Update orchestration, filesystem, system, and integration tools to accept the
ToolRunContext trait and access workspace data through its API. Align the
vendored tinyagents dependency with the new context abstraction.

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Update orchestration, filesystem, system, and agent tools to use tinytools::ToolRunContext instead of the legacy tinyagents context type, aligning them with the current tool execution API.

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Retrieve generated runtime context and pack registry handles through erased host extensions, keeping host-specific concepts out of the generic tool interface.

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Update the generated context test tool to return its runtime context through the boxed extension API. Refresh the lockfile to include the tinytools dependency.

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Add the missing ToolRunContext imports to tool implementations so they compile and can access the shared execution context.

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Route GitBooks and MCP tool responses through the shared conversion helper so structured output and metadata are preserved consistently.

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Make the tool execution context available to filesystem tests that require it.

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Update raw coverage to exercise the public generated runtime context helper and verify it returns no context for default tools.

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Use the core crate path when exercising generated runtime context so the end-to-end coverage test matches the current public API.

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Record the tinytools package and its dependencies in the Cargo lockfile so dependent crates resolve consistently.

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Update the kernel limits to account for the new tinytools crate, which unifies shared tool types without adding third-party or native dependencies.

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Apply consistent import ordering and line wrapping across tool, middleware, and test modules without changing behavior.

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Remove obsolete `ToolExecutionContext` imports from tool implementations now that they use `ToolRunContext` exclusively.

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Use the fully qualified harness type in the test helper signature so it resolves correctly while retaining the local import for constructing the context.

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Explain that tool traits and metadata live in tinytools and are re-exported locally, while host-specific extensions, policy decisions, and MCP conversion remain in this crate. Document the vendoring path and dependency constraints to prevent duplicate package types and dependency cycles.

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OpenHuman moves its tool vocabulary to the vendored tinytools crate. Tool execution now uses ToolRunContext, workspace access uses trait methods, MCP results use an explicit conversion helper, and host-specific metadata uses erased extensions.

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Shared tool vocabulary and dependency wiring
AGENTS.md, Cargo.toml, app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml, scripts/kernel-floor.limits, src/openhuman/tools/traits.rs, src/openhuman/skills/types.rs, vendor/tinyagents
Tool contracts and result types are re-exported from tinytools. Host-specific accessors are free functions over erased extensions. Cargo wiring and kernel-floor limits reference the vendored crate.
Context propagation through orchestration
src/openhuman/agent/..., src/openhuman/memory/agent/tools.rs
Orchestration tools and adapters accept Option<&dyn ToolRunContext>. Workspace data is retrieved through workspace(). Generated runtime context uses the shared adapter.
Filesystem, system, and integration context adapters
src/openhuman/tools/impl/..., src/openhuman/integrations/file_storage/tools.rs, src/openhuman/media/generation/tools.rs
Filesystem, system, storage, and media tools replace ToolExecutionContext with ToolRunContext while preserving execution and security logic.
MCP results and toolpack integration
src/openhuman/tools/impl/network/*, src/openhuman/tools/toolpacks/*, tests/raw_coverage/*
MCP results use tool_result_from_mcp. Toolpack registry handles use the generic host-extension mechanism.

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Record the current tinyagents submodule revision and its dirty working-tree state.

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