Prerequisite for a full-fidelity mort agentcritic adapter (which adjusts a
healthy-but-long run's iteration budget, not just its deadline). executus's
CriticHandle was deadline+steer only; this adds the dynamic step ceiling above
an unchanged majordomo (which already exposes WithMaxStepsFunc).
- run.RunInfo += MaxIterations (the run's base ceiling, so a critic can raise it
relative to the baseline).
- run.CriticHandle += MaxSteps() int — polled by the executor each step via
agent.WithMaxStepsFunc; <=0 defers to the base. The executor uses
WithMaxStepsFunc(critic.MaxSteps) when a critic is active, else WithMaxSteps.
- critic battery: handle.maxSteps (initialised from RunInfo.MaxIterations) +
MaxSteps(); Decision gains RaiseStepsBy so an Escalator can raise the ceiling
alongside ExtendBy. ExtendOnce default is unchanged (time-only).
Test: a critic returning MaxSteps=5 lets a base-MaxIterations=1 run complete two
tool-dispatch steps past the base ceiling. Core stays battery-free (run doesn't
import critic).
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majordomo's step observer fires post-iteration, so the critic's activity clock
refreshes per-iteration, not mid-tool — a single long tool call won't refresh it
until it returns. Documented + the host-progress-bridge mitigation (mort's
pattern). A true pre-dispatch hook needs majordomo support (follow-up).
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From PR #9 (minimax + deepseek):
- Run now has a top-level recover() — the "never propagates a panic" promise was
unenforced; a panicking host Port (Critic/Audit/Palette) on the run goroutine
now becomes Result.Err instead of unwinding into the caller.
- The critic deadline-watch goroutine recovers panics from a host Deadline()
(it's a separate goroutine, so Run's recover can't catch it) — a buggy
CriticHandle can't crash the process.
- CriticHandle interface documents its concurrency contract (Record*/Steer on the
run goroutine vs Deadline()/Stop() from the watch goroutine — impls must be
concurrent-safe; the critic battery already is).
- startCritic's dead `soft <= 0 -> noop` guard (withFallbacks already coerces to
90s) replaced with a defensive inline 90s default, so a bypass of withFallbacks
still gets a working critic instead of silently none.
- Delivery tests made honest: the old "error path" test only checked the
early-return (no delivery); added TestDeliverErrorOnRunFailure (in-loop model
error -> DeliverError to the target) + renamed the early-return test.
Graded all #9 findings in the gadfly MCP.
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Continues finishing the executor's run.Ports wiring (after C0's Palette).
Critic (run/critic.go): when Ports.Critic is set and the agent enables it, the
executor calls Monitor at run start, feeds RecordStep/RecordToolStart from the
step observer, drains the critic's Steer messages into the loop via
agent.WithSteer, and binds the run's hard cancellation to the critic's
(extendable) Deadline through a watch goroutine — a healthy-but-slow run gets
room while a hung one is killed. Stop() on run end. Soft timeout from
Defaults.CriticSoftTimeout (default 90s). nil-safe: no critic / not-enabled =
no-op.
Delivery (run/executor.go deliver): after the run, when Ports.Delivery is set
and inv.DeliveryID is non-empty, the executor posts Result.Output (or
DeliverError on failure) to a host-interpreted deliver.Target
{inv.DeliveryKind, inv.DeliveryID}. Empty target = caller reads Result.Output
itself (the synchronous default; the `.agent run` canary). Best-effort +
detached.
tool.Invocation gains DeliveryKind/DeliveryID (host-set egress target).
Tests: critic monitored/fed/steered/stopped when enabled, untouched when not;
delivery posts on a target, skips without one. Deferred: Checkpointer (needs a
majordomo hook to snapshot the running message history).
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steve