The kernel carried RunnableAgent.Phases as a DTO but never executed it —
Run always ran a single agent loop with ra.SystemPrompt, so a phased agent
(mort's deepresearch/research) silently ran one loop with the base prompt
instead of its pipeline. This implements the phase loop, ported from mort's
agentexec pipeline but reusing the kernel's own machinery.
- run/phases.go: runPhases / runOnePhase. Phases run sequentially; each is a
fresh agent loop (or a bare LLM call for IsRunFunc phases) with its own
template-expanded system prompt ({{.Query}} + {{.<PhaseName>}}), model
tier, step cap, and tool subset. Outputs thread into later phases; the
final phase's output is the run output. Optional phases swallow errors and
substitute FallbackMessage; a non-optional phase that merely exhausts its
step/tool budget salvages its partial transcript and continues (a hard
error still aborts); per-phase tier-resolve failures fall back with a WARN.
- run/agent.go: Phase gains IsRunFunc + FallbackMessage (the kernel Phase
struct previously omitted them).
- run/executor.go: Run factors the shared agent options (tool-error limits,
step observer, compactor) and branches — single loop (critic's dynamic
step ceiling) vs the phase runner (fixed per-phase caps; the run-level
critic's steer + hard deadline still apply across phases). systemPrompt
now delegates to systemPromptWithBody so each phase keeps the platform
header. The same step observer feeds audit/steps/critic across all phases.
Tests (run/phases_test.go): sequential output threading + template
expansion, Optional-failure → FallbackMessage continues, hard-error abort,
IsRunFunc bare call, per-phase SystemHeader, filterToolbox subset, template
expansion. Full ./... suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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