Add provider-neutral Agent Rooms message core

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Problem

cmux can run Claude, Codex, and other coding agents in one workspace, but the sessions do not have a provider-neutral way to exchange a bounded request and reply. The current workaround is manual copy and paste between panes, which loses thread identity and delivery state.

What this PR adds

This is the first implementation slice from RFC #13346:

• a provider-neutral agent-chat/mail core with immutable message/thread IDs, reply ancestry, idempotent append, per-recipient delivery receipts, subscriptions, inbox/thread queries, dead-letter state, and a configurable fan-out limit;
• a deterministic reply() API that derives the parent thread and references;
• an ACP adapter seam that renders a durable message as ordinary session/prompt text without changing the ACP wire request or provider behavior;
• focused broker tests plus fake-ACP formatting and end-to-end coverage;
• the living design RFC at plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md.

The core is transport-agnostic. Email, MCP, A2A, persistence, wake-up policy, and room UI are follow-up slices.

Validation

• bun run check
• bun test ./test/mail.test.ts ./test/acp-mail.test.ts
• bun ./test/acp-mail.e2e.ts

All pass locally. The focused suite reports 4 passing tests, and the fake ACP process confirms the message reaches session/prompt unchanged.

Follow-up work

Add a durable local persistence adapter and wire delivery receipts into the cmux session/server lifecycle before exposing user-facing rooms or remote A2A/MCP adapters.

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• agent-chat/adapters/acp.ts
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• agent-chat/test/mail.test.ts
• plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md

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Agent mail and ACP delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mail contracts and broker agent-chat/mail/core.ts, agent-chat/mail/index.ts, agent-chat/test/mail.test.ts	Adds normalized mail envelopes, idempotent append, replies, delivery receipts, inbox queries, subscriptions, delivery state updates, fan-out limits, and related tests.
ACP mail prompt projection agent-chat/adapters/acp.ts, agent-chat/test/acp-mail.test.ts, agent-chat/test/acp-mail.e2e.ts, agent-chat/test/fake-acp.ts	Adds ACP mail prompt rendering and tests for formatting, newline handling, and delivery through the fake ACP server.
Agent Rooms design plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md	Documents the mail envelope, delivery semantics, broker scope, trust boundaries, and planned adapters.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MailEnvelope
  participant acpPromptFromMail
  participant ACPAdapter
  participant FakeACPServer
  MailEnvelope->>acpPromptFromMail: provide durable message fields
  acpPromptFromMail->>ACPAdapter: return marked ACP prompt
  ACPAdapter->>FakeACPServer: send session/prompt
  FakeACPServer->>MailEnvelope: record delivered prompt

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cd1b3

The new broker is not yet used in production, but its public contracts can misclassify conflicting messages, expose mutated stored content, and report committed appends as failures. These issues should be corrected before building later delivery layers on it.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (24 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not introduce a Cloud terminal creation or persistent cmux-tui transport change. The authoritative diff changes only the ACP mail formatter, an in-memory mail broker, tests…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript and Markdown files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and no Swift actor-isolation constructs such as @MainActor, Sendable, or actor. …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only TypeScript and Markdown files. It adds no production Swift files or Swift blocking/timing primitives. The exact patch also contains no matching semaphore, wai…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only TypeScript files under agent-chat/ and the Agent Rooms design document. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift or `Packages/macOS/CmuxCont…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed range changes seven TypeScript files and one Markdown file. It adds no Swift source, SwiftUI code, MainActor work, or synchronous agent-history load. The expensive synchronous load …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached value. The production changes add a new in-memory mail broker and an ACP prompt formatter; the diff contains no persist…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no fixed sleep, timer, polling loop, delayed dispatch, or wall-clock wait. The only new Date.now() calls generate message timestamps and fallback IDs; they do not delay lifecycle p…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	No explicit algorithmic-complexity failure is introduced. The new broker uses linear scans for list() and inbox(), with O(1) Map lookups. Append delivery creation and event fan-out use recipient…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only TypeScript and Markdown files: agent-chat/... and plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md. It contains no changed Swift source or Swift concurrency constructs. T…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only TypeScript and Markdown files. It contains no Swift files or Swift concurrency constructs such as @concurrent, nonisolated async, @MainActor, or actor-i…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff contains seven TypeScript files and one Markdown file, with no .swift, Package.swift, or Swift package manifest changes. The Swift package boundary rule a…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript, tests, and Agent Rooms documentation. It does not change a SwiftPM package, Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode project/pack…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes seven TypeScript files and one Markdown file. It changes no Swift files, so it introduces no production Swift logging covered by this check. The added console.log and file w…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff adds no new cmux user-facing error or alert path. acpPromptFromMail only formats message content, and repository searches show it is used only by tests. InMemoryMailBroker and its e…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed range changes only agent-chat TypeScript core/adapter code, tests, and plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md; it adds no Swift UI, web UI, locale/catalog, API route, metadata, or ren…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed range changes only TypeScript, tests, and Markdown files. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI files, so it introduces no ObservableObject, GeometryReader, lazy-row store reference, or r…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only TypeScript and Markdown files; it contains no Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, or AppKit files. The added broker subscriptions and ACP prompt formatting are pr…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only TypeScript and Markdown files. It adds no Swift, SwiftUI, storyboard, or XIB code, and the diff contains no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, WindowGroup, or auxilia…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The review-scoped diff changes only TypeScript source, test files, and one hand-written design document. All files are regular text blobs with mode 100644; no screenshots, recordings, logs, caches, bu…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The pull request changes eight files, all in TypeScript or Markdown paths. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and no files under a production Sources/ path. Therefore the specified produ…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding the provider-neutral Agent Rooms message core.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, implementation scope, testing performed, and follow-up work. It omits the template's checklist and review-trigger block, but the core required change and …

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Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the current changes introduce no outstanding actionable findings.

Findings

1.  Encoded Body Is Unreadable ▶

Summary

This PR introduces a provider-neutral in-memory Agent Rooms messaging core and an ACP rendering seam.

• Adds immutable mail envelopes, deterministic reply ancestry, idempotent append, per-recipient delivery receipts, subscriptions, inbox/thread queries, dead-letter state, and bounded fan-out.
• Renders durable messages as readable structured JSON in ordinary ACP session/prompt text.
• Adds focused broker, formatting, and fake-ACP end-to-end coverage.
• Documents the design boundaries and planned persistence work.
• The changes since the previous review address all five prior findings: validation and fingerprinting now precede mutation, listener failures are isolated, nested envelope data is frozen, JSON framing prevents marker collisions, and message bodies remain readable.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    Sender[Sender session] -->|append or reply| Broker[InMemoryMailBroker]
    Broker --> Envelope[Immutable mail envelope]
    Broker --> Receipts[Per-recipient receipts]
    Broker --> Subscribers[Recipient subscribers]
    Envelope --> Renderer[ACP JSON prompt renderer]
    Renderer -->|ordinary session/prompt text| ACP[ACP agent session]
    ACP -->|future delivery updates| Receipts

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Inline comments:
In `@agent-chat/mail/core.ts`:
- Line 350: Update canonicalize and the metadata fingerprinting path to reject
non-JSON-compatible metadata, or serialize every accepted metadata type
distinctly; ensure different Date, Map, Set, and other unsupported values cannot
collapse to the same {} representation or fingerprint, while preserving
canonical ordering for valid JSON values.
- Line 299: Update the listener dispatch loop in emit so exceptions from
individual listeners are isolated and reported through the broker’s separate
error channel, without propagating out of append. Preserve delivery to other
listeners and keep the committed append result unchanged.
- Around line 338-339: Update freezeEnvelope to recursively freeze every
attachment object and all nested metadata values, not just the attachments and
metadata roots. Preserve the existing envelope immutability while ensuring
callers cannot mutate stored attachment fields or nested metadata after append.

In `@plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md`:
- Line 107: Update the idempotency acceptance condition for
InMemoryMailBroker.append to require both the same message ID and an identical
payload before treating a repeated append as a no-op; preserve MailConflictError
for reused IDs with divergent payloads.
- Around line 94-95: Update the ACP adapter status section in DESIGN.md to mark
prompt rendering/translation into session/prompt as implemented, and leave only
the unimplemented session/update correlation and provider-delivery behavior
under future work. Keep the existing status wording consistent and avoid
implying the full ACP adapter is complete.
- Around line 65-69: Align the design with the broker’s lack of replay and
acknowledgement handling: in plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md lines 65-69,
qualify or remove the at-least-once delivery guarantee unless replay is added;
in plans/feat-agent-rooms/DESIGN.md lines 26-29, replace the claim that the
message layer owns retries with explicit adapter/client ownership, or define the
required retry API. Keep both sections consistent.
- Around line 82-85: Update the design around MailInput.metadata,
normalizeEnvelope, and MailEnvelope.metadata so caller-supplied metadata is not
treated as cmux-asserted. Add explicit broker-owned provenance or separate
asserted metadata before using it in authority decisions; otherwise, clearly
define MailEnvelope.metadata as untrusted.

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