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Summary

  • separate configured provider instance ids from implementation driver kinds
  • support multiple named instances of one driver with isolated runtime keys
  • persist and migrate provider instance + driver identity, with a daemon protocol bump
  • keep default provider config compatible while documenting named instances

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  • New Features
    • Configure multiple named provider instances, including multiple instances using the same supported driver. Profiles and agent targets can select an instance by ID.
    • Set instance-specific models, commands, environment variables, and other options. Provider availability and onboarding reflect configured instances.
  • Improvements
    • Existing configurations and stored agent sessions are migrated to the updated provider setup, with provider instance IDs and driver types tracked separately.

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The change separates provider instance IDs from driver kinds. Configuration and profiles can reference named instances. Runtime creation, availability checks, agent records, and database storage now carry both values separately.

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Provider Instance Routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider configuration and target resolution
docs/agent-profile-schema.md, docs/configuration.md, schema/v1/devspace.schema.json, src/local-agent-config.ts, src/local-agent-profiles.ts, src/local-agent-targets.ts, src/onboarding.ts, src/config.ts, src/config-migration.ts, src/cli.ts, src/local-agent-config.test.ts, src/local-agent-profiles.test.ts, src/local-agent-targets.test.ts, src/onboarding.test.ts, src/server.test.ts, src/cli.test.ts
Provider configuration accepts instance IDs and optional driver kinds. Named instances can be used by profiles and target resolution. Config loading resolves driver values, and onboarding updates selections by instance ID.
Driver instances and runtime wiring
src/local-agent-provider.ts, src/local-agent-adapters.ts, src/local-agent-availability.ts, src/local-agent-catalog.ts, src/local-agent-runtime.ts, src/local-agent-runtime-pool.ts, src/local-agent-acp.ts, src/local-agent-claude.ts, src/local-agent-codex.ts, src/local-agent-opencode.ts, src/local-agent-pi.ts, src/local-agent-adapters.test.ts, src/local-agent-availability.test.ts, src/local-agent-catalog.test.ts, src/local-agent-acp.test.ts, src/local-agent-claude.test.ts, src/local-agent-codex.test.ts, src/local-agent-opencode.test.ts, src/local-agent-pi.test.ts, src/local-agent-runtime.test.ts, package.json
Driver instances are created from configured providers. Runtime contexts and driver interfaces carry an instance ID and driver kind. Availability and catalog entries use configured instances. The koffi dependency is pinned to version 3.2.1.
Agent execution and persisted records
src/local-agent-manager.ts, src/local-agent-store.ts, src/db/schema.ts, src/db/migrations.ts, src/local-agent-daemon-protocol.ts, src/local-agent-daemon-lifecycle.ts, src/local-agent-errors.ts, src/local-agent-manager.test.ts, src/local-agent-store.test.ts, src/local-agent-daemon-protocol.test.ts, src/local-agent-daemon.test.ts, src/local-agent-presentation.test.ts, src/oauth-store.test.ts
Agent selection and lookup use provider instance IDs and check the configured driver kind. Records and daemon protocol data separate those values. Migration version 9 renames the old provider column, adds a driver column, and fills missing driver values from the instance ID.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Config as SubagentsConfig
  participant Manager as LocalAgentManager
  participant Driver as ProviderInstanceDriver
  participant Store as LocalAgentStore
  Config->>Manager: Resolve configured provider instance
  Manager->>Driver: Select driver for provider instance
  Manager->>Store: Save providerInstanceId and driver
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Suggested reviewers: signal-forge-lab

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b246d

Editors may mark a provider configuration valid even though DevSpace rejects it at load. Align the schema with runtime validation; this is a bounded merge risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b246d

Named provider instances have separate runtime identities, and resumed agents validate their persisted driver identity. No introduced security defect was established in the examined paths. The persistent-data upgrade is forward-only, and complete credential isolation and interruption recovery remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The security-relevant reach of a selected instance follows its configured and inherited credentials, command environment, and provider-native state. Separate runtime identities do not establish a tenant, account, or operating-system sandbox boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Daemon dispatch authenticates requests before invoking agent operations. Manager continuation checks workspace ownership and provider enablement, then validates persisted driver provenance. The inspected authorization checks are workspace-scoped; runtime namespacing is not itself provider-instance authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Manager shutdown stops accepting work and closes pooled runtimes before awaiting active turns and closing persistence. Completion paths remove in-memory turn tracking, while restart reconciliation supplies a persisted recovery state. Aborting an agent wait request does not establish a per-agent cancellation contract.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If named instances are intended to separate trust domains, define explicit instance-selection authorization and credential/native-state separation rather than relying on runtime-key isolation.
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Then pairs each instance with its driver.
Two Claude paths hop side by side,
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- Around line 180-229: Update the agent-entry schema around the id, driver, and
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Comment on lines +180 to +229
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"driver": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"codex",
"claude",
"opencode",
"pi",
"cursor",
"copilot",
"grok"
]
},
"enabled": {
"type": "boolean"
},
{
"model": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"effort": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"env": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"opencode",
"pi"
]
},
"enabled": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"model": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"effort": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"env": {
"type": "object",
"propertyNames": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$"
},
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "string"
}
}
"propertyNames": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$"
},
"required": [
"id",
"enabled"
],
"additionalProperties": false
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"command": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"pattern": "\\S"
}
]
},
"required": [
"id",
"enabled"
],
"additionalProperties": false

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The JSON schema is looser than the runtime validator.

The JSON schema accepts any id without driver, so {"id":"codex-work","enabled":true} passes it. The runtime check in src/local-agent-config.ts rejects that entry with "must declare a driver". The schema also allows command for opencode and pi, but the runtime rejects it. Editors that use $schema will report these configs as valid, and the daemon will then fail at load. Add if/then conditions to the schema:

  • If id is not one of the built-in driver ids, require driver.
  • If driver is opencode or pi, or if id is opencode or pi and driver is absent, forbid command.
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Review comment at @schema/v1/devspace.schema.json around lines 180 - 229:
Update the agent-entry schema around the id, driver, and command properties with
if/then conditions: require driver when id is not one of the built-in driver
ids, and forbid command when driver is opencode or pi, or when driver is absent
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

[High risk] Restructures provider configuration and database schema for subagents.

Do not merge until the profile-name collision is fixed. The schema mismatch, shared Pi storage, and nullable migrated driver are non-blocking concerns.

Findings

  1. P1 Matching profile loses instructions ▶
  2. P2 Schema accepts invalid providers ▶
  3. P2 Pi storage remains shared ▶
  4. P2 Migrated drivers remain nullable ▶

Summary

This PR separates named provider instances from driver kinds across configuration, routing, runtime pooling, persistence, and the daemon protocol, and migrates existing agent records to store both identities. A user starting and resuming an agent through a profile expects its instructions and disabled state to remain in effect. When the profile name matches its provider instance, instructions are omitted and continuation remains possible after disabling; this must be fixed before merging. The published schema also approves configurations that fail to load, Pi instances share native state despite separate runtime keys, and migrated databases permit null drivers.

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profiles: readonly LocalAgentProfile[],
): BetterResult<LocalAgentProfile | undefined, AgentTargetError> {
if (record.profileName === record.provider) return Result.ok(undefined);
if (record.profileName === record.providerInstanceId) return Result.ok(undefined);

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P1 Matching profile loses instructions

When a profile has the same name as its provider instance, target resolution selects the profile, but this check treats the saved agent as a direct provider run. The first run and later turns omit its instructions, and disabling the profile does not prevent another continuation. Preserve whether the agent was started from a profile instead of inferring that from matching names. This must be fixed before merging.

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Source for the profile-name collision reproduction

  • The authored TypeScript test runs both naming cases through the manager, provider runtime, and store, asserting the observed difference.

Execution log for a differently named profile

  • Running the control sent the profile body on both turns and rejected continuation after disabling, establishing the comparison.

Execution log for a profile named like its provider instance

  • Running the collision case omitted the profile body on both turns and accepted a turn after disabling, confirming the defect.

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"required": [
"id",
"enabled"
],
"additionalProperties": false

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P2 Schema accepts invalid providers

The published schema accepts a named provider without a driver and accepts command overrides for pi and opencode, while runtime configuration validation rejects all three. Editor validation can therefore approve a configuration that fails to load. Encode these provider-dependent constraints in the schema.

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Executable provider schema and runtime comparison

  • The authored script validates the same provider samples against the selected repository schema and the runtime configuration parser, making the comparison reproducible.

Base schema validation before the PR change

  • The executed comparison uses `origin/main`'s schema and shows it rejecting all three runtime-invalid samples.

PR schema validation after the change

  • The executed comparison uses the changed schema and shows it accepting all three samples while runtime rejects them.

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runtimeKey(context: Parameters<LocalAgentDriver["runtimeKey"]>[0]): string {
return JSON.stringify([this.providerInstanceId, this.driver.runtimeKey(context)]);

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P2 Pi storage remains shared

The instance ID gives each Pi runtime a distinct pool key, but Pi still uses the same native directory for auth, models, and sessions. Differently configured instances can resume the same native session, and per-instance PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR values do not separate that storage. This limits the isolation users can expect from named instances; scope Pi storage per instance or document the shared-state behavior.

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Pi instance storage check script

  • The authored script creates two configured Pi instances and exercises native session creation and adapter cold resume; its before mode overrides only the runtime key prefix.

Pi storage run with the instance-ID key prefix overridden

  • The executed before-mode command shows identical runtime keys and successful cross-instance resume from shared native storage.

Pi storage run with the unchanged PR runtime keys

  • The executed after-mode command shows distinct runtime keys while both instances still resume the same native session and use shared auth and models files.

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if (names.has("provider") && !names.has("provider_instance_id")) {
sqlite.exec("alter table local_agent_sessions rename column provider to provider_instance_id");
}
addColumnIfMissing(sqlite, "local_agent_sessions", "driver", "text");

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P2 Migrated drivers remain nullable

The migration backfills driver but adds it as nullable text, despite the application schema declaring it non-null. The migrated database subsequently accepts inserts and updates with a NULL driver, leaving records that violate the application's declared invariant. Enforce the constraint after backfilling.

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SQLite migration and fresh-schema reproduction script

  • The authored script runs the real migration, builds a comparison table from schema column metadata, and attempts the same NULL writes against both.

Fresh schema rejects NULL drivers

  • The executed fresh-schema command shows `driver` is NOT NULL and all three NULL writes fail.

Migrated schema accepts NULL drivers

  • The executed migration command shows the backfilled row, nullable `driver` column, and all three NULL writes succeeding.

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