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Summary

  • collapse Cursor, Copilot, and Grok runtime identity into one acp driver while preserving their provider instance names and legacy config
  • migrate persisted local-agent records from legacy ACP driver names to acp
  • support arbitrary ACP provider instances through configured executable/args without adding a new driver enum member
  • retain small flavor-specific behavior for Cursor, Copilot, and Grok

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Stacked on #382.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for configuring custom agents that use the Agent Client Protocol, including their command and startup arguments.
    • Cursor, Copilot, and Grok now use the shared ACP driver while retaining their provider-specific defaults.
  • Improvements
    • Existing Cursor, Copilot, and Grok sessions are migrated to the shared driver without changing their provider identities.
    • Updated provider setup and availability checks to recognize the expanded ACP options.

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Walkthrough

The local-agent provider model now uses acp as a shared driver for Cursor, Copilot, Grok, and configurable ACP agents. Configuration, runtime command resolution, provider registration, onboarding, availability checks, and database migration support this model.

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Generic ACP provider support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider identity and configuration
src/local-agent-provider.ts, schema/v1/devspace.schema.json, src/local-agent-config.ts, src/local-agent-config.test.ts, docs/configuration.md
The provider model and configuration accept acp. Legacy Cursor, Copilot, and Grok driver names map to ACP. ACP configuration supports command arguments and a restricted flavor setting.
ACP runtime and command resolution
src/local-agent-acp.ts, src/local-agent-acp.test.ts, src/local-agent-errors.ts, src/local-agent-grok.ts, docs/agent-profile-schema.md
The runtime uses acp as its provider identity and tracks provider-specific behavior through a flavor. Command resolution accepts an explicit command, and generic flavors have no default executable or arguments.
Provider defaults and migration
src/config-migration.ts, src/local-agent-adapters.ts, src/local-agent-availability.ts, src/onboarding.ts, src/db/migrations.ts, src/local-agent-store.test.ts, src/oauth-store.test.ts
Default provider IDs now map to driver kinds for registration, availability, and onboarding. Database migration updates Cursor, Copilot, and Grok session drivers to acp.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AcpLocalAgentDriver
  participant resolveAcpCommand
  participant AcpRuntime
  AcpLocalAgentDriver->>resolveAcpCommand: Resolve command from flavor and configured command
  resolveAcpCommand-->>AcpLocalAgentDriver: Return command or undefined
  AcpLocalAgentDriver->>AcpRuntime: Create runtime with selected flavor
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bf616

Built-in Cursor, Copilot, and Grok agents may fail to start when they are not explicitly configured. Custom-named instances using a legacy driver may start with the wrong arguments. Fix flavor resolution before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bf616

The shared driver preserves important controls for the default built-in providers, and the database migration preserves session identities. However, legacy providers with custom instance names can lose their provider-specific behavior during normalization, including Copilot’s restricted-mode permission guard. The impact depends on whether the configured executable successfully starts ACP. Custom-provider enforcement and the exact previous behavior remain partially unresolved.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Legacy named instances can lose their security-relevant flavor when their driver is normalized to acp. For example, a custom instance ID with driver copilot and an explicit command passes validation, but receives no inferred flavor unless its ID is itself copilot. The driver consequently uses generic behavior, omitting Copilot-specific startup restrictions and its non-full-access permission cancellation guard. For a configured wrapper that still starts ACP, permission requests can follow the generic approval path instead. Default built-in IDs and explicitly configured flavors are counterexamples that retain the guard; successful provider startup and the resulting host impact remain conditional.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified flavor-loss concern is conditional on an affected named instance being enabled and its executable successfully serving ACP. Potential exposure includes resources and credentials accessible to the launched process, not merely its workspace working directory. The inspected evidence does not establish additional tenant, service, or deployment-wide reachability.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The supplied Security assessment contains no retained findings. Its line-480 candidate remains deferred with unknown reachability and a missing verification receipt; source inspection does not convert that candidate into a verified finding.
  • inferred — For a runnable Copilot instance that loses its flavor, a non-full-access turn can reach the generic approval selector rather than Copilot’s escalation cancellation rule. This is a conditional control-regression path, not a demonstrated exploit or evidence that an attacker can modify provider configuration.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Provider commands are documented as durable local configuration validated before startup. Executables receive inherited environment values overlaid with provider settings. Schema validation constrains configuration shape, but does not establish that an arbitrary executable enforces ACP permission outcomes or workspace restrictions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Cancellation targets the active ACP session ID, and turn completion removes the abort binding and active-session marker in a finally block. Session release removes its write-mode entry, causing later permission requests for that released identity to cancel rather than inherit another session’s authority.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define the security obligations of generic ACP providers and argument overrides explicitly, including write-mode enforcement and inherited credential access. Treat provider compatibility as a declared security contract rather than assuming that ACP protocol support alone supplies sandbox guarantees.
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 2/5

[Critical risk] Refactors how agent drivers are registered and stored in the database.

Not safe to merge until the provider startup and discovery failures are fixed.

Findings

  1. P1 Named Cursor instances lose flavor ▶
  2. P1 Configured ACP disappears ▶
  3. P1 Preflight checks wrong executable ▶
  4. P2 Fallback drivers cannot start ▶
  5. P2 Schema accepts unusable ACP config ▶

Summary

The generic ACP driver introduces three blocking regressions: named legacy providers lose their protocol flavor, discovery omits a configured acp provider, and availability checks can inspect a different executable from the one used at startup. The exported fallback factory and published configuration schema also have non-blocking inconsistencies. The blocking startup and discovery failures must be fixed before merging.

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Comment thread src/local-agent-config.ts
Comment on lines +123 to +125
...(isLegacyAcpDriverKind(provider.id) && provider.config?.flavor === undefined
? { config: { ...provider.config, flavor: provider.id } }
: {}),

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P1 Named Cursor instances lose flavor

A named instance with driver: "cursor" is converted to ACP without retaining its Cursor flavor. Startup then passes none of the required Cursor ACP, workspace, or sandbox arguments to cursor-agent, breaking that existing provider configuration. This must be fixed before merging.

Knowledge Base Used: Agent runtime and provider adapters

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Focused Cursor parse and child-process reproduction script

  • The authored script runs the actual parser and driver path in both modes using a mock executable, showing how the two captures were produced.

Current code: Cursor child launched without ACP arguments

  • Running the tracked parser and driver produced a successful mock runtime but child args `[]`, confirming the missing Cursor flavor.

Temporary correction: Cursor child launched with ACP arguments

  • Running a temporary parser copy that preserves the legacy driver flavor produced the expected Cursor ACP and sandbox arguments.

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const instances = [
...LOCAL_AGENT_DRIVER_KINDS.map((driver) => configured.get(driver) ?? { id: driver, driver }),
...LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS.map((id) => configured.get(id) ?? { id, driver: defaultDriverForProviderId(id)! }),
...(config?.providers.filter((provider) => !isLocalAgentDriverKind(provider.id)) ?? []),

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P1 Configured ACP disappears

The filter removes a configured provider whose ID is acp, even when its command is available. The catalog marks it unusable and onboarding omits it; configured Cursor, Copilot, and Grok providers instead appear twice. Valid provider discovery must be restored before merging.

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...(config?.providers.filter((provider) => !isLocalAgentDriverKind(provider.id)) ?? []),
...(config?.providers.filter((provider) => !LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS.some((id) => id === provider.id)) ?? []),

Knowledge Base Used: Agent discovery, availability, and profiles

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Parsed-config runtime test script

  • The authored command imports the checkout for the before run and an isolated corrected copy for the after run, testing snapshot, catalog, and onboarding data.

Runtime output with the PR filter

  • The executed checkout omitted configured `acp`, duplicated three legacy IDs, and marked `acp` unusable in the catalog.

Isolated snapshot source with corrected filter

  • The generated source changes the filter without editing tracked files, providing the source executed in the after run.

Runtime output with the corrected filter

  • The executed isolated source returned each configured ID once and marked `acp` usable, confirming the filter causes the observed behavior.

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const command = configured?.command
?? (providerInstanceId === "cursor" ? providerEnv.CURSOR_COMMAND ?? "cursor-agent"
: providerInstanceId === "copilot" ? providerEnv.COPILOT_COMMAND ?? "copilot"
: providerInstanceId === "grok" ? providerEnv.GROK_COMMAND ?? "grok"
: undefined);

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P1 Preflight checks wrong executable

For a cursor provider configured with Grok flavor and no command override, availability checks cursor-agent while startup selects grok. A runnable provider can be rejected, or a provider can pass preflight only to fail at startup. The checks must agree before merging.

Knowledge Base Used: Agent discovery, availability, and profiles

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Authored cursor and grok verification script

  • The executed script creates a controlled PATH and tests original and temporary flavor-aware preflight code against runtime resolution, showing how the comparison was made.

Original preflight and runtime results

  • The original source was executed with each executable alone; preflight and runtime disagreed in both cases.

Flavor-aware preflight and runtime results

  • A temporary flavor-aware copy was executed under the same conditions; preflight and runtime agreed in both cases.

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const instances = options.subagents?.providers ?? LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS.map((id) => ({
id,
driver: id === "cursor" || id === "copilot" || id === "grok" ? "acp" : id,
enabled: true,
} satisfies SubagentProviderConfig));

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P2 Fallback drivers cannot start

Calling the exported createLocalAgentDrivers() without subagent configuration creates Cursor, Copilot, and Grok drivers without flavors. Each reports its executable missing even when it is on PATH, making this fallback factory path unusable. The daemon's configured path is unaffected; this is a non-blocking concern.

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Executable-shim driver reproduction script

  • The authored script constructs drivers through both paths and attempts ACP startup, showing how executable selection was tested.

Normalized drivers start the executables

  • The captured command ran normalized cursor, copilot, and grok drivers; all started their shims before ACP initialization failed.

Unconfigured drivers report executables missing

  • The captured command ran the exported factory without subagents; all three drivers reported unavailable without starting their shims.

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"config": {
"type": "object",

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P2 Schema accepts unusable ACP config

The published schema accepts an enabled ACP provider such as kiro without a command, but runtime configuration parsing rejects it. Editor validation can therefore approve a configuration that DevSpace cannot load. This validation mismatch is a non-blocking concern.

Knowledge Base Used: Configuration and onboarding flow

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Executable schema and runtime comparison script

  • The authored script validates a full config document with installed Ajv and parses that document with the runtime schema, providing the executed source for both conditions.

Validation output with command missing

  • Running the script without a command produced Ajv acceptance and runtime rejection at the provider command path, confirming the mismatch.

Validation output with command supplied

  • Running the same script with `command: "kiro"` produced acceptance by both validators, isolating the missing command as the difference.

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src/local-agent-acp.ts (2)

428-428: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

LocalAgentProviderRegistry.create wraps the ACP driver with a ProviderInstanceDriver whose providerInstanceId is the configured instance.id. The fixed "acp" value on AcpLocalAgentDriver does not replace that wrapper identity.


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Security Misconfiguration

CWE: CWE-693

⚠️ Unverified finding
Verification did not complete.

Verify write-mode enforcement when config.args replaces generated arguments.

When a built-in ACP instance sets config.args, this line omits the generated sandbox and read-only flags. The permission callback rejects read-only permission requests, but that control is insufficient if the provider can write without making a request. Confirm the behavior of each supported built-in executable without those flags. If writes remain possible, preserve the required write-mode flags when adding configured arguments.


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Review comments at @src/local-agent-adapters.ts:
- Line 70: In createLocalAgentDrivers and updateOnboardingSubagentsConfig, fall
back to the legacy provider ID as the ACP flavor for Cursor, Copilot, and Grok
instances when instance.config?.flavor is absent, before constructing
AcpLocalAgentDriver; preserve any explicitly configured flavor.

Review comments at @src/local-agent-availability.ts:
- Line 28: Update the custom-instance filter in the local-agent availability
snapshot to exclude IDs in LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS, so configured
default providers are included only once by the default-provider mapping.

Review comments at @src/local-agent-config.ts:
- Around line 123-125: Update the legacy ACP flavor inference using
isLegacyAcpDriverKind so it runs only when the resolved provider.driver is acp.
When flavor is unset, derive it from the legacy provider.driver or, if needed,
the legacy provider.id; do not add ACP configuration to providers resolved to
another driver.

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env,
command: instance.command,
args: instance.config?.args,
flavor: instance.config?.flavor,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Supply the built-in ACP flavor when instance configuration omits it.

createLocalAgentDrivers() creates Cursor, Copilot, and Grok instances without config.flavor. This factory passes undefined, so each driver becomes generic and has no default executable. updateOnboardingSubagentsConfig can construct the same flavorless instances. Fall back to the legacy provider ID for these three instances before constructing AcpLocalAgentDriver.

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Review comment at @src/local-agent-adapters.ts at line 70:
In createLocalAgentDrivers and updateOnboardingSubagentsConfig, fall back to the
legacy provider ID as the ACP flavor for Cursor, Copilot, and Grok instances
when instance.config?.flavor is absent, before constructing AcpLocalAgentDriver;
preserve any explicitly configured flavor.

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const configured = new Map(config?.providers.map((provider) => [provider.id, provider]) ?? []);
const instances = [
...LOCAL_AGENT_DRIVER_KINDS.map((driver) => configured.get(driver) ?? { id: driver, driver }),
...LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS.map((id) => configured.get(id) ?? { id, driver: defaultDriverForProviderId(id)! }),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude default provider IDs from the custom availability entries.

When configuration contains cursor, copilot, or grok, this expression adds the configured instance once as a default. The following filter adds it again because those IDs are no longer driver kinds. Filter custom instances against LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS so the snapshot reports each instance once.

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Review comment at @src/local-agent-availability.ts at line 28:
Update the custom-instance filter in the local-agent availability snapshot to
exclude IDs in LOCAL_AGENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER_IDS, so configured default providers
are included only once by the default-provider mapping.

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Comment thread src/local-agent-config.ts
Comment on lines +123 to +125
...(isLegacyAcpDriverKind(provider.id) && provider.config?.flavor === undefined
? { config: { ...provider.config, flavor: provider.id } }
: {}),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Derive ACP flavor from the resolved driver and legacy driver.

For { id: "cursor-work", driver: "cursor", command: "cursor-agent" }, parsing changes the driver to acp but leaves the flavor unset. The runtime then uses generic arguments instead of Cursor’s required acp arguments. Conversely, { id: "cursor", driver: "codex" } receives ACP configuration after schema validation. Infer a legacy flavor from provider.driver or the legacy ID only when the resolved driver is acp.

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Review comment at @src/local-agent-config.ts around lines 123 - 125:
Update the legacy ACP flavor inference using isLegacyAcpDriverKind so it runs
only when the resolved provider.driver is acp. When flavor is unset, derive it
from the legacy provider.driver or, if needed, the legacy provider.id; do not
add ACP configuration to providers resolved to another driver.

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