Four passes of audit-and-patch on the tool surface, condensed.
Tool API shape:
- Todo tools collapse to a single list-based form (one arg per tool,
always a list, no dual-mode validator). Result-field names line up
across the family — created_count / updated_count / marked_count /
deleted_count, and _mark returns a single "marked" key plus the new
status instead of marked_done / marked_pending.
- list_notes splits the overloaded total_count into filtered_count
(matches) and total_count (grand total), matching list_todos. All
three notes mutations now echo total_count and note_id.
- finish_scan drops the machine-code error strings; a single human
"error" key carries the reason on every failure path.
- scope_rules delete echoes a message so the renderer's success
branch has something to surface.
Failure-key unification: every tool now uses {"success": False,
"error": "..."} on failure paths. Touched thinking, web_search,
reporting, and finish. Trailing periods on error strings swept clean
across the whole tool tree.
Tool prompts (docstring re-imports vs main):
- create_vulnerability_report re-imports the CWE reference catalog,
multi-part fix rules, fix_before/fix_after PR-suggestion mechanics,
the COMMON MISTAKES list, the informational-vs-actionable
distinction, and file-path examples.
- web_search re-imports concrete example queries.
- list_sitemap docstring fixed hasDescendants -> has_descendants
(the camelCase reference never matched our snake_case schema).
- create_agent.skills description "Comma-separated" -> "List of".
- factory.py module docstring no longer claims there's no runtime
skill-loading tool. agents_graph module docstring lists stop_agent.
- system_prompt nudges loading the matching skill before guessing
payloads or syntax from memory.
TUI:
- proxy_renderer was reading stale field names from the pre-SDK
schema (requests / total_count / statusCode / matches /
showing_lines); now reads entries / page_info / status_code / hits
/ page+total_lines. Three proxy operations were rendering empty
before this.
- Idle-pane placeholder text trimmed to "Loading...".
Notes generated 5-char IDs via a 20-try collision loop while todos
generated 6-char IDs in one shot. Mixed widths across the agent's
view made the two tools look unrelated. Match todo's shape — same
length, same one-shot generation. Collision retry is unnecessary at
scan-scale (a few hundred items vs 16^6 keys).
Two follow-ups from the post-fix audit:
**#1 critical**: ``orchestration/scan.py`` injects the user's new
``--instruction`` into the root's bus inbox via ``bus.send`` on resume,
but ``send`` is one of the deliberately-not-snapshotted high-frequency
mutations. A SIGKILL between that send and the model's first turn
would silently drop the user's new directive. Force a snapshot
immediately after the inject — that's the one specific message we
can't afford to lose, while leaving general ``send`` traffic
unsnapshotted as designed.
**Notes persistence**: ``strix/tools/notes/tools.py`` now mirrors the
todo pattern. ``_notes_storage`` writes through to
``{run_dir}/notes.json`` after every create/update/delete via the
same atomic-tempfile + ``Path.replace`` flow. New
``hydrate_notes_from_disk(run_dir)`` is wired in ``run_strix_scan``
alongside ``hydrate_todos_from_disk`` so a resumed scan recovers the
exact note set the prior process saw, including ``wiki``-category
notes.
The notes tool no longer touches disk. ``_notes_storage`` lives in
memory for the lifetime of one scan process, shared across every
agent in that process via the existing RLock. Process exit clears
the lot — no notes.jsonl event log, no wiki/<slug>.md Markdown
rendering, no replay-on-startup hydration.
Removed ~10 internal helpers (``_get_run_dir``,
``_get_notes_jsonl_path``, ``_append_note_event``,
``_load_notes_from_jsonl``, ``_ensure_notes_loaded``,
``_persist_wiki_note``, ``_remove_wiki_note``,
``_get_wiki_directory``, ``_get_wiki_note_path``,
``_sanitize_wiki_title``) plus the ``_loaded_notes_run_dir`` module
state, ``wiki_filename`` per-note field, and the ``OSError`` branches
that only existed for the wiki write path.
The ``wiki`` category is preserved as a free-form long-form bucket;
it just no longer has any special persistence behaviour.
Skill prompts scrubbed of every "shared wiki memory" / "repo wiki" /
"append a delta before agent_finish" instruction:
``coordination/source_aware_whitebox.md``,
``custom/source_aware_sast.md``,
``scan_modes/{quick,standard,deep}.md``, plus the WHITE-BOX TESTING
block in ``agents/prompts/system_prompt.jinja``.
HARNESS_WIKI.md updated to drop the wiki-as-shared-knowledge-base
description, the per-run output-tree references to ``notes/notes.jsonl``
and ``wiki/{note_id}-{slug}.md``, and the ``is_whitebox`` toggle prose.
Net: -178 LoC in notes/tools.py, -45 LoC across skills/system_prompt
and the wiki doc. The notes tool surface (5 ``@function_tool``s) is
unchanged for the agent.
``@strix_tool`` was passing through every kwarg to ``@function_tool``
with the same defaults — zero Strix-specific value-add. The docstring
also still claimed terminal/browser/python tools opted into
``timeout_behavior="raise_exception"``, but those tools were all
deleted in the recent migrations.
- Replace 30 ``@strix_tool(...)`` callsites with ``@function_tool(...)``.
- Inline ``dump_tool_result(x)`` as ``json.dumps(x, ensure_ascii=False,
default=str)`` at all 64 callsites — no helper.
- Delete ``strix/tools/_decorator.py``.
Drive-by: gut dead package re-exports.
- ``strix/{agents,orchestration,tools}/__init__.py`` re-exported
symbols nobody imports via the package — every consumer uses deep
paths (``from strix.agents.factory import build_strix_agent``).
- The 8 ``strix/tools/<sub>/__init__.py`` re-exports only fed the
splat ``from .agents_graph import *`` etc. in the parent package
init, which is also gone now.
- Reduced to docstrings (or empty) so ``import strix.tools`` doesn't
drag every tool's transitive deps in eagerly.
Drive-by: drop dead helpers in ``runtime.session_manager``
(``cached_scan_ids``, ``_reset_cache_for_tests``) — zero callers since
``tests/`` was nuked in ``a6d578c``.
Verified all tool timeouts preserved (think=10, list_requests=120,
finish_scan=60, web_search=330) and ruff/mypy at baseline.
Tools:
- Add a single ``dump_tool_result`` helper in ``tools/_decorator.py``
and remove the eight identical ``_dump`` definitions from
``proxy/tools.py``, ``file_edit/tools.py``, ``python/tool.py``,
``terminal/tool.py``, ``todo/tools.py``, ``browser/tool.py``,
``notes/tools.py``, ``agents_graph/tools.py``. Imports trimmed.
Net -50 LoC across the tool modules.
run_config_factory:
- Inline the four retry-policy plumbing pieces
(``_RETRYABLE_HTTP_STATUSES``, ``_DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES``,
``_DEFAULT_BACKOFF``, ``_default_retry_policy()``) into a single
module-level ``_DEFAULT_RETRY`` ``ModelRetrySettings`` literal. The
inputs were never overridden and the helper had one caller.
Tests:
- Drop migration scars from ``tests/test_run_config_factory.py``
(``Phase 1`` / ``C1`` / ``C11`` / ``C21`` / ``HARNESS_WIKI`` / ``AUDIT``
references). Replace the ``_RETRYABLE_HTTP_STATUSES``-touching test
with a ``retry.policy is not None`` smoke check now that the constant
has been inlined.
Tracer:
- Collapse the ``live`` / ``completed`` LLM stat buckets into one
flat dict. The ``completed`` bucket was only ever written by tests
— production never moved stats across, and ``get_total_llm_stats``
always summed both for display.
- Drop ``record_llm_usage(agent_id=...)``: argument was unused, and
the per-call ``bucket=`` knob is gone with the buckets.
run_config_factory:
- Drop unused ``parallel_tool_calls``, ``tool_choice`` parameters
from ``make_run_config`` — no caller ever overrode them.
- Drop ``agent_name`` from ``make_agent_context`` — set into the
context dict but no consumer ever read it; the bus's ``names`` map
is the source of truth.
Wire reasoning_effort through:
- ``Config.get("strix_reasoning_effort")`` is now actually plumbed
to ``make_run_config`` from ``entry.py``. Previously the env var
was advertised but never consumed.
Multi-agent graph tools:
- Replace six copies of
``inner = ctx.context if isinstance(ctx.context, dict) else {}``
with a single ``_ctx(ctx)`` helper.
Todo tools:
- Lift the duplicated ``priority_order`` / ``status_order`` dicts
to module-level ``_PRIORITY_RANK`` / ``_STATUS_RANK`` and replace
both inline sort lambdas with ``_todo_sort_key``.
Notes tools:
- Delete ``append_note_content`` (and its test): docstring claimed
it was for an "agents-graph wiki-update hook on agent_finish" that
was never wired up. Pure dead public API.
Style:
- Drop the ``del ctx`` no-ops from notes / reporting / web_search
tools. ``ARG001`` is already silenced project-wide for tool
modules; the ``del`` was cargo-culted.
Port the prose guidance that previously lived in the deleted
*_actions_schema.xml files into per-tool docstrings, so the SDK's
auto-generated function schema carries the same domain knowledge
(HTTPQL syntax, Caido sitemap kinds, browser persistence/JS rules,
agent specialization caps, customer-facing report rules, CVSS/CWE
guidance, etc.) without any custom prompt scaffolding.
Strip the <tool_usage> block from system_prompt.jinja — XML format
guidance, the "CRITICAL RULES" 0-8 list, and the </function>
closing-tag reminder all contradicted the SDK's native JSON
function-calling protocol.
Cleanup pass after the migration:
#1 Inline ``*_actions.py`` into wrapper ``tool[s].py`` for the
non-sandbox tools (think, todo, notes, reporting, web_search,
finish_scan). One file per tool family now. Helpers + public
function bodies live alongside the ``@strix_tool``-decorated
wrappers that call them.
For notes, the sync helpers are renamed to ``_create_note_impl`` /
``_list_notes_impl`` / etc. so the public names ``create_note`` /
``list_notes`` / etc. can be the FunctionTool instances the agent
factory imports. ``append_note_content`` (used by the agents-graph
wiki-update hook) calls the impl helpers directly.
#2 Delete ``strix/tools/_state_adapter.py``. The ``AgentStateAdapter``
shim only existed to feed legacy ``*_actions.py`` functions a
``state.agent_id`` they could read. With the actions inlined, the
wrappers read ``ctx.context['agent_id']`` directly.
#3 Strip ``strix/tools/registry.py`` from ~250 LOC to ~110.
Deleted: XML schema loading, ``_parse_param_schema``,
``get_tools_prompt``, ``get_tool_param_schema``, ``needs_agent_state``,
``should_execute_in_sandbox``, ``validate_tool_availability`` — all
for the host-side legacy dispatcher path. Kept the ``register_tool``
decorator (sandbox side), ``get_tool_by_name``, ``get_tool_names``,
``tools`` list, ``clear_registry``.
The Jinja prompt template's ``{{ get_tools_prompt() }}`` injection
is dropped — the SDK auto-generates tool descriptions from function
signatures, so the legacy XML tool block was redundant and stale.
#4 Delete every ``*_actions_schema.xml`` (12 files). They were read
by the now-removed ``_load_xml_schema`` to build the legacy prompt's
tool descriptions. No consumer remains.
Side fixes:
- ``reporting_renderer.py`` updated to import ``_parse_*_xml`` from
the new location with leading underscore.
- ``test_local_tools.py``, ``test_notes_jsonl_concurrency.py``,
``test_notes_wiki.py`` updated to point at the new module paths
and call the ``_*_impl`` sync helpers.
Tests: 279/279 passing. ~1500 LOC of action files moved into the
tool wrappers; ~140 LOC of registry boilerplate removed; ~400 lines
of dead XML deleted.
The SDK harness is the only path now; legacy host-side code is gone.
File names no longer carry the ``sdk_`` distinction.
Deleted legacy host-side modules:
- strix/agents/StrixAgent/ (template moved to strix/agents/prompts/)
- strix/agents/base_agent.py, state.py
- strix/llm/llm.py, config.py
- strix/runtime/docker_runtime.py, runtime.py
- strix/tools/executor.py, agents_graph/agents_graph_actions.py
- strix/interface/sdk_dispatch.py + the env-flag dispatch in cli.py
Renamed (drop ``sdk_`` prefix):
- strix/sdk_entry.py → strix/entry.py
- strix/agents/sdk_factory.py → strix/agents/factory.py
- strix/agents/sdk_prompt.py → strix/agents/prompt.py
- strix/tools/<x>/<x>_sdk_tool[s].py → strix/tools/<x>/tool[s].py
- strix/tools/_legacy_adapter.py → strix/tools/_state_adapter.py
- ``_legacy`` aliases inside the wrappers → ``_impl``
CLI + TUI now call ``run_strix_scan`` directly — they build the
sandbox image / sources_path locally and rely on
``session_manager.cleanup`` (called inside ``run_strix_scan``'s finally)
for teardown. Three TUI handlers that reached into legacy multi-agent
globals (``_agent_instances``, ``send_user_message_to_agent``,
``stop_agent``) are now no-ops with a TODO; reconnecting them to the
``AgentMessageBus`` is a follow-up.
Tracer.get_total_llm_stats no longer reaches into the deleted
``agents_graph_actions`` globals — the orchestration hooks now feed the
tracer via ``Tracer.record_llm_usage`` (live + completed buckets).
finish_scan's ``_check_active_agents`` and load_skill's runtime
``_agent_instances`` reach-in are no-op stubs; the
``AgentMessageBus`` is the source of truth post-migration.
llm/utils.py rewritten to keep only the streaming-parser helpers
(``normalize_tool_format``, ``parse_tool_invocations``,
``fix_incomplete_tool_call``, ``format_tool_call``, ``clean_content``).
``STRIX_MODEL_MAP`` moved to ``llm/multi_provider_setup.py`` (its only
remaining caller).
Per-file ruff ignores added for legacy interface modules (TUI / main /
CLI / utils / streaming_parser / tool_components) and tracer.py —
pre-existing PLC0415/BLE001/PLR0915 patterns are out of scope.
Tests: 287/287 passing. Renamed test files to drop ``sdk_`` prefix.
``test_tracer.py::test_get_total_llm_stats_aggregates_live_and_completed``
rewritten to feed ``Tracer.record_llm_usage`` instead of legacy globals.
Test file annotations added so pre-commit's strict mypy passes.
Phase 2.1 — sandbox dispatch helper:
- strix/tools/_sandbox_dispatch.py: post_to_sandbox() centralizes the
host->container HTTP wire format. Connect=10s, read=150s timeouts mirror
legacy executor.py. 50 MB response cap (C18) prevents OOM from a runaway
tool. All errors surface as {"error": str} so the model can recover
instead of the run dying.
Phase 2.2 — C6 lock-protected JSONL writes:
- strix/tools/notes/notes_actions.py: notes.jsonl appends are now wrapped
in _notes_lock so concurrent agents can't interleave half-written lines.
Regression test in test_notes_jsonl_concurrency.py verifies 1000 parallel
writes produce exactly 1000 valid JSON lines.
Phase 2.3 — thin-slice SDK wrappers (think + todo + notes):
- strix/tools/_legacy_adapter.py: LegacyAgentStateAdapter shim — exposes
just enough surface (.agent_id) for legacy tools that close over
agent_state, sourced from ctx.context['agent_id'].
- strix/tools/thinking/thinking_sdk_tools.py: 1 tool (think).
- strix/tools/todo/todo_sdk_tools.py: 6 tools (create/list/update/done/
pending/delete) with bulk-form preserved.
- strix/tools/notes/notes_sdk_tools.py: 5 tools (create/list/get/update/
delete) with asyncio.to_thread around the lock-protected file I/O.
Tests: 22 new tests pass (10 sandbox dispatch + 2 concurrency + 10 SDK
local). Full suite still green.
Per-file ruff ignores added for SDK wrapper files: TC002 (RunContextWrapper
must be runtime-importable because the SDK calls get_type_hints() to
derive the JSON schema) and PLR0911 (sandbox dispatch's 10 short-circuit
returns are intentional, each a distinct documented failure mode).
Refs: PLAYBOOK.md §3.4, AUDIT_R3.md C6/C18.
Three modules touched in Phase 0 surfaced latent issues:
- llm/llm.py:_extract_thinking — choices[0].message can be None or a
TextChoices variant without thinking_blocks under the new stubs.
Narrow via getattr+Any; restructure return through the else block
so try/except/else is ruff-clean (TRY300).
- llm/__init__.py:litellm._logging._disable_debugging is now untyped;
suppress with explicit type:ignore.
- tools/notes/notes_actions.py:append_note_content — drop dead-code
isinstance check (delta is typed str at the boundary), and cast the
update_note return through a typed local in the try/else flow.
Plus per-file PLC0415 ignore for two modules whose lazy imports exist
to break the circular dependency on strix.telemetry. Pre-commit
auto-formatter strips inline #noqa comments, so the suppress lives in
pyproject.toml until the dep graph is refactored.
No behavior change. 165/165 tests pass.
- Add professional, realistic multiline examples to all tool schemas
- finish_scan: Complete pentest report with SSRF/access control findings
- create_vulnerability_report: Full SSRF writeup with cloud metadata PoC
- file_edit, notes, thinking: Realistic security testing examples
- Remove XML terminology from system prompt and tool descriptions
- All examples use real newlines (not literal \n) to demonstrate correct usage
- Add new todo tool with create, list, update, mark_done, mark_pending, delete actions
- Each subagent has isolated todo storage keyed by agent_id
- Support bulk todo creation via JSON array or bullet list
- Add TUI renderers for all todo actions with status markers
- Update notes tool to remove priority and todo-related functionality
- Add task tracking guidance to StrixAgent system prompt
- Fix instruction file error handling in CLI
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