feat(acp): support local provider commands

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T3 Code's ACP executable override still requires an official registry entry. This adds a local-command source with a display name, executable, literal argument array, and environment overrides, while preserving the existing registry source and managed installation behavior.

DeepSeek Harness can use executable dsh and arguments ["--profile","acp"]. The selected environment resolves the executable and spawns it with shell: false; the wrapper supplies existing credentials. ACP discovers models and reasoning options, preserving opaque model values such as ["codex","gpt-6.1-sol"] and ["opencode-go","deepseek-v4.1-flash"] exactly. Local configuration skips registry identity and sign-in, clears stale registry branding, and reports bounded readiness errors. Windows batch shims require an underlying executable.

Verification on head c3c3ea7fb5b495e52bd2f7961f790429fa2803c6:

• Blacksmith: 50 focused server tests and 37 provider-instance tests passed, server/web typechecks passed, and changed-file lint passed. Contracts typecheck and additional existing ACP/settings checks passed earlier. No new test files.
• Real isolated T3 conversations with Codex and OpenCode Go: skills, tools, accepted/declined permissions, cancellation of a running tool, and native resume after detaching and starting a new process passed. An existing official OpenCode registry provider completed a tool conversation.
• Server-side agent-browser: created and reloaded the local provider, checked required executable validation, literal argument edits/removal, environment persistence, model and reasoning selection, and completed both model conversations. Codex Approve, Go Decline, and Stop generation passed through the real UI. A literal environment value containing shell syntax arrived unchanged.
• Both independent code reviewers approved this exact head. Desktop-specific interaction remains unverified after its preview host disconnected; the real web client was exercised in server-side Chrome. No recording was made, per request.

Sanitized conversation and interaction evidence.

These comparable screenshots show the existing registry mode and the new local command mode in the changed build.

Additional capability checks passed through the real client: both models used todo tools, read/edited files, called injected T3 MCP, and interpreted an uploaded image; Codex also read an uploaded text attachment. Ready checkpoints rendered the exact +1 file diff. Codex → OpenCode Go → Codex switching preserved context without rereading files, with exact model IDs verified in persisted runs. OpenCode Go recovered after a shell command exited with code 7, and native session listing returned the isolated workspace sessions.

Harness limits observed: neither selected model exposes a structured question tool. DSH advertises no audio, embedded ACP context, session/load, session/delete, or native approval modes. Its ordinary internal edit ran without requesting approval even while T3 was in Supervised mode. T3 correctly handles approval requests and guards client-mediated operations; it cannot enforce approval for a harness's own internal tools. This PR adds generic command launch and preserves existing ACP policy behavior.

current-head verification on 873258e9ca: The catalog service now owns managed-binary reference checks and the settings snapshot lock for every caller; the RPC handler only maps its typed error. Registry ids are trimmed consistently with driver decoding, legacy references remain protected, and local records do not count. Both independent reviewers approved all three exact stack heads. Blacksmith passed 51 focused catalog/adapter/websocket tests, scoped lint, and server typecheck on integrated head 2d718dba8b. The real websocket uninstall preserved a referenced registry provider. Fresh dsh Codex and OpenCode Go read/edit/readback runs completed, and official OpenCode completed a file-tool conversation. Sanitized current-head runtime proof. The final one-line change makes the internally used catalog error guard private. Blacksmith passed the server export check, changed-file lint (0 warnings/errors), and 37 catalog tests on 761a16874e; the preceding behavior checks above passed on 2d718dba8b. Desktop shell and native mobile interaction remain unverified.

gpt-6.1-sol through the codex harness.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a cross-cutting local ACP process-launching workflow, including new settings, environment and argument handling, authentication isolation, and runtime spawning behavior. It also changes ACP defaults and contains an unresolved high-severity risk in managed-binary reference checking, so the production impact requires human review.

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ACP provider settings now support registry agents and local executable commands. The UI stores local executables, literal arguments, and environment variables. Server code inspects and launches local commands without shell execution or registry resolution. Provider status, authentication coordination, and instance presentation distinguish local sources.

Changes

Local ACP providers

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure local ACP providers packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/AddProviderInstanceDialog*, apps/web/src/components/settings/AcpRegistrySearchStep.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsForm*, docs/user/providers-acp.md	The settings schema adds registry and local sources, with an empty commandArgs default. The dialog and settings form configure local executables, arguments, and environment variables. Tests cover executable validation and saved settings.
Resolve and launch local commands apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistrySupport*, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpSessionRuntime.ts	Inspection and resolution handle local executables, including missing commands and Windows batch-wrapper validation. Successful resolution returns a shell-disabled spawn using configured arguments and environment.
Integrate local providers with status and authentication apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/AcpRegistryDriver*, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistryAuth*, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistryAuthenticationState.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistryProbe*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2*, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/web/src/providerInstances*, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderInstanceCard.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProviderSettingsPanel.tsx	Provider status, icons, authentication bindings, and startup coordination distinguish local sources from registry sources. Local sources use instance-specific keys for coordination and credential binding. Probe tests cover grouped model and reasoning options.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AddProviderInstanceDialog
  participant AcpRegistrySupport
  participant AcpSessionRuntime
  AddProviderInstanceDialog->>AcpRegistrySupport: Submit command path, arguments, and environment
  AcpRegistrySupport->>AcpRegistrySupport: Inspect and resolve local executable
  AcpRegistrySupport->>AcpSessionRuntime: Return shell-disabled spawn options

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 87325

The change moves the managed-binary reference check into the catalog service and wires server settings into it. Nothing in the visible evidence shows a failure. Before merging, confirm that the catalog reads the same server settings instance as the rest of the server, so uninstall reference checks see current provider configuration.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 87325

Local providers add direct command configuration and change how shared sign-in is coordinated. Commands launch without a shell, and settings remain restricted to authorized users. However, providers sharing an account store may not be stopped together when that account changes. The impact depends on the installed provider and its account-isolation behavior.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Local authentication coordination assumes instance isolation without enforcing separate credential stores. Two local instances using the same executable and account profile receive different credential-binding keys, so changing sign-in on one does not stop or invalidate the other's sessions. This differs from the registry path's shared agent binding. Where the installed command shares credentials, peer sessions can continue across logout or account replacement, creating account-identity drift; the precise data exposure is provider-dependent.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A configured executable can exercise the server process's accessible files, network, and inherited environment, subject to deployment isolation and its own controls. The maximum scope is therefore not inherently limited to one workspace. This authority also existed through registry executable overrides; shell-disabled launch is not a sandbox.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supported conditional failure path is a sign-in or logout on one local instance while another uses the same credential store. Distinct instance keys exclude the peer from shared-session shutdown and invalidation. This can strand a live session across an account change; no cross-account disclosure or unauthenticated exploitation was demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Websocket upgrades authenticate a session, and settings mutation and ACP mutation RPCs require orchestration:operate. Standard client scopes include that authority; read-only scope alone does not authorize these operations. The PR does not change these gates.
• observed — Local resolution uses the selected environment, rejects unavailable executables and Windows batch wrappers, and returns shell:false. The runtime preserves that setting at direct launch. Literal arguments avoid implicit shell expansion, but the chosen executable can still interpret them.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Same-instance replacement closes the previous scope before creating its replacement. Pending URL authentication cleans up on completion or interruption, checks elicitation identity and expiry, and does not delete a newer request during old-request cleanup. Readiness enrichment also checks its generation before publication.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate startup identity from credential-store identity. Support an explicit shared credential scope or conservatively coordinate commands that may share a profile; alternatively enforce isolated stores before treating local instances as independent. Validate account replacement, logout, cancellation, and concurrent sessions across two instances sharing the same store.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 10.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 25 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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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.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: support for local ACP provider commands.

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- Around line 213-214: Update the returned-entry construction around agentId and
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🟡 Minor · Reject .ps1 launchers on Windows. · AcpRegistrySupport.ts:1619

apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistrySupport.ts:1619
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Reject .ps1 launchers on Windows.

When PATHEXT includes .PS1, SpawnExecutableResolution can return a PowerShell script. The local validator accepts it, so inspection reports ready and resolution returns it with shell: false. The ACP runtime does not add an interpreter, so the process can fail to start. Reject .ps1 files or resolve them through an explicit interpreter.

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-    platform === "win32" && /\.(?:cmd|bat)$/iu.test(command)
+    platform === "win32" && /\.(?:cmd|bat|ps1)$/iu.test(command)

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRegistrySupport.ts at line
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Update the Windows launcher check in the local validator so it also rejects
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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

the current trusted upstream contribution guide makes the triage exemption explicit: maria-rcks is listed in .github/TRIAGE_EXEMPTIONS.td. the scope objection therefore does not establish a missing-prior-approval policy violation for this author. the configured local command extends the existing ACP provider path; it preserves registry behavior and adds no credential import or login flow.

independent final review found and fixed a local/registry key collision and stale managed-install references in be58ba7. both reviewers approved that head. focused blacksmith checks and fresh integrated codex/go/registry conversations passed; evidence and desktop/mobile verification limits are in the updated body. human merge approval remains with the maintainers.

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