yoi/work-items/open/20260531-022821-pod-tool-surface-restore-list/thread.md

Created

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Decision

Decision note:

• ListVisiblePods should be folded into ListPods rather than kept as a separate tool.
• InspectPod is not needed as an LLM-facing tool; ListPods should provide enough state/detail, and action should go through restore/send/read/stop tools.
• AttachOrRestorePod should become RestorePod. The current "attach" branch only observes an already-live socket and returns status/socket data; it does not mean a persistent attachment or comm-registry materialization, so the name is misleading.
• If deeper semantics are needed later, define them explicitly as comm-registration/materialization rather than using "attach" implicitly.

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Implementation report

Implementation report from coder Pod pod-tool-surface-coder-20260531:

• Branch: pod-tool-surface-restore-list
• Commit: 5472cec (pod: simplify pod tool surface)
• Changed files: crates/pod/src/controller.rs, crates/pod/src/discovery.rs, crates/pod/src/spawn/comm_tools.rs, crates/pod/src/spawn/registry.rs, crates/pod/src/spawn/tool.rs, crates/pod/tests/pod_comm_tools_test.rs, crates/protocol/src/lib.rs, crates/tui/src/app.rs, crates/tui/src/picker.rs, docs/architecture.md.
• Simplified LLM-facing Pod tools to ListPods / RestorePod.
• Removed ListVisiblePods, InspectPod, and AttachOrRestorePod from active tool/protocol identifiers.
• Moved old ListVisiblePods state-backed visibility semantics into ListPods.
• Removed old spawned-registry-only ListPods comm tool and added comm_registry information to state-backed Pod listing output.
• RestorePod now reports already-live Pods or restores visible stopped/restorable Pods without using attach terminology.
• TUI protocol handling and architecture docs were updated.

Validation reported by coder:

• cargo fmt --check passed
• cargo check -p pod -p protocol passed with existing llm-worker warning only
• cargo test -p protocol pod_discovery passed
• cargo test -p pod state_backed_visibility_and_restore_planning passed
• cargo test -p pod --test pod_comm_tools_test passed
• ./tickets.sh doctor passed
• git diff --check passed

Unresolved issues: none.

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Review: approve

External review by reviewer Pod pod-tool-surface-reviewer-20260531: approve.

Reviewer summary:

• ListPods is now the state/visibility-aware listing tool.
• RestorePod replaces old attach/restore naming.
• Active Rust source no longer contains ListVisiblePods, InspectPod, or AttachOrRestorePod tool/protocol identifiers.
• Visibility remains self + durable spawned children + live in-memory spawned registry, not host-wide enumeration.
• RestorePod rejects non-visible/missing/non-restorable Pods, reports already-live visible Pods, and only restores when state is restorable and unlocked.
• Existing SpawnPod, SendToPod, ReadPodOutput, and StopPod remain coherent; the old comm-registry-only ListPods tool was removed rather than retained as alias.
• TUI/protocol/docs were updated consistently.

Blockers: none.

Non-blocking follow-ups:

• crates/pod/src/controller.rs had a stale comment saying “four communication tools” after the comm tool count changed; not behavior-affecting.
• Run cargo check -p tui before merge because TUI files changed.
• A small assertion that removed tool names are absent from the registry would satisfy the ticket wording more literally, but reviewer did not consider it blocking.

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