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jason.woltje bb5cecb348 feat(adapters): adapter contract, dispatch, pi + mock adapters (#16)
- adapters/README.md: the harness boundary contract (env in, response on
  stdout, diagnostics stderr, exit 0 success)
- adapters/pi: extracted current invocation unchanged
- adapters/mock: deterministic MOSAIC_MOCK_RESPONSE echo (test-only)
- run-agent.sh: name-validated dispatch to adapters/<name>/adapter.sh
- config: optional execution.adapter (pi|mock), default pi, configVersion
  stays 1 — existing configs remain valid; selection authority is the
  config file (load_config exports it)
- compose: MOSAIC_ADAPTER / MOSAIC_MOCK_RESPONSE passthrough; Containerfile
  installs adapters read-only; RELEASE -> 0.0.5

Verified: hello unchanged; mock verbatim via config; unknown adapter and
path-traversal names refused in-container; invalid adapter exits 2.

Closes #16
2026-09-02 21:18:07 -05:00

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Mosaic runtime adapters

An adapter is the entire harness-specific surface of the system. Everything upstream of an adapter — configuration, contracts, missions, tasks, run records — is harness-agnostic; everything inside an adapter may assume one specific agent runtime.

Contract

An adapter lives at:

/opt/mosaic/adapters/<name>/adapter.sh

and must be executable. The dispatcher (/opt/mosaic/src/run-agent.sh) selects it via MOSAIC_ADAPTER (default: pi) and execs it after the system prompt has been generated.

Inputs (environment):

Variable Meaning
MOSAIC_SYSTEM_PROMPT_FILE Absolute path to the generated system prompt (contracts + optional mission section). Read it; do not modify it.
MOSAIC_REQUEST The exact user request text (may contain newlines).
MOSAIC_PROVIDER Configured provider name.
MOSAIC_MODEL Configured model id.

Optional, adapter-specific (documented per adapter):

Variable Meaning
MOSAIC_MOCK_RESPONSE mock only: the verbatim response to emit

Outputs:

  • stdout: the model response text — the only channel the orchestrator captures
  • stderr: diagnostics (never credentials)
  • exit 0: success; nonzero: failure

Rules

  1. Adapters print ONLY the response on stdout. Status lines go to stderr.
  2. Adapters never read configuration files; the resolved settings arrive via environment.
  3. Adapters never write outside /var/lib/mosaic.
  4. Adding an adapter requires: a new directory, the contract implementation, and adding the name to the allowlist in scripts/mosaic-config.mjs.

Included adapters

  • pi — the pinned @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent CLI in noninteractive print mode (-p), ambient discovery disabled, stdin detached.
  • mock — deterministic echo of MOSAIC_MOCK_RESPONSE. Test-only: never use it where a real model response is required.