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# Tess Architecture
## Purpose
Tess is the Mosaic operator interaction plane. Mos remains the coding/general fleet orchestration authority. Tess receives authorized operator intent, presents fleet/session state, delegates Mos-owned work to Mos, and exposes native Mosaic plus transitional external-agent capabilities through normalized providers.
## Component Boundaries
```text
Discord plugin ─┐
├─ authenticated ingress envelope ─> Mosaic Gateway
mosaic tess CLI ┘ │
├─ policy/approval/audit
├─ Tess durable session service (Pi GPT-5.6 Sol high)
├─ AgentRuntimeProvider registry
│ ├─ native Pi provider
│ ├─ fleet/tmux provider
│ ├─ Hermes adapter
│ └─ Matrix/native transport provider
├─ memory/state/inbox plugins
└─ Mos coordination adapter ─> Mos / fleet queue
```
## Core Contract
`AgentRuntimeProvider` is separate from the existing model-completion `IProviderAdapter`. It normalizes external and native agent runtimes without leaking provider-specific schemas.
Required operations:
- `capabilities()` and `health()`
- `listSessions(scope)`
- `getSessionTree(scope)`
- `streamSession(sessionRef, cursor, scope)`
- `sendMessage(sessionRef, message, idempotencyKey, scope)`
- `attach(sessionRef, mode, scope)` / `detach()`
- `terminate(sessionRef, approvalRef, scope)`
Every call receives an immutable, server-derived actor/tenant/channel scope and correlation ID. Caller-supplied actor IDs are forbidden. Unsupported capabilities fail closed with typed errors.
### M1 Registry Boundary
`@mosaicstack/agent` owns the explicit `AgentRuntimeProviderRegistry`; duplicate provider IDs are rejected rather than replaced. Gateway owns `RuntimeProviderService`, which creates a frozen `RuntimeScope` from authenticated `ActorTenantScope` and trusted ingress channel/correlation metadata before every provider call. The service checks the declared provider capability before invoking a side effect and records metadata-only audit events (`providerId`, operation, outcome, actor/tenant/channel, correlation, and resource ID). It never records message bodies, idempotency keys, or approval references.
Termination is fail-closed: a runtime approval verifier must consume a one-time, exact action binding for the provider, session, actor, tenant, channel, and correlation ID before `terminate` reaches a provider. Until the durable verifier is wired, the default verifier denies termination. This internal service introduces no HTTP endpoint; later Discord, CLI, MCP, and provider adapters consume the same gateway boundary.
## Authority Model
| Intent | Owner | Tess behavior |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Conversation, status, retrieval, safe diagnostics | Tess | Execute within policy |
| Code/project decomposition, worker assignment, reviews, merge orchestration | Mos | Create a correlated handoff and observe result |
| Destructive, privileged, external/customer-visible action | Human approval + policy | Propose, wait for durable one-time approval, then execute idempotently |
| Provider-specific unsupported action | None | Fail closed; never emulate silently |
## Session and State Model
A Tess session has stable `sessionId`, `tenantId`, `ownerId`, provider/runtime identity, ingress bindings, cursor, checkpoint, inbox/outbox, and idempotency records. Discord and CLI bind to the same authorized session. Ownership is verified server-side on every list/read/attach/send/terminate operation.
Valkey may hold ephemeral coordination state; PostgreSQL is canonical for durable session bindings, approvals, audit, checkpoints, inbox/outbox, and idempotency. Pi session files are replay sources, not cross-agent truth.
## Transport Strategy
- **Initial:** fleet/tmux provider, including exact target, socket, identity, heartbeat, and safe attach semantics.
- **Forward:** Matrix/native Mosaic provider using authenticated identity, idempotent transaction IDs, replay cursors, and the same contract suite.
- Discord/CLI never call tmux or Matrix directly.
## Plugin Families
1. Channel: Discord now; other channels later.
2. Runtime: Pi, fleet/tmux, Hermes, Matrix/native.
3. Operator tools: fleet health, Mos handoff, GitOps wrappers, incident-safe diagnostics.
4. Memory/state: search/recent/capture, durable inbox, checkpoint, handoff, compaction recovery.
5. Migration: capability inventory, adapters, cutover, rollback, telemetry.
## Deployment
Tess runs as a rostered, systemd-supervised Pi agent using GPT-5.6 Sol and high reasoning. Secrets are supplied through approved runtime secret mechanisms. Startup fails when required model, gateway identity, Discord binding, or durable-state dependencies are missing. Health reports effective model/reasoning/tool policy without credential material.