agentic-acp-protocol-flow

Agent Building

MANDATORY before editing ACPClient, ACPTransport, AgentInstance, ACP provider flow, tool-call parsing, permission requests, provider switch, reconnect, or ACP subprocess lifecycle in agentic.nvim.

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Agentic ACP Protocol Flow

Use this skill for ACP runtime behavior. For schema facts, also load agentic-acp-docs-and-schema.

Provider model

External ACP CLI tools are spawned as subprocesses.
The plugin does not install providers.
All providers use the generic ACPClient in acp_client.lua.
There are no per-provider adapter files. See ADR 0005.
Add a provider with a config_default.lua entry under acp_providers unless the provider deviates from ACP in a new way.
Provider quirks live in protected ACPClient methods, not adapter files.

Pipeline

provider subprocess
-> ACPTransport
-> ACPClient
-> SessionManager subscriber
-> MessageWriter / PermissionManager / TodoList / ChatHistory

Load references by edit target

references/client-lifecycle.md: ACPClient.state, ready listeners, sync vs async dispatch, reconnect, pending callback draining.
references/transport-framing.md: stdio line framing, partial chunks, subprocess process-group termination.
references/tool-calls-permissions.md: session/update routing, tool-call lifecycle, permission request normalization, provider quirks.
references/provider-switch-options.md: provider switch replay, modes/models, thought level, config options.

Protected methods

Current extension points:

Method	Behavior
`__handle_tool_call`	Builds ToolCallBlock, notifies subscriber
`__build_tool_call_message`	Parses ACP fields and quirk fallbacks
`__handle_tool_call_update`	Builds partial, notifies subscriber
`__handle_request_permission`	Sends permission result to provider
`__handle_session_update`	Routes by `sessionUpdate` type

Only subclass or extend these when a real provider deviation requires it.

Provider quirks

Handle protocol deviations inline in __build_tool_call_message.

OpenCode rawInput fallback builds diffs when content is missing for edit tool calls.
locations fallback extracts file_path from update.locations[0].path.
Unknown tool kinds log a warning so users can report the provider behavior.