perf(agent): share tool-spec leaves and reuse Config — 46% less RSS per agent

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Summary

• Share the three tool-spec views' leaf schemas behind Arc<ToolSpec> instead of deep-copying every JSON Schema three times per agent.
• Reuse the factory's existing Arc<Config> for runtime_config and ArchivistHook instead of two further per-agent deep clones.
• Measured: 2498.4 → 1346.0 KiB marginal RSS per agent (−46.1%). 100 idle agents drop from ~244 MiB to ~131 MiB.
• Correct the library-host spec's baseline to the honest checkpoint-delta method, and record that one candidate optimisation was measured and rejected.

Problem

docs/specs/2026-09-10-library-agent-host.md targets 100 live agent handles in one process within 64 MiB, and records 2,709.24 KiB/agent as the blocker. Two things about that number needed settling before any large refactor:

1. It is computed as (constructed_rss − baseline_rss) / n, which amortises one-time process costs across N.
2. An earlier profiling session (docs/resource-profiling-session-2026-07-21.md) recorded ~409 KiB/agent — a 6.6x disagreement.

I measured both. The spec is essentially right and the amortisation concern is not the explanation. The built-{k} checkpoint deltas are flat, not decaying — every interval from built-20 on sits within ±0.6% of 25,000 KiB across 180 agents — so the amortisation correction is worth 3%, not 660%. Total one-time cost is ~8.1 MiB, visible as the difference between the first interval (33,120 KiB) and steady state (25,000 KiB). The 409 KiB figure is not a counter-argument: rss_bench builds a stripped synthetic agent (no CoreBuilder, mock model, "none" memory, hand-rolled dispatcher), while fleet builds the shipped orchestrator. Re-run today on that same instrument it reads 870 KiB/agent.

So the cost is real and lives in the per-agent object. This PR is the first tranche: remove redundant copies only. No public API change, no struct split.

The tool-spec finding is the substantive one. durable_tool_specs was built, deep-cloned into tool_specs, then deep-cloned again into visible_tool_specs — and a ToolSpec's parameters is a full JSON-Schema serde_json::Value, whose per-node heap overhead is far larger than its serialised size (205 durable specs measure ~130 KB serialised but cost ~1.1 MiB resident across three copies).

Solution

Tool specs (−1128.8 KiB/agent). The three views hold Arc<ToolSpec> leaves, so a schema is resident once per agent. ToolSpec itself is unchanged — the sharing is at the element level. dedup_visible_tool_specs is generic over Borrow<ToolSpec> so the sub-agent assembly, which must still materialise owned specs for the public AgentTurnRequest, compiles unchanged.

load_skill is a deliberate exception in the other direction. visible_tool_specs_for_policy rewrites its pack index and skill enum down to the packs a session can actually call, so the visible entry uses Arc::make_mut — copying exactly that one spec and leaving the other ~48 shared. Sharing that leaf would scope the durable set too, which must stay the unscoped truth. The test asserts this explicitly rather than merely excluding it: a change that mutated in place would silently scope the durable set, and a change that deep-copied everything again would still pass an exclusion-only test.

Config (−27.4 KiB/agent). runtime_config reuses base_config; ArchivistHook::with_config takes Arc<Config> (single call site). Small but unambiguous, and the code is simpler.

Rejected and reverted: a per-agent memory driver. The premise did not hold — memory::binding::for_subtree is already a process-wide cache keyed by (workspace_dir, memory_subdir, MemorySubsystemConfig), so all 100 fleet agents already share one driver. I implemented the memoisation anyway to measure rather than argue: 1346.8 vs 1342.2 KiB/agent, inside the noise band. Fully reverted, byte-identical to main. DriverMemory holds no per-agent mutable state — sharing it would have been safe, just pointless.

Known tradeoff

ToolDispatcher::prompt_instructions_for_specs(&[ToolSpec]) is left alone because downstream embedders implement it (OpenCompany does). Its call site now materialises an owned Vec<ToolSpec> per system-prompt build — one transient copy per turn, not a resident one — and on the native-dispatcher path, which returns None, that copy is wasted. Fixing it needs either a trait change or a new provided method whose default would alter embedder behaviour, so it is out of this tranche.

Doc corrections

Two things in the repo's own docs were wrong and are fixed here:

• The library-host spec's baseline is restated by the checkpoint-delta method (~2,500 KiB/agent, ~244 MiB per 100) alongside the original average-method figure. The architectural conclusion it draws is unchanged.
• docs/resource-profiling-session-2026-07-21.md's build command no longer compiles: --no-default-features --features rss-bench fails with E0433/E0432 because scenarios/workflow.rs imports the flows-gated module. The working invocation is default features plus rss-bench, as scripts/profile/library-fleet.sh already does.

Submission Checklist

• Tests added or updated (happy path + at least one failure / edge case) per Testing Strategy — three new tests, two of them failure-path.
• Diff coverage ≥ 80% — the changed lines are the spec-view construction and the two Config sites, all exercised by the new tests plus the 2429-test openhuman::agent:: suite; the CI gate will verify the aggregate.
• Coverage matrix updated — feature ID 16.1.1 (library concurrency) covers this; no rows added, removed or renamed.
• All affected feature IDs listed under ## Related.
• No new external network dependencies — the benchmark uses the existing in-process LatencyMock.
• N/A: no release-cut manual smoke surface changed.
• N/A: no linked issue was supplied for this work.

Impact

• Memory: marginal RSS per agent 2498.4 → 1346.0 KiB, measured. 100 idle agents ~244 MiB → ~131 MiB. Overshoot against the spec's 64 MiB target goes 3.8x → 2.05x, closing 62.7% of the excess.
• No public API change. ParentExecutionContext and Agent::tool_specs() changed shape; both are internal to this crate, and I verified the OpenCompany embedder touches neither (it only implements Tool::spec() and forwards ToolDispatcher). OpenCompany builds clean against this branch.
• No behaviour change. Identical specs reach the provider; the load_skill scoping introduced by Show billing usage and move management to web dashboard #6218 is preserved exactly.
• The remaining gap is the tool belt itself — one full set of tool objects per agent. Sharing it is genuine design work (tools capture per-agent profile id, workspace descriptor and action dir, and bind_pack_registry installs a back-pointer assuming one registry per agent), so it is deliberately not attempted here.

Related

• Feature IDs: 16.1.1
• Closes: N/A — no linked issue
• Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs: share the tool belt across agents of the same spec; agent_id on TurnRequest and a cheap AgentHandle facade (both still open from the spec's Milestone 1); prompt_instructions_for_specs transient copy.

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• Branch: library-agent-handle
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Validation Run

• N/A: no frontend source changed.
• N/A: no TypeScript source changed.
• Focused tests: openhuman::agent:: 2429 passed / 0 failed; toolpacks 37 passed; builder_tests 34 passed; full lib suite 11482 passed with 3 known parallelism flakes that pass in isolation and touch nothing in this diff.
• Rust fmt/check: cargo fmt --all -- --check clean; cargo clippy -p openhuman --features <product> clean; cargo clippy -p openhuman (default) clean.
• N/A: no Tauri Rust source changed.
• Benchmark: library-profile fleet re-run post-merge — 1346.0 KiB/agent.

Validation Blocked

• command: cargo test --lib unscoped, and the composio suites
• error: the mock backend cannot start on this box (scripts/test-rust-with-mock.sh fails on missing sha256sum / node deps); the unscoped run hangs there, matching the repo's own note about CI: run the full gates-off test suite (blocked on task_local stack overflow) #5021
• impact: composio-gated tests were not exercised locally. Nothing in this diff touches composio; CI covers them.

Behavior Changes

• Intended behavior change: none. This is a memory optimisation.
• User-visible effect: lower RSS per live agent. No change to what any agent advertises, calls or answers.

Parity Contract

• Legacy behavior preserved: identical tool specs reach the provider; dedup keeps first-occurrence semantics and now provably keeps the original allocation; load_skill/use_skill pack scoping from Show billing usage and move management to web dashboard #6218 preserved exactly, including the blocks_execution predicate.
• Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: dedup_visible_tool_specs generic over Borrow<ToolSpec> so the sub-agent path is untouched; ToolDispatcher trait signature deliberately unchanged so embedder implementations keep compiling.

Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling

• Duplicate PR(s): none found
• Canonical PR: this PR
• Resolution (closed/superseded/updated): N/A

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Co-authored-by: Medulla medulla@tinyhumans.ai

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Reduced duplication when sharing agent configuration and tool definitions, improving memory efficiency and lowering overhead during agent and subagent creation.
  • Tool specifications are now reused consistently across full, visible, durable, and delegated tool views.

• Reliability

  • Tool scoping continues to isolate session-specific changes while preserving shared definitions elsewhere.
  • Agent construction validates required components and maintains consistent policy-filtered tool availability.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for shared tool-spec allocation, deduplication, scoping behavior, and tool-less agent creation.

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Walkthrough

The session builder now shares Config and ToolSpec values through Arc. Builder assembly moved to a dedicated module. Tool-spec consumers and test fixtures now use the updated shared representations.

Changes

Shared ownership migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared configuration wiring src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/..., src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/builder/factory.rs	Archivist hooks and agent runtime configuration reuse a shared Arc<Config>. Detached goal enrichment receives an owned configuration.
Builder assembly and validation src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/builder/...	AgentBuilder::build moves to builder_build.rs. It validates required components, builds policy-filtered tool views, and constructs the Agent. Tests cover shared allocations, deduplication, and tool-less agents.
Arc-backed tool-spec storage src/openhuman/agent/harness/fork_context.rs, src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/...	Parent contexts and agent state store Arc<ToolSpec> values. Deduplication and load_skill scoping preserve shared allocations where applicable.
Tool-spec consumer adaptation src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/turn/..., src/openhuman/agent/harness/subagent_runner/..., src/openhuman/agent/orchestration/tools/...	Prompt construction, subagent filtering, and tool catalog rendering adapt to Arc-wrapped specifications.
Fixture and integration migration src/openhuman/agent/orchestration/..., tests/...	Session, orchestration, end-to-end, and raw-coverage fixtures construct Arc-wrapped tool specifications.

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