fix: Use SDK guards for elicitation validation (#850)

package-lock.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
       "version": "0.57.0",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "1.2.0",
+        "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "1.2.1",
         "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "0.3.202",
         "zod": "^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0"
       },
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@agentclientprotocol/sdk": {
-      "version": "1.2.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@agentclientprotocol/sdk/-/sdk-1.2.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-rJ3766M2eouZsNCaK21JbPD++JLBZ0PWq38dzj1sA4/i0njaQEkiC2F5v7MlizFW6akX+qu5Ks8R00Xw+YMHKA==",
+      "version": "1.2.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@agentclientprotocol/sdk/-/sdk-1.2.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-jwYUdOQR7tc+Zfch53VL4JJyUNK/46q03uUTYb+PjECsmnNl94XFXOfYLJ8RBpMNidXd1rpOAVgb0vqD98xImA==",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "peerDependencies": {
         "zod": "^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0"

package.json

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     "node": ">=22"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "1.2.0",
+    "@agentclientprotocol/sdk": "1.2.1",
     "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "0.3.202",
     "zod": "^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0"
   },

src/elicitation.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { CreateElicitationResponse } from "@agentclientprotocol/sdk";
 import type {
   CreateElicitationRequest,
-  CreateElicitationResponse,
   ElicitationAcceptAction,
-  ElicitationContentValue,
   ElicitationPropertySchema,
   ElicitationSchema,
   EnumOption,
@@ -70,43 +69,18 @@ export function mcpElicitationToCreateRequest(
   };
 }
 
-/** A wire value allowed in elicitation form content. */
-function isElicitationContentValue(value: unknown): value is ElicitationContentValue {
-  return (
-    typeof value === "string" ||
-    typeof value === "number" ||
-    typeof value === "boolean" ||
-    (Array.isArray(value) && value.every((item) => typeof item === "string"))
-  );
-}
-
 /**
  * Content of an accepted elicitation response.
  *
- * The response union includes a custom/future-action variant whose `action` is
- * plain `string`, so a positive `=== "accept"` check can never narrow it away
- * and `content` reads as `unknown`. Rather than asserting which union member
- * this is, validate the values: the SDK's own wire validation has the same
- * blind spot (an accept response with malformed content parses via the
- * catch-all variant), so ill-typed values are dropped here either way.
+ * Uses the SDK's validating guard rather than an `action === "accept"` check:
+ * the guard both narrows past the union's custom/future variant and validates
+ * the payload, so a malformed accept (right tag, ill-typed content) yields
+ * empty content — the same classification the SDK's wire validators apply.
  */
 function acceptedElicitationContent(
   response: CreateElicitationResponse,
 ): NonNullable<ElicitationAcceptAction["content"]> {
-  if (response.action !== "accept") {
-    return {};
-  }
-  const { content } = response;
-  if (!content || typeof content !== "object") {
-    return {};
-  }
-  const validated: NonNullable<ElicitationAcceptAction["content"]> = {};
-  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(content)) {
-    if (isElicitationContentValue(value)) {
-      validated[key] = value;
-    }
-  }
-  return validated;
+  return CreateElicitationResponse.isAccept(response) ? (response.content ?? {}) : {};
 }
 
 /**

src/tests/acp-agent.test.ts

@@ -215,9 +215,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.RUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS)("ACP subprocess integration"
       params: CreateElicitationRequest,
     ): Promise<CreateElicitationResponse> {
       this.elicitations.push(params);
-      // The `in` check also excludes the custom/future-mode variant, whose
-      // `mode: string` would otherwise survive the literal comparison.
-      if (params.mode !== "form" || !("requestedSchema" in params)) {
+      if (!CreateElicitationRequest.isForm(params)) {
         return { action: "decline" };
       }
       // Accept the first option of every choice field (skip the free-text one).
@@ -448,10 +446,9 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.RUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS)("ACP subprocess integration"
     // ...built by our converter (indexed field key + free-text "Other" field),
     // which confirms our interception path produced it rather than some other
     // mechanism.
-    const properties =
-      elicitation.mode === "form" && "requestedSchema" in elicitation
-        ? Object.keys(elicitation.requestedSchema.properties ?? {})
-        : [];
+    const properties = CreateElicitationRequest.isForm(elicitation)
+      ? Object.keys(elicitation.requestedSchema.properties ?? {})
+      : [];
     expect(properties).toContain("question_0");
     expect(properties).toContain("question_0_custom");