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nikita-ashihmin 14d192d108 feat: expose native subagents and async tasks (#1017)
## Summary

- negotiate native ACP subagent sessions and AIR async task support
- map Claude Agent/Task lifecycle to independent child session streams
- publish background workflow, monitor, MCP, and backgrounded shell work
as async tasks
- attach background shell tasks to their originating tool calls so
clients can update one command card and open its output log
- stream task progress and preserve running, paused, completed, failed,
and stopped states
- keep synchronous shell work, generic tools, and task notifications out
of user message chunks
- preserve typed session failures and root permission/elicitation
requests
- preserve the legacy generic Agent/Task representation and flattened
transcript opt-ins for clients without native subagent capability

## Compatibility

The published ACP SDK does not yet contain PR #1992 types, so the change
isolates the temporary structural cast in `src/acp-subagents.ts`.
Clients that do not negotiate native subagent sessions retain the
existing generic tool-call fallback, including the historical
`_meta["subagent-transcript"]` capability and `forwardSubagentText`
session option. Async tasks use the negotiated `asyncTasks` AIR
capability and remain invisible to clients that do not advertise it.
Claude does not expose a safe targeted child-cancel primitive, therefore
child `cancel` and `close` capabilities remain disabled.

## Validation

- `npm run check`
- `npm run build`
- `env -u ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL npm run test:run` (830 passed, 20 skipped)
- `npm run test:run -- src/tests/async-tasks.test.ts` (5 passed)

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 14:11:13 +02:00

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ACP adapter for the Claude Agent SDK

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Use Claude Agent SDK from ACP-compatible clients!

This tool implements an ACP agent by using the official Claude Agent SDK, supporting:

  • Context @-mentions
  • Images
  • Tool calls (with permission requests)
  • Following
  • Edit review
  • TODO lists
  • Nested subagent transcripts
  • Interactive (and background) terminals
  • Custom Slash commands
  • Client MCP servers
  • Session-scoped long-running goals through the provider-neutral goal extension
  • Structured errors, recovery, and warnings through the opt-in session failure extension
  • Tool permission presentation, editable choices, and durable effects through the permission extension

Learn more about the Agent Client Protocol.

Subagent sessions

Subagents are exposed only after bilateral capability negotiation. Until the released ACP SDKs preserve the draft clientCapabilities.subagents field, a supporting client may advertise nativeSubagentSessions in _meta.jetbrains.air.capabilities; the adapter mirrors the capability in its initialize response. The canonical field remains supported and takes precedence once it is available. Without either client signal, Agent/Task lifecycle keeps its legacy ordinary ACP tool-call representation and child interactions stay on the root session. Clients that use the historical _meta["subagent-transcript"] capability or forwardSubagentText session option retain the flattened child transcript behavior.

Contribution Policy

This project does not require a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Instead, contributions are accepted under the following terms:

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