# Os Clovy Foundation

> Use when porting a sandboxed agent-runtime child process that talks to its host over versioned NDJSON JSON-RPC: frame validation, request correlation with abort hygiene, secret-redacted logging, failure classification, group-intact history compaction plus on-demand manual compaction, accept-then-settle run lifecycle with steering and cancellation, identity short-circuits, Auto-model resolution across chat-completions streams, reasoning-field wire-format duality, terminal-vs-model-visible tool error splitting, approval-preflight cache binding, stream-delta forwarding gates, SDK history/usage projection, and durable approval/clarification/secret interruption envelopes. Source code and direct tests are ground truth; references carry decisive excerpts and graph retrieval.

- Skill: `ryan-brosas/os-clovy-foundation` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 16 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add ryan-brosas/os-clovy-foundation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/ryan-brosas/os-clovy-foundation/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: ryan-brosas (https://skillmd.com/u/ryan-brosas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/ryan-brosas/os-clovy-foundation

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# os-clovy: Agent Runtime Foundation

## Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is
historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current
project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this
projection and decide what ships.

## Provenance and revision

- Source record: `os-clovy`; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
- Recorded revision: `main@8fed7acb51622d36bfaaa056f43931015dfd5d72`.
- Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence:
  `references/index.md`.

## Topic map

- Representative topics: Protocol frames; RPC transport; Log hygiene;
  Compaction; Manual compaction; Run lifecycle; Identity gate; Model streaming.
- Scope and retrieval questions: `references/index.md#use-this-for`.
- Complete capsule chooser: `references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump`.
- Detailed grouped map: `references/index.md#capsule-map`.
- Source limitations and portability boundaries: `references/index.md#boundaries`.

## Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only
that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do
not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply
this foundation as a procedure.