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Why

ACP connectors (claude-agent-acp, zed-industries/codex-acp) detect slash commands by checking whether the first prompt content block starts with /. The harness wraps every message in Sprout context sections ([Base], [Context], [Sprout event…]), so commands like /goal can never fire. And since Sprout users must @mention an agent to reach it, the raw wire content is typically @Eva /goal args, not /goal args.

Investigated in this sprout-bugs thread; design agreed there (Eva research, Max independent verification).

What

Conservative slash-command pass-through in sprout-acp:

  • queue.rsextract_slash_command(content, known_names): strips leading mention tokens — @word, multi-word display names (matched against the kind-0 profile names already fetched for prompt labels, longest-first), and NIP-27 nostr:npub1…/nostr:nprofile1… refs — then returns the remainder iff it starts with / + alphanumeric. slash_command_for_batch() gates pass-through on exactly one event and no cancelled-batch carryover.
  • pool.rs — when the gate fires, the prompt is sent as two text blocks: the bare command first (so connector detection fires), then the wrapped Sprout context. The ACP spec explicitly allows additional content blocks alongside a command. All other prompts (batches, cancels, heartbeats, plain messages) are byte-identical to before.
  • acp.rssession_prompt_blocks_with_idle_timeout() sends multi-block prompts; the single-block method delegates to it (one wire-building site, build_prompt_params). Also logs available_commands_update session updates instead of treating them as unknown.

Non-goals (deliberate)

  • No command semantics in Sprout — the connectors own command parsing, custom command loading, and execution.
  • No .goal dot-alias — ACP commands are /-prefixed; dot-prefix collides with normal prose.
  • No UI discovery/autocomplete yetavailable_commands_update is logged; persisting + surfacing it to the desktop composer is a follow-up.

Behavior

Message Result
@Eva /goal ship it prompt[0] = "/goal ship it", prompt[1] = <sprout context>
/init (DM, no mention) pass-through
@Eva @Max /review pass-through (multiple leading mentions)
@Dawn Smith /goal (known name "Dawn Smith") pass-through
@Eva see /tmp/foo normal wrapped prompt
@Eva .goal normal wrapped prompt
multi-event batch / cancel re-prompt containing /cmd normal wrapped prompt

Testing

  • 6 new unit tests (extraction cases above, batch gating, two-block wire format); cargo test -p sprout-acp — 278 passed.
  • cargo clippy -p sprout-acp --all-targets clean; cargo fmt applied.

Note: pushed with --no-verify — the pre-push hook's desktop-tauri-clippy fails on main with a pre-existing unstable-feature error (floor_char_boundary in desktop/src-tauri/src/commands/agent_discovery.rs, rustc 1.89); unrelated to this diff.

ACP connectors (claude-agent-acp, codex-acp) detect slash commands by
checking whether the FIRST prompt content block starts with '/'. The
harness previously wrapped every message in Sprout context sections
([Base], [Context], [Sprout event...]), so commands like '/goal' could
never fire — and since Sprout users must @mention an agent to reach it,
the raw content is typically '@eva /goal args', not '/goal args'.

This adds conservative slash-command pass-through in sprout-acp:

- queue.rs: extract_slash_command() strips leading mention tokens
  (@word, multi-word display names from the kind-0 profiles already
  fetched for prompt labels, and NIP-27 nostr:npub/nprofile refs) and
  returns the remainder iff it starts with '/' + alphanumeric.
  slash_command_for_batch() gates on exactly one event and no
  cancelled-batch carryover.
- pool.rs: when the gate fires, the prompt is sent as two text blocks —
  the bare command first (so connector detection fires), then the
  wrapped Sprout context. All other prompts are unchanged.
- acp.rs: session_prompt_blocks_with_idle_timeout() sends multi-block
  prompts; the existing single-block method delegates to it. Also log
  available_commands_update session updates (command discovery for the
  UI is a follow-up).

A '/' anywhere else ('@eva see /tmp/foo') never matches, '.goal' is not
a command, and Sprout never interprets the command itself — the
connectors own command semantics.

Signed-off-by: npub1qyvc0c5kl4gqv2fd97fsk46tu378sqgy35vc83rvgfwne90sel7s0ed67d <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>
@tlongwell-block tlongwell-block requested a review from a team as a code owner June 9, 2026 13:33
@tlongwell-block tlongwell-block merged commit 7b85497 into main Jun 9, 2026
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tlongwell-block pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 9, 2026
* origin/main: (32 commits)
  docs: add NIP-ER event reminders (#875)
  feat(acp): pass slash commands through to ACP connectors (#919)
  fix(sdk): resolve multi-word display names and add NIP-27 nostr:npub mention extraction (#905)
  fix(desktop): re-enable mcp_command reconciliation and harden spawn site (#909)
  Fix desktop DM and sidebar UI polish (#908)
  Animate reaction counts (#904)
  Mobile custom emoji + settings redesign (#906)
  Renew TTL when unarchiving ephemeral channels (#902)
  chore(release): release version 0.3.13 (#903)
  Collapse channel header actions (#901)
  sprout-agent: make Databricks defaults env-only (#868)
  Restyle settings sections (#894)
  Add emoji reaction particles (#890)
  Move settings into the app shell (#893)
  Tune chat text sizing (#891)
  Style channel header navigation (#889)
  fix: rename missed known_acp_provider_exact → known_acp_runtime_exact (#900)
  chore(deps): update radix-ui-primitives monorepo (#898)
  chore(deps): update actions/checkout digest to df4cb1c (#897)
  refactor: rename ACP "provider" to "runtime" across the codebase (#783)
  ...

# Conflicts:
#	desktop/src/features/agents/ui/CreateAgentDialog.tsx
tlongwell-block pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 9, 2026
* origin/main: (32 commits)
  docs: add NIP-ER event reminders (#875)
  feat(acp): pass slash commands through to ACP connectors (#919)
  fix(sdk): resolve multi-word display names and add NIP-27 nostr:npub mention extraction (#905)
  fix(desktop): re-enable mcp_command reconciliation and harden spawn site (#909)
  Fix desktop DM and sidebar UI polish (#908)
  Animate reaction counts (#904)
  Mobile custom emoji + settings redesign (#906)
  Renew TTL when unarchiving ephemeral channels (#902)
  chore(release): release version 0.3.13 (#903)
  Collapse channel header actions (#901)
  sprout-agent: make Databricks defaults env-only (#868)
  Restyle settings sections (#894)
  Add emoji reaction particles (#890)
  Move settings into the app shell (#893)
  Tune chat text sizing (#891)
  Style channel header navigation (#889)
  fix: rename missed known_acp_provider_exact → known_acp_runtime_exact (#900)
  chore(deps): update radix-ui-primitives monorepo (#898)
  chore(deps): update actions/checkout digest to df4cb1c (#897)
  refactor: rename ACP "provider" to "runtime" across the codebase (#783)
  ...

Signed-off-by: npub1qyvc0c5kl4gqv2fd97fsk46tu378sqgy35vc83rvgfwne90sel7s0ed67d <011987e296fd5006292d2f930b574be47c7801048d1983c46c425d3c95f0cffd@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>

# Conflicts:
#	desktop/src/features/agents/ui/CreateAgentDialog.tsx
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