`_check_done_value` and `_encode_json_plain` pushed one stack entry per child (plus a separator marker, and `dict.items()` materialized as a list), so the bookkeeping scaled with the value's WIDTH rather than its depth. A value the byte meter admits could then die on the walk's own frames: a flat `[0] * 2_000_000` serializes to 4.0 MB, but measured peaks were 145.2 MB in the meter and 114.7 MB in the encoder — 28.7x the serialized size, far past the 12x the load-time address-space gate reserves. Each container now pushes ONE cursor frame that pulls its children one at a time and writes into a shared `io.StringIO`, so the output string is the only width-proportional allocation and the caller already metered its size. Measured on the same value: 0.0 MB in the meter and 9.0 MB in the encoder (2.3x), with identical verdicts.
description, kind
| description | kind |
|---|---|
| Package map for the code-execution capability family: what program execution does for you, and which package owns each part. | package-group |
code-runtime/ — code-execution capability family
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Summary
The code-runtime/ group provides program execution: a model writes one program that calls host-provided functions as ordinary async calls, and a runtime executes it in isolation and returns only what the program printed and returned. One package defines the shared capability (ctx.codeRuntime), a second executes TypeScript programs in a fresh Node worker thread, and a third owns the wire protocol between a Node host and a CPython subprocess for the Python backend. Every run is independent — no state carries from one program to the next — and failures come back as part of the result, so the caller can see why a program failed and feed that back to the model.
Table of Contents
Packages
These three packages together provide program execution; each README describes what its part does.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
code-runtime/ |
Defines what a code runtime does: run one program against host-provided bindings and report what it printed and returned | ctx.codeRuntime |
code-runtime-worker-thread/ |
Executes TypeScript programs, each in a fresh Node worker thread | registers ctx.codeRuntime |
code-runtime-python/ |
Owns the fd-3 wire protocol between a Node host and a CPython subprocess, the Python backend's protocol layer | — |
Related documentation
Start with the subsystem reference for the service contract, then the PTC mode design that consumes this capability and the capability-seam model it follows.
- Code runtime subsystem reference — request/result vocabulary, bindings, and the
ctx.codeRuntimecordis surface. - PTC mode Agent Note — how the tool registry presents
run_codeto the model. - Capability seams — the Service Definition / Service Provider / Consumer split this family follows.
Dev Note
Working context for maintainers — click to expand
None.