The spawner spawned every agent with stdin(Stdio::null()) and read stdout
only, so it could only host self-driving emitters (pi --mode json). zot's
only structured persistent mode is `zot rpc`, which is a request/response
peer that blocks on stdin — so it could never autospawn. Worse, 0.12.0
defaulted COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN_BINARY=zot while args defaulted to --mode json,
which is not a zot flag, so the OOTB image would spawn a broken/no agent.
Add a stdin RPC driver:
- AgentSpawnConfig.rpc_stdin: when set, the spawner pipes stdin and keeps the
writer; otherwise stdin stays null (unchanged path for pi).
- cmd_spawn_agent auto-detects rpc mode from argv (`rpc`/`--rpc`).
- AgentHandle gains a cloneable RpcSender (Arc-backed) so prompts can be sent
without holding the agent-registry lock across the async write.
build_rpc_prompt emits zot's wire format: {"id","type":"prompt","message"}.
- Autospawn picks default argv per harness: zot -> `rpc`, pi -> `--mode json`
(corrects the invalid --mode-json-for-zot default), and optionally sends a
one-time bootstrap prompt when COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN_RPC_PROMPT is set (default
boot spends no tokens). Log strings de-pi-fied (autospawn-pi -> autospawn).
Tests: build_rpc_prompt framing + escaping, rpc_stdin default, sender presence
by mode. Full workspace: 250 tests, 0 failures. Live zot rpc smoke pending
(wire format matches docs/ZOT-RPC-TRANSCRIPT.md real-key capture).
Stacks on the 0.12.0 compile/lock fix (PR #156).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sam & Claude
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