# DOS — the trust substrate for agent fleets MCP Server Verify what agents actually shipped, arbitrate file collisions, refuse with structured reasons. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled DOS — the trust substrate for agent fleets yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `dos-kernel` on pypi. Runs locally. ## Known issues **21 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12. ### Most discussed ### Subagent in-lane edit hard-DENIED: inherited CID_RUN_ID misclassifies a child as a dispatch loop + blocks self-lease resolution ## Failure class: a legitimately-dispatched subagent's in-lane edit is hard-DENIED (no operator softening) ### What When a parent (a `/dispatch-loop`, a `/goal` worker, or any session that holds a lane lease) spawns a **subagent** to edit files *inside the lane the parent already holds*, the PreToolUse hook hard-DENIES the in-lane Edit/Write — even though the edit is squarely in-scope. The deny carries an **empty `reason_class`** (a pure contention collision, not `SELF_MODIFY`), so it is not [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/188) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 3 comments ### distribution: MCP Registry serves stale v0.24.1 (PyPI is 0.25.0) — re-dispatch publish to refresh the github.com/mcp + VS Code + PulseMCP fan-out ## What The official **MCP Registry** serves a STALE version of DOS. As of 2026-06-12: - Registry (`registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=dos-kernel`): **v0.24.1** - PyPI `dos-kernel`: **0.25.0** - `server.json` (the publish manifest): **0.25.0** The registry is the **auto-fan-out multiplier** — its entry feeds GitHub's `github.com/mcp` app store, VS Code's `@mcp` gallery, PulseMCP's crawl, and Mastra's index. So all four downstream surfaces are currently advertising **0.24.1**, [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/138) · 2026-06-13 · closed · 3 comments ### design: dos.testing.suite - an exportable conformance suite + JudgeTester so a third-party plugin's CI proves the seam safety laws ## What Ship an importable conformance suite — working name `dos.testing.suite` — plus an ESLint-RuleTester-style micro-harness (`JudgeTester`), so a third-party `dos.judges` / `dos.notifiers` / `dos.overlap_policies` / `dos.hook_dialects` / `dos.predicates` plugin can prove the seam safety laws in ITS OWN CI, without this repo ever seeing its code. The laws are already enforced for in-tree occupants (fail-to-abstain in `run_judge`, the `admissible_under_floor` AND, `send_safely` fail-soft) — [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/61) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 2 comments ### MCP dos_arbitrate reports a HELD lane FREE: it never reads the lane-journal, unlike the CLI and lease-lane acquire ## Two lease verbs disagree about the same lane at the same moment Observed live in `C:/work/fak` (22 leases in the WAL, `tools` held by `w4591` since 2026-07-18). Same workspace, same second, three surfaces: **MCP `dos_arbitrate(lane="tools", workspace="C:/work/fak")` — says FREE:** ```json {"outcome":"acquire","lane":"tools","lane_kind":"cluster","tree":["tools/**","scripts/**"], "auto_picked":false,"reason":"cluster lane 'tools' free — admitted.","free_clusters":[], "interpretation":"GO [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/246) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment ### design: scoreboard consumption surfaces - the opt-in badge + a per-repo verdict.json agents can query (the context7 / Tessl-registry mechanic) ## What Two consumption surfaces over the per-repo scoreboard artifact (#84), each copied from a proven distribution mechanic: 1. **The badge** (the Scorecard/Snyk move). A shields.io-compatible endpoint JSON per indexed repo (`/scoreboard///badge.json`) so a repo can embed `commit-claims: audited clean (as of )` in its README. Every embed is a backlink and a standing referrer; CLEAN is the grade the pilot says most reviewed repos earn — i.e. the grade repos will actually want [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/85) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 1 comment ### Most recent ### SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit hooks fail under the OpenAI Codex backend Codex registers the dos-kernel plugin's `hooks.json` events in `~/.codex/config.toml` (`[hooks.state."dos-kernel@dos:hooks/hooks.json:session_start:0:0"]` and `:user_prompt_submit:0:0`) and invokes them, but both return failure on every codex session. **Witnessed:** in a codex-backend dispatch worker log, in order: `hook: SessionStart` / `hook: SessionStart Failed` / `hook: UserPromptSubmit` / `hook: UserPromptSubmit Failed`, immediately before the worker's credit-wall ERROR. The Claude and ope [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/237) · 2026-06-29 · open · 0 comments ### packaging: native hook binaries ship without +x → live hooks silently passthrough (|| true) while MCP verbs keep working Found while auditing dos-kernel **v0.28.0** (Claude Code plugin) on macOS (arm64). The MCP verbs (`dos_doctor`, `dos_commit_audit`, …) all worked, but **live PreToolUse/Stop enforcement was silently disarmed** — every hook fell through to `|| true`. ## Root cause `hooks/hooks.json` resolves each hook in order: native `bin/dos-hook` → `python -m dos.cli` → `python3 -m dos.cli` → `|| true`. On this box every branch failed: 1. **Native binaries shipped without the execute bit** (`-rw-r--r--`), s [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/227) · 2026-06-18 · closed · 0 comments ### Promote residual review to a first-class `dos review` verb + MCP tool ## Promote residual review to a first-class `dos review` verb + MCP tool `examples/residual_review/` (shipped `56f2e46`, design in docs/358) is the product expression of the witness invariant: it re-projects `commit-audit`'s per-commit verdict into CLEARED / RESIDUAL / UNVERIFIABLE so review attention concentrates on the claims git could not back. It works, has 11 passing tests, and audits OK/diff-witnessed. But it ships **only** as `python examples/residual_review/residual_review.py`. That is [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/211) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments ### mcp: dos_arbitrate is missing the --class-budget parity surface (concurrency-class budget unreachable over MCP) ## Problem The `dos arbitrate` CLI accepts `--class-budget KIND=N` (docs/97 / docs/110 Phase 1) and threads a `{lane_kind: max_concurrent}` concurrency-class budget into `arbiter.arbitrate(class_budgets=...)`. The `dos_arbitrate` **MCP tool** (`src/dos_mcp/server.py`) does **not** expose this — so an agent driving the in-session deconfliction handshake (Recipe 8) over MCP cannot cap concurrent leases of a kind. The pure-data half of the concurrency-class model is unreachable from the MCP surf [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/175) · 2026-06-15 · closed · 0 comments ### dos-goal-gate: cross-reference the Fable-5 guide's 'don't stop early' discipline — the witness gate is the enforced version of 'check your last paragraph' ## Summary The Fable-5 guide's **"Rare cases of early stopping"** section and DOS's `dos-goal-gate` skill are solving the *same problem from opposite ends*, and they should be explicitly connected. The guide (model-side, prompt-only mitigation): > Deep into a long session, Claude Fable 5 can occasionally end a turn with a text-only statement of intent ("I'll now run X") without issuing the corresponding tool call, or pause to ask permission when it already has enough to proceed. > > ``` > Bef [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/173) · 2026-06-15 · closed · 0 comments ### vibe coders: Cursor on-ramp — surface the already-shipped `--hooks cursor` where Cursor users look ## The gap Cursor is the dominant AI-native editor for vibe coders — and DOS **already wires it**. `dos init --hooks cursor` writes `.cursor/hooks.json` today (see `dos init --help`, `src/dos/hook_install.py`, `src/dos/drivers/hook_dialects.py`). The problem is pure **discoverability**: nothing tells a Cursor user this exists, and the install path isn't where a Cursor user looks. This is *not* an adapter-engineering task (the adapter ships). It is an on-ramp / framing task: surface the already [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/162) · 2026-06-14 · closed · 0 comments ### design: Qwen Code host support - the CC-grammar settings.json install spec ## What Host support for Qwen Code — the open-source terminal coding agent in the Gemini-CLI lineage. Its hooks are Claude-Code-shaped nearly verbatim: `.qwen/settings.json` carries `PreToolUse` matcher groups whose command hooks receive JSON on stdin; it adds `sequential`/parallel execution and an HTTP hook type. Expected shape: an install spec (JSON merge into `.qwen/settings.json`) plus a dialect that likely delegates to the Claude Code renderer the way `CodexDialect` does — the plan's prove [Read the thread](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/dos-kernel/issues/88) · 2026-06-12 · open · 0 comments [See all 17 reports Pod holds for DOS — the trust substrate for agent fleets](/mcp/dos-the-trust-substrate-for-agent-fleets/issues) — of 21 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used DOS — the trust substrate for agent fleets yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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