@johnhenry/acp-query — acp-query

A reactive session/turn store + permission broker for the Agent Client Protocol.

The official @agentclientprotocol/sdk gives you the wire: the fluent client() builder, typed handlers, stdio/HTTP/SSE/WebSocket transports. acp-query adds the state stratum an embedding app needs — for web UIs, notebooks, dashboards, and editors hosting coding agents:

• Reactive session store — session/update streams fold into observable per-session state (messageText, toolCalls with live statuses, plan, availableCommands, currentMode, stop reasons, plus the raw update log). subscribe() is useSyncExternalStore-ready, and @johnhenry/acp-query/react ships hooks (useSession, useToolCalls, usePermissions) built directly on it.
• Permission broker — ACP's session/request_permission (typed allow_once/always / reject_once/always options) routes through the shared InteractionBroker: trust policy auto-answers, "ask" queues for your approval UI (resolve with an optionId), every outcome audited. With no broker configured, requests fail safe (reject).
• In-process mock agent (@johnhenry/acp-query/testing) — the SDK's own agent() builder wired straight to the client (connect(mockAcpAgent(...))): real protocol, no transport, with say/toolCall/askPermission turn helpers.

import { AcpQuery, InteractionBroker } from "@johnhenry/acp-query";

const broker = new InteractionBroker();
const q = new AcpQuery({ interactions: broker });
q.connect(myAgentStream); // ndJsonStream over stdio, WebSocket, ... or an AgentApp

const sid = await q.newSession("/workspace");
q.subscribe(sid, () => render(q.session(sid))); // live turn state
await q.prompt(sid, "refactor the auth module");
// broker.list() -> pending permission requests for your approval inbox

Also ships: React hooks (@johnhenry/acp-query/react — useSession, useToolCalls, usePermissions, plus the re-exported core hooks and <AgentQueryDevtools> panel), opt-in fs/terminal client capabilities (config-supplied callbacks only, default OFF, writes gated through the broker via gateWrites), a devtools wire tap (instrumentAcpStream — every JSON-RPC message alongside the semantic event stream), session/list / session/load / slash-command caching, and AcpSessionHandle (attach() / newAttachedSession() — bound-session ergonomics with a states() async-iterable over folded snapshots).

Install

npm install @johnhenry/acp-query@rc

Use the rc dist-tag, not latest — latest is still pinned to acp-query's very first publish (0.1.0-rc.1); every subsequent release, including the current one, ships under rc until acp-query cuts a stable 1.0.0.

Supported protocol versions

acp-query supports ACP wire protocol v1 only. v2 (schema alpha as of this writing) is explicitly out of scope until it stabilizes — tracked in #5.

• Built on @agentclientprotocol/[email protected], pinned exactly (both dependencies/peerDependencies and the dev pin) — not a caret range. The SDK's own semver (1.3.0) is independent of ACP's wire protocol version; acp-query tracks the SDK version, and the SDK reports PROTOCOL_VERSION = 1.
• The SDK package was renamed from @zed-industries/agent-client-protocol (now deprecated on npm) to @agentclientprotocol/sdk as governance moved out of Zed Industries into its own agentclientprotocol org. acp-query depends on the new package only.
• A schema-v2.0.0-alpha is in flight upstream with known breaking renames (semantic string types, diff patch → text, a terminal surface, cancelled variants). acp-query deliberately does not track or support it — issue #5 stays open, watching for v2 to stabilize before any work starts.

Docs & examples

• API reference — every export, with an example each (including the permission decision → wire mapping and the mock agent's helpers).
• Design — why ACP is a stream-fold, not a cache; the fold vocabulary; the full policy × options → outcome permission table; the cancel contract; observability (status semantics, devtools events, why prompt() is never retried); what the SDK provides vs what acp-query adds.
• examples/ — eleven graded, runnable examples (in-process mock agent, no transport): basic turn → tool calls → permission inbox → policy rules → multi-session → cancel → devtools timeline → client capabilities → wire timeline → session list/load → attached session. npm run example:01 … example:11 (see examples/README.md for the full table).

Cancellation honors the ACP contract end to end: cancel(sessionId) sends session/cancel and resolves that session's pending permission requests with {outcome: "cancelled"}, so blocked turns finish with stopReason: "cancelled" instead of hanging.

Status: release candidate (0.1.0-rc.4, on @agentclientprotocol/[email protected] pinned, wire protocol v1). Part of the agent-query family — shared engine @johnhenry/agent-query-core; siblings @johnhenry/mcp-query (MCP) and @johnhenry/a2a-query (A2A).

MIT