A settled top-level `read_image` call printed its raw attachment object as
literal text in the tool card — `{"type":"image","attachment":{…}}` —
instead of the image, because no presentation metadata told a client card
how to present the reference and the tool-card layer had no image concept.
Host: `read_image` declares an `output.presentationMeta` persisting
`{ path }` only. The attachment reference deliberately lives in the
settled result content — the single record a `tools/post-execute`
replacement rewrites — not in `meta`; the id is opaque and
provider-owned, checked for existence only.
Client: `imageCardModel` derives the card from the call head, the meta
path, the result's own image block, and a shape-matched envelope. ToolRow
gains an `image` card slot; the `read_image` toolview declares the
Tool-owned `tool.call.images` slot as its child and dispatches the
gallery through it. ui-chat down-threads the session-authorized loader
(`ChatNodeOwnerProps.loadImage`), so the tool layer supplies only derived
references plus the loader and never imports an attachment
implementation; ui-attachment fills the slot with its message gallery
renderer. The card keeps the envelope text below the gallery for the
no-attachment-plugin deployment. An image-bearing tool registers a keyed
toolview; the generic fallback keeps its flattened text. `read_image`
joins the read variant with its own locale title key; both rows share
`read-family-row.tsx`.
Verification: `read-image.spec.ts` (metadata projection, envelope by
shape, reference narrowing, real-execution round trip, rejection
branches incl. non-digest ids), `image-card.client.spec.tsx` (derivation,
row render site dispatching the slot, keyed registration with the
child-slot declaration, empty-slot fallbacks, media-type enum), keyless
snapshots (`read-image-gif` added; read-image/-dimension/-reencode
updated to the `{path}` meta), five injected-defect negative controls,
and a demo GIF recorded from this PR's head through the official
image-capable model.
A business package imported the Remote assembly for `ctx.remote` and the
Connection plugin for the wire types it passes around. The assembly now
re-exports the carrier's Client-facing types, so a business package names one
package. The re-export is type-only: the carrier's runtime values keep their
own module edge, since inlining them here would duplicate the carrier inside
the assembly bundle.
Four surfaces that had no Remote assembly dependency declare one now.
Tianyi Cui