Master's step-scoped conditional activation resolves each tool's condition
before a model step assembles, and both the declarations and dispatch read
that admitted set. Prompt assembly no longer carries tool declarations, so
tool-web's system-prompt/assemble listener could not remove web_search any
more, and removing a declaration there never stopped a repeated call from
running.
tool-web now registers web_search with a when condition that asks
ctx.web.searchReady() about the route of the step's model selection, and its
guidance section renders from the step's admitted set. A step that does not
admit the tool leaves it out of declarations, guidance, and PTC program
bindings, and refuses a call to it as UNKNOWN_TOOL without reaching a
provider. Tests that execute web_search directly now run inside a resolved
step, as the executor requires for conditional registrations.
Docs, the readiness Agent Note, and the event producer/consumer table follow
the new mechanism; the tools README gains an explicit conditional-tools
anchor for cross-locale links.
Yichen Jiang
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