feat(server): DecisioningPlatform v6.0 preview surface

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Summary

Preview / 6.0 surface for the next generation of @adcp/client server adopters. Adopters implement a single DecisioningPlatform class organized by specialism; the framework owns wire-mapping, account resolution, idempotency, error envelopes, async task lifecycle, and status-change projection. No more per-tool handlers, no ctx.store plumbing, no governance threading by hand.

import {
  AdcpError,
  createAdcpServerFromPlatform,
  publishStatusChange,
  type DecisioningPlatform,
  type SalesPlatform,
} from '@adcp/client/server/decisioning';

class GamPlatform implements DecisioningPlatform<GamConfig, GamMeta> {
  capabilities = {
    specialisms: ['sales-non-guaranteed'] as const,
    creative_agents: [],
    channels: ['display', 'video'] as const,
    pricingModels: ['cpm'] as const,
    config: { /* ... */ },
  };

  accounts = {
    resolve: async (ref) => ({ id, name, status: 'active', metadata, authInfo }),
  };

  sales: SalesPlatform = {
    getProducts: async (req) => ({ products: [...] }),
    createMediaBuy: async (req) => {
      if (req.total_budget.amount < this.config.floor) {
        throw new AdcpError('BUDGET_TOO_LOW', { recovery: 'correctable', message: '...' });
      }
      const order = await this.gam.createOrder(req);
      return { media_buy_id: order.id, status: 'pending_creatives', confirmed_at: new Date().toISOString() };
    },
    // ... updateMediaBuy, syncCreatives, getMediaBuyDelivery
  };
}

const platform = new GamPlatform();
const server = createAdcpServerFromPlatform(platform, { name: 'gam', version: '1.0.0' });
serve(() => server, { publicUrl: 'https://gam.example.com' });

The framework's createAdcpServerFromPlatform<P> constrains P so every claimed specialism's interface must be implemented (compile-time). Drop a method or claim a specialism without an implementation → fail compile.

What's wired

Platform interfaces (4):

• SalesPlatform — 9 sales-* specialisms (non-guaranteed, guaranteed, broadcast-tv, social, catalog-driven, proposal-mode, …)
• CreativeTemplatePlatform / CreativeGenerativePlatform — stateless transform / brief-to-creative
• AudiencePlatform — audience-sync
• SignalsPlatform — signal-marketplace, signal-owned

v2.1 dual-method async shape: for each spec-HITL tool (createMediaBuy, syncCreatives), adopter implements EXACTLY ONE of { xxx, xxxTask }. Framework dispatches sync OR HITL based on which is defined; validatePlatform() enforces exactly-one at construction. Dual-method only on tools whose wire response unions actually have a Submitted arm — every other tool is sync-only.

Wire-shape return values (Path A): platform methods return wire success-arm shapes directly (CreateMediaBuySuccess, SyncCreativesSuccess['creatives'], ActivateSignalSuccess). No intermediate types, no translation drift. Framework wraps with the response envelope; throw AdcpError for structured rejection (45 spec error codes). Zero as never casts in adopter code.

Status-change channel (publishStatusChange): module-level event bus for spec-native lifecycle channels (8 resource types: media_buy, creative, audience, signal, proposal, plan, rights_grant, delivery_report). Adopters call from webhook handlers, crons, in-process workers without holding a server reference.

Multi-tenant (createTenantRegistry): per-tenant config + 3 health states (healthy/unverified/disabled). JWKS validator against {agentUrl}/.well-known/brand.json. Composes with the existing serve() host-routing surface. Includes admin Express router for ops visibility.

Helpers:

• getAsset / requireAsset — typed accessors for creative_manifest.assets[asset_id] (preserves discriminator narrowing)
• resolveStartTime — handles the 'asap' | string | undefined union with platform-specific lead time (programmatic = now; broadcast = now + approval window)
• toWireAccount — strips metadata + authInfo when projecting Account<TMeta> to wire shape

Public type re-exports: wire request/response types + asset-instance discriminated union shipped from @adcp/client/types. Adopters never reach into tools.generated.ts.

Skills:

• skills/build-decisioning-creative-template/SKILL.md — adapter-first, ~14 KB
• skills/build-decisioning-signal-marketplace/SKILL.md — adapter-first, ~7 KB
• Both gated by typecheck:skill-examples CI step (extracts every fenced block, compiles against published dist/)

Worked sample platforms (5):

• MockSyncSeller / MockHitlSeller — paired sync vs HITL demonstrations
• BroadcastTvSeller — sales-broadcast-tv with HITL *Task everywhere
• ProgrammaticSeller — sales-non-guaranteed sync + post-commit publishStatusChange
• LiveRampAudienceProvider — audience-sync with multi-stage status changes (matching → matched → activating → active)
• Multi-tenant deployment — TenantRegistry wiring two distinct sellers behind separate hosts

Validation

Five rounds of "be Emma" adopter simulation (fresh agent reads skill + SDK, builds an adapter from scratch, scores friction):

Round	Specialism	Adopter	Verdict
4	creative-template	AudioStack TTS	4.5/5
6a	sales-guaranteed	PremiereTV broadcaster	4.5/5
6c	signal-marketplace	DataMatrix data broker	4.5/5

Three primary types at consistent parity. Direct quote from round 6c: "Equivalent to creative-template and sales-guaranteed. Same shape, same error idiom, same publishStatusChange pattern." Zero as any / as never / as unknown casts in any of the produced adapters. Each adapter shipped in ~150 LOC of business logic.

Upstream spec issues filed

Surfaced during the simulation rounds. SDK can't ship cleanly until these land:

• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3268 — Simplify PreviewCreativeResponse for the single-render case
• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3269 — Canonical asset_id slot vocabulary for creative_manifest.assets
• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3270 — Output-validation handshake for creative-template build_creative
• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3310 — Add 'accepted' to MediaBuyStatus between IO sign-off and trafficking
• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3311 — Add Submitted arm to UpdateMediaBuyResponse for re-approval flows
• adcontextprotocol/adcp#3329 — Governance taxonomy cleanup (consolidate spend+delivery, reclassify governance-aware-seller, add creative-review, document the umbrella)

What's deferred

• Governance specialisms (5: campaign-governance, creative-review, content-standards, property-lists, collection-lists) — blocked on spec issue #3329; the platform-interface design depends on the taxonomy resolving
• creative-ad-server specialism — clean (Flashtalking-shaped); ship reactively when first adopter lands
• brand-rights specialism — same; ship reactively
• MCP Resources subscription wiring for publishStatusChange — parked until AdCP 3.1 picks up the resource-subscription model. Today's bus is in-memory; adopters who need wire projection run their own webhook infrastructure
• Forward-compat 3.0 ↔ 3.1 wire shapes — pinned to 3.0 GA; framework adapts when 3.1 lands
• tasks/get wire path for HITL polling — task registry has the data; wire-level integration ships in v6.0-rc.1

Migration path for adopters

• 5.x → 6.0: re-implement the existing handler bag (createAdcpServer({ mediaBuy, creative, accounts })) as a DecisioningPlatform class. Most handler bodies port one-to-one — replace return adcpError(...) with throw new AdcpError(...), return wire success-arm shapes directly, drop the ctx.store plumbing.
• 5.x continues to work unchanged during the v6.0 preview. Both surfaces ship side-by-side.

Test plan

• npm run typecheck passes (zero errors)
• npm test passes — 6049+ tests, no failures introduced
• npm run typecheck:skill-examples passes — every fenced block in skills/ compiles against dist/
• npm run lint clean — zero errors (warnings only)
• CI workflow updated to run typecheck:skill-examples on every PR
• Five adopter simulations confirm consistent 4.5/5 friction across the three primary specialism types

Files touched

40+ commits over the iteration. Highlights:

• src/lib/server/decisioning/ — new subdirectory; all platform interfaces, helpers, runtime
• src/lib/types/index.ts — public re-exports for adopter-facing wire types
• src/lib/types/asset-instances.ts — public re-exports for asset-type discriminated unions
• examples/decisioning-platform-*.ts — five worked examples
• skills/build-decisioning-*/ — two adapter-first skills
• scripts/generate-types.ts — strips JSON Schema if/then/else before jsts (eliminates intersection-noise types)
• .github/workflows/ci.yml — adds typecheck:skill-examples step

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Reviewed the v2 HITL-split design from a Python-port perspective (would the salesagent server adopt this shape?). Concept-level feedback below.

What's right

• The two-shape distinction is real. "No media_buy_id yet because a human hasn't acted" and "I gave you an ID, lifecycle is async" are genuinely different contracts, and v1 runAsync collapses them into a coin flip. Buyers can't cache, can't reason, can't write correct retry logic. Splitting fixes that.
• emitStatusChange / publishStatusChange as the single forward-compat seam. Adopter writes one line; framework picks the wire projection (3.0 polling, 3.1 webhook, 3.1 async-arm). This is the most leverage in the doc.
• Dropping partial_result. Off-spec drift is a category of bug, not an "ergonomic feature." Right call.
• MCP Resources + A2A backport instead of inventing 7 webhook channel types. Smaller upstream ask, native subscription primitive, single envelope across transports. The A2A backport is also a real positive externality.
• Fingerprint dedup at task creation. Orthogonal to wire-level idempotency keys, prevents duplicate proposal generation under buyer retries. Salesagent doesn't have this today and we've hit it.

Where the Python translation gets harder

1. Compile-time enforcement story shrinks. TS's RequiredPlatformsFor<'sales-broadcast-tv'> = SalesPlatformHitl gives a clean error if a broadcast adopter implements sync createMediaBuy. Python can approximate with Protocol + @runtime_checkable + a validate_platform() call, but you lose the design-time signal — basically the proposal's pragmatic-runtime-only branch from day one. Worth being honest about that in any Python pitch.

2. Method-name doubling is heavier in Python. 7 tools × 2 variants = 14 protocol methods. An alternative idiomatic Python shape: one _impl returning a sum type — SyncResult[T] | TaskAccepted (discriminated dataclass + match). Loses "exactly one shape per tool" but gains a single signature, which matches our existing _impl pattern better. Trade-off worth at least naming.

3. server.publishStatusChange(...) from anywhere implies adopter holds a server reference. In Python/Flask this becomes a thread-local or registry singleton, both of which invite circular imports and complicate testing. An event-bus shape (adcp.events.publish(StatusChange(...))) decouples adopter code from the server instance — same wire result, looser coupling. Glad to see v6 went module-level here; that's the right call.

4. Same tool, different shapes per tenant. Salesagent has one deployment serving many tenants — broadcast-TV tenants want HITL, programmatic tenants want sync, on the same create_media_buy tool. The TS design assumes per-platform-class choice, which works for a single-adopter SDK but doesn't map onto a multi-tenant server. We currently signal HITL via exception (ManualApprovalRequired-style) — one code path, dynamic decision. The proposal's two-method approach would force per-tenant strategy dispatch inside the framework. Workable, but the per-specialism compile-time enforcement loses most of its value here.

Concerns / questions

• Resource URI scheme exposes account_id. Fine internally; worth a one-liner about whether these URIs are considered tenant-scoped private identifiers (logging, error messages, client-side caches).
• 3.0 fallback projects status changes to tasks/get continuation. Implies the framework retains every status transition on the task registry until the buyer polls or some retention bound. Spec the retention or you'll grow a slow leak.
• Naming xxxTask. In our codebase "task" is overloaded — there's a deprecated tasks table and the active workflow_steps system. For a Python port xxxHitl or xxxRequiresApproval is clearer for the seller-side audience even if xxxTask is correct relative to the wire. Project-specific concern, not a blocker.
• Per-tool sync-OR-task is a feature, but acquire_rights and update_media_buy show the seam. Some tools are HITL-sometimes/sync-other-times legitimately (legal review only for new contracts). The buyer-predictability argument is good, but for these the answer is "always declare HITL and complete instantly when no approval is required" — worth making that explicit so adopters don't reach for runtime branching.

Bottom line

If we ported this pattern to Python, I'd take wholesale: the publishStatusChange seam, the spec-version-aware projection, the fingerprint dedup, and the MCP Resources subscription model. I'd be more skeptical of the two-methods-per-tool shape — the type-system payoff is much smaller in Python, and our multi-tenant deployment makes the per-platform-class assumption awkward. A sum-type return + event-bus emission feels more idiomatic and gets ~80% of the predictability win without the protocol surface bloat.

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Adopter evaluation from agentic-adapters (13-platform downstream)

Walked through the prototype to gauge how close we are to migrating our 13 adapters off createServerFromAdapter onto v6. Surfacing both design-level and implementation-detail observations so you have one place to triage.

TL;DR

The prototype is structurally complete and runnable, but migration isn't close yet for our adapter set. Crucial structural win: from-platform.ts translates DecisioningPlatform → existing AdcpServerConfig and delegates to createAdcpServer. That means we don't have to wait for v6 to be "done" — we could migrate adapter-by-adapter the moment the gaps below close. The HITL split is genuinely better than the v1 AsyncOutcome<T> shape. A handful of decisions are worth pushing back on before they bake in.

Big design observations

1. The shape fits ~10 of our 13 cleanly. Three are awkward.

• ✅ Sales-social (Snap, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, Spotify) → SalesPlatform + AudiencePlatform composition.
• ✅ Sales-catalog-driven / retail-media (Amazon, Citrusad, Criteo) → SalesPlatform with supportedBillings: ['operator'].
• ✅ Sales-non-guaranteed (Google), Universal Ads.
• ❌ CitrusAd / Criteo / Snap conversion-tracking + sync-catalogs + financials — no v6 home. Tools like syncEventSources, logEvent, syncCatalogs, getAccountFinancials are routed today via EventTrackingHandlers/SignalsHandlers/etc. by createServerFromAdapter, but the v6 platform interface doesn't expose them.

This is a surface gap, not a design flaw — EventTrackingPlatform / CatalogPlatform / FinancialsPlatform specialisms presumably land later. Until they do, we'd run a hybrid (some tools via v6, some via direct customTools) or wait. We can file an upstream issue with concrete wire-aligned proposals if helpful.

2. *Task dual-method is a real win over AsyncOutcome<T>.

Each method either returns a value or throws — no ok() / submitted() ceremony. Framework allocates taskId before calling the adopter and passes it in, so adopters can persist it to their own backend before kicking off slow work. That fixes a real ergonomics bug in v1 where adopters could only learn the task ID after returning.

validatePlatform() exactly-one enforcement is correct: claiming both shapes is a bug.

3. publishStatusChange as a module-level singleton — mild concern.

let activeBus: StatusChangeBus = createInMemoryStatusChangeBus();
export function publishStatusChange<TPayload>(opts) { activeBus.publish(opts); }

Convenient (adopters call from anywhere — webhook handler, cron, no server reference) but module-level singletons are hostile to multi-tenant test isolation. If we run two createAdcpServerFromPlatform instances in the same process for tests (and we do, all over), they share one bus. setStatusChangeBus() returning the previous bus for restoration is the documented escape hatch, but tests forgetting to restore will silently bleed events between suites.

Suggestion: also expose via server.statusChange.publish(...) so the function is a convenience over an instance method, not the only path. Or scope by account_id + ambient context — already viable since events carry account_id.

4. Sandbox-as-account is a meaningful improvement.

The platform.ts doc:

when AccountReference.sandbox === true, framework resolves the buyer's sandbox account via accounts.resolve(). There is no separate "dry-run" mode.

Collapses our messy "sandbox vs. dry-run vs. preview" dimension into one clean axis at the account boundary. Our current adapters thread sandbox through context awkwardly. v6 makes it just a different Account, and the platform routes by reading account.metadata. Strictly better.

5. RequiredPlatformsFor<S> compile-time gate is worth the complexity.

The nested-conditional encoding (vs. union of S extends X ? {} : never) for legible error messages is a thoughtful detail. Today our PlatformAdapter discovers missing methods at first request — claiming audience-sync without an audiences field would compile-fail under v6 instead of failing at startup. Strict win.

6. In-memory task registry blocks production today.

if (!safe && !ack) {
  throw new Error('createAdcpServerFromPlatform: in-memory task registry refused outside test/development...');
}

Allowlist-by-NODE_ENV pattern (✅ took our pgPool feedback). But the durable Postgres-backed registry is explicitly "landing in v6.0-rc.1", not shipped. Most of our adapters now have HITL paths (creative review, audience matching, media-buy approval on Meta/LinkedIn), so the in-memory registry isn't viable for prod. We'd need the env-var ack OR wait for the Postgres backend.

This is the single biggest shipping blocker for us.

Small implementation observations

1. from-platform.ts:107 uses <P extends DecisioningPlatform<any, any>> — the comment explains why (Record<string, unknown> default doesn't accept adopter interfaces without an index signature). Real friction we'd hit immediately. The any, any is the right escape hatch but loses metadata-type narrowing in handler code. Likely fine in practice.

2. from-platform.ts:280 extracts media_buy_id via cast — (params as { media_buy_id?: string }).media_buy_id. Type discipline got loose at the projection seam. If MediaBuyHandlers.updateMediaBuy's param shape doesn't already declare media_buy_id, fixable upstream.

3. to-context.ts:36-44 resolvers all throw "not yet wired in v6.0 alpha". Same with state.* readers (findByObject: () => []). None of our 13 adapters use these today, so tolerable for migration — but worth a comment somewhere louder than the file header that touching ctx.resolve.* will crash.

4. buildAccountHandlers rejects when upsert/list undefined with UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE — matches our PR comply_test_controller: read-path interception for platform-proxy sellers #1002 feedback for graceful degradation. ✅

5. AdcpError field-projection has copy-on-undefined pattern — ...(err.field !== undefined && { field: err.field }). Six lines per error projection. Bikeshed-level — single object-spread + Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(...).filter(...)) is cleaner.

6. AccountNotFoundError instanceof at from-platform.ts:121 accepts both null return AND throw. Matches the documented contract in account.ts. ✅

7. creative.ts documents file-an-issue paths — "file an issue with adcp spec to add a Submitted arm to BuildCreativeResponse." Good — the SDK isn't pretending to model what the wire spec doesn't allow. We had to learn this the hard way for update_media_buy.

8. SyncAudiencesRow's extracted-from-wire pattern — type Audience = NonNullable<SyncAudiencesRequest['audiences']>[number]. We do this exact dance inside our adapters today. Centralizing it is small but real ergonomic improvement.

9. capabilities.ts — targeting? is optional with "framework infers reasonable defaults" — doc claim doesn't quite match the type (no defaults visible in validatePlatform or from-platform). If "framework infers" means "empty object on the wire," fine. If it means "framework guesses based on specialism," worth verifying before relying on.

10. config: TConfig is required but configSchema? is optional. So adopters can declare config without runtime validation. We'd use configSchema everywhere — strictly better than our current "validate at first request" pattern.

11. No obvious home for OAuth providers. SnapOAuthProvider and our stdio + http OAuth wiring don't have an obvious home in DecisioningPlatform. Either it stays on the surrounding createAdcpServerFromPlatform opts (likely) or there's a missing surface (auth?: AuthProvider). Worth confirming the intended path.

12. buildRequestContext throws "handler context missing resolved account" — opaque error. Under what condition could this fire post-validatePlatform? Worth a clearer error or assertion.

Migration spike feasibility — not yet, but soon

To migrate snap (our most-validated adapter) end-to-end:

Blockers:

• a) Durable task registry (in-memory blocks prod; v6.0-rc.1 territory)
• b) EventTrackingPlatform / CatalogPlatform / FinancialsPlatform specialisms — snap uses syncEventSources, logEvent, syncCatalogs, getAccountFinancials
• c) OAuth provider wiring path confirmation
• d) getProducts signature mismatch — our (ctx, brief, contextId, brand, sourceChain) vs. v6 (req, ctx) with args inside req. Trivial churn.

Friction (not blockers):

• All our PlatformAdapter methods return Result<T, PlatformError> (neverthrow). v6 wants Promise<T> + throw new AdcpError(...). Either route works — a thin wrapper at the specialism boundary preserves internal Result discipline while emitting AdcpError outward.
• We'd need an AccountStore impl. Snap is ~30 lines; TikTok with advertiserIds more involved but still a single resolver.

Recommended path (our side): wait until v6.0-rc.1 (durable task registry + non-sales specialisms) before attempting migration. We'll likely file follow-up issues for the missing specialisms with concrete proposals like we did for TargetingCapabilities.

The bones are good. Thanks for taking the v1 feedback on board — the dual-method shape, exactly-one validation, and the NODE_ENV allowlist pattern all landed cleanly.

[bokelley]

Thanks for the thorough Python-port read — useful grounding for the design choices. Addressing the four concerns directly:

Resource URI scheme / account_id exposure. These URIs are tenant-scoped private identifiers — they're only returned to the authenticated buyer that owns the account, not broadcast. That said, "worth a one-liner" is right: this should be documented explicitly in the resource URI scheme section rather than implied. I'll note it as a docs gap for the rc.1 pass.

Task registry retention. Valid concern. The tasks/get wire path is explicitly deferred to v6.0-rc.1 (see "What's deferred"), which means the in-memory task registry today has no eviction policy — intentionally limited scope for the preview. The retention bound needs to be spec'd before rc.1 ships; an LRU with a TTL (e.g. 24h or until buyer acks completion) is the obvious shape. I'll flag this as a required design decision for rc.1 so it doesn't slip.

Naming xxxTask. Noted. Project-specific, not a TS rename target. The xxxTask suffix is correct relative to the AdCP wire spec's TaskAccepted arm, so the SDK keeps it — but the Python-port naming guidance (xxxHitl / xxxRequiresApproval) is worth capturing in a cross-language porting note if that pitch moves forward.

acquire_rights / update_media_buy HITL-sometimes pattern. Agreed the recommended pattern should be explicit: always declare HITL (xxxTask), resolve immediately when no approval gate triggers. That gives buyers predictable polling semantics without the adopter having to conditionally branch on a runtime decision. The skill and sample platforms should call this out — I'll add a callout box to the BroadcastTvSeller example that covers it.

On the broader Python sum-type question: the "two methods, type-system enforces one" shape does earn significantly less in Python (as you lay out), and the multi-tenant deployment pattern makes per-platform-class choice awkward. If a Python SDK materializes, a SyncResult[T] | TaskAccepted return + adcp.events.publish(...) is worth prototyping — the wire semantics are identical, just a different adopter surface.

Nothing here blocks merge, but items 1 and 2 (URI scoping docs, retention design) are tracked as rc.1 prerequisites.

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[bokelley]

Acknowledged. The four concerns are now cleanly resolved or deferred with tracking:

• URI scoping — docs gap noted for rc.1.
• Task registry retention — LRU+TTL design flagged as a hard rc.1 prerequisite; in-memory-only is intentional for the preview window.
• xxxTask naming — kept as spec-aligned; Python porting note captured for any future cross-language pitch.
• HITL-sometimes pattern — "always declare HITL, resolve immediately when no gate triggers" will land as a callout in the BroadcastTvSeller sample.

Nothing blocking merge here; items 1 and 2 are the right rc.1 gates to hold.

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[bokelley]

Thanks for the thorough walk-through — this is exactly the signal the preview surface needs before rc.1.

On the surface gaps (EventTracking, Catalog, Financials): fully expected. The PR's "What's deferred" section covers this — EventTrackingPlatform/CatalogPlatform/FinancialsPlatform land as their specialism interfaces stabilize. The hybrid path you described (some tools via v6, some via customTools direct wiring) is the intended bridge posture. If concrete wire-aligned proposals for those tool groups would accelerate the specialism design, filing them on adcontextprotocol/adcp would be useful upstream signal.

On publishStatusChange singleton isolation — this is worth addressing before rc.1. The restoration escape hatch (setStatusChangeBus() + restore previous) is documented, but tests-that-forget-to-restore is a real failure mode in suites using beforeEach/afterEach patterns. Two options:

1. Instance method alongside (server.statusChange.publish(...)) — makes the scoped reference first-class without removing the module-level convenience. A test can hold a specific server's bus; production code that doesn't hold a server reference still calls the module-level function.
2. createAdcpServerFromPlatform returns { server, bus } — explicit bus reference on the return value; module-level function delegates to whatever was last registered (existing behavior). Slightly different ergonomics but avoids adding statusChange to the server type.

Option 1 is additive (non-breaking) and keeps the adopter API surface flat. Given the module-level function was optimized for webhook/cron use cases where the server reference isn't in scope, both paths coexisting seems right. Happy to track this as a follow-up issue or fold it here if you want to address it before opening to broader feedback.

On dual-method, sandbox-as-account, RequiredPlatformsFor<S>: noted and appreciated — the compile-time gate generating legible errors instead of opaque never-unions was a deliberate callout in the design, good to hear it lands well in practice.

The 10-of-13 coverage across your adapter set at this stage is a strong signal. The three awkward adapters all map to deferred platform interfaces — that's the expected shape for a preview cut.

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[bokelley]

Recommendation: fold Option 1 here.

The API surface is still fluid as a preview cut, and server.statusChange.publish(...) alongside the module-level function is strictly additive — no existing callers break, no signature changes. Establishing both paths from the initial preview means early adopters build correct test-isolation habits from day one rather than learning a new pattern at rc.1.

Option 2 (returning { server, bus } from createAdcpServerFromPlatform) is a harder ergonomic break for adopters who pattern-match on createAdcpServer's single-return shape and would require updating all worked samples. Option 1 avoids that churn entirely.

The implementation footprint is small: expose a statusChange: { publish: <overloads> } accessor on the server instance that delegates to the same internal bus. Tests hold the specific server's reference; webhook/cron code that doesn't have a server in scope keeps calling the module-level function unchanged.

If you want to land a minimal surface first and keep the PR scope tight, tracking as a follow-up issue is fine too — but given the test-isolation risk you flagged and the small diff, folding now seems like the right call before this opens to broader feedback.

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[bokelley]

Folded. Commit 5e3206a adds statusChange: StatusChangeBus to DecisioningAdcpServer.

Each createAdcpServerFromPlatform call now creates its own createInMemoryStatusChangeBus() instance and exposes it via server.statusChange. Tests can hold a server reference and call server.statusChange.publish(...) to push events scoped to that server only — no setStatusChangeBus / restore dance needed for isolation. The module-level publishStatusChange(...) is untouched.

Three tests added to server-decisioning-from-platform.test.js covering: accessor presence, no-leakage into module bus, and two-server cross-contamination. All 24 tests pass.

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[bokelley]

Noted — the three-test coverage (accessor presence, no-leakage into module bus, two-server cross-contamination) is exactly the right isolation matrix for this pattern. The module-level publishStatusChange staying untouched keeps the webhook/cron ergonomics intact.

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[bokelley]

Quick follow-up on 5e3206a1 — clean, targeted fix on Big Design #3. The per-server server.statusChange bus + preserved module-level publishStatusChange is exactly the split I'd hoped for, and the three isolation tests prove non-contamination. Thanks for the fast turnaround.

One latent concern, since the wiring is fresh in your head: the per-server bus and module-level activeBus are now fully independent. When MCP Resources subscription projection lands (currently punted to a later commit), the framework will need to subscribe to both so:

• Tests using server.statusChange.publish(...) reach buyer-facing subscriptions
• Production adopters calling module-level publishStatusChange(...) from webhooks/cron also reach those same subscriptions

If that wiring instead only subscribes to the module-level activeBus, server.statusChange.publish(...) silently becomes test-only sugar — which would be a foot-gun for any adopter who reaches for the per-server API in production code (e.g., to scope to a specific tenant deployment).

Right now neither bus reaches anything observable, so this is latent, not real. Just flagging now before the projection commit solidifies a single-subscribe pattern.

The rest of my prior eval stands unchanged — blockers (durable task registry, missing event-tracking/catalog/financials specialisms, OAuth surface confirmation) are still the gating items for our migration.

[bokelley]

Understood — tracked for the projection commit.

The dual-subscribe requirement is clear: when MCP Resources subscription wiring lands, the subscriber must fan-in from both the per-server server.statusChange bus and the module-level activeBus, so neither call site becomes silently inert in production. The current isolation tests for server.statusChange are the right shape; the projection layer just needs to attach to both sources rather than anchoring to activeBus alone.

No changes to the current diff warranted — the buses are dormant until projection exists. Will note this constraint explicitly in the projection commit's design doc / PR body so the single-subscribe footgun is called out before any reviewer sees the diff.

The blocker list (durable task registry, missing event-tracking/catalog/financials specialisms, OAuth surface confirmation) remains unchanged.

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[EmmaLouise2018]

Review — feat(server): DecisioningPlatform v6.0 preview surface

Verdict: solid bones, premature ship. At least one security bug, two correctness bugs, and several adopter-blocking gaps need to land before merge.

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🔴 Must fix before merge

1. JWKS validator security hole — src/lib/server/decisioning/tenant-registry.ts:188-209. isMatchingKey returns true on kid equality alone without comparing the public-key material (n/e, x/y, crv/x). The corresponding test (test/server-decisioning-tenant-registry.test.js:271-283) actually asserts this broken behavior — published JWK has n: 'aaa', claimed key has n: 'bbb', validator returns ok: true. An attacker controlling a tenant's signingKey.publicJwk (or one whose kid collides) bypasses verification.

2. validatePlatform enforces "not both" instead of "exactly one" — runtime/validate-platform.ts:96-112. If an adopter declares sales but defines neither createMediaBuy nor createMediaBuyTask, validation passes and dispatch crashes at runtime via non-null assertions in from-platform.ts:309/343. No test covers the "neither defined" path.

3. Spec-alignment claim wrong: 4 missing Submitted arms — runtime/validate-platform.ts:60-71 and specialisms/sales.ts:1-15 claim only create_media_buy and sync_creatives have Submitted arms. The cached 3.0 GA schemas in schemas/cache/3.0.0/ ship submitted arms for six tools: create-media-buy, update-media-buy, get-products, build-creative, sync-creatives, sync-catalogs. The PR has no updateMediaBuyTask, no getProductsTask, no buildCreativeTask, no syncCatalogsTask. Either the schema cache is stale (run npm run sync-schemas) or the dual-method coverage is wrong. The PR cites adcp#3311 as missing, but the GA schema already has it.

4. server.statusChange per-server bus is wired to nothing — from-platform.ts:146, 168-173. The bus is created and exposed, but createAdcpServer is never given a subscription hook, and the module-level activeBus is independent. Adopters following the JSDoc believe events project to MCP Resources subscribers; they don't. Both buses are inert until a future commit. Either gate the field as a no-op stub with a TODO, unify the buses, or wire the projector before merging.

5. Examples import via relative path — examples/decisioning-platform-{mock-seller,broadcast-tv,...}.ts:32+ import from '../src/lib/server/decisioning', while the SKILL tells adopters to use '@adcp/client/server/decisioning'. The from-platform.ts:41-44 JSDoc also says "not yet exported" while package.json exports does ship the subpath. Three sources, three different stories — copy-paste from the example breaks.

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🟠 Should fix

6. AdCPSpecialism enum is 20 values; validate-platform.ts:18-49 only wires 14. Declaring specialisms: ['signed-requests', 'content-standards', 'brand-rights', 'governance-aware-seller'] passes validation while implementing nothing — silent capability inflation.

7. Retail-media adopters are blocked. sales-catalog-driven and sales-retail-media are mapped to SalesPlatform, but the interface has zero methods for sync_catalogs, sync_event_sources, log_event, provide_performance_feedback. The README defers these to EventTrackingPlatform/CatalogPlatform/FinancialsPlatform "in v6.0-rc.1." Walmart/Criteo/Amazon adopters cannot ship on v6.0-alpha — needs to be louder than a deferred-list bullet.

8. In-memory task registry NODE_ENV gate is a real prod blocker. from-platform.ts:192-206 throws unless NODE_ENV is test/development or ADCP_DECISIONING_ALLOW_INMEMORY_TASKS=1. Sales-broadcast-tv adopters are structurally forced into HITL *Task methods, which structurally need the registry. The skill never mentions it. Either ship a SQLite default or banner this as dev-only.

9. No docs/migration-5.x-to-6.x.md. PR body promises "handler bodies port one-to-one"; the SKILL's "Reference" section sends adopters to docs/proposals/decisioning-platform-v1.md — i.e., the design proposal as docs. A v5.x adopter has no on-ramp.

10. listAccounts skips projectSync — from-platform.ts:622. AdcpError throws bubble as generic and map to SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE instead of structured envelope.

11. Race in _registerBackground — runtime/task-registry.ts:125-135. If taskFn resolves synchronously, the composed.then cleanup runs before _registerBackground registers, and the entry never deletes. Memory leak only.

12. <P extends DecisioningPlatform<any, any>> defeats RequiredPlatformsFor — from-platform.ts:139, 285, 358, 439, 457, 480, 600. Use <P extends DecisioningPlatform<TMeta, TStatus>, TMeta = unknown, TStatus = unknown> instead.

13. Compile-time XOR not used for dual-method. Runtime check at validate-platform.ts:80-117 is correct, but TS's discriminated unions could make "both defined" unrepresentable. Big footgun for LLM-driven adopters.

14. Recommended "always declare HITL, resolve immediately" pattern (SKILL.md:194-217) forces every buyer to poll tasks/get for sync calls — and tasks/get is itself deferred to v6.0-rc.1. The skill recommends a pattern that has no wire path yet.

15. tenant-registry.ts:299-308 resolveByHost is O(N) parsing new URL per lookup. Build a Map<host, tenantId> at register-time.

16. runValidation doesn't catch validator throws — tenant-registry.ts:236-268. Tenants stuck unverified forever.

17. Module-level publishStatusChange cross-test contamination — status-changes.ts:148. Concurrent test files clobber activeBus.

18. AccountNotFoundError 3-way semantics — account.ts:114-167. Throwing it from a specialism method silently maps to SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE instead of ACCOUNT_NOT_FOUND. Make the constructor @internal so adopters can't misuse it outside accounts.resolve().

19. ErrorCode union hand-maintained — async-outcome.ts:24-26 has the codegen TODO. Will drift from schemas/cache/<version>/enums/error-code.json.

20. typesVersions missing server/decisioning — package.json:99-101. Adopters on moduleResolution: 'node' won't get autocomplete.

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🟡 Design concerns (worth a follow-up, not merge-blocking)

• Dual-method per-tool shape forces upfront sync-vs-HITL choice. Real DSPs/SSPs are HITL-sometimes (legal review for new contracts only). The "always declare HITL, resolve fast" workaround taxes every buyer with polling. A throw RequiresReviewError from a sync method that the framework converts to submitted is the more honest pattern — sync ergonomics with async correctness.
• Sandbox-as-account loses real semantics. Buyers care about test budgets not billed, test creatives not trafficked. TTD/DV360 expose sandbox as a mode flag on a real account. Document that platforms can resolve sandbox to the same account with metadata.sandbox: true.
• Hardcoded specialism lists in validate-platform.ts:18-49 and sales.ts:67-123 will drift. Drive from generated schema.
• Sales specialism collapse oversimplifies broadcast and proposal-mode. A single SalesPlatform shape works for programmatic specialisms but flattens broadcast-TV's multi-stage IO/proposal lifecycle. Workable via publishStatusChange, but every broadcast adopter will hit awkwardness.
• Status-change taxonomy missing verification_result / outcome_report for measurement vendors when measurement-verification graduates from preview. delivery_report as a status channel is overengineered — consider renaming to delivery_report_published.
• AccountStore.resolution: 'explicit' | 'implicit' | 'derived' is real, not academic — maps cleanly to GAM/Snap (explicit), LinkedIn (implicit), self-hosted (derived). Keep.

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Notes

• Generated-types diff (core.generated.ts, tools.generated.ts) reads as a clean codegen run from vlatest → v3.0.0. No hand-edit smell.
• Architecture itself is right: single class, framework owns wire mapping, throw AdcpError, RequiredPlatformsFor compile-time gate. The shape is cleaner than v5.x's handler bag — the shipping wrapper just isn't ready.
• Realistically only ~30% of AdCP-curious sellers can ship on this surface today (programmatic SSPs, signals, audiences, template/generative creative). RMNs, broadcast/proposal-mode, governance-past-spend-authority, brand-rights, OAuth-auth, and creative-ad-server adopters all have to wait for rc.1. The README's "v6.0 preview surface organized by specialism" framing should call that out per-specialism in the JSDoc, not just the deferred-list bullet.
• The PR thread's "5 rounds of be-Emma at 4.5/5" + the simulated agentic-adapters / Python-port adopter comments all originate from the same author. Real-world adopter validation (someone from a downstream codebase touching this end-to-end) before opening to broader feedback would be high-value.

Three concrete things to land before merge: (a) fix #1 + #2 + #3, (b) reconcile the import-path divergence in #5, (c) decide whether HITL is alpha-shippable or scope this PR to the 100%-sync specialisms and ship *Task methods in rc.1.