TheGreatAxios · Sep 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     "@corbits/approvals": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/artifact-ui": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/bench-ui": "workspace:*",
-    "@corbits/chat": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/chat-ui": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/client-log": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/command-palette": "workspace:*",

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Builds the `BlockResponseActions` port `ChatWorkspace` (`@corbits/chat-ui`)
 // calls for its in-chat poll/form cards, mirroring `createChatApprovalActions`
 // in `./approval-actions.ts`: `@corbits/chat-ui` owns no session, so the host
-// supplies the concrete fetches against `@corbits/chat`'s own response
+// supplies the concrete fetches against the hub's chat response
 // routes (`getBlockResponses`/`submitPollResponse`/`submitFormResponse` in
 // `api.ts`).
 

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // routines). No new analytics backend — I1 is an honest live surface on
 // existing endpoints.
 
-import { isWorkbenchHostDefinitionName } from "@corbits/chat/workbench-host-naming";
+import { isWorkbenchHostDefinitionName } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/workbench-host-naming";
 import {
   runOutcomeStatus,
   withListingAbandoned,

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import {
   listTenantInvitableDefinitions,
   WorkbenchLoadingState,
 } from "@corbits/chat-ui";
-import { humanizeSlug } from "@corbits/chat/display-name";
+import { humanizeSlug } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/display-name";
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { ApiQueryError, describeApiError } from "@corbits/api-query";

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // participant instead of by a fixed title, and fall back to creating one —
 // to any profile subject rather than one hardcoded agent.
 
-import { localPartOf } from "@corbits/chat/agent-address";
+import { localPartOf } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/agent-address";
 import {
   createWorkbench,
   findDirectWorkbenchWith,

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // `displayTitle` (or the native skill asset's `displayName`, which the
 // stock asset routes carry as of CL-8086) or a Title Case reading of that
 // slug (CL-6747).
-import { humanizeSlug } from "@corbits/chat/display-name";
+import { humanizeSlug } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/display-name";
 
 export function skillDisplayName(skill: {
   readonly name: string;

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 // array. No new backend: every input here is already fetched by an
 // existing page (chat-ui, api.ts).
 
-import { isAgentAddress } from "@corbits/chat/mentions";
-import { localPartOf } from "@corbits/chat/agent-address";
+import { isAgentAddress } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/mentions";
+import { localPartOf } from "@corbits/chat-ui/wire/agent-address";
 import type { WorkbenchThread, MessageItem } from "@corbits/chat-ui";
 
 import type { PendingApproval } from "./pending-approvals";

@@ -8,15 +8,24 @@
   "sideEffects": false,
   "exports": {
     ".": "./src/index.ts",
-    "./styles.css": "./src/styles.css"
+    "./styles.css": "./src/styles.css",
+    "./wire/parts": "./src/wire/parts.ts",
+    "./wire/blocks": "./src/wire/blocks.ts",
+    "./wire/mentions": "./src/wire/mentions.ts",
+    "./wire/participants": "./src/wire/participants.ts",
+    "./wire/display-name": "./src/wire/display-name.ts",
+    "./wire/agent-address": "./src/wire/agent-address.ts",
+    "./wire/reaction-emoji": "./src/wire/reaction-emoji.ts",
+    "./wire/workbench-host-naming": "./src/wire/workbench-host-naming.ts",
+    "./wire/stream-events": "./src/wire/stream-events.ts",
+    "./wire/consumer-inference-text": "./src/wire/consumer-inference-text.ts"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
     "test": "bun test"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@corbits/api-query": "workspace:*",
-    "@corbits/chat": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/context-menu": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/error-sink": "workspace:*",
     "@corbits/inference-settings": "workspace:*",

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Adapting `@corbits/chat`'s parts to the shapes `@corbits/react-ui`
+// Adapting the chat wire's parts (`./wire/parts`) to the shapes `@corbits/react-ui`
 // renders (CL-6318).
 //
 // Only reasoning crosses this boundary now. Tool calls used to as well,
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 // turn's calls into rounds and never shows a reader JSON at all.
 
 import type { PartReasoning } from "@corbits/react-ui";
-import type { ReasoningPart } from "@corbits/chat/parts";
+import type { ReasoningPart } from "./wire/parts";
 
 /** chat's reasoning carries no duration; react-ui's is optional, so it
  * stays absent rather than being fabricated. */

@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
-// The chat surface's one seam to `@corbits/chat`'s HTTP routes (see
-// packages/chat/src/routes.ts). Every fetch the chat/* components make goes
-// through a function here, and every response is parsed with an arktype
-// schema at the boundary — a route shape change is a one-file fix.
+// The chat surface's one seam to the hub's chat HTTP routes (see
+// packages/chat/src/routes.ts, still the routes' implementation). Every
+// fetch the chat/* components make goes through a function here, and every
+// response is parsed with an arktype schema at the boundary — a route
+// shape change is a one-file fix.
 //
-// The wire-level `Part` and participant schemas are imported from
-// `@corbits/chat` rather than redefined here: this UI validates the wire
-// contract at its own boundary, but against the one real schema rather than
-// a second, hand-copied one.
+// The wire-level `Part` and participant schemas live in this package's own
+// `./wire` (mirrored off the hub's wire contract) rather than being
+// imported from `@corbits/chat` directly, so this browser bundle never
+// carries a server-only dependency.
 
 import { type } from "arktype";
 import type { ArkErrors } from "arktype";
-import { Part } from "@corbits/chat/parts";
-import { parseParticipants } from "@corbits/chat/participants";
-import type { ParticipantRecord } from "@corbits/chat/participants";
-import type { WorkbenchOnboardingStep } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import { Part } from "./wire/parts";
+import { parseParticipants } from "./wire/participants";
+import type { ParticipantRecord } from "./wire/participants";
+import type { WorkbenchOnboardingStep } from "./wire/blocks";
 import { UnauthenticatedError } from "@corbits/api-query";
 import { InferenceSettingsApiError } from "@corbits/inference-settings";
 import { jimmyAgentRequest } from "@workbench/templates";
@@ -27,14 +28,14 @@ export {
   FilePart,
   EventPart,
   Part,
-} from "@corbits/chat/parts";
-export type { ParticipantRecord } from "@corbits/chat/participants";
+} from "./wire/parts";
+export type { ParticipantRecord } from "./wire/participants";
 export type {
   OnboardingStepLabel,
   WorkbenchOnboardingStep,
-} from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
-export { REACTION_EMOJI } from "@corbits/chat/reaction-emoji";
-export type { ReactionEmoji } from "@corbits/chat/reaction-emoji";
+} from "./wire/blocks";
+export { REACTION_EMOJI } from "./wire/reaction-emoji";
+export type { ReactionEmoji } from "./wire/reaction-emoji";
 
 export const WorkbenchKind = type("'workbench' | 'chat'");
 export type WorkbenchKind = typeof WorkbenchKind.infer;

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // pre-round-trip framing: fixed disabled buttons, no fetch.
 
 import { Button, toast } from "@corbits/react-ui";
-import type { ApproveBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { ApproveBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// The in-chat poll/form cards' one seam to `@corbits/chat`'s response
+// The in-chat poll/form cards' one seam to the hub's chat response
 // routes. `@corbits/chat-ui` owns no session, so it never fetches or
 // mutates responses itself -- the host supplies this port, mirroring how
 // `ApprovalActions` threads the approve card's round-trip through

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 // known-good connection. An explicit `disconnected` result clears the
 // snapshot so a real disconnect still shows Connect.
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
-import type { ConnectGithubBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { ConnectGithubBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 import { reportError } from "@corbits/error-sink";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 // connect that goes nowhere, matching the "no port, no feature"
 // fallback every other block uses.
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
-import type { ConnectServiceBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { ConnectServiceBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import type {
   ConnectServiceActions,

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import { Button } from "@corbits/react-ui";
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import type { FormEvent } from "react";
-import type { FormBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { FormBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";
 import { BlockCard } from "./block-card";

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { MetricsBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { MetricsBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import { BlockCard } from "./block-card";
 

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // nothing here is ever trusted twice.
 
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
-import type { PollBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { PollBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";
 import { BlockCard } from "./block-card";

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // collapsing as if the agent had already been reached.
 
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState, type FormEvent } from "react";
-import type { QuestionBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { QuestionBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 import { Check } from "@corbits/icons";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 // and routes each known type to its view; anything unknown or malformed
 // renders a labeled fallback card instead of raw JSON or a crash.
 
-import type { Block } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
-import { parseBlock } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
-import type { BlockPart } from "@corbits/chat/parts";
+import type { Block } from "../wire/blocks";
+import { parseBlock } from "../wire/blocks";
+import type { BlockPart } from "../wire/parts";
 import type { ReactElement } from "react";
 
 import { CHAT_STRINGS } from "../strings";

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { StepsBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { StepsBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import { BlockCard } from "./block-card";
 

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { StreamBlockData } from "@corbits/chat/blocks";
+import type { StreamBlockData } from "../wire/blocks";
 
 import { BlockCard } from "./block-card";
 

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 // `@workbench/web` that is the same `/api/me/principals` call the Home
 // and Settings pages use), so `ChatWorkspace` takes a small
 // `TenantResolution` value rather than importing app code: the same
-// narrow-port shape `@corbits/chat`'s `routes.ts` uses for `ChatPlatform`.
+// narrow-port shape the hub's chat routes uses for `ChatPlatform`.
 
-import { isAgentAddress } from "@corbits/chat/mentions";
+import { isAgentAddress } from "./wire/mentions";
 import { Button, EmptyState, toast } from "@corbits/react-ui";
 import { reportError } from "@corbits/error-sink";
 import { getResolvedCatalog } from "@corbits/inference-settings";
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ import {
   ChatPinEventData,
   ChatReactionEventData,
   ChatSettingsEventData,
-} from "@corbits/chat/stream-events";
+} from "./wire/stream-events";
 import { useThreadNavigation } from "./use-thread-navigation";
 import { mergePendingSends, useOptimisticSends } from "./use-optimistic-sends";
 export {
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ const REPLY_TIMED_OUT_ITEM_ID = "reply_timed_out_notice";
  * (`PENDING_REPLY_CLEAR_MS`) has fired — a turn that opened but never got a
  * single token and never closed out either, so the reader was left staring
  * at a typing indicator that just vanished with no explanation. This is
- * the same class of failure `postUndeliveredNotice` (`@corbits/chat`)
+ * the same class of failure `postUndeliveredNotice` (the hub's chat routes)
  * already gives an honest, actionable backstop to when the dispatch fails
  * loud enough for the server to see it — a cold-waking agent that never
  * streams a token back fails silently instead, so before CL-6677 this

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export const CLASSIFIED_INFERENCE_FAILURE_PREAMBLES: readonly string[] = [
 export {
   CONSUMER_INFERENCE_FAILURE_NOTICE,
   consumerFacingInferenceText,
-} from "@corbits/chat/consumer-inference-text";
+} from "./wire/consumer-inference-text";
 
 export function isClassifiedInferenceFailureText(text: string): boolean {
   return CLASSIFIED_INFERENCE_FAILURE_PREAMBLES.some((preamble) =>

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import {
 import { Users, WarningCircle } from "@corbits/icons";
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
-import { deriveDisplayName } from "@corbits/chat/display-name";
+import { deriveDisplayName } from "./wire/display-name";
 import {
   ChatApiError,
   describeChatError,
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ export function InviteAgentDialog({
                 // set at creation, else a humanized reading of the
                 // immutable slug — never a scattered reimplementation
                 // that could drift (or leak an internal id as a fake
-                // name) beside `@corbits/chat/display-name`.
+                // name) beside `@corbits/chat-ui/wire/display-name`.
                 const displayName = deriveDisplayName({
                   name: definition.name,
                   ...(definition.description !== undefined

@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
 // `packages/chat/src/participants.ts`), the same friendly, deduplicated
 // mention name `mentionedParticipants` in `packages/chat/src/routes.ts`
 // matches against — never the instance-id local part. Filtering to agent
-// addresses delegates to `@corbits/chat`'s `isAgentAddress`, the same
+// addresses delegates to this package's own `isAgentAddress` (`./wire/mentions`), the same
 // function the server's fan-out uses, so the candidate set is always
 // exactly the set the server will fan a copy to. `label` is a friendlier
 // string shown alongside the handle in the popover only.
 
-import { isAgentAddress } from "@corbits/chat/mentions";
-import { handleFromName } from "@corbits/chat/participants";
+import { isAgentAddress } from "./wire/mentions";
+import { handleFromName } from "./wire/participants";
 import type { ParticipantRecord } from "./api";
 import {
   displayNameForAddress,

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Identity payload for opening a ProfileCard in the shell canvas. Chat-ui
 // never mounts the card itself — the host canvas column owns that surface.
 
-import { isAgentAddress } from "@corbits/chat/mentions";
+import { isAgentAddress } from "./wire/mentions";
 
 import type { ParticipantRecord } from "./api";
 

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // (`workbenchOrder.filter(members.some(subject))`, capped at 4) over the real
 // `Workbench.participants` feed instead of the mock's in-memory fixture.
 
-import { localPartOf } from "@corbits/chat/agent-address";
+import { localPartOf } from "./wire/agent-address";
 
 import type { Workbench } from "./api";
 

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 
-import { isAgentAddress, mentionedParticipants } from "@corbits/chat/mentions";
+import { isAgentAddress, mentionedParticipants } from "./wire/mentions";
 import { reportError } from "@corbits/error-sink";
 import type { Part, ParticipantRecord } from "./api";
 import { REAL_CLOCK, type Clock } from "./clock";
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ export function useStreamingReply(
   /** Set once the backstop above has fired for the turn just cleared — a
    * `reportError` refId (CL-6677) the host's honest notice quotes, the
    * same "ref id + Retry" treatment `postUndeliveredNotice`
-   * (`@corbits/chat`) gives a dispatch failure that surfaces server-side.
+   * (the hub's chat routes) gives a dispatch failure that surfaces server-side.
    * This is the same class of failure with no server signal at all (a
    * cold-waking agent that never streams back a token), so it deserves
    * the same backstop rather than the ref-less, action-less notice this