Restore the 12 Python integration tools/ dirs to symlinks into
shared/python/tools. They had eroded to real, drifting copies via an
accidental stage_shared() leak (commit 534cd1efa7) — the structural root
cause of showcase divergence bugs. Symlinking re-establishes the single
source of truth; content is identical to shared (only render_a2ui naming
and the shared roll_dice/sanitize additions are adopted).
Add showcase/AGENTS.md documenting the 4 iron rules and the single-source
symlink mechanism, plus a validate-shared-symlinks CI guard (shrink-only
baseline) that fails on any NEW erosion.
Two follow-up fixes layered on the previous internal-tool rename:
(1) `a2ui_fixed.py` — fixed-schema demo infinite loop on deploy. The
`display_flight` tool returns the raw `a2ui.render(...)` JSON descriptor
as its tool result. gpt-4o-mini reads that opaque blob, can't tell the
flight was rendered, and re-calls `display_flight` indefinitely (visible
on the deployed showcase as 6+ duplicate flight cards stacked under
repeated assistant text). Local was just lucky.
Hardened the docstring + system prompt to spell out: the JSON return
value is the surface descriptor, the card is already rendered, do NOT
call again, reply with one short confirmation and stop.
(2) Rename `render_a2ui` → `_design_a2ui_surface` in shared and
langgraph-python parity copies of `tools/generate_a2ui.py` (+
`tools/__init__.py` re-export `RENDER_A2UI_TOOL_SCHEMA` →
`DESIGN_A2UI_SURFACE_TOOL_SCHEMA`), and in `showcase/shared/typescript/
tools/generate-a2ui.ts`. These shared helpers were the source-of-truth
for the secondary-LLM tool name across integrations; renaming here keeps
parity with the langgraph-python agents already renamed in
`beautiful_chat.py` / `a2ui_dynamic.py`. Other framework integrations
keep their own `render_a2ui` for now (separate parity sweep).
(3) `showcase/aimock/feature-parity.json` — added a sibling fixture
matching `toolName: "_design_a2ui_surface"` for the beautiful-chat Sales
Dashboard pill so the langgraph-python e2e suite still hits a
deterministic mock on Railway. The original `render_a2ui` fixture is
kept above it so other integrations whose secondary LLM still requests
`render_a2ui` continue to match.
(4) Comment update in `beautiful-chat.spec.ts` to name the new internal
tool.
Replace sys.path.insert hacks in Python agent files with direct
imports via symlinks to shared/{python,typescript}/tools.
Update Dockerfiles, entrypoints, and configs to support the new
symlink-based tool resolution. Add PARITY_NOTES for frameworks
that have known gaps.
Jordan Ritter