The starter READMEs, channel-host.mts headers, and the host's own log
lines described the feature as a "managed Channel". Managed is an
implementation detail of how Intelligence attaches the provider edge,
not part of the name — the product surface is just a Channel.
Renames every occurrence across the 15 starters. Section headings become
"Running a Channel", the host header becomes "Channel host", and the
setup_required log reads "no provider is attached yet".
"managed Intelligence" in the .env.example comments is left alone: that
one distinguishes hosted Intelligence from a self-hosted deployment and
is unrelated to Channel naming.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extracts agent construction into src/agent.ts so the runtime route and the new
channel-host.mts share one definition. The host holds no provider credentials and
declares no adapters: Intelligence owns the provider edge, so one host file works
for every provider.
Also adds tsconfig.channel.json, used only by the new "channel" script
(tsx --tsconfig tsconfig.channel.json channel-host.mts). Without it, tsx crashes
before the host's own code runs: the starter's tsconfig.json sets allowJs: true
(the create-next-app default, present in all 15 starters), which makes tsx's
CJS resolver prefer a sibling .ts file over the real .js entry point for *any*
node_modules package on a bare-specifier require -- including fast-json-patch
(pulled in transitively via @ag-ui/client), whose published package ships an
orphan index.ts (a source re-export of ./src/core) without the src/ directory
it points at. tsconfig.channel.json omits allowJs so this never triggers, and
does not touch the app's real tsconfig.json (which is parity-tracked verbatim
across other starters -- confirmed by testing the alternative fix first).
Full verification trail, including this deviation and the reasoning above, is
in .superpowers/sdd/2026-08-01-channel-host-in-starters/task-1-report.md.
Benjamin Taylor