AVL Code

Part VII — Quick-Lookup Appendices

This part covers Chapters 28–30: the parameter value cheat-sheet, regex and glob syntax, and the glossary.

28. Parameter value cheat-sheet

[!ref] Full details in the User Manual, "Tools overview".

28.1 Default caps

Item Default Cap
Single tool return 4096 bytes 256 KiB
Single outbound message 3800 chars Per IM cap
Shell command timeout 60_000 ms Configurable
Background task concurrency 64 Not configurable
Background task terminal-state retention 30 min Not configurable
Startup auto-resume tasks 5 Not configurable; rest go to manual resume
AgentParallel legs 2–16 < 2 errors; > 16 truncated
AgentParallel overall timeout 600 s Max 1800; unfinished legs become pending
AgentParallel per-leg output 8000 runes Truncated beyond, with a note to fetch full text
Self-heal attempt caps (compact / fallback / backoff / outcome) 2 / 3 / 3 / 3 History can lower; each kind keeps ≥ 1
RAG index files / build timeout 4000 / 120 s ≤ 400 symbols·≤ 4 MiB per file; code.search default 20 hits, code.ask default 12
SBOM generate / audit / vex previews 50 / 30 / 40 Full results in the on-disk file
SBOM reachability scan ≤4000 files · ≤256 KiB/file vex reachability analysis caps
Pairing-code TTL 10 min Not configurable
Sign-in credential TTL 23h45m Not configurable

28.2 File-size hard caps (tool reads)

Tool Cap
read (lines) 256 KiB
read (bytes) 256 KiB
list 4 KiB
glob 256 KiB
grep 256 KiB
exec 256 KiB

28.3 Exit-code semantics

Code Meaning Source
0 Success CLI / tool
1 Generic CLI / tool
2 Argument CLI
64–78 sysexits CLI
124 Timeout exec
137 Killed exec