acp-provider

ACP providers

Known agents can be discovered automatically when their CLI is installed on the host: opencode, omp, grok, and hermes appear as acp-opencode, acp-omp, acp-grok, and acp-hermes-agent. Inspect the target host's catalog with bb provider list and bb provider models <provider-id> using its environment or machine selector.

Agents in the official ACP registry can be added without writing JSON. bb acp registry [--refresh] [--json] lists them with a status: available, added, update available, built in (bb already ships it), or manual install (the agent ships only as a downloadable binary). bb acp add <agent-id> adds the agent as provider acp-<agent-id>, or moves an added agent to the registry's current version while keeping the fields edited by hand. bb acp remove <agent-id> removes it. The plugin's settings page shows the same list. An added agent is an entry in the Custom agents setting that runs npx -y <package> or uvx <package> on the thread's host, so the host needs Node.js or uv. The list is cached for six hours; when the registry cannot be reached the saved copy is shown with the reason.

To hide a detected ACP agent, use bb provider disable acp-opencode, or Disable on Settings → Providers. Restore it with bb provider enable acp-opencode. This leaves other ACP agents and the host CLI intact. Disabled agents skip background capability probing. bb provider list --all includes disabled agents.

Cursor project skills come from .cursor/skills, which can link to .agents/skills. BB lists these linked skills as read-only under cursor-project.

ACP agents may reject unlisted model IDs. OpenCode requires models in its own configuration; BB discovers them there. OpenCode agents are session modes, not models selectable through BB's model field. BB asks OpenCode for its models and modes in the directory the thread will run in: the project's checkout for a new thread, the environment's directory otherwise. OpenCode's custom primary agents therefore appear in the mode menu whether they live in the OpenCode config directory or in the project's .opencode/ directory; bb provider models acp-opencode --project <id> prints the same list. A new agent file shows up once the stored list is ten minutes old and is read again. The same holds for a custom agent with dialect: "opencode"; every other ACP agent is asked once per machine. OpenCode does not read agent files from other folders such as .agents/agents/; set OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR (for example to .agents, resolved in each workspace) as a machine variable with bb machine env set OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR or in a custom agent's env, and keep every file there a valid OpenCode agent file, because OpenCode refuses to start on one it cannot parse. Grok Build advertises models and thought_level options over ACP, so the picker follows the connected agent (including xhigh on grok-4.6).

BB launches OpenCode sessions with OPENCODE_CLIENT=acp and OPENCODE_ENABLE_QUESTION_TOOL=false, overriding inherited and custom launch values. Native questions have no ACP interaction handler in BB; agents use the ask-user-question plugin’s AskUserQuestion tool instead. This also applies to custom agents with dialect: "opencode" and does not change OpenCode config files.

OpenCode and Grok ACP support the core bb thread compact command; Cursor ACP does not expose compatible compaction. Check the actual agent's capabilities before attempting provider-specific recovery.

OpenCode Go subscription usage is available in Provider usage when the selected machine has OpenCode installed and a Go subscription. Sign in to Go in OpenCode on that machine, then refresh its OpenCode tab. Verify with bb settings usage --machine <id-or-name> --json; the SDK equivalent is bb.sdk.system.usageLimits({ hostId, providerId: "acp-opencode" }). BB reports Go's five-hour, weekly, and monthly usage and reset times, not local session token totals or other OpenCode providers' subscriptions.