Preset harnesses get no MCP server, so their agents can never post a reply

## Preset harnesses get no MCP server, so their agents can never post a reply

### Summary

An agent whose harness is a **preset** (`presets.rs` — hermes, cursor, devin, opencode, …)
is started with `mcpServers: []` in `session/new`. Since a Buzz agent publishes its reply
by calling the Buzz tools exposed through `buzz-dev-mcp`, such an agent has no way to post:
it runs the turn, streams `agent_message_chunk`s, returns `stopReason: end_turn` — and
nothing is ever published (kind:9 count stays 0).

Built-in runtimes (`claude`, `codex`, `goose`, `buzz-agent`) carry an MCP command and work.

### Evidence

Same relay, same app, same machine. Buzz Desktop 0.5.20 (macOS 26.6.2 arm64),
self-hosted `deploy/compose` relay.

`session/new` params, captured with `RUST_LOG=buzz_acp=debug,acp=debug`:

```
Honey  (runtime=codex,  builtin) → mcpServers: 1   {"command": ".../buzz-dev-mcp", "env": [...]}
Hermes (runtime=hermes, preset)  → mcpServers: 0
```

Events published by each agent pubkey:

| kind | Hermes (preset) | Honey (builtin) |
|---|---|---|
| 7 / 5 (reaction + delete) | yes | yes |
| **9 (message)** | **0** | yes |

The one time Hermes did post, it had brute-forced its way there through its shell tool —
32 tool calls, several failing with `relay error 403`, until one worked:

```
INFO acp::tool: tool_call: terminal: buzz messages send --channel adafd400-... --reply-to ...
```

That is the only kind:9 it ever produced, and it came from the CLI, not from the harness
path.

### Where it comes from

`desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery/presets.rs` builds every preset entry with

```rust
mcp_command: None,
```

while the built-in runtime table supplies one. Nothing else appears to fill it in for
presets.

Note: the `grok` preset *does* work here, but only by accident — that agent's record was
created while it still ran the built-in `buzz-agent` runtime, so `mcp_command:
"buzz-dev-mcp"` was persisted in `managed-agents.json` and survived the later switch to
the preset. A preset agent created from scratch (Hermes) has `mcp_command: ""`.

### Workarounds tried, all ineffective

- Setting `mcp_command` directly in the agent's `managed-agents.json` record
- Injecting `BUZZ_ACP_MCP_COMMAND=/Applications/Buzz.app/Contents/MacOS/buzz-dev-mcp`
  through the agent's `env_vars`

Both persist in the store but `session/new` still carries `mcpServers: 0`, so the value
appears to be resolved from the runtime catalog at spawn time.

### Ruled out

- **Command resolution** — `hermes-acp` resolves; Settings → Agents shows *Ready*.
- **ACP conformance** — driving `hermes-acp` directly over stdio, it answers `initialize`
  (protocol v1), opens a session and streams standard `agent_message_chunk`s.
- **`messageId` on chunks** — codex-acp sends one, hermes-acp does not; patching
  hermes-acp to emit a stable per-turn `messageId` changed nothing, and the working `grok`
  preset sends none either.
- **Membership / auth** — the agent is a channel `bot` member and authenticates with
  `BUZZ_AUTH_TAG` like the working agents.

### Expected

A preset harness that speaks ACP should receive the same `buzz-dev-mcp` server as a
built-in runtime, so its agent can publish replies.

### Repro

1. Install any preset harness CLI (e.g. `hermes-acp`) so it is on PATH
2. Create an agent, set harness to that preset, add it to a channel
3. Mention it — the turn completes with `end_turn`, no message is posted


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