diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 1b9cdf080e..d42144ec9a 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ Run with: `pnpm run demo:code` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`). See [code-agent/READM
 
 An agent demo exposed as an **Agent Client Protocol (ACP)** server over JSON-RPC stdio, via the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent`](../packages/ui/acp-agent) app — drive it from Zed or any other ACP client. Also the home of the keyless snapshot tests.
 
-Run with: `pnpm run demo:acp` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`). See [acp-agent/README.md](acp-agent/README.md) for the Zed setup and the snapshot-test design.
+Run with: `pnpm run demo:acp` (needs `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`); `pnpm run demo:acp-code` boots the same server in Code Mode via the `code-mode.cordis.yml` overlay. See [acp-agent/README.md](acp-agent/README.md) for the Zed setup and the snapshot-test design.
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/README.md b/examples/acp-agent/README.md
index a1f6e818ab..b00604a056 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/README.md
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/README.md
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ The DeepSeek Harness SDK agent demo exposed as an **Agent Client Protocol (ACP)*
 
 ```sh
 pnpm run demo:acp          # needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY (repo-root .env or env)
+pnpm run demo:acp-code     # the same server in Code Mode: one wire tool, run_code
 ```
 
-This example is just a leaf `cordis.yml`: it loads the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent`](../../packages/ui/acp-agent) app (which bundles the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core`](../../packages/core/agent-core) spine, JSONL session persistence, and the `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` bridge — with **no pre-created agents**, since ACP `session/new` creates them on demand), the swappable DeepSeek, bash, and filesystem backends, the model-facing `read`/`write`/`edit`/`subagent`/`subagent_fork`/`todo_write` tool entries, and the advisory `repeat-tool-guard` loop-hygiene plugin. The app package bakes in the no-stdout-logger cluster, so a leaf has no logger entry to get wrong by default — keeping stdout pure for JSON-RPC.
+This example is just a leaf `cordis.yml`: it loads the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent`](../../packages/ui/acp-agent) app (which bundles the [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core`](../../packages/core/agent-core) spine, JSONL session persistence, and the `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` bridge — with **no pre-created agents**, since ACP `session/new` creates them on demand), the swappable DeepSeek, bash, and filesystem backends, the model-facing `read`/`write`/`edit`/`subagent`/`subagent_fork`/`todo_write` tool entries, and the advisory `repeat-tool-guard` loop-hygiene plugin. The app package bakes in the no-stdout-logger cluster, so a leaf has no logger entry to get wrong by default — keeping stdout pure for JSON-RPC. `demo:acp-code` boots the same tree through the [`code-mode.cordis.yml`](code-mode.cordis.yml) overlay — the tool surface collapses to `run_code` + the generated TypeScript SDK, dispatching through the worker-thread code runtime (see the [dsh-tools Code Mode section](../../packages/core/tools/README.md#code-mode)).
 
 ## stdout is the protocol
 
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
index 244cad9209..0dfbd73d26 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-# Code Mode RECORD overlay: the live acp-agent tree (./cordis.yml) with two
+# Code Mode overlay: the live acp-agent tree (./cordis.yml) with two
 # load-time patches — the app entry's config gains `tools: { mode: code }`
 # (the registry offers exactly one wire tool, run_code, plus the generated
 # TypeScript SDK prompt section) and the worker-thread code runtime joins the
-# tree as `ctx.codeRuntime`. The dsh-acp-agent bin boots this file when the
-# snapshot harness records the code-mode scenarios; DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay swaps
-# it for the sibling code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml. A config patch REPLACES
-# the entry's whole config, so the base entry's fields are restated verbatim.
+# tree as `ctx.codeRuntime`. The dsh-acp-agent bin boots this file for
+# `pnpm run demo:acp-code` and when the snapshot harness records the
+# code-mode scenarios; DSH_SNAPSHOT=replay swaps it for the sibling
+# code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml. A config patch REPLACES the entry's whole
+# config, so the base entry's fields are restated verbatim.
 - id: base
   name: '@cordisjs/plugin-include'
   config:
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4fce3dad57..4ed429f1d0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
     "demo:repl": "node --expose-internals --import tsx packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml",
     "demo:code": "node --expose-internals --import tsx packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts examples/code-agent/cordis.yml",
     "demo:acp": "node --import tsx packages/ui/acp-agent/src/bin.ts examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml",
+    "demo:acp-code": "node --import tsx packages/ui/acp-agent/src/bin.ts examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml",
     "postinstall": "node scripts/install-lefthook.mjs"
   },
   "devDependencies": {