New @deepseek-ai/dsh-invariants plugin (pure listeners, off in prod) asserts
the event taxonomy at runtime — seq monotonicity, turn/step nesting, a
tool/result needs a prior tool/call (NOT the converse), legal agent/status
transitions — and deep-freezes logged event data so mutating history throws.
Seeded sessions are checked + frozen on session/created.
The real RFC 008 fix is always-on: deriveMessages now structured-clones the
content it emits, so the loop's sanctioned request/adapter mutation can no
longer reach back and rewrite the append-only log. The pervasive
DeepReadonly<T> type flip is rejected (compile-only, high-noise, castable) —
recorded in ADR 0012, which folds in RFC 008. Wired into both demos.
- enum membership now checked uniformly for all SchemaTypes, mirroring the
converter which emits `enum` regardless of type (was string-only)
- checkValue switch ends in assertNever per the closed-union convention
- sync the adding-a-tool cookbook to the validate-for-you behavior
- soften ADR 0011's property-test claim (RFC 001 not yet landed)
defineTool now runs validateArgs against the SchemaSpec before execute, so a
malformed model call returns a self-correctable isError result listing the
violations instead of reaching the typed body untyped-in-practice. The
validator mirrors schemaSpecToJsonSchema semantics exactly (required from
required:true only, extra keys allowed, default not applied, object/array
without properties/items only type-checks, enum membership).
tool-bash's hand-rolled type/required checks (carrying the TODO(RFC 005)
stopgap note) are slimmed to just the value constraints the DSL can't express
(non-empty strings, positive timeout). Graduates RFC 005 pt 1 to ADR 0011.
- AGENTS.md Commands: fix typecheck/build descriptions; add lint, lint:fix,
test:coverage, knip, publint, hygiene (were undocumented).
- Drop the bare `yarn demo` for explicit `demo:echo` + `demo:coding`; update
README, examples READMEs (and document coding-agent in examples/README).
- New cookbook guide: adding-a-vendored-package.md (the missing "add" half of
vendor/README's update-only procedure).
- architecture.md: add a table-of-contents and extract the Extension cookbook
to docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md (link-preserving); drop the completed
"restructure this document" TODO.
- ADR 0009 (capability seams) + 0010 (twin LLM adapters), and a "when to write
an ADR" standard in adr/README.
- Add a committed dsh-code-review skill under .agents/skills, exposed to Claude
Code via a tracked .claude/skills symlink (gitignore carve-out).
Hard line breaks mid-paragraph make docs harder to edit and diff — a
one-word change reflows and re-diffs the whole paragraph. Reflow all
tracked non-vendor Markdown (plus vendor/AGENTS.md) so each prose
paragraph is a single line; soft-wrapping is the editor's job. Fenced
code, tables, and list structure are preserved (wrapped list items fold
to one line per bullet). Documents the convention in AGENTS.md.
The first real agent wiring: DeepSeek V4 + the bash tool suite + stdio
chat + JSONL persistence, runnable via yarn demo:coding (reads the
gitignored repo-root .env through process.loadEnvFile).
- examples/coding-agent: cordis.yml wiring both real plugin families
(llm-deepseek with !!js env secrets; bash-local + tool-bash), a
bash-only coding system prompt, a max-steps-guard plugin (bounds
runaway turns via the agent/turn-continuation waterfall — abort()
from step-end is a no-op by then), and a stdio UI with dimmed
reasoning and exit-on-idle for piped stdin.
- e2e (yarn test:e2e, key-gated): full-loop.e2e.ts runs a real model
against the real bash tool; coding-task.e2e.ts is the swebench-style
smoke — the model fixes a buggy add.js in a temp dir and the test
re-runs node add.test.js itself rather than trusting the agent.
- docs/cookbook: adding-a-package (the verified checklist),
adding-a-tool (execute() contract, background pattern, seams),
adding-an-llm-adapter (protocol obligations, mock-server testing,
e2e policy). AGENTS.md layout/commands/secrets sections updated;
architecture.md points at both examples and the cookbook.
- vitest.e2e.config.ts: serialize test files + retry twice — parallel
e2e files trip the shared internal key's concurrency quota.
- fix: the !js YAML tag spelling in docs/JSDoc is actually !!js
(js-yaml resolves custom tags under tag:yaml.org,2002:js).
The first real LlmAdapter implementations, shipped as a deliberate pair:
same models and wire protocol, completely different internals, so the
StreamChunk protocol is verified across independent implementations.
- dsh-llm-deepseek: hand-rolled fetch + SSE parser + chunk-translation
state machine against the official chat-completions format (thinking
mode via top-level thinking/reasoning_effort; the empty-string
reasoning_content first chunk; usage attached to the finish chunk or
trailing; reasoning_content passback on tool-call turns; disjoint
cache-token accounting).
- dsh-llm-pi-ai: the same endpoint through @earendil-works/pi-ai,
mapping its event vocabulary (parsed tool arguments, in-stream error
events, folded reasoning tokens) onto the same chunks.
The agent loop now honors the in-band error path: an adapter that ends
its stream with finish {kind:error|aborted} (the only option for
adapters that can't throw mid-stream, like pi-ai) is translated into a
step error, so the turn ends error/aborted with a logged error event
instead of a normal completed assistant message. This makes the
StreamChunk error contract real for both adapters; docs/architecture.md
and the StreamChunk doc are updated accordingly.
New yarn test:e2e (vitest.e2e.config.ts, *.e2e.ts) runs key-gated
real-API matrices for both adapters across V4 Flash/Pro and all
thinking/effort levels; it self-skips without DEEPSEEK_API_KEY. Unit
suites run against local node:http mock SSE servers at 100% per-file
coverage.
Three packages following the new capability-seam pattern (interface /
implementation / consumer, now documented in docs/architecture.md):
- dsh-bash: abstract BashExecutor service (ctx.bash) + vocabulary types.
- dsh-bash-local: local subprocesses — bash -c per call in a detached
process group, SIGTERM→SIGKILL group kills, tail-keep truncation with
full-stream spill files, model-friendly env, background task registry.
- dsh-tool-bash: the bash / bash_output / bash_kill tool schemas with
runtime arg validation and background completion notices via
agent.inject(). Non-zero exits are reported, not errored.
Design surveyed against the bash tools of Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex,
and pi (notes in the package READMEs). Permissions/sandbox stay TODO on
the tools/execute waterfall seam; stateful-shell alternatives recorded
in run.ts.
Eight proposals grouped by category, each with problem statement,
concrete plan, and risks: property-based testing over the
protocol-shaped core (chunk streams, event logs, schema DSL);
mutation testing as the counterweight to the 100%-coverage gate;
deterministic tests + a universal replay-invariant fixture + nightly
race stress; architectural conformance (dependency-cruiser rules and
the LlmAdapter conformance kit); runtime arg validation at the model
boundary with a structured error taxonomy and dev-mode invariants;
doc-sync enforcement (typechecked doc snippets, API reports);
supply-chain checks and nightly vendor-drift verification against the
manifest; and deep-readonly public surfaces (logged-vs-in-flight
mutability boundary). AGENTS.md points at docs/adr and docs/rfc.
Seven ADRs capturing the why behind decisions already made: vendoring
Cordis as source with a guarded manifest; the microkernel event
taxonomy with one swappable concrete loop; event-sourced sessions
with derived history and the append-before-emit ordering contract;
the provider-neutral content-block vocabulary (and why not
OpenAI/Anthropic shapes); the custom tool-schema DSL over schemastery;
tool schemas living in the prompt assembly; and mechanical quality
gates over prose guidelines (the agents-write-the-code rationale).
The architecture cookbook's tool-plugin example now uses defineTool
with typed args (the raw-JSON-Schema + `args: any` example contradicted
the type-safety policy it sits next to); a note explains raw schemas
remain the MCP interop path. The echo-agent README's mock-llm row now
matches the code (registerAdapter(['mock-echo'])) and the echo-tool
row mentions the typed registration.
High (loop pipeline): agent/step-result now runs before the
assistant/message append so the session log records what tool dispatch
actually uses; abort is honored between tool calls, not just
mid-stream; steering drains at step start, pending steering overrides
a negative turn-continuation decision (/goal pattern), and leftover
steering is re-enqueued as queued messages so it is never stranded;
exceptions from turn-continuation listeners and session/flush are
contained to the turn (error event + agent/error) instead of killing
the driver loop.
Medium: disposal emits agent/status('disposed') and mid-turn disposal
records reason 'disposed'; duplicate LLM adapter registration throws
(all-or-nothing); SessionEvent is a real discriminated union (casts
removed); model-less agents fail with a clear actionable error unless
agent/request supplies a model.
Low: agent/queued and agent/steering carry the resolved MessageSource;
streamBlocks() yields strictly in stream order and flushes delta-only
blocks (matches generate()); BlockAssembler freezes blocks on
block-end and ignores stragglers from malformed streams; turn
numbering is a counter seeded from the log (fork-safe); LoopAgent's
stop disposer is infallible (a throwing status listener cannot skip
registry cleanup); AgentLoop.create uses a generator effect so stop
and unregister are independent disposables; SessionStore wires
onAppend inside its effect.
21 regression tests added (review-fixes.spec.ts), organized by
finding. Docs updated: loop pseudocode (status emissions, ordering,
error containment, steering guarantees) and waterfall composition
caveat in docs/architecture.md; AGENTS.md notes that excessive tests
are welcome.
docs/architecture.md: layering, service map, event taxonomy, the
session/turn/step lifecycle, Cordis waterfall semantics, an extension
cookbook, the plugin sanity checklist mapping every MVP feature to its
extension mechanism, and the deferred-work TODO list (sub-agents,
persistence backends, compaction, DeepSeek V4 adapter, parallel tool
execution, streaming-protocol review).
AGENTS.md: repo layout, commands, conventions (dsh-* naming, ESM,
effect-based registrations, declaration merging, waterfall semantics),
and the vendoring policy pointer.
Tianyi Cui