Every packages/*/* README now carries a canonical '## Known Limitations and
Deferred Work' section: condensed, evidence-backed bullets for consumer-visible
gaps (unimplemented features, platform caveats, MVP cuts) and consciously
postponed work (TODO/FIXME/XXX markers, RFC deferrals still open). The ten
pre-existing ad-hoc variants ('What is NOT here (TODO)', 'Deferred',
'Limitations (MVP)', 'Known limitations (tracked TODOs)', ...) are normalized
into the canonical heading.
A new doc-sync gate, scripts/verify-readme-limitations.ts, enforces the shape:
exactly one limitations-like heading per package README, byte-equal to the
canonical h2, with at least one bullet; near-miss headings fail so variants
cannot creep back. Packages with genuinely nothing to declare (dsh-brand,
dsh-timeout, dsh-subagent-mock, dsh-app-boot) are whitelisted in the script and
must NOT carry the section; whitelist entries are validated against the scanned
package set so a rename fails loud.
Wired into the doc-sync chain (package.json) and the run-gates doc-sync leaf
set; the standing rule lands in packages/AGENTS.md and the adding-a-package
cookbook; decision record in
docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-10-readme-known-limitations-gate.md
(RFC index regenerated).
Also fixes two stale '(deferred)' markers claiming dsh-compact-basic is
unimplemented (the dsh-compact seam README's package table and the seam's
module doc comment).
- spill-policy reserves the spill notice's byte cost inside maxInlineBytes, so
the replacement (preview + notice) never exceeds the documented model-facing
cap. When the notice alone fills the budget the preview is empty; when even a
notice-only replacement is not smaller than the original, the inline result is
kept (spilling would only add bytes).
- retention TextRetainer trims an oversized single suffix chunk to the last
suffixCap bytes on push, so tail/headTail retention stays bounded by suffixCap
instead of retaining and re-copying the whole chunk in finish() — this is the
spill preview path, which pushes the whole result as one chunk.
Oversized plain-text tool results now spill to a session-scoped file and
return a bounded preview plus the spill path, so a verbose result stays
readable via `read` without consuming the next model request in full.
- dsh-spill: minimal SpillFiles seam (saveText → session-scoped SpillPath)
- dsh-spill-local: private 0700 session dirs, traversal-safe names, exclusive
owner-only writes
- dsh-spill-policy: tools/post-execute transformer; no-op unless maxInlineBytes
is set; skips read; best-effort on save failure (never turns a success into
an isError)
web_fetch is the showcase — no tool-specific spill code. The coding-agent
example loads the stack so its keyless Loader smoke guards the namespace-plugin
export shape. Snapshot gap for a transcript-visible web_fetch spill is recorded
in the RFC's Consequences (ACP replay is keyless and cannot hit the web).
fetchTimeoutMs/searchTimeoutMs (default 30000) resolve to each tool's
ToolDefinition.timeoutMs, moving the budget's declaration home onto the
owning tool plugin and preserving per-tool deployment override without a
mistypable central tool-name map.
Model-facing tool-call budgets were tangled into each capability's schema
(bash timeoutMs, web_fetch timeout_ms) with no shared home. Add a
tools/execute around-dispatch waterfall to dsh-tools whose base next() is
the dispatch-with-normalization thunk, and a new @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy
plugin (packages/timeout/) that arms a per-tool deadline on exec.signal and
returns a structured TOOL_TIMEOUT when it wins. Migrate web_fetch (drop the
model-facing timeout_ms) and web_search onto it; the fetch provider keeps its
timeout only as a resource backstop for direct callers. bash and hook command
execution keep BASH_TIMEOUT unchanged.
Named the plugin timeout-policy (not the RFC's tool-timeout) so it does not
trip the gen-tool-catalog packages/*/tool-* completeness guard, and replace
exec.signal by in-place mutation before next() since cordis waterfall next()
ignores passed arguments. RFC moved to implemented/ recording both deviations.
New doc-sync gate verify-export-jsdoc walks every module-level exported
name under packages/*/*/src and requires description prose everywhere,
plus @param per parameter and @returns on non-void annotated returns for
function-like exports, public class methods, properties, and accessors.
The parsing + check helpers move out of gen-cordis-catalog.ts into a
shared scripts/jsdoc.ts so 'documented' means one thing on both gated
surfaces.
Deliberate exemptions (documented in the RFC): heritage-declared class
members (the seam declaration is the doc's one home — the one checker
query in an otherwise pure-AST walk), cordis plugin-protocol slots
(name/inject/reusable/Config/apply, top-level and static), constructors,
overload implementations, declare-module augmentation bodies, and
re-export statements (checked at the defining module).
The 203 under-documented exports the gate found at adoption are filled
in this change, so the gate lands green; generated catalogs/graphs are
regenerated for the shifted line pointers.
RFC: docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-06-export-surface-jsdoc-gate.md
One principle: every fact in the assembled prompt has exactly one owner.
- dsh-system-prompt: merge-extensible AssembleContext on assemble();
a variable(name, provider) registry; {{name}} interpolation in
renderPrompt, strict (unknown/valueless/malformed references throw);
duplicate section and variable names rejected; assembly carries
resolved section text + variables through the assemble waterfall.
- dsh-agent declares AssembleContext.agent; dsh-agent-loop registers
the agent:persona section (order 0 - identity renders before tool
guidance) and the model/cwd variables, and drops its string join:
renderPrompt(assembly) IS the full prompt.
- Tool guidance moves to its owners: descriptions carry per-tool
semantics; sections only cross-call habits (tool:bash exit-code
habit at order 105; read's not-shell nudge). todo/subagent need no
section - their descriptions already carry the contract.
- SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext (spawn/acp false, fork true);
dsh-tool-subagent derives truthful per-provider wording and resolves
the provider at load (backend must be listed first).
- Example personas shrink to identity + behavior with {{model}} (and
{{cwd}} in the ACP tree); the welcome banner stops enumerating tools.
RFC: docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md
A Codex review pass on the draft caught four real gaps and two solid
suggestions; all addressed except one pushed back on the merits:
- hooks-claude/hooks-codex: stderrSummaryMaxChars was the one new knob
with NO range validation — a negative/NaN cap would silently
misbehave inside slice(). Both bridges now assert a positive integer
at the TOP of apply() (before the config-file parse's early return,
so a bad value fails the load loudly), with rejection tests.
- tool-fs: the read caps count lines/chars/bytes, so positive-FINITE
was too loose (a fractional readLimit would flow into windowing
arithmetic and the schema description). All four now require a
positive integer, matching tool-web's cap.
- Doc drift the gates cannot catch: tool-web's README tools table
still named WEB_SEARCH_MAX_RESULTS as the mechanism; compact-basic's
README/module doc and the compaction-capability-seam RFC still
described estimation as fixed char/4 rather than the charsPerToken
default.
- subagent-acp: the dispose graces were tested only at the
startAcpRun level, so a regression that stopped threading plugin
config into AcpRunSpec would have survived. A provider-path test now
drives the trap-escalation scenario through ctx.subagents.start with
small config graces and bounds dispose at 4s.
Pushed back on: converting compact-basic's charsPerToken to a
schemastery field. The package's whole config is deliberately
hand-rolled (resolveConfig, every threshold REQUIRED with no default —
a documented design posture); one schemastery field beside it would be
incoherent. The knob is cordis.yml-reachable, defaulted, and validated,
which is what the convention requires; migrating the package to
schemastery wholesale is pre-existing config-surface hygiene out of
this change's scope.
The audit swept every packages/*/* plugin for the new AGENTS.md
convention (no hardcoded tunables in plugins) and exposes each finding
as a defaulted, validated Config field. Defaults are the previously
hardcoded values throughout, so no deployment or golden changes.
- tool-fs (had NO Config): readLimit, readMaxLineLength, readMaxBytes,
readStreamMinSize. The caps thread through ReadToolCaps/ReadWindow —
read-render already documented that the consumer applies the caps, so
they become explicit per-request fields.
- tool-web: searchMaxResults (WEB_SEARCH_MAX_RESULTS stays as the
schemastery default). Also fixes the stale GREP_LIMIT references in
search.ts and the web-capability-seam RFC (no such constant exists).
- bash-local: graceMs (SIGTERM->SIGKILL escalation grace). The
RunInternals.graceMs test seam is gone: graceMs is now a required
SpawnSpec field filled from config, so tests exercise the real
config path and the defaults live in exactly one place.
- subagent-acp: disposeEofGraceMs / disposeGraceMs. The AcpRunSpec
fields become required for the same one-defaulting-layer reason.
- session-persistence-sqlite: journalMode ('wal' default; the
rollback-journal modes serve filesystems where WAL's shared-memory
files do not work, e.g. network mounts).
- hooks-claude + hooks-codex: stderrSummaryMaxChars for the persisted
hook/result stderr summary. The duplicated summarize() helpers merge
into hook-protocol's summarizeStderr(stderr, maxChars), beside the
HookResultRecord field it feeds, with the bound parameterized the
same way runHook's defaultTimeoutMs already is.
- compact-basic: charsPerToken for the token estimator (default 4, the
English-text heuristic; CJK-heavy deployments need ~1-2 or compaction
fires far too late). Also corrects the BasicCompactService class doc,
which claimed defaults the required-field config never had.
- fs-local: deletes the dead STREAM_MIN_SIZE constant and the dead
FsIoInternals.streamMinSize seam — the read-routing bound lives in
the consumer (tool-fs), where it is now config. This is item 1 of
the proposed prune-write-only-fs-surface RFC, annotated accordingly.
Every new field gets range validation (following the existing
assertPositiveFinite pattern), a README row, and tests covering the
configured behavior, the schema default, and load-time rejection.
WebService exposed an observation surface nothing in production observes:
the web/providers-change event (declared, emitted on every provider
registration/disposal, rollback-yield ordered before the emit solely so a
throwing change listener unwinds the registration) and the aggregated
searchStatus()/fetchStatus() query with its WebCapabilityStatus union.
dsh-tool-web executes through ctx.web.search()/fetch() and routes on the
structured WebError codes selection throws at execution time; tool
registration follows product enablement, not provider availability. The
only listeners/callers were the web packages' own tests, and the
tool-web README / architecture.md prose claiming the tool 'reads only the
aggregated searchStatus()/fetchStatus()' had drifted from the call sites.
Remove the event declaration, both emits, and the rollback-before-emit
machinery (the plain ctx.effect disposer keeps HMR cleanup, matching
LlmService.registerAdapter). Remove searchStatus()/fetchStatus(),
resolveStatus(), and WebCapabilityStatus; the provider-private status()
stays as the execution-time selection input. Delete the listener-throw
rollback test, and rewrite every event/status assertion across the web
packages' tests onto caller-observable behavior: a successful
search()/fetch() or the structured WEB_PROVIDER_* codes. Regenerate the
cordis catalog; update the web/tool-web READMEs, the architecture.md web
paragraph, core-data-structures/web.md, and the type-equiv manifest; amend
the web capability seam RFC's facts to the shipped surface. This follows
the llm/adapter-change precedent: a boot-time backend-registry signal and
an availability probe distinct from executing both sit on the cut side of
its keep/cut criterion.
RFC: docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-drop-unconsumed-web-observation-surface.md
master's web_search/web_fetch tools were authored against the old
ToolCallPresentation bag; the render-intent union replaces it with a
card-tagged discriminated union. Both are simple generic cards, so they
declare card:'generic' explicitly.
- search providers (exa/perplexity/deepseek): map the parsed response
INSIDE the parse try, so a well-formed body of the wrong shape surfaces
as WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR instead of escaping as a raw TypeError; a WebError
the mapper throws on purpose is re-thrown untouched
- web-fetch-local: validate numeric limits at plugin construction (positive
finite caps; non-negative integer maxRedirects) rather than constructing a
provider with nonsensical values
- web-fetch-local: enforce the redirect budget BEFORE resolving each hop, so
maxRedirects:N follows exactly N redirects and an over-limit hop reports
"exceeded the maximum" rather than misdiagnosing a cross-origin block
- drop the stale dsh-tool-web/search and /fetch path aliases (the package no
longer declares those subpath exports)
- strip trailing EOF blank lines flagged by git diff --check
Each fix carries a regression test.
The web tool package exposed ./search and ./fetch as standalone subpath
plugins, but nothing consumed them, the RFC never called for them, and the
sibling dsh-tool-bash (also a multi-tool consumer) ships a single entry and
selects tools via config. The extra entries also tripped the workspace
constraints gate, whose expected `files` list covers single-entry and bin
packages but not a non-bin multi-entry one.
Collapse to a single `.` entry: drop the ./search|./fetch exports and their
lib/*.js from package.json files, delete the per-package tsdown override (the
root config's lib/types/index.js entry now suffices), and remove the
plugin-shaped name/inject exports from search.ts/fetch.ts (renaming each
apply to its applyWeb{Search,Fetch}Tool helper, still composed by the root
plugin and re-exported from the index). Selective enablement stays via the
existing { search?, fetch? } config. Docs updated to match.
The web packages were authored against the old single-stage layout where
tsc emitted directly to lib/. Master compiles declarations to lib/types/
via tsc -b, then bundles JS into lib/ via tsdown. Point every web package's
tsc outDir at lib/types, update package.json types/exports/files to the
lib/types declaration + lib/ bundle shape (matching dsh-bash/dsh-tool-bash),
and bundle tool-web's subpath entries from lib/types/*.js rather than src.
Introduce web access as a first-class capability seam so the model-facing
web tools stay stable while backends change. dsh-web owns ctx.web as a
provider registry with registration-order-independent selection and the
WebError taxonomy; dsh-web-search-exa, dsh-web-search-perplexity, and
dsh-web-fetch-local register capabilities into it; dsh-tool-web is the sole
owner of the model-facing web_search/web_fetch schemas, prompt sections, and
HTML-to-markdown presentation. Search and fetch are deliberately one seam.
Providers ship as namespace plugins that register into ctx.web (like an
LlmAdapter into ctx.llm), not key-owning services, since multiple search
providers cannot each own the key. Tool registration follows product
enablement, not backend availability, so load order/credentials never enter
the model contract; the seam resolves the provider at execution time and
surfaces a structured WebError otherwise.
Moves the RFC to implemented/ amended to match what shipped. Example/app
configs are intentionally not wired yet (RFC migration step 6).
Tianyi Cui
Dudu-0223
imccyu