A well-formed provider stream that ends with finish_reason stop and zero
content blocks previously became a successful empty assistant message: the
turn completed silently, and drivers like goal-session counted the no-op
round. Both adapters now map that degenerate completion to a finish
{kind:'error'} with the new canonical EMPTY_RESPONSE code from dsh-llm, and
dsh-llm-retry adds the code to its default retryable set, so the existing
closed-step recovery path retries it and fails loud once the budget is
exhausted.
Covered by adapter unit tests, an llm-retry default-policy test, and a new
authored keyless ACP snapshot (empty-response-retry) with a deterministic
1 ms zero-jitter retry overlay.
The web host now composes the sandboxed product path (sandbox-local +
sandbox-policy behind bash-sandbox/fs-sandbox, with user-approval and
permission on top); BootHostOptions.sandbox carries the deployment
defaults (workspace-write + ask).
createApiProxy owns the approval pending registry: a ctx.approval ask
becomes an answerable approval/requested mux frame with a stable rpcId,
replayed verbatim on every mux open until settled; respond routes by the
echoed rpcId, validates the ApprovalResponsePayload audit correlation,
and broadcasts approval/resolved; the ask's abort signal withdraws the
question as cancelled.
session.permissions / session.setPermission project ctx.permission into
a protocol-owned PermissionOption select; idle switches are held
last-write-wins and
flushed into the next prompted turn (the ACP bridge's anchoring
pattern). The shared hasOpenTurn fold moved to dsh-session,
deduplicating the private copies in user-approval, the ACP bridge, and
the proxy.
Client, per the designer draft: a pending approval takes over the
composer (ApprovalPanel replaces the InputBar — amber strip,
justification headline, paired command, one-shot refuse/allow, keyed by
rpcId so a queued second approval remounts live; the resolved frame
restores the composer); the sidebar session row shows an amber
waiting-approval dot that outranks the running ring (manager-tracked
approvalId set, idempotent under mux-open replays, cleared per
connection generation, lit for uninstantiated sessions too); the
permission selector is a composer bottom-row chip over an invisible
native select, with a presentation-only title-case transform
(workspace-write renders as Workspace Write; wire names untouched). Question placeholders stay in the message flow. The
connection fixture mirrors the host behavior for keyless browser
acceptance.
BootHostOptions.llm: 'deepseek' | false — false mounts no adapter, boots
keyless, and leaves the llm capability seam open for the embedder to fill
on RunningHost.ctx (now the third sanctioned ctx use, JSDoc + README
amended); an unfilled seam fails loud with NO_ADAPTER at the first stream.
dsh-llm-replay grows two additive surfaces for the web browser e2e lane:
paceMs (validated per-chunk delay so a real transport shows incremental
delivery; abort during a pace wait cancels promptly) and a ReplayHandle
return — dispose() plus assertConsumed(), the teardown check that every
recorded script bound and drained, converting silent fixture underruns
into diagnostics. Existing callers updated; config catalog regenerated.
Design study for a deterministic, keyless browser e2e lane over the real
assembled web chain (chromium -> SSE/HTTP wire -> apiproxy -> agent loop ->
persistence), replayed through dsh-llm-replay from recorded session-log
fixtures, with aria-tree goldens plus in-process world-state assertions.
Synthesized from an OSS prior-art survey (LibreChat, ai-chatbot, lobe-chat,
OpenHands, cline, aimock...), a repo seam deep-dive, and three adversarial
critiques (doctrine, flakiness, YAGNI). Records the settled shape (no new
package, no suite factory, seed via the real persistence API, whenIdle
barrier stack, no transient-DOM assertions) and the open questions (LLM
seam, Loader-izing dsh web, header pin, golden breadth, settled signal).
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