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).
CI has no rg, so the integration suite self-skips there and the
fake-executor suite must carry the per-file 100% coverage gate alone.
parseGlobArgs's valid-path branch was only exercised by integration
(node 24 / coverage failed at 95.45% branches on glob.ts); a fake-tier
test now threads a valid path through to the quoted `-- 'sub'` root.
glob leaked VCS internals when the model rooted the search AT a VCS
directory (path: '.git' or 'sub/.git'): the prune glob !**/.git is
matched against root-prefixed candidate paths, which never end in the
directory name when the walk starts inside it. Pair each VCS exclude
with a contents glob (!**/<name>/**), verified empirically to exclude
relative, nested, and absolute VCS roots while leaving broad searches
untouched. Pinned by the command-construction test and a real-rg
integration case rooting at .git.
Translate ctx.bash.run() REJECTIONS into the SEARCH_* taxonomy. The seam
contract has run() reject for infrastructure failures (a pre-aborted
signal, an unusable/deleted session workdir, a missing shell); the bare
await let those escape as plain Errors, so the tool registry produced
isError results without the structured SearchError { name, code } the
package documents. A pre-aborted spec.signal now maps to SEARCH_ABORTED
and any other start failure to SEARCH_FAILED, original error chained as
cause. Covered by fake-executor tests for both branches plus real-executor
integration tests pinning the exact pre-aborted-signal and deleted-cwd
paths.
Two functional gaps in the search tools change:
- Enforce rawOutputMaxBytes on UNTRUNCATED inline stdout too. The cap was
only checked on the truncated->raw-spill path, so an executor retaining
more inline than the search cap (or a deployment lowering the cap below
the bash retention) could smuggle an over-cap parse through, contradicting
the documented SEARCH_RAW_OUTPUT_OVERFLOW contract. Covered by a new
over-cap-inline test.
- Load @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy in the coding-agent tree. The search
tools declare timeoutMs but nothing in the demo enforced it, so the
advertised 30s budget silently degraded to the bash executor's 60s
backstop. The keyless smoke boots the amended tree.
Implements docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-09-bash-backed-grep-glob-
discovery.md: model-facing glob/grep in a new @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs-search
package, executing fixed ripgrep templates through ctx.bash.resolve/run —
not ctx.fs provider methods — so filesystem backends stay free of a search
contract and sandboxed/remote executors substitute cleanly. The tools never
call ctx.bash.start(); the tool layer owns quoting (one singleQuote safety
boundary), rg --json parsing, ItemRetainer/TextRetainer retention, and the
first tool-owned ctx.spillFiles.saveText() handoff (item-level retention the
generic post-execute spill policy cannot recover).
RFC amendments on the way to implemented/: a shared src/search-core.ts (the
SEARCH_* vocabulary + bash-run/raw-spill/spill plumbing was byte-identical
across both tools — the missed-extraction smell), and a snapshot-gap note:
wiring the acp-agent tree changes the assembled prompt, so goldens need a
keyed re-record; the spill notice text is pinned by unit tests instead and
only the coding-agent example ships the tools for now.
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
Round 1 P3: the "No timeouts on file IO" section left the file ending in a
blank line, which the trailing-newline whitespace gate rejects. Declined P2
(late abort after a timeout is lost): that is the RFC's decided trade-off —
mutually-exclusive first-abort classification — and re-latching aborted would
violate the acceptance criterion.
Timeout timing/classification was re-implemented three ways across the
tool-bearing capabilities, with the fusion of timeout+cancel and the
timeout-vs-cancel reason recovery being the error-prone parts. Extract that
shared half into a zero-dependency @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout library
(clampTimeout/deadline/timeoutOf/TimeoutReason) and leave the non-shareable
hard-kill in each capability, per the timeout-library RFC.
bash: run() owns the deadline; runBash drops its killTimer and no longer
classifies (SpawnSpec/SpawnOutcome lose timeoutMs/timedOut/aborted), so the
public timedOut/aborted booleans become mutually-exclusive first-abort
classifications. web_fetch: the hand-rolled controller/timer/listener/
signal.reason dance is replaced by provider-owned deadline/timeoutOf, keeping
the WEB_FETCH_TIMEOUT / WEB_ABORTED contract. fs stays timeout-free (README
states why).
This branch's two RFCs (prompt-variables, provider-lifecycle events)
conform to the new contract in the same merge: 'Status: implemented'
dateless header, 'Rejected alternatives' -> 'Alternatives considered',
'What we give up' folded into '## Consequences' (per the uniform-format
RFC's own rejection of a costs-only closer), and the index regenerated
into the new INDEX.md. docs/rfc/README.md resolved to master's rewrite.
Review round 2 (tianyicui inline comments):
- dsh-system-prompt itself registers the harness:identity (-100) and
deployment:persona (0) sections — they must survive a swapped loop
plugin, so they leave dsh-agent-loop; the persona text is the plugin's
own validated 'persona' config. The model/cwd variables STAY on the
loop: runtime facts of the agents it drives.
- AgentOptions.systemPrompt is deleted with all its forwarding plumbing:
the app configs' systemPrompt keys become 'persona' routed through
dsh-agent-core (schema = z.intersect of the owners'), the ACP bridge
and tool-subagent stop carrying persona configuration, and subagent
children now render the deployment persona like every other agent.
- Example personas drop transport/interface trivia (ACP, CLI) — facts
irrelevant to the model.
- Root CONTEXT.md removed (not idiomatic); its persona definition was
wrong under the new ownership anyway.
- Docs, READMEs, the prompt-variables RFC, and generated catalogs
updated; new loop test pins the assemble-waterfall escape valve
(an emptied assembly sends NO system field).
Yichen Jiang
Dudu-0223
Tianyi Cui
imccyu