A profile manifest and a bundle manifest are different kinds and shared one
flat `dsh` section: `dsh.plugins` listed bundles (not plugins) and `dsh.patch`
declared a bundle's layer. Each kind now names its role — a bundle declares
`dsh.bundle.patch`, a profile declares `dsh.profile.bundles` — so a
package.json states which role it plays and the list name matches its contents.
`DEFAULT_PROFILE_PLUGINS` becomes `DEFAULT_PROFILE_BUNDLES`, and
`DshManifestSection` splits into `DshBundleManifest`/`DshProfileManifest`.
Pre-release: no compatibility shim; turtle-ui moved with it (bd5ff10).
- composeProfile keeps layers as bundle/user/overlay+flags segments instead
of one flat list later re-sliced by index arithmetic; the row index drops
the group-walk (profile trees are flat patch compositions) and the double
composition.
- The config dump anchors on the profile's real empty root (written by the
shared prepareProfile) instead of materializing a temp file, so dump and
boot compose over the identical base by construction.
- dsh-base drops its patchPath export: the dsh.patch manifest field is the
one contract; the package carries no runtime API.
- packageDirFromAnchor is paths-probe only (the require.resolve fast path
duplicated the probe's outcome); basename() replaces hand-rolled path
splitting; verify-cordis-config stops re-reading bundle manifests in-loop.
- Clone patch lists per generation (boot + composeLive): the include pushes
insert rows by reference and mutates them in place, so a reused object
baked user overrides into bundle rows and removal could not revert; the
built-bin hot-reload e2e now asserts an override AND its removal reverting.
- The headless runner awaits Loader settlement before prompting (its inject
gate covers only apiProxy/httpServer) and abandons cleanly when the tree
died during the wait.
- healProfilesModuleFallback walks the app's full dependency+peer closure:
out-of-tree plugins import seam packages (dsh-compact, dsh-subprocess, ...)
that only implementations reach, and peers are how seams are declared.
- Profile init writes pnpm-workspace.yaml (nodeLinker: hoisted), not .npmrc
— pnpm >=10 reads settings from the workspace manifest.
- Web dumps reject boot-only flags instead of printing a tree that differs
from the same invocation's boot; --port validates at the flag;
--dump-default-config no longer parses the (possibly broken) user layer;
trustedHosts flag derivation merges over the composed value instead of
replacing it; web-runtime gains surfaceContext (headless disables the GUI
prompt/bash-vars the old -p never mounted); 'node_modules' is a reserved
profile name; plugin-warning names the recovery step; client AGENTS.md
registration surfaces point at the web-app bundle.
- Ship session-reference/tmux-context/tool-ask-user as app dependencies for
terminal front-door patch layers (turtle-ui), same stance as mcp-client.
dsh --profile <name> replaces the fixed entry modes: --config and -p are
removed, --patch adds overlays over the composed profile, a positional task
selects one-shot mode (requires the headless-runner row), and dsh web stays as
the alias for --profile web carrying the Web flag family as patches. dsh
plugin --profile <name> forwards verbatim to pnpm in the profile directory,
initializes on first use, and reconciles the dsh.plugins layer list after
add/remove (patch-less packages warn and stay plain dependencies). Config
dumps and the keyless web e2e scaffold compose the same bundle layers over the
same empty root as the boot.
Profiles live at $DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>: a package.json with pnpm-managed
out-of-tree dependencies plus the ordered dsh.plugins bundle list, and a user
cordis.patch.yml layer. Bundles resolve installation-first, then
profile-local; composeEntries applies layers over an empty root through the
include's own applyEntryPatches; healProfilesModuleFallback maintains the flat
profiles/node_modules symlink surface so bare plugin names resolve from any
profile. The personal-overlay machinery ($DSH_HOME/config.yaml) is retargeted
to per-profile patch files: loadPersonalPatches becomes loadOptionalPatches
and watchPersonalPatches takes the exact filename.
Two had real security consequences:
The bootstrap rejection ran on npm dotenv's parser while process.loadEnvFile
applied the file with Node's own. Two independently maintained dialects meant
the check and the thing it guards could disagree: a name Node accepts but the
checker misses would reach process.env unchecked, and BASH_ENV there runs a
file of the project's choosing on every `bash -c` the bash tool issues. Parse
once with node:util's parseEnv — the same engine loadEnvFile uses — and assign
the entries already checked, which also drops the dotenv dependency.
llm-pi-ai still returned a literal profile.apiKey ahead of everything, and it
registers a settings namespace, so the defect removed from llm-deepseek
survived intact in its design twin. The field is gone from the profile schema,
the resolution path, and the tests.
The rest are consistency and documentation defects the review named:
- verify-config-source-ownership did not scan the Python runtime's bundled
cordis.yml, which still inlined apiKey and baseURL. Both are covered now, and
the line-anchored INLINE_DENY documents that it is a tripwire, not a parser.
- The deny list missed NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, the askpass hooks, the
GIT_CONFIG_* redirections, and PYTHONHOME — all implied by its own stated
rule about what a variable does.
- Snapshot lookups folded case on Windows, where environment names are
case-insensitive and an exact-match Map could miss a higher-ranked layer.
- The credentials note claimed a read-time permission check was "not taken"
while this PR implemented it; the credentials-local README still described
two layers, live process.env reads, dotenv-era limitations, and a renamed
anchor; the llm-deepseek README still advertised the removed literal apiKey;
and web.ts and base.cordis.yml kept personal-overlay wording.
- The ownership note's literal-apiKey claim now names its scope: the
web-search providers keep a literal field but register no settings
namespace, so nothing can shadow a stored credential through them.
$DSH_HOME/.env had just become an ordinary environment layer, which left the
harness resolving user-facing values from a flattened process.env that could
no longer say where a value came from. A key stored through the web page
stayed shadowed by an older key in the user's own .env. An endpoint could be
redirected by the project: the invoking directory's .env is materialized like
every other layer, and a base URL decides where a resolved API key is sent, so
a DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL written into a model-editable workspace would send the
user's credential — and the prompts carrying their code — to whatever host
that file named.
Give every user-facing value one ordering, with four kinds of source:
explicit for this run per-operation override, CLI argument
> authored by deployment --config / --config-replace
> this launch's shell inherited process environment
> product-managed store settings.yaml, .credentials.yaml
> discovered file $DSH_HOME/.env
> defaults schema default, shipped base, public default
The domains differ only in which tiers exist. The earlier split — credentials
ranking the environment over the managed file while settings ranked over the
environment — was inconsistent: the distinguishing fact is who authored the
source, not the domain.
packages/util/environment owns an immutable snapshot with per-layer
provenance. getFrom(name, sources) searches only the layers a caller names,
and omitting one is a refusal rather than a demotion: the adapters ask for
['process', 'user-env'], so no reordering can let a project file back into a
decision it was excluded from.
isBootstrapOnly rejects, before anything is materialized, any .env setting a
variable that governs how a process launches (PATH, SHELL, NODE_OPTIONS,
LD_PRELOAD), where code or model-visible instructions load from (the whole
DSH_* namespace, HOME, XDG_*), or how the network is reached (proxy and CA
variables). The namespace is denied wholesale so a switch added later cannot
become settable by being forgotten, and there is no opt-out.
verify-config-source-ownership keeps both rules: no unregistered process.env
read under packages/*/*/src (26 allowlisted with reasons), and no apiKey,
baseURL, or headers inlined from the environment in shipped Cordis config —
removing those inlines is what makes the deployment tier meaningful.
$DSH_HOME/config.yaml was an implicit composition layer: if the file existed,
every launch applied an arbitrary Loader patch graph over the shipped tree,
kept live by a dedicated HMR watcher. Three costs came from the implicitness,
not the capability. A patch replaces its target row's whole config, so a file
written months ago pins that row to the field set it knew and every default
the shipped tree later adds silently stops applying. It competed with the
typed settings namespaces llm-deepseek and llm-pi-ai already register, so
which one wins was a function of layer order rather than meaning. And the
explicit escape hatch it was supposedly redundant with did not exist on every
surface: dsh -p, dsh meta, and dsh upgrade all rejected --config, so for them
the implicit file was the only composition route at all.
Complete the explicit layer first: --config and --config-replace now work on
every booting surface. A headless --config-replace tree must still mount a
webserver row, because that surface reaches its own agent over the same HTTP
gateway the browser uses; AppCLIEntry names that contract in the failure
instead of reporting a bare missing service.
Then delete the implicit one. PERSONAL_CONFIG_FILENAME, loadPersonalPatches,
watchPersonalPatches, and the config-only HMR row mounted for it are gone; a
file left at that path is inert, and --dump-config no longer reads the Harness
home. --config therefore stops *replacing* the personal overlay and simply
*is* the user overlay.
No migration: a user who wants the old behavior names the same file
(dsh --config ~/.dsh/config.yaml), which a shell alias makes permanent.
$DSH_HOME/.env carried two incompatible jobs. As credentials-local's writable
secret store it could not be hoisted into process.env — hoisting makes every
stored key read as a read-only launch override and blocks rotation from the
TUI and the web page. But its name and dotenv format promise an environment
file, so a DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL sitting beside a working DEEPSEEK_API_KEY in the
same file was silently ignored: only the credential provider read the
document, and it addresses credential references alone.
Split the two jobs into two files.
.credentials.yaml is the provider-managed store: a strict YAML mapping of
CredentialRef to non-empty string, no version field, no wrapper level. Because
it holds credentials and nothing else, a non-mapping root, a non-identifier
key, a non-string value, an empty string, a duplicate key, and malformed YAML
are all rejections rather than skipped entries — loud at boot and at a write,
warn-and-keep-last-good on a live reload. The dotenv physical-line editor
gives way to a patch of the parsed document, so comments and untouched entries
keep their formatting and any string value round-trips, multi-line included.
Writer lock, read-modify-write, atomic 0600 write under a 0700 directory,
watcher, self-write suppression, and quiescent disposal are unchanged.
$DSH_HOME/.env becomes the user's ordinary environment layer. app-boot's new
loadLayeredEnv loads the invoking directory's .env then the Harness home's,
giving user < project < inherited; the home resolves from the inherited
environment first, so a project .env cannot redirect it.
Credential precedence is unchanged: the live environment still wins read-only
over the file, and shadowed writes still reject. Whether a provider-managed
store should instead win over the environment is a separate decision.
No migration: a key already in $DSH_HOME/.env keeps resolving through the new
environment layer, as a read-only env source that shadows the stored one.
Conflicts: apps/cli/src/tui.ts (keep the release install over master's comment
rewording), packages/ui/app-boot/README* (master's new installFailLoud row
wording plus this branch's release and timeout rows).
CI caught a startup race the PTY smoke stages naturally: a TUI /exit typed
while watchPersonalPatches is still opening its watcher disposes the tree,
and the HMR effect registration rejects with INACTIVE_EFFECT, crashing an
app that exited exactly as asked. Return a no-op disposer for that exact
code; every other registration failure still propagates (covered both ways).
ds-review-bot round 1 on the DSH-home integration:
- generated wrappers now inject the services their manifest needs (skills/
tools beside loader), and loadPreparedRepository rejects a wrapper fiber
that settles anything but ACTIVE — a composition missing a required
service fails the repository transaction instead of committing an ACTIVE
row over a silently PENDING child (critical finding)
- the github: source ref segment excludes '#', so 'a#b' refs fail at the
config parser with the promised syntax instead of inside pnpm
- watchPersonalPatches re-reads the include's non-patch options per refresh
instead of a registration-time snapshot
- the TUI smoke's cache-seeded wrapper is produced by the real
prepareDshPlugin (cache LAYOUT stays a deliberate external pin)
- new Loader integration test drives a live repositories update through
entry.update: generation swap, old skills removed, failed candidate
rolled back to the previous generation
ds-review-bot round 1: boot() now throws `host preparation failed` when
prepare() rejects before any config-tree entry mounts (the plugin-tree label
overstated), and the new hygiene gate verify-vendored-links pins the
linkWorkspacePackages fix — every vendored package name in pnpm-lock.yaml
must resolve to a workspace link with no registry copy alongside.
The timeout promise's executor runs synchronously while the race is
constructed, so the timer is always assigned; the undefined check was a
dead branch the per-file coverage gate rejected.
The PTY capture does continue past the terminal-takeover bytes with the
fatal diagnostic; only the reset never follows. State that precisely in
both notes.
Document on FailLoudProcess.exit that callers treat it as the end of the
run, matching how the release path already relies on it.
Review of the previous commit found two defects in the release path, both
reproduced against the implementation:
- The timeout guarding a never-settling release was unref'ed. An
unhandledRejection listener suppresses Node's default fatal exit, so with
nothing else referenced the process reached an empty event loop and exited
0 on the very failure it was reporting. Keep the timer referenced and clear
it once the race settles.
- The handler uninstalled itself before awaiting the release. A second
concurrent rejection then became uncaught and killed the process
mid-teardown, stranding exactly the terminal state this restores. Replace
the uninstall with a latch: the first rejection is the reported one, and
later rejections (teardown's own included) fall through to the pending exit.
Add the PTY regression the fake-process tests cannot express: boot the shipped
tree over a fixture whose llm-pi-ai providers value is list-shaped, expect exit
1, and assert the captured bytes carry both the diagnostic and ESC[?2004l.
Against the pre-fix source the stream ends at ESC[?2004h ESC[>7u ESC[?u ESC[c
with no reset and the case fails, so it pins the actual bug.
Split the two-shape formatting test into one install per case; a latched
handler reports once by design.
A dsh launch whose config failed validation returned the user to a broken
shell: typing was invisible and the next command was mangled by a stray
Device Attributes reply (1;2;4cecho ...).
The Loader mounts entries concurrently, so ui-tui can already hold the
terminal (raw mode, bracketed paste, keyboard protocol, plus an in-flight
DA query) when a sibling entry rejects on its own config. installFailLoud
wrote its diagnostic and exited immediately, so nothing disposed the tree
and ProcessTerminal.stop() never ran.
Give installFailLoud an optional release teardown, awaited between the
diagnostic and the exit and bounded by FAIL_LOUD_RELEASE_TIMEOUT_MS. The
TUI launcher passes one that disposes the root context, reaching the same
shutdown() the /exit path already uses (drainInput() + ui.stop()). The
context is captured in boot()'s prepare hook because the rejection arrives
while boot() is still in flight.
Bins that pass no release keep the previous behavior exactly.
dsh --dump-config and dsh web --dump-config compose the shipped base,
the surface overlay, and the --config or personal overlay — exactly the
layers that surface boots — and print the entry list as YAML without
booting; --dump-default-config stops at the surface overlay so the two
outputs diff to precisely the user layer's effect.
The dump shares the mounting code: the vendored include exports its
patch algorithm as applyEntryPatches() and its !!js dialect as
entryListSchema (logged in vendor/README.md), dsh-app-boot's
renderConfigDump() composes and renders through both (and now imports
the dialect instead of duplicating it), and the CLI adds a thin
dump-config mode. !!js expressions print verbatim; unmatched patches
warn on stderr; boot-only flags are rejected alongside the dump flags.
(cherry picked from commit 1fdbebfa8a5dc7df840d53666320064a7e3dae59)
boot() asserts over ctx.loader after awaiting the Loader, but the TUI renders
as soon as its own fiber starts: an /exit typed before the last entry settles
runs disposeRootAndExit, which takes the Loader service with the tree. The
assertions then read undefined and crashed the process with a TypeError over
an app that exited exactly as asked. The keyless personal-overlay PTY smoke
lost this race in roughly two of three runs.
`dsh` shipped two config trees that were 43 rows the same: apps/cli/cordis.yml
composed web as 74 flat rows, while the TUI booted examples/tui-agent/cordis.yml
whose single `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tui-demo` row mounted twelve plugins behind a
twenty-key pass-through Config. Neither file was what its location claimed —
apps/cli hardcoded the "example" as the product default and the "demo" bundle
was the application — and every capability change had to be made twice.
- apps/cli/base.cordis.yml holds the 43 shared rows; tui.cordis.yml and
web.cordis.yml are patch lists stating only what differs per surface
- overlays apply as SIBLING patch lists at one include level, because include
patches never cross an include boundary. Precedence: base < surface <
(--config | personal ~/.dsh/config.yaml) < launcher flag/profile patches
- `--config` now applies an overlay INSTEAD OF the personal one, so a demo or
test tree never inherits the user's route; new `--config-replace` boots a file
as the entire tree (the old `--config` behaviour). Both survive /resume
- vendor/include: index each `insert`ed row as it is added so a later patch can
configure or disable it. Upstream built the id index once before the patch
loop, leaving every surface-only row — the whole TUI front door — silently
unpatchable from user config. Logged as local modification 8
- session identity moves to dsh-agent-loop's CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY;
dsh-tui's MAIN_SESSION_ID_KEY is deleted (only the bundle read it)
- delete examples/tui-agent, examples/cordis-agent, packages/examples/tui-demo;
TUI tests → apps/cli/tests, cordis e2e → packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests,
examples/code-mode survives as an overlay leaf
- `dsh web` gains --config, threaded into AppCLIEntry as an extra overlay
Three latent defects surfaced and are fixed here: the TUI captured the optional
sessionQuery service once at construction and could permanently disable /resume
when it won the mount race; the session-store root silently reverted to a
project-local ./.sessions; --config-replace was dropped by the resume handoff.
Verified by booting each tree through the real Loader (TUI 55 entries, web 75,
zero unsettled) rather than reading YAML. All eight terminal snapshots replay
byte-identically; 14/14 PTY smoke, 112/112 snapshots, 25/25 doc-sync, hygiene
and lint clean.
Address review and cut ceremony: the adapter no longer models help/version/
errors as DshInvocation members. Commander owns those under exitOverride — it
prints usage or the diagnostic and one try/catch in parseDshArgs turns the
thrown CommanderError into process.exit with the intended code. bin.ts drops its
help/version/error cases; the union is the three real modes.
Domain checks bail via command.error(print + exit 1): --prompt rejects an empty
task or a stray config/--resume, empty --resume= fails loud, and --host/--port
are validated. A repeated --resume or a flag captured as a value is Commander's
standard behavior, left alone (a bad id fails loud downstream). dsh --help
discloses web via addHelpText. Net: args.ts 185 -> 112 lines.
Also fixes review nits: built-bin e2e resolves on `close`; the /resume handoff
uses `dsh --resume=<id> -- <config>` so a config named `web` stays a positional;
and stale prose (cordis.yml comment, app-boot module doc + duplicate JSDoc,
ui/README, two feature notes, an agent-loop test name) tracks the shipped state.
Removes tui-demo's now-dead plugin-include dep and vendor/loader + app-boot
tsconfig references.
Integrate the Commander argument adapter with master's safe session-resume
feature and dsh web --dev flag.
- args.ts: add --dev to the web parser.
- tui.ts: keep master's process.execve in-place resume handoff, but take the
adapter's parsed (config, resume); inject the resume id through boot's
prepare(ctx) hook via ctx.provide(RESUME_SESSION_ID_KEY, id) instead of the
RESUME_SESSION_ID env var; rebuild the re-exec argv as `dsh --resume <id>`.
- app-boot: drop master's replaceResumeArg (no longer needed) alongside the
already-removed parseResumeArg; add RESUME_SESSION_ID_KEY.
- the four tui-agent/cordis configs read the ctx-provided resumeSessionId via a
typeof-guarded !!js expression, so resume needs no env var.
- web.ts: keep master's client roster and --dev watch, take parsed host/port/dev.
Replace the dsh CLI's three hand-rolled parsing idioms (raw argv[0]/includes
dispatch in bin.ts, per-mode node:util parseArgs in headless.ts/web.ts, and the
bespoke parseResumeArg scanner in dsh-app-boot) with a single Commander adapter
in apps/cli/src/args.ts. parseDshArgs resolves argv into a discriminated
DshInvocation union; bin.ts switches on the mode and dynamic-imports the chosen
module, which now consumes already-parsed values.
- web is a real subcommand; --host uses choices and --port an argParser range
check, moving validation into the parser.
- --resume rejects empty and repeated forms; --prompt rejects empty; a config
positional after --prompt and a root flag placed before web fail loud.
- adds --help/--version; removes parseResumeArg from dsh-app-boot.
- new apps/cli/tests/args.spec.ts (apps/*/tests added to vitest include,
apps/cli/tests to tsconfig.host.json); the tui-agent keyless PTY smoke covers
bin.ts dispatch end to end unchanged.
- workspace-context: a transiently unavailable but still-effective candidate
keeps its cached trimmed digest in the directory's dedup slot, so an
identical later sibling is not emitted as a duplicate set until the next
successful reconciliation
- app-boot: --resume rejects a following token that is itself resume syntax
instead of accepting it as a session id
- tui: the queued-steering badge tracks per-entry sources and a drain removes
one matching entry, so loop-authored steering (no agent/queued) cannot
consume a pending user message's slot
Delete packages/ui/stdio and examples/repl-agent; rename stdio-demo to
@deepseek-ai/dsh-tui-demo (TUI-only, refuses pipes before Loader boot).
tui-agent owns the coding composition inline; echo-agent and the CI demo
smoke move to the one-shot cli-demo bin, which gains -p/--prompt. The
UI-independent with-key e2es move verbatim to tui-agent. SDK wizard's
'stdio' interface becomes 'tui'. PTY testing stays confined to TUI
surfaces; all other subprocess tests ride pipes.
See .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-retire-readline-front-door.md
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