The auto-merge kept recompose on the removed open re-link. It now moves
the binding this roster kept from the agent's mount; an agent that never
composed one has nothing to re-link, so the switch is its first bind —
exactly a mount — and once bound only the kept binding can move it.
setScopeParent could re-link any key from anywhere, leaving the
blank-session-only recompose rule entirely to caller discipline. The
relation now binds once — a second bind throws — and re-linking exists
only on the ScopeParentBinding returned to the original binder, the
private-capability shape the package conventions prescribe for a
single-caller operation. The preset roster keeps each composed agent's
binding in a WeakMap keyed by the agent, making it the sole authority
that can move an agent between standing compositions; the blank-session
contract itself stays with the gateway, which alone can see what a
session logged.
The persistence catalog recognizes SessionEventMap augmentations of
'@deepseek-ai/dsh-session/types' alone, so the selected event's old
root-specifier declaration compiled but silently vanished from the
generated catalog. The hermetic scaffold e2e still addressed the skill
registry as a preset-realm service; under the layered host registry the
composed agent's view is a scope read, and the ambient-root isolation it
proves is unchanged.
The persistence catalog recognizes augmentations of
'@deepseek-ai/dsh-session/types' alone, so the old root-specifier
declaration compiled but silently vanished from the generated catalog; the
Agent Note also drops its internal repository link for the public-links
gate, and the persistence catalog pair re-records with the restored
agent-preset section.
A hand-damaged preset was silent until the worst moment. An unparsable
composition listed as an ordinary selectable row and failed only at the
next session start — set as default, every new session failed. A
directory whose composition file was deleted vanished from the roster
while still occupying its id: copy answered "delete the existing preset
first" while remove answered "not found", a dead end.
Discovery now owns health: every id-shaped directory is a roster slot,
broken when its composition is missing or unloadable, checked with the
loader's own entryListSchema dialect (!!js included) so health never
rejects what the loader accepts. `broken` rides AgentPreset, the
agentPreset.list entry, and the UI row; mount/recompose/standingKeyFor
refuse broken up front with the discovery-reported reason, while
resolve/read/remove still answer. The section renders marked red cards —
unselectable, uncopyable, deletable, location kept on custom rows — and
both pickers drop broken rows entirely.
The cordis preset's persona now forbids editing the shipped install
(corrupting cordis would disable the mode itself) and points authoring
at $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets; its skill teaches preset.yml metadata, the
copy-first workflow, the one-escalation sandbox reality, and honest
verification. Exercised live: asked to edit the shipped composition the
composed agent refuses citing both rules; asked for real presets (simple
and complex) it lands them under the user root with one approved
escalation each and self-checks with the loader dialect.
The exported mountPreset carries its own unscoped-context guard beside the
service's, and the per-file gate wants it exercised where it lives. The
module graph regen after the master merge had been swallowed by a silenced
generator run.
The roots are an assembly fact (the shipped set beside this app's config,
the user's own under $DSH_HOME) but only `dsh web` patched them in, so the
merged `dsh run` booted the roster with no roots and failed resolving
`standard`. The shared profile boot now owns the patch for every launcher,
and master's interrupt_agent tool joins the standard composition's exact
catalog. The roster helpers the wire layer added (standingKeyFor,
serviceForAgent's chain guards, the direct mountPreset boundary) gain the
unit coverage the per-file gate requires.
The web YAML editor is gone. agentPreset.write (arbitrary composition
text) became agentPreset.copy { from, agentPreset, name? }: a host-side
whole-directory copy of ids the host resolves itself — symlinks
dereferenced, modes re-tightened to owner-only with owner-execute kept,
metadata rewritten to keep the source's description but never its name or
roster order. No composition text or path crosses the wire in either
authoring direction, and the entryListSchema/!!js concern dissolves with
assertComposition itself.
The settings section becomes: a read-only viewer over shipped
compositions, a copy dialog (id + optional display name) as the only
create entry, delete for custom rows, and a location action leading into
the preset's own files — agentPreset.openDocument { agentPreset } resolves
the directory host-side and opens it natively, or answers
{ opened: false, path } for the row to show as text where the deployment
has no desktop. agentPreset.list reports hasDocument beside authorable;
the gateway's nativeOpen config pins the capability where
canOpenNativePath platform detection would mislead. The privileged set is
now read/copy/openDocument/remove.
With files as the only composition editor, standing mounts grew
stamp-keyed generations: ensureStanding compares the composition file's
mtime+size and starts the next generation for later sessions, while every
joined session keeps the generation it runs on.
New keyless web lane (agent-preset-authoring, overlay pins
nativeOpen: false so goldens render one branch on every platform) drives
view/copy/reveal/delete end to end; the real-composition CLI e2e switches
to copy semantics.
Authoring meets standing mounts: write() and remove() drop the standing
pointer so the NEXT session composes the edited roster, while every session
already joined keeps the generation it runs on — a superseded generation is
never disposed while the process lives. The settings-dialog golden re-records
with this layer's Agent Preset nav entry, which the incoming layer-3 record
had overwritten.
recompose becomes a parent re-link: the new preset's standing mount is
ensured BEFORE the link moves, so a failed switch leaves the agent exactly as
it was — the unmount-then-restore dance (and unmountPresetFor with it) is
gone, and the restore-failure test now asserts the agent KEEPS its tools with
the source directory deleted, because the standing mount is not the file.
Rewires this layer onto the standing-mount model:
- serviceForAgent roots its search at the agent's standing mount (parent
scope key → live mount fiber) — the composition no longer lives under the
agent's own fiber, and two agents on one preset now address ONE instance,
which the sharing test asserts instead of distinctness.
- viewFor/historyPage take a registry view SCOPE. A live agent is that scope;
a cold read uses the recorded preset's standing key via standingKeyFor —
composing plugins but starting no agent, session, or turn. A header without
a preset (a pre-roster log) renders through the DEFAULT preset's standing
layer; an unusable preset degrades the read to generic cards, never fails
it. This turns produced-files and chat-scroll green structurally, with the
token counts untouched (no resume, so the projections fold stays detached).
- The detached projections baseline now includes every standing unit's key at
its empty fold (todos: null): the standing mount registers units
deterministically, which is what makes the client's "omitted key =
capability absence → clear" rule safe again. seeded-history's contract test
asserts the new shape.
- The standard preset's realm preamble no longer claims a shared label pools
instances — provide() throws on the second registration under one realm
symbol; labels join REALMS.
A preset is now ONE composition per process, not one per session. The roster
mounts it once under a synthetic standing scope; each agent joins by having
its scope key parented to the mount's. Two mechanisms in dsh-scope carry the
whole change: registration views walk the parent chain (global → preset →
agent, nearest shadowing farthest — ScopedLayers.chainLayers), and scoped
event dispatch admits a listener tagged with an ancestor of the carrier key,
which is what lets a standing composition's plan/compaction/token listeners
observe each agent composed under it while a sibling preset's stay deaf.
The preset plugins already key their state by Session/Agent — they predate
presets and were written for the shared world — so sharing one instance is a
return to their design, not a rewrite. Preset ymls are unchanged: one mount
per preset means one Entry per preset, whose entry-local realms keep two
presets' services apart exactly as they kept two sessions' apart before.
The standing scope hangs off the service's UNTRACED context (selfCtx): a
method invoked through the traceable proxy sees this.ctx rebound to the
caller and carrying its shadow, and a subtree minted from that resolves every
service through the shadow's fiber instead of each entry's own inject store —
preset rows then fail on the very services they declare.
A standing mount survives its agents deliberately. The composition a running
session joined must outlive the file changing or disappearing underneath it;
reclamation happens at whole-tree teardown, and file edits reach only future
generations (the authoring layer swaps the pointer, never disposes a joined
generation).
Deleting the preset a user default names left the setting pointed at an id
nothing will ever supply again, and every session created without an explicit
pick then failed to start — the delete dialog called it 'new sessions cannot
select it', which understates a hard creation error. `remove` now clears the
user layer when it named the preset just deleted, exposing the deployment's own
default underneath. Storing a default that does not exist YET stays deliberate:
the roster is a live directory, so a name absent now may exist by the time a
session asks, and `resolve` still reports that case.
`agentPreset.select` also leaves the loopback set. It was pinned as a real
escalation — one preset mounts the toolset that edits the live runtime — but
`session.create` already takes an `agentPreset`, so pinning only the switch left
the same capability one method over. The deeper reason is that the capability is
not the preset's to grant: the deployment's own default already carries `bash`
and the filesystem tools, so any caller that may start a session at all can
already run commands as this process. `read`/`write`/`remove` stay pinned on
their own footing — those touch files, not sessions.
master moved the RPC surface onto the fetch transport, so the two agentPreset
methods arrived there with nothing driving them. Adds the round trip, plus the
two `recompose` edges that had none: an agent that never composed a preset, so
there is nothing to restore, and a restore that fails because the composition
it reaches for is gone — the roster is a live directory.
Marks the deliberate non-Error rejections in the store specs, which is the
branch they exist to cover.
The regression for `PresetTree.write` lived two layers up, so this layer's own
assertion could not fail: it checked the file after an ordinary teardown, and
the Loader's unload listener returns early when the whole tree is being
disposed, so the override never ran. Moves the self-disposing-row test down to
the layer that adds the override, in a temp root so a committed fixture cannot
be damaged by the run that proves the bug.
master made `allowParallelInProgress` a required field on dsh-tool-todo, so
every composition must choose it. The base patch was updated with the field,
but the Web surface takes `tool-todo` from the mounted preset instead, and
that row carried no config — so the `standard` preset failed to mount and
every session on the Web surface died at setup.
Also make the preset tree's write test reach the override. Tearing the agent
down stops in the loader's own "tree is being disposed" case before any write;
a live row reconfiguring itself is the trigger that actually gets there.
Moving `web-agent-presets` to the built lane took its coverage with it, and the
per-file gate named what it had been the only reach for: the session header's
`agentPreset` type check, and the preset subtree's `write()` override. Neither
belonged to a real-composition boot — a header validation case and a subtree
behaviour are package-level facts.
The `write()` test states why the override exists: the inherited method
persists the tree whenever the Loader thinks the config moved, and disposing an
agent disposes its subtree, so inheriting it truncates the shipped preset to
`[]` the first time a session ends.
Six review findings on the select surface, all reachable from the wire:
**Resume read the header, not the log.** The switch was recorded as
`agent-preset/selected` and every projection resolved from it, but `agentFor`
still composed from `inspected.meta.agentPreset` — the value written once at
creation. A blank session that switched and then ran turns came back after a
restart under the ORIGINAL preset, restoring that history under the tool set it
was not produced with, which is the mismatch this feature exists to prevent.
`inspected` already carries the events.
**Cold summaries dropped the preset entirely.** `summarizeCold` hand-copied
three header fields and omitted the fourth, so a restored session reported no
preset and the picker showed the deployment default. It now uses the same
projection the attached path does.
**`select` had no gate.** Two concurrent selects both passed the blank check;
the second `unmountPresetFor` then found no record, because the first had
already removed it, and both mounts installed into one agent layer. Selects on
one session now queue, and the blank check is re-read inside the queue. This is
not turn admission — a `session.prompt` racing a switch is the agent loop's to
reserve — but it closes the select-versus-select tear-down.
**A same-id restore was skipped.** The roster is a live directory, so "the same
inputs that worked a moment ago" does not hold: a changed file is exactly how a
same-id reselect fails, and skipping the restore left the agent with no
composition at all.
**`writable` was dead state**, initialized true and never set, so the row could
never disable. It now carries `settings.describe`'s bit — a browser that may
not write settings sees the current default and no control, rather than one
whose write answers `settings-not-exposed`.
**`list` was documented as id-ordered.** It is root-precedence order with each
root's own presets sorted, first root to supply an id winning.
The shipped host composition moved: `base.cordis.yml` and `web.cordis.yml`
are the dsh-base and dsh-web-app patch layers now. The gate still opened the
old paths and crashed on ENOENT — a gate that cannot read its inputs proves
nothing, loudly or otherwise.
Retargeting it also surfaced what the move implies for ownership: the web
bundle carries the roster and its browser plugin rows now, so the bundle's own
manifest is what must declare them. The gate's existing bare-plugin check said
so as soon as it could parse the file again.
The README and the note each restated which presets ship. `code` was added a
layer later and neither followed, so both said three where the directory holds
four — the drift the review predicted, arriving on schedule. They point at
`apps/cli/config/agent-presets/` now: one directory per preset, and the
listing is the answer. The real-composition test still pins the exact set,
which is where a roster change should be felt.
The browser e2e lane had been failing wholesale since this stack moved the
agent plane into presets, and nothing caught it: 34 of 48 files. Two of the
causes are product defects, not test breakage.
`bashEnv` goes back to the host plane. `apps/cli/src/web.ts` injects it to
publish `DSH_WEB_URL`/`DSH_WEB_MODE`, so the earlier note that "nothing outside
the agent plane injects bashEnv" was simply wrong — behind a preset's `shell`
realm those variables reached no shell at all, and a `dsh web` agent could not
find the address of its own interface. This is the same criterion that returned
`subagents`: a host row that injects a service resolves before any session
exists and has no agent to key by, so the service is host-plane. `tool-bash`
consumes the host registry from inside the preset, which works because an
agent context chains to the host; only the reverse is invisible.
`tool-subagent-report` goes back with it. It is not a tool this agent calls: it
registers a continuable SETUP on the host `subagents` singleton, and that list
is not scope-aware. One copy per mounted preset meant every child was handed
`report` once per live session, so the second registration threw and a cold
subagent resume failed with `subagent-not-resumable` — a diagnostic three
layers removed from the cause.
The lane's own composition facts follow. Skill roots resolve inside a preset
now, a subtree include patches cannot reach, so the scaffold pins the roots'
documented environment fallback for its whole lifetime rather than for the boot
— presets mount per session. Without it the developer's real `~/.dsh/skills`
enters replay requests and goldens while CI sees none. The `apps/cli`
composition test pins `storage-json` for the same reason: unpinned it wrote,
and then read back, the developer's own `~/.dsh/storages/`.
Three tests now address through an agent what they used to read off the root
context, because that is where the thing lives: the tool catalog, the skill
registry, and the token meter. The seeded-history projection baseline asserts
the opposite of what it did — a detached session yields a preset-plane
projection only from a durable checkpoint written while it was live, and this
seed was written straight to persistence and never ran.
Goldens re-recorded for the hero's preset chip and the settings nav entry.
Yichen Jiang