# @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-bash

The model-facing bash tools — `bash`, `bash_output`, `bash_kill` — registered over the `ctx.bash` executor seam (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash`). Pure schema + text shaping; every process concern lives behind the seam, so sandboxed or remote executor implementations swap in without changing what the model sees.

Requires a loaded executor implementation (e.g. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-local`); the plugin stays pending until `ctx.bash` exists (`inject: ['tools', 'bash']`).

## Tools

### `bash`

| Arg | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `command` | string (required) | Run via `bash -c`. No state persists between calls — use `workdir`, not `cd`. |
| `description` | string (required) | One-line, active-voice summary of the command (5-10 words), for UI/log display only — no effect on execution. |
| `timeoutMs` | number | Default/max from executor config (120s/600s for bash-local). |
| `workdir` | string | Working directory for this call. Defaults to the calling agent's session cwd (`session.header.cwd`) so each session runs in its own workspace; a relative `workdir` is resolved against that session cwd. |
| `run_in_background` | boolean | Return a task id immediately; no timeout applies. |

`command`, `workdir`, and `timeoutMs` are resolved against the executor's config defaults via `ctx.bash.resolve()` before execution, so the executor seam (`BashExecSpec`) receives explicit `workdir`/`timeoutMs` values. The workdir default is applied in the tool layer (from the calling agent's `session.header.cwd`) BEFORE `resolve()` — the per-session cwd must come from `exec.agent`, since N sessions share one executor; only when no session cwd is available does the executor fall back to its own config / `process.cwd()`.

Result text: stdout, then a `[stderr]` section, then status markers — `[timed out after Nms]` whenever the executor's timer fired (reported independently of how the process ended, so a command that traps SIGTERM and exits 0 still shows it), `[killed by signal: …]` for a signal death, `[exit code: N]` for a non-zero exit (reported, **not** `isError`: the model decides how to react), and `[output truncated; full output: <path>]` when the tail was kept. Only infrastructure failures (spawn errors, aborts) surface as `isError` results.

### `bash_output`

`task_id` → output produced **since the previous `bash_output` call** plus a status line (`running` / `completed, exit code: N` / `killed`). Reads that lost data to buffer bounds say so and point at the full-output spill file.

### `bash_kill`

`task_id` → SIGTERM→SIGKILL on the task's process group. Killing an already-finished task is a reported no-op; unknown ids are errors.

### Task ownership (cross-session isolation)

The owning agent is recorded per task id at spawn and kept for the lifetime of the loaded plugin instance (it is **not** cleared on completion). `bash_output`/`bash_kill` reject a task owned by a *different* agent with `task <id> belongs to another session` (a task started with no agent — a non-loop caller — has no owner and is open to anyone; a call with no `exec.agent` cannot access an owned task). Task ids are global and predictable, so under multi-session ACP this ownership check is the fence that stops one session's agent from reading or killing another session's background task. (`TODO(tool-bash-owner-hmr)`: an independent HMR reload of this plugin starts a fresh map, so a task spawned before the reload becomes un-owned — acceptable as HMR is dev-only and the session boundary is one user's cooperative editor; a durable fix attaches ownership to the executor/task lifetime.)

## Background completion notices

When a background task finishes, a short notice is injected into the owning agent's session (`agent.inject()`, source `{kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'tool-bash'}`). Injection is **durable context for the next model request, not a wake-up** — an idle agent stays idle until something sends a message. That's why the tool descriptions tell the model to poll with `bash_output`.

## Permissions

`TODO(permissions)`: commands run with the executor's full authority. The permission/sandbox seam is the `tools/execute` waterfall (veto or ask) plus sandboxing `BashExecutor` implementations — see docs/architecture.md. `@cordisjs/plugin-capability` (a named-permission service with a session `test()`) is a candidate building block for that work.