deepseek-harness/packages/web/web

@deepseek-ai/dsh-web

The web access seam: an abstract WebService (ctx.web) defining WHAT web access the harness has — search the web, fetch a URL — over multiple providers, without binding the model contract to one vendor's API shape.

This package is the interface third of the web capability. Unlike bash/fs it spans two capabilities (search and fetch) on one seam, with potentially multiple providers each:

Package	Role
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web (this)	the interface: the service, provider registries, selection policy, request/result vocabulary, the WebError taxonomy
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-exa	a search implementation: Exa
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-perplexity	a search implementation: Perplexity
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-fetch-local	a fetch implementation: anonymous public HTTP(S)
@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-web	the model-facing web_search / web_fetch tool schemas over ctx.web

Search and fetch share no request schema and no business logic, but they are deliberately one seam: ctx.web is a single web-access middle layer with one provider-selection policy owner, one abort/error vocabulary, and one product-facing "how this harness reaches the web" config surface. The cost is the parallel Search/Fetch method pairs; that parallelism is intentional, not a missed extraction.

Service API (ctx.web)

Member	Semantics
registerSearchProvider(provider) / registerFetchProvider(provider)	Register a backend. Throws WebError WEB_DUPLICATE_PROVIDER on a duplicate id within that capability kind. Returns a disposer. Disposed with the calling fiber.
search(request, exec?)	Resolve the search provider and run one search. Enforces request.maxResults on the result (truncates sources[], sets truncated). Throws WebError when the capability cannot run.
fetch(request, exec?)	Resolve the fetch provider and retrieve one URL. A non-2xx response is a result, not a throw. Throws WebError for failures to safely retrieve or represent the resource.

Providers register capabilities, not tools. dsh-tool-web is the only owner of model-facing names, descriptions, prompt guidance, JSON schemas, and presentation.

Selection

Selection never depends on registration, config, or HMR order. A capability has an explicit provider id (config searchProvider/fetchProvider, or env $DSH_WEB_SEARCH_PROVIDER/$DSH_WEB_FETCH_PROVIDER feeding the same fields), or auto-selects when exactly one usable provider is registered. search()/fetch() resolve the provider at execution time:

Situation	Execution
configured id registered and status().available	runs that provider
configured id not registered	WEB_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED_MISSING
configured id registered but unavailable	WEB_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED_UNAVAILABLE
no id, exactly one registered usable provider	runs it
no id, no usable provider	WEB_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE
no id, multiple usable providers	WEB_PROVIDER_AMBIGUOUS

The failure branches throw WebError, whose structured code (plus message detail — the missing id, the ambiguous candidate set) is the surface callers route on. A provider's own status() is a cheap local check (credential presence, parseable config) that feeds this execution-time selection and must not make network calls; dsh-tool-web never calls a provider's status() — it executes through ctx.web.search()/fetch() and routes on the thrown codes, so provider selection has one owner.

Vocabulary

WebSearchRequest (query, maxResults?) → WebSearchResult (providerId, query, content?, sources[], truncated); each WebSearchSource has a required url and optional title/snippet/publishedAt (Perplexity citations may be URL-only). WebFetchRequest (url, timeoutMs?) → WebFetchResult (providerId, final url, statusCode, body, truncated); WebFetchBody is a CLOSED discriminated union (html | text) owned here — consumers switch to exhaustiveness so a new kind breaks their compilation until handled. See src/types.ts for the full contracts and the WebError code taxonomy.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

• No observation surface — no provider-change event and no capability-status query; availability is observed only by executing search()/fetch() and routing the thrown WebError codes, and the no-provider failure is the generic WEB_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE with no per-provider reason enumeration (RFC).
• WebSearchRequest carries only query + maxResults — provider-neutral controls (recency, domain filters, regional hints, search depth) are deferred until Exa and Perplexity can both honor them honestly (seam RFC).
• WebFetchBody has no pdf arm — text-extractable PDF support is named deferred work; the closed union makes adding it a compile-enforced change across the three web packages.
• Provider-backed page extraction is out of scope of fetch() — a Firecrawl/Tavily-style web_extract capability is deferred rather than widening the fetch seam.