Adds a small signal-detection layer over trace payloads and surfaces
three kinds of semantic signals inline in the trace tri-view (Timeline
/ Graph / turn footer chips) so a researcher can spot repetitive
tool-call loops, redundant identical calls, and plan-completion beats
without hand-scanning the raw log:
- loop-detected — three or more repeats of the same tool.method
signature inside a window, badge in Timeline gutter
+ colored ring on the Graph node
- redundant-call — identical (tool, arg-hash) call twice without any
state change in between, badge + subdued styling
so it stays advisory not alarmist
- plan-* chips — plan/subplan step-complete beats surfaced above the
assistant body in the turn footer, wired through
the finishTurnContainer tail
Pure rendering; no wire-format changes needed on the runtime side —
signal detection is fixture-driven off the same payload the tri-view
already consumes. Companion RFC L-2 in docs/upstream-ledger.md asks
the runtime to emit these signals natively rather than deriving them
in the shell, so once L-2 lands the shell will consume upstream signals
and this detector becomes a fallback.
Files:
src/renderer/trace-signal-detect.js new (loop/redundant/plan)
src/renderer/trace-tri-view.js +24 (wire detector output)
src/renderer/trace-timeline.js +39 (badge in gutter)
src/renderer/trace-graph.js +30 (colored ring)
src/renderer/renderer.js +81 (finishTurnContainer chips)
src/renderer/index.html +1 (one script tag)
src/renderer/style.css +58 (badge/ring/chip rules)
docs/upstream-ledger.md +121 (append L-2 RFC)
scripts/qa-trace-signals-fixture.mjs new (headless SVG proof)
scripts/qa-trace-signals-shoot.mjs new (CDP live shoot)
docs/trace-signals-shoot/*.html new (3 fixture-driven shots)
test/trace-signal-detect.test.js new (detector unit tests)
test/trace-signal-overlay.test.js new (renderer overlay tests)
Test suite: 1668/1668 pass (17 new). Fixture-driven signals-01-timeline-
loop.html regenerated byte-identical from the merged HEAD.
Examples
Runnable demos (not workspaces) that showcase how the harness is wired. Each example is a thin leaf: a cordis.yml that picks the swappable backends (an LLM adapter, a bash executor), loads one app package, and may add optional product tools or demo-only mocks. The composition — the spine, the front-door cluster, and the boot glue — lives in the app packages (@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo, @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo) and the @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle they share. There is no start.ts; the demo:* scripts invoke each app package's bin.
echo-agent
A mock model + echo tool on the stdio chat app — the all-mock skeleton. The leaf swaps dsh-stdio-demo's LLM backend to a local mock-echo adapter and adds a local echo tool. Demonstrates:
- A thin leaf
cordis.ymlloading the@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demoapp - Registering a mock
LlmAdapter(streaming scripted responses) - Registering a tool via
ctx.tools.register() - "Swap the backend, keep the app" — the only difference from
coding-agentis the adapter
Run with: pnpm run demo:echo. When prompted, type "echo " to trigger a tool call round-trip.
coding-agent
A REPL agent demo: DeepSeek V4 + the read/write/edit filesystem tools + the bash tool suite, subagent delegation, and the todo_write task tracker on the same @deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo app. The UI is a terminal readline REPL.
Run with: pnpm run demo:repl (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY in the environment or a gitignored repo-root .env). See coding-agent/README.md for details.
Run the Code Mode overlay with pnpm run demo:code-mode, or pass acp for the ACP example. See the Code Mode example for its composition and a sample task.
cordis-agent
The self-referential demo: the coding spine plus @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis, whose three tools (cordis_inspect / cordis_mount / cordis_unmount) let the agent inspect the live cordis runtime it runs inside, mount model-written plugins into it (an event listener, a brand-new tool for itself, or a service another mount injects), and dispose them again — all dynamic mounts grouped under one cordis-dynamic fiber subtree. The ctx.fs/ctx.web services ride along provider-only, as the capabilities those plugins build on.
Run with: pnpm run demo:cordis (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY). See cordis-agent/README.md for the staged demo script and the toolset RFC for the design and sandbox caveats.
acp-agent
An agent demo exposed as an Agent Client Protocol (ACP) server over JSON-RPC stdio, via the @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo app — drive it from Zed or any other ACP client. Also the home of the keyless snapshot tests.
Run with: pnpm run demo:acp (needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY); pnpm run demo:code-mode acp boots the same server in Code Mode via the code-mode.cordis.yml overlay. See acp-agent/README.md for the Zed setup and the snapshot-test design.
The default cordis.yml composes @deepseek-ai/dsh-sandbox-local, @deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-sandbox, @deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval, and @deepseek-ai/dsh-permission. A capable client gets one Permissions select: workspace-write confines bash to the configured workspace and asks before a wider retry, while danger-full-access removes file confinement and disables approval prompts. A denied command can therefore surface a one-shot session/request_permission prompt in the editor; "Allow once" runs exactly that retry under the requested wider mode.