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# @deepseek-ai/dsh-ui-stdio
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A minimal stdio (readline) UI, as a plugin. It reads lines from stdin and feeds them to an agent (`send` when idle, `steer` while a turn is running), and renders that agent's streamed output and tool activity to stdout. A UI is "just a plugin" here — it consumes the `session/event` transcript feed plus a few `agent/*` control events (`agent/status`, `agent/created`/`agent/disposed`) and the `agents` service (`inject: ['agents']`), so the same plugin drives any example or product surface.
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This is a **convenience REPL for local testing and the demos, not a product surface** — its observable behavior is free to change. It is deliberately NOT treated as a load-bearing consumer when weighing whether a live event/API must exist: the boundary mirror events were removed precisely because "ui-stdio renders from them" is not a product constraint (it was migrated to `session/event`). The real product surfaces are the ACP bridge (`dsh-acp`) and the app packages.
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This package consolidates what were two near-identical copies under `examples/echo-agent` and `examples/coding-agent`. The coding copy was a superset; this package IS that superset — dimmed chain-of-thought rendering plus robust piped-stdin EOF handling — with the per-consumer differences moved into `Config`.
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## Config
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| Key | Type | Default | Notes |
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| `welcome` | string | `'ready.'` | Banner printed once on start, before the first `> ` prompt. |
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| `agent` | string | `'main'` | Id of the agent that stdin **drives** (`send`/`steer`) and whose `agent/status` gates the EOF exit. Rendering is **not** scoped by it — see below. |
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```yaml
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- id: ui-stdio
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name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-ui-stdio'
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config:
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welcome: 'agent REPL ready. Give it a coding task.'
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```
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## Rendering
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Rendering is **global** — every agent's events are written to stdout, not just `config.agent`'s. `config.agent` scopes only *input* (which agent stdin drives) and the EOF-exit gate; the single-agent demos this serves have just one agent, so the distinction is moot for them. (A multi-agent UI that needs per-agent panes would filter these handlers by the agent argument — deliberately out of scope here.)
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- `session/event` — the durable transcript feed drives ALL rendering, from a single listener so `inReasoning` transitions stay deterministic in append order: `assistant/chunk` writes the model's `text-delta` verbatim and wraps `reasoning-delta` in the dim SGR (`\x1B[2m … \x1B[0m`) so the chain-of-thought is visually subordinate to the answer (inert when no `reasoning-delta` chunks arrive, e.g. a mock model); `turn/start` prints a `[<agent> turn N]` header (the short agent label comes from a session-id→agent-id map seeded from `ctx.agents.list()` at install and kept live via `agent/created`/`agent/disposed`, since the turn event carries only the turn number); `turn/end` prints the trailing `> ` prompt; `tool/call` renders `[tool call] name(args)`; `tool/result` renders the joined text blocks as `[tool result] …`; and `todo/write` renders a glyphed checklist.
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## The I/O seam
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The production entry point `apply(ctx, config)` binds the real `process` streams. The testable core is `createStdioChat(ctx, config, runtime)`, where `runtime: StdioRuntime` supplies `input` / `output` / `exit`. This seam is deliberately **not** part of the serializable `Config` (streams and functions do not belong in YAML config); it exists so the render, EOF, and disposal branches can be exercised with fakes instead of hijacking globals.
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## Piped-stdin exit
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On stdin EOF the plugin exits the process, but carefully:
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- **No work submitted** (empty stdin, blank-only lines): exit immediately — no turn will ever start, so there is nothing to wait for. Gating on an observed `running` here would hang forever.
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- **Work submitted**: exit the next time the agent settles to `idle` *after* having been observed `running`. `agent.send()` does not synchronously flip status to `running`, so requiring an observed `running` first (`sawRunning`) avoids exiting in the gap before the turn starts and dropping work; and the loop batches several queued messages into one turn, so the exit keys off the idle transition rather than counting sends.
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Disposal (HMR or fiber teardown) closes the readline interface, which also fires `close` — a `disposed` guard ensures teardown never calls `process.exit`.
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## Plugin export shape
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Named `name` / `inject` / `Config` / `apply`, with **no default export**: the cordis Loader's `unwrapExports` does `exports.default ?? exports`, so a stray default would collapse the module to the bare function and drop the `inject` namespace (see [docs/postmortem/0001](../../../docs/postmortem/0001-acp-default-export-drops-inject.md)). The keyless Loader-path e2e smokes in `examples/{echo,coding}-agent` guard this end-to-end.
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