The **ACP server app**: a Cordis app plugin that composes the default agent spine ([`@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo`](../agent-spine-demo/README.md)) with the front-door cluster an [Agent Client Protocol](../../ui/acp/README.md) server needs, and a `bin` that boots a leaf `cordis.yml` speaking ACP JSON-RPC on stdio.
It is the structured counterpart to [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo`](../stdio-demo/README.md): both consume the same spine, but this one bakes in the OPPOSITE front-door cluster.
| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp` | the bridge that owns stdout for JSON-RPC and provides ACP-backed user answers when a leaf explicitly exposes a user-question tool |
| ~~`@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user`~~ | **omitted by default** — ACP elicitation support is still client-dependent, so leaves must opt in deliberately |
| ~~`@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval`~~ | **omitted by default** — permission policy is deployment-specific; sandbox/approval leaves opt in and the ACP bridge then supplies the answerer |
Because the package wires no logger entry, an ACP leaf has **nothing to get wrong by default**: it only picks backends, so the common mistake — copying a console-logger entry from the stdio config — has no place here. (A leaf author technically *can* still add `@cordisjs/plugin-logger-console` as a sibling entry; the package can't forbid that. So the rule stands: never add a stdout logger to an ACP leaf — stdout is the JSON-RPC channel. Use a stderr exporter if you need logs.)
| `toolOrder` | — | explicit model-facing tool order (a name list with one `'<unlisted-tools>'` rest entry; absent — lexicographic; an unregistered name fails each turn at prompt assembly), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
The leaf supplies the swappable backends: an LLM adapter (`llm-deepseek` for the real model, `llm-replay` for keyless snapshot replay), a bash executor, and optionally a `ctx.fs` provider. Workspace context becomes a no-op without `ctx.fs`; the shipped [`examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml`](../../../examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml) selects `dsh-sandbox-policy`, `dsh-fs-sandbox`, `dsh-fs-policy`, and `dsh-tool-fs` so baseline instructions and model-facing `read`/`write`/`edit` share one provider, sandbox mode, workspace root, and observed-version policy.
Run it under `node --expose-internals`, or Loader's optional `node-addon-require-builtin` fallback is required, so the cordis Loader can resolve the config's bare plugin specifiers through its internal module loader. (`demo:acp` runs under tsx, whose tsconfig `paths` map resolves them instead.)
Indirectly, through `dsh-agent-spine-demo` and `dsh-acp`, which compose each ACP agent's prompt, tools, and message history; this app bundle adds no model-bound content itself.
- **JSONL persistence is baked in** — config chooses its root but cannot select a different backend; that requires a sibling entry or differently composed app package.
- **User-question and approval mechanisms are omitted by default** — the bridge can answer both when their services/tools are composed, but this front door does not enable those deployment policies itself.
- **A leaf can still corrupt stdout** — the app mounts no console logger, but it cannot prevent a sibling leaf entry from writing non-protocol bytes to the ACP channel.
