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# AGENTS.md
This is the monorepo for the DeepSeek Harness group. It currently hosts the code for **DeepSeek Code ** , DeepSeek's coding agent product.
## Architecture
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This codebase is based on the **Cordis ** framework, built microkernel-style: **everything is a plugin ** . All necessary Cordis dependencies are copied into this monorepo as vendored source (under `vendor/` ) instead of being depended on via npm.
Read [docs/architecture.md ](docs/architecture.md ) before changing anything under `packages/` — it defines the service map, the event taxonomy, the session/turn/step lifecycle, and the plugin cookbook.
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## Design Documents
- [Coding Harness MVP 需求分析 ](https://trtgsjkv6r.feishu.cn/wiki/ZwK6wfBE9i91V6kzMGYcgRGanxg ) — requirement analysis for the initial MVP.
- [微内核Harness实现思路 ](https://trtgsjkv6r.feishu.cn/wiki/VS9Lw1kQki6mDJk2UHocyuphnsc ) — discussion of the microkernel plugin-style architecture ("everything is a plugin").
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## Repository Layout
```
vendor/ Vendored Cordis framework source (original npm names, private).
See vendor/README.md for the manifest, local-modification log,
and the upstream sync procedure. Do NOT edit casually — every
divergence must be logged there.
packages/ Harness packages, all named @deepseek-ai/dsh-<name>:
llm/ abstract LLM service + content-block vocabulary (no real adapter yet)
session/ event-sourced session log + in-memory store
system-prompt/ prompt-section + tool-schema assembly registry
tools/ tool registry + tools/execute waterfall
agent/ Agent interface, registry, agent/* event vocabulary
agent-loop/ THE concrete plugin: LoopAgent + the loop driver
examples/ Runnable demos (not workspaces). echo-agent = mock model + echo
tool + stdio UI + JSONL persistence, wired via cordis.yml.
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docs/ architecture.md — the design doc. adr/ — decision records (the
why behind vendoring, event-sourcing, the schema DSL, …).
rfc/ — proposals for substantial future work.
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scripts/ build.ts — dumble JS bundling for all packages.
```
## Commands
``` sh
yarn install # Yarn 4 workspaces (node-modules linker), node >= 24
yarn test # vitest run (packages/*/tests/**/*.spec.ts)
yarn typecheck # tsc -b tsconfig.build.json (declarations only)
yarn build # typecheck + dumble JS bundles into each package's lib/
yarn demo # run examples/echo-agent (needs --expose-internals, the
# script passes it; type "echo hi" to see a tool call)
```
Dev/test/demo run **unbuilt ** via tsx + the `paths` map in the root
`tsconfig.json` (`vitest` resolves through `tsconfig.test.json` ). Building is
only needed for publishing/consumption outside the repo.
## Conventions
- **Package naming**: every npm package in this repo is `@deepseek-ai/dsh-<name>`
(vendored packages keep their upstream names and are `private: true` ).
- **ESM everywhere** (`"type": "module"` ); imports between workspace packages
use package names, never relative paths across package boundaries.
In-package imports use explicit `.ts` extensions (allowImportingTsExtensions).
- **`cordis` is a peerDependency** (+ devDependency) of every harness package,
mirroring upstream convention.
- **Registrations are effects**: anything a plugin contributes (adapter, tool,
section, agent, event listener) goes through `ctx.effect()` / `ctx.on()` so
disposal and HMR work. If you write a registry, `register()` must return the
disposer.
- **Typed events via declaration merging**: services declare their events in
`declare module 'cordis' { interface Events { … } }` , and their ctx key in
`interface Context` . Extensible unions use the merge-extensible-map pattern
(see `ContentBlockMap` , `MessageSourceMap` ).
- **Waterfall semantics**: `ctx.waterfall` listeners receive `(...args, next)`
and MUST call `next()` to delegate; returning without it short-circuits.
This is the veto mechanism — use deliberately.
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- **Switch exhaustiveness**: switches over CLOSED unions (e.g. `StreamChunk` )
end with `default: assertNever(value, 'context')` (from dsh-llm) so adding a
variant breaks compilation at every switch that must handle it. Switches
over MERGE-EXTENSIBLE unions (`SessionEventMap` , `ContentBlockMap` , …) must
NOT use assertNever — plugin-added variants are valid unknown values; handle
known cases and fall through with a comment (the lint rule
`switch-exhaustiveness-check` makes the choice explicit either way).
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- **Plugins, not loop changes**: new behavior goes into a plugin on the
documented extension seams (see the plugin sanity checklist in
docs/architecture.md). Changing `agent-loop` requires updating that doc.
- **Tests**: vitest, colocated under `packages/<name>/tests/*.spec.ts` . Every
registry needs an HMR-safety test (dispose the contributing fiber, assert
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cleanup). **Excessive tests are welcome ** — when in doubt, write the test;
err on the side of covering edge cases, error paths, event ordering, and
concurrency races even if they seem unlikely. Review findings get regression
tests (see `packages/agent-loop/tests/review-fixes.spec.ts` ).
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## Type Safety and Documentation
This codebase aims to be **very type-safe and well documented ** for
maintainability. Code that fails to compile under `strict: true` (with
`noImplicitAny` enabled for all `packages/*` source) is not acceptable. Every
`any` that remains must have a specific justification (a comment explaining why
a narrower type is infeasible).
In the **core ** packages (`packages/llm` , `packages/tools` , `packages/agent` ,
`packages/agent-loop` , `packages/session` , `packages/system-prompt` ), **type
gymnastics are acceptable when they improve the DX of plugin authors** for
common plugin types. The `defineTool` typed schema DSL in `dsh-tools` is the
canonical example: the `SchemaSpec` to `InferArgs<S>` type-level mapping gives
tool authors zero-cast typed `execute` args, and the cost of the conditional
types stays inside the core package.
Verbose documentation is fine **as long as docs and code stay strictly in
sync**. Out-of-sync docs are worse than no docs. Every module has a module-level
doc comment explaining its role. Every exported class, interface, type,
function, and non-obvious method has a JSDoc that explains semantics (not just
the name) — contracts (what events fire when), disposal behavior, error
behavior, and extension intent. Internal helpers get docs only where non-obvious.
Prefer one-liners when one line suffices.
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## Vendoring Policy
`vendor/` packages are pinned source copies (manifest with upstream commit
SHAs in [vendor/README.md ](vendor/README.md )). To update one, follow the sync
procedure there; re-apply (or retire) the logged local modifications and rerun
`yarn test && yarn build` .