This directory owns the replay and real-model test composition for a headless coding agent: DeepSeek V4 + local bash and filesystem tools + subagent delegation + workflows and fresh-agent Ralph iteration + `todo_write` + JSONL persistence. It explicitly mounts the shared agent spine, one root agent, persistence, and checkpoint policy; it is not a second product front door.
The product command is [`dsh run`](../../apps/cli/README.md): it accepts one nonblank task, creates and persists a fresh session, prints the final assistant text, and exits. The root `demo:headless` script is only an alias of that command.
Snapshot suites run this directory's configuration through [`tests/fixtures/headless-driver.ts`](tests/fixtures/headless-driver.ts), an unexported test-only process that emits canonical session events as JSONL before its result record. That stream is test infrastructure, not a supported CLI output format. Child sessions surface only through parent tool events and results.