Automation-oriented [Agent Client Protocol](https://agentclientprotocol.com) server over JSON-RPC stdio. It is intended for parent agents, subagent providers, and other programmatic clients, not as the product UI.
The leaf loads the ACP app, DeepSeek adapter, sandboxed bash and filesystem stacks, one-shot approval policy, compaction, subagents, workflows, hooks, a derived session-query index, and repeat guard. The app creates one fresh agent per `session/new`, persists sessions to JSONL, and keeps stdout protocol-pure. Optional overlays add session queries, filesystem spill storage, Code Mode, or web fetching.
Stdout carries only newline-delimited ACP JSON-RPC. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo` installs no stdout logger; leaf additions must use stderr for diagnostics.
Each `session/new` supplies an absolute `cwd`. Sandboxed bash and filesystem mutations resolve `workspace-write` against that session cwd, so concurrent sessions can use separate project roots; platform temporary roots remain shared writable scratch space ([sandbox contract](../../packages/sandbox/sandbox/README.md)). `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` selects `workspace-write` or `danger-full-access` for the deployment.
Under `workspace-write`, a model retry requesting wider sandbox access triggers `session/request_permission` with `allow_once` and `reject_once`. The client decides programmatically; dismissal or an unavailable answer fails closed. The selected outcome applies only to that retry and is recorded through the normal tool-result/audit path. The server never exposes a permission picker or persists client policy.