feat(config)!: one ordering for configuration sources, and a bootstrap deny rule

$DSH_HOME/.env had just become an ordinary environment layer, which left the
harness resolving user-facing values from a flattened process.env that could
no longer say where a value came from. A key stored through the web page
stayed shadowed by an older key in the user's own .env. An endpoint could be
redirected by the project: the invoking directory's .env is materialized like
every other layer, and a base URL decides where a resolved API key is sent, so
a DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL written into a model-editable workspace would send the
user's credential — and the prompts carrying their code — to whatever host
that file named.

Give every user-facing value one ordering, with four kinds of source:

  explicit for this run     per-operation override, CLI argument
  > authored by deployment  --config / --config-replace
  > this launch's shell     inherited process environment
  > product-managed store   settings.yaml, .credentials.yaml
  > discovered file         $DSH_HOME/.env
  > defaults                schema default, shipped base, public default

The domains differ only in which tiers exist. The earlier split — credentials
ranking the environment over the managed file while settings ranked over the
environment — was inconsistent: the distinguishing fact is who authored the
source, not the domain.

packages/util/environment owns an immutable snapshot with per-layer
provenance. getFrom(name, sources) searches only the layers a caller names,
and omitting one is a refusal rather than a demotion: the adapters ask for
['process', 'user-env'], so no reordering can let a project file back into a
decision it was excluded from.

isBootstrapOnly rejects, before anything is materialized, any .env setting a
variable that governs how a process launches (PATH, SHELL, NODE_OPTIONS,
LD_PRELOAD), where code or model-visible instructions load from (the whole
DSH_* namespace, HOME, XDG_*), or how the network is reached (proxy and CA
variables). The namespace is denied wholesale so a switch added later cannot
become settable by being forgotten, and there is no opt-out.

verify-config-source-ownership keeps both rules: no unregistered process.env
read under packages/*/*/src (26 allowlisted with reasons), and no apiKey,
baseURL, or headers inlined from the environment in shipped Cordis config —
removing those inlines is what makes the deployment tier meaningful.
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# dsh-environment
English | [中文](README.zh.md)
This run's environment as one immutable snapshot that remembers **which layer supplied each value**. Consumers resolve user-facing values against it instead of `process.env`, because the layers are not equally trusted and a flattened view cannot tell them apart.
| Layer | Source id | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Inherited process environment | `process` | What the launching shell, CI job, or container passed in — this run's explicit intent |
| `<invocation cwd>/.env` | `project-env` | Whatever the project directory happens to contain; a model working in that workspace can write it |
| `$DSH_HOME/.env` | `user-env` | The user's own machine-level defaults |
Values do also reach `process.env` — a user's `--config` tree and third-party libraries read it — but that flattened view is not the authority for anything the harness resolves.
## Resolving
`get(name)` searches every layer, most trusted first. `getFrom(name, sources)` searches only the layers the caller trusts.
**Omitting a layer is a refusal, not a demotion.** A base URL decides where a resolved API key is sent, so the LLM adapters ask for `['process', 'user-env']`: no future reordering can let a project file redirect a credential, because that layer is never consulted at all.
```ts
import type { Context } from 'cordis'
import { environmentOf } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-environment'
declare const ctx: Context
const endpoint = environmentOf(ctx).getFrom('DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL', ['process', 'user-env'])?.value
```
`environmentOf(ctx)` returns the launcher's snapshot when the product CLI booted the tree, and otherwise the inherited environment as the only layer. That fallback does not weaken the rules: an SDK host or a bare `cordis.yml` discovered no files, so everything it has really is the environment it was launched with.
## Bootstrap variables
`isBootstrapOnly(name)` names the variables only the inherited environment may set. The launcher rejects a `.env` that declares one, before applying anything.
A bootstrap variable decides **how a process launches** (`PATH`, `SHELL`, `NODE_OPTIONS`, `NODE_PATH`, `LD_PRELOAD`, `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, `DYLD_*`), **where code or model-visible instructions load from** (the whole `DSH_*` namespace, `HOME`, `USERPROFILE`, `XDG_*`), or **how the network is reached and trusted** (`HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY`, `ALL_PROXY`, `NO_PROXY`, `SSL_CERT_FILE`, `SSL_CERT_DIR`, `NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS`). Matching is case-insensitive, so `https_proxy` is not a bypass.
The whole `DSH_*` namespace is denied rather than an audited subset: the harness's own switches — the permission mode, the agents home, the bundled skill root — are exactly what a hostile project would want, and a switch added later must not become settable by forgetting to list it.
## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- **The snapshot is not a subprocess boundary** — every layer is also materialized into `process.env`, so ordinary project variables still reach child processes under [`dsh-subprocess`](../../subprocess/subprocess/README.md)'s scrub. Bootstrap variables cannot come from a file at all, but a project `.env` can still set, say, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` for the tools an agent runs.
- **No per-workspace layer** — the project layer is the *invoking* directory, fixed at launch. A workspace selected later in the Web UI contributes nothing, deliberately: following it would let a model's own workspace change the harness environment mid-session.