feat(agent-presets): make the default preset a user setting

`config.default` becomes the composition base of an `agent-presets` settings
namespace, so the user document layers over the deployment's engineering
default and a person can change which preset new sessions get without a
restart.

The value is read per resolution rather than snapshotted: a hot-reloaded
document takes effect on the next session created, and every running session
stays on the preset it was composed from — which is the same rule the
session-header guard enforces from the other side.

`resolve()` read `config.default` directly, which would have made the whole
setting inert; it now goes through `defaultId` like every other caller.

The write-protection test is rewritten against a temp profile root. It was
passing vacuously: the un-overridden Loader REWRITES the composition it read —
stamping `disabled: true` onto the self-disposing row — so the committed
fixture had been mutated by the very run that proved the bug, and every later
run compared against the damaged file and passed. Building the preset in a
temp directory makes the assertion immune to its own failure mode, and it now
fails with a visible `+ disabled: true` when the override is removed.

Review follow-ups on this layer. The exported schema is
`AgentPresetSettingsSchema`, symmetric with the `AgentPresetSettings`
interface it resolves and self-describing at an import site. The `session.create`
JSDoc promised "the deployment's default preset" for an omitted `agentPreset`,
which this layer makes false — it now names the effective default. The
constructor records why it does not use `installSettingsSection`: that helper
re-judges what a consumer DERIVED across attach and detach, and nothing here is
derived. The provider-unload test disposes the fiber `ctx.plugin()` handed back
instead of reaching into `ctx.reflect.store`, and the write-protection wait says
why slack is the right shape for an absence assertion.

The real composition covers the layering too. `apps/cli` boots the shipped
`cordis.yml`, stores `agent-presets.default`, and asserts an unnamed session
composes from it — the package suite proves the layering against a hand-built
context, this proves the roster and the settings provider are wired to each
other. That test also pins the settings row at a temp file: it defaulted to
`$DSH_HOME/settings.yaml`, so a developer's own stored default decided the
outcome of a file whose whole point is that only the shipped root does.

The Agent Note records the per-resolution read and its correspondence with the
session header, and the vacuous-test finding above.
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Yichen Jiang
2026-08-04 00:07:11 +08:00
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@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ Model routing stays out of presets. `installAgentLlmTarget` is already the per-a
Mounting is per-session by default. Measured cost for a twelve-row composition is ~3ms and ~600KB per session, so isolation is the cheaper default than any sharing scheme, and a preset authored by a user or by an agent then has the smallest possible blast radius. A preset that genuinely owns an expensive singleton opts into sharing with Cordis's own `isolate` vocabulary: a named realm label is process-global, so two subtrees naming the same label resolve one instance.
Which preset an unnamed session gets is a user setting (`agent-presets.default`) layered over the composition's own `default`, which becomes the `base`. Both layers are needed: the composition value is what a deployment ships and must keep working with no settings provider at all, and the setting is what a person changes without editing a `cordis.yml` they may not own.
## Consequences
**The effective default is read per resolution, never snapshotted.** A cached value would need a `watch` subscription and a reload path to stay honest, and the resolved scope already re-reads a hot-reloaded document. Reading through is also what makes the boundary correct rather than merely cheap: the new value applies to the next session created, and every running session keeps the composition it was built from. That invariant is the same one the session header enforces from the other side — the header records the id a session actually runs, so a resume rebuilds that composition rather than today's default, and the gateway rejects an attempt to adopt a live session under a different one. A snapshot would make the two disagree at exactly the moment the setting changes.
**A directly-plugged subtree is invisible to the boot audit.** It never links itself to an `Entry`, so it is absent from `ctx.loader.entries()` and `assertEntriesActivated` cannot see it. The mount audits its own rows instead, reading the tree through an `Include` subclass that publishes it.
**A preset can only name a group because the app registers one.** Sharing a realm across rows is a `cordis:group` row, and a preset living outside this workspace — the authored ones under the Harness home, which is the point — cannot resolve `@cordisjs/plugin-group` by name: Node's upward `node_modules` walk never reaches the harness from there. `boot()` therefore registers `cordis:group` beside `cordis:include` as a loader builtin, so both load through the ambient module pipeline rather than through the included tree's own specifier resolution. Without it the `isolate` vocabulary above is expressible one row at a time only, and a provider could never be grouped with its consumers.
@@ -35,6 +39,8 @@ Mounting is per-session by default. Measured cost for a twelve-row composition i
**Failure rolls the agent back.** `setup` runs before publication, so a rejected mount fails `ctx.agents.create()` and leaves nothing behind. This is why `setup` is the one supported call site.
**A test that the preset file is never rewritten has to be able to fail.** The first version asserted the file was unchanged after an ordinary mount, and could not have caught anything: the Loader only reaches its write path when it decides the config changed, and nothing in that composition ever self-disposed. The regression plants a row that disposes itself — the shape a real preset hits every time an agent is torn down — and keeps the composition in a temp root rather than under `fixtures/`, because without the override the Loader rewrites the file it read: a committed fixture would be damaged by the very run that proves the bug, and every run after it would compare against the damaged file and pass.
**Fiber membership is object identity, not `uid`.** A `uid` is a per-registry counter, so fibers in two different roots collide on it; comparing by `uid` made one runtime's subtree answer for a service published in another. `ctx.plugin()` returns a thenable `Object.create(fiber)` wrapper that is never identical to the fiber in a parent chain, so the subtree captures its own fiber during construction.
**The preset id is model-visible and must be logged.** It determines the tool set and prompt, so a resumed session has to restore the same composition; recording it is a session fact, not runtime state.