One list call now materializes at most maxEntries child rows (config,
default 1000 - GitHub's web-UI directory-listing bound). Candidates sort
before probing so a cut level keeps the name-sorted head and symlink
probing stops with the bound, and DirectoryListing carries a required
truncated flag on the seam and the wire so clients can state
incompleteness instead of silently missing tail entries.
- While a picking flow is open (native chooser pending, browse dialog up) or
its pick is being adopted, every other menu action disables: a late outcome
must not race a concurrent selection or creation (ds-review-bot warning).
- ctx.directoryPicker joins the architecture Capability Services map (both
languages); neighboring rows condensed to keep the doc inside its ceiling.
- directory-picker-browse documents that its client half lands in the next
stacked PR: a -browse composition today hides the picking affordance (the
documented empty-hole default) rather than misbehaving (ds-review-bot
critical; the dialog itself ships in #821).
The browse interaction also presents a dialog (the in-app modal), so 'dialog'
failed to discriminate the two capability kinds; 'native' names where the
chooser runs. Package directory-picker-dialog -> directory-picker-native, kind
'dialog' -> 'native', with every seam/gateway/client/doc reference updated and
the seam Agent Note's naming rationale rewritten to match.
ds-review-bot round 5: '\\' and '\\server' satisfy win32.isAbsolute and
the previous two-separator test, yet resolve() collapses them to
drive-relative roots. The UNC arm now requires server and share components;
incomplete prefixes reject with the business codes, covered per-platform.
ds-review-bot round 4. On Windows, isAbsolute admits rooted drive-less
forms (\foo, /foo) that resolve() then rebases onto the process's current
drive; both browse primitives now gate on a fullyQualified check (drive
letter or UNC on win32, POSIX-absolute elsewhere) with a platform test
seam, per-platform unit cases, and the contract wording updated on the
seam, the backend README pair, and the error messages.
The picker-kind effect also kept a resolved 'dialog' across close, so a
backend swapped while the menu was closed could paint the stale entry for
one frame on reopen; the close arm now clears the state, pinned by a
reopen-under-pending-read race test.
ds-review-bot round 2. The workspace UI never consulted the advertised
directoryPicker kind: under a browse (or merge-added) backend it still
rendered 'Open local folder…' and called pickDirectory(), which the host
answers with directory-picker-unavailable. The create flow now reads
directoryPickerKind() per menu open and renders the dialog affordance only
under 'dialog' — browse (until its in-app browser UI lands) and unknown
kinds hide the entry, realizing the seam's documented default; a keyless
workspace-flow snapshot pins the hidden entry over the browse fixture.
The browse backend also resolved wire paths, silently rebasing '' or
relative parents under the host process cwd; both primitives now reject
non-absolute explicit paths with their business codes, and the seam JSDoc
carries the contract.
The web GUI's folder picking was hardwired to one interaction: a native
OS chooser compiled into the gateway, unusable for remote deployments
and swappable only by editing apiproxy source.
Directory picking becomes a three-package capability seam in
packages/host: ctx.directoryPicker returns a discriminated capability —
dialog (the extracted native chooser; host-display only) or browse
(new: one-level listing + child creation over Node stdlib, hidden flags
host-stamped, symlinks followed, ancestry crumbs; remote-capable). The
gateway injects the seam, advertises the kind via
host.describe.directoryPicker, serves host.listDirectory /
host.createDirectory under browse, and answers
directory-picker-unavailable across kinds. cordis.yml is the swap
point; apps/cli keeps dialog mounted, so behavior is unchanged until
the in-app browser PR flips the default. The connection fixture serves
a deterministic browse tree; WorkspacesService gains the browse calls
the browser UI will drive. Decision record:
.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md
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