Head-to-head replay of the same ten historical examples, both arms in
one time window with identical prompts and pairwise blind judging:
prose quality and cost at parity (stylistic margins only); the shipped
briefing wins two objective outcomes — code-fence-only examples land
byte-identical to the human-reviewed updates with zero model tokens,
and the flagged first-occurrence move reproduces the human-reviewed
gloss relocation the section-only form leaves as a contract violation.
Chinese counterpart brought along via the briefed path and the pair
re-recorded.
The briefing now maps each update at the narrowest safely aligned
granularity, widening deterministically on mapping failure: a change
confined to the pair's byte-identical code fences is computed outright
(--apply splices it into the counterpart and validates the result
against the pairing gate's structural signature before writing);
otherwise changed Markdown units — headings, paragraphs, table rows,
list items, fences, block quotes, HTML blocks, thematic breaks, link
definitions, matched by container-scoped kind sequences — each carry
their last-confirmed source, current source, and current counterpart
text; units that do not align fall back to depth-matched heading
sections (depth only, so translated heading text still maps); and when
sections do not align either, or both sides drifted, the briefing says
so and withholds the mapping. Terminology rows now match the changed
spans only, English terms on word boundaries with plural inflections,
and Chinese-target briefings track each relevant term's document-wide
first occurrence — a moved occurrence pulls the vacated and receiving
spans into the briefing with an explanatory note.
The unit mapping, mechanical code splice, and first-occurrence tracking
adopt the planner design from the incremental prompt-pipeline PR (#684),
whose provider-backed bake-off independently validated the same scope
ladder; this PR carries those mechanics into the agent-facing briefing
path so both consumers of the consistency records behave alike. The
prior line-hunk section mapping and its heading-text alignment (which
could not map cross-language sections) are replaced wholesale.
Docs: SKILL.md update path, i18n README pair, development.md pair, and
the briefed-updates Agent Note pair brought along; the development.md
fence edit was applied with --apply itself, and the prose updates were
made through the new unit/section briefings.
The dsh-translate-docs skill now triages updates onto a briefing-driven
path — gen-translation-brief output as the translator's whole working
set, orchestrator-applied mechanical fence edits, scoped record/check —
while the whole-document path for new pairs is unchanged. The i18n
README documents the scoped gate forms and the briefing tool;
development.md lists the new command; the new bilingual Agent Note
records the decision and the ten-example benchmark behind it (briefed
path ~1/3 the tokens and wall clock of the corpus-loading path at equal
judged quality; whole-document re-translation rejected on preservation
collapse). Counterpart updates in this commit were produced with the
new briefed path; the new note's Chinese side is a whole-document
translation.
Every PR that changes product-user-visible GUI behavior now includes a
demonstration GIF with real provenance (that branch's built tree, real
key, real model rounds). Recording stays side-effect-free; the skill
gains a bounded final publication step: GIFs go on an append-only
orphan assets branch (one per PR series) and embed via the blob URL
with ?raw=true, never on the PR branch itself.
Folds in the operational lessons from the Code Mode UI series:
.playwright-mcp/ screenshot roots (now gitignored), per-PR staging and
precise server teardown, one-call DOM polling for transient states,
exact-text completion predicates, prompt engineering for UI states,
and the export-before-invoke GIF_SKILL_DIR encoder pitfall.
Agent Note: implemented/process/2026-07-26-gui-pr-gif-evidence-and-assets-branch (+ zh pair); the 2026-07-23 recording note now defers publication policy to it.
Convert the hand-rolled corepack + store-path + actions/cache pnpm setups
to pnpm/action-setup@v4 + setup-node cache: pnpm (the landlock-run.yml
pattern) in e2e.yml, docs-pages.yml, pi-ai-provider-e2e.yml,
build-exe-for-python-sdk.yml, and ci.yml's node-compat and benchmark
jobs. The enterprise restore-only PR jobs and the Windows job keep their
documented asymmetries; serial-linux keeps its hand-rolled store cache
because it produces the exact key those restore-only jobs consume, and
only swaps corepack for the action.
Implements and moves the CI-caching Agent Note from PR #667 to
implemented/, recording the serial-linux producer exception and the
exact-key (no restore-keys prefix) behavior of setup-node's cache.
Responding to ds-review-bot round 2 on #662:
- LANG_ALIASES is a Map: an assistant-authored fence label like
constructor or __proto__ now misses (plain render) instead of resolving
an inherited object property and crashing shiki mid-conversation. Test
sweeps the inherited-key labels.
- The singleton is pre-warmed in a deferred task at plugin boot (the
~120-175ms engine+grammar construction long task moves off the first
finalized fence's render); the lazy path remains the correctness
fallback, and unref keeps non-browser imports from pinning the loop.
Agent Note updated (both languages).
A repo-wide Not Invented Here audit (ten parallel domain surveys covering
every package group, scripts/, native/, vendor/ edges, python/, test
infrastructure, and CI) asked of each hand-rolled surface whether a
maintained external package or Node builtin deletes it with a net win.
Policy: new implemented process note records that a dependency which
genuinely deletes owned code is a preferred simplification (bar: net
deletion, health, boundary fit, settled seams stay); root AGENTS.md
carries the one-line rule and dsh-find-simplifications now surveys for
hand-rolled-where-a-dependency-exists candidates.
Findings, all bilingual from birth:
- proposed/simplification: eventsource-parser for llm-deepseek SSE,
node:timers/promises for three hand-rolled sleeps, turndown (or
minimal 'entities') for tool-web HTML->markdown, gate-script
consolidation onto mdast/parseArgs/globSync
- proposed/testing: execa + parseArgs + loadEnvFile + vi.waitFor for
hand-rolled test subprocess plumbing
- proposed/process: pnpm/action-setup for symmetric CI caching
- proposed/feature: evaluate landstrip before building a Windows
sandbox launcher
- rejected/simplification: ~30 swap verdicts recorded (vscode-jsonrpc,
p-retry, Ajv, write-file-atomic, msw, hono, better-sqlite3, wireit,
landstrip-for-linux, YAML consolidation, ...) so the survey is not
re-litigated from scratch
Also drops the stale prompt/ entry from the AGENTS.md layout map
(workspace instructions live in packages/context/workspace-context).
One highlighter for the client: a synchronous fine-grained shiki core
(JS regex engine, no WASM) in ui-primitives with an explicit grammar
allowlist (typescript, shellscript, json — aliases resolve, unknown
languages take a geometry-identical plain arm). The shared CodeBlock
component owns both arms; markdown fences, the run_code expanded
program body (typescript), and the details panel Input (json) all
route through it. Token colors live in a new ui-theme shiki.css sheet
as --shiki-* custom properties (light/dark blocks), wired through the
shell's base.css chain — tokens-only styling holds; shiki's generated
span tree is the sanctioned innerHTML path (static output, no user
HTML). jsdom specs pin token spans, aliases, both fallbacks, and the
fence route; the built-bundle snapshot asserts the highlighted program
under the code row.
Review round on the pivoted design:
- node-24 (static) kept an unconditional hosted pnpm cache restore while the
coverage and consumers lanes skip it under failover. On the self-hosted VM
that restore downloads ~180 MB into /home/runner, a path pnpm never reads
there, adding latency and contention during an outage. Gate it with the same
`vars.DSH_CI_FAILOVER != 'selfhosted'` condition so all three lanes match.
- Runbook switch step 2 said "Re-run failed jobs", but the documented
indefinite-queue outage leaves jobs queued (not failed), which cannot be
re-run in place and do not retarget on variable change. Correct both language
sides to cancel the run and re-run all jobs, or push a new commit.
- The standby-lane comment still described the switch as a one-line runs-on
change; it is now setting the admin-only DSH_CI_FAILOVER variable.
The failover runbook landed as .agents/notes/implemented/process/ci-failover-runbook.md,
which fails three doc-sync gates: the classification/format gates require a
yyyy-mm-dd-topic.md filename and the implemented Agent Note skeleton
(Problem/Decision/Alternatives/Consequences), and the bilingual pairing gate
requires cross-note link targets to match between the two language sides.
Rename to 2026-07-26-ci-failover-runbook.md/.zh.md, reshape both sides into the
implemented skeleton (the runbook steps live in bespoke sections under Decision),
point the sibling topology note and the ci.yml comment at the dated filename, and
make both sides link the canonical .md per the bilingual convention. Re-recorded
the i18n pairing records.
The three required Linux jobs now resolve their pool through the
DSH_CI_FAILOVER repository variable. Unset, everything runs exactly as
today on the hosted enterprise pools. Setting it to 'selfhosted'
(repo-admin-only, not PR-editable, no merge required — a merge would be
deadlocked behind the failing checks themselves) retargets all three
onto the vm-backup pool, halves the coverage worker bound and snapshot
concurrency for the shared VM, and skips the hosted-path cache restores.
Adds a bilingual failover runbook (switch, capacity via the four
registered spare instances, switch-back, trust boundary) and links it
from the topology note. The push-triggered standby lane remains the
continuous proof that the failover target works.
Direction change after review discussion. Moving a REQUIRED check onto
a single in-house VM traded merge-path availability for modest savings
and accumulated trust/contention caveats (six review rounds' worth).
Revert every coverage-lane change: coverage stays on the enterprise
Ubuntu 24.04 32-core pool exactly as on master.
Instead, add serial-linux-selfhosted: on every master push the in-house
pool (vm-backup) runs the complete unsharded primary aggregate as a
hot-standby drill. It blocks nothing, yet continuously proves the
environment end to end, so any hosted-pool outage can be answered with
a one-line runs-on retarget onto continuously verified capacity.
Push-triggered lanes execute the base branch's own workflow definition,
so no PR-editable path selects these runners — the entire fork-trust
discussion is structurally moot for this lane. Topology notes (en/zh +
pairing records) describe the standby lane and the switch play.
Tianyi Cui