Presets own the rows that decide what a session's `/` menu contains, but
both browser catalogs cache per session and had no invalidation edge for a
recompose: `commands/changed` is registry-wide and recomposing registers
nothing, so the menu kept serving the composition the session no longer ran.
The host stream now frames the logged `agent-preset/selected` commit as
`host/session-preset-changed`; the runtime bridges it to the typed
`session/preset-changed` event, `ui-command` soft-refreshes that session's
directory key and `ui-skill` invalidates its catalog entry.
Reaching the host on a second switch was a separate defect: the list-row
identity guard compared every summary field except `agentPreset`, and the
merge keeps the row's `updatedAt`, so a switched row looked unchanged and
served its cached instance forever. The hero chip compares the pick against
that row, so switching back to the creation-time preset sent no RPC at all.
`tool-bash` resolves the background-task registry with `ctx.get('tasks')`,
and it sits at the preset's top level. The registry sat inside an
entry-local `isolate: { tasks: true }` realm, which is invisible to every
sibling row outside it, while the Web surface disabled the host row — so
both lookups missed and every `run_in_background` call answered
"background tasks unavailable" with `task_output`, `task_list`, and
`task_kill` still listed in the catalog. `task_list` returning
"(no background tasks)" is what made the outage read as an empty queue
rather than a severed producer.
That is the `goals` criterion read from inside the preset: a Service a row
outside its realm READS belongs to the plane both can see. `tasks` already
keys access by owning agent (`assertAccess` compares `task.owner.id`) and
mints an independent token per `attachSurface` call, so one host instance
serves every session exactly as before presets — the per-preset-standing-mounts
note records that sharing `tasks-local` is a return to its design.
`minimal` mounts no `tool-tasks`, and the `start()` control-surface gate is
a service-wide set that another preset's controls would open for it, so its
`tool-bash` disables `run_in_background` and drops the parameter from the
schema.
Fixes#2141
Review found the `onTasksChanged` teardown reasoning inverted. The comment
claimed every registration is an effect on the registry's own fiber, so
listeners would be gone before service disposal empties the store — but the
traceable proxy rebinds `this.ctx` to the CALLER, which this package's own
HMR-safety test already proves. The only shipped consumer registers from the
api-proxy mux stream, so it was still listening and simply kept the rows it
last received. Service disposal now announces the emptied set, and teardown
announces its stopping transition immediately instead of leaving an observer
on `running` for however long a slow producer takes to release.
Two documentation claims were false in the opposite direction: the Agent Note
and the ui-task README both said an unowned task is invisible in the header,
while `list(caller)` returns unowned tasks to every caller, the carrier fans
their changes out to every subscribed session, and this PR's own test asserts
exactly that. The note even contradicted itself two sections earlier. Both
sides now state the real asymmetries — another session's tasks, and the
process-local registry emptying on restart.
The "no Web path calls the consuming `ctx.tasks.read()`" invariant claimed a
test that did not exist; the carrier suite's producer had no `readOutput` at
all, so a stray read would have failed nothing. Its producer now counts cursor
consumption and the lifecycle and baseline paths both assert zero.
Also: a session created after the mux opened now receives the task baseline it
missed, the popover samples its clock when it opens rather than at mount, and
a failed task's unbounded producer detail elides instead of widening the row.
The mid golden was racing the reasoning block's stream: captureStableAria
could freeze on the pre-render gap between steering acceptance and the
assistant step, pinning a snapshot without the Think row. Wait for the
[data-variant=think] row so the golden captures the complete assistant step.
Steering bubbles render as plain user bubbles; a mid-turn steer is
recognizable by its position in the flow. The runtime SteeringMessageNode
projection and pending-steering lifecycle are unchanged.
Partially supersedes the 2026-08-04 context-source and steer marks note;
the new simplification note owns the removal rationale.
The persistence catalog recognizes SessionEventMap augmentations of
'@deepseek-ai/dsh-session/types' alone, so the selected event's old
root-specifier declaration compiled but silently vanished from the
generated catalog. The hermetic scaffold e2e still addressed the skill
registry as a preset-realm service; under the layered host registry the
composed agent's view is a scope read, and the ambient-root isolation it
proves is unchanged.
Delete design-session citations (decision/audit/plan ordinals, stack
positions), change narration, review choreography, and reviewer-addressed
justification from comments, JSDoc, docs, READMEs, Agent Notes, tests, and
generator templates; restate every affected fact as current-state contract
prose. Fix generated docs at their sources and regenerate the catalogs and
cordis-surface regions; re-paste type-equiv blocks; update every bilingual
counterpart and re-record the pairs. Record the citation rule in the
committed-artifact-citations Agent Note.
A hand-damaged preset was silent until the worst moment. An unparsable
composition listed as an ordinary selectable row and failed only at the
next session start — set as default, every new session failed. A
directory whose composition file was deleted vanished from the roster
while still occupying its id: copy answered "delete the existing preset
first" while remove answered "not found", a dead end.
Discovery now owns health: every id-shaped directory is a roster slot,
broken when its composition is missing or unloadable, checked with the
loader's own entryListSchema dialect (!!js included) so health never
rejects what the loader accepts. `broken` rides AgentPreset, the
agentPreset.list entry, and the UI row; mount/recompose/standingKeyFor
refuse broken up front with the discovery-reported reason, while
resolve/read/remove still answer. The section renders marked red cards —
unselectable, uncopyable, deletable, location kept on custom rows — and
both pickers drop broken rows entirely.
The cordis preset's persona now forbids editing the shipped install
(corrupting cordis would disable the mode itself) and points authoring
at $DSH_HOME/.agent-presets; its skill teaches preset.yml metadata, the
copy-first workflow, the one-escalation sandbox reality, and honest
verification. Exercised live: asked to edit the shipped composition the
composed agent refuses citing both rules; asked for real presets (simple
and complex) it lands them under the user root with one approved
escalation each and self-checks with the loader dialect.
Copying an existing preset — or drafting one in Creator mode — replaces
the copy-minimal skeleton hint: the creator entry exists now, so the intro
names the two real paths instead of steering everyone at one source.
The settings section gains the conversational authoring entry beside
copying: a dashed add-card (the Models page's affordance) that stages the
self-referential cordis preset and starts a new session on it, closing the
settings panel through the shell's new section owner-prop `close` — the
one shell affordance a section receives, for flows that leave settings.
The seat learns the difference between picking and staging: `select()`'s
immediate apply meets the still-current running session and drops the
stage as unservable, so the entry uses `stage()` and leaves the apply to
the list-change applier that fires when the started session becomes
current. `load()` stops regressing the display when its reply lands after
an applied stage was consumed — staged pick first, then the composition
the current session already carries, then the deployment default.
The authoring lane connects a workspace and drives the gesture to a
composed host session; the section goldens gain the entry.
The task registry has run every background bash, pwsh, pty-send, and
one-shot subagent since it landed, but only the model could read it: a
human at the Web client could not see that a build was running, tell a
finished task from a stuck one, or find its outcome anywhere but the
`run_in_background` tool card that printed an id and never updated.
Task state now reaches the browser as one whole-snapshot `session/tasks`
mux frame per session, pushed at every registry commit that changes what
that session can see. `TaskService` gains `onTasksChanged`, which is
owner-granular because owner-disposal removal is a change no per-task
record can express. The carrier reads the exact owner the listener hands
it, so a push stays correct while that scope tears down, and reads the
baseline through the non-resuming `ctx.agents.get` so listing never
revives a cold session. The client keeps a last-wins mirror on
`SessionListState`, and a new `dsh-client-ui-task` package renders it
beside the subagent catalog — rendering nothing at all until the session
has a task, so an ordinary conversation grows no new chrome.
Streamed per-task output and human-initiated cancellation are separate
phases; the note records why neither has to undo this channel, and why
no Web path may call the consuming `ctx.tasks.read()`.
The web YAML editor is gone. agentPreset.write (arbitrary composition
text) became agentPreset.copy { from, agentPreset, name? }: a host-side
whole-directory copy of ids the host resolves itself — symlinks
dereferenced, modes re-tightened to owner-only with owner-execute kept,
metadata rewritten to keep the source's description but never its name or
roster order. No composition text or path crosses the wire in either
authoring direction, and the entryListSchema/!!js concern dissolves with
assertComposition itself.
The settings section becomes: a read-only viewer over shipped
compositions, a copy dialog (id + optional display name) as the only
create entry, delete for custom rows, and a location action leading into
the preset's own files — agentPreset.openDocument { agentPreset } resolves
the directory host-side and opens it natively, or answers
{ opened: false, path } for the row to show as text where the deployment
has no desktop. agentPreset.list reports hasDocument beside authorable;
the gateway's nativeOpen config pins the capability where
canOpenNativePath platform detection would mislead. The privileged set is
now read/copy/openDocument/remove.
With files as the only composition editor, standing mounts grew
stamp-keyed generations: ensureStanding compares the composition file's
mtime+size and starts the next generation for later sessions, while every
joined session keeps the generation it runs on.
New keyless web lane (agent-preset-authoring, overlay pins
nativeOpen: false so goldens render one branch on every platform) drives
view/copy/reveal/delete end to end; the real-composition CLI e2e switches
to copy semantics.
Yichen Jiang