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`dsh` shipped two config trees that were 43 rows the same: apps/cli/cordis.yml composed web as 74 flat rows, while the TUI booted examples/tui-agent/cordis.yml whose single `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tui-demo` row mounted twelve plugins behind a twenty-key pass-through Config. Neither file was what its location claimed — apps/cli hardcoded the "example" as the product default and the "demo" bundle was the application — and every capability change had to be made twice. - apps/cli/base.cordis.yml holds the 43 shared rows; tui.cordis.yml and web.cordis.yml are patch lists stating only what differs per surface - overlays apply as SIBLING patch lists at one include level, because include patches never cross an include boundary. Precedence: base < surface < (--config | personal ~/.dsh/config.yaml) < launcher flag/profile patches - `--config` now applies an overlay INSTEAD OF the personal one, so a demo or test tree never inherits the user's route; new `--config-replace` boots a file as the entire tree (the old `--config` behaviour). Both survive /resume - vendor/include: index each `insert`ed row as it is added so a later patch can configure or disable it. Upstream built the id index once before the patch loop, leaving every surface-only row — the whole TUI front door — silently unpatchable from user config. Logged as local modification 8 - session identity moves to dsh-agent-loop's CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY; dsh-tui's MAIN_SESSION_ID_KEY is deleted (only the bundle read it) - delete examples/tui-agent, examples/cordis-agent, packages/examples/tui-demo; TUI tests → apps/cli/tests, cordis e2e → packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests, examples/code-mode survives as an overlay leaf - `dsh web` gains --config, threaded into AppCLIEntry as an extra overlay Three latent defects surfaced and are fixed here: the TUI captured the optional sessionQuery service once at construction and could permanently disable /resume when it won the mount race; the session-store root silently reverted to a project-local ./.sessions; --config-replace was dropped by the resume handoff. Verified by booting each tree through the real Loader (TUI 55 entries, web 75, zero unsettled) rather than reading YAML. All eight terminal snapshots replay byte-identically; 14/14 PTY smoke, 112/112 snapshots, 25/25 doc-sync, hygiene and lint clean.
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# Agent Note: Session model selection in the Web composer
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Status: implemented
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English | [中文](2026-07-24-web-session-model-selector.zh.md)
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## Problem
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The Web conversation displayed and sent through the Host's fixed provider/model route without exposing that route or letting a user change it. The TUI already had a session-local route target, but copying its presentation or hardcoding DeepSeek models in the browser would split model discovery and step-boundary semantics across front doors. A switch made while a response is running also needs one atomic boundary: prompt variables and request routing cannot observe different targets.
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## Decision
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The Web Host reuses `installAgentLlmTarget` for every created or resumed agent. The provider/model/reasoning target starts from the latest `request/header` when the session has used a model, otherwise from the Host default route. `session.selectModel` changes the session-local mutable target, and prompt assembly captures it with request routing; a switch during a running step therefore applies to the next assembled step. The next consumed target persists through the existing full `request/header` snapshot, while a choice that has not reached a request remains process-local.
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The session RPC domain exposes a `session.models` directory and `session.selectModel`. The directory is built dynamically from the LLM registry and grouped by provider; each listed model's exact metadata adds adapter-owned reasoning effort ids, names, descriptions, and optional default. Provider catalogs and exact metadata load concurrently by provider and fail independently, so successful groups remain usable alongside retryable failure records. Catalog membership stays advisory: the current model is inserted as an unlisted row when its registered provider omits it, while exact resolution decides whether a route and explicit effort are available. Selection uses `resolveCallConfig` to reject unsupported effort ids and materialize an adapter-configured default before updating the target.
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The browser `ModelService` owns one `ModelDirectory` per live session. Its snapshot contains the current complete target, grouped catalog, provider failures, operation error, and `idle`/`loading`/`ready`/`selecting`/`error` state. Mounting primes the trigger label and each menu open refreshes the directory. Directory and selection calls share an operation generation so older responses cannot replace a newer result; connection reset discards the process-local projection before restoring the Host target. Failures retain the previous current target and usable groups.
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`@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-conversation` declares the session-scoped single slot `conversation.input.model` as a child of its composer-bar entry. InputBar renders the seat in its trailing controls immediately before the pending indicator and primary button; the seat receives the bar's `locked` owner prop and session scope. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-model` occupies that seat and also contributes `/model` over the same directory. Its compact trigger displays the catalog model name and effective reasoning label, falling back to ids when metadata is absent. The upward menu first offers Model and, when the current exact model supports it, Effort; Model drills into provider groups, while Effort drills into the adapter-ordered levels. The provider-default row appears only when the adapter does not configure a model default.
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The production browser roster is the flat config tree in `apps/cli/web.cordis.yml`; the model feature is one `dshClient` row rather than a package hardcoded in Web boot code. Its package manifest orders it after the runtime and command feature, while Cordis service injection waits for the conversation slot before registering the composer occupant.
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## Alternatives considered
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**Use separate provider and model dropdowns.** The model list depends on the provider and repeats a two-stage interaction for every change. One grouped menu keeps the provider visible as organization without lengthening the trigger or each row.
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**Hardcode the current DeepSeek catalog in the Web client.** This would drift from registered adapters and exclude deployment-owned providers. The LLM registry remains the source of provider and model metadata, including partial lookup failures.
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**Keep `High`/`Max` as client-local UI state.** Static DeepSeek labels cannot represent `off`, pi-ai provider vocabularies, adapter defaults, validation, resume, or the next provider request. Exact-model metadata owns the selectable vocabulary, and the session target owns the selected id.
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**Make the selection a global default.** A global mutation would unexpectedly redirect other open conversations. The target belongs to one live session, while Host configuration remains the default for sessions without a logged request.
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**Reject changes while an agent is running.** The shared atomic target already separates the assembled step from the next selection. Keeping the selector available lets the user prepare the following step without altering the in-flight request.
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**Persist every click as a new session event.** A choice is not model-visible until prompt assembly consumes it. Persisting unused UI intent would add a durable event that does not reconstruct a model request; the existing `request/header` records the first request that actually uses the route.
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## Consequences
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Any Host-backed Web conversation, including a blank session, can switch among dynamically discovered provider groups and adapter-owned reasoning levels without displaying duplicated `provider/model` labels. The current consumed target survives resume and reconnect; catalog names remain presentation-only, while selection and persistence use provider/model/effort ids. A provider catalog or exact-metadata outage degrades only that group. Route changes can reduce provider-side cache reuse, but the selector adds no prompt content and does not disturb the in-flight step. A model without reasoning metadata has no Effort row.
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## Testing
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Host tests pin grouped discovery, catalog and exact-metadata failure isolation, logged effort restoration, unlisted current targets, unsupported effort rejection, default materialization, and next-assembly switching. Client tests pin the shared directory, reconnect restoration, and complete-target submission. Component tests pin dynamic effort labels, descriptions, provider-default exposure, and effort submission. The keyless built-app fixture loads the production model plugin, selects OpenAI's GPT-5 and its Max effort, sends a turn, and verifies that the next generated response reports both ids.
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