recompose becomes a parent re-link: the new preset's standing mount is
ensured BEFORE the link moves, so a failed switch leaves the agent exactly as
it was — the unmount-then-restore dance (and unmountPresetFor with it) is
gone, and the restore-failure test now asserts the agent KEEPS its tools with
the source directory deleted, because the standing mount is not the file.
Rewires this layer onto the standing-mount model:
- serviceForAgent roots its search at the agent's standing mount (parent
scope key → live mount fiber) — the composition no longer lives under the
agent's own fiber, and two agents on one preset now address ONE instance,
which the sharing test asserts instead of distinctness.
- viewFor/historyPage take a registry view SCOPE. A live agent is that scope;
a cold read uses the recorded preset's standing key via standingKeyFor —
composing plugins but starting no agent, session, or turn. A header without
a preset (a pre-roster log) renders through the DEFAULT preset's standing
layer; an unusable preset degrades the read to generic cards, never fails
it. This turns produced-files and chat-scroll green structurally, with the
token counts untouched (no resume, so the projections fold stays detached).
- The detached projections baseline now includes every standing unit's key at
its empty fold (todos: null): the standing mount registers units
deterministically, which is what makes the client's "omitted key =
capability absence → clear" rule safe again. seeded-history's contract test
asserts the new shape.
- The standard preset's realm preamble no longer claims a shared label pools
instances — provide() throws on the second registration under one realm
symbol; labels join REALMS.
The Gateway serves the goal domain as Remote endpoints, and a Remote method
picks its receiver Service from a generated descriptor — `clear(agent, ref)`
takes its agent as a PARAMETER, so the invocation is direct and the receiver
resolves on the host. Behind the preset's entry-local realm there was nothing
to resolve, and every browser goal call answered `service-unavailable`: the
composer's Clear goal button left the bar on screen.
That is the `bash-env` criterion read from the other side. Injection is not the
only host relationship a Service can have; being READ from a host row is one
too. The registry is keyed by session, so one host instance serves every
session exactly as it did before presets. The preset keeps the model-facing
tool, which is the choice a preset is for.
Also reverts the cold-transcript presenter resolve: resuming an agent to reach
its presenters made the context meter drop its cache and token counts on every
cold-opened session, trading one silent degradation for another. The card
degradation it addressed is diagnosed and still open.
The cordis preset moved `bash-env`, the `subagents` registry, and its
spawn/fork backends into entry-local realms. A host row that injects a service
is the criterion for host-plane ownership: `apps/cli/src/web.ts` injects
`bash-env`, and `dsh-host-apiproxy` injects `subagents` to answer the
browser's cross-session queries, so both waited forever for a service only
sessions provided. A provider name also registers once, so the second session
would have collided regardless.
This layer introduces the preset, so it is where the plane belongs — a later
layer already corrected it, which left this layer and the docs one unmountable
on their own. The composition test stops disabling `api-gateway` with it: the
row whose pending injection names the break cannot be the row the test turns
off, so the boot audit now covers the whole host-plane injection graph.
Same required field as the standard preset: master made
`allowParallelInProgress` mandatory on dsh-tool-todo, and a preset that names
the row owns the choice.
master made `allowParallelInProgress` a required field on dsh-tool-todo, so
every composition must choose it. The base patch was updated with the field,
but the Web surface takes `tool-todo` from the mounted preset instead, and
that row carried no config — so the `standard` preset failed to mount and
every session on the Web surface died at setup.
Also make the preset tree's write test reach the override. Tearing the agent
down stops in the loader's own "tree is being disposed" case before any write;
a live row reconfiguring itself is the trigger that actually gets there.
`ui-question`'s node half called `ctx.tools.register` on the host context.
`ScopedLayers.merge()` combines the global layer with the agent's exact-scope
layer, and an unscoped registration lands in the global one — so the tool
reached every agent no matter which preset composed it. `core-web`, sold as a
two-tool benchmark surface, really presented three.
Rendering a question is a host UI capability; having the tool is an agent
capability, and only a preset decides that. The node half is now empty and the
`tool-ask-user` row moved into the preset that wants it. The TUI keeps its own
row, having no presets.
The composition tests now assert the global tool layer is EMPTY, which is the
invariant that would have caught this: any tool outside a preset reaches every
agent. The browser lane's composition, seeded-history, and hermetic-skill
assertions address their registries through a composed agent for the same
reason — those services are per session now, and the host cannot resolve an
`isolate` realm by name.
Moving the agent plane behind per-session presets took five rows with it that
the host still owns, and the Web surface stopped booting: `host-apiproxy`
injects `subagents`, so with the registry disabled here the entry never
activated and `dsh web` died at plugin-tree load.
The criterion is injection, not subject matter. A host row that injects a
service resolves it before any session exists, so there is no agent to key by:
`bash-env` (which `apps/cli/src/web.ts` injects to publish `DSH_WEB_URL`), the
`subagents` registry and its spawn/fork backends (a process singleton whose
cross-session queries the api-proxy serves, and whose provider names are
globally unique), and `tool-subagent-report` (a continuable setup on that
singleton, registered once per live session by a list that is not scope-aware)
all stay host-plane. What a preset chooses is which delegation TOOLS it sees.
The browser lane needs the second half: skill roots now resolve inside a preset,
a subtree the lane's include patches cannot reach, so the row's documented
environment fallback is pinned for the whole scaffold lifetime — presets mount
when a session is created, not at boot. Without it a developer's real
~/.dsh/skills enters replay requests and goldens while CI sees none.
A third built-in preset: the standard coding agent plus the self-referential
Cordis toolset, a persona that explains the two-plane split, and a skill
teaching composition authoring. It exists so a person can ask an agent to
author another agent.
The skill ships INSIDE the preset directory rather than in the user's skill
root, and the root is derived from the preset's own `baseUrl` — the loader
evaluates `!!js` with `with (ctx)`, so a composition can locate itself. A
preset is the unit that gets copied and edited, so its documentation should
travel with it.
The skill leads with the rule that actually bites: a row publishing a service
may not sit loose in a preset, whether a row publishes one is not visible from
its name (`tool-bash` provides `bashEnv`), and a consumer left outside its
provider's isolate group resolves the host registry and then contributes
nothing — the quietest failure this design has.
Writing the test surfaced a consequence worth stating: an entry-local realm
makes the service invisible to the agent's own scope too, not just to the host.
Only rows inside that group resolve it, which is precisely what makes
`tool-skill` this agent's own rather than a shared one. The test asserts what
is actually observable from outside instead of reaching for the isolated
service.
TRUST: `cordis_mount` evaluates model-written JavaScript against the live
runtime, and a composition this agent writes becomes a preset other sessions
mount. Both the preset header and the toolset's own documentation say to treat
this as shell access. The tools stay opt-in per session — a test pins that they
are absent from every other preset.
Two consequences of moving the agent plane behind presets, both invisible
until the host plane stopped carrying model-facing rows.
`sessions.fork` built its child with a bare `installTarget` and a `meta`
without `agentPreset`. That was harmless while every tool sat in the host
plane — the child inherited them for free. It now comes up with an EMPTY
tool set. The child composes the parent's preset instead, for the same
reason a resumed session keeps its own: the seeded history was produced
under those tools.
`bashEnv` lives in its own `dsh-bash-env` row rather than inside
`tool-bash`, so a preset that isolates the realm must compose the provider
beside its consumer; the host row is disabled here like every other
model-facing one. Nothing outside the agent plane injects `bashEnv`, so it
stays per-session.
`session.create` takes an optional `agentPreset`, and the host resolves it,
mounts it during pre-publication setup, and records the resolved id on the
session header so a later resume rebuilds the same agent.
Resolution happens BEFORE the session exists, not inside setup: the session
boundary snapshots `meta` before asynchronous setup begins, so an id discovered
during setup could never reach the header. Mounting still happens in setup,
where a failure rolls the whole creation back rather than publishing a session
whose capabilities are half-installed.
Resume ignores whatever the request names and rebuilds from the stored id. A
resumed session's history was produced under that composition; restoring a
different one would replay tool calls the model can no longer make.
`dsh-agent-presets` now throws `UnknownPresetError` / `PresetMountError` so
the host can tell a bad request from a broken preset — they become
`agent-preset-not-found` and `agent-preset-invalid`.
Ships the two built-in compositions (`standard`, `core-web`) and the persona
row that lets them differ in identity. Nothing mounts them yet: no roster is
configured, so `composeAgent` finds no service and every session keeps the host
composition. Wiring the roster and moving base's agent-plane rows behind it is
the next commit, so the switch happens atomically with a real-composition test.
