The Loader writes a tree back to its source whenever it decides the
config changed, and a row disposing its own fiber is enough to decide
that. The mounted subtree overrides `write()` as a no-op for that
reason — a fact that lived only in a PR description, so nothing in the
repo said why the override exists or what removing it would cost.
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.
The Web overlay disables base's 32 agent-plane rows and mounts the preset
roster instead, so each session composes its own tools and prompt rather than
sharing one process-wide set. The TUI keeps base unchanged: it is single-session
and composing its agent process-wide is correct there.
`roots` is patched in by AppCLIEntry, like `distIndex`: the shipped presets sit
beside the composition that names them and the user's live under the Harness
home, neither of which a config author chooses.
A session's preset is fixed at creation. Naming a different one for an existing
identity is `agent-preset-conflict` rather than a switch, because that
session's history was produced under the first preset's tools. The guard sits
after `await creation`, beside the cwd check, so it covers every path that
yields a live agent — freshly created, adopted live, resumed, or recovered by
the concurrent-creation catch. A request naming no preset adopts the session as
it is, keeping reconnect and retry ordinary.
Two bugs the real-composition test caught, both invisible to unit tests:
`PresetTree` now refuses to write. The Loader persists a tree whose plugin
self-disposed, and tearing an agent down disposes its whole subtree — inherited,
that rewrote the shipped composition, truncating a 241-line preset to `[]` the
first time a session ended.
`dsh-tool-skill` compared against a lookup of its own name in the global layer,
so it threw inside any preset: `register()` files into the calling context's
scope. It now compares against the definition it registered, which is what the
identity check meant all along.
The `standard` catalog is asserted exactly, not spot-checked: a row that
registers into the wrong layer mounts cleanly and simply contributes nothing, so
an omission is this design's quietest failure. It matches the shipped TUI
catalog plus `glob`/`grep`, the pair that composition documents as
ripgrep-dependent.
Re-records `cordis-inspect-jsdoc`, whose rendered `SessionHeader` gains the
`agentPreset` field. `fs-glob-sampling` fails identically on pristine master
and is untouched here.
The browser e2e scaffold gains the roster fact AppCLIEntry supplies. `roots` is
resolved and patched in by the CLI entry, like `distIndex` on the webserver row,
and this lane boots the shipped tree without that entry — so it has to supply
the same fact or the roster resolves nothing and every session in the lane
composes an agent with no tools, no persona, and no token meter. Only the
shipped root: a developer's own `~/.dsh/.agent-presets` must not decide a golden. The
`cordis:group` builtin comes with it, exactly as `boot()` registers it, because
a preset resolving package names from its own directory cannot reach
`@cordisjs/plugin-group` by name.
The lane stays red through this layer and the next four for the reason stated
above — the api-proxy injects `subagents`, `workspace`, and `tools`, so
`api-gateway` cannot activate and the browser has no `/api` at all. It goes
green again in the layer that returns those registries to the host plane; this
change is what makes that layer's fix sufficient rather than partial.
`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.
`dsh-system-prompt` owns the deployment persona as its own config and registers
that section unconditionally, so a process has exactly one. An agent preset
cannot mount the prompt registry itself, which means that without a row of its
own a preset could change an agent's tools but never its identity — and a
roster of presets that all sound the same is not worth having.
The row is scope-only by construction: mounted outside an agent scope it
collides with the registry's own `deployment:persona` registration and fails
loud. That is the correct shape rather than a gap, because the unscoped slot
already has an owner and this row exists to shadow it for one agent.
Two behaviours are pinned by test because both read the other way at a glance:
an empty persona still occupies the slot (shadowing the deployment persona away
entirely, then disappearing at render), and `assemble()` keeps section text
uninterpolated — `renderPrompt()` is the stage that resolves `{{…}}`.
A composition that shares one `isolate` realm across rows needs a
`cordis:group` row, and a preset living outside this workspace — the
authored ones under the Harness home — cannot resolve
`@cordisjs/plugin-group` by name: Node's upward `node_modules` walk
never reaches the harness from there. Registering it as a loader builtin
beside `cordis:include` loads both through the ambient module pipeline
instead.
Record it in the preset Agent Note, which leans on the realm vocabulary
without saying where the group row comes from, and drop the preset
README's limitation claiming this builtin is unavailable — it described
the state this change ends.
The test's assertion had a vacuous escape: `provide` mints the root
symbol unconditionally, so the `rootKey === undefined` disjunct could
never hold and the comment claiming the root realm never learned the
name was wrong. Pin both halves — the symbol exists, nothing is stored
under it — and clean up the global the fixture writes.
Records are pruned by observation rather than by a disposal hook, for the
reason the module already states: three different owners can tear a
subtree down, and a cleared `uid` is what they share. That leaves the
pruning to whoever reads — and the only production reader is the
invariant companion, whose package is a development composition a
shipped host never loads.
So a live host pruned nothing: every session ever composed left a record
retaining its whole disposed subtree, since the fiber holds its config
and that config is the key its EntryTree is stored under.
Prune on the mount path too. Every session takes it, which bounds the
set at one generation of dead records instead of one per session.
A preset is a directory holding one `agent.cordis.yml`. Mounting it under an
agent's scope context during `setup(agentCtx)` gives that one session its own
tools and prompt sections while every other live session keeps its own.
No registry gains a tier. `dsh-tools` and `dsh-system-prompt` already file
registrations into the calling context's scope layer, and entry contexts chain
to the context a subtree was plugged into, so a composition mounted under
`agent.ctx` is that agent's alone and unwinds with it.
The mount audits itself because a directly-plugged subtree is absent from
`ctx.loader.entries()` and no boot audit covers it. It rejects an unscoped
target, a row that never became usable, and a row that published a service into
the root service realm — that last one is process-global rather than
per-session, and its collision with the next session surfaces as an unhandled
rejection `setup` never observes, leaving a half-composed agent that looks
healthy. The package invariant re-checks that rule on every service
notification, since a row publishing from a timer would escape a one-shot audit.
Raises the `packages/README.md` word ceiling from 920 to 980: the group table
must enumerate every group, and the new `preset/` row is necessary content.
Design: .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-08-03-per-session-agent-presets.md
The profile rework left references to the old entry modes behind. Renames
the user patch-layer API and its spec file (watchPersonalPatches ->
watchUserPatches, personal-config.spec.ts -> user-patches.spec.ts) and
retargets the prose that still named `config.yaml`, `--config`, raw-config
mode, and surface overlays: repository-plugin and mcp-memory READMEs, the
credentials-local anchor into app-boot, vendor manifest items 12-13, the
vendored include/hmr comments, and install.sh.
Restores the boot-failure guard the rework dropped with raw mode: the
built-bin case now boots `--profile web --patch <invalid>` and asserts the
settled diagnostic and exit 1, so the HMR initial-scan deadlock stays
covered; its orphaned raw fixture is renamed and the unused one deleted.
The superseded personal-config Agent Note and its superseding profile note
are now cross-linked.
Adds docs/user/develop/basic/publish.md (+ zh pair, website entry) to the
basics path: the bundle-vs-profile manifest split, dsh plugin add into a
profile, the five-layer loading order, and the GitHub-install build-script
catch — git specs ship sources, so the author owns a self-contained prepare
script and the user owns an allowBuilds allowance that is install-time code
execution; built tarballs and npm need neither.
A profile manifest and a bundle manifest are different kinds and shared one
flat `dsh` section: `dsh.plugins` listed bundles (not plugins) and `dsh.patch`
declared a bundle's layer. Each kind now names its role — a bundle declares
`dsh.bundle.patch`, a profile declares `dsh.profile.bundles` — so a
package.json states which role it plays and the list name matches its contents.
`DEFAULT_PROFILE_PLUGINS` becomes `DEFAULT_PROFILE_BUNDLES`, and
`DshManifestSection` splits into `DshBundleManifest`/`DshProfileManifest`.
Pre-release: no compatibility shim; turtle-ui moved with it (bd5ff10).
Master stabilized two of the three hand-built markdown fixtures by spacing
their event times, so the stats line's LLM segment stops depending on how fast
the replay ran. `markdown-images` was left on the old shape and kept failing
for exactly that reason — a different test each run, always the same one-line
difference.
Pin it the same way and record the segment its golden now always shows. This
supersedes the normalizer that dropped those segments outright, reverted here:
pinning the fixture keeps a real part of the page in the goldens instead of
hiding it from every one of them, and master's two goldens already record it.
`StatsLine` renders its LLM, tool-call, and throughput segments only while the
matching measurement exceeds zero, and all three are wall clock taken during
the replay. A machine that finishes a step inside one millisecond drops the
segment a slower one keeps, so a golden recorded what the recording machine's
speed was rather than what the page shows. Goldens across this suite already
disagreed about the LLM segment for that reason, and CI failed on whichever
test landed on a slow enough runner — a different test each run, always the
same one-line difference.
Tokenizing the values was never enough, because presence is what moves. The
normalizer now drops those segments outright, each taking one adjacent
separator so nothing is left holding a dangling separator or a doubled space,
and the recorded goldens are normalized the same way. `TTFT avg` stays: it
gates on a step count the fixture determines.
Every capacity assertion typed into the field first, so the path that reads a
stored count — the one an already-configured route takes every time it is
opened — was never exercised, and the coverage gate said so. A row now opens
on stored counts and is expected to spell them `1M` and `256K`, the same
vocabulary the field accepts.
`capacityText` takes the row it is rendering rather than looking it up again
by index, which retires the impossible empty-row branch that lookup needed.
The list editor's pre-flight model check is unreachable from the card that
disables submit on the same failure, and says so where it stands.
The two ways to gain a provider had picked up the shared button base's pill
shape and shrunk to their labels, so they read as two stray buttons of
different lengths under the list instead of its last slot. They split the row
evenly again, on the row cards' own corner and the dashed outline this page
already uses for "nothing here yet"; the rule that overrides the base now
says so in one place rather than layering a second `.addButton` block.
An empty capacity shows the adapter's route-level fallback as its placeholder,
so a blank field reads as "sized by the route" rather than as a model with no
capacity. It is a hint, not a mirror: the field counts K as 1000 while the
fallback is 262144, and a deployment may override it.
The picker's description says what the list is without promising an edit the
rows themselves already offer.
The `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` block never closed, so every
rule after it — the whole fetch dialog, its candidate list, and the rows
inside — applied only to viewers whose system asks for reduced motion. The
sheet still parsed and the classes still attached, so the list painted with
the browser's own bullets, indentation, and inline label, and the reported
model id ran straight into the capacity beside it.
Report the id alone: it is the string adoption writes, and the capacities the
endpoint disclosed are adopted with it and editable in the row that appears.
The candidate row's remaining font name is the one the theme declares.
The styles gate now checks that the sheet's braces balance, and reads every
theme sheet rather than the platform tokens alone, so a name declared in a
sibling is not called undeclared and a `--dsh-` typo cannot pass as a token.
The Models page could name a provider's key and little else. Adding an
OpenAI-compatible gateway meant opening $DSH_HOME/settings.yaml and
knowing the profile shape; correcting a stale context window meant the
same. This layer puts both on the page: a card that declares a route
pi-ai does not ship — id, endpoint, protocol, key, models — and a model
list on the pi-ai editor that can ask the provider what it serves and
adopt the answer.
It follows the DeepSeek catalog editor that landed in #1050 rather than
inventing a second look for the same job. Both editors now share the
section shell and heading, the danger-tinted delete, the add-model
button, the empty state, the per-row validator that names a bad row by
its position, and one K/M capacity vocabulary — 256K and 1M are read and
spelled back, while settings.yaml still stores plain token counts. The
row type is structurally open like that editor's, so a profile field
this card does not edit survives an edit here.
Three of that editor's decisions replaced weaker ones this branch had
made. Inheritance now reads the composition base rather than the
effective value, which would echo an override back the moment a reset
dropped it. Validation names the offending row instead of stating a
blanket problem. And emptying the list is no longer conflated with
handing the catalog back to the adapter — those are separate acts, with
separate affordances.
The create write carries the revision the card opened at, so a route
another tab declared meanwhile is a conflict rather than a silent
overwrite of its profile.
