Codex code-review round 5: agent()/parallel()/pipeline() returned HOST Promise
objects into the script realm — Object.getPrototypeOf(agent('x')) reached host
Promise.prototype, contradicting the realm contract (correctness containment,
not the accepted sandbox stance). The rejection channel had the same leak one
hop away: a caught hook failure was a host WorkflowError (host Error.prototype
chain), and phase()/log() threw host errors synchronously.
All three surfaces are realm-built now:
- hook promises: the realm's own Promise.resolve (bound at context setup)
assimilates the host promise, so the script-visible promise carries realm
prototypes; the realm promise gets the same no-op rejection consumer as the
host one (a script may drop it).
- hook failures: rejections and phase/log sync throws are translated at the
boundary into realm-built clones (name/code/message/fatal via an in-realm
factory); non-WorkflowError host failures become generic realm Errors
carrying their describeThrown rendering.
- the combinators recognize FATAL clones structurally
(isFatalWorkflowErrorClone: proxy-guarded descriptor reads), preserving the
fatal-vs-null discipline across the boundary; a script forging the shape
kills only its own run. drive() maps any post-cancel failure to 'cancelled'
by run state (a CANCELLED clone deliberately fails the host instanceof).
Tests: realm-promise identity for all three hooks + host Promise.prototype
pollution unreachable; clone shape (instanceof realm Error, name/code/fatal/
message) with prototype-chain mutation staying realm-side; a rejecting
provider result crossing as a generic clone; phase/log sync-throw clones;
combinator catch branches (string throw, proxy throw, shape-miss forgery →
null; forged fatal → kills own run); existing fatal-propagation, cancellation,
and unhandled-rejection tests as canaries.
Codex code-review round 4 flagged the return channel: an async IIFE
Promise-assimilates a returned thenable, so its then() runs past the sync
slice and the RESOLUTION replaces the raw object. Verified against the real
engine and judged behavior, not defect:
- Assimilation is standard JavaScript (an async function's returned thenable
resolves before the caller sees it) and is load-bearing ergonomics: an
un-awaited 'return agent(...)' / 'return parallel(...)' resolves to the
intended value precisely because of it. Rejecting callable-then returns
would break that; intercepting pre-assimilation is spec-impossible (the
Get(v,'then') and job enqueue are internal to promise resolution).
- The realm-boundary guard applies to the RESOLUTION (a thenable resolving to
non-JSON is still RESULT_UNSERIALIZABLE), so nothing crosses unmaterialized.
- A spin inside a returned thenable's then() is the same accepted class as any
post-slice spin (it runs on the microtask queue, past the vm timeout's
reach); the docs previously said 'after the first await', which was too
narrow — reworded to 'past the initial synchronous slice (an await
continuation, or a thenable's then invoked by promise resolution)'.
Pinned with an engine test (un-awaited return agent(); custom thenable
resolution as the return value; thenable resolving to non-JSON rejects), and
the limitation wording updated in the module doc, README, and RFC.
Reconciliations beyond textual conflicts:
- product rename (DeepSeek Code -> DeepSeek Harness SDK) applied to the
PR-added assertion in system-prompt.spec.ts that master's rename
commit could not reach
- architecture.md: master's rewrite kept; this PR's prompt-assembly
semantics re-added in the new doc's voice (Turn Flow footnote +
service-spine row), within the 1630-word ceiling
- cordis catalog regenerated into master's split events.md/services.md
(events-and-services.md deleted); module graph and doc graphs
regenerated to pick up this PR's new events and dependency edges
Codex code-review round 3: the round-2 'contained stack getter' still let a
script escape the vm sync-slice timeout — throw { get stack() { while(true){} } }
put the spin on the HOST catch path, where no timeout applies (verified: a
direct sync-slice spin dies by the timeout; the getter-hidden one hung the
process). Identity-trusting the native getter is also insufficient: V8 stack
formatting reads script-controllable hooks at format time (Error.prepareStackTrace,
a subclass name getter — both empirically confirmed), so ANY host-side
formatting of a realm error can run realm code.
The fix moves rendering into the realm itself: the compiled body (and the meta
literal) is wrapped in a realm-side catch that pre-renders the thrown value to
a string (REALM_THROWN_RENDERER_SOURCE) — a hostile accessor/toString now runs
as ordinary script code, killed by the sync-slice timeout or falling under the
documented post-await spin limitation; host WorkflowErrors pass through for
the CANCELLED mapping. The host catch descriptor-reads the pre-rendered string
(thrownRendering) or falls back to describeThrown, which invokes no getter
whose identity is not the host realm's own native stack getter.
Tests: hostile-table expectations updated for realm-side rendering; new
regressions for the getter-hidden sync spin dying by the vm timeout (engine +
meta paths) and for a hostile thenable rejection that bypasses the realm
wrapper (renders host-side, proxy labelled, traps never run); describeThrown/
thrownRendering unit tables including the realm-error identity-mismatch case.
Codex code-review round 2: errorText() read .stack/.message as plain property
gets and fell back to String(error) — a script throwing a value with a
throwing accessor (or toString/Symbol.toPrimitive) ran realm code in drive()'s
catch and made WorkflowRun.result REJECT, which the detached workflow/end hook
turned into an unhandledRejection (process death under dsh-app-boot).
Replaced with describeThrown in dsh-workflow-vm/realm: total (never throws),
proxy-labelling before any inspection, own-descriptor reads, String() only on
primitives, and a CONTAINED stack-getter invocation — modern V8 (Node >= 22)
makes stack an own ACCESSOR on genuine Errors, so refusing all accessors would
lose every real stack and the lineOffset line numbers; a hostile getter's
throw is swallowed and rendering falls back to message. The meta-literal
eval catch had the same String(error) exposure and now uses the same renderer.
Regression tests: a hostile-thrown-values table through the real engine
(throwing stack/message getters, data stack, setter-only stack, proxy,
Symbol.toPrimitive, function, null) asserting result resolves 'error' with the
expected rendering and NO unhandledRejection fires; a meta-path hostile throw
mapping to META_INVALID.
Six verified A-findings from the code-stage review, each with a regression test:
- parallel()/pipeline() resolved to HOST arrays inside the vm realm, exposing
host Array.prototype to scripts; combinator results are now realm-built
(in-realm Array.from bound at context setup).
- materializeFromRealm ran proxy traps (ownKeys/getOwnPropertyDescriptor/
getPrototypeOf) during the descriptor walk — realm code on the host stack,
outside the vm timeout, escaping as raw errors; proxies (root, nested, and
in the prototype position) are now rejected trap-free via util.types.isProxy
before any inspection.
- an already-aborted signal or an immediate cancel() no longer reports
'completed' for a hook-free script: drive() checks cancellation before
running the body and again when the script settles.
- dispose() now waits (bounded by disposeGraceMs) for stray agent() children
to FINISH disposing, not just for the script to settle: every agent() call
is tracked and quiesce() drains the in-flight set.
- workflow/* event payloads were live mutable aliases shared across emissions;
emitWorkflowEvent now hands each listener its own structural clone.
- the structured-output turn-continuation veto is now prepend: true, so an
earlier-registered force-continue listener cannot short-circuit it.
Docs updated in the same change (READMEs, core-data-structures/workflow.md,
the dynamic-workflows RFC, regenerated cordis catalogs).
Add the implemented skill-system RFC, a core data-structures page, and JSDoc for the skill public vocabulary so the generated catalogs and review-facing docs describe the new service/tool contract.
A new capability family at packages/workflow/ in the bash seam shape,
modeled on Claude Code's dynamic workflows: the model writes a JavaScript
orchestration script (export const meta = {...} + plain-JS body), a runtime
executes it, and the script — not the conversation — holds the loop, the
branching, and the intermediate results.
- dsh-workflow (ctx.workflows): abstract WorkflowService + run vocabulary
(WorkflowRun whose result NEVER rejects) + observe-only workflow/* events
carrying data snapshots (id + meta, never the live run), per-listener
contained like subagent/*.
- dsh-workflow-vm: in-process node:vm engine. Meta extraction via a
string/comment-aware scanner (template interpolation rejected; literal
evaluated alone in an empty timed context; statement blanked line-
preservingly so stacks keep script line numbers). Hooks: agent(prompt,
{label, phase, schema, model}) over ctx.subagents, parallel(), pipeline()
(no cross-stage barrier), phase(), log(), args. Fatal-vs-null discipline:
hook misuse (unknown/deferred options, bad arguments, unsupported
schemas, tripped caps, seam start failures, cancellation) throws fatal
WorkflowErrors the combinators RE-THROW — never dissolved into the
per-item null reserved for child failures. Realm boundary: inbound values
materialized by descriptor walks that never invoke accessors (defineProperty
copies, __proto__-safe); outbound values rebuilt in-realm via the
context's own JSON.parse. Determinism bans (Date.now/Math.random/argless
new Date) kept so future resume support cannot break scripts. Caps and
timeouts are validated Config. Every hook promise carries a no-op
rejection consumer (app-boot exits on unhandled rejections).
- dsh-tool-workflow: the model-facing workflow tool, synchronous like
dsh-tool-subagent (start → await → try/finally dispose; abort bridged;
non-completed → isError). Generic render card titled by a textual
meta.name sniff. The tool description carries the authoring contract.
Wired into examples/{coding-agent,acp-agent} with explicit-ask-only
guidance. Coverage at every tier: unit (meta scanner, materializer incl.
counting-getter and __proto__ regressions, combinator semantics,
concurrency ceiling, caps, cancellation, no-unhandled-rejection abandon),
integration over the real spawn stack, with-key e2e (real two-phase run +
the tool through the registry pipeline), and a recorded ACP snapshot
scenario (workflow-run, 1 child session). RFC:
docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-dynamic-workflows.md (deferred
work explicitly listed). AGENTS.md budget 1575 → 1590 for the new group's
layout line.
A static harness:identity section at order -100 — the first occupant of
the documented negative band — states that the agent is powered by the
DeepSeek Harness SDK before the deployment's persona renders. Harness
attribution is a harness fact: it lives on the loop plugin, not in each
deployment's persona, so every agent (subagents included) carries it and
no YAML can forget it. A deployment that must drop it can remove the
section in the system-prompt/assemble waterfall.
Order-band docs updated in all five homes (PromptSection JSDoc, the
system-prompt and agent-loop READMEs, architecture.md, the RFC).
Codex round-2 findings:
- A committed test now proves the REAL plugin fiber (not a direct apply)
owns the provider-lifecycle listeners: disposing a mounted tool's fiber
unmounts the tool and leaves the provider intact, and a fiber disposed
while WAITING never zombie-mounts when its provider arrives later.
- TODO(subagent-dup-toolname) records the invalid-config blast radius of
two waiting fibers sharing a toolName (the duplicate throw propagates
through subagent/provider-added and rolls back the provider).
- CONTEXT.md drops its creation-history sentence; the RFC's acceptance
checklist becomes present-tense shipped invariants (docs/AGENTS.md
writing rules).
Codex round-1 findings, both confirmed:
- renderPrompt: variable lookup now uses Object.hasOwn (an unregistered
{{constructor}} previously resolved through Object.prototype and spliced
function source into the prompt), and a {{ that opens no complete group
while a }} still follows ({{{model}}}, {{a{b}}) now throws instead of
passing or partially interpolating. A lone {{ with no }} after it stays
verbatim; substituted values are never re-scanned.
- tool-subagent: the apply-time provider lookup assumed a load order the
cordis Loader does not guarantee (siblings start concurrently). The seam
now announces subagent/provider-added/-removed and the tool mirrors the
provider's lifecycle: registers when the provider is (or becomes)
available, unregisters when it goes away, re-derives wording on reload.
No load-order requirement remains.
- loop.spec containment test now proves live continuation: after the
contained render failure, a waterfall listener rescues {{cwd}} and the
same agent completes a real model turn.
RFC/READMEs updated to the shipped contract; cordis catalog regenerated.
The repo's docs are read by people and agents without access to the
company wiki, so external Feishu links are dead weight: the two design-doc
links (MVP requirements, microkernel implementation notes) leave
AGENTS.md's intro and docs/architecture.md (usages + link definitions),
and the microkernel-event-taxonomy RFC drops its plain-text pointer to the
same design doc. The governing principle each reference decorated is
already stated in place; no content moves.
Master split the cordis catalog (d55d4120) while this branch was in review.
Resolution: keep this branch's Service map restructure, adopt master's split
catalog link targets (events.md / services.md), and regenerate the catalog so
the waterfall-semantics anchor fix lands in the split output.
One principle: every fact in the assembled prompt has exactly one owner.
- dsh-system-prompt: merge-extensible AssembleContext on assemble();
a variable(name, provider) registry; {{name}} interpolation in
renderPrompt, strict (unknown/valueless/malformed references throw);
duplicate section and variable names rejected; assembly carries
resolved section text + variables through the assemble waterfall.
- dsh-agent declares AssembleContext.agent; dsh-agent-loop registers
the agent:persona section (order 0 - identity renders before tool
guidance) and the model/cwd variables, and drops its string join:
renderPrompt(assembly) IS the full prompt.
- Tool guidance moves to its owners: descriptions carry per-tool
semantics; sections only cross-call habits (tool:bash exit-code
habit at order 105; read's not-shell nudge). todo/subagent need no
section - their descriptions already carry the contract.
- SubagentProvider.inheritsParentContext (spawn/acp false, fork true);
dsh-tool-subagent derives truthful per-provider wording and resolves
the provider at load (backend must be listed first).
- Example personas shrink to identity + behavior with {{model}} (and
{{cwd}} in the ACP tree); the welcome banner stops enumerating tools.
RFC: docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-prompt-variables-and-tool-guidance-ownership.md
Self-review sweep on the section NAME (not just anchors) found: the docs
index row in docs/AGENTS.md still advertised 'layering' among
architecture.md's contents, and the extract-example-app-packages RFC cited
'docs/architecture.md § Layering' for the dependency rule, which now lives
under § Service map.
gen-cordis-catalog.ts now emits docs/cordis-catalog/events.md and
docs/cordis-catalog/services.md instead of the combined
events-and-services.md: a reader is either finding what to listen to or
what to call, and each axis now scans and deep-links as its own page.
Headings promote one level (scopes and ctx.<key> entries become H2), the
dispatch-mode legend lives on the events page, and the inherited tier
splits accordingly. --check verifies both files and names whichever is
stale.
Every reference updated in the same change (no compat redirects,
pre-release stance): architecture.md, AGENTS.md, docs/AGENTS.md tier row,
filesystem/subagent core-data-structures pages (the ctx.fs anchor
survives — slugs are heading-level-independent), fs README, four RFCs,
the tool-catalog and persistence-catalog generator intros (both
regenerated), and the bilingual development.md pair (re-recorded).
- The owning top-level interface SessionEventMap must now be the SINGLE
EXPORTED declaration in @deepseek-ai/dsh-session: a non-exported local
interface (even inside the owning package) and a second exported copy
are hard errors, so a same-named helper can no longer be catalogued as
the on-disk vocabulary.
- Any SessionEventMap declaration carrying an extends clause is a hard
error: inherited keys join keyof SessionEventMap but have no catalog
row, so heritage is a silent-skip path the gate must reject.
Three new spec cases; RFC and module doc updated to match.
- A SessionEventMap member that is not a property signature with an
explicit payload type is now a hard error instead of silently skipped —
a method-form or type-less member joins keyof SessionEventMap and must
not escape the catalog.
- A top-level interface SessionEventMap outside @deepseek-ai/dsh-session
(ownership read from the package manifest) is now a hard error — an
unrelated same-named local interface was previously catalogued as the
on-disk vocabulary.
- JSDoc tag detection runs on the trimmed line, so an extra-indented
'* @mode' can no longer bypass the forbidden-tag check and leak into
prose.
Four new spec cases cover these; RFC and module doc updated to describe
the enforced (not just assumed) invariants.
docs/persistence-catalog/log-events.md enumerates every SessionEventMap
member — the owning dsh-session vocabulary plus the dsh-compact and
dsh-hook-protocol declaration merges — with payload, surface/log-only badge,
JSDoc prose, and declaration site. scripts/gen-persistence-catalog.ts is a
pure AST pass in the gen-cordis-catalog mold: verify-persistence-catalog
(--check) joins doc-sync, so a stale committed catalog fails pre-push and CI.
The walk enforces JSDoc completeness (every member needs description prose;
@mode is rejected as a category error — log events do not dispatch on the
cordis bus), derives the surface badge from the SurfaceEventType union with a
stale-member cross-check, and hard-errors on duplicate declarations. Payloads
render through the TypeScript printer so newline-separated multi-line type
literals still emit valid one-line fragments.
Documented the five previously JSDoc-less core events (turn/step boundaries,
tool/call), removed the two stray @mode tags on the hook/* merges, and
replaced the hand-restated event enumerations (session.md hook/* table,
compact README table, hook-protocol README bullets, session README name-list
— whose merge note had already drifted) with links to the catalog. RFC:
docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-04-persistence-log-catalog.md.
Reverses item 3 of the tighten-hook-protocol-contract RFC per review:
a persistence log is written for future readers, and hook wall-clock
runtime is audit signal (which hook made a turn slow). runHook keeps
its injected now clock and RunHookResult wrapper, the bridges pass the
measured duration through HookResultRecord, the snapshot normalizer
keeps its replay scrub, and the hook fixtures carry the field again.
The RFC records the reversal; the other three prunes stand.
