`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.
The bundle split emptied `apps/cli`'s plugin dependencies, and the flat module
fallback links only that manifest's closure — so a preset row naming
`@deepseek-ai/dsh-persona` resolved to nothing and every preset mount failed,
leaving each session with an agent that had no tools, persona, or token meter.
Which packages the shipped presets compose is not implied by any bundle: the
presets live beside this manifest, so this is where their closure is declared.
The hermetic skill test now addresses the registry through the composed agent,
the only shape that can see a preset's `isolate` realm.
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.
The creation header names the preset a session STARTED with and is frozen,
which is correct — it is a creation fact. Switching is legal only while a
session is blank, and that looked like enough: no history exists yet.
It is not, because the switch's effect outlives the blank window. The user
switches, then sends the first message; every turn from there runs under the
new composition while the header still names the old one. The session is
then locked around a misrecorded preset, and resume reads the header to
rebuild it — composing one preset's tools over a history another produced,
which is exactly the replay the blank-only lock exists to prevent, reached
by another route. A picker showed `standard` for a session running
`core-web`.
A switch is now an `agent-preset/selected` event appended after the swap
commits, and `resolveSessionPreset()` (last selection, else the header) is
what every reconstruction reads: the summary, resume, the conflict guard,
and the fork introduced one layer down.
A seat in the composer tool row, left of the model select, showing the preset
THIS session runs — its own recorded one, not the deployment default, because a
resumed session runs what it was created with. `SessionSummary` carries
`agentPreset` for that, alongside `cwd` and `origin`.
The switch exists only while the conversation has not started. After the first
turn the seat becomes a plain label rather than a disabled menu: a greyed
control reads as "temporarily unavailable", when in fact the choice is gone for
good. The seat never asks in that state, and the host refuses independently
with `agent-preset-locked`, so a stale client cannot slip one past it.
A rejected switch restores the previous value and surfaces the host's message
rather than leaving the seat showing something the session is not running.
`agentPreset.select` recomposes one session's agent from a different preset.
It is allowed only while the session is blank — once a turn has run, that
history was produced under the preset's tools and swapping them would strand
logged tool calls, so the attempt answers `agent-preset-locked`.
The agent and the session survive; only the preset subtree is swapped. That
was forced by what the host actually owns: api-proxy discards the `AgentHandle`
it creates, and there is no delete RPC, so neither disposing nor recreating the
session was available. Swapping the subtree is also the better answer — the
session id, its workspace attachment, and its projections all stay put.
`recompose` is unmount-then-mount because two compositions cannot coexist: both
would register the same tool names into one layer. So it resolves the new
preset BEFORE tearing anything down (an unknown id is a no-op) and restores
the previous composition when the new one fails to mount, rather than leaving
the agent with no tools at all. Both paths are pinned by test.
Also restores the English half of the `agentPreset.list` README paragraph,
which was lost before the previous commit — and `verify-translation-pairing
--write` recorded the pair as consistent anyway, because it records whatever
state it finds rather than checking the two sides say the same thing.
One settings row picking which preset new sessions are composed from.
It is deliberately a new-session preference, not a live switch: a session's
preset is fixed at creation and the host refuses to adopt an existing session
under a different one, so the row says "applies to sessions you start from now
on" rather than implying it can retune a running agent.
Options and the current value come from one `agentPreset.list` call — the
roster already reports which id an unspecified session gets, so the row needs
no settings-schema introspection, unlike the permission row it is modelled on.
The write targets only the namespace's `default` field.
The menu marks `user` rows: a locally authored preset is exactly as privileged
as the plugins it names, and presenting it identically to a shipped one would
hide that.
An empty roster reads as `unavailable` and renders nothing, because composing
no presets is a valid deployment rather than a failure — distinct from a
roster call that failed, which surfaces its message.
`agentPreset.list` gives a browser the deployment's roster so it can offer a
choice when starting a session. Each row carries the id, its `trust`, and
whether it is the current default.
`trust` is on the wire deliberately: a `user` preset is exactly as privileged
as the plugins it names, so a surface that offers one alongside a shipped
preset can say which is which rather than presenting both as vetted.
The domain is read-only. A preset is a composition on disk, so authoring one
is a filesystem act rather than an RPC; and a deployment composing no presets
answers with an empty roster rather than an error, because sharing the host
composition is a valid deployment.
The RPC map made every registration site a type error, so the route, the
response-schema table, the service delegate, and the browser fixture are all
wired rather than only the ones I remembered.
`config.default` becomes the composition base of an `agent-presets` settings
namespace, so the user document layers over the deployment's engineering
default and a person can change which preset new sessions get without a
restart.
The value is read per resolution rather than snapshotted: a hot-reloaded
document takes effect on the next session created, and every running session
stays on the preset it was composed from — which is the same rule the
session-header guard enforces from the other side.
`resolve()` read `config.default` directly, which would have made the whole
setting inert; it now goes through `defaultId` like every other caller.
The write-protection test is rewritten against a temp profile root. It was
passing vacuously: the un-overridden Loader REWRITES the composition it read —
stamping `disabled: true` onto the self-disposing row — so the committed
fixture had been mutated by the very run that proved the bug, and every later
run compared against the damaged file and passed. Building the preset in a
temp directory makes the assertion immune to its own failure mode, and it now
fails with a visible `+ disabled: true` when the override is removed.
Review follow-ups on this layer. The exported schema is
`AgentPresetSettingsSchema`, symmetric with the `AgentPresetSettings`
interface it resolves and self-describing at an import site. The `session.create`
JSDoc promised "the deployment's default preset" for an omitted `agentPreset`,
which this layer makes false — it now names the effective default. The
constructor records why it does not use `installSettingsSection`: that helper
re-judges what a consumer DERIVED across attach and detach, and nothing here is
derived. The provider-unload test disposes the fiber `ctx.plugin()` handed back
instead of reaching into `ctx.reflect.store`, and the write-protection wait says
why slack is the right shape for an absence assertion.
The real composition covers the layering too. `apps/cli` boots the shipped
`cordis.yml`, stores `agent-presets.default`, and asserts an unnamed session
composes from it — the package suite proves the layering against a hand-built
context, this proves the roster and the settings provider are wired to each
other. That test also pins the settings row at a temp file: it defaulted to
`$DSH_HOME/settings.yaml`, so a developer's own stored default decided the
outcome of a file whose whole point is that only the shipped root does.
The Agent Note records the per-resolution read and its correspondence with the
session header, and the vacuous-test finding above.
None of these change behavior; each said something that was not true.
`SessionCwdConflict`'s doc block had been left stranded above the
`AgentPresetConflict` inserted under it, so one class carried a comment
about the other and the second carried none.
The roster comment named a `.system` directory that does not exist; the
shipped root is `config/agent-presets/`, and `system` is the trust its
entries carry.
The real-composition test attributed the disabled `api-gateway` row to
"side effects outside this process" alongside the port and the exporter.
It is disabled for a different reason — the api-proxy cannot mount in
this layer at all — and hiding that behind the same phrase would leave a
later layer unable to tell whether the line can come out.
One test claimed to refuse an adoption while asserting only that the
header records the preset; it now says what it checks.
`PERSONA_SECTION`/`PERSONA_ORDER` existed twice, once in the registry
that declares the slot and once restated in the row that replaces it —
a drift that would land a preset's persona beside the deployment's
instead of shadowing it. The registry exports them now.
The preset conflict message read "already runs agent preset undefined"
for a session that records none, which is the shape a deployment with no
roster produces; it names that case instead, with the regression that
reaches it through the gateway.
Finally, `PresetTree.write()` drops the `loader/config-update` the
inherited method emits — recorded on the override, since a future
edit-while-running flow needs its own persistence path.
A preset publishes its services behind `isolate` realms, which is what
makes them per session — and what makes them invisible to every host
context. The api-proxy kept reading the root realm, so requests that are
ABOUT a session but arrive from outside it answered for a singleton that
no longer exists: `goal.pause`/`clear` and `skill.list` returned "this
deployment does not mount @deepseek-ai/dsh-goal / dsh-skill" for sessions
whose composition mounts exactly that. Verified against a running host
before and after.
`agentPresets.serviceFor(agent, name)` addresses the instance instead,
reading the same subtree-ownership relation `leakedServices` already
uses, inverted. It is read addressing for a caller holding the agent: a
host row that `inject`s a service cannot use it, because injection
resolves before any session exists — which is why `tools` and
`subagents` stay host-plane and this is not a way around that.
Tool presenters had the same shape and the same cure: `viewFor` looked
definitions up without a scope while the global layer is empty by
design, so every card degraded to the generic renderer. It now takes the
owning agent.
Cold resume through `agentFor()` mounted no preset at all, so every
generic entry point — prompt, models, commands — rebuilt a restarted
session on host tools and the deployment persona. It composes the
recorded preset now, as the other resume path already did.
One unit definition already serves every session — its cells are keyed by
`Session` — but registrants became per-session when agent presets started
mounting tool packages per agent. N sessions on one preset register the
same key N times.
The first registration won and owned the only disposer, so ending one
session stripped `goal`, `todos`, `plan`, `tokenUsage` and
`contextPressure` from every other live session's snapshot. Measured
against the shipped `standard` preset: two concurrent sessions each had
eight projection keys, and disposing the first left the second with three
— the ones host rows register.
Count the registrants instead and remove the key when the last one goes.
A differing `stateVersion` still refuses to share: it is the one
incompatibility a runtime comparison can name, since everything else
about a definition is functions.
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.
knip: ui-settings no longer imports react-dom (the portal moved into
OnboardingSurface), so the react-dom peer/dev dependencies and
@types/react-dom go away with the usage.
Review follow-ups: the Agent Note's Testing section now records the
held-join reload regression scenario this PR adds (both languages,
pairing re-recorded); the e2e hold gates EVERY settings.describe issued
before release instead of only the first, so a future boot-time join
consumer cannot silently collapse the widened window; the sampler's
persistence across later navigations is documented and the vacuity
wording softened to what the hold actually buys (timing independence).
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 settings shell painted the onboarding overlay (opaque stage, mask,
#root inert) the moment a step was registered and not locally completed,
while every step still had to load its private join before deciding
whether to show — rendering null could not suppress the shell-owned
chrome. Every reload on the hero therefore flashed a full-screen opaque
layer (white in the light palette) for one settings/credential RPC
round-trip after the session list turned ready.
The chrome now belongs to the step: a new zero-cordis OnboardingSurface
primitive (ui-primitives) renders the body-portaled overlay/mask/stage
verbatim from the former SettingsRoot stylesheet and holds #root inert
for exactly its own lifetime. WelcomeNotice and DeepSeekOnboardingDialog
wrap only their visible branch in it, so their existing null branches
paint and block nothing by construction. SettingsRoot keeps the
coordinator unchanged but renders the elected step bare, and the
settings.onboarding contract now names the surface wrap as the
registrant's obligation.
The onboarding e2e gains a held-join reload scenario pinning that a
configured world never mounts the takeover chrome or inerts the app.
