# @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-connection

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Wire consumer layer: the client plugin's apply mounts `ctx.connection` (shared api client + current-page loopback state + single-consumer stream-loop starter); the export face carries the wire contract types, the `AbstractApiClient` seam, and the loop's sink/config types. The real browser carrier uses HTTP POST for unary and respond operations and opens one downlink-only WebSocket each for `events.mux` and `events.host`; the fixture and in-process carriers continue to satisfy the same two-stream abstraction. Loopback hostname classification stays package-internal: the `/api` Host fence and WebSocket upgrades use it directly, while other client plugins consume the derived `ctx.connection.isLoopback` state. The node half's `/api` route pins the privileged method set (`host.pickDirectory`, `host.openPath`, and the whole configuration plane — `settings.describe`, `settings.openDocument`, `settings.update`, `settings.replace`, `settings.mutate`, `credentials.describe`, `credentials.set`, and `credentials.unset`; reads and native actions included, since describing returns the exposed configuration, opening acts on the Host desktop, and probing an arbitrary reference reports where a credential comes from) to loopback by passing the trust fence with an empty trust list — a declared `trustedHosts` authority reaches every other method, while these stay loopback-local until a real authentication layer exists. The platform subclasses (WebApiClient/FixtureApiClient), the ConnectionController loop, and the fixture data source are package-internal — apply selects and drives them; tests reach them via src. The downlink boundary is documented in the [WebSocket downlink carrier Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-08-04-websocket-downlink-carrier.md); the protocol contract is api-contracts v3 §3.

## /api browser-trust fence

The node half guards every entry under `/api` before bridging or upgrading (`src/api-request-trust.ts`). Every request — browser-marked or not — must present a `Host` that is a loopback authority or matches a `trustedHosts` entry: exact on `host:port` entries, any port on port-less entries, both sides compared through WHATWG normalization (DNS-rebinding defense). There is deliberately no shortcut for unmarked HTTP requests: over plain HTTP a browser attaches neither `Origin` nor Fetch-Metadata to image and navigation reads, so an unmarked request may still be a rebound browser read with a readable response, and Host is the one header rebinding cannot forge; a browser WebSocket handshake carries `Origin` and passes the same comparison. Non-browser clients pass the same fence via loopback, the CLI-derived LAN IP literals, or a declared authority. When markers are present, an attached `Origin` must equal the Host authority, and an explicit `sec-fetch-site: cross-site` marker is refused. A `trustedHosts` entry that is not a bare, canonical `host[:port]` authority — one WHATWG parsing reads back exactly as written — fails the plugin load loudly: parsing would otherwise quietly authorize the hostname inside `harness.internal/path`, or broaden a dangling-colon or zero-padded port to an any-port grant. HTTP failures answer plain 403 before any RPC dispatch; upgrade failures reject the handshake before any event stream starts. A non-loopback (`--host 0.0.0.0`) deployment therefore needs its serving authorities trusted: the dsh CLI derives the machine's LAN IP literals itself and its `--trusted-host` flag declares named ones, so `trustedHosts` in cordis.yml is for compositions the CLI does not boot. The fence is deliberately not an authentication layer — reachability policy stays with the webserver binding, and auth remains deferred work. Decision record: [the api browser-trust boundary Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-api-browser-trust-boundary.md).

## `/api` WebSocket downlinks

`/api/events.mux` and `/api/events.host` each accept a WebSocket upgrade and send only the corresponding `ServerRequest` text messages to the browser; the client sends no application data over these sockets. If either socket ends, the current connection generation fails and rebuilds both streams; readiness still requires both sockets to be open and the `host.describe` HTTP call to succeed. Host teardown terminates both sockets, aborts their sources, and waits for source cleanup before returning. Ordinary network GETs to these paths return 426 with no SSE fallback; `toFetchHandler`'s SSE codec serves only the isomorphic in-process carrier.

## Keyless fixture

Any `fixture` query parameter selects the in-memory carrier. `fixture=empty` starts with no Workspace or Session; `fixturePrompt=reject` rejects prompts before acceptance; `fixtureAttach=fail` publishes a Session but rejects its Workspace attachment; `fixtureSessionCreate=drop-response` publishes and frames a Session before dropping the create response; and `fixtureFrames=workspace-first` reverses the default session-first create-frame order. Workspace creation by name/path and caller-preallocated SessionIds remain deterministic enough for assembled Web tests to reconcile list and frame arrival. Fixture content search preserves the production-facing `unicode61`-style case, diacritic, and token-phrase behavior and returns a match-centered snippet of at most 120 Unicode code points.

## Model Experience

None, as the wire consumer layer moves already-composed messages between browser and host; nothing here reaches a model request.

#### KV Cache effect

None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.

## Known Limitations and Deferred Work

- **history's implicit resume is arguable** — opening history on an unattached session pulls an agent up host-side; the pure-persistence-read alternative is recorded in the rt-core reconciliation ledger, unchanged in P-I. This package's consumers see it as latency on first open.
- **`ToolEventView`/`ToolCallView`/`ToolResultView` re-exports are scheduled for removal** — they fall when the toolview migration deletes the host `viewFor` line (presentation belongs to the client); the fixture keeps a local `viewFor` mirror until then.