$DSH_HOME/.env had just become an ordinary environment layer, which left the harness resolving user-facing values from a flattened process.env that could no longer say where a value came from. A key stored through the web page stayed shadowed by an older key in the user's own .env. An endpoint could be redirected by the project: the invoking directory's .env is materialized like every other layer, and a base URL decides where a resolved API key is sent, so a DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL written into a model-editable workspace would send the user's credential — and the prompts carrying their code — to whatever host that file named. Give every user-facing value one ordering, with four kinds of source: explicit for this run per-operation override, CLI argument > authored by deployment --config / --config-replace > this launch's shell inherited process environment > product-managed store settings.yaml, .credentials.yaml > discovered file $DSH_HOME/.env > defaults schema default, shipped base, public default The domains differ only in which tiers exist. The earlier split — credentials ranking the environment over the managed file while settings ranked over the environment — was inconsistent: the distinguishing fact is who authored the source, not the domain. packages/util/environment owns an immutable snapshot with per-layer provenance. getFrom(name, sources) searches only the layers a caller names, and omitting one is a refusal rather than a demotion: the adapters ask for ['process', 'user-env'], so no reordering can let a project file back into a decision it was excluded from. isBootstrapOnly rejects, before anything is materialized, any .env setting a variable that governs how a process launches (PATH, SHELL, NODE_OPTIONS, LD_PRELOAD), where code or model-visible instructions load from (the whole DSH_* namespace, HOME, XDG_*), or how the network is reached (proxy and CA variables). The namespace is denied wholesale so a switch added later cannot become settable by being forgotten, and there is no opt-out. verify-config-source-ownership keeps both rules: no unregistered process.env read under packages/*/*/src (26 allowlisted with reasons), and no apiKey, baseURL, or headers inlined from the environment in shipped Cordis config — removing those inlines is what makes the deployment tier meaningful.
ui/ — human and SDK-client integration surfaces
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Human-facing channels and the out-of-process SDK server. These are product packages: real interfaces that a person or SDK client drives.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
commands/ |
Human-command registry: shared discovery metadata, scoped shadowing, cancellation, and direct UI dispatch | ctx.commands |
user-approval/ |
One-shot user-approval mechanism, closed outcome vocabulary, audit events, and per-session approval policy | ctx.approval |
permission/ |
User-facing permission presets (workspace-write/danger-full-access): one product-level select bundling the sandbox-mode and approval-policy knobs, written through to their session events |
ctx.permission |
user-interaction/ |
Abstract human question/answer seam used by UI-backed confirmation tools | ctx.userInteraction |
tool-ask-user/ |
Model-facing ask_user_question tool over ctx.userInteraction |
(registers on ctx.tools) |
tui/ |
Interactive pi-tui terminal channel; renders session titles/events and tool intents, answers ctx.userInteraction, and hosts effect-owned plugin overlays |
ctx.tui (drives ctx.agents) |
jsonrpc/ |
Stdio JSON-RPC server for out-of-process SDK clients | (drives ctx.agents) |
app-boot/ |
Shared boot glue for the app bins: .env loading, fail-loud Loader guards, snapshot-aware config resolution, the settle-the-tree boot sequence |
(library for the bins) |
A UI integration is a client-driver plugin, not a loop change: it consumes the existing agent/* event taxonomy and the dsh-agent factory. tui is the interactive terminal front door and supplies the terminal-local ctx.tui extension service; jsonrpc serves out-of-process SDK clients, while non-interactive one-shot tasks use cli-demo. commands is the human-only discovery and dispatch plane consumed by TUI; command input and output do not become model messages.
user-approval, user-interaction, and tool-ask-user live here because asking a human is a UI-backed product affordance, not part of the providerless core spine. user-approval owns the one-shot ctx.approval decision mechanism and its policy tier; answerers remain with the channel or automation transport that owns the agent. user-interaction remains provider-neutral (ctx.userInteraction), while tool-ask-user is its model-facing consumer and interactive app packages provide concrete providers.
The runnable app bundles composed over agent-spine-demo live in examples/ (tui-demo, acp-demo, jsonrpc-demo). acp-demo and jsonrpc-demo own boot bins; the tui-demo bundle is booted by the product dsh CLI. ui/ keeps the reusable human/SDK channel plugins and shared app-boot glue; the automation-only ACP transport lives in acp/. Each front door owns its stdout policy, and a leaf cordis.yml supplies backends and optional tools.