Codex review of PR #88 found three issues in the example-app extraction: A1 — examples/coding-agent/README.md's plugin table still listed the OLD direct-wired leaf entries (agent-loop, session-persistence, src/stdio-chat.ts — the whole src/ dir is gone). Rewrite it to the four real leaf entries the current cordis.yml loads (hmr, llm-deepseek, bash, stdio-agent), noting that tool-bash/persistence/agent/loop now live inside the agent-core + stdio-agent bundles. A2 — the three new app/spine packages (agent-core, stdio-agent, acp-agent) export NO `inject`, so a stray `export default apply` would let unwrapExports collapse the module and silently DROP name/Config WITHOUT crashing — the real-load-path smokes would stay green. agent-core is never Loader-unwrapped at all. Add an explicit export-shape guard per package: assert no `default` export and that the real Loader.unwrapExports leaves name/Config/apply intact. Verified each fails when `export default apply` is added. B — soften "structurally unreachable / cannot wire a stdout logger" overclaims in the acp-agent/agent-core READMEs and the implemented RFC: a leaf CAN still add a sibling logger entry; the accurate claim is the app omits one so the default leaf has nothing to get wrong. Keep the safety directive (never add a stdout logger to an ACP leaf).
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acp-agent example
The DeepSeek Harness coding agent exposed as an Agent Client Protocol (ACP) server over JSON-RPC stdio — drive it from Zed or any other ACP client.
pnpm run demo:acp # needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY (repo-root .env or env)
This example is just a leaf cordis.yml: it loads the @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent app (which bundles the @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core spine, JSONL session persistence, and the @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp bridge — with no pre-created agents, since ACP session/new creates them on demand) plus the two swappable backends (llm-deepseek, bash-local). The app package bakes in the no-stdout-logger cluster, so a leaf has no logger entry to get wrong by default — keeping stdout pure for JSON-RPC.
stdout is the protocol
This example loads no stdout logger — stdout carries the JSON-RPC frames, and any other write corrupts them. @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-agent includes no logger entry, so this leaf has none to get wrong by default; do not add one (use a stderr exporter if you need logs).
Zed configuration
Add to your Zed settings.json under agent_servers:
{
"agent_servers": {
"DeepSeek Harness": {
"command": "pnpm",
"args": ["--dir", "/path/to/deepseek-harness", "run", "demo:acp"],
"env": { "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "sk-…" }
}
}
}
The editor sets each session's cwd to the project it opens; the agent's bash tools run there (see the per-session cwd note in packages/ui/acp), so launch the server from the harness repo with pnpm --dir … and let ACP carry the workspace path per session.
Snapshot tests (record-once / replay-deterministic)
This example is the home of the harness's snapshot tests — they boot this server as a real subprocess, drive it with a deterministic input script, and diff its normalized output against committed golden files. The model is made deterministic by @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay, a function/namespace plugin that installs an llm/stream waterfall listener and short-circuits it, serving model streams reconstructed from a recorded session JSONL fixture (<scenario>/session.jsonl) — so replay needs no API key. The fixture IS the persisted session log: its assistant/chunk events carry every StreamChunk, so grouping them by (turn, step) reconstructs each stream() call (one model call per loop step). Recording is therefore "run the real agent once and harvest the .jsonl". The two failure modes not expressible as logged chunks — a pure throw before any chunk, and cancel/hang — use an optional <scenario>/replay.override.json sidecar (a ReplayEntry[] that replaces the derived script). A scenario that needs the agent to operate on existing files ships an optional <scenario>/workspace/ directory — the harness copies its contents into the temp cwd before the run (see workspace-edit). See docs/rfc/implemented/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md for the full design.
MVP limitations
The bridge supports N concurrent sessions per connection, each in its own workspace cwd (RFC 011). Remaining limits: prompts support ACP's baseline text and resource_link blocks only, additionalDirectories and mcpServers are rejected, and the tool-permission gate is deferred (TODO(rfc010-permission-gate) — tools run with the executor's full authority). See packages/ui/acp/README.md for the full contract.