Move the agent-spine bundle and the stdio/ACP/JSON-RPC app packages out of core/ and ui/ into a new packages/examples/ group, renamed with a -demo suffix so the npm name marks them as non-product surface: core/agent-core -> examples/agent-spine-demo (dsh-agent-spine-demo) ui/stdio-agent -> examples/stdio-demo (dsh-stdio-demo) ui/acp-agent -> examples/acp-demo (dsh-acp-demo) ui/jsonrpc-agent -> examples/jsonrpc-demo (dsh-jsonrpc-demo) Update every code/config/test reference and reference-only doc mentions, and regenerate module-graph, config-catalog, and doc-graphs. The jsonrpc bin (dsh-jsonrpc-agent) and single-file exe (dsh-jsonrpc-agent-pkg) keep their names; the SDK runtime-startup surface is reconciled separately.
cordis-agent
The self-referential harness demo: the coding-agent spine (DeepSeek V4 + local bash on the stdio chat app) plus @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis, which hands the model three tools over the live cordis runtime it is running inside — inspect it, mount new plugins into it, and dispose them again. The ctx.fs and ctx.web services are mounted (provider-only, no model-facing file/web tools) so the plugins the agent writes have real capabilities to build on; Node built-ins are trapped in the sandbox and redirect to those services. The design (sandbox semantics, mount lifecycle, cross-mount composition, caveats) lives in the toolset RFC.
Run it
# repo root .env (gitignored) or exported env:
# DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-…
# DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL=https://… # optional; defaults to the public API
pnpm run demo:cordis
The intended demo is staged — verify the listener link first, then let the agent extend itself:
> Mount a plugin that listens to the 'agent/status' event and logs every status change, then run `echo hi` with bash.
[tool call] cordis_mount({"code": "return { name: 'status-logger', apply(ctx) { ctx.on('agent/status', (agent, status) => console.log('status →', status)) } }"})
[tool result] mounted dyn-1 (plugin "status-logger", state: active)
[tool call] bash({"command": "echo hi"})
[cordis:dyn-1] status → … ← the mounted listener firing, live
> Now give yourself a reverse_text tool and use it on "harness".
[tool call] cordis_mount({"code": "return { name: 'reverse-text', inject: ['tools'], apply(ctx) { ctx.tools.register(harness.defineTool({ name: 'reverse_text', … })) } }"})
[tool call] reverse_text({"text": "harness"}) ← a tool the agent built for itself, one step earlier
> Unmount both.
[tool call] cordis_unmount({"id": "dyn-1"})
Ask for cordis_inspect with what: "api" or what: "events" to see the generated service/event reference the agent writes plugin code against, and try two cooperating mounts (ctx.provide in one, inject in the other) to watch cordis park and revive the consumer.
End-to-end tests
tests/keyless-smoke.e2e.ts boots the real cordis.yml through the Loader with a dummy key and asserts the banner, package-name resolution, and clean EOF exit. tests/cordis-tools.e2e.ts is the with-key smoke: a real model mounts a status listener and the test verifies its tagged console line, creates and uses a reverse_text tool, and composes two mounts through provide/inject. packages/cordis/tool-cordis carries the unit coverage under the per-file 100% gate.