Two independent bugs made the ACP server crash the moment an editor (Zed)
connected, despite 178 green unit tests at 100% coverage:
1. `session/new` threw `cannot get property "agents" without inject`. Root
cause: a stray `export default apply` made the cordis Loader's
`unwrapExports` (`exports.default ?? exports`) collapse the module to the
bare `apply` function, discarding the sibling `inject`/`name`/`Config`
named exports. The plugin fiber was built with empty `inject`, so every
`ctx.<service>` read in `apply` threw at load. Fix: remove the default
export so the Loader uses the namespace.
2. `session/load` threw `cannot get property "sessionPersistence" without
inject`. `AgentLoop.resume` read `this.ctx.sessionPersistence` (a service
it deliberately does NOT inject); the property proxy's ancestor-only fiber
walk fails through the bridge's traceable shadow. Fix: read it via
`this.ctx.get('sessionPersistence', false)`, the topology-independent
global-store lookup.
Why the suite missed both: every test mounted the plugin by hand
(`ctx.plugin({name,inject,apply})`), bypassing `unwrapExports` entirely, and
the only test driving these RPCs was key-gated (skipped in CI). Added a no-key
`session/new` e2e that boots the real example through the real Loader — it
fails loudly on bug #1 without an API key. Set `TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH` in the e2e
spawn so the subprocess resolves workspace `paths` from a temp cwd (it was
silently falling back to a stale built `lib/`).
Docs: post-mortem 0001; AGENTS.md "line coverage is not behavior coverage" +
with-key/smoke-test philosophy; packages/AGENTS.md plugin-export-shape and
ctx.get rules; dsh-code-review SKILL checks.
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 boots @deepseek-ai/dsh-acp over the shared provider/tool core (../base.yml), with agent-loop configured with no pre-created agents (ACP session/new creates them on demand) and JSONL session persistence (so session/load works).
stdout is the protocol
This example loads no stdout logger — stdout carries the JSON-RPC frames, and any other write corrupts them. Do not add @cordisjs/plugin-logger-console or a stdio UI here. 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": ["run", "demo:acp"],
"env": { "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "sk-…" }
}
}
}
Run from the repo root (the MVP requires the server's launch directory to be the workspace — see the cwd note in packages/acp).
MVP limitations
The bridge is the RFC 010 MVP: single session per connection (RFC 011 lifts this), text-only prompts, cwd must equal the launch directory, and the tool-permission gate is deferred (TODO(rfc010-permission-gate) — tools run with the executor's full authority). See packages/acp/README.md for the full contract.