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.
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RFC: Make the shared example base providerless
Status: rejected — superseded by Extract example apps into packages, which moves the spine into a dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle and deletes the base*.yml files, so there is no shared base YAML left to rename.
Problem
The examples had two shared base files: examples/base-core.yml was providerless, while examples/base.yml included that core plus the real llm-deepseek adapter. Snapshot replay needs the providerless core with llm-replay, because loading the real adapter without a key throws. The normal demos need the real adapter. The result was a naming inversion: the file named base.yml was not the reusable base for all examples, while the true base was base-core.yml.
The split was understandable, but it made every config explanation longer. It also led to awkward test setup like a keyless smoke test carrying a dummy API key so an adapter could boot even though the model is not called.
Proposal
Rename the providerless core to examples/base.yml and make adapter selection explicit in each concrete example. The coding and ACP real configs add a tiny llm-deepseek include or local block; snapshot config adds llm-replay. Delete examples/base-core.yml.
The shared base should contain only provider-neutral services and tools: llm, sessions, system prompt, tools, agents, invariants, bash executor, and bash tool schemas. Anything that chooses a model provider belongs at the leaf config.
Acceptance criteria
examples/base.ymlis providerless.examples/base-core.ymlis deleted.- Real demo configs explicitly add the DeepSeek adapter.
- Snapshot replay config includes the same providerless base and its replay adapter.
- The examples README, example-specific READMEs, and RFC references stop explaining "base = base-core plus adapter".
What we give up
Real demos lose one layer of convenience: each must opt into the adapter. That is the right default for examples, because adapter choice is the variable part and providerless wiring is the shared product core.