deepseek-harness/packages/client/ui-agent-preset

dsh-client-ui-agent-preset

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The agent-preset surfaces: a General-settings row choosing which preset new sessions are composed from, a chip on the new-session screen choosing the next session's, a read-only label in the session header, and a settings section that authors the compositions themselves.

Why it is a new-session preference

A session's preset is fixed when the session is created — the host refuses to adopt an existing session under a different one, because that session's history was produced under the first preset's tools. So this row cannot be a live switch, and it says so: changing it applies to sessions started afterwards while running sessions keep the composition they began with.

The new-session chip

A second surface, beside the workspace picker on the new-session screen. It sits there rather than in the composer because that is where the choice is still open: a control that spends most of its life disabled belongs on the screen where it still works.

The chip opens on the deployment default and its pick is staged — the screen precedes the session it would apply to. The stage reaches a session when one becomes current and is still blank, which covers both the session the workspace connect created and the blank one it reused; riding along on sessions.create would miss the second. It is spent on first use, so the next new session opens on the default again, exactly like the workspace picker beside it.

A session that has started is refused rather than queued: the host answers agent-preset-locked, and the stage is dropped instead of waiting for a session that will never accept it.

The session-header label

A third surface, beside the session title: the preset THIS session runs, as static chrome. A control there would promise a switch the host refuses outright. It reads the preset from the session's own summary — a resumed session runs what it was created with, not today's default — and resolves the display name against the same roster the General row reads.

What it reads and writes

Options and the current default both come from one agentPreset.list call. The roster already reports which id a session with no explicit choice gets, so the row needs no settings-schema introspection; the write targets the agent-presets settings namespace's default field, which is what the host resolves at creation.

A locally authored preset is exactly as privileged as the plugins it names, so the list marks user rows rather than presenting every preset as shipped and vetted.

The row re-reads on settings/changed for its own namespace and on connection/reset: the roster is a live directory and the default is a settings field, so an external edit or a reconnect can both move it.

The management section

A fourth surface, its own settings page (settings.section id agent-presets, ordered after Models — choosing a model is routine, composing an agent is the deployment-shaping act behind it): the roster as rows, and one composition open in a YAML editor at a time.

A shipped preset opens read-only. It is the known-good composition a local one is written against, so reading it is the point and overwriting it is not — the deployment's copy is what a broken local preset is compared against. Duplicate copies any row, because a copy always lands in the local root regardless of where the text came from; New preset starts blank, since copying is already offered on the row being copied and a composition nobody named is text the author has to recognise as unwanted before deleting it.

An id becomes a directory name, so the editor mirrors the host's own containment rule ([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*) and refuses a name already in use — a create landing on an existing name would overwrite a preset the user never opened. Both checks are conveniences: the host re-applies them, along with the composition's shape, and its answer is what the editor reports on failure. A save that parses is still only a save; a composition naming a plugin that does not exist fails at the next session that selects it.

Deleting removes the file. Sessions already composed from it keep running — a composition is mounted once at session creation and nothing re-reads the file.

Setting the default writes the agent-presets settings namespace, which the host exposes to configuration clients (dsh-apiproxy keeps an explicit allowlist — a namespace outside it makes a picker move and then silently forget).

agentPreset.read, write, remove, and select are loopback-pinned (dsh-client-connection): a composition names the plugins a session runs, so reading one is reconnaissance and writing one is arbitrary capability. agentPreset.list is not — it carries ids and trust, and a LAN client's picker needs it.

When the surfaces are absent

A deployment that composes no presets answers with an empty roster, and the row, the chip, the label, and the section all render nothing — every session then shares the host composition, and there is nothing to choose between or manage. A deployment that configures no writable root answers authorable: false, and the section stays a read-only browser: the rows still open, but creating is offered nowhere rather than through a button whose save always fails.

Model Experience

Indirectly, through the preset a later session is composed from; dsh-agent-presets owns what that composition puts in front of the model.

KV Cache effect

No direct invalidation. Changing the default never touches a running session's prefix; a session created afterwards establishes its own prefix from its own composition.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

• A preset without metadata is listed by id — display text is optional, and a preset that publishes none (every preset authored by duplicating another starts that way) shows its directory name.
• The editor is a plain textarea — no YAML syntax highlighting, folding, or schema completion; the host's shape check on save is the only validation.
• A saved composition is not mounted — a preset that parses but names a missing plugin is accepted, and fails at the next session that selects it.