deepseek-harness/packages/interaction/tool-ask-user/src/index.ts

/**
 * Model-facing `ask_user_question` tool over the `ctx.userInteraction` seam.
 * The tool pauses until a UI provider returns a human answer, then feeds that
 * answer back into the agent loop as an ordinary tool result.
 *
 * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user
 */

import type { Context } from 'cordis'
import { defineTool } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
import '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction'

export const name = 'tool-ask-user'
export const inject = ['tools', 'userInteraction']

const description = 'Ask the user a concise question when you need confirmation, a choice, or missing information before proceeding. '
  + 'Send one or more questions, each with a stable id that will be echoed in the answer.'

export function apply(ctx: Context): void {
  ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
    name: 'ask_user_question',
    description,
    parameters: {
      questions: {
        type: 'array',
        required: true,
        description: 'Questions to ask the user before continuing.',
        items: {
          type: 'object',
          additionalProperties: true,
          properties: {
            id: { type: 'string', required: true, description: 'Stable id for this question; echoed in the answer.' },
            question: { type: 'string', required: true, description: 'The specific question to ask the user.' },
            header: {
              type: 'string',
              description: 'Optional short heading for the question, such as "Confirm" or "Choose Mode".',
            },
            options: {
              type: 'array',
              description: 'Optional choices to show the user. If you recommend one, put it first and append "(Recommended)" to that label.',
              items: {
                type: 'object',
                additionalProperties: true,
                properties: {
                  label: { type: 'string', required: true, description: 'Short user-facing option label.' },
                  description: { type: 'string', description: 'One sentence explaining the tradeoff or impact.' },
                },
              },
            },
            multi_select: {
              type: 'boolean',
              description: 'Whether the user may select more than one option. Defaults to false.',
            },
          },
        },
      },
    },
    output: {
      schema: {
        type: 'object',
        additionalProperties: false,
        properties: {
          answers: {
            type: 'array',
            required: true,
            items: {
              type: 'object',
              additionalProperties: false,
              properties: {
                id: { type: 'string', required: true },
                selected: { type: 'array', required: true, items: { type: 'string' } },
                custom: { type: 'string' },
              },
            },
          },
        },
      },
      render: (_args, value) => [{ type: 'text', text: JSON.stringify(value) }],
    },
    async execute(args, exec) {
      const result = await ctx.userInteraction.ask({
        questions: args.questions.map(question => ({
          id: question.id,
          question: question.question,
          ...question.header !== undefined ? { header: question.header } : {},
          ...question.options !== undefined ? { options: question.options } : {},
          ...question.multi_select !== undefined ? { multiSelect: question.multi_select } : {},
        })),
        ...exec.agent !== undefined ? { agent: exec.agent } : {},
        signal: exec.signal,
      })
      return {
        answers: result.answers.map(answer => ({
          id: answer.id,
          selected: [...answer.selected],
          ...answer.custom !== undefined ? { custom: answer.custom } : {},
        })),
      }
    },
  }))
}