deepseek-harness/docs/core-data-structures/bash.md

Bash Executor

The bash execution seam — the canonical capability seam example, split across three packages: interface (dsh-bash, ctx.bash), implementation (dsh-bash-local, local subprocesses), and consumer (dsh-tool-bash, the bash/bash_output/bash_kill tool schemas). Bash is one optional capability, not part of the agent-loop spine — so its vocabulary lives here, not in core.md. A sandboxed, containerized, or remote backend is a sibling package implementing the same interface.

Source: packages/bash/bash/src/types.ts

Request vs. spec: the resolve() split

The seam separates the model-/plugin-facing request (optional workdir/timeoutMs, filled from config) from the fully-resolved spec the executor acts on (those fields required). The tool layer calls ctx.bash.resolve(request) between them — this is the repo's "explicit > implicit at package seams" rule made concrete: the reader of a BashExecSpec never wonders where the working directory came from.

interface BashExecRequest {
  command: string
  /** Working directory override (default: implementation-configured). */
  workdir?: string | undefined
  /** Timeout override in milliseconds (implementations cap it). */
  timeoutMs?: number | undefined
  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires. */
  signal?: AbortSignal | undefined
  /**
   * Opaque OWNER token for a background task — the consumer's isolation key
   * (the tool layer passes the owning agent's `session.header.id`). The
   * executor stores it on the task and exposes it via {@link BashExecutor.ownerOf};
   * the executor itself NEVER interprets it (no access policy lives in the
   * seam — that is the consumer's job). Absent for foreground runs and for an
   * ownerless background start (a non-agent caller).
   */
  owner?: string | undefined
}

interface BashExecSpec {
  command: string
  workdir: string
  timeoutMs: number
  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires. */
  signal?: AbortSignal | undefined
  /**
   * Opaque owner token, REQUIRED-but-nullable (mirrors `workdir`/`timeoutMs`
   * being required on the resolved spec): {@link BashExecutor.resolve} carries
   * the request's `owner` through, defaulting a missing one to `undefined`. A
   * required field makes a forgotten owner a VISIBLE `undefined` rather than a
   * silently-absent property that yields an unowned (cross-session-readable)
   * task. `start()` stores it; `run()` (foreground) ignores it.
   */
  owner: string | undefined
}

The owner token is the isolation key: the executor stores it but never interprets it (access policy is the consumer's job), so a background task started by one agent isn't readable cross-session. A required-but-nullable field makes a forgotten owner a visible undefined rather than a silently-unowned task.

Foreground runs: BashRunResult

The outcome of one completed (or killed) foreground run. Orthogonal outcomes are reported independently — a process can both time out AND exit 0 because it trapped the signal — so timedOut, aborted, signal, and exitCode are each their own field; a caller never reads a cut-short run as a clean success.

interface BashRunResult {
  /** Exit code; null when the process died from a signal. */
  exitCode: number | null
  /** Terminating signal (e.g. 'SIGTERM'); null on normal exit. */
  signal: NodeJS.Signals | null
  /** True when the executor's own timeout killed the command. */
  timedOut: boolean
  /** True when the caller's AbortSignal killed the command. */
  aborted: boolean
  /** The effective timeout applied to this run (after defaulting/capping). */
  timeoutMs: number
  stdout: CollectedOutput
  stderr: CollectedOutput
}

Each stream is a CollectedOutput — the (possibly truncated) text plus recovery info. When truncated, text is the tail and the complete stream spills to a private file:

interface CollectedOutput {
  /** Collected text — the TAIL of the stream when truncated. */
  text: string
  /** True when bytes were dropped from `text`. */
  truncated: boolean
  /** Path to a file holding the COMPLETE stream, when truncated and available. */
  spillPath?: string
}

Background tasks: BashTask

A long-running command started with start() is tracked as a BashTask. BashTaskStatus is 'running' | 'completed' | 'killed'; done resolves when the underlying process closes and never rejects.

interface BashTask {
  readonly id: string
  readonly command: string
  status: BashTaskStatus
  /** Exit code once finished (null = killed by signal / still running). */
  exitCode: number | null
  /** Terminating signal name, when signal-killed. */
  signal: NodeJS.Signals | null
  /** Resolves when the underlying process closes (never rejects). */
  readonly done: Promise<void>
}

readOutput() returns an incremental BashTaskRead — the output produced since the previous read, with a lossy flag when truncation dropped unread bytes:

interface BashTaskRead {
  task: BashTask
  /** Output produced since the previous read (stderr in a marked section). */
  delta: string
  /** True when truncation dropped unread bytes the delta cannot include. */
  lossy: boolean
  /** Full stdout spill file, when stdout truncation occurred and a safe path is available. */
  stdoutSpillPath?: string
  /** Full stderr spill file, when stderr truncation occurred and a safe path is available. */
  stderrSpillPath?: string
}

The service

BashExecutor (ctx.bash, abstract — defined in packages/bash/bash/src/index.ts) mirrors the LlmService/LlmAdapter split: resolve (request → spec), run (foreground), start (background), get/ownerOf/list/readOutput/kill, and onTaskDone (a BashTaskListener completion callback). Spawned commands get a scrubbed env (dropping *KEY*/*SECRET*/*TOKEN*) and spill files use a private 0700 dir with random names and owner-only opens — model output never gets the ambient environment or a predictable path. The implementation that provides all this is dsh-bash-local; the model-facing bash/bash_output/bash_kill schemas that call it are in dsh-tool-bash (and present as terminals via the tool-presentation vocabulary).