deepseek-harness/packages/client/runtime/README.md

# @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-runtime

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Client cordis boot and React-free object services: SlotsService wraps SlotCore and supplies renderer data sources; SessionsService owns Session objects and the Chat-facing list, scope, and event-window state; SessionHistoryService lazily owns independent raw-history ledgers for inspection consumers; WorkspacesService depends on SessionsService and owns Workspace objects, list/actions, default-target derivation, and the New Session blank-reuse entry (`connectWorkspace`). The runtime fans the shared Host stream into the Session, Workspace, and activated history owners without routing inspection state through Session or SessionManager. Client sessions are always Host-born (Session+Agent+cwd in one `session.create`); the client holds no pre-entity session state — a session's Agent scope (the client mirror of host dsh-scope, keyed by the shared agent/session id) is born when its row enters the list mirror and dies with the prune. Contract: api-contracts v3 §4. Each `Session` holds a generic `ProjectionValueStore` seeded from the history-tail `projections` block and updated by `session/projection` frames under higher-seq-wins; domain keys (including `todos`) are read via `projections.faceOf` / `useProjection`, not via `ConversationSnapshot`.

## Workspace and Session lists

Workspace and Session lists have independent monotone `pending` → `ready` baseline phases and separate refresh activity/error state. Incremental upsert/removal frames and unary mutation echoes arriving during a list request replay over its response. The first successful baseline establishes Host order; later refreshes update rows and membership without changing the relative order of identities already shown. Removed Workspace ids retain process-local tombstones so late changed frames cannot resurrect them; reconnect still takes `workspace.list` as the baseline. Workspace recency is derived only after both baselines are ready and never changes Workspace list order.

`WorkspacesService.delete(workspaceId)` removes the registration from the client projection after the successful unary response; the matching `host/workspace-removed` frame is idempotent and synchronizes other tabs. Session state and the current Session selection are independent, so accounted Sessions immediately project under Ungrouped after their Workspace disappears.

SlotsService gives the renderer separate bare observables for `useSessions` and `useWorkspaces`; web-react creates the hooks. Workspace business state does not enter `SessionListState` or an entry store.

## New Session and the blank mirror

`WorkspacesService.connectWorkspace(workspaceId)` resolves the session a New Session flow lands in: it reuses the workspace's existing blank session from the list mirror (`blank && cwd == workspace.path`) or calls `session.create({workspaceId})`, returning the session id for the caller to open. `SessionSummary.blank` mirrors the host's derived empty-log bit and only ever lowers on the client: seeded by `session.list` / the `host/session-added` frame, flipped false by the first ACCEPTED local `prompt()` (on the RPC success response — acceptance proves the user message is in the host log; a rejected first prompt keeps the session blank and reusable) and by any `running: true` status frame, re-aligned by every list re-pull. List surfaces hide blank rows; the store carries every row. `SessionsService.create` accepts an optional caller-preallocated SessionId and throws `SessionCreateError` (carrying `requestedSessionId`) on failure.

## Pending queue projection

`ConversationSnapshot.queue` is the Host's authoritative transient Queue snapshot; pending steering stays outside this projection. Each row carries its `InboxItemId`, complete editable text when every content block is text, and a flattened preview. `session/queue` replaces the whole projection; reconnect buffering retains only the latest snapshot, and neither durable turn events nor running-status changes guess that an item was claimed. `Session.updateQueue()` sends edit/remove operations without optimistic mutation, so the next Host snapshot is the sole visible commit and a claim race can surface `queue-item-not-found`.

## The human transcript

`ConversationSnapshot.nodes` is the human transcript, not the model surface. `TranscriptAdapter` projects the raw window in log order — every append-origin surface event (`isAppendSurfaceEvent`) at its own log position, plus one `CompactionSummaryNode` marker per landed compaction checkpoint — and never consults surface order. A landed compaction therefore keeps the conversation it shadowed on the model side: the marker reports where the model stopped seeing that history instead of erasing it. Model-only replacement copies stay out: a pruned `tool/result` and a regenerated `assistant/message` rewrite one node for the model and mark no boundary. A checkpoint is a `user/message` carrying the compaction seam's plugin source that **replaced** a surface range; an appending plugin-sourced `user/message` is injected context, not a compaction. The adapter's plugin literal is pinned to the seam's own declaration by a type-only import of the cordis-free [`dsh-compact/checkpoint`](../../compact/compact/README.md) leaf, so renaming it there fails `tsc` here; a **value** import of the package would fail the client purity gate, and the package **root** is unreachable even as a type (it reaches `dsh-session`'s root, whose `Context` merge collides the host `sessions` with this program's). `tests/compact-checkpoint-pin.spec.ts` covers the same drift behaviorally.

Because the projection is log-ordered, the node array is seq-monotonic by construction: log-only `command/run` / `command/done` nodes splice in by seq, `Session` merges interrupted frozen nodes by their fractional seqs, and a window whose checkpoint cites a shadowed range outside it renders the marker with nothing logged. The marker's summary text comes from the checkpoint's `compact/summary` provenance; a window cut that left the provenance outside makes the row non-expandable rather than empty, and a later page that supplies it resolves the text. Performance contract: one append materializes at most one node and copies the projection only when it adds that node; an event that changes no node keeps the previous array reference (a chunk storm costs nothing), and unchanged nodes keep their object identity.

## Request inspection

`SessionHistoryInspection.requests` is one chronological, purpose-discriminated provider-request stream. Assistant requests always carry their numeric `turn` and `step`; compaction requests carry `step: 0` and a `turn` owner that may be `null`. That null owner means a manual compaction ran standalone between turns, not that it belongs to either adjacent turn. A `session/end-seed` boundary closes an unmatched compaction request as an error at the boundary time with `Compaction was interrupted before completion.`; a later start projects as an independent request instead of overwriting the orphan.

## Code Mode sub-dispatch index

`ConversationSnapshot.codeDispatches` groups a `run_code` call's sub-dispatches under their parent callId, in start order, using the native call-block shapes: a `tool/code-dispatch-start` event lands the `RunningToolCall` form (rows derive the running ring from the shape) and its `tool/code-dispatch` settlement replaces it in place with the `ToolResultNode` form, `callTime` carrying the paired start's time. A settle whose start fell outside the replay window appends directly with `callTime: null` (duration unknown — never a fabricated zero). Live mux frames and history replay build the identical index; sub-calls never join the transcript `nodes` flow; per-parent array and map references are memo-stable across unrelated snapshot swaps.

## Session title projection

`SessionManager` retains the latest validated `session/title` control snapshot independently of list and session-instance arrival. Newer event seqs replace older snapshots, title timestamps contribute to list recency, and a subscription baseline discards any retained title beyond its `lastSeq` before the optional folded title arrives. Explicit session removal also clears the retained title. The client-facing `SessionSummary.title` is therefore only the actual durable title; `displayTitle` is always present and falls back through the cwd basename and session id. A cold persisted session keeps that fallback until opening or resuming it causes the host to fold and project its log-backed title. `ISession.rename` settles the `title` projection cell directly from the unary response's `{title, seq}` under the same higher-seq-wins rule — the list row and every `useProjection('title')` reader update ahead of the push frame, whose later replay of the same seq is a no-op.

## Session model selection

Each resident `Session` owns a `modelSelection` snapshot containing the current provider/model target, provider-grouped directory, provider-local failures, and the `idle`/`loading`/`ready`/`selecting`/`error` state. History establishes or refreshes the current target, opening a selector refreshes the directory, and selection failures preserve the last target and usable groups. Directory and selection operations share a monotonically increasing generation so an older response cannot overwrite a newer selection. A reconnect rebuild restores the target reported by the Host without replacing unchanged selection substructure.

## Model Experience

None, as the session object layer selects the provider/model route used by a later Host request but adds no model-visible content.

#### KV Cache effect

Changing the target can change or invalidate provider-side cache reuse; this package does not alter the prompt prefix itself.

## Known Limitations and Deferred Work

- **`loader.unload` is a stub (throws not-implemented)** — the full chain (fiber dispose → registration cascade → style removal) lands with the HMR project.
- **Scope teardown is stage-driven, single-occupant today** — the staged session follows `list.current` exactly (staging is the open signal: the event window opens ⟺ the session is on stage); a removed-while-staged session's scope survives frozen until the stage moves on, not until true observer count reaches zero. Resolution (`binding()`/`scope()`) is pure addressing, render-safe; the render layer reads the current bundle through the `currentProvideInfo` observable. The staged state can widen to a multi-pane list when concurrent panes land.
- **Value imports of this package from plugin bundles must use the `/client` subpath** — the bare package name is not in the loader externals table and inlines a second module instance, whose private scope-tag Symbol never matches (the empty-state P0 postmortem).