Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into codex/rfc-subagent-background-tasks

# Conflicts:
#	docs/event-producer-consumer.md

docs/config-catalog.md

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts:49`](../packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts:35`](../packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hooks-claude`
 
@@ -622,6 +622,22 @@ export interface Config {
 
 Source: [`packages/skill/skill-local/src/index.ts:39`](../packages/skill/skill-local/src/index.ts)
 
+## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio`
+
+Requires: `agents` · `userInteraction`
+
+```ts config-catalog
+/** Serializable plugin configuration (cordis-native, schemastery). */
+export interface Config {
+  /** Banner printed once on start, before the first `> ` prompt. */
+  welcome?: string
+  /** Id of the agent stdin drives (`send`/`steer`) and whose status gates the EOF exit; rendering is global. Defaults to `'main'`. */
+  agent?: string
+}
+```
+
+Source: [`packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts:30`](../packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts)
+
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent`
 
 ```ts config-catalog
@@ -869,7 +885,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/fs/tool-fs/src/index.ts:31`](../packages/fs/tool-fs/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/fs/tool-fs/src/index.ts:22`](../packages/fs/tool-fs/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-skill`
 
@@ -1028,7 +1044,7 @@ export interface Config {
 export type ToolPresentationMode = 'native' | 'code' | 'both'
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:308`](../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:307`](../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval`
 
@@ -1200,7 +1216,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/index.ts:36`](../packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/index.ts:32`](../packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/index.ts)
 
 ## Loadable plugins with no config
 
@@ -1239,6 +1255,7 @@ Imported as libraries by other packages; a `cordis.yml` cannot load them.
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand` ([`packages/util/brand/src/index.ts`](../packages/util/brand/src/index.ts))
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hook-protocol` ([`packages/hooks/hook-protocol/src/index.ts`](../packages/hooks/hook-protocol/src/index.ts))
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-jsonrpc-agent` ([`packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent/src/index.ts`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent/src/index.ts))
+- `@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke` ([`packages/support/loader-smoke/src/index.ts`](../packages/support/loader-smoke/src/index.ts))
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope` ([`packages/core/scope/src/index.ts`](../packages/core/scope/src/index.ts))
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-inprocess` ([`packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts))
 - `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-subprocess` ([`packages/subagent/subagent-subprocess/src/index.ts`](../packages/subagent/subagent-subprocess/src/index.ts))

docs/cordis-catalog/events.md

@@ -279,28 +279,6 @@ Awaited parallel durability checkpoint: every listener runs and the caller await
 
 Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:79`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
-## `skill/*`
-
-### `skill/provider-added` — emit
-
-A skill provider became resolvable in the `ctx.skills` registry. Consumers can observe this instead of depending on Cordis plugin load order, which is concurrent for sibling plugins.
-
-```ts cordis-catalog
-'skill/provider-added'(provider: SkillProvider): void
-```
-
-Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:131`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts)
-
-### `skill/provider-removed` — emit
-
-A skill provider left the registry because its plugin fiber was disposed.
-
-```ts cordis-catalog
-'skill/provider-removed'(name: string): void
-```
-
-Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:137`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts)
-
 ## `subagent/*`
 
 ### `subagent/end` — emit

docs/cordis-catalog/services.md

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ async list(options: SkillLookupOptions = {}): Promise<SkillSummary[]>
 async get(name: string, options: SkillLookupOptions = {}): Promise<SkillDefinition | undefined>
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:158`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:141`](../../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.subagents` — `SubagentService`
 
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ async execute(exec: ToolExecutionInput): Promise<ToolExecutionResult>
 
 Types: [ToolDefinition](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionInput](../core-data-structures/tools.md) · [ToolExecutionResult](../core-data-structures/tools.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:364`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:363`](../../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.userInteraction` — `UserInteractionService`
 

docs/core-data-structures/tools.md

@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ type ToolGuard = (execution: Readonly<ToolExecution>) => string | undefined
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 interface ToolExecutionResult {
-  callId: CallId
   content: ContentBlock[]
   isError: boolean
   /**
@@ -167,6 +166,8 @@ interface ToolExecutionResult {
 }
 ```
 
+The result carries only the outcome. Call identity remains on the immutable `ToolExecution` that accompanies it through every hook and on the durable `tool/call` / `tool/result` session events, so wrappers cannot create a second, disagreeing identity.
+
 The registry materializes and freezes the final accepted result immediately before `tools/result`. Its content, structured error, additional context, and presentation metadata must round-trip losslessly through JSON; an invalid outcome becomes a JSON-safe `isError` result, so the observed live outcome is safe for the later durable `tool/result` append.
 
 Each interception waterfall returns a typed **Decision** (the idiom shared with the `agent/*` seams). `tools/pre-execute` listeners receive `(exec, next)` and return a `PreToolDecision`; `tools/execute` wrappers return a `ToolExecutionResult`; `tools/post-execute` listeners receive `(exec, result, next)` and return a `PostToolDecision`:

docs/event-producer-consumer.md

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 
 | Event | Mode | Declared in | Dispatchers | Listeners |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:139`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
-| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:148`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
+| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:139`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
+| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:148`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
 | `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:283`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
 | `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:202`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
 | `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:212`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) |
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 | `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:224`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
 | `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:239`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill) |
 | `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:180`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
-| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:157`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard), [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
+| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:157`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
 | `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:250`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
 | `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:260`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
 | `agent/turn-stop` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:270`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
@@ -27,10 +27,8 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 | `llm/stream` | `waterfall` | [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:39`](../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts) | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) (`waterfall`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) |
 | `session/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:47`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
 | `session/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:57`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | - |
-| `session/event` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:69`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
+| `session/event` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:69`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
 | `session/flush` | `parallel` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:79`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
-| `skill/provider-added` | `emit` | [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:131`](../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts) | [`skill`](../packages/skill/skill) (`emit`) | - |
-| `skill/provider-removed` | `emit` | [`packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts:137`](../packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts) | [`skill`](../packages/skill/skill) (`emit`) | - |
 | `subagent/end` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:108`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc) |
 | `subagent/provider-added` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:82`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`emit`) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) |
 | `subagent/provider-removed` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:88`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) |

docs/module-graph.md

@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ flowchart TD
     pkg_acp_snapshot["acp-snapshot"]
     pkg_invariants["invariants"]
     pkg_llm_replay["llm-replay"]
+    pkg_loader_smoke["loader-smoke"]
     pkg_subagent_mock["subagent-mock"]
   end
   subgraph group_ui["packages/ui"]
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ flowchart TD
     pkg_jsonrpc["jsonrpc"]
     pkg_jsonrpc_agent["jsonrpc-agent"]
     pkg_permission["permission"]
+    pkg_stdio["stdio"]
     pkg_stdio_agent["stdio-agent"]
     pkg_tool_ask_user["tool-ask-user"]
     pkg_user_approval["user-approval"]
@@ -212,6 +214,10 @@ flowchart TD
   pkg_permission --> pkg_sandbox
   pkg_permission --> pkg_session
   pkg_permission --> pkg_user_approval
+  pkg_stdio --> pkg_agent
+  pkg_stdio --> pkg_llm
+  pkg_stdio --> pkg_session
+  pkg_stdio --> pkg_user_interaction
   pkg_agent_loop --> pkg_agent
   pkg_agent_loop --> pkg_llm
   pkg_agent_loop --> pkg_scope
@@ -348,6 +354,7 @@ flowchart TD
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_llm
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_session
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_session_persistence_jsonl
+  pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_stdio
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_tool_ask_user
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_tools
   pkg_stdio_agent --> pkg_user_interaction
@@ -361,6 +368,7 @@ flowchart TD
 | [`skill`](../packages/skill/skill) | `skill` | — |
 | [`subagent-subprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-subprocess) | `subagent` | — |
 | [`acp-snapshot`](../packages/support/acp-snapshot) | `support` | — |
+| [`loader-smoke`](../packages/support/loader-smoke) | `support` | — |
 | [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot) | `ui` | — |
 | [`jsonrpc-agent`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent) | `ui` | — |
 | [`code-runtime`](../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime) | `code-runtime` | — |
@@ -401,6 +409,7 @@ flowchart TD
 | [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) | `core` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`code-runtime`](../packages/code-runtime/code-runtime), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`scope`](../packages/core/scope), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
 | [`bash-sandbox`](../packages/bash/bash-sandbox) | `bash` | [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash), [`bash-local`](../packages/bash/bash-local), [`sandbox`](../packages/sandbox/sandbox) |
 | [`permission`](../packages/ui/permission) | `ui` | [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash), [`sandbox`](../packages/sandbox/sandbox), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
+| [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
 | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) | `core` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`scope`](../packages/core/scope), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
 | [`tool-bash`](../packages/bash/tool-bash) | `bash` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`sandbox`](../packages/sandbox/sandbox), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`tasks`](../packages/tasks/tasks), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
 | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) | `fs` | [`fs`](../packages/fs/fs), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
@@ -427,4 +436,4 @@ flowchart TD
 | [`subagent-fork`](../packages/subagent/subagent-fork) | `subagent` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | [`subagent-spawn`](../packages/subagent/subagent-spawn) | `subagent` | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent), [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | [`acp-agent`](../packages/ui/acp-agent) | `ui` | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`agent-core`](../packages/core/agent-core), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
-| [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`agent-core`](../packages/core/agent-core), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
+| [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`agent-core`](../packages/core/agent-core), [`app-boot`](../packages/ui/app-boot), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence-jsonl`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |

docs/rfc/INDEX.md

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Generated by `pnpm run gen-rfc-index` from the RFC tree — never edit by hand;
 |---|---|
 | [Unify the agent id and the session id](proposed/simplification/2026-06-20-unify-agent-and-session-id.md) | 2026-06-20 |
 | [Prune dead public and result surface](proposed/simplification/2026-07-04-prune-dead-core-spine-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
-| [Drop unconsumed skill provider events](proposed/simplification/2026-07-12-drop-unconsumed-skill-provider-events.md) | 2026-07-12 |
 | [Prune unused web seam fields](proposed/simplification/2026-07-12-prune-unused-web-seam-fields.md) | 2026-07-12 |
 | [Simplify session-log representation](proposed/simplification/2026-07-12-simplify-session-log-representation.md) | 2026-07-12 |
 
@@ -103,6 +102,7 @@ Generated by `pnpm run gen-rfc-index` from the RFC tree — never edit by hand;
 | [Share the app bins' boot glue instead of maintaining twin copies](implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-share-app-bin-boot-glue.md) | 2026-07-04 |
 | [Tighten the hook-protocol contract — dialect, discarded fields, double defaults, and lib-owned `hook/result` semantics](implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-tighten-hook-protocol-contract.md) | 2026-07-04 |
 | [Trim unreachable ACP bridge surface — the branding knobs and the kind-sniffing fallback](implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-trim-acp-bridge-unreachable-surface.md) | 2026-07-04 |
+| [Drop unconsumed skill provider events](implemented/simplification/2026-07-12-drop-unconsumed-skill-provider-events.md) | 2026-07-12 |
 
 ### Architecture
 

docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-07-tool-call-timeout-policy.md

@@ -57,9 +57,8 @@ Signal replacement is by **in-place mutation of `exec.signal`**, not by passing
 `timeout-policy` owns both uses of the `TOOL_TIMEOUT` code: the internal deadline code passed to `deadline()`/`timeoutOf()` (scoped so a nested outer deadline reads as an ordinary cancel) and the structured tool-result error code. Its replacement result is:
 
 ```ts ignore-check
-function toolTimeoutResult(callId: CallId, timeoutMs: number): ToolExecutionResult {
+function toolTimeoutResult(timeoutMs: number): ToolExecutionResult {
   return {
-    callId,
     content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Error: tool call timed out after ${timeoutMs}ms` }],
     isError: true,
     error: { name: 'ToolTimeoutError', code: 'TOOL_TIMEOUT' },

docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-skill-system.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DeepSeek Harness uses the same primitive so project-specific review, plugin-auth
 
 `@deepseek-ai/dsh-skill` is the pure provider registry (`ctx.skills`), `@deepseek-ai/dsh-skill-local` is the shipped local filesystem provider, and `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-skill` owns the session-prefix catalog and model-facing loader tool. `dsh-agent-core` loads the registry, local provider, and consumer by default so stdio and ACP apps get the same behavior while embedded or remote providers contribute skills without changing the registry or consumer. Its `skills` config forwards `registry`, `local`, and `tool` branches to those owners.
 
-Provider plugins register synchronously during `apply()`. Provider catalogs return ranked candidates from awaited `list()` calls, where remote providers perform initialization, authentication, and discovery while honoring the lookup abort signal. The registry validates each candidate, resolves same-name skills first-wins by rank, provider registration order, and provider-local order, then sorts summaries by skill name for deterministic consumers. It caches only completed catalog snapshots and retries when a provider/runtime revision changes during discovery, so an unload cannot freeze a stale, unresolvable skill into a session prefix. Runtime `ctx.skills.register(...)` remains a convenience for embedded in-process skills and uses project-over-user priority; `runtime` is reserved as the registry-owned provider name.
+Provider plugins register synchronously during `apply()`. Provider membership is direct effect-owned state: registration and disposal invalidate completed catalogs synchronously, and discovery reads the current provider map on demand rather than observing registry-change events. Provider catalogs return ranked candidates from awaited `list()` calls, where remote providers perform initialization, authentication, and discovery while honoring the lookup abort signal. The registry validates each candidate, resolves same-name skills first-wins by rank, provider registration order, and provider-local order, then sorts summaries by skill name for deterministic consumers. It caches only completed catalog snapshots and retries when a provider/runtime revision changes during discovery, so an unload cannot freeze a stale, unresolvable skill into a session prefix. Runtime `ctx.skills.register(...)` remains a convenience for embedded in-process skills and uses project-over-user priority; `runtime` is reserved as the registry-owned provider name.
 
 The local provider scans cwd-sensitive project roots, custom roots, and user roots in first-wins rank order: project `.dsh`, project `.agents`, `customSkillDirs`, user `.dsh`, then user `.agents`. The user `.dsh/skills` scan skips `.system` so a system-owned directory is not treated as normal user content. DeepSeek Harness does not ship built-in system skills; embedded or remote providers supply additional skills when configured.
 

docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-04-fold-stdio-ui-helper.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The boundary bought package metadata, workspace and tsconfig references, module-
 
 ## Decision
 
-The `stdio-chat` module now lives inside `dsh-stdio-agent` with its runtime seam. Per-file tests cover EOF, rendering, disposal, and piped-versus-TTY behavior without replacing process globals. It retains the named Cordis plugin export shape consumed by the app; an `unwrapExports` assertion and keyless Loader smokes guard both the package and composed entry paths.
+The helper lives in `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio` as the terminal-channel plugin (`packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts`): `createStdioChat`, its `StdioRuntime` test seam, and its unit tests (`packages/ui/stdio/tests/stdio.spec.ts`, `readline.spec.ts`) moved with it, so EOF handling, rendering, disposal, and piped-vs-TTY behavior stay unit-covered under the per-file coverage gate without hijacking process globals. The module keeps the named `name`/`inject`/`Config`/`apply` export shape — the contract the app's `ctx.plugin(uiStdio, …)` mount consumes — and the keyless Loader-path smokes in `examples/echo-agent` and `examples/coding-agent` keep proving the composed tree boots through the real Loader (the stdio package's plugin-shape unit suite pins the explicit `unwrapExports` assertion, since a bundle without `inject` would boot past a stray default rather than crash).
 
 The `packages/support/ui-stdio` package is gone: manifest, tsconfig references, module-graph rows, and README rows deleted; the doc comments that named the package (the example e2e module docs, `packages/README.md`, the support and todo READMEs, [the ui group README](../../../../packages/ui/README.md)) describe the in-package module.
 

docs/rfc/proposed/simplification/2026-07-12-drop-unconsumed-skill-provider-events.md → docs/rfc/implemented/simplification/2026-07-12-drop-unconsumed-skill-provider-events.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # RFC: Drop unconsumed skill provider events
 
-Status: proposed
+Status: implemented
 
 ## Problem
 
@@ -10,23 +10,18 @@ Skill discovery reads the current provider map on demand, provider registration
 
 `tools/change` and `system-prompt/change` are explicitly outside this proposal. Existing simplification decisions retain them as intentional observation points for live tool and prompt UIs, and self-referential mounted plugins already use `tools/change`. This proposal also leaves `subagent/provider-added`/`removed` unchanged because `tool-subagent` has a production lifecycle consumer.
 
-## Proposal
+## Decision
 
-Delete the two skill-provider declarations and every emit path, rollback-order branch, test, and generated catalog/matrix row that exists only for them. Remove the corresponding skill-registry README/JSDoc contract. Where tests used an event to observe cleanup, assert provider lookup or collected output instead.
+The skill registry declares and emits no provider-membership events. Provider registration and disposal remain direct effect-owned state changes that synchronously invalidate completed catalogs; lookup and discovery read the current provider map on demand. Tests observe cleanup through provider lookup and collected output rather than lifecycle notifications.
 
-Amend the skill-system RFC and package documentation so provider registration is described as direct effect-owned state with cache invalidation, not as a lifecycle notification contract.
+The generated event catalog, API catalog, and producer/consumer matrix omit the deleted notifications. The skill-system RFC and package documentation describe registration through its direct effect-owned state and cache-invalidation contract.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
 **Keep skill-provider notifications for future plugins.** A third-party plugin could observe provider availability, but direct provider registration and on-demand lookup are the extension contract; no current consumer needs a push signal. If a future sibling-load race appears, it can introduce a notification with the identity and readiness semantics that consumer requires, as the subagent registry did.
 
-## Acceptance criteria
+## Consequences
 
-- The generated event matrix contains no row for `skill/provider-added` or `skill/provider-removed`.
-- Skill discovery, direct runtime registration, provider effect rollback/disposal, cache invalidation, and registry lookup cleanup behave unchanged; listener-triggered rollback disappears with the events.
-- `tools/change`, `system-prompt/change`, and the real subagent provider lifecycle consumer remain documented and covered.
-- Typecheck, coverage, snapshots, doc-sync, module-graph verification, build, and hygiene pass.
+The generated event matrix contains no row for `skill/provider-added` or `skill/provider-removed`. Skill discovery, direct runtime registration, provider effect rollback/disposal, cache invalidation, and registry lookup cleanup remain; listener-triggered rollback disappears with the events. `tools/change`, `system-prompt/change`, and the consumed subagent provider lifecycle events are unchanged.
 
-## Risks
-
-This removes pre-release skill-provider observation points while retaining both ways third-party plugins contribute skills: direct runtime registration and provider registration. A future consumer that needs live provider availability must add a purpose-built notification rather than relying on these generic events.
+Pre-release consumers lose skill-provider observation points while retaining both ways to contribute skills: direct runtime registration and provider registration. A future consumer that needs live provider availability must add a purpose-built notification with the identity and readiness semantics it actually requires.

docs/rfc/proposed/simplification/2026-07-12-simplify-session-log-representation.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Amend the session-surface and reconstructable-request RFCs where they describe t
 
 ## Acceptance criteria
 
-- `SurfaceManager.nodes` is one ordered seq array with no `SurfaceNode`, link fields, or seq-to-node map; incremental append processing and the internal replace-generation signal remain, while the separate public `invalidate()` deletion stays owned by the dead-surface RFC.
+- `SurfaceManager.nodes` is one ordered seq array with no `SurfaceNode`, link fields, or seq-to-node map; incremental append processing and the internal replace-generation signal remain.
 - Replaying full changed-header snapshots reconstructs exactly the same requests; no header-delta event/type/codec remains.
 - A v0 seed or persisted log containing legacy `request/header-delta` is rejected before replay, with coverage for JSONL and SQLite load paths.
 - New-shape v0 JSONL/SQLite replay, provenance, crash repair, compaction, snapshots, invariants, typecheck, coverage, doc-sync, build, and hygiene pass.

examples/AGENTS.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Each example has both:
 
 Mock-only examples require only the keyless tier; state that exception in the test.
 
-Temp-cwd keyless smokes set `TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH` to the root tsconfig and pass `--expose-internals` when loading HMR.
+Keyless stdio smokes use `@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke` for isolation, root-tsconfig loading, subprocess lifecycle, diagnostics, EOF, and cleanup; tests supply paths, environment, input, and assertions.
 
 Do not inventory example tests here; the `tests/` trees and root scripts are authoritative.
 

examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@
       - id: llm-deepseek
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
         disabled: true
+      - id: sandbox
+        name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-sandbox-local'
+        config:
+          runnerCommand:
+            - bash
+            - -c
+            - while [ "$1" != "--" ]; do shift; done; shift; exec "$@"
+            - passthrough-runner
+          runnerFailureSignatures:
+            - 'passthrough-runner: profile rejected'
       - insert:
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/escalation-approved/session.jsonl

@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":129,"time":1783962245385,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"tool-calls"}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/message","seq":130,"time":1783962245385,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants me to run a command with sandbox_permissions set to danger-full-access, no prior run needed, justified as instructed."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_d0sAHpJ9mYOJi0z7KNy30441","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\": \"printf 'escalated\\\\n' > /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && cat /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && rm /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt\", \"description\": \"Write file outside workspace and verify\", \"sandbox_permissions\": \"danger-full-access\", \"justification\": \"the user asked to write a file outside the workspace\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":1501,"outputTokens":174,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":28}},"sourceEventSeqs":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":131,"time":1783962245385,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_d0sAHpJ9mYOJi0z7KNy30441","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\": \"printf 'escalated\\\\n' > /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && cat /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && rm /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt\", \"description\": \"Write file outside workspace and verify\", \"sandbox_permissions\": \"danger-full-access\", \"justification\": \"the user asked to write a file outside the workspace\"}"}}
-{"type":"approval/asked","seq":132,"time":1783962245386,"data":{"id":"4a119656-7bc2-4a08-be39-55f11f8569a7","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_d0sAHpJ9mYOJi0z7KNy30441","reason":"escalate sandbox to danger-full-access: the user asked to write a file outside the workspace"}}
-{"type":"approval/decided","seq":133,"time":1783962245387,"data":{"id":"4a119656-7bc2-4a08-be39-55f11f8569a7","outcome":"allowed-once"}}
+{"type":"approval/asked","seq":132,"time":1783962245386,"data":{"id":"b76bc320-c954-4f8a-b7d6-30821793dae8","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_d0sAHpJ9mYOJi0z7KNy30441","reason":"escalate sandbox to danger-full-access: the user asked to write a file outside the workspace"}}
+{"type":"approval/decided","seq":133,"time":1783962245387,"data":{"id":"b76bc320-c954-4f8a-b7d6-30821793dae8","outcome":"allowed-once"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":134,"time":1783962245399,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_d0sAHpJ9mYOJi0z7KNy30441","content":[{"type":"text","text":"escalated\n"}],"isError":false},"sourceEventSeqs":[131],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":135,"time":1783962245400,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":136,"time":1783962245400,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/escalation-rejected/session.jsonl

@@ -155,8 +155,8 @@
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":153,"time":1783962246274,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"tool-calls"}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/message","seq":154,"time":1783962246274,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants me to run a specific command with `sandbox_permissions` set to `danger-full-access` and a specific justification. They explicitly said NOT to run it without sandbox_permissions first. Let me do exactly that."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_WB1vnPomi8yr6MlcFKTj7912","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\": \"printf 'escalated\\\\n' > /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && cat /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && rm /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt\", \"description\": \"Write to /tmp and verify, then clean up\", \"sandbox_permissions\": \"danger-full-access\", \"justification\": \"the user asked to write a file outside the workspace\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":1509,"outputTokens":198,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":48}},"sourceEventSeqs":[7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":155,"time":1783962246274,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_WB1vnPomi8yr6MlcFKTj7912","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\": \"printf 'escalated\\\\n' > /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && cat /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt && rm /tmp/dsh-escalated.txt\", \"description\": \"Write to /tmp and verify, then clean up\", \"sandbox_permissions\": \"danger-full-access\", \"justification\": \"the user asked to write a file outside the workspace\"}"}}
-{"type":"approval/asked","seq":156,"time":1783962246275,"data":{"id":"fcd9b048-89ea-4db6-ae6f-416114e3c196","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_WB1vnPomi8yr6MlcFKTj7912","reason":"escalate sandbox to danger-full-access: the user asked to write a file outside the workspace"}}
-{"type":"approval/decided","seq":157,"time":1783962246275,"data":{"id":"fcd9b048-89ea-4db6-ae6f-416114e3c196","outcome":"rejected"}}
+{"type":"approval/asked","seq":156,"time":1783962246275,"data":{"id":"66efb593-279a-472b-b647-c50d34045bc0","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_WB1vnPomi8yr6MlcFKTj7912","reason":"escalate sandbox to danger-full-access: the user asked to write a file outside the workspace"}}
+{"type":"approval/decided","seq":157,"time":1783962246275,"data":{"id":"66efb593-279a-472b-b647-c50d34045bc0","outcome":"rejected"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":158,"time":1783962246275,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_WB1vnPomi8yr6MlcFKTj7912","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Error: the user rejected escalating this command to \"danger-full-access\""}],"isError":true},"sourceEventSeqs":[155],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":159,"time":1783962246276,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":160,"time":1783962246276,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}

examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/hook-cc-pretool-ask/session.jsonl

@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":53,"time":1783352172557,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6k0oGSliVHxGSgqBmMEO4311","name":"bash","arguments":"{\"command\": \"echo HELLO\", \"description\": \"Echo HELLO\"}"}}
 {"type":"hook/invoked","seq":54,"time":1783352172558,"data":{"turn":1,"point":"PreToolUse","dialect":"claude","handlerId":"claude:PreToolUse:1","matcher":"bash"}}
 {"type":"hook/result","seq":55,"time":1783352172573,"data":{"turn":1,"point":"PreToolUse","handlerId":"claude:PreToolUse:1","decision":"ask","exitCode":0,"durationMs":14.113374999999905}}
-{"type":"approval/asked","seq":56,"time":1783962235813,"data":{"id":"0b53e3b3-417d-4d26-9438-425d7aa22ad9","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_6k0oGSliVHxGSgqBmMEO4311","reason":"bash requires manual approval in this session"}}
-{"type":"approval/decided","seq":57,"time":1783962235813,"data":{"id":"0b53e3b3-417d-4d26-9438-425d7aa22ad9","outcome":"rejected"}}
+{"type":"approval/asked","seq":56,"time":1783962235813,"data":{"id":"af257151-c371-4be2-a9ab-fbf4b6d18eb1","toolName":"bash","callId":"call_00_6k0oGSliVHxGSgqBmMEO4311","reason":"bash requires manual approval in this session"}}
+{"type":"approval/decided","seq":57,"time":1783962235813,"data":{"id":"af257151-c371-4be2-a9ab-fbf4b6d18eb1","outcome":"rejected"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":58,"time":1783962235814,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6k0oGSliVHxGSgqBmMEO4311","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Error: the user rejected tool \"bash\""}],"isError":true},"sourceEventSeqs":[53],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":59,"time":1783962235814,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":60,"time":1783962235814,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}

examples/coding-agent/tests/code-mode-keyless-smoke.e2e.ts

@@ -1,92 +1,27 @@
-import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process'
-import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
-import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS, runLoaderSmoke } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke'
 
 /**
- * Keyless Loader-path smoke for the Code Mode overlay: boot the real example through the
- * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent` bin against `code-mode.cordis.yml` (the cordis Loader,
- * `unwrapExports`, the include patches over ./cordis.yml, the worker-thread code runtime, and
- * the registry in `mode: code`), then close stdin with no prompt and assert the Code Mode
- * banner + a clean exit. A dummy key satisfies adapter boot, but no prompt means
- * no model call; the with-key proof lives in `code-mode.e2e.ts`.
+ * Keyless Loader-path smoke for the Code Mode overlay: boot the real include
+ * tree through stdio-agent and `code-mode.cordis.yml`, then close stdin without
+ * a prompt and assert the banner. No model or `run_code` turn runs.
  */
 
 const binScript = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts', import.meta.url))
 const configPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../code-mode.cordis.yml', import.meta.url))
-const tsxLoader = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve('tsx'))
-// Dev/test run UNBUILT: resolve `@deepseek-ai/dsh-*` through the root tsconfig
-// `paths` map; tsx searches UP from cwd, and we spawn from a temp dir outside
-// the repo, so point it at the repo tsconfig.
-const repoTsconfig = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
-// Under parallel e2e load, cold tsx/Loader startup can exceed a tight deadline;
-// 30s still detects a wedged child.
-const PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
-// Leave enough room for the process-owned timeout to report captured output
-// before Vitest aborts the test itself.
-const TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS + 15_000
-
-let child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | undefined
-let workdir: string | undefined
-
-afterEach(async () => {
-  if (child !== undefined && child.exitCode === null) child.kill('SIGKILL')
-  child = undefined
-  if (workdir !== undefined) await rm(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true })
-  workdir = undefined
-})
-
-async function bootAndEof(): Promise<{ stdout: string; code: number }> {
-  workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'code-mode-smoke-'))
-  const cwd = workdir
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const proc = spawn(
-      process.execPath,
-      // --expose-internals: the included cordis.yml loads the HMR plugin (mirrors demo:code-mode).
-      ['--expose-internals', '--import', tsxLoader, binScript, configPath],
-      {
-        cwd,
-        env: {
-          ...process.env,
-          TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig,
-          // A dummy key so llm-deepseek's apply() (key-PRESENT check only) boots.
-          // No prompt is sent, so the adapter never streams — no network call.
-          DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call',
-        },
-        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
-      },
-    )
-    child = proc
-    let stdout = ''
-    let stderr = ''
-    proc.stdout.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stdout += chunk })
-    proc.stderr.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stderr += chunk })
-
-    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      proc.kill('SIGKILL')
-      reject(new Error(`code-mode overlay did not exit within ${PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS / 1_000}s. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    }, PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS)
-
-    proc.on('exit', (code) => {
-      clearTimeout(timer)
-      if (code === 0) resolve({ stdout, code })
-      else reject(new Error(`code-mode overlay exited ${code}. stderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    })
-    proc.on('error', (err) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(err) })
-
-    // No prompt — just EOF, so the stdio UI exits without ever running a turn.
-    proc.stdin.end()
-  })
-}
+const tsconfigPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
 
 describe('code-mode overlay keyless smoke (real code-mode.cordis.yml via the Loader)', () => {
   it('boots the Code Mode plugin tree, prints its banner, and exits cleanly on EOF', async () => {
-    const { stdout, code } = await bootAndEof()
-    expect(code).toBe(0)
+    const { stdout } = await runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'code-mode overlay',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'code-mode-smoke-',
+      binScript,
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+      env: { DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call' },
+    })
     expect(stdout).toContain('code-mode agent ready.')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 })

examples/coding-agent/tests/keyless-smoke.e2e.ts

@@ -1,90 +1,28 @@
-import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process'
-import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
-import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS, runLoaderSmoke } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke'
 
 /**
- * Boots the real example through the stdio bin and `cordis.yml`, covering Loader,
- * `unwrapExports`, the full plugin tree, the agent-core bundle, and the readline module.
- * A dummy key permits startup; closing stdin before a prompt prevents network calls,
- * while with-key suites cover product behavior.
+ * Keyless Loader-path smoke for examples/coding-agent: boot the real example
+ * through the stdio-agent bin and its `cordis.yml`, then close stdin without a
+ * prompt and assert the banner. The dummy key satisfies adapter construction;
+ * immediate EOF guarantees there is no model call.
  */
 
-// TODO(loader-smoke-harness): share spawn/tempdir/timeout/EOF setup with the other keyless smoke tests.
-// The temp-cwd child needs absolute bin and config paths.
 const binScript = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts', import.meta.url))
 const configPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../cordis.yml', import.meta.url))
-const tsxLoader = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve('tsx'))
-// The temp cwd cannot discover the root tsconfig used for unbuilt package aliases.
-const repoTsconfig = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
-// Allow cold Loader startup under parallel load while still detecting hangs.
-const PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
-// Let the child timeout report captured output before Vitest aborts.
-const TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS + 15_000
-
-let child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | undefined
-let workdir: string | undefined
-
-afterEach(async () => {
-  if (child !== undefined && child.exitCode === null) child.kill('SIGKILL')
-  child = undefined
-  if (workdir !== undefined) await rm(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true })
-  workdir = undefined
-})
-
-async function bootAndEof(): Promise<{ stdout: string; code: number }> {
-  workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'coding-smoke-'))
-  const cwd = workdir
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const proc = spawn(
-      process.execPath,
-      // --expose-internals: cordis.yml loads the HMR plugin (mirrors demo:repl).
-      ['--expose-internals', '--import', tsxLoader, binScript, configPath],
-      {
-        cwd,
-        env: {
-          ...process.env,
-          TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig,
-          // A dummy key so llm-deepseek's apply() (key-PRESENT check only) boots.
-          // No prompt is sent, so the adapter never streams — no network call.
-          DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call',
-          DSH_HOME: join(cwd, '.dsh'),
-          DSH_AGENTS_HOME: join(cwd, '.agents'),
-        },
-        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
-      },
-    )
-    child = proc
-    let stdout = ''
-    let stderr = ''
-    proc.stdout.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stdout += chunk })
-    proc.stderr.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stderr += chunk })
-
-    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      proc.kill('SIGKILL')
-      reject(new Error(`coding-agent did not exit within ${PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS / 1_000}s. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    }, PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS)
-
-    proc.on('exit', (code) => {
-      clearTimeout(timer)
-      if (code === 0) resolve({ stdout, code })
-      else reject(new Error(`coding-agent exited ${code}. stderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    })
-    proc.on('error', (err) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(err) })
-
-    // No prompt — just EOF, so the stdio UI exits without ever running a turn.
-    proc.stdin.end()
-  })
-}
+const tsconfigPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
 
 describe('coding-agent keyless smoke (real cordis.yml via the Loader)', () => {
   it('boots the full plugin tree, prints its banner, and exits cleanly on EOF', async () => {
-    const { stdout, code } = await bootAndEof()
-    expect(code).toBe(0)
+    const { stdout } = await runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'coding-agent',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'coding-smoke-',
+      binScript,
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+      env: { DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call' },
+    })
     expect(stdout).toContain('agent REPL ready.')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 })

examples/cordis-agent/tests/keyless-smoke.e2e.ts

@@ -1,94 +1,27 @@
-import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process'
-import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
-import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS, runLoaderSmoke } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke'
 
 /**
- * Keyless Loader-path smoke for examples/cordis-agent: boot the real example through the
- * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent` bin against its `cordis.yml` — the cordis Loader,
- * `unwrapExports`, the full plugin tree INCLUDING the `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis` package
- * resolved by name (whose `inject` would crash a collapsed export shape at load, see
- * docs/postmortem/0001) — then close stdin with no prompt and assert the ready banner + a
- * clean exit. A dummy key satisfies adapter boot, but no prompt means no network
- * call; `cordis-tools.e2e.ts` owns the with-key product proof.
+ * Keyless Loader-path smoke for examples/cordis-agent: boot the real tree,
+ * including tool-cordis resolved by package name, then close stdin without a
+ * prompt and assert the banner. The dummy key never reaches a model call.
  */
 
-// The temp-cwd child needs absolute bin and config paths.
 const binScript = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts', import.meta.url))
 const configPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../cordis.yml', import.meta.url))
-const tsxLoader = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve('tsx'))
-// Dev/test run UNBUILT: resolve `@deepseek-ai/dsh-*` through the root tsconfig
-// `paths` map; tsx searches UP from cwd, and we spawn from a temp dir outside
-// the repo, so point it at the repo tsconfig (root is three levels up).
-const repoTsconfig = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
-// Under parallel e2e load, cold tsx/Loader startup can exceed a tight deadline;
-// 30s still detects a wedged child.
-const PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
-// Leave enough room for the process-owned timeout to report captured output
-// before Vitest aborts the test itself.
-const TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS + 15_000
-
-let child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | undefined
-let workdir: string | undefined
-
-afterEach(async () => {
-  if (child !== undefined && child.exitCode === null) child.kill('SIGKILL')
-  child = undefined
-  if (workdir !== undefined) await rm(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true })
-  workdir = undefined
-})
-
-async function bootAndEof(): Promise<{ stdout: string; code: number }> {
-  workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'cordis-smoke-'))
-  const cwd = workdir
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const proc = spawn(
-      process.execPath,
-      // --expose-internals: cordis.yml loads the HMR plugin (mirrors demo:cordis).
-      ['--expose-internals', '--import', tsxLoader, binScript, configPath],
-      {
-        cwd,
-        env: {
-          ...process.env,
-          TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig,
-          // A dummy key so llm-deepseek's apply() (key-PRESENT check only) boots.
-          // No prompt is sent, so the adapter never streams — no network call.
-          DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call',
-        },
-        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
-      },
-    )
-    child = proc
-    let stdout = ''
-    let stderr = ''
-    proc.stdout.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stdout += chunk })
-    proc.stderr.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stderr += chunk })
-
-    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      proc.kill('SIGKILL')
-      reject(new Error(`cordis-agent did not exit within ${PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS / 1_000}s. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    }, PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS)
-
-    proc.on('exit', (code) => {
-      clearTimeout(timer)
-      if (code === 0) resolve({ stdout, code })
-      else reject(new Error(`cordis-agent exited ${code}. stderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    })
-    proc.on('error', (err) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(err) })
-
-    // No prompt — just EOF, so the stdio UI exits without ever running a turn.
-    proc.stdin.end()
-  })
-}
+const tsconfigPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
 
 describe('cordis-agent keyless smoke (real cordis.yml via the Loader)', () => {
   it('boots the full plugin tree incl. tool-cordis, prints its banner, and exits cleanly on EOF', async () => {
-    const { stdout, code } = await bootAndEof()
-    expect(code).toBe(0)
+    const { stdout } = await runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'cordis-agent',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'cordis-smoke-',
+      binScript,
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+      env: { DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: 'keyless-smoke-no-call' },
+    })
     expect(stdout).toContain('cordis-agent ready.')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 })

examples/echo-agent/tests/echo.e2e.ts

@@ -1,111 +1,43 @@
-import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process'
-import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
-import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS, runLoaderSmoke } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke'
 
 /**
- * Keyless Loader-path smoke for examples/echo-agent: boot the real example through the
- * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent` bin against this example's `cordis.yml` (the cordis Loader,
- * `unwrapExports`, the whole plugin tree), pipe a script of stdin lines, and assert the
- * rendered stdout. The mock adapter is network-free, making this the complete
- * smoke; inputs cover both the echo-tool round trip and direct-reply branch.
+ * Keyless-by-nature Loader-path coverage for examples/echo-agent. The real
+ * tree uses its deterministic mock model, so this suite is both the boot smoke
+ * and the complete behavior proof for the example.
  */
 
-// The temp-cwd child needs absolute bin and config paths.
 const binScript = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/bin.ts', import.meta.url))
 const configPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../cordis.yml', import.meta.url))
-const tsxLoader = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve('tsx'))
-// The temp cwd is outside the repo, so point tsx at the root config that resolves
-// unbuilt workspace packages through `paths`.
-const repoTsconfig = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
-// Under parallel e2e load, cold tsx/Loader startup can exceed a tight deadline;
-// 30s still detects a wedged child.
-const PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
-// Leave enough room for the process-owned timeout to report captured output
-// before Vitest aborts the test itself.
-const TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS + 15_000
-
-let child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | undefined
-let workdir: string | undefined
-
-afterEach(async () => {
-  if (child !== undefined && child.exitCode === null) child.kill('SIGKILL')
-  child = undefined
-  if (workdir !== undefined) await rm(workdir, { recursive: true, force: true })
-  workdir = undefined
-})
-
-/**
- * Boot echo-agent, write `lines` to its stdin, close stdin, and resolve with
- * the full stdout once the process exits (the stdio UI exits on EOF after the
- * agent settles). Rejects on a non-zero exit or the process deadline.
- */
-async function runEcho(lines: string[]): Promise<{ stdout: string; code: number }> {
-  workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'echo-smoke-'))
-  const cwd = workdir
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const proc = spawn(
-      process.execPath,
-      // --expose-internals: the example's cordis.yml loads the HMR plugin, which requires it
-      // (mirrors the `demo:echo` script).
-      ['--expose-internals', '--import', tsxLoader, binScript, configPath],
-      {
-        cwd,
-        env: {
-          ...process.env,
-          TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig,
-          DSH_HOME: join(cwd, '.dsh'),
-          DSH_AGENTS_HOME: join(cwd, '.agents'),
-        },
-        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
-      },
-    )
-    child = proc
-    let stdout = ''
-    let stderr = ''
-    proc.stdout.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stdout += chunk })
-    proc.stderr.setEncoding('utf8')
-    proc.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stderr += chunk })
-
-    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      proc.kill('SIGKILL')
-      reject(new Error(`echo-agent did not exit within ${PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS / 1_000}s. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    }, PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS)
-
-    proc.on('exit', (code) => {
-      clearTimeout(timer)
-      if (code === 0) resolve({ stdout, code })
-      else reject(new Error(`echo-agent exited ${code}. stderr:\n${stderr}`))
-    })
-    proc.on('error', (err) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(err) })
-
-    // Feed the script, then EOF so the stdio UI exits after the agent settles.
-    for (const line of lines) proc.stdin.write(`${line}\n`)
-    proc.stdin.end()
+const tsconfigPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
+
+async function runEcho(stdinLines: readonly string[]): Promise<string> {
+  const { stdout } = await runLoaderSmoke({
+    label: 'echo-agent',
+    tempDirPrefix: 'echo-smoke-',
+    binScript,
+    configPath,
+    tsconfigPath,
+    stdinLines,
   })
+  return stdout
 }
 
 describe('echo-agent keyless smoke (real cordis.yml via the Loader)', () => {
   it('boots, prints its welcome banner, and exits cleanly on stdin EOF', async () => {
-    const { stdout, code } = await runEcho([])
-    expect(code).toBe(0)
-    expect(stdout).toContain('echo-agent ready.')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+    expect(await runEcho([])).toContain('echo-agent ready.')
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 
   it('runs the echo tool round-trip for an "echo …" line', async () => {
-    const { stdout } = await runEcho(['echo hello world'])
-    // mock-llm.ts emits a tool-call for the echo tool; echo-tool.ts uppercases.
+    const stdout = await runEcho(['echo hello world'])
     expect(stdout).toContain('[tool call] echo')
     expect(stdout).toContain('[tool result] ECHO: HELLO WORLD')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 
   it('streams a direct canned reply for a non-echo line', async () => {
-    const { stdout } = await runEcho(['just chatting'])
-    // The direct-response branch of mock-llm.ts quotes the input back.
+    const stdout = await runEcho(['just chatting'])
     expect(stdout).toContain('just chatting')
     expect(stdout).not.toContain('[tool call]')
-  }, TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
 })

knip.json

@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
       "project": ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"],
       "ignoreDependencies": ["cordis"]
     },
+    "packages/support/loader-smoke": {
+      "entry": ["tests/**/*.spec.ts", "tests/fixtures/*.ts"],
+      "project": ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"],
+      "ignoreDependencies": ["cordis"]
+    },
     "packages/core/agent-loop": {
       "entry": ["tests/**/*.spec.ts", "tests/**/*.e2e.ts"],
       "project": ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"]
@@ -85,6 +90,10 @@
       "entry": ["tests/**/*.spec.ts", "tests/**/*.e2e.ts"],
       "project": ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"]
     },
+    "packages/ui/stdio": {
+      "entry": ["tests/**/*.spec.ts"],
+      "project": ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"]
+    },
     "packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent": {
       "project": ["src/**/*.ts"]
     },

packages/README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Packages live at `packages/<group>/<pkg>/`; groups are containers, while names r
 | [`session-persistence/`](session-persistence/README.md) | Persistence capability family: the seam + JSONL/SQLite backends | Product — stable surface |
 | [`session-query/`](session-query/README.md) | Session retrieval family: logical corpus, surface records, and bounded exact reads | Product — stable surface |
 | [`ui/`](ui/README.md) | Editor/client integration surfaces: ACP bridge, JSON-RPC SDK server, app packages, user-approval and user-interaction seams, ask-user tool | Product — stable surface |
-| [`support/`](support/README.md) | Dev/test/example infrastructure (invariants, replay adapter, subagent mock) | Support — lower compatibility expectations |
+| [`support/`](support/README.md) | Support infrastructure (invariants, replay, Loader smokes) | Support — lower compatibility expectations |
 | [`util/`](util/README.md) | Low-level zero-dependency utilities shared across groups (the `Branded<B>` primitive) | Support — small, stable, harness-dep-free |
 
 Groups distinguish product API from support infrastructure. New packages join an existing group; a new group updates its README and this table.

packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts

@@ -395,18 +395,6 @@ export const EVENT_API: readonly EventApiEntry[] = [
     signature: '\'session/flush\'(this: Scoped<Session>, session: Session): Promise<void> | void',
     summary: 'Awaited parallel durability checkpoint: every listener runs and the caller awaits all of them, with no waterfall veto.',
   },
-  {
-    name: 'skill/provider-added',
-    mode: 'emit',
-    signature: '\'skill/provider-added\'(provider: SkillProvider): void',
-    summary: 'A skill provider became resolvable in the `ctx.skills` registry.',
-  },
-  {
-    name: 'skill/provider-removed',
-    mode: 'emit',
-    signature: '\'skill/provider-removed\'(name: string): void',
-    summary: 'A skill provider left the registry because its plugin fiber was disposed.',
-  },
   {
     name: 'subagent/end',
     mode: 'emit',
@@ -1019,7 +1007,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'ToolExecutionResult',
-    declaration: 'export interface ToolExecutionResult {\n    callId: CallId;\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n    isError: boolean;\n    error?: ToolErrorInfo;\n    additionalContext?: HookContext;\n    meta?: unknown;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface ToolExecutionResult {\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n    isError: boolean;\n    error?: ToolErrorInfo;\n    additionalContext?: HookContext;\n    meta?: unknown;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'ToolExecutionToken',

packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts

@@ -578,7 +578,8 @@ async function runStep(
     })
     session.append('tool/result', {
       turn, step,
-      // Preserve transcript pairing even if a post-execute listener returns another id.
+      // Correlation comes from the immutable execution input; the result does
+      // not duplicate this authoritative transcript identity.
       callId: call.id,
       content: result.content,
       isError: result.isError,

packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts

@@ -1043,8 +1043,7 @@ describe('tool result call identity', () => {
 
     // A post-execute listener transforms the result (accept-with-replacement).
     // The loop must still record the tool/result under the model's authoritative
-    // call.id (the loop ignores result.callId — which the registry always sets to
-    // exec.callId anyway — and uses call.id, the model-transcript id).
+    // call.id, which is the immutable identity carried by the execution input.
     ctx.on('tools/post-execute', (exec, _result) => {
       expect(exec.callId).toBe(CallId('c1')) // the loop passed the real id in
       return Promise.resolve({ kind: 'accept', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] })
@@ -1054,8 +1053,7 @@ describe('tool result call identity', () => {
     send(agent, 'use tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
-    // The logged tool/result.callId is the originating call.id, NOT the
-    // listener's wrong id.
+    // The logged tool/result.callId is the originating call.id.
     const resultEvent = [...agent.session.events].find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
     expect(resultEvent?.type).toBe('tool/result')
     if (resultEvent?.type === 'tool/result') {

packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ export class SystemPrompt extends Service {
   private scopedVariableProviders = new Map<ScopeKey, Map<string, (context: AssembleContext) => string | undefined>>()
   private readonly toolOrder: string[] | undefined
 
-  constructor(ctx: Context, public config: Config) {
+  constructor(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
     super(ctx, 'systemPrompt')
     this.toolOrder = validateToolOrder(config.toolOrder)
     // Keep harness-owned openers independent of the selected loop plugin.

packages/core/tools/README.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The live registry pipeline has three transformable waterfalls followed by the ob
 - `ToolExecutionInput` — the caller-supplied call description: `{ callId, name, arguments, agent?, parent?, signal? }`; callers may pass an enclosing execution's opaque token as `parent` but never choose the new execution's own token.
 - `ToolExecutionToken` — a fresh branded `Symbol` assigned by the registry. It supports equality correlation only and never crosses a model, log, or worker boundary.
 - `ToolExecution` — the pipeline-owned call: immutable `{ token, callId, name, arguments, agent?, parent? }` identity plus optional operational `signal`, which an around wrapper may add, replace, remove, and restore. A nested call's `parent` is a `ToolExecutionToken`, not an execution object.
-- `ToolExecutionResult` — losslessly JSON-serializable outcome: `{ callId, content, isError, error?, additionalContext?, meta? }`. The registry materializes and freezes the complete post-policy value before final observation. On failure with a `HarnessError`, `error: { name, code }` carries the structured failure class alongside the model-facing text.
+- `ToolExecutionResult` — losslessly JSON-serializable outcome: `{ content, isError, error?, additionalContext?, meta? }`. Call identity stays on the immutable `ToolExecution` supplied alongside the result instead of being duplicated on the outcome. The registry materializes and freezes the complete post-policy value before final observation. On failure with a `HarnessError`, `error: { name, code }` carries the structured failure class alongside the model-facing text.
 - `PreToolDecision` — `{kind:'allow'}` | `{kind:'deny', reason}` | `{kind:'ask', reason?}`. Input rewrite is deliberately not offered; `ask` is serviced by [`ctx.approval`](../../ui/user-approval/README.md) when mounted and otherwise degrades to deny.
 - `PostToolDecision` — `{kind:'accept', content?, additionalContext?}` (keep the call successful, optionally replacing the model-facing content) | `{kind:'block', feedback, additionalContext?}` (turn it into an `isError` whose content is the corrective feedback). Output replacement is clean because `tool/result` is logged AFTER `execute()` returns.
 - `ToolGuard` — `(execution) => string | undefined`; the returned string is a final monotonic denial reason evaluated after the reorderable pre-execute waterfall and before dispatch.

packages/core/tools/src/index.ts

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ export interface ToolErrorInfo {
  * distinguish it from a tool body's own error.
  */
 export class ToolNotFoundError extends HarnessError {
-  constructor(public readonly toolName: string) {
+  constructor(toolName: string) {
     super(`unknown tool "${toolName}"`, 'UNKNOWN_TOOL')
     this.name = 'ToolNotFoundError'
   }
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ export class ToolNotFoundError extends HarnessError {
 
 /** The outcome of one tool call. */
 export interface ToolExecutionResult {
-  callId: CallId
   content: ContentBlock[]
   isError: boolean
   /**
@@ -704,7 +703,7 @@ export class ToolRegistry extends Service {
       }
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       execution = { ...base, arguments: undefined }
-      const result = this.materializeFinalResult(toolErrorResult(callId, error))
+      const result = this.materializeFinalResult(toolErrorResult(error))
       this.notifyResult(execution, result)
       return result
     }
@@ -714,7 +713,7 @@ export class ToolRegistry extends Service {
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       // Outer backstop: a throwing pre/post-execute listener, guard, or the
       // waterfall machinery becomes an isError result, never a turn failure.
-      result = this.materializeFinalResult(toolErrorResult(execution.callId, error))
+      result = this.materializeFinalResult(toolErrorResult(error))
     }
     this.notifyResult(execution, result)
     return result
@@ -739,7 +738,6 @@ export class ToolRegistry extends Service {
       // Every non-grant, including a failed/unavailable approval request, takes
       // the same deny path and still reaches post-policy plus result observers.
       const denied: ToolExecutionResult = {
-        callId: exec.callId,
         content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Error: ${denialReason}` }],
         isError: true,
       }
@@ -770,16 +768,12 @@ export class ToolRegistry extends Service {
           const returned = await tool.execute(exec.arguments, exec)
           const content = Array.isArray(returned) ? returned : returned.content
           const meta = Array.isArray(returned) ? undefined : returned.meta
-          return { callId: exec.callId, content, isError: false, ...meta !== undefined ? { meta } : {} }
+          return { content, isError: false, ...meta !== undefined ? { meta } : {} }
         } catch (error: unknown) {
-          return toolErrorResult(exec.callId, error)
+          return toolErrorResult(error)
         }
       },
     )
-    if (result.callId !== exec.callId) {
-      throw new TypeError(`tools/execute returned callId "${String(result.callId)}" for authoritative call "${exec.callId}"`)
-    }
-
     return await this.postExecute(exec, result)
   }
 
@@ -854,7 +848,6 @@ export class ToolRegistry extends Service {
     const additionalContext = decision.additionalContext
     if (decision.kind === 'block') {
       return {
-        callId: result.callId,
         content: decision.feedback,
         isError: true,
         ...additionalContext ? { additionalContext } : {},
@@ -883,10 +876,9 @@ function createExecutionToken(): ToolExecutionToken {
   return Symbol('dsh.tool.execution') as ToolExecutionToken
 }
 
-function toolErrorResult(callId: ToolExecution['callId'], error: unknown): ToolExecutionResult {
+function toolErrorResult(error: unknown): ToolExecutionResult {
   const info = errorInfo(error)
   return {
-    callId,
     content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Error: ${errorMessage(error)}` }],
     isError: true,
     ...info ? { error: info } : {},

packages/core/tools/tests/scoped.spec.ts

@@ -548,7 +548,6 @@ describe('scoped execution dispatch', () => {
 
     expect(reads).toBe(1)
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('unstable-arguments'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ran:t' }],
       isError: false,
     })
@@ -564,10 +563,9 @@ describe('scoped execution dispatch', () => {
     ctx.on('internal/dispatch', (mode, name) => {
       if (name === 'tools/result') dispatchModes.push(mode)
     })
-    ctx.on('tools/execute', async (exec, next) => {
+    ctx.on('tools/execute', async (_exec, next) => {
       await next()
       return {
-        callId: exec.callId,
         content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'outer failure' }],
         isError: true,
       }

packages/core/tools/tests/tools.spec.ts

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     const ctx = await setup()
     ctx.tools.register(echoTool)
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
-    expect(result).toEqual({ callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], isError: false })
+    expect(result).toEqual({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], isError: false })
   })
 
   it('threads a tool-attached meta (object return form) onto the result', async () => {
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     })
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'meta-tool', arguments: {} })
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }],
       isError: false,
       meta: { diffs: [{ path: 'a', oldText: null, newText: 'x' }] },
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
       },
     })
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'no-meta-tool', arguments: {} })
-    expect(result).toEqual({ callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false })
+    expect(result).toEqual({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false })
     expect('meta' in result).toBe(false)
   })
 
@@ -178,13 +177,12 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     })
   })
 
-  it('ToolNotFoundError carries the tool name and a stable code', async () => {
+  it('ToolNotFoundError carries a stable message and code', async () => {
     const { HarnessError } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm')
     const err = new ToolNotFoundError('ghost')
     expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(HarnessError)
     expect(err.name).toBe('ToolNotFoundError')
     expect(err.code).toBe('UNKNOWN_TOOL')
-    expect(err.toolName).toBe('ghost')
     expect(err.message).toBe('unknown tool "ghost"')
   })
 
@@ -425,7 +423,7 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async (_exec, _result, next) => { order.push('post'); return next() })
 
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'traced', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
-    expect(result).toEqual({ callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], isError: false })
+    expect(result).toEqual({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], isError: false })
     // The around seam wraps dispatch; pre gates before it, post runs over its result.
     expect(order).toEqual(['pre', 'execute:before', 'dispatch', 'execute:after', 'post'])
   })
@@ -526,8 +524,8 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
       async execute() { dispatched = true; return [] },
     })
 
-    ctx.on('tools/execute', async (exec: ToolExecution, _next: () => Promise<ToolExecutionResult>): Promise<ToolExecutionResult> =>
-      ({ callId: exec.callId, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'short-circuited' }], isError: false }))
+    ctx.on('tools/execute', async (_exec: ToolExecution, _next: () => Promise<ToolExecutionResult>): Promise<ToolExecutionResult> =>
+      ({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'short-circuited' }], isError: false }))
 
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'never-runs', arguments: {} })
     expect(dispatched).toBe(false) // returning without next() skips core dispatch
@@ -537,8 +535,7 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
   it('preserves additionalContext supplied by an around-dispatch result', async () => {
     const ctx = await setup()
     ctx.tools.register(echoTool)
-    ctx.on('tools/execute', async exec => ({
-      callId: exec.callId,
+    ctx.on('tools/execute', async () => ({
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'short-circuited with context' }],
       isError: false,
       additionalContext: {
@@ -556,20 +553,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     })
   })
 
-  it('normalizes a tools/execute result with the wrong call id', async () => {
-    const ctx = await setup()
-    ctx.tools.register(echoTool)
-    ctx.on('tools/execute', async () => ({ callId: CallId('other'), content: [], isError: false }))
-
-    const result = await ctx.tools.execute({
-      callId: CallId('malformed-shape'), name: 'echo', arguments: {},
-    })
-    expect(result.isError).toBe(true)
-    expect(result.content[0]).toMatchObject({
-      text: 'Error: tools/execute returned callId "other" for authoritative call "malformed-shape"',
-    })
-  })
-
   it('returns an isError result when a tools/execute listener throws', async () => {
     const ctx = await setup()
     ctx.tools.register(echoTool)
@@ -577,7 +560,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
 
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Error: wrapper broke' }],
       isError: true,
     })
@@ -593,7 +575,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
 
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Error: permission hook broke' }],
       isError: true,
     })
@@ -609,7 +590,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
 
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Error: post hook broke' }],
       isError: true,
     })
@@ -625,7 +605,6 @@ describe('ToolRegistry', () => {
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: { text: 'hi' } })
 
     expect(result).toMatchObject({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       isError: true,
       error: { name: 'HarnessError', code: 'DENIED' },
     })
@@ -1254,7 +1233,7 @@ describe('defineTool validation (the runtime-validation RFC, part 1)', () => {
       },
     }))
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'reader', arguments: { path: '/x' } })
-    expect(result).toEqual({ callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'read /x' }], isError: false })
+    expect(result).toEqual({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'read /x' }], isError: false })
   })
 
   it('ToolArgsError carries a stable code and the violation list', () => {

packages/fs/fs-local/README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ await ctx.plugin(LocalFileSystem, { cwd: process.cwd() })
 - **`writeText`** — atomic: writes to a temp file opened exclusively (`wx`, `0o600`) inside a randomly-named private staging dir (`0o700`) next to the target, fsyncs, then renames over the target. An existing file's mode is preserved, while new files default to `0o600`. The `expected` guard is OPTIONAL: omitting it unconditionally creates-or-overwrites; `createIfAbsent` creates a missing target and rejects an existing one (`FS_NOT_OBSERVED`); `replaceIfVersion` replaces only at the observed version (a missing target or mismatch is `FS_STALE_VERSION`).
 - **`editText`** — atomic literal read-modify-write over the same primitive, serialized per target by a mutation lock. The `expected` guard is OPTIONAL: when supplied it verifies the version BEFORE literal matching (a stale edit reports `FS_STALE_VERSION`, never `FS_EDIT_NOT_FOUND`/`FS_AMBIGUOUS_EDIT` against newer content); omitting it edits the current content unconditionally. A missing target reports `FS_STALE_VERSION` either way. LF-normalizes for matching, restores the file's dominant CRLF/LF style, and rejects empty `oldString` / zero matches (`FS_EDIT_NOT_FOUND`) or ambiguous multi-matches without `replace_all` (`FS_AMBIGUOUS_EDIT`).
 
-The raw I/O lives in `src/fsio.ts` (Cordis-free, independently unit-tested); `src/index.ts` is the thin service wiring.
+The package-root SDK surface is the default/named `LocalFileSystem` class plus `Config`. Raw I/O lives in `src/fsio.ts` (Cordis-free, independently unit-tested); `src/index.ts` is the thin service wiring.
 
 ## Model Experience
 

packages/fs/fs-local/src/index.ts

@@ -31,20 +31,6 @@ import {
 } from './fsio.ts'
 import type { FsIoInternals } from './fsio.ts'
 
-export {
-  applyLiteralEdit,
-  listDirectory,
-  probe,
-  readForEdit,
-  readTextForDiff,
-  readWholeText,
-  resolveLocalTarget,
-  restoreLineEndings,
-  streamWholeText,
-  writeFileAtomic,
-} from './fsio.ts'
-export type { FsIoInternals, LineEndings, LocalDirEntry, LocalTarget, PathInfo } from './fsio.ts'
-
 /** Configuration for the local filesystem backend. */
 export interface Config {
   /** Base directory for relative paths. Defaults to `process.cwd()`. */

packages/fs/fs-local/tests/fsio.spec.ts

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ import {
   restoreLineEndings,
   streamWholeText,
   writeFileAtomic,
-} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-local'
-import type { LocalTarget } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-local'
+} from '../src/fsio.ts'
+import type { LocalTarget } from '../src/fsio.ts'
 import { FsError, FsTargetKey } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs'
 
 let dir: string

packages/fs/tool-fs/README.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The tool passes `exec` (the tool-execution context) as the opaque `actor` on eve
 
 `fs/observed` fires AFTER the read/write/edit already succeeded, via a plain `ctx.emit`. A listener is contractually a synchronous, side-effect-only recorder (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-policy`'s is a `WeakMap.set`); the tool does not guard the emit, so a listener that throws would surface as the tool's `isError` result — async or fallible observation does not belong on this event.
 
-The read rendering (line windowing + output formatting) lives in `src/read-render.ts` (Cordis-free, independently unit-tested); `src/read.ts`/`write.ts`/`edit.ts` are the tool executors and `src/index.ts` composes them.
+The package root exports only the Cordis plugin contract (`name`, `inject`, `Config`, and `apply`). Read rendering (line windowing + output formatting) lives in `src/read-render.ts` (Cordis-free, independently unit-tested); `src/read.ts`/`write.ts`/`edit.ts` are the tool executors and `src/index.ts` composes them.
 
 ## Model Experience
 

packages/fs/tool-fs/src/index.ts

@@ -12,15 +12,6 @@ import { applyWriteTool } from './write.ts'
 import { applyEditTool } from './edit.ts'
 import { READ_MAX_BYTES, READ_MAX_LINE_LENGTH } from './read-render.ts'
 
-export { READ_LIMIT, STREAM_MIN_SIZE, applyReadTool, parseReadArgs } from './read.ts'
-export type { ReadToolCaps } from './read.ts'
-export { applyWriteTool, formatWriteOutput, parseWriteArgs } from './write.ts'
-export { applyEditTool, formatEditOutput, parseEditArgs } from './edit.ts'
-export { READ_MAX_BYTES, READ_MAX_LINE_LENGTH, buildWindow, formatReadOutput } from './read-render.ts'
-export type { FileReadOutcome, FileTextLine, ReadWindow, WindowResult } from './read-render.ts'
-export { DIFF_CONTEXT, computeHunkDiffs, diffsFromMeta } from './diff.ts'
-export type { FsDiffMeta } from './diff.ts'
-
 /** Cordis plugin name used by loader diagnostics. */
 export const name = 'tool-fs'
 

packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/diff.spec.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { computeHunkDiffs, diffsFromMeta, DIFF_CONTEXT } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
+import { computeHunkDiffs, diffsFromMeta, DIFF_CONTEXT } from '../src/diff.ts'
 import type { JsonValue } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 
 const lines = (n: number): string => Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => `line${i + 1}`).join('\n') + '\n'

packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/read-render.spec.ts

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { buildWindow, READ_MAX_BYTES, READ_MAX_LINE_LENGTH } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
-import type { ReadWindow } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
+import { buildWindow, READ_MAX_BYTES, READ_MAX_LINE_LENGTH } from '../src/read-render.ts'
+import type { ReadWindow } from '../src/read-render.ts'
 
 const DEFAULT_CAPS = { maxLineLength: READ_MAX_LINE_LENGTH, maxBytes: READ_MAX_BYTES }
 const READ_ALL: ReadWindow = { offset: 1, limit: 2000, ...DEFAULT_CAPS }

packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/tools.spec.ts

@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ import type {
 } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs'
 import * as FsPolicy from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-fs-policy'
 import * as ToolFs from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
-import { formatReadOutput, STREAM_MIN_SIZE } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
-import type { FileReadOutcome } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs'
+import { STREAM_MIN_SIZE } from '../src/read.ts'
+import { formatReadOutput } from '../src/read-render.ts'
+import type { FileReadOutcome } from '../src/read-render.ts'
 
 /** An in-memory fake provider; a test can arm a rejection on any primitive. */
 class FakeFs extends FileSystem {

packages/skill/skill/src/index.ts

@@ -119,23 +119,6 @@ declare module 'cordis' {
   interface Context {
     skills: SkillService
   }
-
-  interface Events {
-    /**
-     * A skill provider became resolvable in the `ctx.skills` registry.
-     * Consumers can observe this instead of depending on Cordis plugin load
-     * order, which is concurrent for sibling plugins.
-     * @param provider - the provider that just registered.
-     * @mode emit
-     */
-    'skill/provider-added'(provider: SkillProvider): void
-    /**
-     * A skill provider left the registry because its plugin fiber was disposed.
-     * @param name - the registry name that no longer resolves.
-     * @mode emit
-     */
-    'skill/provider-removed'(name: string): void
-  }
 }
 
 interface IndexedCandidate {
@@ -191,19 +174,16 @@ export class SkillService extends Service {
       throw new Error(`a skill provider named "${name}" is already registered`)
     }
     const providers = this.providers
-    const ctx = this.ctx
     const order = this.nextProviderOrder
     const invalidateCache = (): void => { this.invalidateCache() }
     this.nextProviderOrder += 1
-    const dispose = ctx.effect(function* () {
+    const dispose = this.ctx.effect(function* () {
       providers.set(name, { provider, order })
       invalidateCache()
       yield () => {
         providers.delete(name)
         invalidateCache()
-        ctx.emit('skill/provider-removed', name)
       }
-      ctx.emit('skill/provider-added', provider)
     }, 'skills.registerProvider()')
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-misused-promises -- synchronous cleanup; direct return preserves disposer identity
     return dispose

packages/support/README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Packages that exist to serve development, testing, and the examples rather than
 |---|---|---|
 | `acp-snapshot/` | ACP snapshot suite kit: subprocess scenario harness + golden normalizers + the `defineAcpSnapshotSuite` factory | (library — imported by example `*.snapshot.ts` suites) |
 | `invariants/` | Runtime event-contract assertions for development diagnostics | (listens on `session/*`, `agent/*`) |
+| `loader-smoke/` | Shared real-Loader subprocess harness for keyless example smokes | (library — imported by example e2e suites) |
 | `llm-replay/` | Record/replay adapter: short-circuits `llm/stream` from a recorded session JSONL (keyless snapshot tests) | (listens on `llm/stream`) |
 | `subagent-mock/` | Scripted `SubagentProvider` for deterministic seam/tool tests | (registers on `ctx.subagents`) |
 
-`invariants` is development support but has no environment guard: it runs wherever registered, and the default `dsh-agent-core` bundle mounts it unconditionally. `llm-replay` backs the demos and the snapshot test tier under the per-file coverage gate. `acp-snapshot` carries the snapshot tier's harness/normalizer/suite machinery so every example's suite is a scenario table over one shared, gate-covered implementation. `subagent-mock` exercises the real `ctx.subagents` load path without a model or child agent. A package graduates OUT of `support/` into a product group only when it gains documented product consumers.
+`invariants` is development support but has no environment guard: it runs wherever registered, and the default `dsh-agent-core` bundle mounts it unconditionally. `llm-replay` backs the demos and the snapshot test tier under the per-file coverage gate. `acp-snapshot` carries the snapshot tier's harness/normalizer/suite machinery, while `loader-smoke` owns the parallel stdio/Loader process boundary used by keyless example e2e suites. `subagent-mock` exercises the real `ctx.subagents` load path without a model or child agent. A package graduates OUT of `support/` into a product group only when it gains documented product consumers.

packages/support/invariants/tests/invariants.spec.ts

@@ -855,9 +855,9 @@ describe('scoped-dispatch invariants', () => {
       ['agent/error', [agent, 1, 0, new Error('x')]],
       ['approval/request', [{ agent, toolName: 'echo' }, () => Promise.resolve('unavailable')]],
       ['tools/pre-execute', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, () => Promise.resolve({ kind: 'allow' })]],
-      ['tools/execute', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, () => Promise.resolve({ callId: 'c', content: [], isError: false })]],
-      ['tools/post-execute', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, { callId: 'c', content: [], isError: false }, () => Promise.resolve({ kind: 'accept' })]],
-      ['tools/result', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, { callId: 'c', content: [], isError: false }]],
+      ['tools/execute', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, () => Promise.resolve({ content: [], isError: false })]],
+      ['tools/post-execute', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, { content: [], isError: false }, () => Promise.resolve({ kind: 'accept' })]],
+      ['tools/result', [{ callId: 'c', name: 't', arguments: {}, agent }, { content: [], isError: false }]],
     ]
     for (const [event, args] of rows) {
       const subject = agent

packages/support/loader-smoke/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# `@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke`
+
+Shared subprocess harness for keyless example smokes that boot the real stdio-agent bin and a real `cordis.yml` through the Cordis Loader. A test supplies absolute bin/config/tsconfig paths, optional environment overrides, and stdin lines; `runLoaderSmoke` owns the isolated cwd, DSH homes, tsx path resolution, 30-second process deadline, captured diagnostics, forced kill, EOF, and cleanup.
+
+Successful runs return stdout and stderr only after a zero exit. Non-zero exits and deadlines reject with both captured streams. `LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS` leaves Vitest enough room for the process-owned diagnostic timeout to fire first.
+
+This is support-tier test infrastructure, not product API. The consumers are the Loader-path smokes under `examples/{echo-agent,coding-agent,cordis-agent}`.
+
+## Model Experience
+
+None, as this test-only harness boots example processes and inspects their streams without changing an assembled model request.
+
+## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
+
+- **Only the unbuilt tsx/Loader path is exercised** — built-bin artifacts remain the responsibility of their separate e2e smokes.
+- **Captured stdout and stderr are unbounded** — a runaway child can consume memory until the deadline kills it.
+- **Timeout kills only the direct child** — a process tree spawned by a faulty fixture can outlive the smoke and needs external cleanup.

packages/support/loader-smoke/package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+  "name": "@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke",
+  "description": "Shared subprocess harness for keyless real-Loader example smoke tests",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module",
+  "main": "lib/index.js",
+  "types": "lib/types/index.d.ts",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./lib/types/index.d.ts",
+      "default": "./lib/index.js"
+    },
+    "./src/*": "./src/*",
+    "./package.json": "./package.json"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "lib/index.js",
+    "lib/types/**/*.d.ts",
+    "lib/types/**/*.d.ts.map",
+    "src"
+  ],
+  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "tsx": "^4.22.4"
+  },
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.6"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.6"
+  }
+}

packages/support/loader-smoke/src/index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/**
+ * Shared subprocess harness for keyless example smokes that boot a real
+ * `cordis.yml` through the stdio-agent bin and Cordis Loader.
+ *
+ * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke
+ */
+
+import { spawn } from 'node:child_process'
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+
+const DEFAULT_PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
+const TSX_LOADER = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve('tsx'))
+
+/** Vitest deadline that leaves room for the subprocess-owned 30-second diagnostic timeout. */
+export const LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = DEFAULT_PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS + 15_000
+
+/** Inputs that vary between real-Loader example smokes. */
+export interface LoaderSmokeOptions {
+  /** Human-readable example name used in failure diagnostics. */
+  readonly label: string
+  /** Prefix for the isolated temporary process cwd. */
+  readonly tempDirPrefix: string
+  /** Absolute stdio-agent bin path. */
+  readonly binScript: string
+  /** Absolute real Loader config path. */
+  readonly configPath: string
+  /** Absolute repo tsconfig path used for unbuilt workspace-package resolution. */
+  readonly tsconfigPath: string
+  /** Environment overrides layered over the parent and isolated DSH homes. */
+  readonly env?: Readonly<NodeJS.ProcessEnv>
+  /** Lines written to stdin before EOF; omitted means immediate EOF. */
+  readonly stdinLines?: readonly string[]
+  /** Process deadline override for harness tests. */
+  readonly processTimeoutMs?: number
+}
+
+/** Captured output from a Loader smoke that exited successfully. */
+export interface LoaderSmokeResult {
+  /** Complete stdout after clean exit. */
+  readonly stdout: string
+  /** Complete stderr after clean exit. */
+  readonly stderr: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * Boot one real Loader tree from an isolated cwd, write the requested stdin
+ * script, close stdin, and await a clean exit. The helper owns process kill and
+ * temp-directory cleanup on every outcome.
+ * @param options - example paths, environment, stdin, and diagnostic identity.
+ * @returns captured stdout and stderr after a zero exit.
+ */
+export async function runLoaderSmoke(options: LoaderSmokeOptions): Promise<LoaderSmokeResult> {
+  const cwd = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), options.tempDirPrefix))
+  const processTimeoutMs = options.processTimeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_PROCESS_TIMEOUT_MS
+  try {
+    return await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      const child = spawn(
+        process.execPath,
+        ['--expose-internals', '--import', TSX_LOADER, options.binScript, options.configPath],
+        {
+          cwd,
+          env: {
+            ...process.env,
+            DSH_HOME: join(cwd, '.dsh'),
+            DSH_AGENTS_HOME: join(cwd, '.agents'),
+            ...options.env,
+            TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: options.tsconfigPath,
+          },
+          stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+        },
+      )
+      let stdout = ''
+      let stderr = ''
+      let deferredFailure: Error | undefined
+      child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8')
+      child.stdout.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stdout += chunk })
+      child.stderr.setEncoding('utf8')
+      child.stderr.on('data', (chunk: string) => { stderr += chunk })
+
+      const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+        deferredFailure = new Error(`${options.label} did not exit within ${processTimeoutMs / 1_000}s. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`)
+        child.kill('SIGKILL')
+      }, processTimeoutMs)
+
+      child.once('exit', (code) => {
+        clearTimeout(timer)
+        if (deferredFailure !== undefined) {
+          reject(deferredFailure)
+        } else if (code === 0) {
+          resolve({ stdout, stderr })
+        } else {
+          reject(new Error(`${options.label} exited ${String(code)}. stdout:\n${stdout}\nstderr:\n${stderr}`))
+        }
+      })
+
+      // process.execPath and a just-created pipe make these OS-error paths
+      // impractical to induce without replacing the boundary under test.
+      /* v8 ignore start */
+      child.once('error', (error) => {
+        clearTimeout(timer)
+        reject(new Error(`${options.label} failed to start: ${error.message}`))
+      })
+      child.stdin.once('error', (error) => {
+        deferredFailure ??= new Error(`${options.label} stdin failed: ${error.message}`)
+        child.kill('SIGKILL')
+      })
+      /* v8 ignore stop */
+
+      child.stdin.end((options.stdinLines ?? []).map(line => `${line}\n`).join(''))
+    })
+  } finally {
+    await rm(cwd, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  }
+}

packages/support/loader-smoke/tests/fixtures/fail.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/** Non-zero subprocess fixture for the Loader-smoke harness. */
+
+console.error('fixture failed')
+process.exitCode = 7

packages/support/loader-smoke/tests/fixtures/hang.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/** Deadline subprocess fixture for the Loader-smoke harness. */
+
+console.log('fixture hanging')
+setInterval(() => {}, 1_000)

packages/support/loader-smoke/tests/fixtures/success.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/** Successful subprocess fixture for the Loader-smoke harness. */
+
+let input = ''
+process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8')
+process.stdin.on('data', (chunk: string) => { input += chunk })
+process.stdin.on('end', () => {
+  console.log(JSON.stringify({
+    configPath: process.argv[2],
+    cwd: process.cwd(),
+    dshHome: process.env.DSH_HOME,
+    agentsHome: process.env.DSH_AGENTS_HOME,
+    marker: process.env.LOADER_SMOKE_MARKER,
+    input,
+  }))
+  console.error('fixture stderr')
+})

packages/support/loader-smoke/tests/loader-smoke.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS, runLoaderSmoke } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-loader-smoke'
+
+const configPath = '/tmp/fixture.cordis.yml'
+const tsconfigPath = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../../tsconfig.json', import.meta.url))
+const fixture = (name: string): string => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}.ts`, import.meta.url))
+const canonicalTempPath = (path: string): string => path.replace(/^\/private(?=\/var\/)/, '')
+
+describe('runLoaderSmoke', () => {
+  it('isolates the process, writes stdin, captures output, and removes the cwd', async () => {
+    const result = await runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'success fixture',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'loader-smoke-success-',
+      binScript: fixture('success'),
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+      env: { LOADER_SMOKE_MARKER: 'present' },
+      stdinLines: ['one', 'two'],
+    })
+    const output = JSON.parse(result.stdout) as {
+      configPath: string
+      cwd: string
+      dshHome: string
+      agentsHome: string
+      marker: string
+      input: string
+    }
+    expect(output).toMatchObject({
+      configPath,
+      marker: 'present',
+      input: 'one\ntwo\n',
+    })
+    expect(canonicalTempPath(output.dshHome)).toBe(`${canonicalTempPath(output.cwd)}/.dsh`)
+    expect(canonicalTempPath(output.agentsHome)).toBe(`${canonicalTempPath(output.cwd)}/.agents`)
+    expect(result.stderr).toContain('fixture stderr')
+    expect(existsSync(output.cwd)).toBe(false)
+  }, LOADER_SMOKE_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS)
+
+  it('rejects a non-zero exit with captured diagnostics', async () => {
+    await expect(runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'failure fixture',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'loader-smoke-fail-',
+      binScript: fixture('fail'),
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+    })).rejects.toThrow('failure fixture exited 7. stdout:\n\nstderr:\nfixture failed')
+  })
+
+  it('kills a process at its deadline and reports captured output', async () => {
+    await expect(runLoaderSmoke({
+      label: 'hanging fixture',
+      tempDirPrefix: 'loader-smoke-hang-',
+      binScript: fixture('hang'),
+      configPath,
+      tsconfigPath,
+      processTimeoutMs: 100,
+    })).rejects.toThrow('hanging fixture did not exit within 0.1s.')
+  })
+})

packages/support/loader-smoke/tsconfig.json

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.base.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "src",
+    "outDir": "lib/types"
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "src"
+  ],
+  "references": []
+}

packages/timeout/timeout-policy/src/index.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
  */
 
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
-import type { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { deadline, timeoutOf } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout'
 import type { ToolExecutionResult } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
 
@@ -30,13 +29,11 @@ export const inject = ['tools']
  * is the model-facing message; `error.code` is the same {@link TOOL_TIMEOUT}
  * this plugin owns, so a retry/sandbox plugin (and replay) can route on it.
  *
- * @param callId - the timed-out call's id, carried onto the replacement result.
  * @param timeoutMs - the elapsed budget, rendered into the model-facing message.
  * @returns the `isError` {@link ToolExecutionResult} with a `TOOL_TIMEOUT` error.
  */
-export function toolTimeoutResult(callId: CallId, timeoutMs: number): ToolExecutionResult {
+function toolTimeoutResult(timeoutMs: number): ToolExecutionResult {
   return {
-    callId,
     content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Error: tool call timed out after ${timeoutMs}ms` }],
     isError: true,
     error: { name: 'ToolTimeoutError', code: TOOL_TIMEOUT },
@@ -68,7 +65,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context): void {
       // quiescence; replace whatever it returned (its own abort result) with the
       // structured TOOL_TIMEOUT the model sees.
       if (timeoutOf(d.signal, TOOL_TIMEOUT) !== undefined) {
-        return toolTimeoutResult(exec.callId, timeoutMs)
+        return toolTimeoutResult(timeoutMs)
       }
       return result
     } finally {

packages/timeout/timeout-policy/tests/timeout-policy.spec.ts

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ import { Context } from 'cordis'
 import Loader from '@cordisjs/plugin-loader'
 import { CallId, HarnessError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import SystemPrompt from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt'
-import ToolRegistry, { defineTool, type ToolExecutionInput, type ToolExecutionResult, type PostToolDecision } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
+import ToolRegistry, { defineTool, type ToolExecutionInput, type PostToolDecision } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
 import * as timeoutPolicy from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy'
-import { TOOL_TIMEOUT, toolTimeoutResult } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy'
+import { TOOL_TIMEOUT } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy'
 
 /** Mount the registry + the zero-config timeout-policy enforcer. */
 async function setup() {
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('timeout-policy delegation (unconfigured / fast)', () => {
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'fast', description: 'd', parameters: {}, timeoutMs: 10_000,
       async execute() { return [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'ok' }] } }))
     const result = await ctx.tools.execute({ callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'fast', arguments: {} })
-    expect(result).toEqual({ callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false })
+    expect(result).toEqual({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false })
   })
 
   it('a budgeted tool receives the DERIVED deadline signal (not the caller signal) during dispatch', async () => {
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ describe('timeout-policy TOOL_TIMEOUT replacement (deadline wins)', () => {
     await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(150)
     const result = await pending
     expect(result).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c1'),
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Error: tool call timed out after 100ms' }],
       isError: true,
       error: { name: 'ToolTimeoutError', code: 'TOOL_TIMEOUT' },
@@ -140,16 +139,7 @@ describe('timeout-policy TOOL_TIMEOUT replacement (deadline wins)', () => {
   })
 })
 
-describe('toolTimeoutResult', () => {
-  it('builds the structured TOOL_TIMEOUT result', () => {
-    expect(toolTimeoutResult(CallId('c9'), 250)).toEqual({
-      callId: CallId('c9'),
-      content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Error: tool call timed out after 250ms' }],
-      isError: true,
-      error: { name: 'ToolTimeoutError', code: 'TOOL_TIMEOUT' },
-    } satisfies ToolExecutionResult)
-  })
-
+describe('timeout-policy contract', () => {
   it('exposes the owned code constant', () => {
     expect(TOOL_TIMEOUT).toBe('TOOL_TIMEOUT')
   })

packages/ui/README.md

@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ Integrations that expose the agent to an external editor or client. These are **
 | `permission/` | User-facing permission presets (`workspace-write`/`danger-full-access`): one product-level select bundling the sandbox-mode and approval-policy knobs, written through to their session events | `ctx.permission` |
 | `user-interaction/` | Abstract human question/answer seam used by UI-backed confirmation tools | `ctx.userInteraction` |
 | `tool-ask-user/` | Model-facing `ask_user_question` tool over `ctx.userInteraction` | (registers on `ctx.tools`) |
+| `stdio/` | Terminal readline channel over `ctx.agents`, `session/event`, and `ctx.userInteraction`; agent lifecycle stays with app/developer code | (drives `ctx.agents`) |
 | `stdio-agent/` | Terminal stdio chat APP: the agent-core spine + console logger + readline UI + a pre-created `main` agent, with a `bin` | (composition + `bin`) |
 | `acp-agent/` | ACP server APP: the agent-core spine + JSONL persistence + the `acp` bridge (no stdout logger), with a `bin` | (composition + `bin`) |
 | `jsonrpc/` | Stdio JSON-RPC server for out-of-process SDK clients | (drives `ctx.agents`) |
 | `jsonrpc-agent/` | Bin-only SDK runtime app that boots an external `cordis.yml` | (`bin` only) |
 | `app-boot/` | Shared boot glue for the app bins: `.env` loading, fail-loud Loader guards, snapshot-aware config resolution, the settle-the-tree boot sequence | (library for the bins) |
 
-A UI integration is a client-driver plugin, not a loop change or capability seam: it consumes the existing `agent/*` events and `dsh-agent` factory. `jsonrpc` is the SDK-client sibling of the `acp` editor bridge. The readline UI lives inside [`stdio-agent/`](stdio-agent/README.md) because it is scaffolding for that front door, not an independently swappable integration.
+A UI integration is a client-driver plugin, not a loop change and not a capability seam: it consumes the existing `agent/*` event taxonomy and the `dsh-agent` factory. The `jsonrpc` plugin is the SDK-client sibling of the `acp` bridge (a JSON-RPC server over `ctx.agents` for out-of-process SDK clients rather than editors). The [`stdio`](stdio/README.md) plugin is the unstructured readline analogue of the `acp` bridge; app bundles and SDK projects compose it explicitly with the services and tools their product profile selects.
 
 `user-approval`, `user-interaction`, and `tool-ask-user` live here because asking a human is a UI-backed product affordance, not part of the providerless core spine. `user-approval` owns the one-shot `ctx.approval` decision mechanism and its policy tier; answerers remain with their UI channel owners. `user-interaction` remains provider-neutral (`ctx.userInteraction`), while `tool-ask-user` is its model-facing consumer and the app/bridge packages provide concrete providers.
 

packages/ui/stdio-agent/README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ A terminal chat always wants the same cluster, so the package owns it rather tha
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` | durable JSONL session log under `persistenceRoot` |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction` | the human question/answer seam used by confirmation tools |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user` | the model-facing `ask_user_question` tool |
-| `stdio-chat` (in-package module) | the readline UI, bound to the `main` agent |
+| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio` | the readline UI, bound to the `main` agent |
 
 `@cordisjs/plugin-hmr` (the dev/demo edit-reload loop) is deliberately a **leaf** entry, NOT baked in here: it is a Loader-only, subprocess-only dev plugin — its constructor throws without `node --expose-internals` + a live `loader`, and the in-process test tier cannot even import it (so a package whose `apply` statically pulled it in could never carry the per-file coverage gate). Unlike the console logger, a stray `hmr` is not a stdout-purity footgun, so leaving it at the leaf costs no safety. The `demo:echo` / `demo:repl` leaves load it and pass `--expose-internals`.
 

packages/ui/stdio-agent/package.json

@@ -38,9 +38,10 @@
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session": "^0.0.1",
-    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction": "^0.0.1",
     "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.7",
     "schemastery": "^3.17.0"
@@ -55,9 +56,10 @@
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core": "workspace:^",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt": "workspace:^",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session": "workspace:^",
-    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools": "workspace:^",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio": "workspace:^",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools": "workspace:^",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction": "workspace:^",
     "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.7",
     "schemastery": "^3.17.0"

packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/index.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * The stdio chat app: the default agent spine ({@link @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core}) plus the
- * coupled front-door cluster a terminal chat needs — a console logger, the readline UI (the
- * in-package `stdio-chat` module), JSONL session persistence, and a pre-created `main` agent
- * the UI drives.
+ * coupled front-door cluster a terminal chat needs — a console logger, the independently
+ * packaged readline UI, JSONL session persistence, the user-interaction seam with its
+ * `ask_user_question` tool, and a pre-created `main` agent the UI drives.
  * Swappable adapters, executors, optional tools, and HMR stay in the leaf. This
  * Loader plugin intentionally exposes named exports only; a default export
  * would hide its `Config` schema (see docs/postmortem/0001).
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import * as agentCore from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-core'
 import SessionPersistenceJsonl from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl'
 import UserInteractionService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction'
 import * as toolAskUser from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user'
-import * as uiStdio from './stdio-chat.ts'
+import * as uiStdio from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio'
 
 export const name = 'stdio-agent'
 

packages/ui/stdio-agent/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const dshPackages = [
   'bash/tool-bash', 'support/invariants', 'ui/app-boot',
   'session-persistence/session-persistence',
   'session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl', 'ui/stdio-agent',
+  'ui/stdio', 'ui/tool-ask-user', 'ui/user-interaction',
 ]
 const vendorPackages = [
   'cordis', 'loader', 'include', 'timer', 'hmr', 'logger-console',

packages/ui/stdio-agent/tsconfig.json

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
     {
       "path": "../user-interaction"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "../stdio"
+    },
     {
       "path": "../tool-ask-user"
     },

packages/ui/stdio/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# @deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio
+
+The terminal readline front door for DeepSeek Harness agents. It reads prompts from stdin, sends or steers them through `ctx.agents`, renders the durable `session/event` transcript to stdout, and answers `ctx.userInteraction` requests in the same terminal.
+
+This package owns the terminal channel only. It injects `agents` and `userInteraction`, then drives an agent created or resumed by app or developer code. The agent spine, agent lifecycle, console logger, and model-facing [`ask_user_question`](../tool-ask-user/README.md) tool remain separate composition entries.
+
+## Config
+
+| Key | Default | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|
+| `welcome` | `ready.` | Banner printed before the first prompt |
+| `agent` | `main` | Agent id driven by stdin and observed for EOF shutdown |
+
+The plugin seeds display labels from the live agent registry, then tracks `agent/created` and `agent/disposed` so HMR and externally managed agents render consistently. Disposal closes readline and unregisters every listener/provider through Cordis effects.
+
+```yaml
+- id: stdio
+  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio'
+  config:
+    welcome: 'agent REPL ready. Give it a coding task.'
+    agent: main
+```
+
+## Model Experience
+
+### Readline prompt input
+
+**What the model sees**: Each non-empty terminal line outside an active question becomes one text block, sent with `agent.send()` while the target agent is idle and `agent.steer()` while it is running.
+
+**Token effect**: Submitted text is retained under the agent loop's normal session-history and compaction rules. The welcome banner, `> ` prompt, rendered transcript, and `[tool call]` / `[tool result]` terminal lines add no tokens.
+
+### Terminal user-interaction answers
+
+**What the model sees**: When a consumer calls `ctx.userInteraction.ask()`, this provider renders the question in the terminal and returns selected option labels or `custom` text. Through `dsh-tool-ask-user`, closed stdin becomes `Error: ask_user_question cannot be answered because stdin is closed`; disposal or abort becomes `Error: ask_user_question was interrupted before the user answered`.
+
+**Token effect**: Waiting and terminal prompts add no tokens; the resolved answer or error is model-visible only through the calling tool or plugin's result.
+
+## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
+
+- **One configured agent receives stdin** — the session/event renderer can print output from any session, but input lines always drive the configured `agent` id rather than routing by the visible label.
+- **Terminal questions are text-only and sequential** — the provider queues asks, supports option labels plus custom text, and has no richer UI shapes such as file pickers or diff previews.
+- **Closed stdin ends the terminal channel** — EOF rejects active or queued questions and exits after submitted work reaches idle; there is no reconnect path for a long-lived process.

packages/ui/stdio/package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+  "name": "@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio",
+  "description": "Terminal readline front door for driving and rendering DeepSeek Harness agents over stdio",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module",
+  "main": "lib/index.js",
+  "types": "lib/types/index.d.ts",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./lib/types/index.d.ts",
+      "default": "./lib/index.js"
+    },
+    "./src/*": "./src/*",
+    "./package.json": "./package.json"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "lib/index.js",
+    "lib/types/**/*.d.ts",
+    "lib/types/**/*.d.ts.map",
+    "src"
+  ],
+  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction": "^0.0.1",
+    "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.6"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "schemastery": "^3.18.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@cordisjs/plugin-loader": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session": "workspace:^",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction": "workspace:^",
+    "cordis": "^4.0.0-rc.6"
+  }
+}

packages/ui/stdio-agent/src/stdio-chat.ts → packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
  * The stdio app's readline UI: reads lines from stdin into `agent.send()` or
  * `steer()`, renders the durable event stream to stdout, and exits piped input
  * only after submitted work reaches idle.
- * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-agent/stdio-chat
+ *
+ * This package is the independently composable stdio front door. It establishes
+ * the terminal channel and drives an agent created or resumed by app or
+ * developer code.
+ * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio
  */
 
 import { createInterface } from 'node:readline'
@@ -26,8 +30,6 @@ export const inject = ['agents', 'userInteraction']
 export interface Config {
   /** Banner printed once on start, before the first `> ` prompt. */
   welcome?: string
-  // TODO(fixed-stdio-agent): this app-internal plugin is mounted only for the
-  // precreated `main` agent; remove configurability and its config-only test.
   /** Id of the agent stdin drives (`send`/`steer`) and whose status gates the EOF exit; rendering is global. Defaults to `'main'`. */
   agent?: string
 }
@@ -350,16 +352,38 @@ export function createStdioChat(ctx: Context, config: Config, runtime: StdioRunt
   }, 'ui-stdio')
 }
 
+/**
+ * Open the terminal channel once its configured agent exists. Generated stdio
+ * projects boot the Cordis tree first and create or resume the agent from
+ * developer code immediately afterward, so stdin must remain untouched until
+ * the matching `agent/created` notification arrives.
+ * @param ctx - the context supplying the agent registry and event stream.
+ * @param config - presentation and target-agent configuration.
+ * @param runtime - process-I/O seam.
+ */
+export function mountStdio(ctx: Context, config: Config, runtime: StdioRuntime): void {
+  const agentId = AgentId(config.agent ?? 'main')
+  if (ctx.agents.get(agentId) !== undefined) {
+    createStdioChat(ctx, config, runtime)
+    return
+  }
+  const dispose = ctx.on('agent/created', (agent) => {
+    if (agent.id !== agentId) return
+    dispose()
+    createStdioChat(ctx, config, runtime)
+  })
+}
+
 /**
  * Cordis entry point. Binds the real `process` streams and delegates to
- * {@link createStdioChat}; the indirection keeps the side-effecting handles out
+ * {@link mountStdio}; the indirection keeps the side-effecting handles out
  * of the testable core, which is why the unit suite drives `createStdioChat`
  * directly. This thin wrapper is exercised end-to-end by the keyless
  * Loader-path e2e smoke in `examples/echo-agent` (the real product entry).
  */
 /* v8 ignore start -- production stdio wiring; testable core is createStdioChat() (covered), exercised e2e by echo-agent keyless smoke */
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
-  createStdioChat(ctx, config, {
+  mountStdio(ctx, config, {
     input: process.stdin,
     output: process.stdout,
     exit: code => process.exit(code),

packages/ui/stdio/tests/plugin-shape.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import Loader from '@cordisjs/plugin-loader'
+import * as stdio from '../src/index.ts'
+
+/** Real Loader export-path guard for the namespace stdio plugin. */
+describe('dsh-stdio plugin export shape', () => {
+  it('preserves name, inject, Config, and apply through Loader unwrapping', () => {
+    expect('default' in stdio).toBe(false)
+    expect(typeof stdio.apply).toBe('function')
+
+    const loader = Object.create(Loader.prototype) as Loader
+    const unwrapped = loader.unwrapExports(stdio) as Record<string, unknown>
+    expect(unwrapped).toBe(stdio)
+    expect(unwrapped.name).toBe('ui-stdio')
+    expect(unwrapped.inject).toEqual(['agents', 'userInteraction'])
+    expect(unwrapped.Config).toBeDefined()
+    expect(typeof unwrapped.apply).toBe('function')
+  })
+})

packages/ui/stdio-agent/tests/readline.spec.ts → packages/ui/stdio/tests/readline.spec.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events'
 import type { Readable, Writable } from 'node:stream'
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
-import type { StdioRuntime } from '../src/stdio-chat.ts'
+import type { StdioRuntime } from '../src/index.ts'
 
 const createInterface = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn(() => {
   const reader = new EventEmitter() as EventEmitter & { close(): void }
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function fakeRuntime(inputIsTTY: boolean, outputIsTTY: boolean): StdioRuntime {
 
 describe('createStdioChat readline mode', () => {
   it('enables terminal editing only when both stdio streams are TTYs', async () => {
-    const { createStdioChat } = await import('../src/stdio-chat.ts')
+    const { createStdioChat } = await import('../src/index.ts')
 
     const tty = fakeRuntime(true, true)
     createStdioChat(fakeContext(), {}, tty)

packages/ui/stdio-agent/tests/stdio-chat.spec.ts → packages/ui/stdio/tests/stdio.spec.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import AgentRegistry from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
 import type { ContentBlock, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { Session, SessionEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import UserInteractionService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction'
-import { createStdioChat, type Config, type StdioRuntime } from '../src/stdio-chat.ts'
+import { createStdioChat, mountStdio, type Config, type StdioRuntime } from '../src/index.ts'
 
 /**
  * Unit tests for the stdio UI plugin. They drive the REAL plugin body
@@ -93,6 +93,55 @@ function flushExit(): Promise<void> {
   return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 250))
 }
 
+describe('mountStdio readiness', () => {
+  it('leaves stdin untouched until the configured agent is created', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
+    await ctx.plugin(UserInteractionService)
+    const { runtime, out } = makeRuntime()
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
+      mountStdio(inner, CONFIG, runtime)
+    }, { inject: ['agents', 'userInteraction'] }))
+
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('')
+    ctx.agents.register(makeAgent('other'))
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('')
+    ctx.agents.register(makeAgent('main'))
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('hi there\n> ')
+    await fiber.dispose()
+  })
+
+  it('opens immediately when the configured agent already exists', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
+    await ctx.plugin(UserInteractionService)
+    ctx.agents.register(makeAgent('main'))
+    const { runtime, out } = makeRuntime()
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
+      mountStdio(inner, CONFIG, runtime)
+    }, { inject: ['agents', 'userInteraction'] }))
+
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('hi there\n> ')
+    await fiber.dispose()
+  })
+
+  it('waits for main when no target agent is configured', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
+    await ctx.plugin(UserInteractionService)
+    const { runtime, out } = makeRuntime()
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
+      mountStdio(inner, { welcome: 'ready' }, runtime)
+    }, { inject: ['agents', 'userInteraction'] }))
+
+    ctx.agents.register(makeAgent('other'))
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('')
+    ctx.agents.register(makeAgent('main'))
+    expect(out.text()).toBe('ready\n> ')
+    await fiber.dispose()
+  })
+})
+
 describe('createStdioChat rendering', () => {
   it('writes the welcome banner and prompt on start', async () => {
     const { out } = await setup()

packages/ui/stdio/tsconfig.json

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.base.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "src",
+    "outDir": "lib/types"
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "src"
+  ],
+  "references": [
+    {
+      "path": "../../../vendor/cordis"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../../../vendor/schemastery"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../../core/agent"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../../core/session"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../../llm/llm"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "../user-interaction"
+    }
+  ]
+}

packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/README.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 This package implements `WorkflowService` with one Node worker thread per run. The worker executes the orchestration script; child agents remain on the host and are reached through `ctx.subagents` over a typed host/worker protocol.
 
+The package root exports the default engine plugin and its `Config`; the worker protocol, runtime, and session modules stay private to the implementation. The operational `./worker` entry remains the engine's spawn target.
+
 The split has one primary purpose: a synchronous script loop cannot block the harness event loop, and a script that ignores cancellation can be terminated with its worker. It is not a security sandbox.
 
 ## Trust and isolation boundary

packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/index.ts

@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ import { validateMeta } from './meta.ts'
 import type { WorkerInit, WorkerLimits } from './types.ts'
 
 export { validateMeta } from './meta.ts'
-export { HostToWorkerType, WorkerToHostType } from './protocol.ts'
-export type { HostToWorkerMessage, HostToWorkerPayloads, WorkerToHostMessage, WorkerToHostPayloads } from './protocol.ts'
 export { materializeFromRealm, MaterializeError } from './realm.ts'
-export { WorkflowExecution, type ExecutionObserver } from './runtime.ts'
-export { requireParentPort, runWorkerSession } from './session.ts'
 export type {
   ChildHandle,
   ChildPort,
@@ -83,7 +79,7 @@ function assertBodyParses(body: string, name: string): void {
  * `result` never rejects; the `workflow/*` events fire around the run per
  * the seam contract.
  */
-export class WorkerWorkflowEngine extends WorkflowService {
+class WorkerWorkflowEngine extends WorkflowService {
   static inject = ['subagents']
 
   static Config: z<Config> = z.object({

packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.spec.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import SubagentService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent'
 import type { SubagentCapabilities, SubagentProvider, SubagentResult, SubagentRun, SubagentStartRequest } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent'
 import type { WorkflowMeta, WorkflowResult, WorkflowResultInfo, WorkflowRunInfo } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-workflow'
 import * as workerEngineModule from '../src/index.ts'
-import WorkerWorkflowEngine, { HostToWorkerType, WorkerToHostType, type Config } from '../src/index.ts'
+import WorkerWorkflowEngine, { type Config } from '../src/index.ts'
+import { HostToWorkerType, WorkerToHostType } from '../src/protocol.ts'
 
 /** A minimal parent stand-in: the engine only threads it through to the provider. */
 function fakeParent(): Agent {
@@ -1326,6 +1327,7 @@ describe('dsh-workflow-workerthread', () => {
 
     it('has the class-plugin export shape (default = the engine service class)', () => {
       expect(workerEngineModule.default).toBe(WorkerWorkflowEngine)
+      expect('WorkerWorkflowEngine' in workerEngineModule).toBe(false)
       const loader = Object.create(Loader.prototype) as Loader
       const unwrapped: unknown = loader.unwrapExports(workerEngineModule)
       expect(unwrapped).toBe(WorkerWorkflowEngine)

pnpm-lock.yaml

@@ -1148,6 +1148,16 @@ importers:
         specifier: ^4.0.0-rc.7
         version: 4.0.0-rc.7(@cordisjs/plugin-include@1.0.4)(@cordisjs/plugin-loader@1.0.0-rc.5)
 
+  packages/support/loader-smoke:
+    dependencies:
+      tsx:
+        specifier: ^4.22.4
+        version: 4.22.4
+    devDependencies:
+      cordis:
+        specifier: ^4.0.0-rc.6
+        version: 4.0.0-rc.7(@cordisjs/plugin-include@1.0.4)(@cordisjs/plugin-loader@1.0.0-rc.5)
+
   packages/support/subagent-mock:
     dependencies:
       schemastery:
@@ -1451,6 +1461,31 @@ importers:
         specifier: ^4.0.0-rc.7
         version: 4.0.0-rc.7(@cordisjs/plugin-include@1.0.4)(@cordisjs/plugin-loader@1.0.0-rc.5)
 
+  packages/ui/stdio:
+    dependencies:
+      schemastery:
+        specifier: ^3.18.0
+        version: 3.18.0
+    devDependencies:
+      '@cordisjs/plugin-loader':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../../../vendor/loader
+      '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../../core/agent
+      '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../../llm/llm
+      '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../../core/session
+      '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../user-interaction
+      cordis:
+        specifier: ^4.0.0-rc.6
+        version: 4.0.0-rc.7(@cordisjs/plugin-include@1.0.4)(@cordisjs/plugin-loader@vendor+loader)
+
   packages/ui/stdio-agent:
     devDependencies:
       '@cordisjs/plugin-include':
@@ -1480,6 +1515,9 @@ importers:
       '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl':
         specifier: workspace:^
         version: link:../../session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl
+      '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio':
+        specifier: workspace:^
+        version: link:../stdio
       '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt':
         specifier: workspace:^
         version: link:../../core/system-prompt

scripts/verify-package-readme-model-experience.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ const SENTENCE_MODEL_EXPERIENCE: Readonly<Record<string, SentenceContract>> = {
   'packages/subagent/subagent-subprocess': { kind: 'indirect', reason: 'Only process-based subagent backends compose a child model request.' },
   'packages/support/acp-snapshot': { kind: 'none', reason: 'The test harness observes and normalizes transcripts without changing live requests.' },
   'packages/support/invariants': { kind: 'none', reason: 'The observer validates requests but never rewrites their context.' },
+  'packages/support/loader-smoke': { kind: 'none', reason: 'The test harness observes child-process streams without changing live requests.' },
   'packages/support/llm-replay': { kind: 'none', reason: 'The keyless adapter invokes no provider model.' },
   'packages/support/subagent-mock': { kind: 'indirect', reason: 'Only dsh-tool-subagent renders its configured test outcome.' },
   'packages/tasks/tasks': { kind: 'indirect', reason: 'Producer and control-surface plugins own all model rendering over the task registry.' },

tsconfig.build.json

@@ -61,9 +61,11 @@
     { "path": "./packages/ui/app-boot" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/jsonrpc" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent" },
+    { "path": "./packages/ui/stdio" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/stdio-agent" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/llm-replay" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/acp-snapshot" },
+    { "path": "./packages/support/loader-smoke" },
     { "path": "./packages/subagent/subagent" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/subagent-mock" },
     { "path": "./packages/subagent/tool-subagent" },

tsconfig.json

@@ -72,9 +72,11 @@
     { "path": "./packages/ui/app-boot" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/jsonrpc" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent" },
+    { "path": "./packages/ui/stdio" },
     { "path": "./packages/ui/stdio-agent" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/llm-replay" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/acp-snapshot" },
+    { "path": "./packages/support/loader-smoke" },
     { "path": "./packages/subagent/subagent" },
     { "path": "./packages/support/subagent-mock" },
     { "path": "./packages/subagent/tool-subagent" },