deepseek-harness/packages/ui/tool-ask-user

@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user

Model-facing ask_user_question tool over ctx.userInteraction. It lets the model ask the human a concise question when it needs confirmation, a choice, or missing information before continuing.

Tool

ask_user_question accepts:

• questions — required non-empty array of question objects.
• id — required stable id on each question, echoed in the answer.
• question — required question text for each question.
• header — optional short heading.
• options — optional choices with label and description. If recommending a choice, put it first and append (Recommended) to that label.
• multi_select — whether that question may return more than one selected option.

The tool calls ctx.userInteraction.ask() and returns JSON text shaped as { "answers": [{ "id": "...", "selected": ["..."], "custom": "..." }] }. selected contains option labels; custom is present only for a free-form answer and overrides selected choices.

Role

This is the consumer package for the user-interaction seam. It does not render UI and does not know how input is collected; it only translates model arguments into AskUserQuestionRequest and returns the human answer to the agent loop.