deepseek-harness/packages/boot/README.md

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description: "The boot package group: how dsh app bins start — environment loading, profile and patch layers, clear startup failures, and app-owned command lines."

kind: "package-group"

boot/ — shared app-bin boot glue

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Summary

The boot group provides what every dsh app bin needs to start and to manage what it starts: app-boot turns a cordis.yml plus your environment and patch layers into a running app with clear failure messages, cmdline lets the app own its command-line flags and --help, and plugin-manager installs, enables, and edits a profile's plugins for the dsh plugin command and the Web host alike. All three are libraries imported by apps/cli, host packages, and test-only Loader fixtures, never plugins a composition loads; each package README owns its contract.

Table of Contents

• Packages
• Related documentation
• Dev Note

Packages

Package	Role	ctx key
app-boot	Boots a dsh app from a cordis.yml: loads .env, applies profile and patch layers, and reports startup failures clearly	(library for the bins)
cmdline	Lets the app own its flags, --help, and exit code; passes everything after the launcher's flags through verbatim	cmdlineArgs, appExit
plugin-manager	Installs and probes packages without booting, and enables, disables, retries, and edits user-layer rows over the booted profile; the dsh plugin command and the Web host's plugins Remote share it	(library for the bins and the host)

Related documentation

• dsh app — the dsh bin that consumes these helpers for its boot sequence.
• Profile bundles — installable patch layers that dsh --profile compositions mount.
• dsh-home-paths — the harness-home resolver both packages build on.
• dsh-cmdline — how an app owns its flag family instead of the launcher.

Dev Note

None.