Squash of the linearized fix/tui-color-scheme-v2 merge and the follow-up
catalog regeneration. Renders error cause chains at every diagnostic seam
(origin/fetch-failed-diagnostics) and adds color scheme detection with a
light-terminal palette.
Delete packages/ui/stdio and examples/repl-agent; rename stdio-demo to
@deepseek-ai/dsh-tui-demo (TUI-only, refuses pipes before Loader boot).
tui-agent owns the coding composition inline; echo-agent and the CI demo
smoke move to the one-shot cli-demo bin, which gains -p/--prompt. The
UI-independent with-key e2es move verbatim to tui-agent. SDK wizard's
'stdio' interface becomes 'tui'. PTY testing stays confined to TUI
surfaces; all other subprocess tests ride pipes.
See .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-retire-readline-front-door.md
The consolidated resolver scopes the anonymous id to $DSH_HOME rather
than the machine. Update the module contract, README, and Agent Note to
say per-harness-home explicitly instead of over-claiming a machine-global
identity, and record why DSH_HOME scoping is the intended single-root
meaning rather than a regression.
Review fixes for #462:
- resolveDshHome now treats an empty or whitespace-only $DSH_HOME as
unset, so a blank override never resolves the home to cwd via
resolve(''). Restores the guard telemetry's old resolver carried.
- The default-env telemetry test asserts only that globalConfigDir()
returns an absolute path, so a machine DSH_HOME without a .dsh suffix
cannot break it.
Automatic compaction fires mid-conversation, right after the loop warmed
the provider's KV cache with the last routed request. The default
summarizer then issued a separate request whose prefix shared nothing
with that warm request — a bespoke summarizer system prompt followed by
the older history flattened to one rendered transcript string — so a
differing first token invalidated the entire cached prefix and every
compaction re-processed the whole replayed history twice.
Move the compaction directive from the FRONT (a fresh system prompt) to
the END (a trailing user message), and replay the last routed request's
own system prompt, tools, message prefix, and shadowed-region messages
verbatim via session.requestHeader() + deriveEventMessage. The auxiliary
call is now a genuine prefix-extension of the warm request, so the
provider reuses the cached tokens up to the trailing instruction.
SummarizationInput carries the replayed prefix instead of a flat string;
the now-unused renderTranscript/renderContentBlocks path is removed with
its spec. Cache reuse is best-effort (head compaction guarantees a hit;
a mid-range compaction or a differently-routed summarizer forgoes it),
correctness is not.
Delete @deepseek-ai/dsh-home and make dsh-paths the sole owner of the
single-root harness home ($DSH_HOME || ~/.dsh). Migrate tool-bash,
skill-local, and agent-spine-demo off dsh-home, and fold telemetry's
divergent globalConfigDir onto the shared resolver, dropping its second
XDG/APPDATA policy and the deepseek-harness namespace so the anonymous
id lives under the harness home. Add dshHomeDisplay() for symbolic
user-facing paths, replacing workspace-context's bespoke check.
The earlier fix only widened the vitest timeout, but the real race is the
patient probe reading the 1s launcher under the 5000ms *default* probe budget:
under a full parallel run spawnSync blocks the worker and fork/exec latency can
push the launcher's wall-clock past 5000ms, so the patient probe wrongly reads
unusable and the assertion fails. Give the patient probe a generous explicit
15000ms budget (still far below its 1s launcher runtime margin) so only the
250ms impatient probe races the launcher; keep a 30s vitest timeout above the
patient budget.
Resolve conflicts:
- packages/ui/tui/src/index.ts: keep the color-scheme detection block; drop the
obsolete static autocomplete list (master moved to refreshCommandAutocomplete).
- docs/config-catalog.md: regenerate (tui Config source line shifted to :104).
`bounds the default probes` runs a real launcher that sleeps 1s under the
5000ms default probe budget, all wrapped in vitest's 5000ms default test
timeout. The blocking spawnSync races that wrapper and tips over under the
load spike of a full parallel run — a pre-existing, load-sensitive flake
(noted as unrelated in this PR's original description). Give the test an
explicit 20s timeout so its bounded subprocess work never races the default.
The color-scheme detection block left packages/ui/tui/src/index.ts below
the 100% per-file coverage gate on three counts: the .then callback's
`scheme === undefined` branch was reachable only via the 2s query
timeout, the .catch only via a query-write failure, and the
`editor.borderColor` assignment inside applyColorScheme was dead code —
the next line's setStatus() immediately reassigns editor.borderColor.
Register the scheme listener before firing the startup query so the
query's own reply is delivered through the listener (the same path as
later theme switches), which removes the redundant .then re-application
and its uncoverable undefined branch, and closes the theoretical window
where a synchronous reply lands before the listener exists. Drop the
dead editor.borderColor line. Cover the rest: a same-scheme report
(early return) and a terminal that throws on the query write (the
swallowed .catch).
A TUI run against an unreachable endpoint failed with only 'fetch failed':
undici wraps transport failures in a bare TypeError whose diagnosis lives
on .cause, and every diagnostic seam rendered only error.message. The
readline front door additionally rendered failed turns as pure silence.
- dsh-llm: new errorChain(value) renders the full cause chain and
AggregateError members with circular/hostile-coercion containment.
- llm-deepseek: pre-response transport failures throw LlmError('NETWORK')
naming the endpoint and chaining the fetch TypeError; aborts keep their
DOMException so the loop still classifies them as cancellation.
- agent-loop: durable turn/end error messages and logger warnings render
through errorChain; local renderThrown copies removed.
- ui-stdio: failure turn/end reasons now render ([turn failed <code>],
[turn aborted], [turn rejected], output-token-limit); startup-failure
logs use errorChain.
- ui-tui: agent/error notices and the startup-failure line use errorChain.
context/message previously defaulted to a <context source="…">…</context>
wrapper. No model is trained on a <context> tag either, and message
framing does not belong on the session surface: the surface projects the
durable log, and a caller that wants a frame formats its own content —
which the one heavy producer (workspace-context) already does with its own
<system-reminder> frame, opting out via 'raw'. The tag only added
machinery — ContextEnvelope plus an envelope field threaded through
InjectOptions, HookContext, the context/message event, and the agent-loop
inject/additionalContexts plumbing.
context/message now projects its content verbatim as a user-role message,
sharing one deriveEventMessage case with user/message and steering/message.
ContextEnvelope and every envelope field are removed; context/message.meta
still carries durable, model-hidden JSON state. Regenerated catalogs and
website API; refreshed the three affected keyless snapshots (envelope field
only; timestamps unchanged).
Broadens and renames the steering Agent Note to cover both envelope
removals as one decision.
Agent Note: .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-injected-content-envelopes.md
steering/message previously rendered inside a <steering source="…">
envelope like context/message. No model is trained on a <steering> tag,
so the framing is arbitrary markup the model was never taught to read;
recorded transcripts show it treating the instruction as third-party
metadata and refusing it. Framing also does not belong on the session
surface — a caller that wants a frame formats its own content. It now
projects verbatim as a plain user-role message; the <context> envelope is
untouched and renderTagged becomes context-only.
Agent Note: .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-07-20-unwrap-steering-message-projection.md
A TUI run against an unreachable endpoint failed with only 'fetch failed':
undici wraps transport failures in a bare TypeError whose diagnosis lives
on .cause, and every diagnostic seam rendered only error.message. The
readline front door additionally rendered failed turns as pure silence.
- dsh-llm: new errorChain(value) renders the full cause chain and
AggregateError members with circular/hostile-coercion containment.
- llm-deepseek: pre-response transport failures throw LlmError('NETWORK')
naming the endpoint and chaining the fetch TypeError; aborts keep their
DOMException so the loop still classifies them as cancellation.
- agent-loop: durable turn/end error messages and logger warnings render
through errorChain; local renderThrown copies removed.
- ui-stdio: failure turn/end reasons now render ([turn failed <code>],
[turn aborted], [turn rejected], output-token-limit); startup-failure
logs use errorChain.
- ui-tui: agent/error notices and the startup-failure line use errorChain.
The palette used absolute 256-color indices (`38;5;252`, `48;5;236`, …)
that terminals never remap to the active scheme: near-white body text
vanished on light backgrounds and fixed dark bubble fills put default
foreground text on dark blocks. Rebuild it from the standard 16-color
ANSI foregrounds plus SGR attributes, keep body text on the terminal
default foreground, replace filled background bubbles with foreground-only
left-gutter bars, and use reverse video for the active selection so every
grouping reads on any color scheme.
Move the interactive pi-tui front door into @deepseek-ai/dsh-tui while keeping @deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio line-oriented for pipes. Select the terminal package in the demo app, preserve logger ownership, and cover the production Loader composition with a PTY smoke test.
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