Preserve the V3 system-prompt projection while adopting master’s per-agent frozen-message provenance and frontend performance gates. Keep benchmark workload admission and diagnostics fixes intact, and retain both migration and first-open/reopen lifecycle guarantees.
Cause: SystemPromptProjection skipped the first empty rendered prompt. The initial admitted user then occupied surface node zero, so a later nonempty prompt appended behind user history. Routes without in-history system support lost the leading system role; pi-ai demotes a non-leading system message to user content.
Fix: append the initial system node even when its content is empty. The existing loop commit order reserves node zero before admitted user messages; later prompt text replaces that node. Empty content still derives to no wire message. Keep retained-node replacement, clearing, multi-system handling, and pi-ai conversion unchanged; this addresses only the reviewed PR3476 initial-empty finding, not PR3483.
Tests: added initial-empty projection and two-turn loop regressions for empty wire output, reserved surface head, later leading system role, replacement intent, and series header. Negative control failed before the source fix. Focused projection/runtime-context/loop/request-reconstruction/session-surface/pi-ai-context suites passed 176 tests; exact runtime-context.ts coverage is 100% statements, branches, functions, and lines. test:docs passed all 15 gates. Updated README EN/ZH, architecture map and owning architecture note; recorded all three translation pairs. Broad doc-sync/lint stopped at parent request for combined-layer validation. No normalize.ts conflict-comment edit.
Consolidate the representation-change PR and its rebase reconciliations into one baseline. Preserve the exact tree and keep the in-history feature in the dependent PR. Follow-up fixes remain separate.
The persistence seam is now create/open/stat/list returning per-session
SessionHandles (read/append/flush/close); every log read and write flows
through the owning handle. The seam package exports only the service and
handle contracts, consumer-visible errors, and pure durable-data
validation helpers; each backend owns its complete storage runtime, and
the shared contract suites pin equivalent observable behavior. The
backend routes published sessions' live events by id into the active
write handle; agent-loop only acquires, seeds, and closes the handle.
Resume appends interruptedTurnClosers through its write handle;
session-query owns the revision-keyed cold cache. Legacy-only surfaces
are removed in the same swap: locate/readRaw/supportsRawArtifacts, the
legacy event-shape read migration, zstd torn-frame salvage,
DSH_SESSION_JSONL, and hook transcript_path population; a torn final
zstd frame is discarded whole; the session-list cold blank probe returns
on stat metadata (eventCount derived from the last physical row,
sizeBytes). The WebUI ZIP export serializes the logical log from a read
handle, so both backends export identically.
Refs #3245
Render reconstructable system prompts at each request-series boundary, preserve series declarations through pre-step wrappers, and keep the presentation and replay snapshots aligned across clients.
Record sdk-minimal as the narrow repository-owned exception to base-first profile composition: callers still launch only dsh and cannot provide an arbitrary Cordis tree, while the shipped bundle may own a complete explicit roster. Cross-link the launcher, profile-bundle, Python-runtime, minimal-agent, snapshot, and telemetry decisions; the supersession audit keeps each older note active because its remaining rationale is independent.
Update the CLI, architecture, Python tutorial/reference, example, runtime-wheel reference, and bundle documentation. The docs distinguish the full sdk profile from sdk-minimal, explain explicit-home/plugin/patch customization, state the minimal permission and persistence choices, and retain the separately packaged web profile and frontend assets for direct dsh use.
Correct dsh-base descriptions to cover base-backed profiles, make SDK startup configuration visible in the generated config catalog, add sdk-minimal to the module graph, and regenerate the base-composition graph. English and Chinese pairs are re-recorded at the exact reviewed contents.
Document dsh as the only application launcher across architecture, CLI, SDK, app-boot, Python package, contributor, tutorial, and example references. Explain explicit home selection, profile and patch precedence, persistent external plugin installation, the Node-free runtime path, and the absence of complete-config or ~/.dsh fallbacks.
Record the Python profile-runtime decision and update the active naming, installed-wheel, and SEA packaging notes with precise supersession. Regenerate the configuration catalog and module graph after deleting the carrier, update both reviewed languages and pairing records, and classify the retained standalone Cordis files as lower-level test fixtures rather than launch interfaces.
Add verify-application-entrypoints to the top-level gate graph. It inventories executable sources and package bins across apps, packages, and examples; rejects unclassified launchers including root-level js/mjs/cjs/ts files; and permits only the dsh CLI plus the explicitly private Python runtime carrier exception.
Update repository, architecture, CLI, and naming records to state the same rule: Node consumers select a dsh profile instead of invoking application-package bins, and no compatibility aliases remain. Fixtures prove both allowed classifications and representative escape attempts, making the architectural rule mechanically enforceable.
The note was committed on 2026-08-19 but filed under 2026-08-07 while
building on the 08-19 state-and-client-views note; rename the triplet to
align the filename with the actual date and update the inbound
architecture links.
A plugin that registered a settings namespace could not reach the browser
configuration page: the api-proxy filtered every read and gated every
write through two hardcoded namespace lists, and the plugin configuration
section rendered an unordered list of cards carrying an opaque id rather
than the namespace they edit. Both gates lived in this repository, so a
user-authored plugin was configurable only by hand-editing settings.yaml.
The proxy now serves whatever ctx.settings.describe() returns and adds no
boundary of its own; a name no registration answers folds into the seam's
own settings-rejected, and the settings-not-exposed code retires. The
settings seam is untouched: which client may read a namespace, and which
page renders it, are facts about consumers.
settings.plugin.item becomes a keyed slot whose key is the namespace a
card edits, following tool.call.toolview. The section reads describe once
and dispatches the intersection of the slot ledger and the served set, so
a namespace another surface owns renders nothing without declaring
anything, and a card for an uncomposed plugin is never dispatched.
turn/start precedes the first claim and pre-step, a rejected or empty first claim closes a zero-step turn, llm/stream and tools/* are their own domains, and agent/turn-stopping is serial. Regenerates the lifecycle diagram from the same facts and names --patch overlays exactly.
Correct the reworked English wording in the CLI profile section, architecture map, and llm-streaming cross-reference, then bring every edited pair's Chinese side along and re-record the pairing hashes.
Tianyi Cui